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USB hasn't added any active components or wires for short cables since USB C's introduction (which added emarkers and an extra pair of superspeed lanes for full featured cables) Al…

One of my theories is that there is a deliberate choice happening by people who don't realize it is as simple as a couple of resistors and think they need some fancy PD negotiation…

So, yes, the extreme pedestrian hostility that is sometimes normal in the US isn't around, and there's more likely to be a viable transit system. That's especially the case if you'…

And one of the points that's a little more obvious living here: Japan is a remarkably car centric culture. Not quite to the extent of America, but in much of the country you really…

I mostly agree with you -- 2x2 is a relative rarity, especially before Intel's Barlow Ridge chipsets that actually added 2x2 support. Which leads to the funny point that, as far as…

> Not USB-C complexity 3.2 Gen 2x2 (and the occasionally relevant 1x2 if you have a weak cable) are USB C only. USB C ports and cables have 4 USB 3 "superspeed" lanes rather than t…

I will say that breviary it showed up in "advanced" for me, and was one of only two words below "grandmaster" I missed. In the modern era it is jargon, it's just that the in group …

The single most implausible idea in that article is that New York City would be able to so completely outbid the SF Bay Area for burritos.

I think you've got this a little backwards. The target audience of this comment chain is exactly people who are familiar with Tailscale, aren't familiar with Iroh, and read the lin…

Sufficiently good iterated next token prediction is an AI hard problem.

I do not believe the death here is an AI hallucination -- it is very likely deliberate engagement fodder. Or, such was the hallucination of Gemini when I dumped the text of that po…

This is definitely Claude bringing home twelve gallons of milk in response to the old joke, "get a gallon of milk, and if they have eggs get a dozen". As in, this is a reading comp…

I haven't used GLM, but I can tell you that Qwen3.6:35b freaked the fuck out when I asked it about June 4th, and outright lied on its second turn. > Your previous question involved…

It's not that social media helps, it's that there's not really more to do. It's just another day on the ring of fire. In practice for anything short of the very biggest earthquakes…

At 45 seconds, load up social media. (although I actually missed the warnings this time, was focused on work) At least assuming the number is only 7.x. If it were 8+ or somewhat cl…

Yes, this is definitely only a medium deal, given that the tsunamis were mild. There is the usual concern that it might be a foreshock for a bigger quake but that's fairly unlikely…

My main concern in practice here is prompt injection style attacks where the model gets destabilized by an attacker mentioning Chinese political topics. Part of the issue here is t…

I am incredibly skeptical that license is legally meaningful. (but obligatory IANAL.) Generally speaking it is very very difficult to have a license redefine legal terms. Either th…

Note that the thing that's banned is using third party harnesses with their subscription based pricing. If you're paying normal API prices they'll happily let you use whatever harn…

The Landauer limit defines minimum energy for a bit *erasure*. A reversible gate doesn't involve any such erasure and therefore Landauer's principle doesn't apply to it. What will …

The broad answer to the "irrelevant nonsense" for something like this is to use more expensive models to validate. You don't need a model with a false positive rate that's good eno…

There are very substantial differences between your chainsaw juggler scenario and the Disney one. Notably, the cruise ship is access controlled and your dad didn't actively engage …

Except it is a stretch to say it is "their theme park restaurant". This story was dramatically oversimplified in the media and Disney's position was nowhere near as unreasonable as…

The main downside to not having swap is that Linux may start discarding clean file backed pages under memory pressure, when if you had swap available it could go after anonymous pa…

If anything my guess here would be the master/slave/cable select jumper. Like, last I looked the Linux kernel still had MFM/RLL support, although I'm not sure that's going to get i…