pjc50

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by pjc50 5mo ago
UB based on input can be an exploit vector.
872.
by pjc50 6mo ago
While that sounds pretty hip, I don't see how that relates to any other discussion I've seen about alignment?
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by pjc50 6mo ago
> Further than the doomers think, but not enough to pay off the investors of the original boom Not an uncommon event - not only did this happen to many companies who were big in the original internet boom (e.g. Sun Microsystems, as well
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by pjc50 6mo ago
> much of the groundwork for the “rules-and-heuristics” mode of AI was laid down in the 70s and 80s, long before we had the raw compute power to reliably extract patterns from reality-scale inputs. Those early efforts failed miserably Ye
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by pjc50 6mo ago
Especially when you look at Iran-Contra, where the US cut out the middleman and supplied arms directly to Iran and supported terrorists at the same time!
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by pjc50 6mo ago
No, they don't: they want allied (UAE, Saudi) oil to flow, but not Iranian oil. The US is embargoing most of the Far East from essential fuel.
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by pjc50 6mo ago
> And a number of NATO members need to rapidly become nuclear capable I don't think we should cheer the end of non-proliferation in the long run.
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by pjc50 6mo ago
On the other hand, it is extremely Russian to not surrender no matter how badly it is going and regardless of the cost in human life. Leningrad, Stalingrad, even burning Moscow to keep it from Napoleon. For nationalist purposes, it doesn&#x
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by pjc50 6mo ago
UK deploys Star Streak for protecting critical locations. There was some mild controversy over this being deployed for the Olympics.
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by pjc50 6mo ago
The EU does have air defences and QRA. Eastern Europe is more at risk from this. And then the question people keep failing to ask: "now what"? Russia is then fully at war with Europe and an open field for air strikes.
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by pjc50 6mo ago
I am increasingly skeptical as to whether the nukes would actually work if tried, given some of the failures of the start of the Russian campaign, and I suspect they also have that concern. If you're brandishing a gun to threaten peopl
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by pjc50 6mo ago
> "Genre movies are not acceptable." I find that hilarious, like proclaiming that only other people have an ethnicity or an accent. Because of course Dogme is a genre of its own.
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by pjc50 6mo ago
> pointless distracting culture war, but still completely politically inactive. The culture war is the politics. It's all very post social media swerve into conspiracy theories.
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by pjc50 6mo ago
Europe now has lots of fairly-local EV options: VW (inc Cupra and Skoda), Renault, even Stellantis. Despite their poor rep they make a lot of cars: Vauxhall/Opel, Fiat etc. UK now has a significant Chinese presence: Omoda, Jaecoo (Cher
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by pjc50 6mo ago
I'm a member of one which has worked well: https://www.edinburghsolar.coop/ And a member of a wind farm project (Ripple Energy) which went bankrupt. So like all small investment schemes, I guess you need to keep a clos
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by pjc50 6mo ago
It's funny, I said essentially the same thing as a positive upthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177024 - lesson is "don't sound like a jerk", I guess. People love to show off houses. Kitch
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by pjc50 6mo ago
The widespread UK new build style looks like this: https://lirp.cdn-website.com/0e11269a/dms3rep/multi/opt/Inte... It doesn't blend with the surrounding slates (asphalt shingles are rare in the UK,
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by pjc50 6mo ago
I like this perspective and we should propagandize it in the lifestyle magazines. I've long thought of them as a visible signifier of prosperity and cluefulness, but since they've become standard on new build they just fade into t
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by pjc50 6mo ago
> it provides offgrid durability to communities This needs a small asterisk that many systems are deliberately not "islanding" capable. Mine isn't, but in the ten years I've had my panels I've only ever had a cou
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by pjc50 6mo ago
Meanwhile in the UK, the Future Homes standard mandates it on new build: https://solar4good.co.uk/blogs/solar-property-developers-uk-... > "requires on-site renewable electricity generation for new homes in Eng
891.
by pjc50 6mo ago
Everything to do with cars varies by jurisdiction.. Difficult to work out what the law is for side visible displays is in the UK, though. Front and back ones may be limited to white or red. I'm now wondering how camera only self drivin
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by pjc50 6mo ago
I think you could get it down to three months between weight changes, if you can encode it in metal layers only. The remaining limits are the fab lead time, and the cost of a metal respin (hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars depend
893.
by pjc50 6mo ago
"We've invented the silver bullet from the book 'No Silver Bullets'"
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by pjc50 6mo ago
"Education is just a CTF for the valuable flag of a credential. In this essay I will --"
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by pjc50 6mo ago
Reform (Farage) got a different £5m under the table donation. Robinson is gutter racism. Farage is trying to be its respectable face.
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by pjc50 6mo ago
Oracle have routinely had multimillion pound contract failures and people keep buying from them. Big vendors are too big to fail.
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by pjc50 6mo ago
Ah that's what platform builder was. I remember at the CE shop we had to copy around a WinXP VM to do the building in, because Platform builder wouldn't install on Win10 or something.
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by pjc50 6mo ago
Not having the hardware vertical integration until buying Nokia was a big limitation. As was the use of resistive touchscreens, which usually requires a stylus to achieve any accuracy. CE wasn't too bad. It was nice having mostly the s
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by pjc50 6mo ago
While you've clearly mastered the tone of supercilious sarcasm that is the mainstay of British politics, I should point out to the audience that the Farage party is entirely the billionaire and foreign propaganda party, which is why th
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by pjc50 6mo ago
see https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/06/history-of-sovie... and https://www.i-deel.org/blog/mass-killing-for-no-reason-the-p...

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