worewood

> learn a little bit about bit narrow the tolerances of modern cars and bridges are

Buildings typically use a safety factor of 1.5 to 2.0, and cars typically use a safety factor of 2.0 to 3.0. These things are being built twice as strong as they need to be. I wouldn't call that narrow.

And with software, we're at a point where it can't even properly do what it needs to. If we were overbuilding it, damn software wouldn't crash so much.

AI may cause harm in the same way a screwdriver can cause harm, if someone stabs himself in the eye with it.

The AI _corporations_ must be regulated, not the technology itself. But that's not what they're advocating for. Big techs are trying to get a ban on general purpose computing so everyone has to pay them a tax to do anything related to computers. Imagine needing a license (edit: i.e. a special govt permission) to run a local model at home.

There was a recent vulnerability, where researchers were able to extract information from an encrypted chat session from an LLM, by analyzing packet size/timings of the underlying SSL connection. A classic side-channel attack. Seems possible to draw a parallel between the two.

A badly programmed Kalman filter perhaps

They could've blocked just the comments, allowing at least read-only access to the site, instead of blocking it off entirely

If you run emulated Windows 98 in the browser with e.g. v86, it is faster to open the start menu on the emulated Windows 98 than on the real Windows 11 running it. Windows user experience really went downhill after 7.

The entire text reads like multiple AI-produced excerpts glued together

In that case you issue a recall, which is the correct way of dealing with potentially fatal manufacturing defects.

I think users wouldn't be so resistant to security updates of they were just that and not bundled with feature removal, unwanted new features, and other things.

Or if they were properly done. Example: Intel and the plundervolt vulnerability. To fix that they removed the ability for undervolting in ny laptop. If I don't use SGX there's no reason for the block. They could've restricted undervolting only when SGX is enabled but no, they had to "fix" it in the worst way possible.

Maybe just re-tuning the timing, if he's using high performance sticks. Because parts are hard to get by where I live, I usually stick 10+ years with a PC. With usage I found that I have to relax the timings a bit after some years.

Encrypted Client Hello and DNS over HTTPS.

My experience with academia is that most of this hard work is done by undergrads, and conception and management by professors; developers aren't hired to do this. So besides "going back to school", there's no way in for an outsider.

Except that driving at a speed significantly different from the surrounding traffic increases the risk of a crash.

There is a tension, but it's between paying enough to developers to actually produce decent code or pay a 3rd-party to firewall the application.

environmental "awareness" doesn't mean dog poo; environment-friendly will only be prioritized when it's cheaper to do so. That's why government subsidies and taxing are REQUIRED.

The western world should have subsidized it too, now you can't dismiss it because it wasn't organic--because it NEVER would be organic.