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by ajross 11mo ago
> They completely revolutionized laptop processors Tough love: no, they didn't. 99.9% of consumers simply can't detect a performance difference between an M4 Air and a junky Asus box (and what ones can will announce that games
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by ajross 11mo ago
No, he's missed the mark here. The retreat to imprecise non-statements like "ChatGPT cannot know or understand anything, so it is not intelligence" is a flag that you're reading ideology and not analysis. I mean, it&#x
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by ajross 11mo ago
Again though, that's mixing things up. The question is whether or not mitigating the exploit requires an OS patch be applied promptly . And it seems like it doesn't. If there is a live exploit in the wild (as seems to be conten
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by ajross 11mo ago
The point was surely more that apps being exploited via the Play Store can be mitigated there without client OS updates. The only hole here requiring the update needs a sideloaded attack.
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by ajross 11mo ago
> None of the keys felt natural The key bindings are sort of the least impactful idea behind the editor. The defaults are indeed ancient and opinionated, and don't match well with what other environments ended up adopting. They do
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by ajross 11mo ago
Seems like the opposite to me. IDE fashion changes like the wind. "Normal developers" are constantly starting over with new tools and new paradigms every time they start work on a new project. Gotta have the right vscode extens
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by ajross 11mo ago
I think I see only one truly tiled layout. But yes, "terminals and editors" as the core developer workflow is extremely conserved over time. It dates from the mid 80's on Sun 2's and really hasn't changed much in
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by ajross 11mo ago
Python 3 couldn't even kill Python 2!
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by ajross 11mo ago
No, they want DRAM to be expensive to give them a competitive advantage over their competitors.
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by ajross 11mo ago
It's about volume, not a naive count of consumers. Article claims that OpenAI holds contracts for 40% of world DRAM production. That's just really obviously manipulation if they can't actually power those chips, come on.
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by ajross 11mo ago
Market manipulation is a crime under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. You can't buy things to influence the price or the market, only to use or resell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_manipulation
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by ajross 11mo ago
Presumably this is gray because it's a quip, but I think that's about right. So, so, so much rust is being written for applications that just don't need it. For almost everything[1] a managed runtime like Go or Java or .NET
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by ajross 11mo ago
> [...] is trivial in Rust [...] it just requires [...] This is a tombstone-quality statement. It's the same framing people tossed around about C++ and Perl and Haskell (also Prolog back in the day). And it's true, insofar as
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by ajross 11mo ago
It's not the "3D printed" aspect of the part that's driving the failure, it's that it's made out of thermoplastic. An injection molded part in this situation[1] would likely have failed in the same way. [1] It&
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by ajross 11mo ago
> What a disaster for Micron. Almost certainly this is because of a windfall for Micron, at least in the short term. Datacenter memory demand is going through the roof, and that was where margins were highest already. It makes no sen
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by ajross 11mo ago
The term is always ambiguous. But react is generally understood as a client library and client-side vulnerabilities are hardly a new thing. XSS exists as a whole subfield of study precisely because of the difficulty of keeping site code f
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by ajross 11mo ago
The CVE says the that flaw is in React Server Components, which implies strongly that this is a RCE on the backend (!!), not the client.
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by ajross 11mo ago
> It's not complicated. It's just very basic capacitor behavior. All circuits are just very basic circuit element behavior. In fact a charge pump is a decidedly counter-intuitive thing, up there with things like "why a lo
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by ajross 11mo ago
I think I (a long time software nerd) am finally getting over the hump with analog stuff. The article says the circuit is complicated and hard to understand, yet I got it instantly. Feels sort of like learning a musical instrument and rea
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by ajross 11mo ago
Yeah, having a native binary be only 2x faster than CPython, or CPython showing 4x (!!) advantage vs. V8 seems really suspicious. This benchmark suite is probably good for looking at CPU architecture deltas on identical source code (which
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by ajross 11mo ago
I'm seeing this attitude everywhere in this subthread, and it's frankly pretty offensive. The burden of proof is on you, not us. If a philosophy paper or textbook has an important contribution to this discussion then cite it! O
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by ajross 11mo ago
> Like there are literally Faculty in Philosophy all over the world trying to understand AI. There surely are. The problem is that they are failing . While the practical nerds are coming up with some pretty good ideas. And this was wh
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by ajross 11mo ago
If one executive hire was all it took to steal a whole process node, TSMC could never have built the lead it has (nor Intel the lead it had in previous decades). Semiconductor manufacturing is an exercise in blood, tears and careful note ta
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by ajross 11mo ago
This is 100% backwards, and exposes exactly the nonsense I'm trying to call out! A "neutrino" isn't a name given to something initially to try to define it later. The neutrino started as an experimental result. There w
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by ajross 11mo ago
You've shifted jargon again. But you're still not providing a description or link to why AI doesn't "have experience", you're just demanding we all accept it as a prior and engaging in a (really pretty baldly
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by ajross 11mo ago
I have! But the lack of a testable procedure tells me that's not a question worth asking. Look, if "qualia" can tell me something practical about the behavior of AI, I am here for it . Lay it on me, man. Let's see s
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by ajross 11mo ago
> In the same way my digital thermometer doesn't have quaila And I repeat the question: how do you know your thermometer doesn't? You don't, you're just declaring a fact you have no basis for knowing. That's fi
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by ajross 11mo ago
> Philosophy is a science Not according to Zombie Feynman it isn't[1] (someone else can dig up the link). Case in point: > Do you understand what qualia is? Most philosophers still don't It's a meaningless word. It&#x
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> That would be a silly argument because feelings involve qualia, which we do not currently know how to precisely define, recognize or measure. If we can't define, recognize or measure them, how exactly do we know that AI doesn&#x27
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by ajross 11mo ago
No, it's about relative value. Obviously it's a tautology to announce that you've discovered that stocks that did really well outperformed ones that didn't. The interesting thing is that the aggregate market gains are

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