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r00ty Admin , 4 months ago

If you build it, they will come.

r00ty Admin , 4 months ago

I'm not really a fan of this kind of question. Especially if there's enough questions that time will be an issue for most. Because at first glance it's easy to think the answer might be the length of a day.

There shouldn't be a need to try to trick people into the wrong answer on an open question. Maybe with multiple choice but not an open answer question.

r00ty Admin , 4 months ago

I think there's likely a lot of people still on slower links that benefit for sure.

But as gigabit and better Internet becomes more mainstream, it's certainly less of a problem for those with that.

r00ty Admin , 4 months ago

Seems quite simple to me. Things like guns, swords, daggers and the like are designed to be weapons. So they're generally going to be assumed to be a weapon any time they're used/brandished.

But literally anything can be used as a weapon. So, in normal use they're not a weapon but if used as a weapon, they become one in that instance.

r00ty Admin , 4 months ago

Yeah, I'd agree there. It should be whatever the US equivalent of aggravated assault is. But the charges you could levy bearing in mind he aimed for the head could go as far as attempted murder I guess.

r00ty Admin , 4 months ago

The thing is, this actually if anything proves the strength of the fediverse. Lemmy.world is not Lemmy and Lemmy is not the fediverse. Just find another instance that has not blocked the community yet and carry on with your day.

Lemmy.world have every right to curate the experience for their users as they see fit and/or feel comfortable carrying the risk for.

r00ty Admin , 4 months ago

CONNECT 41333/ARQ/V90

r00ty Admin , 4 months ago

None of the above!

r00ty Admin , 4 months ago

Yeah, screw you. I'm gonna start my own instance,with blackjack and hookers.

r00ty Admin , 4 months ago

And I’m gonna start my own with the sole purpose to defederate from yours!

Bite my shiny metal instance server.

r00ty Admin , 4 months ago

Organic pr0n?

r00ty Admin , 4 months ago

Well, yes and no. It depends on whether you call the Linux kernel as what makes Linux the OS or not.

For any operating system there are the kernel components and user space components. The GUI in any operating system is going to be user space.

They also suggest it's a "minimalized" Linux microkernel. I kinda agree with this approach, why re-invent the wheel when you can cherry-pick the parts of the existing Linux kernel to make your foundations. The huge caveat in my mind is, the scheduler of modern OS' is what they were complaining about most. I bet the scheduler is one of the things they took from the Linux kernel.

As for the rest of the project. I don't think there's enough meat in this article to say much, and the very limited free version seems a bit too limited to make a good review of how useful it would be.

I'll wait until I'm told I need to port X aspect of my job to DBOS to see if it became a thing or not. :P

r00ty Admin , 4 months ago

I mean, the running on watts vs volts part was nonsense.

But, did get quite close with the power calculation. Although here in the UK the average car battery seems to be around 60ah. I did see some very expensive large 105ah batteries. But they were definitely the outlier. So if you had a 100ah battery then it would be 1.2kwh with 100% efficiency.

Also, it doesn't mention that you'd need an inverter to make the fridge run from a battery. These also have inefficiencies which would reduce the runtime on the battery.

r00ty Admin , 4 months ago

+++, ATH

r00ty Admin , 4 months ago

My first modem was actually this bad boy https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8355735/magic-modem-for-the-bbc-b-computer-modem

It was modified by my uncle to work on the commodore aniga (basically a switch on the back to just force modem on/off, so you dialled the number on the phone flipped the switch and hung up phone).

r00ty Admin , 4 months ago

It'll likely be like most routers I've seen. If hardware offloading is possible it'll have cpu to spare at 1gbps. If it isn't (mostly qos or other packet marking processes), then the cpu will get maxed and thruput drops.

r00ty Admin , 4 months ago

Really? I used they when I wasn't sure of gender (online games for example) before the pronoun use became common. I cannot remember anyone ever being confused.

r00ty Admin , 4 months ago

But isn't that the point? You pay a low fee for inconvenient access to storage in the hope you never need it. If you have a drive failure you'd likely want to restore it all. In which case the bulk restore isn't terrible in pricing and the other option is, losing your data.

I guess the question of whether this is a service for you is how often you expect a NAS (that likely has redundancy) to fail, be stolen, destroyed etc. I would expect it to be less often than once every 5 years. If the price to store 12TB for 5 years and then restore 12TB after 5 years is less than the storage on other providers, then that's a win, right? The bigger thing to consider is whether you're happy to wait for the data to become available. But for a backup of data you want back and can wait for it's probably still good value. Using the 12TB example.

