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  • didn't think so

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  • I genuinely don't get where I gave you the impression I was asking a question.

  • didn't think so

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  • Uh, that you sound like you have a metered subscription to some commercial LLM and you've thought about your usage. No need to be defensive. It's cool and trendy to pay someone to outsource your thinking and find new ways every day for your employer to need your intervention less.

  • Why did your last relationship fail?

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  • It sounds like there isn't any conceivable scenario in which you see the cheating as the fault of the cheater. Please make sure you inform existing and new partners of your policy, and be sure to also explain that if you don't discuss your relationship that's always their fault too.

  • didn't think so

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  • You sound like you have a subscription

  • Trump drops claim BBC harmed his businesses

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  • Sorry, I see that as a cookie wall, not a pay wall.

    So yes, you have to accept cookies to read the article, but you don't have to give them your credit card info, and American sites just set cookies anyway.

    You should use a browser that lets you burn tabs' cookies if you're worried about it. (That's what I do.) Alternatively get an ad blocker. My browser does its own ad blocking. It lets "sponsored" articles through, and similarly spoken ads included by the author in podcasts and videos but I don't see Google's ads on YouTube with it.

    Browser fingerprinting is real and google and other advertisers track you whether you allow cookies or not.

  • Why did your last relationship fail?

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  • Why did your last relationship fail?

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  • Maybe try getting a new dog first.

  • Why did your last relationship fail?

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  • Even if she wasn't just a crapbucket of a human being and was unhappy for some reason, she decided to become acrapbucket of a human being when she decided to cheat instead of talking about it. Not talking about the problems you assumed existed is immature in the first place. Stop victim blaming.

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  • Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?

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  • It breaks convention to solve an entirely nonexistent problem.

  • Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?

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  • I don't think we're going to agree on any points whatsoever, I'm afraid.

    I think their method is pointless, that introducing new formats that are indistinguishable from well established ones is actively harmful, that their reasoning is flawed and raises mainly irrelevant points, and their only valid point is that fractions with denominator 256 are stored exactly, but then if the whole point of converting your colours to floats is to do interesting transformations of the colour space that you can't do with integers, that's all gone as soon as you start manipulating the floats, and all your carefully designed exactness went down the pan. If you want exact, keep it to the integers 0-255.

    Neither[-0.5/255) nor [0,0.5/255) are some sort of disadvantaged and discriminated against group of humans that need more representation and I don't understand why on earth anyone would care even a tiny little bit if they were under represented nor why you would describe it as unfair.

    The whole thing is really, genuinely deficient in benefits and has obvious drawbacks.

  • Microsoft confirms an AI worm is propagating through Copilot and other MS apps | CSO Online

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  • I'm all out of entertaining things to say! Have a great week.

  • Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?

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  • Yes, indeed. If you're randomly generating colours and you want to evenly cover the {0,1,...,255} integer space, then generate a random integer in that range directly, or truncate a random float in [0,256). Generating a random float in [0,1) and converting it afterwards, then complaining you're not getting enough 0 or 255 is silly.

  • Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?

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  • This is a stupid debate. Of course you should use 255. Everybody uses 255.

    The standard algorithm means that if you go from int(0-255) to float, black stays black and white stays white. The silly new one turns the extremes very slightly grey.

    This needs stomping on, because inventing a conflicting standard where there's currently only one is really really stupid.

    If you actually want an even distribution of random colours (who on earth wants that?) then instead of generating random floats, generate random int(0-255). It's not hard. It really isn't.

    I bet you that float values that round to 0 come up in float colour data way, way, way more frequently than values that round to 0.5/256, nullifying the silly mathematical point that you might get 0 less often. No. No you won't. Not in real data.

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  • Yes, it did, and that's what I suspected, but I saw other possible interpretations and ironically, I didn't want to assume. Sorry for being annoying. I only meant any of this for fun and didn't mean to offend or frustrate you.

    I was hoping your reply would be something like "am woman" in which case I was planning to tell you that in real life it feels like a majority of the women that I thought were really really cool but who I didn't feel inclined towards romantically turned out to be uninterested in my entire gender romantically, so I was going to assume that you are also really cool even though my maths teacher was very insistent that correlation does not imply causation.

    I assert that your "I have good news for your wife, then!" answer fits with my correlation.

    If your reply was "you're really rubbish at flirting" I was planning on responding with "everybody wins".

    I was hoping to come up with something amusingly self deprecating if it was along the lines of "I'm specifically not interested in you", but I hadn't got as far as thinking through that answer, hoping it wasn't that.

    As you can see I'm not all that great at this social interaction thing. Genuinely sorry to have annoyed you.

  • Microsoft confirms an AI worm is propagating through Copilot and other MS apps | CSO Online

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  • ...which is?

  • Microsoft confirms an AI worm is propagating through Copilot and other MS apps | CSO Online

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  • Well, I like yours too, but don't remind my wife of that. She's just not a fan of me flirting with other men.

  • Microsoft confirms an AI worm is propagating through Copilot and other MS apps | CSO Online

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  • After all, why wouldn't Microsoft use copilot to wrote their press releases?

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  • "To address this class of risk, we use a defense-in-depth strategy with safeguards that block malicious instructions at multiple points and help keep tasks aligned with users’ requests,” Microsoft said.

    Keep talks aligned with users' requests?!? We're doomed!

    “We encourage customers to install the latest updates, use multiple layers of security protection, treat content from unknown sources with caution, and review AI-generated content before using or sharing it.”

    No, no you don't, you encourage customers to spend more to give copilot access to all of SharePoint and all of Exchange, so they can replace human competency, human expertise and long standing employees with copilot until they're dependent on your ever-pricier subscription and you can raise prices until you recover your vast and incomprehensible LLM losses from your customers.

    “Separating instructions from data may be part of the solution, but I think the distinction between data and instructions is not always clear in real-world workflows. For example, a user may ask an agent to arrange a business trip, requiring the agent to retrieve an email specifying the approved itinerary and a document containing the booking procedure,” Måløy [vulnerability researcher and discloser] said.

    Or you could hire a PA, who wouldn't spread the already live copilot worm.

    A bunch of security experts note that distinguishing between instructions and data is a solved problem with SQL injection attacks, but completely unsolved in LLMs:

    “None of them are rewarding that work commercially right now, so treat that as a multi-year research problem, not something a CISO should wait on.”

    Is this a minor technical issue or a major problem? It's a major problem.

    Mike Wilkes, enterprise CISO at Aikido Security, said it would be difficult to overstate the potential problems from this situation.

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    ICE reliance on Microsoft technology surged amid immigration crackdown, documents show

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    We can reverse America’s decline | Bernie Sanders

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    Trump feels ‘very badly’ for British royal family after Prince Andrew was stripped of titles

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    Former presenter takes legal action against GB News for unfair dismissal

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