Earw0rm

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by Earw0rm 10mo ago
Only if they haven't yet reproduced.
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by Earw0rm 10mo ago
It underlines much anti-immigrant sentiment today, in that immigrants are a self-selected sample of the hardest working and most motivated people from their country of origin, whichever country that might be. There's a lot of Americans
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by Earw0rm 10mo ago
Because it needs to fetch implements, access cupboards, use appliances. Otherwise it's basically a Thermomix. I'm not talking about a long term storage drawer for the laundry system, more like a large pull-out in which dry, folder
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by Earw0rm 10mo ago
A robot capable of preparing meals also has a similar hazard matrix to a car. Absolutely no way I'm having something cloud-connected - with human-body level degrees of freedom and the actuator strength to pick up a knife and chop a car
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by Earw0rm 10mo ago
The IBM PS/2 play. And we all know how well that one worked out.
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by Earw0rm 10mo ago
This was inevitable on the day the Web ceased to be a third space and became an integral part of day-to-day life. Some time between Facebook opening to the general public (mid 2006) and the launch of the iPhone (early 2007). "Online&qu
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by Earw0rm 10mo ago
Think it's a filter effect. The areas getting hit especially hard happen to overlap strongly with the most online, which is a relatively small part of the economy overall - and, if you get cut, you've got a bunch more time to to t
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by Earw0rm 10mo ago
Yep, taking your winnings if you're up 300% isn't a bad idea, but timing things right on a short is much harder.
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by Earw0rm 11mo ago
Right, but at least with supply-chain attacks the dependency tree is fixed and deterministic. Nondeterministic systems are hard to debug, this opens up a threat-class which works analogously to supply-chain attacks but much harder to detect
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by Earw0rm 11mo ago
Both the RAM (for the better) and the house (for the worse).
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by Earw0rm 11mo ago
Yep, we had a few later-generation 486s in college. They would run Windows NT4 with full GUI - not especially well, but they'd run it. And they'd do SSL stuff adequately for the time. ISTR the cheap "Pentium clones" at t
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by Earw0rm 11mo ago
It would lose by a country mile, a 386 can handle about one instruction every three or four clocks, a modern desktop core can do as many as four or five ops PER clock. It's not just the lack of branch prediction, but the primitive pipe
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by Earw0rm 11mo ago
Would you like to go visit Italy? Of course, who wouldn't. But understand that the CO2 burden of a return flight from India to Rome is somewhere around 2-3x what the planet can sustain, per person, per year, and that for all the hype,
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by Earw0rm 11mo ago
Two related but often confused concepts. Standards of living, quality of life. We definitely need more of the latter, and for it to be distributed more evenly across the globe. The former, however, hits an asymptote. The upper middle classe
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by Earw0rm 11mo ago
We did, but some kids got killed or badly injured as a result. It was pretty common where I live. And while speeds are a bit lower now, the median driver attitude and aggression level seems to be a lot worse. I'm not sure whether that&
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by Earw0rm 11mo ago
It's cars. It was always cars.
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by Earw0rm 11mo ago
Nuclear subs are a "money no object" technology, as our supposed insurance policy against Soviet invasion and/or armageddon, it's whatever it takes. That technology is so expensive, so far from economically viable, that
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by Earw0rm 11mo ago
In a given spot yes, the UK continental shelf is pretty big though.
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by Earw0rm 11mo ago
Fall back on your domestic battery, which stores a thousand kettles' worth of energy. If it's going to stay still and cloudy for a full week, from Jersey all the way up to Orkney, consider running things leaner than usual for a bi
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by Earw0rm 11mo ago
The opposition to nuclear waste hazards isn't so much about "now" as about the far future. Hot alpha emitters which stay that way for 2K, 10K, 100K years. Granted, there's other stuff in deep mines and mountains whose ch
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by Earw0rm 11mo ago
A lot of this depends on the scale - and cost (two way relationship) of domestic battery rollout. An individual uses (broad rule of thumb average) somewhere in the 300-500W range to participate in society at a modern level. A warm and well-
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by Earw0rm 11mo ago
I share your surprise regarding LLM, is it fair to say that it's because language - especially formalised, written language - is a self-describing system. A machine can infer the right (or expected) answer based on data, I'm not s
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by Earw0rm 11mo ago
I have experienced it myself but this was some years ago, may not be current. Think it was things they were trying to deprecate, which are now fully gone - was around the time they introduced Hardened Runtime, 2018-19 ish.
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by Earw0rm 11mo ago
The bigger difference is that Apple isn't just checking for malware, it's checking for conformance with various APIs, manifest requirements and so on. Not as strict as the iOS App Store, maybe, but it will refuse to notarize if it
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by Earw0rm 11mo ago
It's more akin to an enforced malware scanner, at least in principle, kind of mandatory VirusTotal with a stapled certificate. In practice though they use it to turn the screws on various API compliance topics, and I'm not sure ho
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by Earw0rm 11mo ago
There was, due to lead compounds in vehicle exhaust. Nasty stuff. These days, tyre microplastics and diesel particulates are still a concern, but there's little hard science around the hazards of eating them in small quantities - there
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by Earw0rm 11mo ago
It seems pretty clear to me though that being good at intellectual tasks / the sort of usefulness we ascribe to LLMs doesn't strongly correlate with awareness. Even just within humans - many of the least intellectually capable hum
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by Earw0rm 11mo ago
I've also experienced this, to an extent, but on qualitative topics the goodness of an answer - beyond basic requirements like being parseable and then plausible - is difficult to evaluate. They can certainly produce good-sounding answ
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by Earw0rm 11mo ago
If by task you mean the written, intellectual variety, maybe.
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
Because failure to solve it is political and intellectual laziness and cowardice. It's like jets falling out of the sky because the guy that bolts the wings on is only half doing his job, we can all see it and know about it and yet.. n

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