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cholmdomsky··on Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe
I suppose what I meant to have asked was, can an external magnetic field intersect with a black hole's event horizon and then escape?

For instance, with these theoretical tiny black holes, what would happen if you held a powerful magnet close enough for the lines of flux to actually intersect the event horizon?

cholmdomsky··on Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe
Can magnetic fields escape, if their lines intersect the event horizon of a black hole?
cholmdomsky··on The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing
How do you respond when others use that information to instead assert "well of course they're incarcerated at a higher rate; they commit more, and worse crimes than -we- do!"
cholmdomsky··on Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown
Jfc, this is a solved problem at the community college near me. All of the computers in the testing room are thin clients that effectively remote into a vm, and you get checked with a metal detector before going into the room with the computers.

If you can escape the vm on the fly and manage to use an llm to cheat, you deserve that A.

cholmdomsky··on IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet
Lazy manufacturers and ignorant users are responsible for the existence of those unsecured devices. Assholes and criminals are responsible for accessing, recording, and distributing the output of those unsecured devices.
cholmdomsky··on The US Army Issued Ocarinas to Soldiers in World War II
My first thought
cholmdomsky··on The dead economy theory
Gotta feed both, so...
cholmdomsky··on Hengefinder: Finding when the sun aligns with your street
Seriously. Plus, what is the problem that some websites are 'fixing' by denying me a choice in how the website loads?
cholmdomsky··on Why most product tours get skipped
I'm fairly certain that exact thing existed on Windows XP and earlier. It was a question mark in the top right of the window, added a "?" next to your cursor. You could then click elements to see if there happened to be an explanation embedded in the program for that particular button/box/whatever. Didn't always work, but was useful when it was needed.
cholmdomsky··on 4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor
That makes a lot of sense to me, thank you. I was probably projecting a lot of my own fears and feelings into the interpretation of a lot of what some of my courses are trying to teach me.
cholmdomsky··on 4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor
I'm taking some college courses, and one of them explicitly suggests to keep maybe-not-okay communications off of email so that "you don't expose your company to risks of litigation."

Ah, I see. So, when discussing ways to ensure cuatomers cannot utilize our warranty process, I'll make sure to do so in ways that are not traceable and won't show up in discovery.