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Comment on A look at how opening grocery stores alone doesn’t solve food deserts in ~food
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Comment on The spy who came in from the WiFi: Beware of radio network surveillance! in ~comp
R3qn65 Link ParentKeep in mind that BFI is not typically transmitted over the internet - it’s local-only information exchanged between a router and the device communicating with that router. So it’s not just some...Keep in mind that BFI is not typically transmitted over the internet - it’s local-only information exchanged between a router and the device communicating with that router. So it’s not just some scriptkiddie breaking into a poorly-defended server and stealing the list of passwords in plaintext that were already there, it’s getting into a million different types of router and then installing actual malware that makes them take BFI and send it over the internet back to some sort of C2 server. Similarly, the fact that a network is open doesn’t mean you could get BFI remotely. You’d still need to be able to log in to the actual router as an administrator (or at least be physically present to sniff the network yourself.)
It’s not that it’s technically impossible, it’s that it’s technically infeasible and wouldn’t really make any sense to even try to do, if that makes sense. There’s a similar argument against monetization - exfiltrating the data overtly would be prohibitively expensive in terms of bandwidth, and for what gain? To figure out what people who don’t have phones on them are doing so that you can serve them ads later? Why not just use their adID data?
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Comment on The spy who came in from the WiFi: Beware of radio network surveillance! in ~comp
R3qn65 Link ParentIf it makes you feel better, the article is heavily glossing over technical details that make this completely impractical in practice.If it makes you feel better, the article is heavily glossing over technical details that make this completely impractical in practice.
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Comment on The spy who came in from the WiFi: Beware of radio network surveillance! in ~comp
R3qn65 Link ParentThis wouldn’t really work, since the concept in the paper was to use beamforming information that you happen to be walking in the middle of (basically). So you couldn’t fake the signals; you’d...I suppose one could perhaps send false BFI, or be "noisy" to perhaps make it harder to identify.
This wouldn’t really work, since the concept in the paper was to use beamforming information that you happen to be walking in the middle of (basically). So you couldn’t fake the signals; you’d have to change your gait or something similar. But this is a completely infeasible attack in real life anyway so it probably doesn’t matter too much. :)
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Comment on The spy who came in from the WiFi: Beware of radio network surveillance! in ~comp
R3qn65 Link ParentLess than zero. From a technological standpoint it’s extremely cool, but from a practical standpoint - thank god! - worse than useless. The tech relies on sniffing beamforming configuration...Less than zero. From a technological standpoint it’s extremely cool, but from a practical standpoint - thank god! - worse than useless.
The tech relies on sniffing beamforming configuration messages between myriad devices and routers and then analyzing them to see how someone walking through them changes things. So far, so scary. But one needs to think about how that works outside a laboratory setting. How would any actor manage to sniff enough packets from enough devices to actually track you? They would need to either be physically following you with specialized equipment or already know where you were going to go and have pwned the routers along the route. In either case, we’re talking some sort of intelligence agency dedicating personal effort against you… and then why wouldn’t they just either tell the guys who are following you “hey, just tell us what she’s doing” or use cameras?
Functionally it’s impossible to construct a realistic scenario where someone is using this technology against you and there wasn’t a thousand easier ways to do that. Infinitely worse is something that people don’t really talk about anymore - the deanonymization of advertising IDs (primarily because they use your phone’s reported location information, so it’s specific, tied to you, and accurate).
Edit to add: The authors of the paper sort of acknowledge this, but in my opinion it’s basically technical malpractice for them to add “yeah but someday it might become a nearly comprehensive surveillance infrastructure.” Think of how many beamforming configuration messages are exchanged between devices every minute. These packets aren’t on the internet (they’d clog the whole thing), they’re local, meaning you need physical access to get them. Who, exactly, is going to collect them all and how? Cool idea for a cyberpunk dystopia, completely fictitious in real life. The authors would know that.
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Comment on What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? in ~food
R3qn65 Link ParentYou bet. If you make the cookies tell me what you think!You bet. If you make the cookies tell me what you think!
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Comment on What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? in ~food
R3qn65 Link ParentI've had good results with this stuff, which also seems to be the most common brand at pan-asian stores. Two unsolicited additional thoughts: my sense is that doenjang quality probably doesn't...I've had good results with this stuff, which also seems to be the most common brand at pan-asian stores. Two unsolicited additional thoughts:
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my sense is that doenjang quality probably doesn't matter all that much. It seems to me to be kind of like soy sauce in that you can buy ultra-premium small batch stuff that has amazing depth of flavor, but the only reason to do that is if you're serving it by itself as a focal point. If you're cooking with it, just get whatever average brand. The O-Food stuff I linked seems to be the doenjang equivalent of Kikkoman soy sauce, so from that standpoint it's probably about right.
