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by teraflop 6mo ago
SpinCalc is a useful simple tool for looking at the tradeoffs of centrifugal artificial gravity: https://www.artificial-gravity.com/sw/SpinCalc/
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by teraflop 6mo ago
That's no different from how just about any other webapp works. "Bothering" with client-side password hashing, in the absence of TLS, is security theater. It provides only the most trivial protection against eavesdroppers. If
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by teraflop 6mo ago
I am surprised that you had to go out of your way to remove Thread.stop from existing Java code. It's been deprecated since 1998, and the javadoc page explains pretty clearly why it's inherently unsafe. It's hard to miss all
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by teraflop 7mo ago
How does any of that matter for this mission, which will not be landing on the moon?
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by teraflop 7mo ago
I can think of at least two reasons why this isn't worth worrying about. One is quantitative: you have to remember that 2^48 is a much much bigger number than 2^32. With 2^32 IPv4 addresses, you have about 0.5 addresses per human being
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by teraflop 7mo ago
Well, just try to think about it from the perspective of someone who doesn't really understand what AI is at a technical level, and who just interacts with it and observes what happens. If you just start a fresh ChatGPT session with a
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by teraflop 7mo ago
It's not just "removing light", because if you removed all the light from stars, you would be left with black spots instead of white spots. The stars are bright enough to completely saturate a region of the image sensor. So t
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by teraflop 7mo ago
I agree that I wouldn't call these photos "AI generated", because the majority of what you're seeing is real. But that's very different to saying that no generative AI was used at all in their production. "AI a
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by teraflop 7mo ago
So this part of the blog post is essentially false: "no generative AI of any kind" I have yet to see a precise technical definition of what "generative AI" means, but StarXTerminator uses a neural network that generates
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by teraflop 7mo ago
The combination of a "hand-drawn" art style, with text that is obviously not hand-lettered, is a dead giveaway. It would be very weird for a human to do that. If you have an eye for fonts, the text itself stands out too, at least
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by teraflop 7mo ago
Well there's the prompt injection itself, and the fact that the agent framework tried to defend against it with a "sandbox" that technically existed but was ludicrously inadequate. I don't know how anyone with a modicum
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by teraflop 7mo ago
Which wouldn't be that weird, except that the earliest Roman calendar started in March and ended in December, having only 10 months! The Romans were of course well aware that this left a gap of about two months between the end of one y
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by teraflop 7mo ago
CBP's declaration (which the article links to) has more details. They're arguing that they can't currently issue refunds, and they can't even currently stop IEEPA duties from being charged on future liquidations, because
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by teraflop 7mo ago
Of course it's worth noting that CBP repeatedly argued in its previous court filings that there was no need for an injunction to halt the tariffs while they were being litigated, because if the tariffs were found to be unlawful, it cou
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by teraflop 8mo ago
Unsettling, yes, but not strange at all. Given that OpenAI is working with and doing business with the US military, it makes perfect sense that they would try to normalize militaristic usage of their technologies. Everybody already knows t
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by teraflop 8mo ago
That doesn't mean there's a problem with the code, only with the documentation. So the article is wrong to call it a "real bug". At most it's poor code style that could theoretically lead to a bug in the future. T
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by teraflop 8mo ago
An interesting explanation that happens to be completely hallucinated. That line doesn't appear anywhere in either the play or the movie.
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by teraflop 8mo ago
There is no filtering. Apparently if you just say > Built for engineers who understand that good RF practices matter more than arbitrary administrative boundaries then actually following good RF practices is optional.
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by teraflop 8mo ago
If companies are taking raw materials worth more than zero, and turning them into clothing worth less than zero, then I think deterring them from doing that is beneficial to society overall.
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by teraflop 8mo ago
This thread is talking about vibe coding, not LLM-assisted human coding. The defining feature of vibe coding is that the human prompter doesn't know or care what the actual code looks like. They don't even try to understand it. Yo
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by teraflop 8mo ago
That sounds like it's basically impossible to implement your own non-trivial data structures. You can only use the ones that are already in the standard library. For instance, how would you represent a binary tree? What would the type
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by teraflop 8mo ago
Because the color of the sky is determined by a shifting mixture of wavelengths, not a single shifting wavelength. Basically, the scattering process that "remove" blue from the spectrum also removes green, albeit to a lesser ext
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by teraflop 8mo ago
Cool project! The most interesting part, IMO, is the "SRAM with EEPROM backup" chip. It allows you to persistently save the clock hands' positions every time they're moved, without burning through the limited write end
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by teraflop 8mo ago
The part of the article about the 158,000x slowdown doesn't really make sense to me. It says that a nested query does a large number of iterations through the SQLite bytecode evaluator. And it claims that each iteration is 4x slower, w
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by teraflop 8mo ago
Note that this article's summary has a significant error compared to the original press release[1]. The article says "90% range", whereas the press release says "90% capacity retention". This is a big difference bec
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by teraflop 8mo ago
Well, I think the paper answers that too. These problems are intended as a tool for honest researchers to use for exploring the capabilities of current AI models, in a reasonably fair way. They're specifically not intended as a rig
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by teraflop 8mo ago
I don't mean this as a knock on you, but your comment is a bit funny to me because it has very little to do with "modern" databases. What you're describing would probably have been equally possible with Postgres from 20
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by teraflop 9mo ago
If you read the discussion, they weren't kept because of their encyclopedic value, or because they were "widespread". I'm not sure why the parent commenter said that. They were kept to preserve a record of their having b
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by teraflop 9mo ago
Serious question: if the chance of evidence leading to a convistion is very very small, what would be the benefit of opening an investigation? Just to go through the motions on principle? And what would they even investigate?
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by teraflop 9mo ago
I'd guess that everybody involved (including the coroner's office) tacitly understands that even if the baby was deliberately or negligently killed, there's very little chance after 20 years of finding evidence of who did i

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