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by zephen 6d ago
I don't claim to know the nuance of what you're trying to address with this. Wouldn't it be simpler to simply protect a bitcoin private key with the encryption that you are challenging people to break? Off the top of my head,
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by zephen 7d ago
> If you think trusted computing is a defense against nation-state attackers, we inhabit totally different realities. I have no idea how or why you would think I think this, since what I wrote was exactly the opposite of this , e.g. &qu
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by zephen 7d ago
> This is dismissive and glib. As is your comment. > And it's the wrong lesson. It's only the wrong lesson if you believe that making it more difficult for governments to seize and decrypt their own citizens' mobile pho
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by zephen 8d ago
> But getting angry at things is, at least as far as I can tell, normal for most people. I can well believe that I am an outlier here. Maybe not everybody else believes that: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=zephe
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by zephen 8d ago
> I smell LinkedIn-flavoured-humble-brag. Smell whatever you want; it's a free country. The "machines like me" is not a humble brag. It's an observed phenomenon, not just by me. The "I'm different in how I
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by zephen 8d ago
I'd be happy doing it 99.99% of the time myself, but I don't want to form the habit to think it's a good thing to do.
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by zephen 8d ago
> That's a very... bleak perspective on your brother's motives. Well, it may have been an overstatement, but not by much. Look, I have anger issues, but I never get angry at things because they are never trying to hurt me, a
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by zephen 9d ago
I know I'm weird. I remember watching my brother get frustrated with a dysfunctional remote control. He threw it forcefully enough at a stone fireplace to shatter it. From my perspective, that, in and of itself, is a mild form of anth
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by zephen 9d ago
> That doesn't mean it "knows me" any more than my notes documents do But are you happy handing over your notes documents to mass aggregators of information?
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by zephen 9d ago
I do the same. But frankly, I mostly use (greenfield, non-remembering) LLMs directly to counteract the enshittification of search brought on by attempts to use AI to remember things about me (and especially to sell me things). This works we
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by zephen 9d ago
My daughter is a pediatrician and just gave a talk on mental health problems (including suicides) brought on by the sort of personality that succumbs to this. I find it interesting. For most of my life, I have gotten on well with (well-des
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by zephen 9d ago
Honestly, I think he's pointing out that the LLM creators have intended the LLMs to anothromorphize themselves. Case in point: Gemini just asked me "Where should we start?". When I asked it if that turn of phrase was used b
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by zephen 12d ago
Oh, sweet summer child. You don't really think they added all that circuitry and a cell connection just to collect odometer information, do you? > how is that causing the owner an issue? Welp, it was a huge issue for a lot of owners
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by zephen 12d ago
You have to read it in context with what it is referring to, and perhaps to know a little bit about the issue. In that respect, it's like a lot of conversations around here. I read this as: "Removing the fuse that provides power
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by zephen 18d ago
Sorry, didn't mean to send anybody on a wild goose chase. Glad you found a reference, and also somewhat glad that the reference says that the the term was "often" used -- maybe I'm not quite ready for the dementia ward
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by zephen 18d ago
Well, that was the whole issue. After marking the memory as not accessible via a data load, the CPU was still executing there and borking itself. He had to also mark the memory as inaccessible for code loads. Which, honestly is kinda stu
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by zephen 18d ago
> I'll instead observe that it seems to follow from what you said that you actually agree with me. As long as the prefix remains consistent across a given level of indentation then there's no cause for concern. No, I vehemently
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by zephen 18d ago
> Speculative instruction fetches fetch code from "a location that you never asked it to execute code at" by design. If it already knew you asked it to execute code there, it wouldn't be speculative. Sure, but (a) the spec
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by zephen 19d ago
In an attempt to go fast and beat benchmarks and other computers, CPUs attempt to speculatively execute code, and then later undo the results of the speculation if it turns out it was wrong. This causes all sorts of security issues (spectr
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by zephen 19d ago
Truly, indentation is the moveable feast. Even on ancient typewriters, you could adjust your tabs depending on what you are doing. And people who have dissimilar tastes in tabbage will certainly write stuff that doesn't appear that g
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by zephen 19d ago
> that criticism is usually posited by users of the language. Uhhh, no. Sure, it's posited by people who feel they are are forced to use it, but it's basically unlearning other syntax. Here's a study about people with no
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by zephen 25d ago
> What I found irritating in the post is the premise that what we put in front of kids should be judged by counts of attributions to career success. For a start, that's effectively the premise it's sold on. And for another thi
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by zephen 25d ago
More like asking if anyone in the Tour de France has credited a win to early use ofone of those little Fred Flinstone-style kiddie cars where they use their feet on the ground for locomotion.
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by zephen 1mo ago
> inherent in the drawing of that line, anywhere, is the legal authority for one entity to prevent another from engaging in creative activity. Seldom, if ever, is anybody restrained from "engaging in creative activity." As opp
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by zephen 1mo ago
It seems like the same sort of category error that some people make regarding free speech. Just as you can say whatever you want, but facebook/twitter/reddit/whoever is not required to give you a soapbox, you can download thi
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by zephen 1mo ago
> And all you're responding with is invective. This statement is mendacious, at best. I have explained that HTML has fuck-all to do with layout. I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you. Here, check out what
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by zephen 1mo ago
Thanks for the downvote, but you're wrong. > explicitly and implicitly describe the layout of an HTML document. No, this doesn't happen. > In fact, "HTML" itself is an acronym (HyperText Markup Language) Duh. >
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by zephen 1mo ago
> HTML describes layout News to me.
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by zephen 1mo ago
A careful reading of your previous comments seems to indicate that you are completely against the idea of intellectual property in any form. That is fine. You do you. But, again , if such property exists, then a line must be drawn. Give
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by zephen 1mo ago
So all the non-pixel-specific stuff is in a publicly accessible repo? So the pixel team just decided that they wanted to keep their kimono mostly closed?

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