quietpain
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Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
I recently installed the STM32 Cube IDE from ST [1] and discovered that it contains a stealth binary of Google's Chrome in my home directory. The fans started spinning and I found the culprit pretty fast, but if you delete the Chrome executable in the double-hidden directory it just gets installed again at the next run of the IDE.
I wonder what percentage of market share can be attributed to this kind of clients that are used not for browsing but for lazily loading some web interface or product page.
[1] https://www.st.com/en/development-tools/stm32cubeide.html
Comment · 2 years ago
The downside is that it would probably just end up increasing fringe and dangerous behaviors
Comment · 2 years ago
The world of publishing is certainly seeing the attempts for such an llm:
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/24/1159286436/ai-chatbot-chatgpt...
And I do wonder how difficult it is now. We have datasets like libgen and Anna’s Archive … are there public llm’s out there that have been trained in this way?
Comment · 2 years ago
I suggest we add its origin to the SETI list.
One of my pet theories is that the Fermi paradox is due to cloaking of extraterrestrial civilisations. We’re not entitled to observing them, and as a result the mass and energy of the universe doesn’t add up. Hence black matter and black energy.
Comment · 3 years ago
One of the comments got me intrigued, and wow:
"OptiNAND uses a large non-volatile memory on the drive. It optimizes write performance by using DRAM as a cache. So, when the drive is powered up, performance is on par with WCE, well it is WCE technically as DRAM caching is enabled.
In the event of an emergency power off (EPO), the contents of DRAM are written to non-volatile memory (NVM) using the power of the spinning disk, so the data is protected. Since NVM can hold the data for a very long time without needing power , as soon as the drive is powered up again , the data can be transferred from NVM to the drive."
https://pnpdxb.com/blogs/hdd-2/what-is-wd-armorcache-and-opt...
Comment · 3 years ago
If there's even a diode worth of band-gap technology in there: yes, ageing would be demonstrably different in a device that lived a couple of decades longer. The crystal lattice is not set in stone and atoms move around.
Comment · 3 years ago
The car would be authentic, built in 1967. What the person is asking is whether there's a technique to distinguish a car from 1967 from a sibling that was brought back from 2036.
Comment · 3 years ago
Why is this subject giving me Silicon Valley season 2 flashbacks with every update?
Comment · 3 years ago
It sounded nice
Comment · 3 years ago
So every plane, train and automobile that went missing in the past 9 years did so without this system offering help?
Comment · 3 years ago
In Europe the entire mains grid is synchronised - the smallest deviation in fase & frequency is the same. It’s fairly straightforward to sync them with this distributed reference clock.
Comment · 3 years ago
I thought that antibiotics would have a detrimental effect on an animal’s growth since it wreaks havoc with the intestinal ecosystem.
Has there been any research to determine why growth improves with diminished gut bacteria?
Comment · 3 years ago
...our validation pipeline produced an interesting assertion...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P0D4Ph_yRYM