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pennomi ,

The anomaly may not have a great impact on China’s wider launch plans, as the rocket’s first and second stage performed nominally, and the issue isolated to the infrequently-used YZ-1S upper stage.

Unlikely sabotage, it’s probably just a lesser tested component of the stack failing. Space is really hard.

pennomi ,

Let them, Biden is in control of the National Guard this time. Trump can’t use his position to intentionally hamstring security.

pennomi ,

I’d take anything published by Jerusalem Post as inherently incapable of being unbiased about Israel/Palestine. Let’s wait for a third party confirmation before making this claim.

pennomi ,

Nah, SpaceX does good work for NASA. Instead nationalize Musk’s shares.

pennomi ,

I know that development costs are mind boggling in scale, we’re looking at around $5B dollars so far on Starship, (and the government only paid for part of that).

But let’s put that into perspective, it was around $11B NASA spent on developing SLS, and SLS costs $2B per launch. So we’re still within comparable costs for development of a heavy lift vehicle.

pennomi ,

Clearly it’s RIBALDRY, “Vulgar, lewdly humorous language or joking or an instance of it.” Oh Tynan you scallawag!

Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI that we made with social media (www.technologyreview.com)

From the article: “In particular, five fundamental attributes of social media have harmed society. AI also has those attributes. Note that they are not intrinsically evil. They are all double-edged swords, with the potential to do either good or ill. The danger comes from who wields the sword, and in what direction it is...

pennomi ,

This article mostly ignores the one thing that actually makes social media harmful in a way that is unique to social media: addictiveness, and the ultimate mental health decline that comes from scrolling through a feed and getting tiny dopamine hits all day.

This is distinct from “virality,” since is more related to the idea that we’ve optimized for “engagement”. It is inevitable that AI will be tuned for that very soon, and we will find that AI is addictively engaging a lot sooner than it is correct.

pennomi ,

I highly doubt that the rich would enjoy the law of the jungle.

pennomi ,

Censored with the wrong emoji, should have been 🥵

pennomi ,

With the merge request that landed this Vulkan ray-tracing support for Lavapipe, Konstantin Seurer shared the screenshot below and wrote “Don’t ask about performance”

So… how’s the perf— gets shot

pennomi ,

More than yours, if they live in the rural US.

anders , to programmerhumor

Stupid people always say no

@programmerhumor

pennomi ,

Man, I have two competing takes on this…

The statement “stupid people always say no” doesn’t prevent other classifications of people from saying no as well. Therefore someone saying “no” doesn’t give you any information on whether or not they are stupid.

And

All humans are obviously stupid, lol

pennomi ,

That’s a very charitable interpretation of reality, it brightened my day a bit, thanks.

pennomi ,

Because it’s intended to be punitive, not a reparation.

A Multi-Billion-Dollar Question – Researchers Are Closer to Understanding Hydrogen’s Great Challenge (scitechdaily.com)

Hydrogen traps can be introduced into the material microstructure to immobilize or trap absorbed hydrogen, limiting the amount of hydrogen participating in the embrittling process. This study finds that adding the chemical element molybdenum to steel reinforced with Ti-carbides markedly enhances its ability to trap hydrogen....

pennomi ,

That’s a big deal if true. Hydrogen is a pain to store.

pennomi ,

100 square feet of land per pair of jeans sounds downright reasonable to me.

pennomi ,

Anything but nudism is unethical!

pennomi ,

I mean, I think an all natural color pair of jeans would be badass; I’d buy that.

pennomi ,

White cotton but without the bleaching, so more off white, I guess. I’m not actually sure what it would be.

pennomi ,

Straight to jail

pennomi ,

Damn look at this guy here with four cocks

pennomi ,

It’d have to be clay and that sounds hard, but I believe he has the skill to pull it off.

pennomi ,

Plus 2.4 GHz wifi and 2.45 GHz microwaves might interfere with each other.

