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571.
by tgma 2y ago
Audits can only conclusively prove existence of backdoors, not lack of backdoors. At best , you get some assurance.
572.
by tgma 2y ago
Banning the sale of a single app controlled by an adversary is building a "Great Firewall" in your book? (Note that it is not even a ban on the app at the ISP level.) There are legit arguments against the policy but this ain'
573.
by tgma 2y ago
B.S. Perhaps it was true 10+ years ago but not today, not even close. Also, "XR" today would not be considered a small project. Cardboard perhaps counts as one and that was almost a research toy. Anything on that scale Apple/
574.
by tgma 2y ago
TL;DR: code-golf style C program to do inference on an existing TensorFlow model data for GPT2, not full ChatGPT, nor training or anything.
575.
by tgma 2y ago
It's actually bad news for students when expensive textbooks get updated who go to classes with assignments based on a specific edition and their indices get reshuffled and the old editions become useless even though the core stuff whi
576.
by tgma 2y ago
Fundamentally, if you want to make sure the client system that connects to your network service running the software/configuration you want unmodified, you want some help from the client to provide some cryptographic attestation and ho
577.
by tgma 2y ago
Seems like a propaganda piece to justify DRM and remote attestation in the name of security. > It provides a vastly more efficient and secure platform for Windows 11... Efficient? Huh? > to use through advanced encryption methods, imp
578.
by tgma 2y ago
> Intel historically was the best at semiconductor manufacturing processes. That's what got it where it got to. Exactly. AMD has been executing perfectly on the CPU side, but they also happened to be a key beneficiary in an unpreced
579.
by tgma 2y ago
I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, Intel as we knew it, a technical powerhouse, who kicked ass and delivered the Moore's law, would likely have been best served by someone like Pat than the alternatives. However, the world
580.
by tgma 2y ago
Lots of top tier scientists have been religious. Knuth is too, for instance. It strikes me as strange that believing in "simulation theory" has become cool and acceptable in tech circles, but somehow traditional popular religions
581.
by tgma 2y ago
> I'd say that good engineers becoming good managers (esp. upper managers) is the exception, not the rule. Good managers are exceptions, period. Still, good engineers are leaps and bounds more likely to be effective as managers, eve
582.
by tgma 2y ago
Ambitious, it was. Successful less so, but still, Waymo came out of X, so not sure that is a fair characterization, but yes, overal, it could have been soooo much more under a Musk-like leadership.
583.
by tgma 2y ago
I think you are referring to Nikesh Arora, who runs Palo Alto Networks, the telco guy. He was the business guy, not the CFO. I don't think Look etc was seen as competitive to Google Fi at all. If anything, that would have been a distri
584.
by tgma 2y ago
Yea thanks for recalling this. I totally forgot about that because I never trusted Windows upgrade, let alone filesystem conversion. Always backup and clean install. It's Microsoft software after all.
585.
by tgma 2y ago
Sure, but still whoever wrote the patch had his ass on the line even shipping to a batch of beta users. Remember this is Apple not Google where the dude likely got promoted and left the team right after pressing click :)
586.
by tgma 2y ago
Craig Federighi on some podcast once said they conducted dry-runs of the process in previous iOS updates (presumably building the new APFS filesystem metadata in a file without promoting it to the superblock) and checking its integrity and
587.
by tgma 2y ago
Apple did something like this with a billion live OS X/iOS deployments (HFS+ -> APFS). It can be done methodically at scale as other commenters point out, but obviously needs care).
588.
by tgma 2y ago
Sounds like a generic tragic driving event by a bunch of teens that wouldn’t have had much coverage if not for being a Tesla.
589.
by tgma 2y ago
I can't take this rant seriously so let's agree to disagree. I see most of it as red-herring, including comparative analysis of other figures like Newton v Leibneiz (both of whom I know without Googling, mind you). I guess I just
590.
by tgma 2y ago
It does not really work on all browsers, but I can imagine scenarios where in some network middleware you have some dynamic control over headers but don't have control over the content, so that might be once place something like this c
591.
by tgma 2y ago
> ...you're not elite enough to be able to tell if either of them is scientific elite. No, that is not a logical axiom. It can be possible you'd be able to evaluate things to be false, even though you don't know what the a
592.
by tgma 2y ago
And if you were a scientist who was going to lead a study that could conclude otherwise, Francis & Fauci took extra care to make sure you were less likely to receive NIH funding. https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/
593.
by tgma 2y ago
> Fame isn't relevant. Of course it is relevant. As your post admits the author's recognized in some community that led them to post such things. If it weren't for their relative fame, their letter would be ignored. My tak
594.
by tgma 2y ago
If so, why would one automatically assume Musk has the bad advice and the rest of them have good advice? It's awfully ironic as science is literally the process of demonstrating the widely-accepted wisdom (preeminent theory) wrong. Do
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by tgma 2y ago
I know who Elon Musk is and his contributions. My apologies, but I have never heard of the author and their contribution, and why should I fucking care what they (and 80 of their politically like-minded friends) think out of a thousand othe
596.
by tgma 2y ago
https://archive.is/LIj1F
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California has so much solar power that increasingly it goes to waste(latimes.com)
27 points by tgma 2y ago|41 comments
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by tgma 2y ago
Google Search says Elon is at 334.3 gigadollars so not that far off and he's not dead yet.
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by tgma 2y ago
> SpaceX was just a nickname for Space Exploration Technologies Corp It's slightly more than that: it's a legally recognized nickname for the actual entity, technically called a "Fictitious Business Name" (aka DBA, &q
600.
by tgma 2y ago
This characterization isn't entirely unreasonable. Isn't Musk objectively the richest businessperson ever in nominal dollars? Inflation-adjusted, I think only Rockefeller or Carnegie may come close, but the variety of businesses M

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