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Or just "security" since the context here is computer and networking stuff.

By "cyber" they mean "cybersecurity".

If you asked the LLM to create an Android app it probably would.

Assuming you're talking about US courts: this won't happen because courts and the legal system in general exist to preserve the wealth of the wealthy, and that means supporting wha…

Works great from a press release perspective though.

Someone needs to work on improving the way Actions deals with resource exhaustion like this. Today it exploded all the CI jobs with "failed" and an inscrutable message about "The j…

This is because history gets written by the victors.

I read it as "because there are no viable attacks", which is...fightin' talk I suppose. What I have seen LLMs do recently is find what turned out to be very basic bugs in encryptio…

Very similar story (right down to the pdp-11s).

The first computer I used (Sinclair Mk14) featured two fuse programmable ROMs. Fwiw the article says PROMs were replaced by EPROMs in the 1980s which is true but only for memory ap…

There's a significant difference in that solids picked up with the snow (gravel, dirt, dog shit, human...) mostly won't end up in the harbor.

Not 386 though.

Capitalism!

You broke character there..

That one thing changes everything.

I'm intrigued to try a slightly different experiment: Did LLMs arise because a) humanity created circuits so large and so fast and so easy to use in parallel that only then did it …

I'm also getting irritated with the “glorified autocomplete” comments. Since nobody can post such comments and also use the tools I'm using, I'm wondering if the phenomenon is due …

Electric distributon costs less because less copper/aluminum. 120V exists because the US is plagued by lawyers.

Never once had to do that, fwiw.

Well, humanity struggled for 2000 years trying to do mathematics without notation, so its benefit is not to be sniffed at. But really it's just an APL-vs-Fortran type debate. They'…

Many such things have been built. Problem afaik is that the underlying hypervisor setup to support VMs isn't present, or isn't enabled by default, or is hard to figure out, on many…

lol the before times when Linux ran on mainframes. It does run on IBM 370 type mainframes, but that port was done years after it first ran on the 386, and isn't in any way relevant…

Having seen the replica, I noticed it has a long continuous tape loop. Was the program "stored" in the paper tape?

I've always wondered: is this actually wanted? I ask because I live in a low population state where it's fairly easy to make contact with politicians' offices and there have been v…

This is axiomatic -- organizations are going to spend some proportion of the money they have to bribe politicians in their favor, modulo the RoI which will vary a bit case to case.…