Baikal went bankrupt in 2023 because they used TSMC for chip production.
Elbrus is barely hanging on but it’s helplessly far behind, you can’t really run a modern DE and browse modern web on anything but their flagship Elbrus-16C, but that’s made for servers, AFAIK there are no “desktop” form-factor motherboards for it at all, and it’s exceptionally pricy compared to competition.
I think a more likely outcome is that russia starts bulk-purchasing chinese CPUs soon.
You can technically remain conscious and in control of your body for a few seconds after your heart stops, while there’s still enough oxygen in your brain and muscles. So there’s nothing theoretically stopping this from happening. I don’t know if this has happened at any point, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it did.
I think you’re joking, but in case you’re not… This is just like the paradox of tolerance, everyone has a right to privacy and freedom but if they violate other’s rights, society will in exchange take away theirs. We don’t (generally) call imprisoned criminals “victims of kidnapping” either.
While I don’t disagree in general that the landing gear was above everyone on the ground, it was still an extremely low landing and came really close to a disaster. Here’s a still from a higher-quality video
FTR the “ILS RDH” (Instrument Landing System Reference Datum Height, i.e. how high the plane will be on its glide path at runway threshold) is stipulated to be between 15 m and 18 m. It is set to that height specifically to balance between a safe vertical separation to ILS antennae or other obstacles before the threshold and maximizing the landing distance. The plane was definitely below 15 m even before runway threshold, so it was a low landing for sure. I couldn’t find a report published about this incident, so I don’t know what the actual “threshold crossing height” was here.
Also similar to the BMW heated seats nonsense.
Yeah exactly, I’m hearing americans almost brag about 60-70 hr workweeks (excluding commutes) and that just sounds insane to me. Like, when do you live? When do you do hobbies, enjoy nature, or go out with your partner? Can’t do it with like 2-3 hours you really have left after an 11 hour work day.
Humanity would be perfectly capable of establishing a 30 hr workweek if capitalists didn’t suck out every last drop of human labor from us.
BTW rejecting cars is also something that intelligent and rational people can/should do.
Because it is the correct use of the word. It is the american conservative propaganda machine which gave it the negative connotations.
Being antifascist matches at least two definitions of radical: “Favoring fundamental change, or change at the root cause of a matter” and “(slang) Excellent; awesome”
Can’t believe this is the only mention of Conquest of Bread and Capital here. They are what turned my intuition of “the we’ve structured society seems unfair” into at least some basic understanding of the reality around me.
Although I think for most people (myself included) radicalization mostly comes from lived experiences rather than anything you read.
There is an near-infinite expanse of stuff to learn in every direction you look. Human knowledge and culture is a fractal, even when you think you know everything about a subject there’s always more to be surprised by or to do.
I’ve recently been reading up on cryptography. That part of software engineering alone can take years to catch up with the latest post-quantum developments.
There is also always some basic shit which you forget with time. I need to re-read The Art of Computer Programming at some point.
If you just pipe an LLM straight into a feedback loop with a console, it is going to destroy things rather soon, depending on the context window and other factors. All the agentic fluff is basically the workaround for LLMs going off the rails.
Pipe it into root on your laptop for a couple days and see how it fares.
I have a black long-sleeve and a white long-sleeve which both promise SPF-50 (I don’t really trust them fully but they do seem to work well enough). The black one definitely feels hotter in the sun.
Basically it’s either ambivalent (if you’re not in direct sunlight or the clothes are thick and loose so they don’t transfer most of the absorbed heat to you) or white wins.
That doesn’t make any sense, sure it will reflect slightly more heat from your body back inside but that is negligible because the vast majority of body cooling happens due to convection and/or evaporative cooling and/or “contact cooling” depending on heat/humidity/how loose your clothes are. Radiation plays very little effect in that cooling.
Basically consider this: your body is emitting black-body radiation at 310K, and the sun is emitting black-body radiation at 6000K (+ a bunch of other radiation coming from all the fusion happening inside). Which one is a more important factor when you’re deciding the reflectivity of the shield between yourself and the rest of the universe?
Nah, LLMs are pretty useful for a wide range of tasks. I would grant them the status of “locally intelligent for text manipulation”. They can find patterns, transform, compress, and even generate text pretty well if you formulate the prompt correctly.
The problem with them is two-fold:
Wars in the Middle East start sounding more and more like statistics that no one really wants to hear about
Has this not been the case for the past 25 years already? No real need for “AI” when you already have an obedient and trigger-happy military with plenty of remote-controlled toys and your populace is brainwashed to believe “brown person = terrorist”.
way less soldiers to choose to disregard unlawful orders
What is the last known case of a US soldier disregarding an unlawful order? If anything, the military is full of assholes who are happy to kill for fun. See: Graham Platner
Will AI make it easier and/or cheaper? Probably, sadly. But it won’t be a qualitative change.
five minutes earlier: “hey dude, marketing here. if you quit and post this dramatic text about the inevitability of AGI on your X account you’ll get a huge golden parachute”.
Seriously, how can competent people look at the current state of LLMs and think that it’s anywhere near AGI material?
Sure, it is already making civilizational changes for the worse. Not because it’s good, rather because it makes us lazy and dumb, has decimated creative jobs, and is used relentlessly for propaganda and misinformation and scams. And it’s much better at using the scaffolding of existing structure to make chaos, than it is at making new structure, making it a weapon more easily yielded by the evil than by the good. A few more software vulnerabilities discovered along the way will not be such a big deal in comparison.
I think it’s more about how this doesn’t follow the usual rule for adjective agreement. By that rule it would be le manteau blanc / la veste blance, but that sounds weird and un-French I suppose so “blanche” it is. (I don’t know French very well so take this all with a grain of salt)
By that definition all printers are also 3D printers.
Contributions from russians make up a sizeable portion of Linux and GNU tooling. A myriad of foundational software, from nginx to strace, were created and are currently maintained by russian citizens.
While there has been a lot of brain drain (hello), russia is still a country of 140 million people and the remains of great soviet theoretical education. In such conditions there will be both a bunch computer science geniuses and a small army of half-competent coders which would allow you to roll your own OS, let alone a distro, if the efforts were organized enough.