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Also we have to admit that the cybersecurity situation is even more insane than it was previously. If I worked in IT and was responsible for lots of corporate computers I'd be locking things down as hard as the engineering team could tolerate, so I get it, even though I also am in fetters here with days of delay to get admin permission for installing something.

The processor by Texas Instruments used in the Beaglebone boards had a main CPU plus two small cores inside the die. Unfortunately those two smaller cores didn't get their own compiler until the Beaglebone was many years old and easier to use, more open source products ate TI's lunch in that domain. (Although TI has never been concerned with the hobbyist domain).

But once TI provided that compiler it was easier for people to have the two smaller cores handle peripherals in real time, while the main processor was busy. Those kinds of heterogenous chips are super interesting if you're into bare metal programming.

Even Anthropic is having their most recent debt priced at 10% interest. Wall Street is seeing them as pretty high risk.

Is this worth reading? I have to ask because of the anime avatar, which strongly discredits the author all by itself.

I hope that the current enclosure of hardware + the help of AI means that we might finally, finally have an era of optimization in which software is made to run much better on existing and older hardware. How nice it would be to have an OS and basic software that opened instantly, responded as soon as I clicked, etc.

I can't wait until we have real competition against NVIDIA, whether it is from a Chinese chip maker or someone else. Hopefully then these kinds of intentional crippling of hardware/firmware will be avoidable by buying an equivalent product from another firm.

The #1 thing frontier AIs are optimized to do is create/train new AIs.

This has already existed with closed communities such as torrenting forums which are by-referral-only, and pseudo public mailing lists where only members can post but anyone can read. It also exists in Patreon-linked Discord channels which are effectively pay-to-join forums.

The push by OpenAI and others to integrate AI into browsers or even have AI-first browsers is a way to get around these restrictions, by letting the AI ride their meat proxy - I mean user - to gain access to and scrape the data inside these gated areas.

It looks wonderful, can I use it in the Pi Agent Harness?

If that's not already supported I might ask my local agent to convert it and then send you a pull request :-)

Even in their table it shows the LLM never getting all the questions right.

Does anyone else always read this as "Ghost Titty"? (Happy Halloween btw)

"There are recessions where you need to switch from equities into bonds. And there are recessions where you need to stock up on beans and shotgun shells."

No the decline is because people woke up to the fact that it doesn't matter if you take great pride in your work and work unpaid overtime and always produce quality output: you will still get laid off when the economy explodes or when some VP decides to cancel your whole product division. It doesn't matter. You are a sucker if you go over and above every day to the benefit of the company.

In the absence of any explanation I assume these are for models to train on? They focus on industrial equipment.

So, how did all these hacked accounts or backdated posts happen? The article never says that even though the author talks to the site founder and admin.

Keeping a workflow under 100k tokens limits it to very tiny tasks

What is the point of having that many tabs open? You just need to close your browser and start over from one. Websites don't go away just because you close the tab, you can come back later.

> It feels like the difference between old-timey classical English vs street talk. "Greetings, dearest companion, how fare you this fine Autumnal day?" is a lot of syllables for someone you're familiar with. "Hey! Enjoying the day?" says the same thing, but conversational. There's a time and place for the former, mainly when writing dialog set in 1500 or something. I'd much rather say the latter when bumping into my neighbor at the cofee shop. Similarly, I could see why someone might want to write

Or with Boston compression active: "Heyhowarya"

"In his advice book for married women, the learned knight, diplomat, and royal advisor Philippe de Mézières (1327–1405) links the image of the clock with the exemplary figure of the Virgin Mary. As conveyed in Le livre de la vertu du sacrement de mariage (1389), the clock’s wheel represents nature at work in Mary’s body, turning at a measured pace only through her unique chastity and sobriety; the escapement, moving to and fro, is likened to her mediation between Christ and humanity, by which she restrains the weight of divine justice (Mézières 1389, 170–171)."

The confinement of the medieval European imagination to such a narrow range of metaphors is why I also find the paintings of the period so incredibly boring. Every single painting is Mary holding the baby Christ or one of the other 2 or 3 approved things to paint, all of Jesus. What a stultifying time that must have been. Although peasant culture / working class culture was probably more colorful and varied, but unfortunately illiterate and seldom recorded.

I must ask, do you not find Powershell's commands to be too huge and unwieldy to easily type? Or do you use autocomplete often enough that having to write complex camel case with hyphens for every single command is not a problem? That's where I trip up when writing anything for Powershell.

I recently installed Powershell 7 because apparently that is different than the powershell that comes with windows. It's great, but, now I have at least 3 different Powershells in my OS? Why? And they function very differently. I had to change all the defaults for opening a new terminal or new shell window in Windows because many of the defaults kept giving me one of the old powershells which I wouldnt figure out until my commands and scripts kept giving errors, since they use commands which only exist in Powershell 7. Cannot believe Microsoft decided to copy Python's original sin and create several conflicting, coexisting installations of the exact same thing, but different incompatible versions. Whyyyyyyyy

Regarding the article: Corbin Davenport is an amazing name. Nice article too.

Do you have a complaint about their methodology? Somewhere they overlooked something or did an improper study? They explain their research methods.

"While running for president in 2024, Donald Trump told oil and gas executives that he would pursue their policy priorities if the industry raised $1 billion for his campaign—and after returning to office last year, the Republican did just that, enriching those invested in fossil fuels, including himself, at the expense of the public and planet."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-oil-executives-1-bil...

Are you being sarcastic? Your first paragraph is very much Effective Altruism but for European cultural superiority. "European culture is the best, so, by protecting that culture's economic base, it's actually better for the rest of the world because we can export our Lovely Eco Friendly Culture more, the more we power it with coal and oil and gas."

You didn't think that 77 year old Joe Biden sincerely cared about his climate plan for the year 2050? /s

Mass solar + wind + hydro and geothermal, with nuclear as a grid stabilizer for when solar and wind aren't working and the batteries are empty.

I try to imagine the mind of an executive or millionaire who willingly destroys the environment for profit, and I just can't do it.

The developing world is in many cases the past couple years leapfrogging fossil fuel infrastructure and going straight to solar electrification, thanks to China's cheap solar panels and improvements in energy storage battery systems.

Why are so many nodes in the entire network (bridge entries, relays, and exit nodes) in Germany then?

"The lesson is the same as always: extra security is a worthwhile investment. Disable password authentication in favor of ssh keys. I for one am going to buy myself some hardware keys today. :)"

can someone explain to me how SSH keys would have prevented this MITM? My understanding is that when the user gets the message from their SSH software that says "Warning! This SSH fingerprint has changed" and is prompted to re-login, that would happen whether it is by password or by key. So how would keys prevent this? One still has to re-link the SSH endpoints, and do it over a compromised connection in this case.