layer8

19 ms·

601.
by layer8 3mo ago
I like this, but to play the devil’s advocate: How does that mesh with usually having just one giant overhead light (the sun) outdoors?
602.
by layer8 3mo ago
For those running into the ad-blocker blocker: https://archive.ph/LlAfO
603.
by layer8 3mo ago
Cultural bias.
604.
by layer8 3mo ago
That would create much more chaos, because every region autonomously decides on its timezone(s). You'd have different countries and/or timezones using different leap second counts.
605.
by layer8 3mo ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second#:~:text=Other%20co...
606.
by layer8 3mo ago
Being located in Paris, it would have to be "maître du temps".
607.
by layer8 3mo ago
Someone should establish the Interplanetary Sun Orbiting Service.
608.
by layer8 3mo ago
It’s funny the EU hasn’t designated Cloudflare as a Gatekeeper yet.
609.
by layer8 3mo ago
It may be good enough to make me more productive, but only because I don’t relent on ensuring that the code is well-reasoned. Indeed, I don’t experience that when I do relent.
610.
by layer8 3mo ago
I don’t think that the logical reasoning ability of LLMs depends on the abstraction level. Their heuristic knowledge differs between levels, but that’s a different thing. My concern is the reasoning capabilities.
611.
by layer8 3mo ago
What’s interesting to me is reasoning about the problem and its implementation. And that doesn’t stop at any abstraction level. Reasoning in the small is just as important as reasoning in the large. And the issue with LLMs is that their c
612.
by layer8 3mo ago
> Rate of generation/Rate of verification is a proxy for signal to noise ratios Hopefully you mean Rate of verification/Rate of generation.
613.
by layer8 3mo ago
Not sure if they meant that, since the “awful” was referring to the original loop that had no x, but the generic solution in that case is: for (size_t i = size; i—- > x;)
614.
by layer8 3mo ago
It works perfectly fine for size = 0?
615.
by layer8 3mo ago
People are doing something (e.g. [0][1][2]). That’s why Chat Control 2.0 hasn’t passed and is unlikely to pass in the foreseeable future. [0] https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/ [1] https:&#
616.
by layer8 3mo ago
“Chat Control”, along with the version numbers, is a naming invented by the opponents, not by the proponents.
617.
by layer8 3mo ago
It decreases legibility by breaking the norms of written communication. That makes it distracting and annoying to read, and makes me want to not engage with it. It’s like talking to someone face-to-face who smells because they chose to not
618.
by layer8 3mo ago
The N100 supports "In-band ECC" (IBECC), which uses regular non-ECC RAM at the cost of less available memory and a 10-20% performance drop. It’s unclear how well it works, and almost nobody uses it.
619.
by layer8 3mo ago
DDR5 on-die ECC is to achieve acceptable yields in the face of denser process nodes that decrease the reliability of RAM cells. It’s not clear how much of an improvement that is to what we had before, other than allowing for higher RAM spee
620.
by layer8 3mo ago
This isn’t black and white. You might have huge amounts of non-essential data that aren’t worth the cost of off-site backups, but worth the cost of an extra disk of redundancy to lessen the risk. Even when you do have backups, it will reduc
621.
by layer8 3mo ago
As far as I’m concerned, using the Shift key would already help.
622.
by layer8 3mo ago
The past has shown that “legitimate” criminals tend to be more careless and have a poorer technical understanding than you’d think. This is not a defense of surveillance, just that your argument doesn’t hold as well as you might believe.
623.
by layer8 3mo ago
The other downside is that even good laws would not pass, because it would mean for MEPs having to constantly identify themselves as such.
624.
by layer8 3mo ago
A “no ever” law requires a constitutional majority. And for this concrete case, some member states effectively already have that via privacy guarantees in their constitution. Finally, it’s important to realize that the power of laws is limi
625.
by layer8 3mo ago
The criterion is if the parties in power can be voted out of office again, which is very much the case in Europe (see the recent example of Hungary). A dictatorship is if this is not possible anymore.
626.
by layer8 3mo ago
It doesn’t just help to “get used to” computers, it continues to help even after being used to computers for decades. The fact that it helps to better recognize and distinguish UI controls from content never stops.
627.
by layer8 3mo ago
The original C2 wiki did that for two decades.
628.
by layer8 3mo ago
There are a lot of night-time light sources on Earth to reflect.
629.
by layer8 3mo ago
Testing can expose errors, but it can’t prove correctness.
630.
by layer8 3mo ago
It could be an underground system, like sewerage. However, noise might be an issue.

More ›