gmuslera

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by gmuslera 8mo ago
Sleepwalking into a dystopia that would had made Aldous Huxley and George Orwell to blush falls into the interesting arena.
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by gmuslera 8mo ago
And different agendas. Governments and corporations doesn't try social engineering attacks, scams or do things that end in i.e. ransomware attacks.
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by gmuslera 8mo ago
It concluded that the only winning move in the global thermonuclear war was not to play. That is what separates works of fiction from reality.
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by gmuslera 8mo ago
Another factor that as far I remember was present in the novel was technological acceleration, by the time you detected the first tries of "turning on the lights" of an emerging civilization many light years away, that civilizatio
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by gmuslera 8mo ago
The last 10 years in Peru were a bit extreme in that category.
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by gmuslera 8mo ago
Basically https://xkcd.com/221/
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by gmuslera 8mo ago
And the people in power not facing the consequences of their crimes even if they come to broad light. In fact the people in charge of the surveillance is the same that hide those crimes, or convince population that there is nothing to see t
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by gmuslera 8mo ago
That is not a polite way to talk about his poetry.
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by gmuslera 8mo ago
It will have far more impact in the climate of all the world. Ice reflects sunlight, deep water absorbs it, the rate of the planet heating up rises, positive feedback loops should be scary for a reason. At least for something that is not ju
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by gmuslera 8mo ago
It is not about having infinite width and depth of knowledge. Is about abstracting at the right level for the components are relevant enough and can assume correctness outside the focus of what you are solving. Systems include people, that
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by gmuslera 9mo ago
There's no honor among thieves.
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by gmuslera 9mo ago
Latency may play a factor here, I'm not sure at which height they plan to put them.
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by gmuslera 9mo ago
Besides of the advantages and disadvantages of Linux and/or Windows on this, the problem I see on a Microsoft Linux distribution is not the Linux part, but the Microsoft one. The problem that is driving away users are the company polic
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by gmuslera 9mo ago
In one hand, we are past the Turing Test definition if we can't distinguish if we are talking with an AI or a real human or more things that were rampant on internet previously, like spam and scam campaigns, targeted opinion manipulati
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by gmuslera 9mo ago
... for a particular, opinionated definition of what a database should be.
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by gmuslera 9mo ago
There is a lot of crap that is and will ever be useless when debugging a problem. But there is a also a lot that you don't know if you will need it, at least, not yet, not when you are defining what information you collect, and may bec
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by gmuslera 9mo ago
Reminded me a note I heard about backups. You don't want backups, it is a waste of time, bandwidth and disk space, by far most if not all of it will end being discarded without being ever used. What you really want is something to rest
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by gmuslera 9mo ago
What if instead of the index of your full data, you store the index of smaller blocks? Would I need i.e. to use an 8kbytes or larger integer to store the offset all the possible 8k blocks? It is meant to be a joke anyway.
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by gmuslera 9mo ago
Reminded me of pi filesystem ( https://github.com/philipl/pifs ), with enough digits of pi precalculated you might be able to do a decent compression program. The trick is in the amount of reasonable digits for that, if
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by gmuslera 9mo ago
Again? It was shown with Snowden, 12 years ago, that USA should had not been trusted. Since last year it has become more evident than ever that something was very wrong. And if some other president tries in the future to promise that it won
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by gmuslera 10mo ago
Guns too. But we are missing the elephant in the room here: humans using them, specially the ones in key places of power.
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by gmuslera 10mo ago
Debian have multiple mirrors, and some distributions even promote to have local mirrors, the model is different, as you say the packages are signed so you know who made them, wherever you got them from. And I said above, SSL is more than ab
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by gmuslera 10mo ago
If you think SSL certificates are dangerous, try seeing the dangers of NOT using them, specially for a service that is a central repository of artifacts meant to be automatically deployed. It is not about encryption (that a self-signed cert
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by gmuslera 10mo ago
I'm interacting with a language model, using language and normal phrases. That is basically a conversation from my point of view, as is mostly indistinguishable from saying the same and getting similar answers that I could get from a r
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by gmuslera 10mo ago
I think it adds value. Having a conversation with/around a book/document with an AI is a good use case, and having that feature as a not forced option in a book management solution a good match. It is not something that works rega
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by gmuslera 10mo ago
What matters is what happen in the outside. We don't know what happen in our inside (or the inside of others, at least), we know the language and how it is used, event the meanings don't have to be the same as long as it is consis
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by gmuslera 10mo ago
LLMs are language models. We interact with them using language, all of that, but also only that. That doesn't mean that they have "common sense", context, same motivations, agency, or even reasoning like us. But as we interac
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by gmuslera 10mo ago
For any point of the past, this is the future. It is not what is "best" by some metric, nor what is right, or should be, is what actually happens. It is like saying that evolution goal is intelligence or whatever, is what sticks i
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by gmuslera 10mo ago
The PC revolution started with the idea that you can own a computer. Now, by your operating system choice, you don't own it nor what it runs, you don't own the computer, and you don't own anymore the data that used to belong
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by gmuslera 11mo ago
The punishment for crimes in Altered Carbon was sending you to a far enough future so you know nothing and no one. With age you get alienated in a similar way, maybe adding (lack of) understanding on the mix. Your brain have limits, your ad

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