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Thanks so that's like the same ballpark, which kind of validates my counterpoint about "small" phones (which at the time were considered immense)

Flip phone is cheating! Haha kidding. Still a Z Flip 7 is giant when unfolded.

On this matter I'm not searching for excuses, I am reserving my judgement; all we have is a tweet with the counterexample. We don't know how the counterexample was built nor found. It's just not useful to speculate.

If that won't convince you that LLMs do more than parrot existing ideas, you've got your head in the sand.

It doesn't.

In a nearby comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983413

In mathematics (including information science, CS) there are all sorts of problems that are essentially searches for a solution, and many have the property that the search is computationally difficult, but verifying the solution is relatively cheap. E.g. finding integers such that a^2 + b^2 = c^2 isn't easy, but given a claim that some proposed <a, b, c> satisfies this equation is easy to check. The LLM is like that: it solves a search problem that can be fairly hard.

Funnily enough, one of the attempted solves in the litterature is exploring the problem space in two-dimensional space; the LLM found one in three-dimensional space.

So far we know very little as to why and how it found the solution.

It may very well have been directed to brute force 3D space, or even "elected" to" by expanding the known-failed 2D approach to 3D as pure mimicry.

It does so unreliably, but if you can cheaply verify the solution, there is a win there.

This circles back to what the LLM advocates are pushing for: build the harness that keeps the agent in check, guardrails all the way because it's driving like a demolition derby.

Conversely, I am counting 6 persons (7 when including myself) in my direct close circle that do not upgrade because there is no Mini on the Apple lineup.

I'm not counting people that did upgrade but are spiteful of the forced size increase.

And it is indeed smaller than most smartphones. Apple never made a small smartphone

I couldn't find specs for this thing but from the picture it looks to be about the same size as the original iPhone.

Russia needed time to update glassnoss satellites

GLONASS maybe? or really glasnost era satellites?

Warning: many don't support both at the same time (setting up for one disables the other until reset)

I can't seem to be able to pass these damn captchas

If things would have worked as you say

They work _exactly_ as I say:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump_and_refrigeration_cy...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics

Just open the windows and blow the cold air out and keep the inverter inside

This "just" seems to hint that you don't seem to quite be grasping the concepts and scale at hand:

- Assuming perfect efficiency and unlimited free energy, where would you even put the heat from outside?

- Since energy is neither free nor unlimited, the energy needs would be enormous+

- Since it is not perfectly efficient and the energy needs are so high, the amount of wasted energy (which is heat) would be colossal, and only make the problem worse

+ The heat causing global warming comes not from human activity but from the sun, the anthropogenic effect at play is that this energy from the sun is captured by greenhouse effect.

I've been on SFR and had IPv6 for a decade at this point (through multiple moves and on mobile). It's been absolutely reliable in every way.

One of the huge holdups for v6 deployment was the absorbtion of the then DOCSIS2-based Numericable, which required a huge migration to DOCSIS3 to even support it, as well as integration of the whole network backhaul that came with it.

The reputation _was_ justified at some point far back but they turned the ship around a long time ago and is now entirely an unjustified meme.

These past years it's been SFR (via RED) who was keeping the prices competitive, so I can't wait to see the remaining three vultures collude to raise the prices back up again /s.

People just get pissy because Free refuses to pay for peering with Google for e.g. Youtube, and it feels slower, even more on v6.

Well when one's paying for a heavily marketed "the fastest around" 1Gbps+ connection or something, and it indeed negotiates the link at that, but one can't play a 720p video over that tube because backhaul routing sucks, one has a right to be annoyed.

Can't read the article (paywalled) so I'm basing myself on what I see

Green electricity means never having to say sorry for lowering the thermostat

I literally just read some reports yesterday day about how AC can be a pathological solution.

It's not about the energy being green or not, it's that independently of the energy source AC is a heat pump, so it pumps heat out into the air, which makes the air inside cooler, but hotter outside; and for that, green or not, it needs to put in energy to do the work, which results in _even more heat_.

At scale a.k.a cities this creates measurable bubbles of heat (+1-2degC) around AC'd places.

