CaptainOfCoit

The very same company that for at least two decades and two CEOs have been saying "Security is now our top security".

I lived in three different countries in my life, and neither of them have been the US, but all of them have apparently had free South Park episodes available to them :)

I don't know if that website works/shows full episodes in the US, currently I'm in a EU country and everything except the last two seasons seems available.

> I'm curious how many engineers per year this costs to maintain

The end of the article has this:

> Consider custom infrastructure when you have both: sufficient scale for meaningful cost savings, and specific constraints that enable a simple solution. The engineering effort to build and maintain your system must be less than the infrastructure costs it eliminates. In our case, specific requirements (ephemeral storage, loss tolerance, S3 fallback) let us build something simple enough that maintenance costs stay low. Without both factors, stick with managed services.

Seems they were well aware of the tradeoffs.

> There you’ll see the 10 Cortex-X925 (“performance”) cores listed with a peak clock rate of 4 GHz, along with the 10 Cortex-A725 (“efficiency”) cores listed with a peak clock rate of 2.8 GHz

> If you start Python and ask it how many CPU cores you have, it will count both kinds of cores and report 20

> Note that because of the speed difference between the cores, you will want to ensure there is some form of dynamic scheduling in your application that can load balance between the different core types.

Sounds like a new type of hell where I now not only need to manage the threads themselves, but also take into account what type of core they run on, and Python straight up report them as the same.

> There’s probably LOTS of vulns in copilot

Probably exactly why they "determined" it to be out of scope :)

There wasn't any instructions how the author got ollama/llama.cpp, could possibly be something nvidia shipped with the DGX Spark and is an old version?

I remember many similar cycles of having different browsers open side-by-side, and trying to pinpoint (without the developer tools we know and love today) the exact reason why one border was one pixel in one browser, and two pixels in the other, throwing the whole layout off.

Also remembering when Firebug for Firefox appeared, and made so many things so much easier. Suddenly things that took hours took days, and it was so much easier when you had some introspection tools.

> defining AGI as matching the cognitive versatility and proficiency of a well-educated adult

Seems most of the people one would encounter out in the world might not posses AGI, how are we supposed to be able to train our electrified rocks to have AGI if this is the case?

If no one has created a online quiz called "Are you smarter than AGI?" yet based on the proposed "ten core cognitive domains", I'd be disappointed.

People use separate computers for wide range of reasons. My desktop isn't always running Linux for example, or even from the same partition always, and to run something 24/7 I need to host it not on my for-work desktop. I also run some less trusted software on separate server and network than say Home Assistant and Frigate.

I think it's broken, yeah. I think the whole "art for money" thing doesn't make sense in general and something else has to be figured out. Artists should be able to survive without depending on things like "perfectly competitive goods" or whatever.

> I bet if something like that happened, it'd quickly soar to $0.2 an episode in the next year, then slowly creep up more and more

Yeah probably, until they find the point where more people leave because it's too expensive than they'll earn by raising prices, then they'll oscillate or find a new direction. Isn't that how capitalism is supposed to work?

Let me pay $0.1 for each episode I watch, make everything available and route to the right entity that should be paid and then offer one cross-platform client that everyone pooled their efforts into. And since we're dreaming, make it a open collaboration with a FOSS client too.

I'd predict most of the piracy would again disappear quickly as long as it's better, faster and has virtually everything people wanna watch. Basically replicate what Spotify did, but more open, so closer to what Grooveshark tried to do I guess.

> Even if you subscribed to them all you'd still not have everything

And even if you could get all the video itself, it's not guaranteed you'd get the right video+audio+subtitles combination that you want, as everything seems to be negotiated separately.

So while one service could offer the right audio and the right video but not the subtitles you want, another service could have the right video and the right subtitles but instead be dubbed without original audio.

It became a whole mess for people and eventually it was again simpler to just resort to piracy for the even the slightly technical consumers.

> The cost of creating new computers has got to be pretty high to the environment

But aren't those made regardless if the people with old computers upgrade to them or not? I guess over time, they'll make less if people buy less, but the ones we'd purchase today has already been made, and might as well replace less energy efficient devices than just being added to the global count.