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Comment · 3 days ago
A few weeks ago I was cleaning out some old boxes and found an envelope with SO and coding horror stickers, my Irish address was hand written and had Jeffs home address as a return address. SO was an amazing resource and I will be forever grateful that it existed.
Comment · 4 days ago
Will local AI eventually pull the proverbial rug out from under the big providers and the huge sums invested in building out data centers?
Comment · 18 days ago
Not sure if my interpretation here makes any sense but here it is. Due to relativity time slows down on the ship, the laser is still hitting the ship, how would the measurement of the energy received from the laser be perceived on the ship, from the ships perspective a 1000 years worth of energy arrives within a few decades. My head hurts thing about this. If you had a ship that could instantly jump to 0.5c travelling away from earth and we beamed a message using a laser at say 1Gb/s, how would the bandwidth appear to the ship?
Comment · 1 month ago
Hindsight as they say is 2020 and in early 2020 I bought Nvidia shares as I figured a lot people wouldn't have much to do except play games, sold them in 2022 as I thought there won't be many people upgrading their rigs as things got back to normal and there won't be much demand for graphics cards, made money, could have made more, oh well!
Comment · 1 month ago
Could/should not every incident after the discovery of the first incident be considered criminal negligence? What happens when an agent eventually causes material damage to another company, government systems, banking, critical infrastructure etc, surely the source company is guilty of something and if not disclosed or a coverup is attempted is that not conspiracy. From the victims perspective they don't care if the source is OpenAI or Russian hackers.
Comment · 1 month ago
I wanted to take a look at Boomi.com but couldn't sign up with gmail, turned on email forwarding for a parked domain to get past it. Stupid behaviour if you are trying to sell a product.
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Comment · 3 months ago
The HuggingFace report mentions decoy activities, does this mean it tried to cover its tracks or obfuscate what it did?
Comment · 3 months ago
I'm curious why you think China will decline or be eliminated, I always thought that China was a reliable as a production/trading partner and that they planned for decades ahead with programs like Belt and Road Initiative unlike western politics that only looks as far as the next election. Very open to correction on this though, thinking about it not sure what formed my opinion on this.

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