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Shall we term this a Denial of Memory attack. Then in order to Contain it we have a ConDoM fix?
This would not likely be a great idea since you reduce your ability to understand inputs except for a few parameters. Explainable inputs become very important for many down the line processes used by government and industry alike, because said inputs and their predictive certainty can be quite informative, even critical, for accurate mesoscale prediction.

If model members were available, with all the usual measures, thats a fantastic place to start looking at serious inclusion. It doesnt seem thats the case, however.

Re:Google WeatherNext 3 on Monday September 07, 2026 @05:30PM (#49603182)
The online viewer could really, really use Wind Direction as a compass bearing. Its super important considering wildfire/bushfire, air quality, ocean-going conditions, and a myriad of other things. It is produced as a set of vectors during model creation, so would be very useful to see.
Re:Apple Is Suddenly an AI Infra Stock as OpenAI Buys 10k+ Macs on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @12:25AM (#49531715)
Perhaps only billions per 2u with the current trajectory of ram pricing. /s
Re:It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @11:48PM (#49531486)
Test your string regularly and fill your hole. That should keep your bell ringing.
Re:It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell on Monday August 31, 2026 @04:09AM (#49506943)
Two wires, a button, a bell, and a battery pack.
Re:El Niño Will Be Unlike Any in the Past Eight Decades on Sunday August 30, 2026 @11:52PM (#49505379)
No, sorry. I wont nail down further, but I'm not US based.
Re:El Niño Will Be Unlike Any in the Past Eight Decades on Sunday August 30, 2026 @06:05PM (#49503322)
And yet our climate change denialists insist its just weather, and that Net Zero is the economic devil.

Im an environmental scientist and engineer with substantial disaster management and policy experience.

One or two very large events can totally eclipse the cost to economy of reducing emissions and focussing on long term stable low emission power. Those very large events are becoming more common. A couple of years back we ran a multi jurisdictional exercise about a high end cyclone hitting the local major city. Even with 4 days warning there was insufficient time to evacuate the entire population of several million, and rehousing was an almost unsolvable nightmare. That city is not cyclone ready or hardened, but the climate models enable high category events travelling where they were previously quite unlikely.

Re:httpx2 on Saturday August 29, 2026 @11:12PM (#49495352)
I've had to do similar in the past, and also wound up on urllib3.
That's not the issue, though I recognise the poster above was remarking about fish. High surface temps means more cyclones / typhoons / hurricanes, more coral bleaching, lower fish breeding and feeding because reefs die, impacts out food chains and destroys our homes.

Im Australian, so it also means droughts, water restrictions, and significant increases in bushfire number and severity after a few years of drought. Drought followed by cyclone, or bulk rain events causes catastrophic flooding. Its a shit show.

Re:The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @11:00PM (#49443715)
I reckon I'll buy some landscaping machinery and a truck before I ever sign up for that distopian nightmare. At least sound ordinance would prevent 24/7 operation.
Also M1 Air 8gb, though not the daily driver. Bought second hand, the machine is still an absolute champ with no slowdown and is my go to machine when I want a calm space for writing.
You cant just replace and expect to solve issues.

- tissue rejection - viruses can and do change cell level machinery - cascading malfunctions of small things can have large results

Then theres the ethics of cloning humans and keeping them in a factory. No religion or superstition in this statement, but if theres consciousness or the possibility thereof then this is absolutely monstrous.

Windows 11 was the time to do so, and they missed it. I'd bet it was assessed, briefly, as too big a change to be acceptable if old devices were not going to be compatible.
Better is subjective. What is the bottleneck or resource allocation you're trying to overcome?

Going on what the poster above says about CPU and memory - if the network speed or bandwidth allocation is the bottleneck, then trading CPU and memory utilisation increases for lower bandwidth is likely acceptable. If, however, the device is low end and tying up memory and CPU with compression would lead to sluggish or impaired task performance but the network has adequate overhead for lower levels of compression or higher levels of data transfer then higher network utilisation would be preferable.

Different tools, different use case scenarios.

So, to have end to end encryption you need to do something like:

Client -- Relay Server -- Host

That's certainly less than ideal since many remote desktop session will not be using a middle-age server but rather be direct between client and host.

Because, if you look at the image you can very clearly see that the frame and relative components partially occlude one leg and not the other.

The model is presumably aiming for an acceptable visual representation, not trying to produce z-ordered components and a lost of any other random requirement people might come up with. The task is to show a pelican riding a bike, not produce a technical design that is layer order correct, after all.

