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The very notion of IQ reduces the mind to a receptacle for some ineffable thing called 'intelligence'. One may as well have a CQ - Comedy Quotient and start speculating who has a h…

They will then need to be all encrypted traffic if such a law survive legal challenge.

As a network engineer I regularly participate and mediate 'vendor support shootouts' between vendors like cisco, juniper, arista, verizon, at&t, and, microsoft - all often amongst …

Either that or microsoft and/or google will send someone to my house to Raymond Reddington my ass if I install W11 with only a local account.

Do LLMs ever ask for you to clarify something you said in a way a person who doesn't quite understand what you said will do?

I have to wonder what edge AI would look like on a laptop. Little super mini Nvidia Jetson? How much added cost? How much more weight for the second and third batteries? And the fo…

What - their AI couldn't find it sooner? Better get those RAGs in order.

Solar at least is a much faster way to add capacity to the grid than coal or natural gas, particularly residential rooftop solar. In a competition with China for AI predominance, t…

America was founded by lawyers

When I was on the team migrating datacenters, we got ahold of tcpdump.exe which didn't need winpcap presumably because it was staticly compiled under cygwin - I'm fairly certain so…

As a network engineer I once had a project involving an infrastructure for a deployment of thousands (so I was told) of SQLServers. My part was pretty straightforward and ready wel…

If people are stupid to fall for the subscribe model, they likely need AI.

I worked in academia for years before moving to the commercial sector, and in academia management seemed to run on the "in the real world" mantra. Yet if the managers in academia d…

Social media makes me miss USENet

Takes less time than other CAPTCHAs

>A study by the Mutagenesis Group of the UAB Department of Genetics If I drink this tea will I gain latent mutant powers?

"To shreds, you say"

>These scams will continue until regulators get serious about putting people in jail for them. Which is so much more likely under turmp.

"In the process, SciAm played a small but important role in the self-immolation of scientific authority—a terrible event whose fallout we'll be living with for a long time." Which …

I think it's possible they may. I used to get 50 - 150 of those "I hacked the camera on your computers and videoed you wacking. Pay me bitcoins and I won't release it to all your f…

I wrote a role playing game I called 'Heroes' in the 80s. I should file something.

Isn't it true that at the time there wasn't anything like weather radar? What would have happened if a zeppelin got caught up in a strong storm?

A fee schedule would help, but I think what may end up happening is what happened to spamcop. The realtime black hole list at one point shutdown open SMTP relays, but how spammers …

I can remember when you had to have a credible account of a coding run to converse with people who were self-described 'hackers' - EMACS/TPU skills notwithstanding.

Brew makes me cringe. Apt just installs what you need and then it's done. Brew makes a thing about updating everything - I'm always reluctant about it. It does make having multiple…