ForOldHack

Surprise, surprise, surprise. Well, well well. The honeymoon is over. It's just so predictable.

I was anticipating that it would have reversed course and flagged you. Blessings on you, and your four footed friend.

The Matiyasevich theorem (which settled Hilbert's 10th Problem) proved that Diophantine equations are fundamentally tied to the Halting Problem. Because a universal Turing machine cannot determine if any arbitrary program will halt, no computer program or mathematical algorithm can ever be written to determine if any arbitrary Diophantine equation has an integer solution.

Here is a prime factorization: 2 = 2 x 1. Every number has a product of 1. Every prime has itself as the only factor, and 1. Kind of silly to write about number theory and just pass over that simple fact.

My friend Eric, had an unused Alpha server 4100 under his desk...It was used for testing more than a year ago, ( in the early 2000s ). He asked for the install disks, and got a entire box of everything it came with VMS/Ultrix/NT 3.5.. We tried to use raid, but none of the drivers worked. So what... we loaded NT, then Digital UNIX, and finally VMS, but we knew nothing about VMS, so one disk for NT, and one for Digital UNIX. The floating point was outstanding. just wish there was more software for it.

Google? Wells Fargo? Are you LISTENING?

Where you can encode an entire Command and Control server within rounding errors! You sneaky skunk!

Oh my god, and to think that OCC used to just be ways to torture the pre-processor... stunning work. Utter and complete no holds barred mud.

Pinball machines are great entertainment, but a plane? Wow. Someone next door to me, when I was growing up, built a boat in their driveway. It was amazing, and they took a long time to both get it right, and to make it seaworthy and comfy. After launch they sailed it around the world. Amazing.

However, self driving vacuums are a done deal.

"I have no faith that we are close to useful humanoids." I agree completely. We still have competitions about having robots walk up stairs and open doors, and balance while doing those things...

What would be the top uses of humanoid robots?

I would say that turtles are the pinnacle of stability, and longevity, and so we have Roombas. But, Racoons are at the pinnacle of dexterity, and Octopodes are at the pinnacle of dimensional manipulation...

but personally, I would welcome our cyper-coon overlords.

So... like vertical markets? Ram for the data centers, data centers for the robots, robots for the Humanoid? or... the other way around? Robots to build data centers, and robots to build Ram.

I see... tech giants and R & D at the top of the pyramid, and I have seen Gumee, the fab that started all this Korean ram prodution.

Clearly, it was the fault of the AI, and it should be thrown in jail.

Yes, AI can write a solution, but cannot visualized a solution. When I was 9, I refused to learn my times tables, and addition, so I was relegated to work with blocks. I loved the blocks... I was able to complete all the problems, come up with my own, and return to class, with some extreme facility.

Two years later, comes a challenge in class... make a formula for summing the integers... well everyone started with 1+2+... I starred with blocks, 1+n, 2+n-1... I had the complete formula in minutes...

That was the very last class for which I was with my peers of that grade... I was put in a HP High Potential class, with a high school algebra book, and although was a bit lonely, was in my element.

The point is- the recognition of the problem, can save huge amounts of time, where as AI can only brute force it, or use a pretrained solution.

Its all a math problem, and if it isn't a math problem, its a database problem. I come across a lot of problems, and since I always try to reduce it to a math problem... I intuitively come up with both the solution to the problem, but solutions to other problems. But, if it's not a math problem, of course, its a database problem.

I would safely assume that there are no limitations of what mathematicians can do, with one important exception: Andrew, for whom I argued about the mis-uses of Infinity. Andrew is, well, rather famous.

Pay the tax of - reliability problems, ever one came with a cable, where is the termination, each had power, need another power strip...etc, etc, etc.

as well, as Wide SCSI, so all your 50 pin stuff needed to get upgraded to 68pin...

Bernoulli... ultra reliable. Zip? Clock was ticking on the click of death. Bernoullis were not the fastest, but they were the quietest and most reliable.

At the same time, I was running a home router without any HDD on LRP, Linux Router Project, which was a distribution from Swansea Linux, and was a floppy image, that decompressed into RAM, and then chrood to the RAM image. Really nifty, except for the 486 machine had a Pentium Overdrive, which was vulnerable to F00F, and we got owned... only to reboot again, and back to our normal image.

Since it had no hard disk, and no monitor, it was quiet, and used little power.

It does not just sound insane, it is insane...

