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by actionfromafar 5d ago
Not that anybody needs to in this day and age with heaps of old laptops and raspberry pis and whatnot, but I knew someone with an Amiga running BSD for their mail server. A simple web server with static pages, or anything which is low volum
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by actionfromafar 6d ago
But is it stupid if you want to sell some fossil fuels in the short to medium term?
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by actionfromafar 6d ago
We might want to at least on the high seas to combat global warming a bit.
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by actionfromafar 7d ago
Depends on if the study is ongoing
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by actionfromafar 8d ago
Right. Feel free to extrapolate a reading like "I think LLM tech and a century of tinkering could achieve computer performance similar to what it appears the entirely fictional, voiced by Majel Barrett, Star Trek computers has".
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by actionfromafar 8d ago
The computer from Star Trek sounds like it could entirely plausibly have been made with LLM components and a century of harness tweaking piled on.
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by actionfromafar 8d ago
From the codebases I have seen the "laws" are scattered between unit tests and lots of little tests and assertions in the actual code, plus cultural norms and "do it like this" patterns. But a good start could be found i
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by actionfromafar 9d ago
The helmet portraits look goofy as hell.
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by actionfromafar 10d ago
The British Empire dismantling wasn't exactly peaceful, but it could have been much worse. Next to India, everything else becomes a rounding error.
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by actionfromafar 10d ago
Can be fairly accurate perception of time on a plane.
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by actionfromafar 10d ago
Time for the more biologically correct Mrs Mosquito?
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by actionfromafar 10d ago
Goodness Tokens
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by actionfromafar 11d ago
I remember telling people about it back then and it sounded crazy even to me. Yet..
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by actionfromafar 12d ago
But isn't it a bit different? Unaligned bombs didn't break out of their confines on their own. And "compute" is a bit harder to control than uranium and refinement tech.
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by actionfromafar 17d ago
You shouldn’t do a lot of things. Yet people do. Feels like you are talking past each other
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by actionfromafar 17d ago
Ah, but they take the big risks, you see. Someone has to do it.
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by actionfromafar 17d ago
And for writing a letter, ed is the standard editor.
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by actionfromafar 17d ago
The Prius isn't really using a gearbox in the conventional sense either, it's much simpler.
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by actionfromafar 17d ago
PC Load Letter?
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by actionfromafar 18d ago
Am I missing some joke here?
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by actionfromafar 18d ago
Couldn't the Enterprise have a different fine print?
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by actionfromafar 19d ago
Probably to feed Meal Team Six https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMoW6CZj5QQ
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by actionfromafar 19d ago
If anyone was thinking, but in practice it is a low level language, behold Fil-C.
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by actionfromafar 21d ago
Yeah, until they run out of coal.
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by actionfromafar 21d ago
Obviously the big companies look after us.
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by actionfromafar 21d ago
But but ... how will they now win against iranian bears in hand to paw combat?
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by actionfromafar 22d ago
"Just" feeding paper is extreme engineering. And a disposable vape has more compute in it than a toner cartridge. (Though there is insane non recurring engineering in an inkjet cartridge. But I bet just the warehousing of a printe
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by actionfromafar 22d ago
And the ones who believes Mr Trump drained the swamp.
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by actionfromafar 22d ago
You really OUGHT to.
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by actionfromafar 22d ago
Not to mention, the model has very little if any self insight.

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