As Desty Nova puts it in Gunnm (a.k.a Battle Angel Alita):

    Now becomes the past in an instant — and everyone will eventually die! Destiny triumphs over human knowledge and goes mad! That is the way of things! I spit upon this frail, crazed, world! I spit upon the Second Law of Thermodynamics!

Well, France has 99% IPv6 deployment through both mobile and landline these days

https://www.arcep.fr/fileadmin/reprise/observatoire/ipv6/Arc...

(2025, from 2024 data)

Reason that Google isn't seeing more is a) some BigCo v4 holdouts b) happy eyeballs sometimes landing on v4 because their v6 is shitty 6rd or something (e.g Free SAS)

I read it thusly: not "(mostly precisely) zero" but "mostly (precisely zero)"

i.e in most reasonable cases the risk is exactly zero and conversely it takes extreme scenarios for the risk to be non-zero.

SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is not a Nix thing

https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/source-date-epoch/

(although Nix sets it as a default)

I've seen such explorations done over a couple of days during weekend hackathons or gamejams.

Have we gotten so addicted to our daily token fix that we can't even fathom focusing for 48h?

Rust being literal Fe2O3 makes a convincing argument that aluminium sure oxidises but doesn't rust pretty much by definition ;)

You can absolutely set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC for yourself, it's really not that hard if your difficulty reference point is self hosting email. I did it like 10 years ago and I don't think it has changed.

Self hosting is hard (which is why I just use Fastmail now), but it's not because of that.

This is the smoking gun

why Google which has both Gemini and Android can't figure this out,

Not the first time an incumbent has four aces in hand and appears to be entirely unable to make anything of it.

and if there are lessons to draw from that

Lesson 1: doing shit is hard

Lesson 2: money rules so milking the cow wins over taking the slightest risk

Well given there's no abuse of refractive light bending it looks more like whatever frosted glass existed before liquid glass.

Also this flag has square corners.

I feel what makes it work well here is also that it's not perfectly transparent so you can still see it wave in the wind and make out it's rectangular shape.

I'd definitely take that into consideration for a digital version.

Is it measured in Thaum? (which, as everyone surely knows by now is the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls)

Writing a story in which a toaster in conscious is not even new

Fixed the link for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec

(Hah. It gets eerily relevant starting at 2:37)

Its future isn't over there because it moves in that direction, instead it moves in that direction because its future lies over there.

Relatedly:

[General Relativity] basically says that the reason you are sticking to the floor right now is that the shortest distance between today and tomorrow is through the center of the Earth.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/250800/gr-and-my...

Hmm. I could swear it wasn't there, hence my posting. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Sorry for that.

They're Made out of Meat

- Terry Bisson, 1991

https://web.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...

Radio play by Miriam Tolan and Russ Armstrong:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/studio/segments/168264-...

(EDIT: the original parent was missing "rather adapting from the original")

RAM disk is, like, the brd module on Linux, which allocates and exposes a /dev/ram0 block device.

From the project description this looks like it, exposing a raw block device backed by VRAM (with some trip through the nbd protocol, but that's an implementation detail to have it in userland, it could just as well have been implemented kernel side).

It's just that the usage of this mem-backed block device is different than the thing of yore (copy HD or floppy into RAM)

The more frequent alternative to brd, tmpfs, skips the block device part and does a filesystem directly. I wonder if it could be made so that it's swap directly and skip the block device part entirely like tmpfs.

As a Fastmail user, every time I have to use Gmail for work I'm aggravated by the absolute stupid UX of it which seems to have been thoroughly ruined around the Material Design era; it also seems to be unable to handle basic operations such as mass mark read or delete, or search.

Fastmail handles the same things with aplomb and has much better screen real estate usage, for one.

The only thing I kind of want with Fastmail is if it had some EU-based datacenter.

How do you deal with overcommit

    echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory

We do not have great insight as to how we ride a bicycle, and we do not have much useful advice for someone who is learning.

I indeed balked at this, finding both of those sentences wildly incorrect, as someone both having been taught as well as having taught multiple people myself.

Also: https://ciechanow.ski/bicycle/

It seems that it is something that is forever doomed to be forgotten and then rediscovered over and over.