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> To me the severity has nothing to do with how popular is a code path, but whether that code path is accessible to an attacker. That's true for targeted attacks. For untargeted at…

> I’ve run 3.6-27B and 3.6-35B on 32GB locally for a lot of bulk non-code tasks. Do you mind sharing your use cases?

The anthropic principle is ridiculous. Suppose that, against all odds, you survive the worst plane crash in history. Then you ask NTSB what caused the crash and why you survived. T…

Fine tuning for the earth might be able to be explained away most easily, like you said. Fine tuning for the universe, though... Firstly, we have zero evidence for multiverse. Some…

This is a such common logical fallacy that we should have name for it. > No matter how low the odds are, the counts of those potential interactions bring this outcome to a certaint…

You're asking as if the other candidate is a no-brainer choice. If the other candidate were Kennedy, then sure—but they were not. In this case, many would be undecided and would vo…

Oct 7 happened and you're suggesting a different approach than a war, i.e. diplomatic solutions? That's too naive—not even the most pacifist country would do that. And let's not pr…

But if they hide amongst civilians and Israel is too weak, what do you suggest Israel should do instead?

Yes, cosmological principle is probably the most fundamental assumption in astronomy. Most people don't realize that science—and even everything in life—has to start from some axio…

> There's a good argument for immutability by default, but many programmers dislike all the extra declarations required. That's one little reason why Rust is loved by many: immutab…

> there are so many pitfalls when designing this Agree. When people hear the adage "don't roll your own crypto", they often think it refers to crypto primitives only. In reality, i…

> The costs associated with implementing this requirement can be very small, if not trivial. This is too naive. While it may be the case for single player games that use online con…

I think it aims mainly at games that use an online connection as a DRM mechanism, such as Hitman 3 and Gran Turismo 7. Both games are single player games that shouldn't necessitate…

But WAL is not for durability, but for atomicity and consistency. And yes, you need to use fsync to ensure durability.

If ice didn't float, life as we know it wouldn't be possible anywhere in the universe. (It doesn't exclude life that doesn't require water, though—if that's possible.)

> You can’t exclude non English languages being you would still be surprised if it was in Spanish etc. I'm not saying that the only surprising result is an English esssay. But sure…

> Similarly finding any shape in a random set of points is much more likely than the odds of any one shape. Obviously. But that’s not the point (no pun intended). My point is that …

I agree to almost all your points from the previous four comments, and I think so do you to my comments (because you didn't argue against my statements). We differs only on what to…

> Sure, but given a large enough sample both will likely exist. This applies to every event with nonzero probabilities. What's your point? > Humans have been finding patterns in cl…

> Again I think you are confused. Assuming random distribution, 'We Are Coming' is just as likely as any other similarly long structure to form. You are confused. How could we be b…

> However that doesn't mean that a sphere is any more or less likely than any specific other structure. A shape/structure doesn't have an intrinsic probability. Your sentence is un…

But of all perspectives in 3D space, there are only a fraction of perspectives that see it as a line. Most other perspectives see it as a circle/ellipse. So, the earth's perspectiv…

Of course each instance has the same probability. But we're not talking about the probability of an instance, but rather that of a set of instances. In the dice example, it's obvio…

> Finding ~50 dots arranged in a (very loosely defined) circle, from any projection, of a dense set of 2 trillion of them is very plausible. It depends on the size of the circle, t…

> The chance of some set of galaxies among all the billions in the sky doing this is much higher. Of course in relative terms it's much higher, but it doesn't matter—what matters i…