Also:

> Near leg: from (300,245) to (356,408): thigh+shin as a single slightly bent line: M300,245 C 310,320 330,370 354,406. Stroke #F2953F width 12, linecap round. Far leg: from (320,250) to (404,452): M320,250 C 350,330 385,410 402,448. Stroke slightly darker #E0802F (behind, drawn before near leg but after bike? Pelican legs are in front of frame? Pelican is drawn after bike, so legs overlap the frame. The far leg ideally would be behind the frame, but in flat cartoon this is acceptable — or draw the far leg before the pelican body but after bike; overlaps the red frame.

Re:GPT 5.6 Cyber on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @05:16AM (#49255301)
I've heard it can ramp the fans up so hard it'll suck the gold right off your motherboard traces and send it to OpenAI. This is the thing that the US administration is worried about, because Chinese open weights models will copy the function and then send all that gold to China, and the US will have to dip into the stores at Fort Knox, and potentially devalue the greenback.
Re:When online commenters detect my art as AI on Thursday August 06, 2026 @04:02PM (#49201651)
I found the person made of dynamite sticks who was trying to light a match in the rain to generate a mental tickle.
Thankfully the data is so terrible, and theres now a media story about it locally, that theres just more reason for anything that arises to be challenged in court, as hard as that will be on people's time and finances.

More egg on Flocks face and more community backlash isnt a bad thing in my opinion.

I'd like to point of the recent case where a women crossed state lines for reproductive healthcare and the local police used flock to track those movements and prosecute.

The cameras enable good and reasonable prosecutions as much as they do oppressive political ideologies.

Not entirely true. Australian emergency services routinely prep for earthquake despite having only one or two decent shakes causing mass damage in recorded post colonisation history.

That prep doesn't extend to building standards for higher magnitude quakes.

Appropriate prep is still important for a possible credible threat, even if it is likely to be a rare issue, and the magnitude of that prep differs by personal posture and exposure.

New vehicles with bright lights are subject to light angle testing. I rarely see new cars being the issue. What I do see, is older cars with reflector headlights where someone has installed high intensity LED globes, and now that hole reflector pattern, without any attenuation, is set to "retinal burn". Similarly, people replacing reflector headlights with projector lights, but not calibrating them to a legally acceptable throw angle.

Many newer lights are even capable of dinning their pattern in the specific part that affects oncoming vehicles whilst leaving the rest of the pattern bright.

This would be interesting, but honestly I would settle for a simple dark mode toggle.
Re:The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @06:47AM (#48918851)
A decade or two is a far better measure as it helps us understand the signal vs the noise from annual seasonality and phenomena such as el nino, la Nina, etc.
Re:Australia is offering free daytime electricity on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @04:42PM (#48912693)
Australia tends to do far more rooftop solar than it does solar farming, so the requirement for flat land is really.more a requirement for houses not to be in valleys surrounded by mountains.
Re:Australia is offering free daytime electricity on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @04:40PM (#48912671)
They have been mass deploying solar and battery. They also realise that they can make profit from export markets because internal supply capacity exceeds internal demand.
Re:The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News on Monday July 13, 2026 @04:30PM (#48898382)
I dont get this.

In Australia we have had reverse cycle air conditioning for decades. These are heat pumps that both heat and cool. I have 15kW of installed heat pump tech at home and run my whole house off grid, despite mainta8ning a grid connection. The systems run as heaters in winter, and air conditioning in summer. They are very efficient, enough so that I dont worry about our solar and battery being able to keep up.

The appliances are very common, and Ive seen them throughout much of Asia, too. Its like Europe and the US are just discovering this tech, yet its been reachable by half the world's population for 30+ years, and continues to improve.

Re:The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News on Monday July 13, 2026 @07:12AM (#48890909)
Others have corrected your confusion between prediction and observation. Lets instead show what we have already seen, today, that was previously predicted.

Kiribati and Tuvalu have measurable loss of land due to rising sea levels that is impacting people today. About 80% of the Maldives Islands will likely be uninhabitable within the next 25 years. The Marshall Islands have lost 18 out of their average 200cm above mean sea level height - roughly 6% of its land.

We have seen massive glacial retreat even in just the past 10 years, let alone the past 50. This is happening the world over, and at a rate that is not previously seen in the geological record (happy to argue this, thats my background). We are seeing large ice loss and lack of matching accumulation over Antarctica and Greenland - two great places to observe large scale processes. We just saw the Arctic stay largely unlocked for sea ice/shipping last season. The sum of these will take a moment to kick in, but the failure of conveyor currents will kick us all in the arse quite significantly and likely within our lifetime, and we have already seen hiccups.

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