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> The effect of all this push about "mental health" has been to convince more and more people to believe they have mental health problems. > Suicide rates ... are skyrocketing. I'…

If anyone out there ever reaches that dark place of wanting to commit suicide, please remember that you can speak to someone, for free, 24/7 on these numbers for USA and UK. * US national suicide…

I've never had an SMS MFA from Apple. It's always been sent through to other registered apple devices through their network and OS. New logins to iCloud etc always pop up on my MacBook /…

Email services (e.g. Gmail) are often used as a unique identifier for logins. Want to reset your password? It's often by email. Storing passwords in the same account creates a single point of fai…

Services like GitHub, Gmail, Apple etc allow you to use recovery keys in place of 2FA for this exact circumstance. The keys are generated by the service and you must make a note of them ahead of time.…

Less CTO AI Strongman, more underhanded/nuanced pressure in the form of this is a big pitch we could win and we're a small start up about to be acquired by a big conglomerate and it could a…

Sorry, I just saw this. Ha, noooo. I own a bunch of synths and samplers and noodle about for fun. Although I haven't played with them much recently. I've gotten all super serious @_@ People …

Hits the nail on the head for me. I worked for a data analytics consultancy for about 6 months, filled with data scientist types - the statistics and decision trees type. One of the bigger projects wa…

Turning reader view on by default on my iPhone transformed how I experienced being online. So worth it. Especially as you can add sites to a non-reader (ignore) list so stuff like youtube doesn't…

They're pretty fundamental. speech to text networks like DeepSpeech convert audio to an MFCC power spectrogram. Others use an Stft magnitude spectrogram. It's a 2-d (amplitude by Freq and ti…

Another one: > university of your mum Also picked up by the grandiun: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/09/herd-immunity-... …

> But yes, moving house is an absolute pain and it's a ridiculously expensive hobby I feel you. I have to reserve at least one day for packing up the collection whenever I move. But at least i…

> Introduce a digital ID and instantly it’ll become a requirement to give your digital ID to do anything at all - register a mobile phone, a bank account, an online shop, a library, a pub ... anyth…

> This is thing is slow and bordering useless, but I genuinely never had any tech product for 10 years work for well. 10 years, only changed the charger and HD once. Everything else is still workin…

I definitely prefer it.

These reproducible instructions you speak of are already present in Dockerfiles. It seems like you're arguing against using docker images, when docker builds solve the very issue you speak of. Co…

Simplest answer is to release the code with a Dockerfile. Anyone can then inspect build steps, build the resulting image and run the experiments for themselves. Two major issues I can see are old depe…

As can deepfakes. All it takes is an additional step to optimise wrt the model that tries to catch it.

> I wish you luck, but I long ago declared defeat against Excel. Totally relate to this. I studied a degree because I wanted to rid the world of Excel. Just like I wanted to rid the world of pie ch…

Thanks for the tip!

So many config failures! As an aside -- do you know of any good forensics / incident response books/resources for learning the fundamentals? Seen some books/courses but they're oft…

That Adam Shostack Threat Modelling book is top knotch. Nice collection. Thanks for sharing.

70% of statistics are made up.

Pseudocode is useful for academic papers to demonstrate an idea/algorithm in a condensed form - i.e. Without having to write out many detailed paragraphs. Although I personally prefer a link to a…

Yeah that's probably the bigger problem!

I'm betting it was just a rating out of 10 the person answering the phone did after each call.

I remember once being in a branch of HSBC trying to sort out a loan. I saw on the screen for my account they had a score of something like "customer behaviour", which was like 54 something. …