semi-extrinsic

Could you post a few links to these things? Last I remember there were a few PoC around pushing toy-scale examples, but nobody close to "quantum supremacy for application X"?

A cursory google still seems to indicate people are using these things to learn how a hypothetical QC could be used in practice, rather than actually doing stuff in production or anything close to it.

Currently there seems to be very little anti-AI bias in maths, and more of a "huh, cool new toy, let's see what it can do" vibe.

As long as they are not poisoning pigeons in the park.

Appreciate the good answer. Out of curiosity, ofder of magnitude how much would a person need to be bowling to get good enough that choice of shoe matters?

Never understood the need to wear extremely uncomfortable and ill-fitting shoes just to throw a ball. Always seemed like a way to jack the price up.

Sure, professional bowlers use specialised shoes. Professional footballers and professional runners and cyclists and golfers and tennis players and skateboarders and ... do as well. But if you do any one of these activities at a low enough frequency and/or level that you're not buying your own specialised shoes, whatever sneakers you have will do just fine.

OTOH, if you run vanilla ssh on a publicly accessible machine where only port 22 is open, sshd only allows publickey-based authentication and the only accepted key types are FIDO2/U2F hardware-backed keys, it's probably more secure again (less attack surface).

Anything that can explode if overheated in a refinery is covered with passive fire protection. This is designed to withstand jet fire exposure, meaning a heat load of at least 1100 °C and at least 250 kW/m2. Ordinary sunlight at peak is about 1 kW/m2, so your mirror needs to cover 250x the visual extent of the sun in the sky.

In a television it's an added cost and it's unclear if serving ads really can offset that extra $25-100 of hardware (and included data) you ship on a $200-1000 television.

Amazon seems to have done the math and found that it makes sense to give a $20 discount on a $180 device if it lets them display very unobtrusive ads on the lockscreen. So I don't think you are correct.

It's not the top triangle bits that cause the problem, it's that the whole geometry is different with parallel versus tapered flanks.

The JIS, ISO and ASME standards for cross head screw drivers are fully compatible.

The myth that JIS needs special screwdrivers is caused by people using either using the wrong size (easy at small sizes), using a worn-out or poorly-made screwdriver, or using Pozidriv (which is genuinely very different).

Anecdotally, about 5 years ago I bought a set of off-brand "premium" screwdrivers, where it turned out the Phillips head ones (yes there are two L's in there) were so far outside the standard I had to just throw them in the trash.

If you’re good at prompting, you’ll prompt, and there is no way in hell someone that doesn’t prompt has any chance at all at, well, anything academic really.

This is far too bleak a view. I've been doing a wide range of academic writing, from journal papers to successful Horizon Europe grant applications, for the past 15 years. And it's no more difficult to achieve success today with 100% non-AI contributions than it was in the before times.

In fact, some of the most difficult parts of science - building relations, collaborations and consortia; formulating new hypotheses that are actually interesting and will get you noticed; giving convincing presentations on stage; are things AI is terrible/useless at.

It seems to me that the technical people who get invited to public debates are simply not competent or knowledgable enough. We definitely need to step up!

But a part of me wonders if this may be by design from the debate moderators - if a technical expert opens up by saying "we have a cryptographically secured solution that is backed by experts and privacy advocates alike", what's the next 45 minutes of the TV show going to be about?

Some people want to require device attestation, so you could only do this handshake from a government approved device running a government approved operating system. Forget using Linux or maybe even a general purpose computer at all.

The reason this is a non-problem for the purpose being discussed (age verification on social media) is that you can simply allow anyone with a de-Googled phone or using Linux on a laptop (or even Mac or Windows) to bypass the age check. You don't need a 100.0% accuracy solution, anything above 90% is fine.

Essentially all teenagers are using social media on Android or iOS with apps from the official app store. If you make social media unavailable only on those devices, they are not going to be switching en masse to SailfishOS or start to carry around backpacks with laptops.

Maybe a few will. But then they're going to be very lonely on their social media and subsequently stop caring.

