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gravitas_deficiency ,

Is this where we’re supposed to post when we are installing arch Linux?

gravitas_deficiency ,

Get out of my head Charles

gravitas_deficiency ,

I mean it’s yahoo; they’ve been getting bots of one form or another to write their shit for a while now, haven’t they?

France bans extreme-right and radical Islamic groups ahead of polarizing elections ( apnews.com )

PARIS (AP) — France’s government on Wednesday ordered the dissolution of multiple extreme right and radical Muslim groups, four days before the first round of high-stakes legislative elections that may see a surge in support for political extremes....

gravitas_deficiency ,

It’s code for “Muslims and brown people in general”. It’s just a fig leaf to cover the prejudice up.

gravitas_deficiency ,

Well, yes and no. Fleet size matters.

UK MoD estimated earlier this year that Russia had about 6 serviceable A-50 airframes; the US alone has 21 E-3s, while France operates 4, and NATO collectively operates another 18 - and that doesn’t factor in other newer and more advanced AWACS platforms.

Russia lost over 10% of their operable AWACS fleet by losing one plane. Russia is HUGE. Their AEW assets were absurdly stretched before, and now they will be even moreso. Any losses they incur will degrade their overall strategic AEW capacity in a very real fashion.

gravitas_deficiency ,

I mean, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, everyone didn’t immediately go “welp time to start up our World War”. Nor did that happen when Nazi Germany got rolling on Anschluss.

If WW3 starts, we’ll eventually determine some specific event that got it rolling irrevocably in that direction. Could be the annexation of Crimea in 2014, or the Ukraine invasion in 2022, or something in the future (PRC annexing Taiwan - or trying to and failing; North Korea finally pulling the trigger and trying to finish the Korean War; India and Pakistan finally coming to nuclear blows; any number of other things). Nobody will know until it’s already history.

gravitas_deficiency ,

https://media.tenor.com/APSdsNRA6CkAAAAe/somehow-palpatine-returned-somehow.png

gravitas_deficiency ,

I feel like you’re missing the point of my comment

gravitas_deficiency ,

Tbh it actually sounds a lot more like Boeing these days. F9/F9H is bulletproof reliable these days, and starship is making HUGE developmental strides, while Boeing is still failing to discover and iron out system integration bugs and hardware faults years after they had “completed the project”.

gravitas_deficiency ,

Hey man, I once had an engineering exec (who didn’t last very long) who decided engineers would be stack ranked by SLOC. You can imagine how easy that metric was to cheese, and you can also imagine exactly how that policy turned out.

Give an engineer a stupid metric to meet, and they’ll find a stupid way to meet it for you, if only out of malicious compliance.

gravitas_deficiency ,

Yeah what the fuck is happening here? Anyone have any more context, whether or not you’re from the region?

Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough ( www.xda-developers.com )

There were a number of exciting announcements from Apple at WWDC 2024, from macOS Sequoia to Apple Intelligence. However, a subtle addition to Xcode 16 — the development environment for Apple platforms, like iOS and macOS — is a feature called Predictive Code Completion. Unfortunately, if you bought into Apple's claim that...

gravitas_deficiency ,

It’s highly dependent on the application.

For instance, I could absolutely see having certain models with LPCAMM expandability as a great move for Apple, particularly in the pro segment, so they’re not capped by whatever they can cram into their monolithic SoCs. But for most consumer (that is, non-engineer/non-developer users) applications, I don’t see them making it expandable.

Or more succinctly: they should absolutely put LPCAMM in the next generation of MBPs, in my opinion.

gravitas_deficiency ,

Did tech bros just reinvent the concept of trains?

Options for non-smart TV in UK 2024?

I am considering replacing my old 50" 1080p TV which I use with (external) Chromecast and Roku. I would like a 4K display 60" or greater but I really, really don't want any smart features. I am aware that I could purchase a commercial display to achieve this and that's my fallback option. Can anyone here make any useful...

gravitas_deficiency ,

Do these fuckin things actually require being connected nowadays?

gravitas_deficiency ,

Empty when viewing from Voyager

gravitas_deficiency ,

IDF: https://media0.giphy.com/media/8VSaCyIdcnbuE/giphy.gif

South Korea blasts Russia-North Korea deal, says it will consider supplying arms to Ukraine ( apnews.com )

South Korea’s presidential office on Thursday condemned an agreement reached by Russia and North Korea that vowed mutual defense assistance in the event of war and said it will reconsider its policy of limiting its support to Ukraine to non-lethal supplies....

gravitas_deficiency ,

Yo just offer to set up a joint production facility for the K2 on the Ukrainian/Polish border. The Poles already have an order for like 1000 of the things (no, not a typo). I’m sure South Korea would be very interested in rapidly iterating towards the K2A2 based on actual battlefield testing.

gravitas_deficiency ,

Hell, they should churn out a few divisions of K2 MBTs for them too. I’m sure South Korea would be interested to see the results of some real-world battlefield testing.

gravitas_deficiency ,

I am suspicious they realized that they weren’t going to be able to make a loophole for themselves - I’ve seen several articles in the last week on how they were trying to do that.

gravitas_deficiency ,

Wcgw? The UK tried it and now… oh wait. Yeah, this could backfire.

gravitas_deficiency ,

I thought the same thing, regarding the weird “totally not a border conflict” they’re having with India up in the Himalayas.