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all of that said, if you're just getting started with korean food (and like some heat), gochujang will be a much easier ingredient for you because it's much more common in Korean recipes written for the American audience. Like 80% of Korean recipes in english will contain gochujang while maybe 10% will contain doenjang, and for fusion recipes (like these absurdly good cookies) it'll basically only be gochujang. So if you're hoping to get into korean cooking more broadly and budget is in any way a concern, I would just get gochujang and hold off on doenjang until you're sure that you're going to use it. The two are basically interchangeable, of course, so there's nothing stopping you from using doenjang in all the recipes that call for gochujang, but I'm assuming you don't want to be messing around like that if you're just dipping your toes into the cuisine.
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Comment on What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? in ~food
R3qn65 Link ParentI could not agree more with this. I am a pretty talented amateur chef, and any of the tricks I would normally incorporate into something like meatballs (i.e. a panade, getting gelatin in there)...From the core elements, there isn't a lot to improve on.
I could not agree more with this. I am a pretty talented amateur chef, and any of the tricks I would normally incorporate into something like meatballs (i.e. a panade, getting gelatin in there) are already in Kenji's recipe.
It's also quite a resilient recipe in that I have made them without pancetta, without ground pork, and with something weird with the panade (forget exactly what) and they were still great.
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Comment on What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? in ~food
R3qn65 Link ParentNeither fish sauce nor tamari will work well, mostly because as liquids they're textually so different from doenjang, which is a paste. If you have miso or gochujchang, either one should be...Neither fish sauce nor tamari will work well, mostly because as liquids they're textually so different from doenjang, which is a paste. If you have miso or gochujchang, either one should be basically a 1:1 substitute, with gochujang obviously being spicy. If you don't have either of those... maybe go back to your tamari and do a slurry with cornstarch or dijon mustard, then add that to taste? It'll taste quite different than originally intended, obviously, but you can just call it a Japanese-Korean fusion and it should still be good. (Or Japanokorean-French, if you use dijon).
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Comment on The emerging evidence on AI tutoring in ~tech
R3qn65 LinkReally interesting. What I find the most compelling is the discussion of the different sorts of AI tool use — offloading your thinking vs. having the AI help you think (primarily, as they note, by...Really interesting. What I find the most compelling is the discussion of the different sorts of AI tool use — offloading your thinking vs. having the AI help you think (primarily, as they note, by collecting facts for you, not thoughts), but I also thought this was spot-on:
A really, really uncomfortable truth about good teaching is that it doesn’t scale very well. Teacher expertise is astonishingly complex, tacit, and context-bound. It is learned slowly, through years of accumulated pattern recognition; seeing what a hundred different misunderstandings of the same idea look like, sensing when a student is confused but silent, knowing when to intervene and when to let them struggle. These are not algorithmic judgements but deeply embodied ones, the result of thousands of micro-interactions in real classrooms. That kind of expertise doesn’t transfer easily; it can’t simply be written down in a manual or captured in a training video.
This is why education systems rarely improve faster than their capacity to grow and retain great teachers. Pedagogical excellence replicates poorly because it resides not in tools or curricula but in people, and people burn out, move on, or are asked to do too much. Every nation that has tried to systematise good teaching eventually runs into the same constraint: human expertise does not compound exponentially.
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Comment on What's a quantum computer? in ~tech
R3qn65 LinkThis post is a little older than I thought it was when I went looking, but I think it’s still worth the opportunity to share this relevant panel from the greatest webcomic of all time, SMBC:...This post is a little older than I thought it was when I went looking, but I think it’s still worth the opportunity to share this relevant panel from the greatest webcomic of all time, SMBC:
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Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of November 10 in ~society
R3qn65 Link ParentThe seemingly legitimate fury at the defectors from the rest of the party seems to suggest that as a bloc they were trying to hold out for outright renewal of the ACA subsidies and that it wasn’t...The seemingly legitimate fury at the defectors from the rest of the party seems to suggest that as a bloc they were trying to hold out for outright renewal of the ACA subsidies and that it wasn’t just an initial bargaining position. I don’t think it’s accurate to suggest that this was an intentional play by the Democrats.
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Comment on Libertarianism is dead in ~humanities
R3qn65 Link ParentThe problem is it’s basically the prisoner’s dilemma. The first one to defect (meaning, the first one to become powerful enough to take everyone else’s wealth by force) dominates all the others...Ok why would everyone be incentivised to militirise instead of trade?
