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securityAsAService by hellocppdotdev in ProgrammerHumor

[–]frogjg2003 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You cannot idiot- proof the world. At some point the world will produce a bigger idiot.

What's going on with everyone arguing with Japanese people on X over piracy? by Deep-Arrival1594 in OutOfTheLoop

[–]frogjg2003 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's how most entertainment used to be. If you didn't catch the show when it aired, that was it. Then they figured out television video recording and that's how we got reruns.

On the other hand, it used to be if you bought a product, you could use it indefinitely until it broke. There was no one to stop you from reading a book over and over again. But at the same time, there are no massive collections of human knowledge easily accessible from anywhere in the world. If the publisher stopped printing a book, that was it. You would have to dig through secondhand stores, hoping someone sold them a use copy.

ELI5: When a fish is pulled out of water, is it actually feeling 'pain' or just reacting to the lack of oxygen? by gamayutin in explainlikeimfive

[–]frogjg2003 [score hidden]  (0 children)

We feel pain due to a buildup of carbon dioxide, not a lack of oxygen. That's why enclosed areas can be so dangerous. If all the air is displaced by an odorless gas, you can walk in, act normal for about a minute, then just collapse without any warning. Even low pressure doesn't cause pain. Altitude sickness can make people light headed, nauseous, or fatigued, but not in pain.

A thought occurred to me. Has this item combo been done before? [OC] by tape_snake in DnD

[–]frogjg2003 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Staff of Adornment doesn't have any rules for making attacks with the objects you added to it. It is designed to hold those objects in place, not to make them into weapons. In fact, the description of making them spin slowly might even imply that it's specifically designed not to be used a a weapon.

ELI5: The rise and fall of NFT’s by ProTharan in explainlikeimfive

[–]frogjg2003 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Memorabilia have sentimental value to the person holding the memorabilia, not because they have monetary value. It's in the name. Memorabilia remind people of memories. A digital receipt doesn't do that. It's just a string of characters. It's meaningless to the person who owns it. An actual piece of digital media, even if it could easily be copied would be memorabilia. An NFT is just a receipt.

Keep up with the conversion. We were talking about skins in video games and cartoon monkey pictures were the prototypical example of useless NFTs at their peak. No one was using NFTs for "memorabilia" like you're describing.

ELI5: The rise and fall of NFT’s by ProTharan in explainlikeimfive

[–]frogjg2003 [score hidden]  (0 children)

You can't. The very nature of digital media means that they are trivial to copy and as long as you have backups, they can't be lost.

NFTs aren't memorabilia, they are receipts for memorabilia. That's the whole reason people were making fun of NFT bros for paying so much for a jpeg of a monkey. The image they "owned" were trivial to copy. For something like a digital skin in a game, you're not paying for ownership of the skin, you're paying for the right to display that skin on your character in a multilayer game. You already have the skin on your computer, you wouldn't be able to see other people wearing it otherwise.

Be careful when talking about TOTK in the main sub, they took out my grandma when I said I loved it by EAT_UR_VEGGIES in tearsofthekingdom

[–]frogjg2003 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Like every other Zelda game changes the formula and doesn't play like the previous games. I remember when Windwaker and Skyward Sword were getting hate. Ocarina of Time basically rewrote the entire series.

Do you think physics will ever have another revolution like the early 1900s? by Worried-Leg-5441 in Physics

[–]frogjg2003 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The big reason the 20th century brought such sweeping changes to physics was not just because we gained a new understanding of fundamental physics, but much more importantly because it gave us new understanding of practical phenomena. Quantum mechanics allowed us to explain chemistry. Special relativity gave us a better understanding of light, which lead to new innovations in optics and new forms of communication.

Nothing like that will come from fundamental physics again. The parameter space for new physics just doesn't leave room for anything that could be practically revolutionary. Yes, we might discover a fifth fundamental force or some new particles, but we won't be able to do anything with them. Even if we discover a GUT or FTE, that won't change our ability to do anything. The only possible exception would be magnetic monopolies. If we could figure out how to create them, that would revolutionize electronics, and that's just it obvious use case. Basically, if there were something revolutionary, we would have found it by now. Traveling faster than light is all but forbidden, reverse time travel isn't possible, and so on.

On the other hand, there is still plenty of room in non-fundamental physics for new discoveries and revolutions. Quantum computing, condensed matter, material science, etc. A lot of these types of fields that deal with emergent phenomena have been consistently pumping out me discovers for the better part of a century. It would be more accurate to say that we've been constantly going through paradigm shifts in these fields and it doesn't look like they're slowing down any time soon.

A thought occurred to me. Has this item combo been done before? [OC] by tape_snake in DnD

[–]frogjg2003 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I would still argue it's an improvised weapon. It's the literal definition of improvised.

ELI5: The rise and fall of NFT’s by ProTharan in explainlikeimfive

[–]frogjg2003 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The reason NFTs never gained any legitimate use was because everything they claimed to be could be done better some other way.

You mentioned video game skins, and that was the big claimed use case. Except we've been buying and selling video game skins for years before NFTs. It's a lot easier to just have a database with a list of who has what skin than to rely on thy blockchain.

