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by phkahler 2y ago
>> I think the world is more likely to end due to bog standard conflicts escalating into an actual war. Not some sort of AGI/ASI going skynet WOPPER, not skynet. You saw War Games right?
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by phkahler 2y ago
I'm not sure why they allow helicopters to fly against the other traffic at that airport. You don't see passenger planes flying past each other like that. This practice was obviously a contributor to the recent collision. I'd
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> I can wiggle each ear very visibly (and both). I hardly ever do but as I remember most people can’t. So i always assumed it was a DNA thing. After reading the article I think its a "use it or lose it" thing where the musc
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> I don't quite trust folk when they say "Oh, that's just there in your body but it doesn't do anything." If you expand that to "You don't need that" it covers the appendix, spleen, tonsils, wi
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by phkahler 2y ago
An interface that accepts only certain things - not raw SQL - and only returns whats needed for the task at hand. Logging of who asked for what is good too but is not preventative.
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by phkahler 2y ago
Database use can NOT be limited by policy. If the data is there, people with access to it WILL use it for whatever they want, even if that's simply because nobody told them what the restrictions are. The best way to prevent misuse of d
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by phkahler 2y ago
And that's not something you should be depending on a compiler to verify.
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by phkahler 2y ago
The github page lists programming languages that include shell, php, and typescript. Blah! - it's an amalgamation of stuff, not a coherent piece of software. And the official website offers commercial stuff. Nowhere do I see a license,
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> Compute is literally being sold as a commodity today, software is not. The marginal cost of software is zero. You need some kind of perceived advantage to get people to pay for it. This isn't hard, as most people will pay a bi
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by phkahler 2y ago
Most of the issues discussed are problems with email software and not the protocol. Attachments should (probably) not be included by default in reply messages. Reply to a message with multiple recipients should ask clarification to reply to
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by phkahler 2y ago
Is there a place to get a wxmaxima installer for Windows other than SourceForge? I no longer trust stuff from there.
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> In what way will this be better than the Concorde? Well it's a modern design for one. IIRC the Concorde was given an exemption to one of the FAA standards in the US that requires that a catastrophic engine failure not be able
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> While 192GB of ram is appealing, it's also quite expensive at $6000. That's because it's Apple. It time to start moving to AMD systems with shared memory. My Zen 3 APU system has 64GB these days and its a mini ITX bo
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by phkahler 2y ago
Since this is all mouse pointer relates and there is hardware for that, I can only assume it's a fixable problem. OTOH the gnome developers have been talking about implementing triple buffering in the compositor. Tripple buffering is o
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by phkahler 2y ago
So decreasing the increase of the problem is considered progress? No.
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by phkahler 2y ago
I expect it to get better some day, but not really good in the next 10 years. I've been calling BS on fully autonomous driving for a decade and I still believe it takes AGI to do that and I think that's still a long way out. LLMs
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by phkahler 2y ago
Yep. All those extra rules missed the entire point of FizzBuzz - people who have trouble writing code fail at even simple thing like FizzBuzz. The extra rules presented sequentially and their interactions might have revealed more about both
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by phkahler 2y ago
The only thing AI can code is glue code. But that is the majority of what people write these days. I've avoided that kind of work and AI disappoints me every time I've tried it with one exception - text to images.
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> it looks like the chainring is able to spin independently of the pedals, as if they moved the freewheel from the rear hub to the bottom bracket IMHO that would be a safety hazard if they removed it from the rear hub. Without that,
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by phkahler 2y ago
Safeware is good. I read it back in the day. Several good failure analysis.
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> As long as they're not fucking up the NIH grantmaking process I'll be happy if they ban "gain of function" research entirely.
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by phkahler 2y ago
And 2020-2024? That extra trillion was supposed to be a one time covid measure, not the new pork.
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by phkahler 2y ago
Because covid? Congress wanted to pass a covid relief bill sending $700B to corporations. Trump said to get the money to the people so they increased it to do so. Biden happily kept the budget way overblown even though covid was essential
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by phkahler 2y ago
Hang in there, this is a long overdue correction. It's gonna over correct a bit, but then things should be better than before. The rhetoric of Trump being a dictator is way overblown. If this didn't happen we'd be heading tow
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by phkahler 2y ago
So cut 15 levels of management. Budget cuts to match. Carry on.
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> solid state clipping != (saggy) tube overdrive. Clipping tends to produce odd harmonics, and blocks highs entirely in the flat parts. Nonlinearity across the signal range can produce even harmonics and doesn't delete portions
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by phkahler 2y ago
Add support for every APU. They can have much more RAM than discrete graphics.
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> Being an ex professional CAD person I think PBR is the wrong visual style for most cad though. The main point of shading is to improve the perception of shape and part isolation there. Traditional airbrush based engineering illustr
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> Software development isn’t free, and I’m happy to pay for software I use regularly. However, Canon is a hardware company, not a software company, and they should—due to the lack of standards—provide software that allows you to use
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by phkahler 2y ago
>> Disrupting access with your physical presence is not a use of force. When they try to move him, will that be use of force? When he tries to resist being moved will that not be forcibly staying?

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