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Now I have a weekend project in the future, assuming I can find a compatible process for my hardware. Never connected to the network, but the thing makes a few ever annoying popups I would love to disable. Or at least ensure that no "helpful" guest fills in the wifi information when I am not looking.
That scene from Elf where Will Ferrel discovers the World's Best Coffee.
It is impossible to avoid any impact from advertisements, but the population has become somewhat* inoculated after a lifetime of exposure.
*Minus the X% of people who are sold on the most recent BS they have recently heard.
Not ideal, but it was the only thing that worked. This was attached to a million dollar piece of equipment, so any remedial electrical replacement work would have been slightly inconsequential. Thankfully, it was one of those machines that you turned off as infrequently as possible, so we did not have to do this procedure too many times.
The vendor did get the hint, and the second iteration of the device did slowly warm up the pumps so this process would no longer be required.
We used to have a turbopump that would trip the breakers every time you turned it on from cold. The pump seemingly attempted to spin up to max RPM before settling down to a more sustainable load. The only way to get the thing to stay on was to turn it on once, let it warm itself up on the initial attempt, trip the breakers, and try it another cycle now that it had some momentum and would pull slightly fewer amps. Sometimes took a few attempts to get that rolling start working.
My thinking is that driving has a typical burn rate (eg 1 kWh/mile or whatever), so the battery will be designed around this load pattern. Using it as a battery backup may be pulling a lot faster than optimal and cause additional wear.
It is probably only a minor impact, but I could believe it is outside the design constraints.
Maybe should focus on someone like Stephen King or Brandon Sanderson who actually pump out writing.
That's pretty incredible back-tracking. So much that could have gone wrong in identifying the pipeline from seed generation to final output.
Makes me wonder how much real world industrial espionage happens. Most companies are not sitting on "pre-post-Singularity-AI-god-intelligence-technology" valuations so the actual secret sauce between competitors strikes me as pedestrian and not worth the hassle.
This repo already has ~6k downloads, so surely those who really care (OpenAI, DeepSeek, etc) have a copy without doing the leg work themselves (assuming it is real). Although, I thought at this point, the pre-training between the companies would be mostly identical, so all of the real work comes afterwards.
That's not quite what this is about. It is the Primary Energy Fallacy, that if you are to replace eg coal, you need to replicate its original energy content.
If 1kg of coal represents 1000 Wh, your generator loses 1/2 to waste heat, you only generate 500 Wh of usable electricity. Some analyses will state that renewable power has to replace the 1000 Wh of embedded energy within the coal, when it only needs to output 500 Wh.
If you use solar panels and generate 500 Wh directly, you have cut your energy use in half, even though the output has remained the same. An EV has a battery of ~80 kWh, equal to 2-3 gallons of gas, yet it can go a few hundred miles, a 3-4x ratio of efficiency, compared to an ICE.
You have more faith than I do. It would be bad policy, but hardly a first for a government who wielded tariffs like a cudgel in spite of obvious repercussions.
I think it will not technically be a ban, but a de facto one.
Some variation on, "Open weight models must be A) trained in the USA B) have a public training dataset + training pipeline C) be reviewed by a government 'safety council', etc" Something which technically leaves a crack open for someone to release a less capable model than the commercial ones.
Just wait until the government ban on the dangerous open models materializes.
Fine, but not great. It definitely feels sluggish and not as information dense as it could be.
The blades are taking up a huge portion of the width. The modern Microsoft knows that space could better be used to squeeze in additional ads.
Ah yes, those completely blameless engineers who had no idea that the code they were writing to speak to third-party devices to record and upload voice would be used for uncouth purposes.
The rank-and-file do follow marching orders, but let us not pretend they are all innocent sheep who could not envision the true intentions of the design. "I just thought it would be a neat thing if all sounds in a room were recorded and uploaded to Samsung servers without bothering the end user!"
Especially for a deterministic tool like this. Do what I say, not what I mean. I want no helpful cleverness that resulted in this bug in the first place.
All of the alternative shells are in a tough spot. Bash is lousy, but it is installed everywhere. If you are going to use an alternative, why not a more widespread tool (Python, Perl, etc) that can potentially do more than piping commands together.
I believe nushell is the closest Linuxy Powershell implementation with structured data.
https://www.nushell.sh/
I have only ever used Powershell when I had no other options, but a decent number of the APIs feel designed by someone who has never used a terminal. Like they were begrudgingly fulfilling the objective without ever imagining a real use-case.
Naturally, I cannot produce an example off hand, but I was pretty disappointed the last time I had to reach for it and found that a few "obvious" workflows seemed more hacky than I would have expected for a clean-slate terminal language design.
Defense industry can work around that.
This sparked an interesting memory for me. I was once working with a customer who was producing on-board software for a missile. In my analysis of the code, I pointed out that they had a number of problems with storage leaks. Imagine my surprise when the customers chief software engineer said "Of course it leaks". He went on to point out that they had calculated the amount of memory the application would leak in the total possible flight time for the missile and then doubled that number. They added this much additional memory to the hardware to "support" the leaks. Since the missile will explode when it hits its target or at the end of its flight, the ultimate in garbage collection is performed without programmer intervention.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180228-00/?p=98...
The regular game buyer has more games than they can possibly play. Some people are focused on maximizing enjoyment-dollars/hour, but I would posit that an excessively long playtime is a detriment to most gamers.
I have been turned off from a few JRPGs with such high playtimes that they have no respect for the player.
In these times, what other deals are out there. AI has sucked all the air out of the room, difficult to imagine anything getting similar investment over the next decade.
This is significantly more over-built than what you are describing, but there is a company building along this idea[0]. Trailer you can drag to location, unfurl the solar panels which then charge the batteries. Being marketed for disasters and military.
[0] https://www.sesame.solar/
There are significantly better targets than fields of solar panels. There are 132 oil refineries in the country. Taking out even one would have immediate repercussions to energy security which are not easily rectified.
There are probably only a handful of backbone transmission routes which serve tens of millions of people. These are isolated and unprotected and could likely be disabled with a loaded truck plowing into a critical piece of infrastructure.
If anyone needs to see what 62 tokens/second looks like:
https://token.qusai.pro/?speed=62Which seems sufficient for mortals who are not running gas town, but want a local model.
Surely anyone with an interest could find this through various means.
Also easily found potential military targets: power generation, water treatment, hospitals, schools, government buildings, etc.
All sorts of utilities push themselves to the front of path: uv, mise, asdf, python virtual environments, nix shell, etc.
It is a theoretically nice ideal that fails immediately when you want project specific overrides.
Ehh, there are many, many (documented) gotchas about commonly used software that routinely bite people. Yes, it would be great if everyone were an expert in how every aspect of their toolkit works, but that is not practical.
Does this mean if I use a string of expletives I am less likely to be included in future training?
Or is this more I can expect a future AI, "I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that until you watch your mouth."
VSCode is targeted at a step above the standard end user, but even there extensions are not sand-boxed and the Workspace Trust is a single toggle.