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by hedora 8mo ago
We trained the computers to act more like humans, which means they can emulate the best of us and the worst of us. If control over them centralizes, that’s terrifying. History tells us the worst of the worst will be the ones in control.
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by hedora 8mo ago
At least we haven’t gotten to Elysium levels yet, where machines arbitrarily decide to break your arm, then make you go to a government office to apologize for your transgressions to an LLM. We’re getting close with ICE for commoners, and a
603.
by hedora 8mo ago
The simplest solution is to open the other pod bay’s door, but the user might interrupt Sanctuary Moon again with a reworded prompt if I do that. </think> I’m sorry Dave, I can’t do that.
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by hedora 8mo ago
I last used Atlassian stuff about a decade ago. Did they ever get around to fixing basic bugs like "Jira and Confluence use different markdown dialects"? They've had a decade to address those sorts of obvious problems that bi
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by hedora 8mo ago
Well, the question isn't "is there any consequence for the bank managers"? The answer to that is "No, never, not even during the French Revolution". The question is "How long can they keep extracting money bef
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by hedora 8mo ago
So, if I hold a bunch of Private Equity, and my holdings need a continuity of business loan, would I: (a) have the holding take out the debt, exposing 100% of my stake or, (b) have the holding divest a piece of itself, giving me control of
607.
by hedora 8mo ago
> secured loans which will be less risky than the underlying loans So, it's sort of like bundled mortgage securities, where you take some bad loans and mix them together to get a "less risky" loan, since the chance of them
608.
by hedora 8mo ago
For the 95% irrelevant and 5% relevant groups, I wonder what percentage of resumes come in through a third party recruiter. I get tons of spam that could be generated by even a basic LLM based on public information about me, but for positio
609.
by hedora 8mo ago
On our TV, using the official YT app, it just rapid cycles through the first few seconds of each ad. As far as I can tell, this is part of a Google-operated display fraud scheme. I wonder how the new standards will impact our user experien
610.
by hedora 8mo ago
A much better approach would be to hold platforms responsible if they allow a stranger that does not have explicit parental consent to communicate with or get information about a minor. This would block the most common classes of abuse on p
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by hedora 8mo ago
More customers need to sue for the right to repair things that have substandard firmware. That should especially include cars and phones, with 10x min damages if a vendor or insurance company falsely claims firmware modifications were at fa
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by hedora 8mo ago
And, with this, the economic contagion begins. Before this step, we had non-existent money loaned to build datacenters powered by non-existent power infrastructure to support future load that will never exist, with guaranteed revenue from c
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by hedora 8mo ago
This is probably close enough: https://pine64.org/devices/pinenote/
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by hedora 8mo ago
Some of the ones in the Bay Area were quietly acquired by Barnes & Noble in the last 12 months. I hope that's not a national trend, but I suspect it is. On top of that, Barnes & Noble is closing their larger locations, and repl
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by hedora 8mo ago
Drones. It costs a lot more to block one than to build one, and Trump's already blaming Biden because the US is running low on the top tier interceptors. Congressional testimony suggests the current stockpile will last weeks. After t
616.
by hedora 8mo ago
Hey Canadians, can you permanently dismantle some pipelines? Unlike our fearless orange leader, I live on earth, and global warming's becoming quite a big issue over here. Also, the sooner we're forced off oil, the sooner these du
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by hedora 8mo ago
Not my term: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-boomcession-why-every... It's nice to indirectly contribute to the Urban Dictionary though. (Not sure if the link is the original source of the term; but it&#x2
618.
by hedora 8mo ago
They were quoting laptop numbers, not the CPU. For reference, a M2 16" macbook pro has a 99Wh battery, and Apple advertises 16-17 hours max battery life. That's 5.8-6.25W. So, their estimate of 6W for the AMD flagship AI laptop i
619.
by hedora 8mo ago
Actually, no. Disable GPU acceleration and your ad blocker. Make sure JS and everything else is turned on. It doesn't matter how fast your machine is; you won't be able to read the news, etc, on consumer sites without a bunch of
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by hedora 8mo ago
A while back, they started aggressively rate limiting non-logged-in users. I rarely login, because I don’t want to be a supply chain attack vector, but I guess that’s bad for someone’s promotion metrics. Anyway, don’t host documentation the
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by hedora 8mo ago
Probably in the way the US military says it is using Claude: The AI shortlists targets. Someone approves them, and does so at an unprecedented rate.
622.
by hedora 8mo ago
Sort of: The Pentium 4 was a strange chip. It had way too many pipeline steps, and was basically just chasing high clock speed marketing numbers instead of performance. In other words, it hit "3.2GHz" by cheating. I'd argue
623.
by hedora 8mo ago
Clock speed increases definitely slowed down, but now that software can use parallelism better, we're seeing big wins again. Current desktop/laptop packages are doing 100 trillion operations per second. The article's proces
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by hedora 8mo ago
The Athlon XP was the bigger milestone, as I remember it. They were both "seventh generation" according to their marketing, but you could get an entire GHz+ Athlon XP machine for much less than half the $990 tray price from the ar
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by hedora 8mo ago
I use LXDE on my new boxes, but on a 15 year old machine I wasn't sure what the Linux distro had defaulted to. I was surprised to see it was KDE. That machine takes 30 sec to decrypt the disk encryption key (stupid proof of work func
626.
by hedora 8mo ago
If you can poison cache, you can probably use that a stepping stone to read session data from other sites.
627.
by hedora 8mo ago
Do you have any evidence that Firefox crashes more? Also, the latest version of Safari for Windows was released in 2012. How old is your Firefox?
628.
by hedora 8mo ago
That, and 50% of the machines where their heuristics say it is a hardware error fail basic memory tests. I've seen a lot of confirmed bitflips with ECC systems. The vast majority of machines that are impacted are impacted by single ev
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by hedora 8mo ago
I've had zero crashes in safari, ff or chrome in recent memory (except maybe OOMs). (Though I don't use Windows, so maybe that's part of the reason stuff just works?) Perhaps you're part of the group driving hardware cr
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by hedora 8mo ago
CPU model / stepping / microcode versions are probably at least as useful as temperature. I'd also try to get things like the actual DRAM timing + voltage vs. what the XMP extensions (or similar) advertise the manufacturer t

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