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by shakna 2mo ago
The software standard is. GPU matrix calculations, are not. The hardware, has tiny shifts that rarely matter, except in high finance and... AI modeling.
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by shakna 2mo ago
Floating point matrix calculations are non-deterministic. You need to invent new hardware, that doesn't use floating point math, first. [0] [0] https://arxiv.org/html/2506.09501
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by shakna 2mo ago
> He said he used ChatGPT to "grill" him to prepare for cross-examination at the tribunal hearing, but admitted, "things did not go the way I was expecting." I would put the success more on the person, than the AI, fo
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by shakna 2mo ago
You still will be. Disclosure of AI, helps the court know where to put you in the queue, compared to those that have actually understood the laws in hand. A matter of prioritisation, rather than responsibility. You cannot surrender your leg
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by shakna 2mo ago
LegalAid (and other state-based services), actually do not need to make sure they're taking the cases with the best prospects for success. Because they're a state service. The problem is more one of proximity to a city where they&
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by shakna 2mo ago
Don't worry. They're still weakening crypto standards today, hand in hand with the UK. [0] [0] https://blog.cr.yp.to/20251004-weakened.html
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by shakna 2mo ago
So... Databases weren't invented, until after the name was in common use?
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by shakna 2mo ago
Probably means the attacks on them, mentioning gender, were increasing. Some people get spam. Some people get spam about vulnerabilities that don't exist. And some people get threats.
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by shakna 2mo ago
Declaring war isn't... Really a thing. Since around WWII. Acknowledging a war has happened, is what the notification to Congress is, and that happened.
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by shakna 2mo ago
Both your window manager, and desktop env, already have a gigantic tree of accessibility systems built into it. ... And then your app turns into a canvas made in Electron.
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by shakna 2mo ago
I said Epic and PBI, not bytes. User Stories are ambiguous. Acceptance Criteria can be argued. And which path in our languages ambiguities that the model will follow, cannot be deterministic by the nature of our hardware. If you produce a s
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by shakna 2mo ago
Well, considering I accidentally embarrassed the Anthropic rep at work yesterday by producing better code in an hour, then he did in a day, I'm... Pretty sure I'm going to be safe.
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by shakna 2mo ago
ITIL is at version 5 now - the idea of a process, is not exactly forgotten in the industry. But you're working with a stochastic system. Even GPU matrix calculations are nondeterministic. It isn't possible, to the delete the entir
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by shakna 2mo ago
> those who refuse to use it will be lapped, in terms of ... quality, and security, by those who do use it. I uh... I might have burst out laughing. Sorry, but do you really, seriously, believe the machine so fantastic that it is widely
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by shakna 2mo ago
By annoying snippets of incomplete conversations, do you mean Musk's clamoring for legalisation of child porn, or Altman's obsession with doomsday in talking about AI, or Zuckerberg's "Aut Zuck Aut Nihil"? The peopl
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by shakna 2mo ago
All of my devices from them are running micropython and my own code. Because they're all ESP32s and how everything works is documented. The software to achieve my goals basically "just works".
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by shakna 2mo ago
It takes "wilful blindness" to suggest vaping can be understood completely today. We already know there are unexpected side-effects. Like kids starting to go blind, when they start young. I didn't use Alzheimer's as a ra
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by shakna 2mo ago
Okay, let's go with shipping. Current global stat for containers going missing? About 0.0005%. If any single company reached 1%, they would instantly be out of business, because that is not remotely acceptable, at a global scale.
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by shakna 2mo ago
> By age 80y, an estimated 48.3% of current-smokers (41.1% never-smokers) will develop cancer, and 14% will develop lung cancer [0] "The lifetime risk of a smoker getting lung cancer is about 10-20%". Yup. That's probably
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by shakna 2mo ago
We don't actually know that yet. The main studies are still ongoing, because this tends to be the kind of thing you measure over decades, and we haven't had those yet. Does it increase the risk of Alzheimers? Does it riddle your b
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by shakna 2mo ago
Is that not precisely how Twitter built their original social network...?
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by shakna 2mo ago
It's not unusual for this sort of string confusion to turn into an SSRF CVE [0]. [0] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-16221
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by shakna 2mo ago
Image Magick re-encodes into an internal format, before output. If reproducibility is the goal, I'm afraid it just isn't the right tool. (The IR used to be PixelPacket. Not sure how modern versions handle it.)
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by shakna 2mo ago
Not the author. But binding micropython and posix-uefi is a weekend project. [0] [0] https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/posix-uefi
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by shakna 2mo ago
There's two characters missing from the middle of the name. Not sure how HN's symbol stripper handles them, but here's a try: qiao乔于yu
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by shakna 2mo ago
I'm getting a Let's Encrypt cert, generated two days ago.
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by shakna 2mo ago
VirtualProtect/mprotect aren't privileged calls on any modern OS. It's how you do JIT on macOS, where W^X is enforced, for example.
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by shakna 2mo ago
Pretty much. A lot of the innovations of our nation, come from that. Things like utes, inflatable escape slides on planes, race cameras, are all "hacks". But considering you can still see the gold mine which caused the foundation
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by shakna 2mo ago
The wiki page mentions this is only a minor problem. Because everyone just writes, then switches and executes.
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by shakna 2mo ago
Right. Because that's the easiest way to comply with the law. I'm not arguing that. I am, arguing that they're using it to make headlines, and stir up anger, as a wedge to trigger changes to copyright. Easier to make more tha

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