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Not using either. Just my US-based home ISP that works for everything else.

It says I've been "blocked by network security". MSIE on Windows. Reddit must really be circling the drain.

There's a whole spectrum of things built into phone cameras these days like color correction and edge/sharpness enhancement where whether or not it's advertised as "AI" comes down to marketing.

Nice article.

Looking at the ONSemi datasheet for the BS170, it is very clear that the "Drain−Source Breakdown Voltage" spec only applies at "VGS = 0, ID = 100 uA DC".

Doesn't it cause problems for designers if the curves measured from actual devices look different from those shown in textbooks?

Not as much as you'd think, because (a) the measured curves are still within the stated parameters, and (b) many basic parameters vary from one part to the next (or as the same part drifts over time) even more.

Look at the values of V_GS used in the graphs: [2.34, 2.5, 2.63, 2.71 V]. They differ by 0.4 V. But the data sheet specifies V_GS(th) (the V_GS threshold needed to just start to turn on) as a range of 0.8 to 3.0 V!

A range isn't even given for the slope of the curve (g_fs). The datasheet only gives a "typical" value at a single operating point.

So the designer cannot rely on this parameter to determine the behavior of the circuit, only its general range and direction. You can't just use the bare transistor alone and expect to get an oscillator or amplifier that behaves predictably.

Any manufacturable circuit must ensure that these variations are completely dominated by negative feedback. This is why actual circuits tend to have networks of resistors and capacitors hanging off of every leg of every transistor.

Well, if it's not an advertised spec on the datasheet, and constrained in the direction you're using it, then all guarantees are off and it's on you to qualify the parts on a batch-by-batch basis.

I think that counts as "cursed" from a design-for-manufacturing perspective.

"After a production run of 12,000 units the TR-808 was no more." https://secretlifeofsynthesizers.com/the-strange-heart-of-th...

Well, only if Clone/Copy is compatible with the semantics of the API. I.e., the called function doesn't need to modify anything. No &mut params (or data members) except perhaps `&mut self` (which would refer to definitions the same file).

That's usually the case for Rust programs because the language encourages it. Are Zig programs like that?

Do they really not have any kind of sub-block dynamic allocator?

Does the program handle character data? It is indeed a rare server app which never handles strings.

Whose fault is it if a manufacturer sells a car that begins accelerating as soon as it's turned on?

It's the manufacturer's fault. Because that's not a reasonable thing for a car to do.

OK, so I asked ChatGPT "How do I prevent Spotify from automatically playing every time I get in my car?"

The answer looks entirely reasonable. I can't check the Android settings, but I was able to confirm that all of the suggested iPhone and Spotify and settings exist. Most of them I had already configured that way, some I didn't know about before.

Such an inspection capability might also be used to target ads to LLMs, which would then be more likely to mention or recommend those products and services.

Your comment seems to have little to do with the article?

Don't get me wrong - I personally "trust" an LLM as a source of facts about as far as I could throw a rack of GPUs. But this article you linked takes a whole lot of words to cast LLMs as the villian for amplifying a bit of bad information originally published by a usually reliable and widely-cited source:

"In short, either Phoronix mocked up the screenshots to demonstrate what the feature could look like, or perhaps they were testing a preview snapshot for FreeBSD 15.1 which was never shipped. Either way, it looks like other blogs and reviewers picked up on this and shared the information, presenting it as a feature which would be (or was included) in FreeBSD's latest version."

If dirt-simple type operations like copy-paste yield useful improvements with even a small probability that would seem to open things up for adaptive reconfiguration and whole other classes of optimizations like genetic algorithms.

It's going to be hard to explain to future generations that the demand for computer-speakers was once such that sometimes they could even decide the language in which they spoke to the computer, and that really was a big deal back then because computers couldn't just switch back and forth like they can today.

Never underestimate the power of a catchy title that resonates with the intuitions and preconceptions of people who will never read the paper.

Cf. https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-think...

What is "real understanding", and what question can we ask ChatGPT to determine whether it has it?

Naming things using qualifiers like "large" has never aged well when transistors were involved.

For example, consider the term "short wave" radio which refers to wavelengths of at least 10 meters. Today's mobile communications use wavelengths 100x - 10,000x shorter.

The idea entered our collective subconscious and is still going strong:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/my-father-in-law-is-a-builder...

Imagine growing up in Cairo.

I'm seeing the phrases "tremendous amount of homework", "substantial amount", and "few hours".

Does anyone have an actual estimated time we can discuss?

Well, it turned out the affiliate code linked as "the author's" actually belongs to the publisher anyway.

It's just that such cases come down to technical advice that applies to a specific legal environment (certain states you mention), whereas I'm personally more interested in looking at such situations from the ethics, identity, and authenticity perspectives.

You went to law school and you don't see any the difference between forging someone else's signature on a document and encoding one's own authentic signature into a digital document file in the manner needed by the recipient?

We're discussing a blog post about a blatantly plagiarized website, and the ethical environment and professional choices that led to its creation and continued existence. We get to do that.

This isn't Reddit and we aren't "the internet". We aren't brigading and organizing harassment or whatever here.

That is why the particulars of the web designer's personal life and state of mind are mostly uninteresting.

But there are any number of humans who will tell you that humans are bad at multithreading the codes and all but the smallest codebases are headed for heisenbug deadlock city if you do things like they told you to in that Introduction to OOP with JavaTM book.

But is Claude going to tell you "No, dear user, this project is going to follow an excessively simple and sub-optimal locking regime because experience shows that it is easier to write code than it is to reason about its exponentially-growing complexity" ?

That comment had me reaching for the skull emoji.

My experience inflicted stupidity.

We've all been there.

I find it nice that they linked to the original book. For every x earned let the original author earn many times more. It's probably a better deal than the author got from their legal publisher.

These two statements sound contradictory to me.

And who's fault is that? Google? Or this little slop maker that I'm (again stupidly) assuming is not a SEO hacker.

Why not both? I think there's plenty of blame to go around.

Also, the publisher who presumably convinced the author that it would be a good idea to assign them exclusive rights. The affiliate link the blog post refers to as "the author's own" actually belongs to the publisher.

Lol! This is why they told us to properly label and provide attribution for every image :-D

Actually he survived, he just has to turn on 39 more radio transmitter towers before he can be rescued.

(and thank you for Far Cry Primal)

When/where I grew up (the United States), private planes were thought of as auto-un-aliving machines for Doctors and Dentists.

Boomers and older generations tended to think of them as part of rural life. E.g. farmers would sometimes put an airstrip on a spare field. There's an episode of Mayberry (The Andy Griffith Show) in which Aunt Bea gets her pilots license.

He basically liked the idea of the book and used the bulk of its text as lorem ipsum in a demo for their most likely one person "digital agency" that probably has 3 clients including mom.

What is your basis for this belief?

Did you read the part about the obviously intentionally-added affiliate links to the original book?

The only part of copyright I agree with is right to inalienable attribution [...] So whoever made this silly little thing gets a pass from me.

Did you read the part about the fake site appearing higher in search results for the author's own name?

it’s becoming normal to just throw out “Claude says this” without doing any fact checking

That would be an improvement over most people I know at this point, who casually repeat verbally or repost words they got from a chatbot without so much as a quotation mark.