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> Yeah...a "dumb as bricks CPU", which is obviously something frontier llms are demonstrably not. Just as the immense amount of scaffolding around the dumb-as-bricks CPU enables ex…

> ...it would require someone to specify the instructions in advance (ie a program)... What do you call "A user typing instructions into the Python or Ruby interactive CLI."? How i…

> Secondly, CPUs can absolutely be used to hack other people. This is more correctly phrased as "Every general-purpose computer can be run any arbitrary program, assuming it has th…

Yeah, this matches what I've learned over the past couple of years from reading some of your blog posts and reading your interactions in comment threads here and elsewhere. You're …

> If domain names had been freeform from the start... I'd argue that they're not freeform now. You need to pay ICANN something like 250k USD to consider your application for a new …

> I get the impression that every AI lab is desperately trying... Of course. I wonder how we managed way back in the day to produce systems that can handle untrusted inputs and rel…

> Their position makes no sense to me. If one assumes that they don't actually care about security, and care very deeply about getting sensational press, their position makes a lot…

> Missing out on the socialization of smoke breaks is a huge cultural pull. Sure. But the specific claim was that Phillip Morris is fundamentally different as a product because it …

> ...IRC the timing seems to imply that it has more to do with them being hammered with AI slop... It can be both things. I've worked professionally with AWS, Azure, and GCP, and A…

AFAIK, the move to Azure is still ongoing. Rumor has it that it was delayed for a very long time after the Github acquisition because Azure was too bad to move Github to. Azure rem…

No, that's not normal. Every bare-metal Linux system I have in my home is upgraded in-place. My oldest is roughly twenty years old. My newest is around four years old.

> What is happening at GH? In large part, the move from AWS to Azure. Azure's just bad.

> This are however just records. E.g. "I still have a connection". This chatter about a successful 2005 Defcon shootout [0] indicates that a 125 mile link was able to pass traffic …

Perhaps the situation with 25gbit modules is way worse than 10gbit, but I have twelve 10gbit 10GTek fiber modules and haven't had a problem with them. Though, perhaps this would be…

> ...isn’t the phrase the orange site used as a derogatory sense here? Seems likely, yeah. > To the contrary... Why are you -er- proposing the contrary or whatever? From my ~sixtee…

I don't know. But I do strongly suspect that if rowhammer could be eliminated by a change in memory controller behavior, it would have been eliminated long ago.

> I've heard a theory that it has to do with genetics and lower eye sensitivity. Might be. But I expect that -as you said- it's cultural, rather than biological. One's sense of col…

> At the end you have DRAM that you cannot read from or write to at all because it’s always refreshes itself. Be so kind as to run the math on this for me? There must be something …

> If it was easy they'd have done it. Why? Something like 70->90% of the world's DRAM is produced by three companies that are very friendly to each other. It makes no business sens…

It's not terribly surprising to me that a third-party mod that requires the use of a special kernelspace program only works on Windows. FWIW, Valve doesn't require use of that syst…

> I ignored this bit because it wouldn't make an impact. You, from earlier: The problem is most people ... don't install their OS themselves so cannot install a Linux distro. Me, f…

> "games that market is mostly concentrated on is the single category that still does not work on Linux." Yeah. That single category is "games that the devs have done the extra wor…

> The problem is most people... From the first sentence in my reply: Many or most of those 95% ...would be well served by either trying out or having a tech-savvy neighbor help the…

Many or most of those 95% who are just using Windows for PC games and using a web browser would be well served by either trying out or having a tech-savvy neighbor help them try ou…

> ...and neither realize that Code/Data classification is an opinion, a perspective. It doesn't hold in general. Okay . To pull this back on topic, and to simplify it a bit so you …