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by ufmace 1y ago
I'll admit that I was not familiar with the strong version of it. But I am still surprised that nobody has done that. Has nobody even seriously attempted to see how LLMS do at that? Now I might just have to check for myself. I would ha
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by ufmace 1y ago
I've tended to agree with this line of argument, but on the other hand... I expect that anybody you asked 10 years ago who was at least decently knowledgeable about tech and AI would have agreed that the Turing Test is a pretty decent
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by ufmace 1y ago
I did run through the whole thing. It doesn't actually say anything at all about what is or is not vulnerable, it's just a bunch of military standards and procedure about how to test for things and what to test, and some vague stu
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by ufmace 1y ago
Note that this testimony is a persuasive presentation, an effort to persuade congress to allocate additional spending for EMP protection. Mr. Wood may indeed be qualified to speak on the subject, but this aspect necessarily colors his speec
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by ufmace 1y ago
Okay, that's very cool! I don't mean to trash this guy at all, he may well be a real expert in some fields. However, it is a failure mode that people who are really smart and qualified about one thing can assume they are equally s
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by ufmace 1y ago
I'm not sure about most of this. The great majority of the articles and stories about this I've read trace back to layman speculation and disaster porn fiction written by people who have never claimed to actually be informed about
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by ufmace 1y ago
In my opinion, never mind that stuff, it's enough of a hassle just getting good quality pictures of the thing, figuring out exactly what it is and what a wild guess of a "fair" price would be, writing up some sort of descript
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by ufmace 1y ago
To be fair, my impression is most people have highly contradictory desires along these lines. They say they want to be able to walk to places more. But they also want a big suburban-style house with bedrooms for everyone and storage and gar
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by ufmace 1y ago
Did you mean to post the same link for both?
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by ufmace 1y ago
I find it very telling that there's no 2 responses to this post recommending the same thing. Confirms my belief that there is no real alternative to Wordpress for a free and open-source CMS that is straightforward to install and usable
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by ufmace 1y ago
Ditto to self-hosting wordpress works fine with standard hosting practices and not installing a bazillion random plugins.
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by ufmace 1y ago
The technical aspects of this seem concerning. I'm wondering exactly who has the authority to set a car to this mode and how the mechanism of doing so works. What happens if you sell the car or let somebody else borrow it? Or when you
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by ufmace 2y ago
I don't really see the hyperbolic language about it. I've definitely worked some process-heavy corporate jobs where I could be perfectly satisfactorily productive as far as my management was concerned while only doing actual work
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by ufmace 2y ago
I know the feeling. I made the switch a few months ago, and haven't regretted it at all. It's funny in a way the reluctance people have to part with relatively small amounts of money like $5 or $10 a month for something so core. G
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by ufmace 2y ago
It's been well known for a long time that Google extensively customizes search results per individual based on dozens of unknown factors. It's entirely possible they get those particular search results right for one person and wro
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by ufmace 2y ago
> We could have had a steam engine during the Roman Empire and thus an Industrial Revolution thousands of years earlier, but no one did it. It was just a toy. Imagine having the vision. No, we couldn't. The Romans were missing sever
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by ufmace 2y ago
I do agree that it's probably nowhere near the top of the list of issues preventing this thing from working at least as well as conventional drilling technology. However, anything about radar, ultrasound, or laser ToF would require ele
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by ufmace 2y ago
That was answering silly speculation about intentionally leaving worn-out drill bits behind. There are actually workable procedures for drilling around things, but it's far more cumbersome and time-consuming than replacing a bit normal
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by ufmace 2y ago
Oh, I just thought of another issue too. A liquid well-control incident with this thing would indeed suck for the reasons given, but there's a lot of gasses down there too. What happens if there's a gas well-control incident? It c
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by ufmace 2y ago
Note that diamond (usually called PDC) drill bits have been in common use in the oilfield industry for decades now. Search PDC on your favorite search engine, and you'll find dozens of manufacturers actively selling them, each with a b
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by ufmace 2y ago
Physical support isn't actually that important - conventional wellbores are not physically supported either until they are cased and cemented, and mostly don't have too much trouble with collapsing. What they need is a seal tight
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by ufmace 2y ago
The technology being discussed hasn't actually drilled much of anything yet. Their latest press release with actual numbers[0] gives depths drilled in inches. Nice progress, yeah, but they're not anywhere near competitive with eve
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by ufmace 2y ago
That's exactly what they do. It just takes a while since there's tens of thousands of feet of drillstring.
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by ufmace 2y ago
Another thing that occurred to me after watching some of their videos - how do they plan to control rate of penetration? Their radiation head thing has to be a certain distance from the rock face it's cutting / vaporizing, but it
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by ufmace 2y ago
That's their idea yes, but it's only an idea, and I am extremely dubious. It's much more like handwaving speculation by people who have no experience in drilling deep wells than a practical proven solution. They're expec
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by ufmace 2y ago
You can kind of get that now with the 360-degree rotation laptops, which are available with Windows or Chrome OS. I haven't used a Windows one, but Chrome OS behaves pretty nicely as a tablet. The trouble though is, once you get an acc
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by ufmace 2y ago
Pretty sure astronauts do too. I remember the weird astronaut love triangle incident where some astronaut lady who was in love with some other astronaut drove nonstop cross-country with apparently a BB gun and wearing a diaper to do God kno
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by ufmace 2y ago
There's an easy way to put your money where your mouth is here. Just offer $11k for this or similar vulnerabilities out of your own pocket, and then resell them. If there really is a large and active market for this at higher dollar va
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by ufmace 2y ago
I don't think "surprise bills" is a good reason to avoid AWS. Yes, you avoid them on other providers by doing simple bare-metal Linux boxes. But doing a bare-metal Linux box with no other services is also fixed-cost at AWS. Y
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by ufmace 2y ago
Yup, been using Kagi for pretty much all of my searches for like 6 months I think. No regrets so far, just better search results and less ads and tracking. The money is a pittance compared to lots of other things I do.

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