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by simonh 2mo ago
I’d have thought the effect would be the opposite. Support Ukraine because it’s only going to be a short war, as Russia will be giving up soon, so why let them get conquered?
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by simonh 2mo ago
Why would Putin want people to think that Putin is sick or infirm, and his ability to lead might be compromised? His entire schtick is that he's a strongman leader and the only reliable option in Russia.
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by simonh 2mo ago
There’s always the hollow earth!
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by simonh 2mo ago
I know, let’s modify our DNA so if we’re wiped out nobody will ever know we existed!
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by simonh 2mo ago
I think it's a way of inflicting a lot of pain on the Russian population in a very public way, without actually killing lots of Russian civilians. Obviously it's in no way bloodless, but inflicting casualties is not really the aim
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by simonh 2mo ago
The general point on air power is a real thing, but I don't think we can directly conclude that bombing will always harden civilian resolve. It very much depends on the population's pain tolerance. In Vietnam when the NVA attacked
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by simonh 3mo ago
It has, but I think in both directions. It used to be assumed that playing chess would require the same level of general purpose problem solving cognitive skills that the best chess players possess. But of course a Chess grandmaster that sp
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by simonh 3mo ago
Sure, but they're still LLMs and still do the same things largely the same way they did 3 years ago. There are some architectural changes, and maybe these will merit a re-assessment over time, but fundamentally it's still the same
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by simonh 3mo ago
It's slammed. HN strikes again.
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by simonh 3mo ago
It is, and it's not impossible there was some, but we have pretty decent records of her ancestry, we know the Ptolemys were shocked by the idea of intermarrying with the local population, and we have busts and paintings and coin profil
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by simonh 3mo ago
Because they cannot comprehend the factors that meant it took the Android team 3 to 5 years working flat out to even vaguely approximate technical parity with the iPhone OS of the time. Even given that the Android team actually did understa
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by simonh 3mo ago
Or Ryan Gosling. https://youtu.be/TeONP37qsSo?si=cPLF_UpcuW7dfruT
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by simonh 3mo ago
Because being in a building Nazis have been in is just like making an actual Nazi salute. Twice.
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by simonh 3mo ago
The whole point of gamepass is that you don't buy the games. If enough people are playing it through gamepass that shows it supports the value of gamepass, if not sure that's a problem.
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by simonh 3mo ago
They still get usage stats.
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by simonh 3mo ago
She says she can usefully steer LLMs, but how would she know? What knowledge of the research topic, methods and their applicability would she use to judge that, if all she’s doing is writing a prompt asking ChatGPT to write a summary of her
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by simonh 3mo ago
That is irrelevant for the laptops Asahi currently support or are working on supporting.
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by simonh 3mo ago
It basically just has to look like macOS in some trivial sense, it doesn't have to be macOS, there are no obstacles. The system is designed specifically to enable booting custom compiled kernels and former members of the Apple team hav
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by simonh 3mo ago
iBoot firmware exists and is already in our hands. Any manufacturer could put an eFuse in any of their hardware and lock it. No hardware can be proven not to have such exploits. That's the first point marcan makes in that post.
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by simonh 3mo ago
I suppose it's possible, after all if the thing can phone home and update itself, that could be spoofed so it updates itself with your code. However if that phone home feature is read only, it could always just re-root itself.
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by simonh 3mo ago
>What good does that bring if Apple shuts down the project? How could they do that? They could cease providing the facilities the project relies on in newer chips, but the existing chips, er, exist. They could stop making chips all toget
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by simonh 3mo ago
purchase /= run
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by simonh 3mo ago
marcan addressed this early on in the project, arguing that Intel platforms including some of those advocated for by the FSF are less open and more at risk of upstream abuse in some very significant ways. https://news.ycombinator
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by simonh 3mo ago
The US navy escorted ships through the strait back in the Iran Iraq war, but the situation has changed. There are naval drones and aerial drones now, the Iranians have access to Russian satellite data, and the US doesn’t have the volume and
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by simonh 3mo ago
It would triggering an apocalyptic conflagration deter a bunch of religious fanatics that are actively trying to bring about a prophesied apocalyptic conflagration?
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by simonh 3mo ago
Bush was a paragon of informed, shrewd judgement compared to this clown show.
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by simonh 3mo ago
I don’t think that’s it. Iran has demonstrated an ability and willingness to strike the equivalent infra in the gulf states, including the very vulnerable gas liquefaction facilities in Qatar. If the US destroyed their oil infrastructure, a
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by simonh 3mo ago
I’m familiar with 40K, I played Laserburn back in the 80s. I met Bryan Ansel before 40K existed. The comment I replied to equivocated between absolute limits to comprehensibility to humans and sociologically constructed limits, implying tha
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by simonh 3mo ago
It’s not a matter of what we want or don’t want, or are fine with. The universe doesn’t owe us explanations. Of course I’d prefer to understand everything, or as much as possible, but we don’t always get what we want.
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by simonh 3mo ago
He’ll never live it down.

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