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by saltcured 4mo ago
And for the more prosumer level, there were (non-RAID) SCSI controllers with big fat cables before there was eventually SATA.
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by saltcured 4mo ago
It's a fascinating question. I took the GPP as "media literacy" as more of an elite culture shibboleth. Making the right references in this sort of elitist signalling process is more about showing alignment to your contempo
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by saltcured 4mo ago
I get it, the Beige Box of Theseus. I guess most would probably assume at least one epic refresh where there wasn't really anything carried across except maybe the parking spot on your desk. And since the 486 era, most probably expect
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by saltcured 4mo ago
Approximately the same way we reconcile with centuries of scribes being productive with quills and velum?
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by saltcured 4mo ago
I don't disagree, but I think the folks who know this ought to remember the lay person perspective and try to address it more concretely. Rather than rejecting the framing because they (we) aren't fluent in your jargon, provide a
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by saltcured 4mo ago
"Hacking the poorly secured, combination wired/wireless, multi-protocol bridge controller you naively attached to your PC's universal IO bus"
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by saltcured 4mo ago
I'm old enough to have visually parsed the headline as "PC speaker" at first, and wondered what kind of amazing phreaking was going to drive the built-in speaker as a microphone and somehow get ingress into the computer. :-)
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by saltcured 4mo ago
Are you saying that a "hybrid KEM" is different in theoretical risk from chaining two KEMs? The change of jargon from "encryption" to "KEM" doesn't mean anything to most people talking about this post-quan
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by saltcured 4mo ago
> I get what you're saying but medium term this is an extremely funny sentiment. Sentiment is the right word here. None of us really know, and go by feeling. If you perceive the AI boom as approaching tulip craze levels of irrationa
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by saltcured 4mo ago
You'll just have to starve it with a bunch of thermostats that lead it towards the GPU rich honey pot where you will extract it...
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by saltcured 4mo ago
Tangentially, yes, let's imagine LLMs as compilers. How insane is it to advocate the usage of these non-deterministic compilers, where each time you compile may produce different semantics? And then people resort to saving and hand-edi
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by saltcured 5mo ago
> You're learning to manage idiot savants, which is a very useful skill. I think the real bifurcation is whether you will settle on that belief. Some of us are settling on the belief that the idiot savant, lacking the coherence of a
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by saltcured 5mo ago
Have you looked at the feasibility of making your own CIQ app to push data from the watch to your alternate internet endpoint? I have the impression there are permissions and APIs to access sensor history and activity records, but I haven&#
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by saltcured 5mo ago
Ironically, I use "new" on other sites to bypass their algorithms and see the raw stream. But I've never even had the urge here, nor really remembered it exists. It's probably because I have always looked at HN as a sort
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by saltcured 5mo ago
I salute your introspection. In my mind, it is better than the alternative cope. My wife has an ongoing frustration with a colleague who has adopted the mindset, "I reviewed it, so I wrote it". I guess he must sleep well at night,
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by saltcured 5mo ago
Having had experience dealing with people with conventional psychosis, I don't see it as a binary thing. Aside from a full-on psychotic break and full remission, there is a broad gray area. It can be a miasma of reality and non-reality
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by saltcured 5mo ago
It's a subtlety of context that distinguishes hyperbole from delusion...
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by saltcured 5mo ago
I wouldn't call it second class. Maybe second-order? To me, it is no different than management, planning, logistics, marketing, etc. which is done for the purpose of supporting some other objective. It simply means that you perform sof
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by saltcured 5mo ago
Of course we put labor into it. It's not some seance or wormhole communicating with the software dimension. This is the way FOSS is meant to work. I got jobs where an employer was happy to run other people's FOSS software "fo
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by saltcured 5mo ago
I adopted Linux in college in 1993 and, like many peers, brought it to my R&D job and observed this wave of expansion through the mid to late 90s. Linux was already "going somewhere" in 2000 for IBM to even notice it. Lots of
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by saltcured 5mo ago
Of course they have to double down on yet another compliance regime. Why not converge on an existng NIST 800-53 baseline, or some HHS "tailored" variant? Or CMMC, if they want to push for more strict certification processes inste
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by saltcured 5mo ago
Nah, in legal compliance minds, faxes are magical, remote, wet ink.
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by saltcured 5mo ago
Right, I met my wife in the US when she was here on a non-immigrant student visa. We actually married in the US before the end of her CPT/OPT quota. After that, I became an expat when we both relocated back to her original country. Aft
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by saltcured 5mo ago
I find it really disturbing, I think because it is illuminating a much more basic problem. It is there in our political and religious histories. We're living through a similar political time right now. A large number of people seem all
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by saltcured 5mo ago
Step 1: tell ourselves we are the greatest on earth?
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by saltcured 5mo ago
How is training vs inference any different than other product spaces, where all the costs of bringing a product to market have to be considered for profitability? You can't just look at marginal production cost. You are still underwat
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by saltcured 5mo ago
The inherent issue with reverse osmosis is that you build up a "brine" on the input side. And the higher the gradient of these ions, the harder it is to do to the reverse move. The normal osmotic action is to pull pure water back
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by saltcured 5mo ago
I parsed that wrong (better?) as running smack (heroin) into the center of town And so I thought it was a reference to the overall AI psychosis, FOMO, and dopamine marketing. That is the big impact that bothers me, regardless of whether thi
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by saltcured 5mo ago
No, it's turtles in every direction
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by saltcured 5mo ago
Where does this evolution really lead? "Thinking is just procrastination that gets in the way of your opinions"? ;-)

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