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by josefx 1y ago
> Quote from this article:[1] The article tries very hard to draw a connection between the licensing costs for the universities and Oracle auditing random java downloads, but nobody actually says that this is what happened. The waiver of
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AI can't distinguish between user prompts and malicious data, until that fundamental issue is fixed no amount of mysql_real_secure_prompt will get you anywhere, we had that exact issue with sql injection attacks ages ago.
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Is doing that going to be cheaper than not doing it?
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I think it would stop in an isolated setup once most of the water is desalinated.
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You are still subject to courts if you use smart contracts, they change literally nothing about that.
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Even the Asahi Linux lead threatening Linus with a witchhunt against all kernel maintainers did not manage to finish off the ongoing Rust integration. People may not like it but it isn't going down easily.
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> but v8 has made common use cases extremely fast. I’m excited for the future of Python. Isn't v8 still entirely single threaded with limited message passing? Python just went through a lot of work to make multithreaded code faster,
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Choice and platform fragmentation in one neat bundle. I am almost surprised that Apple doesn't just force updates on everyone when it is possible just to maintain that additional bit of uniformity and conformity for its "think dif
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You already have to login as root to modify fundamental os files and any modification can break things just as baldy as rm can.
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At some point you have to give something the ability to update and modify system components and even then it is extreemely unlikely that deleting everything starting with / is the intended behavior.
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> The US is actually more democratic than e.g. Germany, because the president is elected by the people The German president is mainly a figurehead with limited power. The office was stripped down after WWII. The real power lies with the
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> The fact that the standard doesn't specify a name mangling scheme leads to the completely predictable result that different implementations use different name mangling schemes. The ABI mess predates the standard by years and if we
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> "smell test" There are a lot more people who would fail that test and be offended when pointed out. That group includes some forms of mental illness as well.
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> There are many survivalist youtube channels There is often a knowledge gap between different fields of expertise, someone else already cited medical doctors and psychologists reinventing well known mathematics badly. Also youtube attra
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Isn't there already an overlap in the upper 90% between humans and apes? I don't know how much the neanderthal DNA differed back then, but it couldn't be more than that, could it? So wouldn't 3% of the total be at least
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by josefx 1y ago
> and fundamentally immeasurable about humans that leads to our general intelligence Isn't AGI defined to mean "matches humans in virtually all fields"? I don't think there is a single human capable of this.
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For reddit things get even worse: not all commenters realize that the original post has been translated, so you get a flood of comments from people commenting in their native language. Getting modern day tower of babel vibes from that.
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JavaScript was created as a wrapper for Java Applets. Oracle optained both when it bought Sun. The official name of the language is ECMA Script, but people insist on calling it the trademarked name because ECMA makes people think of an unpl
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by josefx 1y ago
It doesn't "make sense" for a lawnmower to cut hands either, it isn't a meat grinder after all. However it is a blade attached to a motor and from a purely mechanical, non-human perspective it will cut whatever comes wit
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Most people don't blindly run the latest kernel. I don't think I ever ran into issues with out of kernel modules on a stable distro.
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That runs into the issue that nobody runs LLMs with a temperature of zero.
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Most heuristics are still deterministic.
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Isn't ECC only applied to RAM? Do any current gen CPUs have ECC cache?
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Doesn't OptiPNG just brute force various settings and pick the best result?
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> Look at JS. Given how much duct tape it took at times to get various browsers to behave I would say JS is proof of the opposite. It succeeded in an environment where standards where a mere suggestion.
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Menu seems to be the kind of word that pops up in a lot of languages.
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Is there still a reason to use VirtualBox?
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Unless the software vendor requires it to be locked down hard. Microsofts certification requirements for ARM devices back in 2012 explicitly required secure boot and prohibited custom certificates.
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Maybe Tiobe counts hits for NVIDIAs Ada Generation graphics cards?
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The problem is that nobody outside of the people enforcing this would know what that "processing" is looking for either. Is it going to look for illegal content, political activists of women seeking an abortion?

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