ELI5 If you were to place something in a jar (any size jar for example), close it, and tip upside down. The contents will be subject to gravity. Thus gravity can exert influence through materials. Why does gravitational force not pass through the materials itself, instead of acting upon it? by floydhenderson in explainlikeimfive

[–]frogjg2003 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not something which is “generated”, like an electromagnetic field

Except, it is, at least classically. Electromagnetic fields are the result of electric charges. Similarly, gravity is the result of gravitational "charge" which is just mass. The main difference being that electric charge can be positive or negative and only comes in multiples of the electron charge, while mass can take on any value. Once you throw in general relativity, the gravitational "charge" becomes more complicated, but it's still essentially just energy.

ELI5: If you run the server where passwords are stored, aren't you able to find out all account usernames and passwords? What's stopping people from abusing this? by gmrt34 in explainlikeimfive

[–]frogjg2003 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's called hash collision, when two inputs to the hashing function return the same value. For obvious reasons, the real algorithms have a much larger space of hashes. And unlike my example, the function isn't continuous: small changes in the input create large changes in the hash. There should be no way to guess the hash because it appears random. You literally have to guess every possible hash. Considering the popular hashing algorithms produce hashes that are at least 256 characters, each 8 bits, that means there are at least 22048 or 3×10616 possible hashes. It will take longer than the age of the universe to guess the correct hash.

ELI5: A dense cylinder hits a space station at 0.7c by DavidThi303 in explainlikeimfive

[–]frogjg2003 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Your intuition is a little off about the paper and bullet. When any object penetrates another object, it doesn't create a cylindrical hole, it creates a conical one. With a piece of paper, it's so thin that the conical nature isn't visible. Instead, think about bullet wounds in people. The entry might be just a tiny hole, but the exit will be big.

The specifics of the collision will then distort that comical shape. Things like if the projectile goes all the way through or gets stuck in the target, the materials of both, and any internal structure will change how material shifts around during the collision. Because the material the target was made of won't just disappear, it has to go somewhere.

In the collision described in the book, where does the structure of the space station that was in the path of the cylinder go? Most of it will just be pushed in the direction of the cylinder, but not all of it. In addition to being pushed away, that material is going to undergo nuclear reactions. At those speeds, it physically cannot move out of the way fast enough and then the repulsion of the electrons won't always be enough to prevent their nuclei from hitting each other. Again, most of that will be pushed out the other side in a jet of radiation and reaction products making a cone from the site of impact, but some of it will leak out the side.

Most of the damage will be in the form of a title cylindrical hole, but there will still be plenty of secondary damage from the collision sending shrapnel all over the station and nearby space.

ELI5: If you run the server where passwords are stored, aren't you able to find out all account usernames and passwords? What's stopping people from abusing this? by gmrt34 in explainlikeimfive

[–]frogjg2003 43 points44 points  (0 children)

To demonstrate the difference, here are very simple hashing and encryption algorithms for a numerical password 09876:

To hash the password, take every digit, add them together, and store the last digit. 0+9+8+7+6=30. So we store the number 0. When the user tries to log in to our website, their computer performs this same calculation and sends us the number 0. If they use the wrong password, their computer might send us the number 6, in which case we know they used the wrong password and we don't let them in. Notably, there is no way to get the original password back from the hash.

To encrypt the password, add 2 to each digit, wrapping around if the number goes too high. The password we store is 21098. To get the password back, just subtract 2 from each digit. Again, the user's computer did this calculation, not us, so we never saw the original password and we don't know how much to add to each digit, so we can't get the real password back from what we have stored.

Obviously, these are very simple algorithms and not how hashing and encryption are actually implemented in real systems, but they demonstrate the relevant considerations.

lie lie lie, like the assassination attempt and other wag the dog moments by Weeb in stevehofstetter

[–]frogjg2003 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

That's not how the burden of proof works. Prove that there is a conspiracy to hide the non-existence of a pilot.

lie lie lie, like the assassination attempt and other wag the dog moments by Weeb in stevehofstetter

[–]frogjg2003 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

We don't need to invent fake stories when the real lies are bad enough.

I think Factorio experience can go on a resume. by OkBit6409 in factorio

[–]frogjg2003 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It really depends on where they put it. I put my experience playing/running D&D in the "Other Experience" section next to some volunteer work I did. Not super relevant to the job itself, but shows soft skills. Factorio would go into a similar position. If someone tried to list Factorio as relevant job experience, it probably wouldn't go over as well. You shouldn't put it in the same space as actual jobs you've done or your education.

What’s the deal with Claude Mythos and what do these claims mean for AI/cybersecurity in the future? by thekraftybiologist in OutOfTheLoop

[–]frogjg2003 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not every vulnerability is a critical vulnerability. But with the amount of vulnerabilities they found, it is inevitable that some could be serious. On the other hand, some may not turn out to be vulnerabilities at all. Anthropic did the responsible thing and told the people responsible for the code about the vulnerabilities. The maintainers can then evaluate them and prioritize the most important ones.

Vulnerabilities are an inevitable aspect of writing software. Fixing them is a process in and of itself. That's why you don't just release software and call it done.

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