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by bb88 5d ago
Will AI become conscious and kill everyone? Or will the conscious beings that exist today use it to kill everyone? I don't think it actually needs to be conscious, or understand legal or moral issues. Just tell it everything is a simul
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by bb88 12d ago
A little late I know, but yes it was. The problem was the hardware didn't really support what VRML could do at the time. I had access to an SGI irix workstation and VRML (and 3d scenes) was still challenging for it back in the early
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by bb88 24d ago
This reminds me of the experience VRML wanted to be 3 decades ago. The only difference is that links went to other worlds living on another server. But that seems trivial to implement with this.
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by bb88 25d ago
If you overpower a signal, is there a difference? I'm not saying you're right or wrong here. I'm just saying there's a long history of coverups in the government and military. If you can say, "oh we were only jamm
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by bb88 25d ago
I'm not going to argue that as it's always easy to blame dead people, but there's two different types of jamming. One is to actually jam the signal IOW preventing reception. The other is to overpower the satellites' sig
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by bb88 26d ago
GPS jamming was being investigated by the NTSB as a possible reason for this air crash that killed 4 people near White Sands Missile Range. The plane reported GPS signal loss 5 minutes after the jamming started by WSMR. Three other planes
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by bb88 27d ago
See "Responsible Adults" in quotes.
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by bb88 27d ago
When you can sell NYC on building a nuclear power plant on Manhattan, then I will agree with you.
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by bb88 29d ago
The potential for widespread radiation leakage from nuclear doesn't exist with wind or solar. I would think a terrorist would hit a nuclear power plant over any wind or solar farms. The Chernobyl exclusion zone will remain uninhabitab
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by bb88 29d ago
Terrorists are only one piece of the issue. Corporations and "Responsible Adults" have done more to harm nuclear power in this country than any terrorist act has. ConEd and Three Mile Island meltdown brought out a mass of normal
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by bb88 1mo ago
This kind of "purity" argument is absolutely toxic. We've seen it with the vietnam paper comparing ORMs to SQL, etc. etc. Please stop this. You didn't hire him, you certainly aren't willing to give him a salary f
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by bb88 1mo ago
I remember the Ivermectin/Hydroxychloroquine fights where people were gaslighting others for some unknown reason. People sharing dubious studies, with questionable results. Meanwhile many of those people had a secondary agenda to keep
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by bb88 1mo ago
Logic bugs in fairness happens in all languages. My unproven theory is that the fewer the foot guns, the better it will be for humans and LLMs to generate. If Rust's footguns are limited to getting past the borrow checker, and memory
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by bb88 1mo ago
AI's can write deterministic code and have been doing so for a while. Humans do this as well. We write deterministic code with a goal, and generally it works out okay. If you say that you can't trust AI because LLM's are st
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by bb88 2mo ago
Yes, and that's the case I've seen as well. I would also say rust is also more heavy on symbols, which can make code look kinda hard to parse in places. But weirdly Opus (N=1) in Claude Code does okay on it. Enough I can reliabl
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by bb88 2mo ago
C/C++ has "compiles but may have undefined behavior". Golang has numerous "compiles but has incorrect behavior" (normally known as footguns). Meanwhile with Rust, if you get past the compilation step, bugs become
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by bb88 2mo ago
N=1 here, but I'm sure you can find many many more examples. In a mass shooting in Boise, Idaho, a woman stole items off a fallen security guard that was lying on the floor. https://idahonews.com/news/local/po
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by bb88 2mo ago
But through short selling the stock market already allows the ability to bet against a company.
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by bb88 2mo ago
If the requirement causes a massive security hole, the lawyers will probably tell you that knowingly allowing a security hole from a liability perspective is worse than turning off something an audit will flag.
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by bb88 2mo ago
The $5 wrench isn't about breaking encryption. It's about breaking will power. If they achieve their goals great for them. If not they proved the second volume either didn't actually exist or your will power was stronger t
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by bb88 2mo ago
This is always been the dumbest thing about "hidden volumes": It relies upon your adversary not knowing about veracrypt's hidden volume. Which BTW, is plainly ADVERTISED on the web site. The second he knows you have veraco
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by bb88 2mo ago
Yes. And we are: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21237875 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19845029 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48783117
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by bb88 2mo ago
How does it deal with pointers if everything is stack based? You can't really return a pointer to something on the stack because it could get overwritten between when you return it and when you access it.
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by bb88 3mo ago
I've been working on a SDN software for mikrotik routers (and wireguard, etc) and Fable dies when working with any kind of wireline protocol or potentially implementing any authentication mechanism. It's too the point where I just
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by bb88 3mo ago
Businesses have been anti-human for a while now. If you think AI is bad, wait until I tell you about the horrors of social media who profit on controversy and division, US health insurance which profits on rejecting claims, and big pharma p
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by bb88 3mo ago
I have list of issues with SQL. Not composable. Unable to detect query errors at compile time because the schema is only loosely coupled to the code base. And as you yourself point out, SQL is not standardized, which is also terrible an
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by bb88 3mo ago
In amateur radio there was a famous DXpedition there this year. https://3y0k.com/ There are some videos on facebork but you have to trade your data to see them apparently. Alternatively there's some pictures on this pa
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by bb88 3mo ago
More likely they'll convince congress they will need their own. Only it will 20-200 times more expensive and the US taxpayer will be paying for it but won't get access.
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by bb88 3mo ago
Honestly those are used as weights now in some kind of obscure calculation (or maybe not so obscure calculation but I still don't understand it). What I really learned during that time is that mail servers have well known IP addresses
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by bb88 3mo ago
Honestly, I think the biggest enjoyment I got from this thread is that programming culture is often toxic in ways that people aren't really ready to admit on this site which is dedicated to computers and programming. I can hear them no

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