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by gnfargbl 2y ago
That's really odd -- Belfast but not Dublin? Why?
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
The UK public would never accept this. There's basically almost no interest in E2EE at all, but the idea of not being able to take your iPhone to the Apple Store would be riot-inducing. And I think the average Brit would be more comfor
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
I've been following the stories relatively closely, since I live here and have an interest in these things. I'm not aware of any arrests for "disagreeing with the extreme left", which is what I'm specifically asking
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
Can you offer an example of someone being jailed for "disagreeing with the extreme left on social media," or is this an alternative fact that you've acquired via osmosis? I am aware of people being jailed in the UK for making
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
Except perhaps for people living near the border in Northern Ireland, "going to the EU" for warranty work is a completely unfeasible suggestion. It's not exactly a short or cheap journey for most of us!
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
I wasn't meaning to attach a pejorative to "consequences", but the word does typically have that meaning so you're right to call me out. Perhaps "resulting legal issues" would be a better way to put it. For the
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
I think if Google attempted to download the entirety of JSTOR with the express intent of making the full dataset freely available, then Google would also face legal consequences. It's true, and relevant, that Google would feel those co
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
The graphic shows that 85% of the addressable market favour party A and 15% party B. My point is that once you strongly align your brand with either party, you alienate a decent chunk of your customers. If you have to choose, then in this
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
"Republicans buy sneakers, too." I wonder how long it will take the Tesla board to fully internalise the meaning of that quote.
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
There are significant numbers of MG cars (SAIC Motor) on the roads in the UK. I see more of them than Polestars (Geely/Volvo).
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
From the benchmarks on another of the blog posts, I very roughly estimate this to be about 1/50 the performance of a Ryzen 7950X for CPU-bound tasks not requiring vector instructions. For vectorizable workloads it will be much slower
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
There are some comparative benchmarks on a slightly older post: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/a-risc-v-progress-check-benchma...
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
I agree that there's not much information to be gathered from a small sample, but there ought to be some tangible effects at the macro level. Is academia actually becoming more equal due to these initiatives? Are researchers who are hi
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
Do you have any thoughts (which you feel comfortable sharing) on the actual effectiveness or otherwise of these initiatives? Setting aside the dogma on both sides, do they achieve their stated aims?
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
Mostly just ChatGPT 4o and o1. I feel like I get an 80% hit rate on software questions.
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
Which is kind of fair enough, isn't it? AI models are right more often than they're wrong, but they're not nearly infallible enough to be used in a court. So the output of them should be treated like an intelligence tip, i.e.
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
Bader was also a chief proponent of the Big Wing, essentially flying a shitload of planes together in formation. The Big Wing which is usually considered [1] to have been a worse strategy than the more dynamic, targeted and integrated Dowdi
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
The Bugcrowd portion of this story is not something I expected to see. The screenshot of the mail is apparently sent from the "Platform Behavior Standards Team," which means that either Bugcrowd are taking a rather expansive view
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
But how is an individual supposed to "prepare" for AGI? The outcome of further automation will be to move even more capital under the control of an even smaller number of hands. It's that increasing inequality which is the
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
* execute arbitrary code in one of the best studied sandboxes on the planet, which happens to be running on your computer.
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
True, but the bad actor's code doesn't typically run directly on the infected device. Typically the infected router or camera is just acting as a proxy.
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
Oh sure, but larger companies are aware of this and usually have systems in place to protect themselves. I would love to know the backstory around this decision.
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
Setting aside all privacy issues entirely, I'm curious as to the details of the internal approval process (or perhaps lack of process) in GM. The act itself is obviously customer-hostile, and it's at least fairly obvious that at s
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
It does not make more sense to the British, this is just the particular "clever" writing style favoured by The Register. Maybe it was sharp in the 2000s, I can't honestly remember, but these days it makes the site pretty much
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
Well, the operation of constitutions is sometimes of interest to those of a technical mindset. I opened this post hoping to find some discussion of Gödel's Loophole which I think is an interesting topic, Trump notwithstanding.
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
Ah come on: she wasn't sterilised for being unable to take care of her children, she was sterilised because both (a) pregnancy would endanger her health and (b) she lacked the capacity to rationally understand that (the article referen
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
> Just look at for example Elon Musk and imagine if there were no need for physical pregnancy which i think is the major limiting factor here. I agree that is a very likely outcome. We've seen that behaviour before in history, e
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
True. My anecdata is that I don't see even the echoes of these pressures/responsibilities in my own historical choices, and as a result I doubt their effect on others.
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
I don't think much of the other proposed societal changes in BNW. They're a backdrop which Huxley uses to illustrate some aspects of human nature and to tell the rest of his story, but that's about it. We've had plenty o
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
There aren't many future societal changes that I'd bet on, but the acceptance of Brave-New-World-style artificial uterine environments is one of them. Even for a healthy woman at an optimal age, the process of pregnancy is incredi

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