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Comment · 1 month ago
I'm sure this chip will be the epitome of security just like the Intel ME chip was and will be completely unhackable so it's okay to give this watchdog chip unfettered access to every level of the system.

Nothing bad will happen.

Comment · 4 months ago
The hardware, the power systems, the cooling systems. They need maintenance.

The OS needs updates, file systems get corrupted.

Fans get dirty.

All the things that you need to deal with in hosting your own server infrastructure you have to deal with when hosting your own AI infrastructure (which runs on servers...)

Comment · 4 months ago
The opposite of that has been happening for 20 years now with cloud compute.

It won't happen with AI models either.

It's almost ingrained in the American business model now. Outsource everything. Nobody wants to manage a room full of servers when they can spend 2-3x as much and outsource that headache along with the responsibility for it.

Same will happen with AI. Whether that means paying Anthropic that premium or paying AWS.

I'm in a relatively small business, we recently had an outage related to our local infrastructure.

I got pressure from the CEO saying it wasn't reliable to host our own infrastructure anymore even though our total internal down time over the last 5 years is significantly less than even a single of the larger recent AWS outages.

Everyone wants to shuck the chore and the responsibility.

Comment · 4 months ago
The Mark of the Beast
Comment · 5 months ago
Do you do consulting?

Please reach out to me if so.

My username at gmail

Comment · 6 months ago
"They can't remove it without knowing who the warrant is for" is absolutely Flocks problem.

They're alerting on a license plate but yet somehow they can't turn off that license plate alert using just the license plate number? Fucking bullshit

Comment · 6 months ago
MEGA is now headquartered in Hungary...who until very recently was run by someone very much aligned with the far right movement.
Comment · 6 months ago
GrapheneOS still does this -- allows controlling internet access on a per-app basis.
Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
This absolutely demands the attention of every American
Comment · 7 months ago
yes. it's an argument that since EVs are heavier than fossil-fuel vehicles due to their batteries, that they generate more particulate emissions (brakes/tire dust) than fossil-fuel vehicles.

it's a wrong argument, but it's still circulated in groups of factually-challenged people

Comment · 7 months ago
ev particulate is identical if not less than fossil fuel.

same tires (actually a little harder due to being LRR tires) same brakes (that get used significantly less thanks to regenerative braking)

Comment · 8 months ago
Comment · 9 months ago
It's infinitely better than HDA2 at tracking and maintaining lanes.

HDA2 cuts out if there is a break in lines more than 50ft or so.

Openpilot can track the slightest of roads, even able to follow off-road the tracks in grass from a leading car.

It does basically everything HDA2 does and then some, and does it much better.

It has a driver-monitoring camera that you control, that monitors for inattentiveness which is much more effective than simple wheel-torque based sensors.

Comment · 10 months ago
The hardest thing about splicing fiber is not splicing fiber(at least not anymore)

It's cable management and routing to keep things from kinking and breaking while accounting for cable flexing, thermal expansion, and unforseen circumstances like another company lashing their cables to yours for vertical support.

All while maintaining future serviceability

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