Backblaze, simple cost. $6x12 = $72/month which over a 5-year period would be $4320. Depending on whether upload was fast enough to incur some fees on the number of operations during backup and restore might push that up a bit. But not by any noticeable amount, I think.

For amazon glacier I priced up (I think correctly, their pricing is overly complicated) two modes. Flexible access and deep archive. The latter is probably suitable for a NAS backup. Although of course you can only really add to it, and not easily remove/adjust files. So over time, your total stored would likely exceed the amount you actually want to keep. Some complex "diff" techniques could probably be utilised here to minimise this waste.

Deep archive
12288 put requests @ $0.05 = $614.40
Storage 12288GB per month = $12.17 x 60 = $729.91
12288 get requests @ $0.0004 = $4.92
12288GB retrieval @ $0.0025 / GB x 12288 = $30.72 (if bulk possible)
12288GB retrieval @ $0.02 / GB x 12288 = $245.76 (if bulk not possible)

Total: $1379.95 / $1594.99

Flexible
12288 put requests @ $0.03 = $368.64
Storage 12288GB per month = $44.24 x 60 = $2654.21
12288 get requests @ $0.0004 = $4.92
12288GB retrieval @ $0.01 / GB x 12288 = $122.88

Total: $3150.65

In my mind, if you just want to push large files you're storing on a high capacity NAS somewhere they can be restored on some rainy day sometime in the future, deep archive can work for you. I do wonder though, if they're storing this stuff offline on tape or something similar, how they bring back all your data at once. But, that seems to me to be their problem and not the user's.

Do let me know if I got any of the above wrong. This is just based on the tables on the S3 pricing site.

r00ty Admin , 4 months ago

Not sure, this wasn't clear to me from their pricing page. There were 4 stars next to that item but the explanation for that didn't elaborate on bulk retrieve.

I assumed there was some minimum number of operations, or it had to be the entire backup restored to count as bulk.

r00ty Admin , 4 months ago

I would expect it's the sheer number that would be BELOW the ISS. Active tracking or not, there's already plenty of things that influence when you can launch to the ISS. Having to navigate a route through 10,000 satellites between the earth and the ISS is just adding another obstacle they don't need.

The article seems to make clear, they can get this if they clear it with NASA. The implication being NASA believes this will be a problem for them, and if I had to choose who to believe between a company run by Musk, and NASA. I'd choose NASA personally.

r00ty Admin , 4 months ago

It's capitalism. You get to choose who steals your personal data.

r00ty Admin , 4 months ago

Base pay $25,000
Performance related bonus per quarter:
0 issues found: $25,000
1+ issues found: $0

r00ty Admin , 4 months ago

Cars have had engine management since the 90s too. I remember my Ford (UK) from 1998 had engine management (including the key based transponder to immobilise the ECU). My current car is around 9 years old and doesn't have any internet connectivity. So, there's a pretty wide range to work with.

But, yeah eventually the cars that don't invade your privacy will become not economically viable to keep running in most cases.

But really, it won't matter in this case. Once more than half the cars on the road are reporting you to big brother insurance co, the insurers will just add a surcharge for vehicles that don't report data on you.

Not to mention all the other increasing routes for personal data to be extracted and sold.

r00ty Admin , 4 months ago

The other side of that coin is, if we all read the bullshit extended legalise in every licence/privacy agreement for everything we've ever used, we'd never do anything else but read them.

Besides which, it's not like there's a choice aside from accepting the agreement or not using the thing. Alternatives? All have similar agreements attached.

Basically, this is just a symptom of how much "better" modern life is. But hey, at least we don't need to worry about lions eating us quite so much.

r00ty Admin , 4 months ago

It's OK. I crossed it out with a marker on the screen before clicking agree.

r00ty Admin , 4 months ago

How does the game industry deal with this? Pretty sure the auto industry will go the same route.

Yeah there will be a game of cat and mouse with the die hards. Most will just roll with it when it gets too hard.

r00ty Admin , 4 months ago

It's mostly this, I would say. But in general there's a valid context to use male/female and another valid context to use man/woman or girl/boy or lady/gentleman.

Most people are not going to hold someone speaking English as a second language to task over it. But if you're speaking natively, there's no real excuse not to know when it is right to use the correct term.

But that's just my own opinion.

r00ty Admin , 4 months ago

I always think of the ferengis when people use men to describe men, and females to describe women.

r00ty Admin , 4 months ago

Well, procedural when applied to generation of scenery/galaxies etc means to create the exact same thing using random values that are the same random for everyone. It just saves on storage.