GitHub is under automated attack by millions of cloned repositories filled with malicious code. (www.pcgamer.com)

GitHub is under automated attack by millions of cloned repositories filled with malicious code.::Thanks to a combination of sophisticated methodology and social engineering, this particular attack seems to be very difficult to stop.

pennomi ,

The smart kind of lowlife. Because it’s a very large and generally trusted source, meaning it’s an excellent vector for attacks. Sometimes the simplest reason is the most likely.

pennomi ,

Literally last year everyone was raving about Baldur’s Gate 3 because it had so much soul.

pennomi ,

This has always been true, since the very first decade of video games. People just forget because only the good games are worth remembering.

pennomi ,

I think that’s the point. You can’t trust the average developer to do things safely. And remember, half of all programmers are even worse than average.

pennomi ,

The mean is in the center of the bell curve, so I’m not sure what your point is.

pennomi ,

The word “average“ can mean many things, for example, mean, median, mode, or even things like “within 1 standard deviation from the mean”.

I was using it strictly as the mean which divides the population exactly in half.

pennomi ,

You’re right of course, that was a stupid mistake on my part.

pennomi ,

GDPR requires deleting data if you ask them to delete data. How did they get your email address if they supposedly deleted your information?

pennomi ,

So I didn’t completely lose my taste, but vinegar somehow ended up tasting like bleach to me for a few weeks. Strange how it affects everyone differently.

pennomi ,

It’s not limited to conservatives. Humans in general are pretty fucking stupid.

pennomi ,

Even if it does, it has a ton of disadvantages too.

pennomi ,

emoji are an all ages access thing

Last time I checked, penises are an all ages thing too. But who knows, I’m no urologist.

pennomi ,

The individual GPT-3.5 output with the highest similarity score was in computer science (100%), followed by physics (92%), and psychology (88%).

And that’s why this claim is mostly bullshit. These use cases are all sciences, where the correct solution is usually the same or highly similar no matter who writes it. Small snippets of computer code cannot be copyrighted anyway.

Not surprisingly, softer subjects like “English” and “Theatre” rank extremely low on this scale.

pennomi ,

Turns out ChatGPT isn’t writing a scientific paper though, it’s conversing with the user.

pennomi ,

The Intuitive Machines lander issue was that no one disarmed the safety switch on the laser guidance system. (No, really!) Luckily NASA had a backup system installed that ended up working better anyway.

pennomi ,

Probably not very. It would be best to use a third party intelligence to estimate.

That being said, everyone has their own spin to put on it, so you’ll never get a true count.

First U.S. moon landing since 1972 as private spacecraft touches down on lunar surface (www.cbsnews.com)

Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus lander touched down on the moon Thursday after a historic, nail-biting descent following a last-minute navigation sensor malfunction, becoming the first U.S.-built spacecraft to stick a moon landing in more than 50 years and the first ever by a private company....

pennomi ,

Not yet, the Q&A they just did said that the problem was that the lander kept switching between two sets of different dishes, constantly resetting the comms system. Looks like the problem was caused because two of the dishes are facing the ground (it tipped over).

pennomi ,

After another update, the lander is not in fact upright. They were looking at old data when they said that.

pennomi ,

If they’re good at one thing, it’s space - the Soyuz is one of the most prolific and safe launch vehicles in the world.

That being said, their quality control has certainly been slipping over the last few years.

pennomi ,

It’s the tribal nature of humans - they try to make everyone they like flawless and everyone they hate completely flawed.

pennomi ,

It’s not 4chan… but someone did train one of those once.

pennomi ,

As we continue to replace workers with machines it will be easier… but that’s a slow process.

pennomi ,

Sounds like we need to make bigger pockets

pennomi ,

It depends on what they mean by AI. I can think of oodles of great uses:

  • An AI-powered adblock that removes all trackers, cookie confirmation popups, those annoying “please subscribe” popups, etc. would be badass. It would be virtually invisible but it would make the internet usable again.
  • A content filter that magically extracts the recipe you’re looking for out of the stupid blog post they write for SEO
  • Or to expand on that, an AI that goes through the page of search engine results and removes the ones that are SEO spam instead of actually useful content
  • An AI that can review at a page or email and determine if it’s a scam would save a TON of people by pointing out suspicious features.
  • Basically anything that requires you to copy data from one context to another is a good use of AI. You could probably have a nice resume-filling feature, for example.

But yeah, Mozilla will probably just go for a “chat with your browser” feature. Total waste of space.

pennomi ,

The requirements to run good local LLMs have really been shrinking this past year… I have a lot of faith that there is a generally useful yet tiny AI tool within the grasp of Mozilla.

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