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gravitas_deficiency ,

I’m simply baffled that someone going into a computer engineering major at a university doesn’t understand a hierarchical file system as a matter of course. It’s a tree. The file system is a tree. A tree is one of the most basic computer science logical constructs. How exactly is a filesystem confusing? How is navigating directories from a terminal - any terminal, in any OS - a Herculean task?

Boeing Will Launch Starliner With Helium Leak (www.extremetech.com)

Boeing and NASA are moving ahead with the upcoming Starliner demonstration launch despite an active helium leak. The launch is now on the books for Saturday, June 1, at 12:25 p.m. EDT. If all goes as planned, Starliner will rendezvous with the International Space Station the following day and return to Earth on June 10. If not,...

gravitas_deficiency ,

It’s simultaneously hilarious and deeply depressing to see how far Boeing has fallen in the last few decades.

gravitas_deficiency ,

So we should only ban things that aren’t helpful to you in particular? That’s a very… conservative way of thinking.

gravitas_deficiency ,

And that’s why you should run your own router. Preferably using open firmware/OS like ddwrt or pfSense/opnSense.

gravitas_deficiency ,

Not necessarily, but the odds of getting popped by a heretofore undisclosed backdoor that your ISP didn’t think would be a big deal are eliminated entirely, and you can also do a lot more interesting things with your home infrastructure, if that’s your thing.

gravitas_deficiency ,

I mean, the ISP-provided boxes don’t give you a way to upgrade past that faster than you would on an open distribution. The latter had fixes out within a week, or just weren’t affected. And it’s also way easier to check the deps on open firmware/OSes.

gravitas_deficiency ,

A quick search indicates that they’ve archived ~100PB of data.

Now I’m trying to come up with a way to archive the internet archive in a peer-to-peer/federated fashion while maintaining fidelity as much as possible…

gravitas_deficiency ,

I think the long term solution is going to have to involve some distributed/federated piratical tactics and infrastructure.

gravitas_deficiency ,

It’d be a lot more complicated than that, I think, if one wanted to effectively be able to address it like a file system, as well as holistically verify the integrity of the data and preventing unintentional and unwanted tampering

gravitas_deficiency ,

Sick. TIL!

gravitas_deficiency ,

Seems like a user pattern that should be fairly detectable. Might not be a bad idea to scrape logs to look for spammy/copypaste comments, particularly on very new accounts, and either flag them for manual review or just ban them outright.

gravitas_deficiency ,

Damn that dude got shafted

gravitas_deficiency ,

Unrealistic, not enough CAS

gravitas_deficiency ,

Close air support

gravitas_deficiency , (edited )

Lmao no way

Edit:

Oh my god

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/cbc9b0a8-8f53-4152-941d-1a9a41885b03.jpeg

More edit:

For real though: There is a possibility that this is the most epic instance of malicious compliance that has occurred in the history of tech. There is no way a competent engineer would think Reddit would be a good (a primary characteristic of which would be “relatively unpoisoned”) training set. It’s just not possible. This was 100% some business and finance yahoo saying “do the thing” and Eng saying “ok but you’re not going to like it”.

gravitas_deficiency ,

It’s the first result when you search for that string

ChatGPT Answers Programming Questions Incorrectly 52% of the Time: Study (gizmodo.com)

The research from Purdue University, first spotted by news outlet Futurism, was presented earlier this month at the Computer-Human Interaction Conference in Hawaii and looked at 517 programming questions on Stack Overflow that were then fed to ChatGPT....

gravitas_deficiency ,

C-suites:

tHis iS inCReDibLe! wE cAn SavE sO MUcH oN sTafFiNg cOStS!

gravitas_deficiency ,

Holy fuck did it just pass the Turing test?

gravitas_deficiency ,

I’d just like to make the point that that is not normal.

gravitas_deficiency ,

Oh what a day to have eyes

gravitas_deficiency ,

Actually it’s pretty easy. It’s just like holding your poop in.

gravitas_deficiency ,

Ugh can we just agree that foldy phones are just an altogether dumb idea? I want my phone to have as few moving parts as possible.

gravitas_deficiency , (edited )

It does seem pretty dumb that Apple ditched the mini form factor after the 12

Edit: it was the 13, my bad. But still, why did they have to kill it?

gravitas_deficiency ,

I like it when my phone screen doesn’t get a weird little delaminated ridge though

gravitas_deficiency ,

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gravitas_deficiency , (edited )

They’ve had these things for like 6-8 years or so now and it’s the same problem

Edit: please explain to me how “it still has the same problem” conflicts with “it’s gotten a lot better”? I know it’s gotten better. That’s neat. It’s still not solved.