But, I cannot tell you how this would apply to recoil. It would only make sense if there were an absolutely huge number of possible weapons.

r00ty Admin , 4 months ago

I think more specifically they're OK with edited images, but it must be declared that the image was edited. The assumption without that declaration is that the image is not edited, aside from composition changes perhaps (cropping, lighting, noise reduction etc).

r00ty Admin , 4 months ago

OVH server owners learned their lesson not to keep their backups on the same hosting provider after the fire a few years ago. The only problem I had was actually getting OVH to give me a new server to restore my off-site backup to!

If you have backups independently of your hosting provider AND your domain isn't hosted with them. The worst they can do is take you down for the time it takes to get a new server elsewhere, restore your data and point your DNS (or CDN endpoint) to your new home.

If you're running a fediverse server and at the bare minimum don't have your database backed up somewhere, then the fault of any takedown is as much your fault as your hosting provider.

Mine is first backed up nightly to a server on another hosting provider, and that in turn is backed up to encrypted cloud backup.

r00ty Admin , 4 months ago

We've had over a century of continuous development of technologies that effectively work as a force multiplier in terms of work done per person. The current "AI" craze just being the latest of those.

At every point, business had the option of using this technology to improve the work/life balance and improve overall the lives of people, or improve the size of their bank accounts. They have always chosen the latter.

AI, if it improves threatens to be the straw that breaks the camel's back here. It cannot replace all human workers, but it can certainly reduce the demand for them (and thus how much they need to pay those that remain).

Now, I'm not going to say we're at the point where capitalism cannot function any more. While society needs work done by humans. There will still be a place for the carrot on a stick method it provides, and I'm yet to be convinced there's a better way to achieve this. But I do think capitalism needs to be heavily regulated to prevent this wealth accumulation by so few that could never in a million years spend all their winnings. This is the primary failing with the system, and all the other problems stem from this accumulation culture.

r00ty Admin , 4 months ago

Just put their office address in. If they query, just say "Yes, I'm already living there so you may as well give me a job while I'm there".

r00ty Admin , 4 months ago

Here's the thing. There are still plenty of devices that only have 2.4Ghz radios. There's some cheaper stuff still made today with just 2.4Ghz. So you'd just cut out a load of devices from working straight out. This kind of thing needs to be done slowly. 3G was very different because phone makers generally always want the more modern technology and phones that didn't have radios capable of 4g or better really are just rare now.

But, there's also just no reason to. Have 2.4Ghz available doesn't hurt you, if you're not using it. Any chipset with 5Ghz is not costing more to also support 2.4. They're just all pretty much single chip solutions these days and the aerial is usually just a coil on the board somewhere. If your device works on 5Ghz it will use 5Ghz.

I'd also argue in real terms 5Ghz isn't much better than 2.4Ghz in terms of channel space in places that need to respect DFS rules you generally only get one 80Mhz channel that will definitely work, and if you're using 802.11ax 80Mhz is really the minimum you want to get even remotely close to the advertised rate. Everything else useful is either DFS or limited power (at least here in the UK, and I don't recall seeing the limited power channel as an option). Now, I've generally setup two wifi APs in my house, one on the only non DFS channel, and the other on a DFS channel. That way if the DFS channel gets knocked out there's a fallback to the already congested "main" 5Ghz channel.

I think the main point is, why remove something that doesn't really affect you but may well affect others?

r00ty Admin , 4 months ago

A 360 ring of curved monitors. You could get two pixels, and accelerate them around the ring in opposite directions then collide them at close to the speed of light.

r00ty Admin , 5 months ago

I would say, only the larger servers/instances are at that risk (the costs need to come from somewhere). They're not going to come and bother me for example. And if they did, I'm certainly not in it for the money. I'm running an instance I can afford to run. If it got too big I'd stop registrations.

r00ty Admin , 5 months ago

I think my take is, he might be right. That is that by the time kids become adults we may have AGI and we'll either be enslaved or have much less work to do (for better or worse).

But AI as it is now, relies on input from humans. When left to take their own output as input, they go full Alabama (sorry Alabamites) with their output pretty quickly. Currently, they work as a tool in tandem with a human that knows what they're doing. If we don't make a leap from this current iteration of AI, then he'll be very very wrong.

r00ty Admin , 5 months ago

Well, he's put the writing on the wall for his own developers. So, even if it isn't AI that writes them, the quality may well go down when those that can easily do so, leave for pastures new :P

r00ty Admin , 5 months ago

I don't. We're talking about the next generation of people here. Do pay attention at the back.

r00ty Admin , 5 months ago

I'd tend to agree. I said we may have that, and then he might have a point. But, if we don't, he'll be wrong because current LLMs aren't going to (I think at least) get past the limitations and cannot create anything close to original content if left to feed on their own output.