"He reverse-engineered an actual attack. The project contained scripts that enabled code injection and crypto-wallet theft. His post (highly recommended):"

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/como-identifiquei-um-golpe-em...

"The execp package (version 0.0.1) is an infamous, malicious dependency frequently used in recent supply-chain attacks and job interview scams. Threat actors embed this 9-year-old package into seemingly innocent "technical assessments" or projects. When you run npm install, it quietly executes arbitrary shell commands in the background to compromise your machine."

Nice quote of Darth Vader there ;) "The cycle will once again be complete."

Also reminds me to update my fake CV.

This is what it is used for:

https://dev.to/andersoncontreira/warning-to-developers-a-new...

A “recruiter” (sometimes pretending to be a CEO/HR) contacts you. The job looks amazing — above-market salary, remote position, paid in USD, etc. They ask for your CV and GitHub. They say you’re “approved for the next stage” without any real interview. Before the call, they send you a codebase to review or modify as a “technical test.”

When I get one of these, I automatically spin up a cloned VM, and test it there, which for the most part it gets infected immediately. as I watch the VM connect to odd places ( C&C computers ) for which I add any names/IP addresses to my host file, and then spin up another cloned VM, with the adjustments to the hosts file, and watch the malware get all lonely... but once, it was able to escape the VM... so I had to scramble to disinfect both the RM and the VM, and then update, and look around for hardening tools.

Its satisfying to delete an infected VM, with a "Not this time Jack."

MEPIC fuses... ok... Green? Oh my!

Isn't any one interested in the technical? I would love to pay this guy a way to figure out a way to put a 8Gb USB stick in the light bulb, and start to fill it with the stuff from that Minecraft library... in all the languages... I would buy 16 of these light bulbs, and see if I could mesh them, or IPFS them, and start plugging them in in libraries...

When does the movie come out? Totally kidding. Its just propaganda from one of the most murderous regime I can think of, but looks like the USA is going to give it a run for its money.

This is a brilliant observation, in regards to the first edition's depiction of Gollum.

In the first edition, he was depicted as a large creature, and Tolkien was upset about it, and in the second edition, changed the description to small.

This information was gathered by a rare book seller who's videos I find immensely interesting.

I was walking down the street, and I saw a art/documentary style picture of a book seller, wearing a Fez, it seemed interesting, so I took a picture of it, and later fawned on it... until I realized that his books were on display, so I rotated the picture, and scanned the titles. There were three Greek tarot decks, which were interesting, and a book, that was about an old technology. I went to the library to see where I could check it out. No were in the city library, no where in the State University or State colleges, no where in the county collection... and then the librarian/Super-genius, suggested scanning the local library database, and found the book, in a small library, in the far corner of the state, and I filled out a form to request a two week loan... but two days to get here, and two days return, I would have the book for 10 solid days.

When I got it, I read through it, solid for three days. Wow. Stunning look at a technology in its infancy.

The name of the Bookseller was Luma Kunda. Thank you Mr Kunda. I later learned from someone at the nearby bus stop, that Mr Kunda possessed an eidetic memory.

I would have loved to hear him tell stories about what he saw in the tarot cards.

Dijkstra? What is your go-to Dijkstra paper? His papers are like The short stories of Philip K Dick. Everything seems fine and straight forward, until you step into another world.

You are indeed privileged. What you have gained by reading them, is more than an education: It would be a journey, to read them, and your commentary.

I picked up a science fiction book, in a recycle bin, that for the most part belonged there, except for one chapter... one short chapter-and after I read it, the world started to swirl... "Human language had by this time, become mostly telepathic." Thank you, Joe Haldeman.

And Thank you Edsger W. Dijkstra.

Let this lesson be learned: "In my frustration, I decided to punish this software by decompiling it to figure out how it worked,"

Note to self: Never piss off a programmer, while he is gaming. To quote: "You're gonna die for that." -Duke Nukem.

Rosetta 2. Rosetta was for Intel to emulate 68k, now if you could get Rosetta 2 to run under Rosetta, then you could run 68k, on an ARM, and if you could get the apple ][ emulator...

I was at Best Buy in the Apple section, and I asked its AI "What is the best value in four year old MacBook pros." It pointed me directly at an over-under washer dryer for $3400. Quite obviously, it was trained, like a drooling puppy by Madison Ave.

Wait... don't tell me... there is an App for that.

Well, back in the day... The MacIIfx had video memory, ( dual ported ram ) that could be read and written to out of different ports. Wicked fast. It 486DX2s more than a year to catch up.