> The software had a built-in limit of 200 bot detection features. The enlarged file contained more than 200 entries. The software crashed when it encountered the unexpected file size.

A built in limit is:

if ( rule_count > 200 )
    log_urgent('rule count exceeded')
    break
else
    rule_count++
    process_rule

This sounds like it did not have a built-in limit but rather walked off the end of an array or something when the count went over 200.

Reread prior comment as necessary.

This is still something Slashdot needs to fix because it doesn't just crop up for people confused by multiple mouse buttons, it's also a thing for anyone copying and pasting portions of articles with quotations in them.

Right. It was a fuckup. And moreover, it was anti-developer and anti-consumer. Yet we're supposed to worship His Holy Turtleneck and address our ills with juice fasts in His name.

Thanks for admitting that you're shit.

TMI 1 was finished April 19, 1974, on a Babcock and Wilcox PWR design. It's far past it's life expectancy. Indeed, it got another 20 years in 2009.
1 billion is just for starters.

Unit 2 was gutted and it's the same PWR design from B&W.

In general, I approve of nuclear power generation, but not this particular B&W PWR design, since it's proven to fail.

Add that these systems require huge amounts of cooling water, and that there are competing demands between people, agriculture, other industry, data centers, and power plants on that water. The water is bad enough, but providing power to more AI D.C.s will increase everyone's power bill. Which is, in essence, is exactly what the phrase "Privatizing the profit and socializing the cost" means.

I think the only "government loan" that didn't turn into a handout was for Chrysler, and that only happened because they were building tanks at the time. Certainly most of the Trump COVID loans were forgiven, especially those handed out to politicians (to be fair, of BOTH parties.) Remember how Solyndra controversy went bust and put egg on the faces of the democrats that backed that. And how the Cato institute suddenly stopped comment on it, and later, 45 issues a few pardons to folks that at first blush, don't seem to have ties to that, but a little digging....
Politics is fascinating when one studies the round about way sooner or later everyone winds up in everyone else's bed, but it's you and me that get screwed. I think we can agree that we need to yank all trading rights to politicians while in office, and for 5 years afterward. Might be a good thing too to stop trying to be the bank for some of these loans. A shame that, because there are more than a few that I feel are worth it, but it's the others that are duds that spoil it for everyone.

Sure, they had to sell their stock, including the parts needed to make the machines. At that time they were also still at least assembling them.

It's different from humans in that human opinions, expertise and intelligence are rooted in their experience. Good or bad, and inconsistent as it is, it is far, far more stable than AI. If you've ever tried to work at a long running task with generative AI, the crash in performance as the context rots is very, very noticeable, and it's intrinsic to the technology. Work with a human long enough, and you will see the faults in his reasoning, sure, but it's just as good or bad as it was at the beginning.

IIci September 1989, Quadra 700 October 1991, in almost the same case. Two years, one month.

That statement was stupid, even absurd the first times that it was used — by the Reich wing. The entire reason I'm still using it when speaking to them is to rub their noses in how fucking stupid it was.

You're two steps behind me as usual, but at least you're getting there.

Insert Travolta looking around meme here. This is me, looking for fucks.

When in the history of humanity has there not been a big problem coming? Or occurring, for that matter.

If the airlines are acting as a de facto division of the government by providing them with your personal data, then they should be treated as such. That means they should follow simple rules for protecting PII like collecting and retaining the minimum needed.

You mean like when he claimed the iPhone would be all webapps?

Let's face it, Jobs' only superpower was being a super dick to employees. This can only take you so far.

Since he's living rent-free in your head, can we assume you're the one responsible for the rsilvergun-impersonating LLM spam?

Correct. This is why I don't like the term "hallucinate". AIs don't experience hallucinations, because they don't experience anything. The problem they have would more correctly be called, in psychology terms "confabulation" -- they patch up holes in their knowledge by making up plausible sounding facts.

I have experimented with AI assistance for certain tasks, and find that generative AI absolutely passes the Turing test for short sessions -- if anything it's too good; too fast; too well-informed. But the longer the session goes, the more the illusion of intelligence evaporates.

This is because under the hood, what AI is doing is a bunch of linear algebra. The "model" is a set of matrices, and the "context" is a set of vectors representing your session up to the current point, augmented during each prompt response by results from Internet searches. The problem is, the "context" takes up lots of expensive high performance video RAM, and every user only gets so much of that. When you run out of space for your context, the older stuff drops out of the context. This is why credibility drops the longer a session runs. You start with a nice empty context, and you bring in some internet search results and run them through the model and it all makes sense. When you start throwing out parts of the context, the context turns into inconsistent mush.