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Releasing the steriles blindly is not enough, you gotta monitor the pest too. This is prohibitively expensive in rainforests and other areas with poor infrastructure.

Okay, maybe you could release the flies in large enough numbers not to need monitoring but I guess it would also be prohibitively expensive.

Big AI is intertwined with these two via data centers, isn't it?

This is alienation as described by Marx. If you optimize a thing, at some point it becomes separated from its nature.

First you need someone to be physically in there

Bluetooth works fine through walls.

There's a good article about it. Saying no is a budget. In other words you don't have enough veto power to stop all bad projects so you need to be strategic about spending this budget.

https://lalitm.com/post/why-senior-engineers-let-bad-project...

The problem with this kind of armchair economy is that you can argue both ways.

"End of ZIRP and the raise of just-say-no engineers": with capital being more expensive companies need to invest it wisely, therefore the need the judgement of the just-say-no engineer to avoid blowing it on unnecessary stuff.

Appending stuff to bypass blacklists is eternal.

My first job, decades ago. I couldn't update something on my laptop because client's gateway blocked `http://foo.com/update.exe`. Guess what, `http://foo.com/update.exe?` worked as a bypass.

It's pretty stupid that big customers like Railway are not somehow protected from this.

When I studied CS one of our professors told us the US military had chips with self destruct ops in the 1980s. I could never confirm this particular story but there was a much later DARPA program which aimed at self destructing electronics for the army.

This article makes me think the professor's story might be an urban legend based on such an accidental opcode.

"In absolutely no way am I scheming on how I might leverage it to shut down whole industries"

I don't think even the ultra rich who own the technology are directly scheming to do that. But they do accept it as a side effect of them getting more money and power.

Yes, the technology is a tool, it's an impressive tool but we cannot ignore who wields it and what they incentives are.

As a Polish IT worker I feel that we enjoy hardwork too much. I'm talking here about "kultura zapierdolu" [0] which is what we call the specific Polish version of culture of unhealthy work/life balance.

[0] https://lubimyczytac.pl/ksiazka/5124728/czesc-pracy-o-kultur...

I remember this kind of slop from times well before the LLM explosion.

I'm specifically thinking of a print magazine that was designed to make you feel like you are a smart reader of science articles, without any useful information about the actual science or technology.

There is no party capable to take responsibility on the other side of the handover protocol.

Maybe tell it to output rhyming slang pig Latin.

Or, since you are in a terminal anyway, rot13

You could make a similar noble call for everyone to just stop using cigarettes in 1950.

It would not work. What ultimately worked were laws designed to curb tobacco use combined with public education campaigns.

Let me know of any resources that helped you (anyone)

For me it was "The Mind Illuminated" by Culadasa. A meditation textbook which tells us what to practice, how to practice and why. Especially useful if you need the finer points.

If you also add "don't break the previous rule", you should be 100% safe.

You still need to explain why this case creates a positive feedback loop rather than a negative one. I mean left/right fuel intakes in cars and male/female ratios somehow tend to balance at 50/50.

I wonder if you could measure the difference in power consumption.

I mean, not for zeroing because we know from the TFA that it's special-cased anyway. But maybe if you test on different registers?

The internet reports that D100 is impractical to use but it's cool if your game design calls for a relatively rare "ritual value".

Xor swap trick has perfect profile for underhanded C contests. It generally works until a specific condition triggers its failure. The condition is "the arguments are aliases", so for example XOR_SWAP(a[i], a[j]) when i=j.

Iran messaging: we got attacked by mad apes but we are cool and funny and we carry on unbothered

USA messaging: UNGA BUNGA BIG EXPLOSIONS

Heck you could build some large bodies of water and boil them from time to time.

Some suppliers already do that. When a power plant also supplies the city heating, it makes sense for them to put the power surplus into pre-heated water which they can store and later distribute to the buyers of the heat.

Obviously this needs some huge and well insulated tanks.

Here's an article (in Polish) about one built in Warsaw, 10TJ capacity: https://globenergia.pl/najwiekszy-wodny-magazyn-ciepla-w-eur...

I remember playing a version of this game on ZX Spectrum but I cannot find it on the internet. I remember it had bees that you had to avoid and a boat which you were able to untie so that it floats down a stream.

Anybody remember this one?

A regime driven by a weird religious cult and murdering their own citizens is battling a regime which is driven by a weird religious cult and is murdering their own citizens.

I think in this situation it is okay to cheer on both sides.

You can't go back. When Trump goes away, the conditions that let him rise to power are still there.

EUBRICS, but it also includes Canada but not Russia and it's really more like "sane countries readjusting their politics against a mad ape".

Nothing wrong with going for the low hanging fruit first.

When I see a corporation taking moral high ground I immediately assume their motives are nasty and 99% of the time I'm right.

I wonder if they DMCA the versions re-implemented from the leaked code using their own tool.