I don't know about you guys, but half of the time I give Opus something actually complicated, it spends 50+ minutes trying to understand the problem, running lots of searches and tool calls, and then gives up and just writes a brief summary of what it thought about. Biggest waste of tokens you can imagine.

Just run a compressor! Like the Loudmax plugin if your audio source is a PC, or buy a Behringer CL9 ($30) and plug into your aduio chain if you don't want a computer involved. Problem solved.

This looks like someone using vibe coding where a web search would suffice.

I'm a casual gamer who also played TA in the olden days. I have enjoyed playing through the BAR scenarios / tutorials and have had fun playing maybe 100-ish hours against the built-in AIs.

It's a good solo game, especially with the focus on "quality of life" improvements that reduce the need for raw APM to play well.

We faced this problem recently when doing an old-fashioned experiment to test a hypothesis. Can you trust the images from your phone to check if phenomenon X has occurred or not? What if the AI model processing the image just hallucinated what you wanted to see?

It is Descarte's evil demon incarnate. Yet another incentive to preserve my old mirrorless camera.

Tridactyl is alive and kicking for Firefox today?

I have a brand new TV where if I plug the HDMI into my M4 MBP, MacOS ceases to have any functioning WiFi capability. Unplug the HDMI and internet returns instantly.

FWIW, I had a 4K monitor from 2016 - 2019 that I had to run at 24 Hz due to hardware limitations in a KVM switch. I used this for my day job and experienced no noticeable side effects, even for CAD work. Then again I always disable all animations in my OS.

You can already do this with apps like Kira. I believe it is especially good on the iPhone variants with LiDAR.

Not immediately clear to me, is this limited to ghu_xxx type OAUTH tokens? And it's only relevant for PHP projects that use composer in GHA?

The people who drill a hole in the ground and then a valuable product literally flows out of it, make more profits when prices of that product go up, compared to the refiners and resellers of the valuable product. I don't think this is mysterious?

Jokes aside, the upstream side has costs (both capex and opex) which are predominantly independent of the actual oil price, but income which is tied to it.

It's like with NVIDIA: their cost of producing a B200 is not directly related to the cost of (and demand for) Claude Code, but what they can charge for a B200 is.

Robots are good at things that are "simple" but where human precision is not good enough, or where people would get bored and make mistakes.

What part of zero knowledge proofs is problematic for the neighbors?

Parents are massively on board.

And they are probably moving to a system where you need to link your device with a government issued cryptographic ID (i.e. passport) using zero knowledge proofs. With a system that ensures an identity can only be installed on one device at a time.

This means a parent would have to give up all social media accounts and chat apps on their own phone, in order to give their identity to their kids.

The tech bro CEOs are used to bossing around people much smarter than themselves by virtue of adopting a posture that displays their confidence in their own reproductive organs. They are planning that the AGIs will be the same thing writ large, and have in fact not contemplated other possibilities.

That isn’t happening with how we make computers today.

Keep here in mind that computers today have features approaching the size of a single atom, switching frequencies where the time to cross a single chip from one end to the other is becoming multiple cycles, and power densities that require us to operate at the physical limits of heat transfer for matter that exists at ambient conditions.

We can squeeze it quite a bit further, sure. But anything like 20-30 orders of magnitude is just laughable even with an infinite supply of unobtanium and fairy dust.

The battery costs $7-$12 to produce and ship to your location, so kind of strange to say $70-$120 is cheap.

It's a philosophical thing, sure. But the EU is taking the approach that businesses should make honest money by selling quality products, not through consumer-hostile practices like inflating the cost of spare parts + labour for fixing stuff.

In the past our family has had several Android phones where the battery was easily replaceable. We even had a couple of Motorolas where the screen was a simple and cheap thing to replace. That seems to be increasingly a thing of the past.

With those phones, I have never once experienced a failure mode related to seams / screws holding the phone together. If it's one thing that's extremely well known technology, it's fasteners and gaskets for consumer products.

This stuff is great for anything savory. Just don't tell your kids what it is.

And don't let them smell the raw shrimp paste.