jagrsw

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by jagrsw 2y ago
I'm not here to defend sama, but certain things cannot be proven until they arrive - they can only be extrapolated from existing observations and theoretical limits. Imagine the Uranium Committee of early 40's, where Szilard and o
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by jagrsw 2y ago
It might be well implementation-dependent. On Linux, the close() system call rarely fails unless you provide an invalid file descriptor. L.Torvalds has stated that on Linux, close() immediately removes the file descriptor from the process,
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by jagrsw 2y ago
Is it per spec, or from experience?
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by jagrsw 2y ago
Just being nitpicky - I'm from the EU, but I think in the US, you can get either: 240V: Split-phase, this gives you 120V between each leg and neutral, and 240V across the two legs. 208V: The interphase in a 3-phase system. Mig
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by jagrsw 2y ago
I hold an electrical certification in the EU, though I'm not currently practicing. A quick point: transient surges are usually fine. Both cables and circuit breakers are designed to fail (trip or burn out) under sustained overloads. Fo
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by jagrsw 2y ago
This thing could run off a single US outlet (1600W) with some throttling, if I'm not mistaken? Shame it wasn't designed for EU sockets. 230V*16A = 3700W, or double that on separate breakers!
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by jagrsw 2y ago
Forget universally compatible UID formats. Frameworks, APIs, and databases only need consistency within their own ecosystem. Want visually recognizable unique identifiers? JAGRSW-UID-<192bit-input-from-urandom-encoded-in-base64>
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by jagrsw 2y ago
Imagine how many careers have been built on inventing and promoting something, in the end, turned out to be a cleverly encoded output from /dev/urandom.
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by jagrsw 2y ago
This seems useful, especially for CTF players and glibc/musl/.. devs. PS: x64 is a bit ambiguous, as it was not uncommon to use it for Itanium ;)
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by jagrsw 2y ago
I get truly confused when using GRUB. Maybe it’s just me being unwilling to dive into all the details, but seriously, why are there like 30 packages starting with 'grub' under Debian? All I want is to boot my kernel under EFI, and
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by jagrsw 2y ago
I beg to differ. Using "Incorrect" to counter the statement that distribution is illegal implies it's largely untrue. While a distinction between "illegal" and "de facto illegal" exists, your own explanati
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by jagrsw 2y ago
Thank you for taking time to write this explanation, but otoh it's a lot of words to say that it's "kinda illegal"
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by jagrsw 2y ago
This tool is designed to be helpful right now . Looking ahead, there's no reason why AI can't eventually match, or even surpass, human intelligence across the board. Whether it's advancements in LLMs, with features like long
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by jagrsw 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift
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by jagrsw 2y ago
Poland is one: 138 misdemeanor law: Whoever, professionally engaged in the provision of services, demands and collects a payment higher than the applicable fee for the service, or intentionally, without a justified reason, refuses to provid
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by jagrsw 2y ago
The trespassing laws for commercial establishments are very problematic. I'm in favor of laws that prohibit refusing service when selling openly offered goods or publicly offered services, with clear exceptions such as aggressive behav
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by jagrsw 2y ago
There are approximately 4 billion women in the world. Given that I know a few people who sound very similar to me, I would say that there are (subjectively) perhaps 1,000 to 10,000 different types of women's voices in the world. This w
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by jagrsw 2y ago
> A model that is as good as an average human but costs $10 000 per effective manhour to run is not very useful, but it is still an AGI. Geohot ( https://geohot.github.io/blog/ ) estimates that a human brain equivalen
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by jagrsw 2y ago
Assuming embedded AI in every piece of robotics - sometimes directly, sometimes connected to a central server (this is doable even today) - it'll revolutionize industries: human-less mining, processing, manufacturing, services, and tra
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by jagrsw 2y ago
Yes, considering that AI operates differently from human minds, there are several advantages: AI does not experience fatigue or distractions => consistent performance. AI can scale its processing power significantly, despite the ch
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by jagrsw 2y ago
Some first ideas coming to mind: Engineering Level: Solve CO2 Levels End sickness/death Enhance cognition by integrating with willing minds. Safe and efficient interplanetary travel. Harness vastly higher levels of energy (
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by jagrsw 3y ago
Was it George himself, or a person working for a bounty that was set up by tinycorp? Also, a question for those knowledgeable about the PCI subsys: it looked like something NVIDIA didn't care about, rather than something they actively
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by jagrsw 3y ago
Fun stuff, a bit to similar to the DBNZ cpu concept - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-instruction_set_computer
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by jagrsw 3y ago
Decompilation is somewhat a default choice for ML in the world of comp-sec. Searching for vulns and producing patches in source code is a bit problematic, as the databases of vulnerable source code examples and their corresponding patches a
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by jagrsw 3y ago
How do we know that (re 'ultimate' and 'it's the best')?
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by jagrsw 3y ago
> For the foreseeable future AI is going to be very limited in how much harm it can cause us, because killing us,... AI's potential for harm might be limited for now in some scenarios (those with warning sings ahead of time), but th
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by jagrsw 3y ago
I don't think discussing this on technical grounds is necessary. AGI means resources (eg monetary) and means of communication (connection to the Internet). This is enough to perform most of physical tasks in the world, by human proxies
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by jagrsw 3y ago
> those have stalled at local maxima every single time. It's challenging to encapsulate AI/ML progress in a single sentence, but even assuming LLMs aren't a direct step towards AGI, the human mind exists. Due to its evolut
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by jagrsw 3y ago
> seems to be a lot of hand-waving between where we are now and "AGI". Modeling an entity that surpasses our intelligence, especially one that interacts with us, is an extraordinarily challenging, if not impossible, task. Conce
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by jagrsw 3y ago
Could the accident be linked to the clarity of radio instructions? I saw a discussion suggesting the DH aircraft might have been unsure about the correct runway to use, C1 or C5. My aim isn't to critique the English proficiency of non-

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