mikewarot

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by mikewarot 2mo ago
I'm old and retired, so I don't have to use it at all. I've got a github and ChatGPT subscription, and I've used both from time to time. I think it's important to disclaim AI generated content, as a matter of court
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
Nope. I think that Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Mark Carney are both doing a great job as the new leaders of the free world. You really don't understand how alien an AI truly is. There's no way you should trust it. It would make even t
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
I find it hard to justify any conclusion other than we're about to repeat the crash of 1929 in terms of stock prices. Back then, stocks dropped 90% over 3 years. We'll be lucky if 10% actual value remains after the bonfire that&#x
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
That's about 25% of all the money raised in their IPO! The circular financing here should give everyone pause. We're at Enron levels of financial engineering, and the outcome is likely going to be worse.
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
The "widely debunked" theory that I find explains a lot is that Trump is Agent Krasnov[1], one of the hardest working KGB assets in history, with 39 years of experience! Then again, never attribute to malice that which can be more
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
Well, with power generation and the grid not up to the scale-up in the unreasonable time-frames the bubble calls for, a lot of gas-turbine generation is being used. The prospect of having jet engines going 24/7 in their neighborhood is
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
Doc Searls, the long time Editor-in-Chief of the Linux Journal, brings an editors viewpoint to this, and mixes in a number of other voices.[1] Many writers use AI to edit their own words, and this watermarking poisons the well for that use.
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
We're at the end of a supernaturally stable era, returning to the mean. The labor demand outstripped the supply in the US from it's founding until about 1970. This allowed the normal working man to support a family, house, car, ki
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
>There is no precedent Sure, there's a precedent for what's happening, the Late Bronze Age collapse.[1] Instead of the Sea People, we've got rogue actors with drones. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
It doesn't matter who/what gets it next, what's important is that we're about to take a 60-80% haircut on our standard of living. It's what happened to the British when the lost it with the Pound Sterling, and now i
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
There's no reference to any systemic search for mirror life. You can't prove something doesn't exist, but you can actually search and document the methods used, who knows, it's probably all around us. It wouldn't su
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
>Although mirror life does not yet exist How sure of that are we, really ? I'm just a grump on the internet, so what do I know, but it sure seems like that's a huge assumption to be making. Perhaps we should fund some resea
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
Can we please stop with this endless, seemingly deliberate, misunderstanding of what Engineering actually involves? You go to a 4 year Engineering school, get an actual Engineering degree. Then you apprentice with an Engineering company, an
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
>5. Catastrophe can be averted via a sufficiently aggressive policy response. While there's a lot if good logic elsewhere, provided LLMs continue to improve, we will eventually get to AGI, we all just disagree about when and how. Ho
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
Meanwhile, in the US, the Univac Solid State computer[1] used similar principles in its patented[3] "Solid State Logic"[2], and was also released in 1958. My understanding is that the magnetic amplifiers used in the V2 rocket kick
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
Long, long ago, Ward Christensen mentioned that someone at work (IBM) told him "You can't write OS/2 programs in Assembler". Discussions followed, and eventually he gifted me the entire C programming suite for OS/2
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
Ugh, I really hate SSL. This is a simple text page, why couldn't it live where it was? C:\Users\User>curl -i http://longbets.org/601/ HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:49:33 GM
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
Everything posted publicly should have a permanent url that anyone can see. There should be arbitrary and orthogonal ranking dimensions, that can be created by users at will. You should be able to have your own algorithms to decide what you
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
A data diode can allow monitoring via the internet without risking ingress of control. Commercial units aren't cheap though. Obviously we need open source designs. Perhaps the easiest way would be a Raspberry pi set up with an opto iso
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
If you could add a data diode to that mix, or just an offline PC and sneakernet, you could completely prevent egress of data from the machine you open said files on.
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
The people who owned our house before us were really into decorative lawn borders, expensive ferns, etc. They spent so much money on it, that they neglected the mortgage, which is how we got the house cheap. I still haven't managed t
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
It's smaller than an actualization of the Memex, that's for sure. It's been 80 years since it was seen as a good solution to the greatest problem facing science at the time. 80 years, yet we still can't mark up hypertext
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
> only takes one PLC engineer to connect the two sides of the network for their own expedience The fuzzy way we depreciate the term Engineer shows up in situations like this. An actual Professional Engineer, with a state issued license
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
I've noticed my daily search "is Mitch McConnell dead yet?" Keeps ignoring date bounds. I expect it'll get fixed in Tuesday after the special election date passes, and we finally mourn.
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
There are plug and play devices that do multiple flavors of SCADA, but as you've said, they aren't trivial, thus not cheap.
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
This is the closest analogy for what's about to happen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1893
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
The software stack is the hassle. Let's assume you want to monitor the SCADA system doing water treatment, or some other critical task, on an air-gapped network. You add server to the network, it's purpose is to query, the SCADA
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
That's way cool, but it won't take an enter from my phone as a carriage return. I'll try it from home later.
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
Strong agree... now if only there were a way to specify "text" followed by a non-alphanumeric character. Some words I need to find turn out to be prefixes. 8( Adobe acrobat has "exact match" as part of its document searc
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
Do be sure to get a firm grasp on electronics. Build a linear power supply, get a breadboard and Arduino, and just play with things. Make sure you understand how it all works. Learn FPGAs, and other non-Von Neumann ways of computing, may

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