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The USA is a fantastic ally! When a small aircraft was recently hijacked from Vancouver international airport, guess which Air Force came to our rescue? Thank you!! While there’s a lot of news and media about trade wars with the USA, the va
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I can't read the article but that won't stop me from commenting.. This year alone something like 400B was spent on investing in chips, datacenters, electricity buildouts. That's 400B that could have otherwise been invested in
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I feel like we missed the chance to have a standard http resource for this stuff.
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> This is the fundamental problem: AI can generate the form of security research without the substance. I think this is the fundamental problem of LLMs in general. Some of the time looks just enough right to seem legitimate. Luckily the
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China is not a free market and shouldn’t be allowed to compete as if it were.
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It sounds like they are just saying they should have used the tool they were most familiar with on day 1.
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I know more people than not who have gmail as their primary email.. the one that _every_ other account and bank and government service sends out to. It's not exactly well known that there are challenges for account recovery etc.
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When Jobs first announced the iPhone, he really sold the idea that it was running a real web browser like on a desktop. Up to that point, there was a special mobile internet that really sucked.
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Transitions takes decades especially when silicon and networks are involved (eg secure boot and MTU). Most of us would rather just stick with a handful of ciphers than constantly changing (crypto agile has become crypto chaos).
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meanwhile skills in operating systems, networking, and optimization are declining. Every system i've seen in the last 10 years or so has left huge cash on the table by not being aware of the basics.
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Disney blew the budget up and the quality went down.
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I would be curious to know the difference. In summer you might find 30c outside and inside 20c so a difference of 10c. In winter it can reach -30c and inside is 20c. This is 5x more!
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There is definitely a survivor bias. It probably works well for those kids who make it through. The kids who it isn’t working for, leave and there are so many of them.
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> We keep trying to progressively tax money in the US to reduce the social imbalance. The former does not lead to the latter.
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SpongeBob, which was cited in the article as profit making merchandise, seems pretty weird and silly. Kids love it too!
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Well that’s my point and what I think the engineers are screaming at the top of their lungs these days.. that it’s net negative. It makes a really good demo but hasn’t won anything except maybe translating and simple graphics generation.
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> Debating about "reasoning" or not is not fruitful, IMO. Thats kind of the whole need isn’t it? Humans can automate simple tasks very effectively and cheaply already. If I ask my pro versions of LLM what the Unicode value of a
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Global porn industry revenue is 100B. They won’t take 10% of that. Real humans are already selling themselves pretty cheap or free en masse.
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> LLMs can't do math. He went on to "argue" that LLMs trick you with poetry that sounds good, but is highly subjective, and when tested on hard verifiable problems like math, they fail. They really can’t. Token prediction
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The porn pivot makes perfect sense. Porn is already quite fake and unconvincing and none of that matters.
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I think it’s fairly safe to say that chess can be modelled as a math problem and does not require _general_ intelligence to solve.
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MCP servers seem to be a hackers delight. So many poorly configured and hastily deployed instances. Businesses have removed all the normal deployment guardrails!
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I remember attending a lecture from a famous quantum computing researcher in 2003. He said that quantum computing is 15-20 years away and then he followed up by saying that if he told anyone it was further away then he wouldn't get fun
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Control rods, suspension, alignment, etc are significant costs where I live. Winter climate and road conditions impact this.
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Old cell phones and computers are fine from a performance and features point of view. The lack of support, repairability, and durability affect the resale value more than anything. Tires, summer and winter, are also very expensive. ICE weig
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Firefox used to push for open standards and not just IE6 standards coming from microsoft. This era feels worlds away from where we are now where chrome is the new ie6.
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As a long-time firefox user (since the very earliest days of phoenix), I have to say: focus on open standards and delivering a faster and more secure browser. Make runtimes like electron out of your engine. DO shit that matters. Forget pock
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They are also telling you how to cover-your-ass once a breach happens.
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I think there’s more thoughts to… I migrated my non-technical mom from windows to Ubuntu in 2005 and my daily support questions on how to do this and that went to once a few weeks. Gnome 2 and Firefox was very simple. The OpenOffice stabili
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Back in the 90s you could drag and drop a vb6 applet in Microsoft word. Somehow we’ve regressed.. Edit: for the young, wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) was common for all sorts of languages from c++ to Delphi to html. You could draw u

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