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We just don’t know the story enough to judge. What if he was given benzos and was immediately blackmailed for example? This is a nation-state organized affair after all, not just a poorly judged night at the bar.

Bill Gates is a good example. If you’ve heard him talk about it it’s pretty clear he still loves his ex wife and would get back with her if he could. People make mistakes. People with that much money and power are dropped into situations most of us can’t imagine.

Since FAT32 doesn’t journal I wonder if this affects the chances for corrupting data.

Next step: run Qwen inside of the Qwenputer. I want more layers of inefficincy!

Unrealistically, sometimes I wish we’d have a “year of bugfixing” - where no new features are allowed across the entire industry. Heck, even a month of bugfixes could do a lot of good.

> Danfoss said the affected cold units were older models whose security software could not be updated to ward off a risk they had identified.

I feel like this is kind of holding the supermarket hostage and saying, “Sure your freezer is working fine, but if you refuse to buy new freezers from us prepare to get hacked.”

Sure you can argue that the supermarket should have just taken the old freezers offline. But you can also argue that the manufacturer could have supplied software updates but didn’t in order to force sales of newer models.

No.

This is false. https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/auth_permissions/

What’s the Microsoft angle here? A few years ago they were ready to hire anyone from OpenAI that was willing to leave. Is it just catering to the anti-AI sentiment going around?

No mention of harmonics? Seems like a pretty big omission. I’ll admit I didn’t read the whole article but this seems like a classic, “I did the math but never actually touched the thing” type miss.

Also, Z-wave’s frequency is a bit better at handling things like metal electrical boxes - useful if you live in an older home.

Anecdotally, I have Z-wave, Zigbee, and WiFi devices. Z-wave and WiFi are far more reliable than zigbee.

I have Quantum and a UCG fiber. IIRC you only have to turn off vlan tagging on the ONT, and then set DHCP and the vlan tag on the UCG. If you try to keep the vlan tag on ONT you will get horrendous latency. The ISP still shows as CenturyLink.

Oh yay. Now our terminal server can have OneDrive Photos AND Teams installed for every single user profile.

Change my mind: The complexity of ZFS isn’t worth it except in certain specialized situations.

This is actually what’s interesting

It’s different because those were singular technological advances, each in their own niche. They spread out change between time, geography, and industries.

The fear is this will replace engineers, scientists, accountants, lawyers, service workers, etc, etc all within a small time window.

Investment types have shown repeatedly that their primary concern is money, not workers. There is no reason to believe that those currently in power are open to sharing their wealth or influence.

> clocks are less sensitive to environmental perturbations and can function without extreme cooling. This “opens a possible route to compact and robust optical clocks”

> drifting over the course of a day by only the equivalent of around one second in three million years

If these can be made reasonably cheap, even with a much higher drift rate, I, for one, would welcome the replacement of quartz-based clocks and their tendency to drift wildly in datacenters.

I love Ted Chiang’s fiction, but his Julius Caesar and Genghis Khan scenario totally misses the point that the writer has consciousness, not the characters. No normal person thinks a fictional character in a book has consciousness. Likewise it’s not the character presented to the user that may or may not have consciousness but the LLM itself.

Maybe we can just dump heat into the time dimension and deal with it in the past or the future.

This is the dystopia where despots no longer have the decency to die from old age.

My only question is, why release on a Friday? “News dump day” Or is that only late on Friday?

OR IS IT!!?! /s

Maybe it’s all elaborate counter-intelligence. I doubt we’ll ever know.

I wonder how this affects that combining General Relativity with Quantum Mechanics leads to mathematical infinities “that render calculations meaningless.”

It appears that they are testing using Max. For 4.7 Anthropic recognizes the high token usage of max and recommends the new xhigh mode for most cases. So I think the real question is whether 4.7 xhigh is “better” than 4.6 max.

> max: Max effort can deliver performance gains in some use cases, but may show diminishing returns from increased token usage. This setting can also sometimes be prone to overthinking. We recommend testing max effort for intelligence-demanding tasks.

> xhigh (new): Extra high effort is the best setting for most coding and agentic use cases

Ref: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt...

I should have been more clear- I’m not endorsing violence- just noticing a probable correlation.

Somewhere I read that vigilanteism arises when there is a perceived last of justice. This guy gets rich while people everywhere are losing jobs. Seems about right.

Is there a point where you step back and let it blow up so that management HAS to take the issues seriously? In other words, if you care, you might get enough minor fixes through to keep the product limping along instead of letting it become a big enough bonfire that management has to address it?

I suppose that’s the point where you look for a job elsewhere. But maybe if you stuck around you would get the satisfaction of finally fixing the broken stuff (if you were still employed after the disaster that is). Wishful thinking?

So, instead of making LLMs smarter let’s make everything abstract again? Because everyone wants to learn another tool? Or is this supposed to be something I tell Claude, “Hey make some code to make some code!” I’m struggling to see the benefit of this vs. just telling Claude to save its plan for re-use.

I tried Hue lights last year but 50% of them had problems. Did you run into that too?

> Why are Americans so passive?

Because it’s cold? Here in Minnesota it’s 17F / -7C. Factoring in the wind chill it feels like 7F / -14C.

There are other reasons too of course (geography, lack of urban density, distrust of news, apathy, etc etc) but I think the weather is a definite factor right now.