But this is different. This isn’t a “disputed border” - this is China trying to make their idiotic “nine-dash line” the de facto rule of the sea, which it is very much not. Zero countries outside of the PRC itself accept their claims as legitimate and enforceable in the modern context. China is, of course, trying to enforce it anyways, but using their coastguard and without using firearms so it’s “not a conflict”.

gravitas_deficiency ,

Thanks! 🍻

gravitas_deficiency ,

You’ve gotta stop calling them Shirley, though.

gravitas_deficiency ,

Bro, just put 10k into BTC in 2014 and you’re gonna do well.

gravitas_deficiency ,

Why not though? It’s just stock market with less rules.

gravitas_deficiency , (edited )

While I nominally agree, there are some situations and contexts in which an on-call rotation is not only appropriate, but the responsible thing to do.

That said, on-call people should get special compensation/rewards/perks, because being on call sucks.

gravitas_deficiency ,

But I think the rest of Europe hasn’t been feeling very Hungary lately

gravitas_deficiency ,

DARPA is going to have to play with this for a while before it gets to a point where it’s actually useful to the general public. And they are playing with it.

World's smallest, cheapest network switch developed by US high school robotics team — Murex Robotics makes the hardware fully open-source ( www.tomshardware.com )

Designed for use in a remotely piloted underwater rover, the mrxSwitch v2.0 supplies five 100 Mbps Ethernet ports at a footprint of only 44.9mm by 42.2mm. Network switches of this form factor are typically reserved for highly embedded systems; the team prioritizes its use in remote-operated underwater vehicles (ROVs) or...

gravitas_deficiency ,

subscript also ^works^

~subscript~ also ^works^
gravitas_deficiency ,

I’m actually mildly surprised it’s still only two devs. Are they treating it like a walled garden, or is there really a complete lack of interest in contributing to the codebase?

gravitas_deficiency ,

Rust is not a niche language. It’s a strict and strongly opinionated language by design. People with background in strongly typed languages, who additionally use opinionated linters and formatters have an easier time adjusting. JavaScript “devs” (note: distinct from “software engineers”) probably pull their hair out over a lot of stuff in because in my experience, many js devs know enough about the language to work proficiently in a couple of frameworks, but haven’t really dug into the nuances of the language, and also have limited experience with strong typing.

gravitas_deficiency ,

Explain?

It’s a news aggregator whose primary standout feature is scanning for similar articles across tons of news sites across the ideological spectrum, and points out where stories are predominantly or entirely present or absent from one side or the other. It’s not perfect by any means, but I think it does actually provide some meaningful value in terms of offering the context of possible political narratives, especially in entrenched two-party systems.

gravitas_deficiency ,

“Sack”

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/0f59f823-4954-4307-9909-7c0066e14f20.png

gravitas_deficiency ,

Well, Russia’s Black Sea Fleet isn’t completely sunk yet, so there’s still a bunch of valid targets for Exocets.

gravitas_deficiency ,

Nobody who’s not an engineer seems to give a shit - or, indeed, even understand - the nuance of LLM technology, or the technical reasons behind its limitations and the implications thereof. Hell, I know a lot of engineers who don’t care or understand it at a meaningful level.

gravitas_deficiency ,

Frankly, I kinda see that as a lenient sentence.

gravitas_deficiency ,

“Turf” (as in territory) is the word you’re looking for.

“TERF” (as in JK Rowling) is (presumably) not.

gravitas_deficiency ,

that’s right - the square hole!

psyche visibly crumbling

gravitas_deficiency ,

I’m pretty sure T-54s don’t have autoloaders, and that’s a significant (and likely deeply un-economical) retrofit.

gravitas_deficiency ,

Frankly, it would be more useful to just use them as short-range artillery than that. Single-shot RC tanks sound like they’d be a complete waste.

gravitas_deficiency ,

Some foundational questions:

  • budget?
  • rough desired capacity?
  • desired level of resiliency?
gravitas_deficiency ,

Why do I feel like this is making me Recall another recent awful idea?

gravitas_deficiency ,

An LLM has no comprehension of what it says. It’s just a puppy that is really good at performing for treats. This will always yield nonsense a meaningful proportion of the time.

I don’t care how statistically good your model can be under certain constraints and inputs. At the end of the day, all you’ve done is classically condition your computer.

gravitas_deficiency , (edited )

But now it’s on your iPhone.

I agree that it’s dumb.

It will still make stock go up.

gravitas_deficiency , (edited )

That’s great. But that’s not how it’s being marketed and sold to the public. It’s being sold as an oracle (as in crystal ball, not database). And it’s misleading and hurting people as a result.

I’ll reiterate: An LLM has no comprehension of what it says.

It’s a matter of engineering ethics, on multiple levels:

  • the training data in the vast majority of cases is outright stolen
  • it’s being sold as something that it’s not, and the result is causing real damage to people and society in a ton of ways we’re still discovering
  • most people deeply involved in developing LLMs, and basically all of the technical leadership, are categorically ignoring and abrogating any and all responsibility around this “magical” new system they’ve made. We’ve seen this before with social networking. We know where this road leads.

I’m not saying the tech should be banned. That’s obviously idiotic. Neural nets can - and are - used for tons of fascinating and excellent applications. It’s just that my staunch opinion is that LLMs are a terrible application of that the tech at this stage of development, and it’s particularly terrible that OpenAI/Microsoft/etc are aggressively foisting this technology on the public, and simultaneously refusing to take any ethical responsibility for it.

gravitas_deficiency ,

I’m saying that I wish that more people involved with the core development of the technology took the ethical considerations seriously, and communicated those concerns as a first-order issue when they talk about applications like this.

It’s fascinating tech, but the way it’s being employed these days is deeply irresponsible.

gravitas_deficiency ,

I once knew a man from Nantucket

gravitas_deficiency ,

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