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Comment · 16 days ago
Potentially becomes more viable in some locations. Or a future ice age.
Comment · 2 months ago
I work for a company that for years has had a very old-school, terminal style POS. Lots of key shortcuts. Like, black/white text terminal POS.

The folks who learn how to use it well navigate through it faster than the system can process their inputs.

The new system has lots of fancy GUI, but is slower, and the folks used to their shortcuts hate it. But it's so much faster to train people to use.

Comment · 2 months ago
It's absurd how the propaganda against green energy on certain political spectrums essentially turned into, "It's all money/cash grab for green energy companies!"

As if the established industry has no incentive in the opposite direction? Everyone is going to act in their best interests in this system, that's how it's designed, the whole point of government is to mediate the system in the best interests of the whole.

Comment · 4 months ago
>I have to point out stairs aren't typically made like this. That's a really complicated way to do it.

What do you mean? That's exactly how most residential stairs are built. Two to four stringers with risers and thread boards attached to them.

Granted, they will draw a template on one board and copy it to the others to make the stringers quickly well before mounting anything.

Comment · 4 months ago
>LLMs really aren't that impressive at pentesting

The point is that Mythos apparently is quite capable and has developed novel exploits on its own.

Comment · 9 months ago
You're looking at it incorrectly. LFS is an exercise in learning for the sake of it, and therefore, not a waste of time. This isn't intended to be easy, but to expose and teach you the lowest levels of creating a functioning install.
Comment · 9 months ago
How many of these scrapers are written by AI by data-science folks who don't remotely care how often they're hitting the sites, and is data they wouldn't even think to give or ask the LLM about?
Comment · 10 months ago
That presumes you can find someone to agree to those terms (which you won't), and if they do, that it isn't a prohibitively expensive fee (which it would be).
Comment · 10 months ago
There are a vast number of scientists in agreement with each other that it is not a nothingburger.

It takes nothing but stark intentional ignorance to make a statement like yours.

It absolutely boggles my mind at the suggestion that green energy is all profit seeking, as if the counterparties in big oil aren't also just as or more interested in maintaining status quo in the opposite direction. Yet I never see someone who expresses ideas like this recognize or acknowledge that.

Comment · 10 months ago
Will the AI let me make my taskbar vertical again?
Comment · 1 year ago
Almost certainly some kind of zero click/zero user action RCE exploit.

Edit: I should've read, "Impact: Processing a malicious image file may result in memory corruption."

So simply receiving an image via SMS or loading it in some other way likely accomplishes the initial exploit, so yeah, zero click exploit. Always bad.

Comment · 1 year ago
The Aspen trees provide ecosystem benefits to animals other than Elk-- birds, etc. Shorter grasses allow smaller animals to live and hide.

It's not choosing species we like as much as that there was previously an equilibrium all ecosystems trend towards, and our influence (killing the wolves) lead to significant ecosystem imbalances that hurt more than just wolves.

Comment · 1 year ago
I wouldn't say pre-human settlement, since Natives were in these areas for many years, but they didn't have the desire to mass hunt wolves (and culturally, would not do so). So pre-US colonialism, perhaps.

Philosophically though you're correct- humans very easily see themselves as "apart" from the environment, when really we're just another mammal doing our thing. We are nature as much as we are in it, even for all of our tools and manufacturing.

Comment · 1 year ago
From the first paragraph: "Without radar installations, it can be hard for port employees to detect small ships like those employed by pirates or by the terrorists who attacked the USS Cole in 2000"

I don't think this is intended to track the type of folks who leave their AIS broadcasting.

Comment · 1 year ago
K8s starts to make sense when you want to provide a common platform for a multitude of application developers to work on. Once you can understand it was born from Google's Borg and what problems they were trying to solve with both, the complexity behind it makes a lot more sense.

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