I don't think it's easy to say what will be the situation in 15-20 years. The current generation of AI is moving ridiculously fast. Can we sidestep to AGI? I don't know the answer, probably people doing more work in this area have a better idea. I just know on this subject it's best not to write anything off.

r00ty Admin , 5 months ago

Why would we plan for something if we have no idea what the time horizon is? It’s like saying “we may have a Mars colony in the next generation, so we don’t need to teach kids geography”

Well, I think this is the point being made quite a bit in this thread. It's general business level hyperbole, really. Just to get a headline and attention (and it seems to have worked). No-one really knows at which point all of our jobs will be taken over.

My point is that in general, the current AI models and diffusion techniques are moving forward at quite the rate. But, I did specify that AGI would be a sidestep out of the current rail. I think that there's now weight (and money) behind AI and pushing forward AGI research. Things moving faster in one lane right now can push investment into other lanes and areas of research. AI is the buzzword every company wants a piece of.

I'm not as confident as Mr Nvidia is, but with this kind of money behind it, AGI does have a shot of happening.

In terms of advice regarding training for software development, though. What I think for sure is that the current LLMs and offshoots of the techniques will develop, better frameworks for businesses to train them on their own material will become commonplace, I think one of the biggest consultancy growth areas will be in producing private models for software (and other) companies.

The net effect of that is going to mean they will just want fewer (better) engineers to make use of the AI to produce more, with less people. So, even without AGI the demand for software developers and engineers is going to be lower I think. So, is it as favourable an industry to train for now as it was for the previous generations? Quite possibly it's not.

r00ty Admin , 5 months ago

I don't think we can ever prove one way or the other if we're in a simulation. I am not really sure it should actually matter to us though. But in answer to a couple of the points you make.

the bugs would be obvious malfunctions in the code. But would the program and those in the program realize they are bugs? A sentient NPC in GTA, for example, would they realize the car that just glitched through the world is not normal behavior? Perhaps the bug also affects their understanding of their world too.

If there are bugs, we'd likely not know it. Because everything about the world and universe around us is normal, because it is how it is "warts and all". But specifically we have some odd things like some of the effects attributed to quantum theories. Perhaps they could be considered bugs.

our simulation system is rebooted on a normal basis but we never see it which reduces the bugs observed. Perhaps the planet operates on a docker-like platform, and when everyone in the section is asleep, the system is rebooted unbeknownst to the users residing there. Or reboots are not observed by us and we have no perception of “lost time”.

Why would you see it? If this is a simulation, and the entire system's state is frozen, stored and the system shutdown for 1000 years. Then restarted, for us no time would have passed, and we'd be unaware of the "shutdown".

r00ty Admin , 5 months ago

Be realistic. They would just go full gym membership level.

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r00ty Admin , 5 months ago

He bought his absolute free speech fair and square!

r00ty Admin , 5 months ago

Follow up post.

"I don't want to write a fucking essay nerds! Just make a GUI and put it in an .EXE!!!!!!1111111111 spittle sp[pzpzzzzzzzqawjpoidqweiofrjowqefj"

r00ty Admin , 5 months ago

I'd agree, but the caveat is that github is primarily about an interface for source control and collaboration between developers for projects. The release page is really just an also-ran in terms of importance.

r00ty Admin , 5 months ago

I'd argue though that it's ultimately similar levels of complexity. Because sure in romance languages you need to know (and probably just "get" what gender objects are. But in English you need to remember/just "get" which words have "i before e" (because the "rule" is utter trash), and all the inconsistent pronunciation of similarly spelt words.

Most European languages with accented vowels (and some with accented other letters too) have a pretty consistent pronunciation (when the accented letters are used).

r00ty Admin , 5 months ago

I think it's a very laudable act (if action follows words).

I think in terms of the rest of Europe, and especially NATO countries in Europe, we should certainly be providing everything we can while still being careful to provide enough means for our own defence. This is especially true with the threat (however realistic) of another Trump presidency, which could leave us on our own in this regard.

Provided we have our own Europe-wide defence covered though, yes we should be giving all the aid we can to Ukraine.