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by pcthrowaway 15d ago
I'm also reminded of the HPE SSD time-bomb bug which would cause catastrophic failure after exactly 32,768 hours of use[1]. Could there be a common denominator in when these refrigerators went online? [1] https://www.bleepin
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by pcthrowaway 20d ago
Or in the admin handover sense https://lastplacecomics.com/car-jacking/
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by pcthrowaway 20d ago
Do you have a source about the Nepalese flood being a Lahar? I've only read that it was caused due to the glacier collapse, which seems like a different thing
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by pcthrowaway 20d ago
The LLM stayed within the law as well (in the sense that the law doesn't apply to them because they're not legally considered sentient beings)
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by pcthrowaway 20d ago
Maybe you run a uni lab that provides VMs to students, and don't want them accessing the professor's data or confidential research on the same host. This article is pointing out that QEMU/KVM boxes are trivial for an agent to
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by pcthrowaway 20d ago
Maybe the top-level commenter was, but the article seems to be about products which are used by developers (even if the deals are brokered with managers or C-levels)
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by pcthrowaway 21d ago
I haven't tried using osmand much yet, but one concerning thing is the info I encountered that long (as in, cross-country) trips could take minutes (or hours?) to provide a route for. I haven't actually tested it yet, but it defin
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by pcthrowaway 21d ago
> A low probability thing when looking at how many human prisoners escape by talking a guard into just getting them out. But this has actually happened... a lot. Search "social engineering prison breaks". With AI it only needs
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by pcthrowaway 21d ago
Yeah, that required the AI to use a non-human-readable language it called "neuralese" for communicating work between layers and runs, because the assumption was humans would be better at keeping the agents aligned if they were usi
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by pcthrowaway 21d ago
It can manipulate an unsuspecting human into giving them access to something that enables it to escape the sandbox
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by pcthrowaway 28d ago
That's what I assumed, but when I pasted this JS snippet from the blog post into the playground (ctrl+f "playground", selects JS) on the project page ( https://davatron5000.github.io/microlighter/ )
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by pcthrowaway 1mo ago
> I mean, but, if everyone gets $12k, then doesn't $12k mean nothing? Yes, this is why many people think Universal Basic Services (food, housing, health care, etc) is a vastly superior model to UBI
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by pcthrowaway 2mo ago
Google is more evil than X or Meta by some assessments
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by pcthrowaway 2mo ago
Also, see Android and iOS which have a monopoly on the mobile OS market
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by pcthrowaway 2mo ago
For French musicians (who haven't already been named), I'd also recommend Madeon, Laurent Garnier, and Noisy Freaks. For an American musician in the synthwave genre (a bit like Kavinsky), I'd also recommend Com Truise
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by pcthrowaway 2mo ago
> It's cheaper for me to drive to the restaurant and pick up the order Of course it is... were you expecting delivery companies to perform magic while humans are required to bring you your food? If a burrito costs $15, it may cost $
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by pcthrowaway 2mo ago
This is amazing! I'm guessing this can be used for creating 3D models of outdoor routes if you wore a vision pro on rappel? How accurate do you think it would be for "seeing into" cracks, at least deep enough to pick up the r
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by pcthrowaway 2mo ago
If you're defining "serious artists" as some approximation of "people who have made money with their art" then it's clear that there's a conflict of interest here. Now I happen to be in the camp that belie
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by pcthrowaway 2mo ago
Are you pausing your hike to review code, check tests, and so on? Or do you just keep prompting blind until you get done with the hike and then batch review all the work? Sorry if this is a dumb question, I haven't tried any harness-ba
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by pcthrowaway 3mo ago
Also first letter of the Arabic alphabet (though more commonly spelled Alif)
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by pcthrowaway 3mo ago
This is something only comfortable first-world inhabitants tell themselves; as if the coffee they drink that some poor plantation worker toiled away in the heat for while some fat cat extracted the surplus value of their labour was part of
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by pcthrowaway 3mo ago
I think they're mostly right, it'll cost next to nothing to build new skyscrapers. Just a few thousand human lives which will be tokenized and easily available for 5 Muskcoin apiece on the decentralized markets.
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by pcthrowaway 3mo ago
> The ratio of degenerate engineers is maybe 30% but business people is 80% I worked for crypto companies for a while. The CEO of the latter company was a self-described fascist, and on one web-meeting our distributed engineering team wa
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by pcthrowaway 3mo ago
> - does anyone have actual proof that surveillance does not effectively curb terrorism or something along those lines? Watching Andor again, I couldn't help but think that if the Empire had just included facial recognition in the i
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by pcthrowaway 3mo ago
Amazing, thanks. I've decided to try daily driving this instead of Obsidian, but I'm a bit curious how the syncing works. I copied an Obsidian vault to a new folder, and when I start the import process in OpenKnowledge it asks me
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by pcthrowaway 3mo ago
Personally I just want to see more support for local LLMs. I haven't been doing much coding lately but am interested in setting up Qwen 3.6 if I can obtain the hardware
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by pcthrowaway 3mo ago
Fully local, but can't integrate with any local LLM? I do think a fully OSS Obsidian-like that syncs natively is an impressive accomplishment, though the usefulness of this is limited with OSX being the only supported platform. If an A
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by pcthrowaway 3mo ago
> The AI Companies Are Going To Start Getting Desperate This is the part that concerns me the most, AI companies will start bidding on increasingly contentious contracts out of desperation. In practice, this means building services that
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by pcthrowaway 3mo ago
> It's also technically incoherent: the exact same kind of "surveillance" is already applied by every single phone, because that's how the Photos app (or whatever it's called on Android) searches for cat pictures
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by pcthrowaway 3mo ago
Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but lots of 20th-century novels featured programmers. Snow Crash being the first to come to my mind.

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