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belabartok39on OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room

Ha. Talent. You mean people who cheat on their interviews like this guy.

belabartok39on GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven

This guy is gonna love OMARCHY

belabartok39on Radio Transmission Security

This is some of my PhD research made reachable via a cool Three.js interactive site.

belabartok39on Want to learn about RF signal security?

This is some of my PhD research made reachable via a cool Three.js interactive site.

belabartok39on Learn about RF Signal security NOW

This is some of my PhD research made reachable via a cool Three.js interactive site.

belabartok39on Wireless Transec Taxonomy

This is some of my PhD research made reachable via a cool Three.js interactive site.

belabartok39on RF Signal Security Research

This is some of my PhD research made reachable via a cool Three.js interactive site.

belabartok39on Our position on open-weights models

So many US-haters that live in the US with no intention to leave...That right there is why this is the greatest country on Earth.

belabartok39on The death and rebirth of my home server

Why not get a Beelink N95 and call it a day?

belabartok39on Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format

Use jumpbox to access CTF. Disable all wireless for the playing hall.

belabartok39on LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate

LLMs corrupt your documents. Proceeds to use AI to WRITE PAPER and DESIGN experiments.

belabartok39on Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data

I fully agree. What really pisses me off is that these "hacker" groups always spout off how they are doing it to screw the man but then threaten the average person. Millions of them. It just goes to show how uneducated, low-class, and simple these people really are.

belabartok39on Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?

I wonder if the jobs will just require a PhD instead of a BS.

belabartok39on Please do not A/B test my workflow

How else are they supposed to get an authentic user test? Doctors use placebos because it doesn't work if the user knows about it.

belabartok39on A Survival Guide to a PhD (2016)

You are right, sir, you should stay away from research. Don't worry, there are others that will handle it.

belabartok39on Microslop Manifesto

Irony is that this site itself is text-book, generated slop.

belabartok39on RTX 5090 and Raspberry Pi: Can it game?

I know this is just a joke. However, I think it's fairly obvious that the CPU would be the main bottleneck for every test. Still fun to measure things.

belabartok39on Python numbers every programmer should know

That answers what N is (why not just say in the article). If you are only going to report medians, is there an appendix with further statistics such as confidence intervals or standard deviations. For serious benchmark, it would be essential to show the spread or variability, no?

belabartok39on Python numbers every programmer should know

Hmmmm, there should absolutely be standard deviations for this type of work. Also, what is N number of runs? Does it say somewhere?

belabartok39on Things that aren't doing the thing

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.