randallsquared

5 ms·

31.
by randallsquared 2mo ago
> U.S. law though is highly non-autistic When the judge and officers of the court agree with me, the law is reasonable and just, but when they do not agree with me, the law is arbitrary and capricious. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Having the law be
32.
by randallsquared 2mo ago
There's a lot one could say about > following the law of the highest of high courts to the letter. but I don't think that "there is no 'high court' at all" is one, for believers.
33.
by randallsquared 3mo ago
> And of course, if you send them money, all the infuriating UX issues mysteriously disappear. In the context of paying for Kagi instead of using Google for free, paying for YouTube instead of using, uh, YouTube for free seems like a s
34.
by randallsquared 3mo ago
Or the search in the middle of the screenshot that tops the article.
35.
by randallsquared 3mo ago
You're suggesting that @anematode was asking why they didn't test the sandbox escape first? Yeah, I don't know. I've read other statements by both OpenAI and Anthropic about that very kind of test, so maybe they had, or
36.
by randallsquared 3mo ago
That's the alarming thing about this result: they did run the model in the sandbox, in the sense that they believed there was no internet access for the model.
37.
by randallsquared 3mo ago
Do you think there is such a thing as perfect security? No one can "get it right" in the face of arbitrarily high intelligence, which is why it would be preferable to get alignment correct before building something with higher int
38.
by randallsquared 3mo ago
Well, no, to be clear! There are a lot of decisions that are made already for you when you use something else as a foundation.
39.
by randallsquared 3mo ago
The word "public" doesn't mean that in this case. It's still a private company.
40.
by randallsquared 3mo ago
MY CalDigit TS4 is not what I would have blamed for this issue, given that every time it happens for me, opening the lid of my Mac shows that it's asking, again, if this CalDigit accessory should be allowed to connect. This used to hap
41.
by randallsquared 3mo ago
And they are not immune: a few years ago when I was using an Apple Studio Display, it had a similar issue where sometimes it would not wake from sleep, and the only workaround was to unplug it and wait NN seconds for cap discharge, and then
42.
by randallsquared 3mo ago
It need not be democratic in the modern, universal suffrage sense.
43.
by randallsquared 3mo ago
The poster isn't pussyfooting around the issue, he's feigning discovery to emphasize the point as a rhetorical move.
44.
by randallsquared 3mo ago
> I saw a question once on Quora asking why the poor don’t rip the wealthy out of their houses and the top reply was “Nazi!” with hundreds of upvotes. This seems odd because it usually goes the other way: people complaining about the r
45.
by randallsquared 3mo ago
The rule bans the supersonic flight regardless of whether it's audible or not, so they'd still be asking for the rule to be changed.
46.
by randallsquared 3mo ago
When Boom was testing last year, the sonic boom never reached the ground, as I recall. That can be arranged at higher altitudes, but doesn't work at low ones.
47.
by randallsquared 3mo ago
I did notice that the "quotes" weren't linked as I would have expected with that "you can check" language, but after searching for the exact phrases, it does look like they're vague paraphrasing, not actual quo
48.
by randallsquared 3mo ago
> I feel like the Internet was friendlier back then, definitely not something I'd be comfortable doing anymore. It was a novelty, then (remember Jennicam?), but now "streamer" is just a normal profession.
49.
by randallsquared 3mo ago
Some tool or library is interpreting the newline as two characters (as you note), and then a subsequent step is removing unprintable characters. Things like this used to frequently happen in shells, Perl, PHP, and so on.
50.
by randallsquared 3mo ago
I don't remember how I received that speech when I saw it in the movie, decades ago. Reading it now, though, it's so smug and patronizing. "I have had experiences you haven't, so I'm wiser and know better than you.&
51.
by randallsquared 3mo ago
I guess we're so used to the title edit that we mentally re-insert "The Best" at the start of this link so that it makes sense.
52.
by randallsquared 4mo ago
Agreed that as worded, this one is just "authoritarian". It seems on the "Right" at the moment because they're in power in the US (sort of), but it was "Left" only five years ago.
53.
by randallsquared 4mo ago
Water is pretty fungible, so while it might not be that alfalfa fields in the Arizona and southern California desert are irrigated from a residential pipe, it's the same water either way. Whether the water arrives at the field/dat
54.
by randallsquared 4mo ago
I assumed people here mostly already knew that water usage for data centers was trivial compared to lots of uses like alfalfa, non-data-center power generation, etc. My point used that as a foundation, so I agree that if you didn't alr
55.
by randallsquared 4mo ago
It was already near zero compared to various other uses. It's always depressing to me to see a lot of effort put in to "solve a problem" (with subsequent fanfare) which is only a PR or image problem in the first place.
56.
by randallsquared 4mo ago
Unless mandated, why would the people controlling a corporation (and its budget) do that? While the corp has money in the bank, it's kinda their money, in the sense that they decide what to spend it on. If distributed back to the share
57.
by randallsquared 4mo ago
Well, in the secondary link, at least.
58.
by randallsquared 4mo ago
Nearly two decades ago I worked briefly for a "startup" in the DC metro which (in retrospect, for me) existed only to show activity toward using an IP that was the subject of a lawsuit. The expected payout from the lawsuit would h
59.
by randallsquared 4mo ago
I think the argument is that the urban setting itself is ancestrally unnatural. Only a tiny proportion of humans lived in areas full of strangers in close proximity until the last hundred or two hundred years, which is not long enough for a
60.
by randallsquared 4mo ago
My comment was not about what happened, which does not need to be justified, in my opinion, especially at this late date. My comment was about the contrast between "widespread" and the actual number that threatened, which was imme

More ›