My point is that I personally consider the simple existence of the issue to disqualify it as something I’d buy. I would consider it if it is no longer a problem. Not improved - eliminated. You’re not going to negotiate, debate, or downvote me into changing my mind on that. It’s a physical defect that’s an artifact of the design and the current technology used to satisfy that design.

gravitas_deficiency ,

Bro I was just being cheeky about the fact that you double posted

gravitas_deficiency ,

Uh… yeah. That’s why I’ve never bought one.

gravitas_deficiency ,

Short term yes; long term probably not. All the dipshit c-suites pushing the “AI” worker replacement initiatives are going to destroy their workforces and then realize that LLMs can’t actually reliably replace any of the workers they fired. And I love that for management.

gravitas_deficiency ,

And neither of those two groups will allow themselves to be replaced.

gravitas_deficiency ,

I mean, one of Taiwan’s last-resort contingency plans is to basically blow up all their chip foundries and the machinery inside of it. They are absolutely willing to go scorched earth if their back is against the wall and there’s no hope of a successful defense.

gravitas_deficiency ,

If the PRC somehow successfully takes Taiwan, but in doing so, utterly destroys the vast majority of the world’s cutting edge chip foundry lines for cpu + gpu + ram + nvme, it’s a pretty safe bet that the rest of the world will be absolutely fucking livid with China at the very least, because it would cause EVERYONE’S economy to crash.

gravitas_deficiency ,

That was the underlying implication of my comment. Of course nobody wants any of these threats to be carried out. But they’re useless as geopolitical constraints unless the threat is credible.

gravitas_deficiency ,

You don’t seem to understand the proportion of chips that Taiwan makes for the world these days.

In terms of replacement capacity… there’s not any. You don’t simply flip a switch and start producing other chips on your fab line, let alone scale shit out 5-10x like that on the drop of a hat. It’s not 3D printing. If Taiwan is invaded and they’re forced to destroy their chip industry, there will be an enormous supply shortfall for several YEARS at least, even in the best possible case.

gravitas_deficiency ,

An independent Taiwan is nothing of the sort.

The PRC could have adopted a much more diplomatic and friendly approach - think EU-esque. Instead of this dipshit woLf wArRioR crap, the PRC could have taken the more mature and measured approach, and worked towards making a strong industrial, geopolitical, and economic alliance with Taiwan.

Hell, if they just accepted that the slow and steady approach was probably going to work better than the “I’m going to have a tantrum” approach in general, they’d probably be doing way better in a whole slew of areas. They could have essentially created a de facto alliance with Taiwan over shared culture, language, and history… but no, Xi wants to prove how big his dick is I guess.

gravitas_deficiency ,

I feel like you’re not reading what I wrote. Maybe making it bigger will help:

What you’re saying indicates that you don’t understand the extremely nuanced and industry specific constraints around integrated circuit manufacturing at scale.

The fact that you’re sticking to your guns so hard here tells me that you’re deep into Dunning-Kruger territory.

gravitas_deficiency ,

She is going to take them to the cleaners, and Altman and his circlejerk club will deserve every single cent of the damages they’re forced to pay. I genuinely hope she makes it an incredibly messy and eye wateringly expensive legal process for them. I’m not a ScarJo fanboy by any means, but fuck OpenAI for thinking they can get away with something so absurdly blatant and obviously unethical.

gravitas_deficiency ,

Well, more importantly, a lot of people with a lot of assets invested a lot of money and thus expect to make a lot more money on OpenAI, so my bet’s on this getting sidetracked in some weird sketchy fashion because the US is a corporate feudal state these days (amongst other things).

gravitas_deficiency ,

But they DO want that sweet sweet customer data. If you think there’s not going to be some sort of user data and behavior profiling bullshit going on at the very least, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.

gravitas_deficiency ,

We tried to warn you all but oh dear

gravitas_deficiency ,

Lol so how’s that “deregulated freedom” working out for you, Texans?

gravitas_deficiency ,

It’s absolutely wild. The last time around, people died, and a lot more were put into financial hardship due to the shitty, hypercapitalist energy infrastructure. People were rightly ripshit angry about it.

And then nothing was done about any of it.

And then people keep voting for the politicians who created and perpetuated the situation.

It’s really hard to keep giving a shit about people who actively work and vote to make their own lives worse.

gravitas_deficiency ,

You are free… to pay as much as you possibly can for electricity.

gravitas_deficiency ,

Probably the same thing that will happen to all the athletes once they run out of their finite lifetime supply of energy :(

gravitas_deficiency , (edited )

Except… this sort of contract is no longer considered to be legal in the United States.

I’m really looking forward to the lawsuits, to be honest.

Edit: lol wow, derp. This is NDA, not non-compete (the article I linked). But that said, companies will often make NDA contracts that are legally questionable, and as was mentioned (and linked to) further down the thread, the NLRB has ruled that NDAs that effectively force employees to broadly surrender their labor law rights are unenforceable.

gravitas_deficiency ,

Pretty incisive article, and I agree.

In retrospect, I think the marketing/sales/finance corporate leadership idiocy that’s intensified over the last couple decades is the single biggest contributor to my deep sense of frustration and ennui I’ve developed working as a software engineer. It just seems like pretty much fucking nobody in the engineering management sphere these days actually values robust, carefully and thoughtfully designed stuff anymore - or more accurately, if they do, the higher-ups will fire them for not churning out half-finished bullshit.

gravitas_deficiency ,

Yeah… I’ve been thinking about popping for one for a while now. I should probably just go for it.

Out of curiosity, is the etched AR glass on the top end model actually worth it, or is that more of a gimmick?

gravitas_deficiency ,

Good tip. Thanks, friend!

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