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2y ago
It's not a guarantee, you may consider it FUD, but you can't tell me it's impossible - you can't even promise me it won't happen. The TPM is fundamentally about storing cryptographic keys, platform integrity checks,
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2y ago
Just to name a few... Operational reasons: * You often replace hardware and move disks, etc, around * The TPM is not compatible with hardware that you have: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Trusted_Platform_Module * Yo
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2y ago
> Under the bloc’s approach, there are four broad risk levels: (1) Minimal risk (e.g., email spam filters) will face no regulatory oversight; (2) limited risk, which includes customer service chatbots, will have a light-touch regulatory
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2y ago
I think you are describing a lucrative business plan. When you have two of your own bots arguing it out you can bypass the computation overhead entirely.
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2y ago
This is a great idea, we could have a "advocate bot" that takes a small brief and advocates your app on your behalf to the Google bot. What a time to be alive!
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2y ago
Running locally is such an important feature, running elsewhere is an instant non-starter for me. I also want the LLM to be able to read the code to build an in-context solution, but not be able to make changes unless they are strictly acce
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2y ago
> DEI is not a push to have quotas. Rather it is based on the assumption that if you see one group being overrepresented then there is probably a bias in favor of that group. It literally is a push for quotas. Their ideology dictates tha
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2y ago
> Considering color or religion doesn't have any impact on the ability of someone to be a "best astronaut", if your groups isn't diverse, it's most likely there is a bias in action. You have 8 blue people and 2 p
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2y ago
There are some positions that you don't want low IQ (low intelligence) people doing them. If a group of 'X' people (based on any factor you like, be it race, gender, ideology, protected characteristics, etc) are statistically
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2y ago
Meritocracy.
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2y ago
Just because something is Science, does not make it above being ideological. There is tonnes of evidence for this collected [0]: > The trio set out with the intent to expose problems in what they called "grievance studies", ref
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2y ago
> So, back to the old "white guys only" astronaut hiring policy of the moon landings era? We should want the best astronauts, not the most diverse. It's the same as wanting the best doctor, or the best pilot. The UK team f
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2y ago
There's a carrot and stick. Losing your job seems like a heavy stick, whereas a small redistribution of tax seems more like a carrot.
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2y ago
You are correct, it's just there to give you an idea of the capabilities of the modem, what sorts of information it holds and what the cell tower may query.
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2y ago
Potentially this is where the likes of the PinePhone should thrive [1]. As well as the methods suggested, you could have full disk encryption and just have the phone switch off if it suspects any shenanigans. If you want, it could still boo
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2y ago
What does "disruption" look like in the banking space? Banks want the perception of immovable, confidence, reliable, resilience, etc. It's what gives them the credibility to move big money. They don't want to "move
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2y ago
> Interestingly, the difference is very close to 1 full screen refresh. I don't know whether or not that's a coincidence. Some sort of double buffering? To ensure it's consistently one frame, it would make sense to test on
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2y ago
> If a company decides to lay off, for instance, 40 employees, German law doesn’t prevent this. Instead, the law enforces a social scoring system to determine who is affected, prioritizing the protection of the most vulnerable employees,
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2y ago
Note how the team member 'Pedro Echanove' has a mobile device on his screen with a physical keyboard. The desk in front of him doesn't have a chair. The team member 'Carlos Rodríguez' has a large screen on a desk be
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2y ago
If they got hacked, it doesn't bode well for the security of the phone.
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2y ago
Maybe it changed, I won't pretend I checked yesterday. I think it's still valid, you're still looking at a significant percentage of your wage.
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2y ago
I'm somewhat bucking this trend as a hardware engineer in London, a few comments: > Geographical Constraints: Unlike lucrative software jobs, hardware engineering demands physical presence. Not completely true. Our engineers take ha
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2y ago
A tiny database under 256 lines of C: https://gitlab.com/danbarry16/u-database The idea in mind was to use it for something like an RSS feed reader.
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2y ago
Very cool. I wish these guys would have a podcast discussing high profile papers, how influential they are, what sorts of projects have been built on top of them and then be like "uh oh, it looks like our system detecting something str
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2y ago
From my personal experience in the UK, a few annec-data points: A friend owns a Land Rover with such a notoriously bad engine that insurers refuse to insure it. Land Rover had to make their own car insurance [1]. Another friend owns an elec
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2y ago
> My project tree got a lot simpler and the only Javascript on the site now is to highlight code. You can do away with the JS with something like Pandoc Highlight Filter: https://gitlab.com/danbarry16/pandoc-highligh
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2y ago
Markdown and PDF would also be cool. I think it's just a case of feeding the TTS model the right data at the right time. The special sauce is in the model, there's really not much to the code: https://github.com/sa
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2y ago
£14 billion divided by 13,250 jobs = £1,056,604 50% gets spent on hard assets like AI super computers, buildings, infrastructure: £528,302 You lose 50% to operating overheads: £264,151 Each employed person averaging £60k a year gives you 13
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2y ago
> £14 billion and 13,250 jobs committed by private leading tech firms following AI Action Plan Maybe this is where the £22 billion black hole comes from [1]? Maybe freezing 10 millions pensioners helped pay for it [2]? In the background,
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2y ago
> N period on from now, software engineers who haven't adopted or started exploring software assistants, are frankly not gonna make it. Engineering organizations are right now are split between those who have had that "oh fuck&
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