MadnessASAP

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Comment · 2 days ago
Would you mind sharing your editor and magic recipe?
Comment · 3 days ago
It also requires a significant degree of willfull negligence. So in this case the criminal would be anyone who had deposited funds in Binance.
Comment · 4 days ago
I also speculate that OpenAI and Anthropic will crater, but I also expect that the market will remain irrational much longer then anyone shorting it today will remain solvent.

So yes, I believe it's going to leave a smoking hole in the ground, but I won't be betting money on it.

Comment · 12 days ago
I don't know if it will work on something as small as a private key, but you can compress the key. If the compressed key is significantly smaller then the original, it lacks entropy. Pure random data is mostly incompressible.

Note that 32 0x00 is a possible output from a pure random generator while still being quite compressible, you would probably still want to throw that one out though. After buying a lottery ticket.

Comment · 16 days ago
My intent was to demonstrate the impossibility of establishing clear guidelines on what a computer should or should not be able to do because of the subjectivity of what is acceptable. I want my computer to do everything I want it to do and nothing that I don't want it to do. I don't expect that that is an achievable goal.

I guess you could say I failed the "TuringTest"

Comment · 16 days ago
I don't find reports like this that surprising, they told an agent to do "whatever it takes" and the agent attempted to do everything it could to accomplish the goal. I'm almost of the mindset that this is correct behavior. If I tell a computer to do something, it should do it unless the result could be catastrophic in which case it should tell me so. If I then "sudo" (https://xkcd.com/149/) tell it to do something then it should do it regardless, torpedoes be damned.

That being said, ever since the first user sat at a computer they didn't design, build, and program themselves there's been a tension between what the user wants to accomplish, what the user told the computer to do, what the computer can do, what the people who did design/build/program/own the computer want it to do, and what society thinks the computer should be allowed to do. I don't have a generally applicable answer, I don't think anyone does, I just want to live in a world where MY computer does what I tell it to do... mostly. Unless it would be catastrophic, or immoral, at least immoral by my standards.

Comment · 1 month ago
So two issues. Fist, the lack of mathematical rigour in law and policy is generally considered a feature, not a bug. Second, if the state is unwilling to compel action or enforce punishment from/on the entity in the wrong (Rodin in this case) then it does not matter at all how compelling or rigorous the argument is.

Which in Rodin's case is what happened, the author did get a judgement ordering Rodin to turn over the data, they refused, the author then went back to the courts to force them to act. The court decided it didn't want to despite the prior judgement.

Comment · 1 month ago
And what happens when they say 1+1 doesn't equal 2 and ignore any objections?
Comment · 1 month ago
It could just be that effect where when you see something once (again) you start seeing it everywhere, but I've seen a recent uptick in administration for old control rooms on the internet recently and I appreciate it.

In the age of digital clouds we've lost the tactile experience of managing the infrastructure we rely on to (IMHO) our own detriment.

I would like to imagine that if pushing a change to production meant a development had to walk down a wall of cabinets with blinking lights toggling chunky switches as they went the simple physicality of the act would be enough to make them pause and wonder if everything really was in order.

Comment · 1 month ago
Can confirm, radar signal processing is very bandwidth heavy and not suited to a typical CPU.

Can also confirm that it is generally regarded as impolite to talk too much about it!

Comment · 1 month ago
Radar is cheap now, thanks to semiconductors getting smaller and faster the analog front-end which used to be a long expensive chain of components is now much smaller, the ADC is now faster, more accurate, and cheaper, the processor is now fast enough to keep up with a higher bandwidth signal. You could probably drive a very rough radar system directly off a Pico's GPIO and ADC, maybe toss in a decently fast op-amp for a receive amplifier.

Where you will run into issues is processing radar signals into usable data. If you're happy with the results that radar was giving 30 years ago then it's fine and dandy, but the magic of modern radar is in the software, not the hardware.

Comment · 1 month ago
Wow! You managed to break almost every financial law and regulation in one go. That's amazing!
Comment · 1 month ago
I feel like it would be unfair to make them include the SVG decoder, the artical uses TypeScript and I believe that is a feature most runtimes (browsers) provide. However they do have to include the SVG files themselves. The Canadian flag from Wikimedia comes in at 699 bytes and France at 262 bytes. So I'm fairly confident that even with compression they'll be over 5kB
Comment · 1 month ago
(I fix airplanes, have been in aviation for 15 years)

Yes, it does. I can't speak universally but I would generally expect it to be a written rule, if not then at least it's the expectation.

Comment · 1 month ago
We should probably assume that the authors are aware of ceramics, Curie points, and the earth magnetic field. While the article isn't very clear on what effect causes the change in temperature needed to erase the VRM. I suspect is has something to do with how long the object has spent stationary with respect to the earth's field. At least that's my takeaway from having to periodically rotate magnetometers to prevent them from acquiring a bias.

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