benj111

If they aren't willing to vet, they should at least be keeping the update minimal. Ie no 'sidecar' apps.

Self signing a driver should mean just that, not a driver, and a load of other things we feel like foisting on the user.

Half the reason I moved to Linux is because I just wanted to print something without getting a load of advertising from a printer company.

There's still a security there though.

You have confidence you are actually downloading the same foo as everyone else. And if there were an issue there would be pushback. Not so if you get some random exe from warez.com

Yes it isn't perfect, it's still a lot better than windows land.

Are you disputing that the repos are vetted or that users use them???

Anyone who has the skills to create a novel bioweapon has the skills to recreate lots of ones we have already.

Any physics teacher should know the theory for constructing a nuclear bomb. Should we be controlling that knowledge too?

What about flight simulators? Don't want a load of people knowing how to fly.

This isn't computer science, the hard bit is getting the materials and equipment, not the knowledge.

Surely you shouldn't be leaking your username. I could use it to see if another server recognised 'h43z'....

Well I think that is the greater question.

Is AI just an algorithm. Is human creativity just an algorithm?

Who, if anyone should own the copyright if you prompt AI to write a book?

I'm thinking more from a moral and philosophical pov, the copyright regime is broken anyway

I kind of assumed the model would process the text 'directly', from what I understand, wouldn't this be biasing the input based on how you tokenise as it's lossy?

I assume this tradeoff is purely for speed/compression. Or am I missing what's going on here?

I'd like to know the link between availability of csam and CSA. There seems to be an assumption that the former causes the latter.

That's not to say it's acceptable if illegally produced.

We have issues in the UK. So far they've banned 'rape' porn. And now they're talking about 'barely legal'

None of this seems to be based on any statistics showing this is actually harmful in any way.

Most of the west had/have bomb shelters and other things for a nuclear attack.

"Fairies and elves" suggest it's impossible. It isn't impossible, just very difficult. I'm here in bed conversing with someone on the other side of the world with a hand held device. The would have been "Fairies and elves" 50 years ago.

Off the top of my head. Compilers. You may know that a value has known 1s and 0s and unknowns. This would allow you to represent that for optimisation purposes.

and with natural gas now extremely expensive due to the Ukraine war, the UK has been forced to rely on hideously expensive offshore wind power

But the wind is cheaper than gas. Yes you could argue that if we had stuck with coal that would have been cheaper than gas or wind, but the long term threat and the long term most expensive option is clear. Wind and solar gives energy independence, so we aren't reliant on a market that could be turned upside down by one country invading another.

But it's still hotter than any previous time 2 typhoon fighters landed.

So unless you want to put that down to the new houses put up, it means that temperatures have gone up.

So what do you actually do then?

Not really because it's irrationally valued because of musk. So you'd probably just be getting a fair valuation without him which would mean many more lost billions.

Are you suggesting Ada Lovelace isn't capable of reasoning about a problem?

You can come up with an algorithm or system without knowing programming. Presumably we can agree the opposite, that being a programmer doesn't give you mystical insight into every programming problem.

Ultimately this isn't even a programming problem.

Timmy writes homework, Jimmy writes homework. They can name the homework however they want. Both go in the same pigeon hole. How can the teacher tell who did which homework?

Add prefix 'noso_' to user variables.

So even if someone creates 'so_int' it becomes 'noso_so_int'

So you solution to dealing with X is 'dont deal with x'?

Older buildings are generally more flexible though.

In the UK, within living memory electricity has become widely available, TV has, gas, internet etc etc. and yet we still build houses without the assumption that some cable isn't going to be modified in the wall some how.

There's fairly modern houses that didnt have the 2 courses of brick added to the loft to allow 300mm of insulation to be installed.

We are now building houses with gas boilers, knowing that they will have to be swapped out probably before the life of the boiler runs out. And I bet the radiators and piping aren't sized to make that possible. That the circuit isn't sized for that.

Yes none of this is easier in a 250 year old house, but it isn't harder and 250 year old houses hadn't really changed appreciably for a few centuries so it isn't as if there would be an expectation that you would be installing new things in the wall every decade.

Define functionally obsolete.

Ultimately most tall structures as a reinforced concrete skeleton with glass hung on the sides.

It seems to me that as you're going to replace it with another basically identical concrete skeleton it makes sense to have that skeleton last as long as possible. And then refit that skeleton.

So are we going to end up at a point where AI spends vast computing power reading things any that humans don't want them to read, while the humans get a worse experience because everyone is bending over backwards trying to stop the AI reading things.

Captcha was bad enough.

Letters are also symbols so no.

So how do you uppercase or lowercase an arbitrary character?

How do you check if it's a valid character?

How do you deal with combining characters?

Most of the world don't use just the Latin subset in ASCII or follow the same assumptions about letters, words, cases etc etc.

Isn't the point of rationing to prevent the loaf going to $20.

russia is currently holding just about all the land it wants in Ukraine

Based on? The fact it tried to take Kyiv in the first week? That it's still trying to advance?

If Russia were to collapse tomorrow, they would lose everything, I don't see how that's winning.

Well if trident gets used then what comes next is irrelevant.

It's like planning for your house burning down V dying. If you're dead you don't really need to worry about the after.

So yes the military plans for everyone but global thermo nuclear war, because there's no point planning for that anyway.

I wouldn't say were planning for the next ww2. Look at the number of tanks we have. If anything were over optimised for helping the US fight insurgencies in the middle east at the expense of being able to fight a high intensity war.

Maybe in theory. In practise you have thing like super optimisers. You have side effects that the compiler needs to understand etc.

That said I'm struggling to think of something that would need to be unsafe.

A tool is meant to do something, not look pretty.

If your primary concern is something looking pretty, it is no longer primarily a tool.

Probably loose wording as damage can mean break something or make it look less pretty. I think the intent is clear though.

People criticise them all the time. Have you got any pertinent criticisms or is this all you have to say?

My guess is 1 (or 1.0) declaring something has reached 'stable'

Edit. Perhaps the title should be 'parsing numbers is hard'.

So the UK starts phone numbers with a 0 generally. International numbers 00 (or plus)

You can't represent a leading zero and because there's 2 for an international code you either rely on the 2 not conflicting. So in the UK's case, the international code is 0044 you would have to rely on no other countries using 044 for domestic numbers.

You could get around that by using the sign bit so +44 is literally a positive integer and a non international prefix is negative?

Then there's the non standard phone numbers, eg emergency services. How do they play with all this. Does 0999 or 0911 work? Does that work internationally?

The biggest issue that I can't see around is that Australia's emergency number is 000. How do you encode that as an integer? How do you differentiate from the old US operator number of 0?

The problem is a leading 0 isn't nothing in a phone number. But it is in an integer on a computer.

So then we're left with the definition of possible. Maybe you can encode all the numbers in your particular region. That's possible. But you can't encode any legal phone number globally.