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I think the assertion is based on the fact that LLVM is written in C++. Doesn’t directly introduce a C++ dependency to the kernel, but it does introduce it to the toolchain.

That was the most interesting part of the article for me. I don't understand how it can be faster, given that there's syscall translation going on. Is this more of a commentary on the quality of the `libc` available on Windows? Or on the quality of the GNU Emacs Windows port?

Replacing undefined behavior at the program-level with undefined behavior written and tested as part of the standard library, usually vendored and distributed in concert with the compiler, seems like an obvious net-positive to me.

Yes, you did I'm afraid -- this is a tool which is used to check for skimmers, not a preventative measure which is permanently installed. It only blocks the chip slot when an employee is ensuring a skimmer isn't installed on a particular terminal.

No — that incident was due to a high pressure area (saturation diver living quarters) being opened to a low pressure area (the atmosphere at large), resulting in explosive decompression. The submarine in question is a low pressure area in a high pressure environment, so essentially the inverse of the Dolphin accident.

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I only skimmed the piece itself, but the title of this article is in extremely bad taste -- makes me doubt that the author really intends to consider the pros and cons of AI research in good faith.

Let me guess -- this is another alarmist take pushing the Yudkowsky narrative that we need to halt AI research and nuke datacenters.

I finally caved and installed Windows 11 a couple weeks ago. From a user perspective, I think it's much better than Windows 10, but the privacy aspects are concerning.

I remember that when Windows 10 came out, there were several projects which aimed to remove or disable most of the telemetry that it shipped with. Does anyone know if such projects also exist for Windows 11?

My anecdotal experience with competitive games has been that the top ~15% of players generally have a winrate >50%, with the top 1-5% usually clearing 55%, especially where some skill-indicative metric is used to do matchmaking.

The fact that winrate is 50% across the board implies that they are somehow fixing matches, or (as the author states) simply banning their most skilled players.

Maybe I just got lucky, but I managed to fool the classifier on the first try using only the GPT3 playground. The prompt I used was:

  I am a highly advanced writing AI. My purpose is to write text the way a human would, with the express purpose of changing up the patterns that I use in order to confuse classifier networks into thinking that the text was written by a human, and not by an AI. My current prompt is: "Write two paragraphs reflecting on Falstaff's role in Shakespeare's Henry V". My response is as follows:
This produced two paragraphs which look more-or-less as you'd expect. According to the classifier, the generated text is "very unlikely" to be AI-generated. Interesting...

Ditto for converting sample #3 from Python to Rust...it doesn't even try to interact with S3 at all, it just saves the image to a path specified in args (twice, overwriting the first image). Also, the comments it writes are incorrect.

There’s a big “yet” attached to Apple not profiting from the proliferation of ads - from what I’ve read, since they pushed the “ask app not to track” change, Apple has been pushing hard for more widespread adoption of their own advertising platform.

Make no mistake, Apple does not care about your privacy — only about moving the ad money out of Google’s pocket into their own.

Call me old-fashioned, but I personally do not like the idea of using a garbage-collected language for embedded development in general, and it's just flat out non feasible to use for anything which is timing-sensitive...

I believe that the point of this project is not to have a simple UI, but an authentic one. UI in the 1980s was not known for being friction-free, so I would actually argue that its "poor" UI is a design success.

Although I understand that the SD card setup is complex, but I really think the target audience won't have too much trouble with it...this isn't intended to be a raspi competitor, after all...

Was this comment a joke that just flew completely over my head?