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I can almost guarantee you that by the time you need a survival assistant, you won't be willing to spend gasoline on generating electricity for your GPUs.

(It's helpful for shorter outages. But "survival assistant", I think not, unless you run a compound)

No. That is definitely impossible. Nobody gets to serve five terabytes.

I mean, so is murdering people in cold blood, that's why ICE doesn't really do that.

My first was a 2CV, so there may be nostalgia goggles. Also, my current is a Wrangler, and, well, suspension is not its winning move :)

No, but very much no-Vichy french.

You keep your source tree on a separate file system with version control, one hopes.

So you only snapshot the rest. (And since your source tree is under version control, finding stray garbage there is straightforward unless you checked it in)

No, a moveable couch. One of the most comfortable cars ever. (It was designed to be a vehicle that farmers could use to e.g. transport eggs to the market - hence, soft seating and amazing suspension)

It also opened automatically if you made the mistake of leaving a tunnel at the same time as the truck in the lane next to you.

Clean tear at the front.

Life never wasn't exciting with a 2CV.

Ahem. Having driven a 2CV, that top speed literally only applies to the first revision. (So, yes, technically "the original")

Later versions could do 65mph. 75mph downhill with the wind at your back.

Nice, thank you for clarifying! Looking forward to giving it a try tonight :)

It's amazing.

And it's heartbreaking to see the low resolution. I hope the author will explore the large catalogs of high resolution public domain/CC0 images available.

Because the core implementation is really, really nice. I just want to look much more closely.

Paris Musées, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Rijksmuseum are some sources I can think of - there are more, I'm sure.

And I _wish_ the super-high rez ones at https://artsandculture.google.com/ would fall on that list too, but I guess that's not the case.

It's meaningless anyway, unless you have a calibration approach the home page doesn't mention. Aligning a phone to within 10 arcseconds of where your scope is pointing is... ambitious :)

It would be easier if you could use an eyepiece adapter. I have no idea why the page claims "The field of view is typically too small for plate solving to work." for that approach - it works just fine with a FOV of at least 0.2 degrees or so, which is much smaller than what most beginner/intermediate scopes have.

And if you do have a scope with a smaller TFOV, I'd argue you're likely not the target audience for the app. (Yes, you can get there cheaply and as a first scope, but it's not the usual route)

Edit: I want to be clear it's not a diss on the app - it's great. Plate solving at that speed is pretty cool. I just wish it'd work at smaller TFOVs :)

None of the developers ever saw one, or they firmly believe focusing on iOS makes the product more 'luxe'

What do you think happens to data center water? (It either evaporates or is recycled)

That page is a lot of ink for very little data. It's also somewhat wrong - no, you can't claim the axis marks and labels aren't data ink at all just because it doesn't directly reflect the measure. They are still data that's extremely relevant to reading the chart. Yes, even if Tufte says otherwise.

Meanwhile, even Tufte's advice was explicitly to grey them down, but not completely remove them.

(And we can debate Tufte's advice - lots of other comments on this page how he had great aesthetic sensibility, but his advice wasn't grounded in reason or actual readability research, and so is limited to the examples he chose)

I gave up throwing parties after the first two years in the States (1998-2000)

Americans throughout treat RSVPs as meaningless, show up if they feel like it, and think it's fine to cancel plans five minutes before the scheduled start.

Unless you're a glutton for punishment, you take the hint at some point.

Commonly held lore is that you do not install a macOS with a minor version of zero. That has been confirmed by shoddy first releases ever since there's a macOS X.

Wait for the next upgrade unless you're forced to go with the first release.

OK, but what does it do, without having to look at pages and pages of eye-searing graphics in the default AI style?

The one question you have to answer on your landing page, especially with AI making landing pages easy, is, "why should I care". And deliver that answer as quickly and clearly as possible.

It is Quanta, the home of sensationalist oversimplifcations. What did you expect, solid science?

> Also obligatory: Schmidhuber talked about this a long time ago.

That is basically axiomatic ;) (Seriously, Schmidhuber's body of research is mind-blowing)

A completely open uploader without any restrictions?

Will see CSAM in 3... 2... 1...

That's of course rather nonsensical.

In a "one LLM only" environment, your instructions are by default tuned for said LLM.

In a multi-LLM environment, roughly nobody will keep separate sets of instructions for each. It's not a realistic take.

On top of that: If your LLM is so bad at reading that it can't follow a set of instructions that wasn't specifically written just for that one single precious LLM, I sure wonder what that says about your employers repeated statements that ASI is definitely right around the corner.

The existence of attractors (e.g. "stable at iteration 31") for AI models is one of the weirdest things in AI land. They are a wonderful space to explore, fascinating and full of horrors.

Meanwhile, my hat's off to the (currently) last comment on the page: "I like how the shear-sheathed legs still earned their keep — probably load-bearing for Mrs. Regan"

Flip side? I have, in almost half a century of tech dabbling, never once needed a cable from that box that I couldn't have bought again.

I still keep _some_. A basic supply of standard cables "just in case", and clearly labeled things for "who the fuck needed to invent another connector" cases. (Looking at you, printer manufactures and WD hard drive enclosures)

But I strongly suggest tossing most of it. You need the space more than you need more cables.

The details on the lab are (understandably and simultaneously frustratingly) quite sparse.

But it's worth keeping in mind that theoretically, the mold on that cucumber in your fridge constitutes some sort of biolab. The main released criteria about those lab that raised alarm was the presence of specimens, which does not imply any capability of creating a weaponized strain.

It's still alarming, but (at least in my opinion), still doesn't prove an effective bioweapon is buildable in a small-scale operation.

Georgetown has a good article on the general problems with our current "AI and bioweapons" dialog: https://gjia.georgetown.edu/science-technology/rethinking-th...

Without a whole lot of tacit knowledge no LLM can provide you, bioweapons are still pretty much out of range for most of the population. Doesn't mean we should ignore the problem, but a more reasoned approach would stand to benefit everybody.

"indepdendent" does not mean "i see all parties as absolutely the same".

It means "I am not firmly affiliated". You still have the ability to make choices on who is a better likely outcome

Because it's completely dwarfed by florpedness. I can't define that either, but I just know it's more important.

Less facetiously: A debate of the importance of something needs a shared understanding of what is being debated. Without that, any discussion is merely people shouting that their belief is the right one, and the others are the heathens/idiots - because there isn't even agreement on what is debated.

That's the famous dropbox comment right there.

> 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. > 2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive... This does not solve the connectivity issue. > 3. It does not seem very 'viral' or income-generating."

Normal users don't care about running an extra mini-PC. If you do shoulder it, it becomes part of your attack surface as well, so it's non-trivial work.

And sure, you can find content anywhere - ordinary people won't.

Except... some of us like to stream content on TVs. And some of us really don't like the idea of maintaining yet another extra piece of hardware for that.

And so your TV does need Internet access.

The same holds for many other devices, in different shapes. Sure, you can opt out of civilization completely to avoid all the side effects of late stage capitalism, but maybe it's worth applying a bit more nuanced thinking to find a balance that doesn't throw you back to the 1800s. (Unless you like the 1800s, in which case, enjoy)

"I would guess I'm one of a handful of top individuals on Earth outside the frontier labs, in terms of my experience with top-end models."

I'd argue that number of tokens burned does not translate into "experience".

And if you needed to spend $300k or so to find out that process helps manage larger efforts (process is what "fences" are outside Yegge-land), you sure spent a lot.

I mean, I'm glad the guy's got a a hobby he enjoys, but there's less insight than you'd hope for.