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by dboreham 2mo ago
There may eventually be a Nuremberg II for the henchmen but the ship has sailed on bringing the dear leader to justice.
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by dboreham 2mo ago
Or just "security" since the context here is computer and networking stuff.
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by dboreham 2mo ago
By "cyber" they mean "cybersecurity".
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by dboreham 2mo ago
If you asked the LLM to create an Android app it probably would.
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by dboreham 2mo ago
Assuming you're talking about US courts: this won't happen because courts and the legal system in general exist to preserve the wealth of the wealthy, and that means supporting whatever large corporations are doing. Perhaps they s
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by dboreham 2mo ago
Works great from a press release perspective though.
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by dboreham 2mo ago
Someone needs to work on improving the way Actions deals with resource exhaustion like this. Today it exploded all the CI jobs with "failed" and an inscrutable message about "The job was not acquired by Runner of type hosted
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by dboreham 2mo ago
This is because history gets written by the victors.
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by dboreham 2mo ago
I read it as "because there are no viable attacks", which is...fightin' talk I suppose. What I have seen LLMs do recently is find what turned out to be very basic bugs in encryption and ZK libraries that for some reason human
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by dboreham 2mo ago
Very similar story (right down to the pdp-11s).
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by dboreham 2mo ago
The first computer I used (Sinclair Mk14) featured two fuse programmable ROMs. Fwiw the article says PROMs were replaced by EPROMs in the 1980s which is true but only for memory applications. PALs (programmable array logic, also made by M
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by dboreham 2mo ago
There's a significant difference in that solids picked up with the snow (gravel, dirt, dog shit, human...) mostly won't end up in the harbor.
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by dboreham 2mo ago
Not 386 though.
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by dboreham 2mo ago
Capitalism!
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by dboreham 2mo ago
You broke character there..
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by dboreham 2mo ago
That one thing changes everything.
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by dboreham 2mo ago
I'm intrigued to try a slightly different experiment: Did LLMs arise because a) humanity created circuits so large and so fast and so easy to use in parallel that only then did it become possible to run an LLM, or b) because sufficient
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by dboreham 2mo ago
I'm also getting irritated with the “glorified autocomplete” comments. Since nobody can post such comments and also use the tools I'm using, I'm wondering if the phenomenon is due to people only having experience with the fre
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by dboreham 2mo ago
Electric distributon costs less because less copper/aluminum. 120V exists because the US is plagued by lawyers.
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by dboreham 2mo ago
Never once had to do that, fwiw.
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by dboreham 2mo ago
Well, humanity struggled for 2000 years trying to do mathematics without notation, so its benefit is not to be sniffed at. But really it's just an APL-vs-Fortran type debate. They're not fundamentally different. Remember also that
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by dboreham 2mo ago
Many such things have been built. Problem afaik is that the underlying hypervisor setup to support VMs isn't present, or isn't enabled by default, or is hard to figure out, on many machines. Plus you need nested virtualization whe
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by dboreham 2mo ago
lol the before times when Linux ran on mainframes. It does run on IBM 370 type mainframes, but that port was done years after it first ran on the 386, and isn't in any way relevant to low port numbers.
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by dboreham 2mo ago
Having seen the replica, I noticed it has a long continuous tape loop. Was the program "stored" in the paper tape?
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by dboreham 2mo ago
I've always wondered: is this actually wanted? I ask because I live in a low population state where it's fairly easy to make contact with politicians' offices and there have been various cases over the years where I've n
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by dboreham 2mo ago
This is axiomatic -- organizations are going to spend some proportion of the money they have to bribe politicians in their favor, modulo the RoI which will vary a bit case to case. Therefor the more money the organization has the more they&
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by dboreham 2mo ago
Exactly. I wish people would just stop saying "open source" regarding models. Even "open weight" is disingenuous. "self-hostable" would be more honest.
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by dboreham 2mo ago
Yes but zero is not enough and where do you get a fraction of a competent dev op from?
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by dboreham 2mo ago
It's going to be so complicated that nobody quite understands how it works?
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by dboreham 2mo ago
I was introduced to em and en dashes reading Knuth's book on typesetting (the original one, before the TeX book series). Perhaps LLMs were too...

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