jacquesm

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by jacquesm 1mo ago
All of the grifters (and lots of capital) can't wait to jump on the bandwagon because they see it as their chance to clean up. The same happened during the last 4 tech revolutions. (in my life so far: semiconductors, the internet, mobi
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by jacquesm 1mo ago
I don't agree with the believers vs non-believers dichotomy. That makes this look like a religious war and it shouldn't have to be like that. To me AI is a very useful tool, no more no less, it isn't a 'make a wish'
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by jacquesm 1mo ago
The nightmare of every machinist: salespeople and customers visiting the floor.
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by jacquesm 1mo ago
SUN Apollo SGI Though to be fair it was Linux more than Windows that killed them. Dos and Windows were competition for DEC and - ironically - IBM.
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by jacquesm 1mo ago
99.99% of the typical mobile phone users will not be able to implement your advice and the 0.01% that can already knows.
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by jacquesm 1mo ago
Supply has just become near infinite, that means all of the value is now in curation rather than creation, and to pick out the good stuff is now more work than it ever was. Good luck finding the next Jimy Hendrix, Picasso or Doris Lessing.
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by jacquesm 1mo ago
I love these efforts to get proper models running on lower cost hardware and I think this is where the next real breakthrough will come from. The more efficient this sort of thing can be done the bigger the chance to democratize this tech,
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by jacquesm 1mo ago
The series of own goals is a bigger problem. They should spend their $ on FF and allow direct donations that only go to FF and not to their hobby projects.
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by jacquesm 1mo ago
There is a very easy solution to this problem, it's called FireFox. Now if only Mozilla would stop messing with it and instead would turn it into a class example of speed and memory efficiency I'd be even happier. But it's pr
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by jacquesm 1mo ago
L5 is considered to be more jam resistant, but it is still in the process of being rolled out and most receivers do not have that capability. It will take the better part of a decade to be rolled out completely but the space side should be
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by jacquesm 1mo ago
A lot of work is being done to make GPS more jam resistant, and - just as important - more spoof resistant. The latest batch of satellites has a whole raft of countermeasures to help a receiver to identify whether the received signal is gen
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by jacquesm 1mo ago
Not so simple. For one the distances to the transmitter are much smaller, for another the amount of power available to the transmitters is pretty much whatever you want to hook it up to, whereas GPS satellites are on a pretty strict power b
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by jacquesm 1mo ago
And LORAN. But it may make a come-back. GPS signals are just incredibly weak so it takes next to nothing to drown them out, easier still if you are above the receiver.
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by jacquesm 1mo ago
For every bit of history there is 'the danger period', when it is still recent enough that most people don't consider it special but old enough that special effort needs to be made to preserve it. Random chance as much as any
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by jacquesm 1mo ago
You wouldn't be the first person to eventually conclude that C is just a very fancy macro assembler. But AI generated code is much like every other generated code: it is more voluminous and rather less elegant than what you'd writ
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by jacquesm 1mo ago
Oh that's going to be the excuse by anybody under investigation from now on. From 'the hacker did it' we will smoothly transition to 'the AI did it'.
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Leica Freedom Train(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jacquesm 1mo ago
What an incredibly neat hack, congratulations. In the 80's Motorola had a challenge-response system to open doors with badges that contained a good bit of circuitry that reminds me of what you've built here. Super impressive. I ne
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by jacquesm 1mo ago
It is definitely a case of vandalism.
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by jacquesm 1mo ago
> And doing so will cause cataclysmic changes to the socioeconomic standings of entire regions of the world. We're going to have those anyway. Might as well make them count for something.
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by jacquesm 1mo ago
Bluntly: too late. You'd have to rewind to 2001 or so and go on the strictest measures worldwide. But we are utterly unequipped to deal with global issues, the Ozon layer success notwithstanding.
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by jacquesm 1mo ago
You could have picked a better example, sorting algorithms are typically drop-in replacements.
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by jacquesm 1mo ago
It means you are paying for a support contract. Whether you actually have one time will tell.
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by jacquesm 1mo ago
It can be quite hard to predict where particular usage patterns will take a piece of software under extreme load, especially with things that have lots of internal state. Obviously when you get to spend 100 T or more the pay off of an optim
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by jacquesm 1mo ago
It's trivial until they go, and then it is instant misery. I've done it on purpose just to see how bad it would be and even knowing it will happen it will still surprise you with how sudden, total and hot those things burn. You
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by jacquesm 1mo ago
Your extinguisher will do absolutely nothing. Get rid of it. Soon. Better now.
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by jacquesm 1mo ago
This is my touchstone for evaluating any society: how does it deal with people without power?
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by jacquesm 1mo ago
This wasn't a Hugging Face incident, it was an open AI crime and they should own it rather than attempt to whitewash it as 'shit happens, whoopsie' which is a rough translation of the document linked. I wasn't too impres
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by jacquesm 1mo ago
NV is a very different beast from all of those. I have yet to regret buying any of their products and I wouldn't touch your list with a stolen 10' pole.
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by jacquesm 1mo ago
No, just people that prefer the largest economy and military power in the world to be as stable as possible.

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