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I just asked Google AI how LLMs translate COBOL code containing GOTOs into Java, a language that doesn't have GOTO. It gave several examples, one of them being this: COBOL code: PR…

Isn't this exactly what every mobile app does when the db is on a phone, and every app where the db is kept on the local machine? I do it with HashBackup and have done 35 db migrat…

SQLite has transactional DDL: you can start a transaction, do a bunch of create tables, copy data from old tables into the new tables. If an error occurs during this and a rollback…

My sister uses Windows 10 in her one-person accounting business. The performance of everything she does is fine as is. The main thing she needs is stability, and the last thing she…

Seems to me the purpose of all these releases, credits, pricing changes, harness changes, unpredictable token usages for the same task, etc. is to keep customers completely befuddl…

I compare online marketplaces to ISPs: we don't expect ISPs to filter the traffic going over their network to make sure it complies with all laws, because that would be impossible.…

To limit inequality, cap the CEO's total compensation to 100x (or whatever) the lowest-paid workers' compensation. Google says: "at the 100 publicly traded U.S. companies with the …

> hook it up to your browser and have it yank out all advertisements live AI: "I'm sorry, a security guardrail prevents me from performing this operation."

Consistent hashing helps solve this. You don't divide into shards based on the id, but on the consistent hash of the id. Then when you have to add shards, it's easier to distribute…

IMO colleges and other educational institutions should back the loans, not the government/taxpayers.

It says that raising the config setting still causes things to be inappropriately deleted.

And our illustrious leader doesn't tariff Chinese RAM and allows its sale in the US.

I dunno... if we gave an AI all of these medical records as training data, wouldn't it be trained to give the same answers as the doctors already gave, without knowing whether thos…

'Mythos “broke into almost all of our classified systems, not in weeks, but in hours.”' And the government's response was to limit access to US citizens? I don't believe this for a…

Only if you're paying them

My sister has a Windows 10 laptop she used for her accounting business. One day it decided not to boot, saying there was no boot device. I took the laptop home, took the SSD out (S…

Along with the reports that have been conclusively shown to have an extraterrestrial explanation. We'll never see those, if they exist.

Checkout the insane amount of money Goodwill makes because of people getting rid of their "junk". There are 151 independent Goodwill organizations and all of them have a CEO, usual…

I don't know much about the AI field, but it seems to me that trying to train any model to be all things to all people is a really dumb idea. It requires huge financial resources a…

Similarly, it's better (for me) to use the right ring finger for Backspace rather than the pinky. The pinky requires moving the whole arm whereas the ring finger just needs a wrist…

Has anyone else noticed this? If I do a Google search and an AI response comes up, things are fine. But if I click "Show more" to get more details, the Firefox GPU process starts h…

As a musician (piano), I've never been able to listen to music while working: it's too distracting, even without lyrics. That makes sense to me because for musicians, hearing just …

> So, back way before ChatGPT era, the folks over at AI safety/X-risk think sphere worked out a pretty compelling argument that two AGIs never need to fight, because they are trans…

I pay $5/mo to Vultr for a VM that runs continuously and maintains 25GB of state.

I never got a surprise bill myself, but reading a few cases like this motivated me to cancel my GCS account and remove my CC. Now if I try to use it it fails immediately with an er…