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When it comes to VMs, most things are solved and have near native performance, but desktop graphics are not. Due to limitations in GPU architecture, you usually have to dedicate an entire GPU to the VM to have reasonable graphical acceleration. Qubes doesn't solve this either, IIRC the apps running in VMs are glued to the host with X11 forwarding without any acceleration support.

There is another visualization from the same author, that starts at an astronaut and ends with the observable universe https://neal.fun/size-of-space/

This is an idiotic media talking point not actually reflected in the clinical evidence. Unifying autism diagnosis under the ASD label was not a mistake, for a lot of reasons.

A disk that is powered off is not holding your data, regardless of whether it is an HDD, SDD, or if it is in redundant RAID or not. Disks are fundamentally a disposable medium. If you don't have them powered on, you have no way to monitor for failures and replace a drive if something goes wrong - it will just disappear someday without you noticing.

Tape, M-DISC, microfilm, and etched quartz are the only modern mediums that are meant to be left in storage without needing to be babysit, in climate controlled warehousing at least.

Eh? Hard drives for gaming and high-end workstations are thoroughly obsolete. SSDs are not optional when playing any triple-A game. It's kinda wild to see people still complaining about this.

Where are the images sourced from? I'm not necessarily against AI illustrations... but making recreations of extinct species right is a tricky multidisciplinary thing, not something AI can do well without a great deal of tweaking and domain-specific knowledge. If it's AI, it would be good to know the prompts and what specific features they mention, because then we'd know the actual methodology.

Edit: Don't waste your time scrolling. The images are a complete joke. There are some bad recreations out there - these are worse than you can imagine.

Except... the FSF is actually on the extreme opposite end of this issue. They do formal copyright assignment from the GNU contributors to the FSF. This way, they have a centralized final say on enforcement that is resistant to copyleft trolls, but it ultimately allows the theoretical possibility of a rugpull.

The best way to run it is in the software Golly. It has the HashLife algorithm needed to make it run fast enough to see it finish.

> Koi researchers have identified a threat actor we're calling ShadyPanda

Is it that hard to come up with a name that isn't a generic orientalist trope?

If it's googling repeatedly (every 15 minutes!) and then processing the results with LLMs, how does it avoid hallucinations? The problem with these models is that even extremely marginal hallucinations become inevitable with enough samples, so I'm skeptical that this wouldn't cause a ton of false positives.

Yes... things were certainly broken in the distant past

The sound design complements it extremely well. It's a lot like that classic sphere eversion film Outside In produced by The Geometry Center, which uses different sound effects to build up the steps in the explanation, subtly helping the audience not lose track of what's going on.

...Maybe there should be more music in math class?

How is this the same thing but without video? This doesn't even mention the unique visualization used in the video, which most people familiar with this topic have never seen before.

They only reported on the positives. The negatives can be intuitively guessed, because they didn't explain how they solved any of them.

It didn't work, it was an utterly terrible idea and they are almost certainly lying about the sentiment that it "worked". No ability to perform maintenance is a complete nonstarter. Communications and power is a nightmare to get right. The thermal management story sucks - just because you have metal touching water doesn't mean you have effective radiation of heat. Actually scaling it up is nearly impossible because you need thicker and more expensive vessels the bigger it gets. The problems go on and on.

What use is having lots of space, when to actually build out that space you need mass, which is absurdly expensive to launch?

How is preventing apps from spying on each other through the display manager not justified? That's the lowest hanging fruit for desktop sandboxing.

> that's better done further down the stack

If you do it further down the stack, you break accessibility and automation even more... this has been tried. Doesn't work.

The end goal is to have actually working Android-like sandboxing rather than some broken firejail crap.

I have never seen a program segfault and crash more than apt. The status quo is extremely bad, and it desperately needs to be revamped in some way. Targeted rewrites in a memory safe & less mistake-prone language sounds like a great way to do that.

If you think this is a random decision caused by hype, cargo culting, or a maintainer's/canonical's mindless whims... please, have a tour through the apt codebase some day. It is a ticking time bomb, way more than you ever imagined such an important project would be.

Try the "Windows Legacy" launcher, or a 3rd party launcher like PrismLauncher. The legacy launcher is made for Windows 7 and is directly equivalent to the macOS/Linux launcher, so it doesn't have a hard dependency on the Microsoft Store. It will probably be a while before they stop maintaining it because it's such a trivial port.

Everyone has to address their spiritual beliefs every time they mention something vaguely related to them? Else they lack epistemic humility? ...Did it occur to you that most people have actually thought of this question?

Wait, is "seems lacking in epistemic humility" just coded language for "I disagree, therefore you couldn't possibly be thoughtful"?

It actually downloads BleachBit and runs it so that even god can't read your emails /s

The purpose of a staged rollout is to test things with some percentage of actual real-world production traffic, after having already thoroughly tested things in a private staging environment. Your staging URL doesn't have that. Unless the public happens to know about it.

The scope for it to go wrong is the differences in real-world and simulation.

It's a good thing to have, but not a replacement for the concept of staged rollout.

Sure, but that doesn't really help for user-facing services where people expect to either type a domain name in their browser or click on a search result, and end up on your website every time.

And the access controls of DNS services are often (but not always) not fine-grained enough to actually prevent someone from ignoring the procedure and changing every single subdomain at once.

Imagine vibe coding something in production, it breaks half the internet, then you can't vibe code it back because it broke the LLM providers. A real catch-22 for the modern age!

> Some configs are inherently global and cannot be phased

This is also why "it is always DNS". It's not that DNS itself is particularly unreliable, but rather that it is the one area where you can really screw up a whole system by running a single command, even if everything else is insanely redundant.

This will also reveal your backend internal IP addresses. Anyone can find permanent logs of public IP addresses used by even obscure domain names, so potential adversaries don't necessarily have to be paying attention at the exact right time to find it.

> Intermittence is mostly a consequence of using orbiters as communication relays to reach a planet’s surface. Orbiters go around the planet and are only able to communicate with peers they can “see”.

As I understand, this type of intermittence will mostly be a solved problem by the time there are only a few relay satellites around a planet. I think the moon may already have enough for full coverage. (It does not have to be a full-on starlink-like network, Musk is a bit delusional about this)

Still interesting and potentially useful to design around it regardless.

Should be noted that wild cats (felis silvestris, felis lybica, felis catus) are not "apex" predators based on hunting success or being obligate carnivores. It's a common misconception that cats were apex predators when they were domesticated. They are both predator and prey, firmly in the middle of the food chain, and as such have the instincts of both. "Apex predator" would mean taking down large animals like elk, which would obviously be ridiculous for a small cat unless the prey is literally immobile.

Wolves are, though.

> the same for claude, you're API is tied to a bankaccount, and vibe coding a command and control system on a very public system seems like a bad choice.

Aside from middlemen as others have suggested - You can also just procure hundreds of hacked accounts for any major service through spyware data dump marketplaces. Some percentage of them will have payment already set up. Steal their browser cookies, use it until they notice and cancel / change their password, then move on to the next stolen account. Happens all the time these days.