The problem is it’s basically the prisoner’s dilemma. The first one to defect (meaning, the first one to become powerful enough to take everyone else’s wealth by force) dominates all the others who now can’t defend themselves, meaning that everyone is incentivized to militarize.
There are solutions to the prisoner’s dilemma. In small groups, humans are actually really good at trusting one another and doing what’s good for the whole instead of just what’s good for themselves. The problem is that when we’re talking on the scale of thousands of people (much less millions), trust breaks down because you can’t possibly know everyone, and so the solutions all fall apart.
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Comment on What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? in ~food
R3qn65 Link ParentA very good recipe for anyone interested who doesn’t speak Korean — https://www.seriouseats.com/korean-marinated-spinach-banchan-sigeumchi-namulA very good recipe for anyone interested who doesn’t speak Korean —
https://www.seriouseats.com/korean-marinated-spinach-banchan-sigeumchi-namul
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Comment on What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? in ~food
R3qn65 Link ParentThe spice mix was almost certainly a variant of ras el hanout, a North African spice blend that is warm and, yep, cuminy!The spice mix was almost certainly a variant of ras el hanout, a North African spice blend that is warm and, yep, cuminy!
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Comment on What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? in ~food
R3qn65 Link ParentIf you like eggplant, char/roast some eggplants and blend those in there. It’s like a hybrid between hummus and baba ghanoush.If you like eggplant, char/roast some eggplants and blend those in there. It’s like a hybrid between hummus and baba ghanoush.
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Comment on Post breakup ramblings in ~life
R3qn65 Link ParentI don't know, man. Continuing to live together is a recipe for disaster - everything is just too raw now, and - forgive me for saying this - neither of you seem, from a distance, like you're ready...I don't know, man. Continuing to live together is a recipe for disaster - everything is just too raw now, and - forgive me for saying this - neither of you seem, from a distance, like you're ready to live with an ex. (That's not negative - I would never be ready.) You guys are talking more now, though, which is good.
I also have to ask - is this what she wants?
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Comment on Libertarianism is dead in ~humanities
R3qn65 Link ParentI'm trying not to be deliberately obstructionist, but I find a few of your points a bit confusing. I'm not sure if you're glossing over some of the philosophical underpinnings of liberalism...I'm trying not to be deliberately obstructionist, but I find a few of your points a bit confusing. I'm not sure if you're glossing over some of the philosophical underpinnings of liberalism because that wasn't your point (if so, cool) or if you're simply not that familiar with them. As an example, you create a dichotomy between property rights and the general welfare of society, but liberal philosophers wrote exhaustively about why they think that personal liberty and property rights contribute to - or more accurately put, are the sine qua non of - the general welfare of society. So they would agree with you that the welfare of society is important, and for them it wasn't a trade-off with property rights, they thought property rights were how you get there.
And they have a lot of good points. As a relevant example to your broader point, classical liberals have argued that property rights are fundamental to social welfare because it is most often the poor and marginalized who are trampled by state power, and well-enshrined rights help them defend themselves.
I mention all this mostly for any other readers who may be less familiar with liberalism than you.
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Comment on Post breakup ramblings in ~life
R3qn65 Link ParentTotally. It’s so frustrating, right? Sounds like you’re in a pretty good place, all things considered. Best of luck.I wanted her to be honest and stop using these words.
Totally. It’s so frustrating, right?
Sounds like you’re in a pretty good place, all things considered. Best of luck.
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Comment on The shutdown of USAID has already killed hundreds of thousands in ~society
R3qn65 Link ParentTo steelman that argument (I grew up around a lot of people who were conservative, but were also good people… most of them now vote democrat), there is a difference between individuals donating...To steelman that argument (I grew up around a lot of people who were conservative, but were also good people… most of them now vote democrat), there is a difference between individuals donating and the government donating. I don’t see it as two-faced.
If you’re a small-c conservative or classical liberal who believes in liberty basically above all else, it’s not insane to think that the government shouldn’t take your money and give it to other people, even if you yourself feel personally compelled to donate that same money to try to make their lives better. The element of choice is all-important there.
I remember reading this when it first came out - it's worth the read. (Interested readers might like to know that Rise is still open.)
It's touched on in the article - or hinted at, really - but in my opinion the single most salient factor is demand. Rise worked - barely! - because there was demand for fresher, healthier options, driven by community leaders. In most food deserts the demand just isn't there at sufficient levels; if there was, a store would probably already have opened there.
Food deserts are really, really complicated.