barkingcat

Is an llm able to explain to itself what these parameters do, and change its own parameter settings?

classic use case for gamification.

every time I see any startup run "games" on some aspect of daily life, it's going to go into killer robots in the end.

Firstly, apple doesn’t compete on price. Even if icloud is priced more than google people would always buy apple just for the ecosystem integration. It’s not even a competition to be honest.

Look up “buy or build” which is the industry term for this kind of evaluation: buy product and use it/resell it or build your own.

Apple has gone for different strategies in various areas:

Build own Apple silicon chips, do not buy off the shelf chips from intel or nvidia or amd.

Buy and resell google storage but don’t want to build their own distributed data store for end users.

It’s about what matters more for the company and the core products. Apple’s laptops, cell phones are considered core products. Icloud is a value add.

This is also why apple is making their own cell phone broadband chips. For most companies, this is a “buy from qualcolm” but apple needs to build their own for independence for their number 1 core product: the iphone.

get LLM to write ADA and have it use SPARK for verification.

one issue is that modern ransomeware groups are also being hunted themselves - there are many ransomeware orgs that are themselves being ransomed so are not reliable.

even if you pay the ransom to the 1st group, the 2nd group will leak.

at this point Anthropic/OpenAI have enough equity to buy out the entire Visa and Mastercard ecosystems.

It's all fake venture capital money, but they are the big cheese.

waiting for month for a refund (and having lost access to the pro plan immediately but no immediate refund) is definite grounds for chargeback.

there is no human on the other end of the chain, and I bet that chargebacks are how they issue refunds (ie relying on the "nuclear" option as the standard practice of how refunds fundamentally works at their company.

ie "don't need to answer emails about refunds, because if they really wanted their money back, they'd issue a chargeback" as part of the regular procedure.

a lot of companies do this, and it's a common way of minimizing customer support budgets.

good target for the Louvre thieves!

the indiana jones warehouse.

American economics doesn't allow fabrication of semiconductors even if there is the know how.

Think about how Intel, who pioneered the know how, can't build cutting edge nodes in the levels that they need to make it profitable.

IBM had to sell their fabs to cater to the whims of "shareholders".

It's the greed of stockholders that you need to blame.

doesn't this just mean the spec is overwritten? (and covering things that are not in use by the dominant engines)

It's useless to get a higher score on compliance than the leading engines because ... no one else can use them.

Probably that there are already several generations of TPU hardware - the best ones go to internal use, while the older hardware gets rented out to gcp to amortize the development costs.

It's the ouroboros - snake eating its own tail.

this case is conductive, precisely so the excess charge can be grounded by the power supply by being in touch/contact with the psu metallic casing.

the psu is grounded, but the static has no way of getting to ground (via psu) if the case itself is non-conductive.

The black market is "if you have to ask then you are already not qualified"

unless you are an agent posing questions to get people to sink themselves.

current gen AI is Pakleds of Star Trek TNG.

Give them a bit of power though, and they will kill you to take your power.

When it comes to larger projects, first:

- you don't need to understand the whole in order to help

the kind of bugs you can start with are like :

- this icon is a bit weird, it's off centre by 2px - how do I add 2 pixels to this icon? either by moving it or by changing the underlying image asset? if I'm moving it, what is the subroutine that paints it? if I'm changing the image asset itself, where is it stored? (is it in a packed store? or is it just a plain file, etc)

- when I click this button, trace the pathway - it's supposed to add to history and turn blue. is it doing that?

etc.

For large projects, start super small and work your way out from there.

There's also the Eclipse VScode-look-alike-reimplementation called TheiaIDE

https://theia-ide.org/

It was rough a few years ago, but nowadays it's pretty nice. TI rebuilt their Code Composer Studio using Theia so it does have some larger users. It has LSP support and the same Monaco editor backend - which is all I need.

It's VSCode-with-an-Eclipse-feel to it - which might or might not be your cup of tea, but it's an alternative.

What are you talking about, global politics is only melodramatic overdone theatrics

everyone does it. I'm pretty sure your home country, whatever it is, also does it.

it's the equivalent of banging fists on tables to try to get people to toe the line, and the US does it a ton. Russia does it. China does it.

even small countries does it too.

You only need to look at board membership overlap between all companies (all companies, not just tech)

You'll find the same names appearing over and over again.

The reason all companies seem to do the same thing at the same time is that their boards are all the same people giving the same order to all their companies' ceo's at the same time.

no a true mistake would have been to delete the hard drive that the wallet was stored on so you wouldn't even had the benefit of paying off anything or buying any hookers and blow.

What is an EE in automotive parlance?

Dark pattern galore

you missed the boat by about 10 years.

Pretty sure the mainstream gaming advice is to turn off E-Cores so the vast majority of actual gamers would be doing just that.

Probably North Korea.

that's the definition of the home datacentre.

I completely understand resigning on principles. It's a reflection of an internal state where you cannot fight (due to reporting chain of command) and the idea that leaving to fight is a stronger position than staying and fighting within a corrupted/damaged organisation.

There is also the idea: you can order other people to do it, but I'm not going to do it - I resign.

In business/corporate world, it's more like: I can't fight the idiotic director level decisions, so I'm going to quit and either

1) start another company to directly compete

2) quit, join another company to compete or

3) quit, get more experience, and then come back years later at a much higher pay / position to fire the director who was braindead in the first place.

3) in particular plays out way more often than you'd think in silicon valley/tech industry, where by quitting and changing jobs, you can easily get a bunch of promotions and experience outside, so you can come back in to the company at a much higher level.

Think Intel and Pat Gelsinger. As an engineer, Pat couldn't get anywhere so left in 2009 to go lead VMWare. Then he returned to Intel as CEO in 2021. He still didn't get anywhere and got fired, but at least it was for executing his vision. If he stayed at Intel, he would have just been a peon engineer for the rest of his life. At least by quitting he got the CEO job later.

Same story re the current Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, by leaving the board, he was signally his unhappiness with the conditions, and by rejoining as CEO, he gets to make the decisions.

Resisting and fighting from within is usually your weakest play in organisational change.

Instead of trying to make sense of the formula, it's much more likely the administration needed a global 30% and then they made up the formula (and the constants, etc) to get to that number.

Anyone who's trying to make arguments based on the formula itself is the dog being wagged.

Thinking pragmatically, the legacy systems where there is no current rust toolchain most likely do not need the drivers and components that are being written in rust.

Unless you somehow want to run Apple M1 GPU drivers on a device that has no rust toolchain ... erm...

or you want to run a new experimental filesystem on a device that has no rust toolchain support?

The answer to the "new and emerging platforms" question is pretty much the same as before: sponsor someone to write the toolchain support. We've seen new platforms before and why shouldn't it follow the same pathway? Usually the c compiler is donated by the company or community that is investing into the new platform (for example the risc-v compiler support for gcc and llvm are both getting into maturity status, and the work is sponsored by the developer community, various non-profit[1][2] and for-profit members of the ecosystem as well as from the academic community.)

realistically speaking, it's very hard to come up with examples of the hypothetical.

[1] https://github.com/lowRISC/riscv-llvm

[2] https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-August/103748...