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Comment Re:$1.73 - is that the price or the actual cost? (Score 1) 27

Nothing. $103/hr for a superhuman employee or $10.30/hr for a superhuman employee.

If it's boosting employee efficiency by 50% as claimed in another Slashdot story above then assuming your Sr. Engineer makes $250,000 a year / 48 weeks / 8hr days = $650/day. + 50% for AI means you're getting an extra $325/day in work from the employee.

They could run 10x costs for 3 hours a day and break-even. But the average is currently way less than 3hr/day. Claude claims the average developer consumes $13/day in tokens. So even if we 10x that it's $130/Tokens per day vs $325/day in productivity.

Comment Re: Rebecca Watson covered this on YouTube (Score 1) 226

DJI just released an e-bike platform where the firmware lets you pick what Class of e-bike you want it to be in the menu. And that takes like 2 seconds to change. So, you're supposed to put a sticker on it labeling what class you picked, but then you also are supposed to be able to use unlimited power on private property and then go into the menu and de-tune it to ride on the road.

Comment Re:Oh no! (Score 1) 89

The practical application IMO is a glorified cubicle. I just want to be able to put on a headset, and have a wireless keyboard and mouse with a 32" 4k monitor anywhere I need to go.

Laptop screens are way too constrictive and the ergonomics are atrocious. But we're still a long way off from 32" 4k display equivalent VR.

Comment Re:Abundance (Klein and Thompson book) on this (Score 2) 198

There is also the problem of maintaining approval over the duration of a project. If voters approved something and couldn't ever be messed with then things would proceed more smoothly. But if at any moment its popularity drops below 50% suddenly it gets defunded and dies and is nearly impossible to revive.

I've seen several infrastructure jobs suffer this fate. It gets approved, then during planning and development voters change their mind and the project is shutdown. Then a couple years later voters change their mind again but it's too late everybody has moved on and you have to start the whole process over again.

When projects take a decade or more, that means it has to survive the political winds for an eternity.

Comment Missing Market Segment (Score 1) 180

What we're really missing today is Tape. Iomega Ditto was impressive because it brought tape to the consumer segment. Today, Enterprise has tape but there's no good way for your average photographer or prosumer to have cheap backups of their data.

I have about 2TB of photos that I've accumulated and there's no easy backup option except for very fragile external HDDs.

Comment Re:Guessing the explanation (Score 1) 48

Don't even have to go very far. The company responses say exactly what's going on. (d) the law doesn't say we can't create cookies unrelated to ad tracking.

âoeGlobal Privacy Controls only restricts certain uses of third-party data and allows website operators to override GPC signals, and we offer the Limited Data Use feature to help websites indicate what permissions they have. When data is transmitted to us with the LDU flag, we restrict the use of that dataâ

we opt the user out of sharing personal data with third parties for personalized advertisingâ a Microsoft spokesperson said. âoeCertain Microsoft cookies are necessary for operational purposes, and may therefore be placed and read even when a GPC signal is detected.â

Comment Electron-positron pair production (Score 1) 57

This is new with quarks but old (1948) for electron-positron pairs, though it may otherwise have been explained by the breaking of a pair with a virtual lifetime back then. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... for references. This is can happen in empty space, though it was first observed close to nuclei where the fields are strong and the two particles can be separated more easily.

Comment Some gold coins buri in a lot of weak circumstance (Score 1) 85

The arguments are pretty broad, and it does seem the author worked back from a conclusion toward proof which in statistics doesn't work.

Being interested in decentralized currency and being a libertarian are essentially a Venn diagram that's a perfect circle. There were numerous other examples where the author would have concluded the average late 90s Slashdotter created Bitcoin because that was just your average neckbeard from the era, nothing unique to Satoshi. I was ready to just write off the whole article based on this extremely flimsy correlation.

The writing analysis comes down to a fundamental flaw. They chose a number of idiosyncrasies and then judged all candidates on those idiosyncrasies using the AI. But we don't know that those are the only idiosyncrasies of writing. Maybe only 1 author wrote both "email" and "e-mail" but maybe 1 other author only commonly misused "analogy" vs "metaphor" but since that person wasn't Back, they were ignored.

However , that all being said in defense of sloppy research. I can say with 100% confidence that a Giant Fucking Nerd that spends months, years and endless nights on a message board or mailing list don't usually just disappear. They especially don't just disappear at the exact moment that their biggest passion project suddenly finally heats up and gets popular. They got him dead to rights it's him. I need no more convinced.

If I'm a giant fucking e-currency nerd, I've created my own proof of work currency in the past (one of only a handful of people) and discussed/debated/thought about e-currencies like mine... and then suddenly someone finally actually starts on a viable implementation that's actually attracting a lot of attention... I would need welfare checks to make sure I wasn't dead because I would be following it so obsessively. Black even mentions that this happened while he was writing his dissertation with PGP... and he didn't even contribute to PGP. But we're supposed to believe that something as important (or more) that aligns with your politics and builds on your own work--going so far as to cite it as an inspiration... just isn't interesting enough for you to bother discussing?! Yeah lol no.

Comment Re:Anyone got examples (Score 1) 61

Y2Claude

And yes they posted at least one example:

https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/Op...

several sections throughout this post we discuss vulnerabilities in the abstract, without naming a specific project and without explaining the precise technical details. We recognize that this makes some of our claims difficult to verify. In order to hold ourselves accountable, throughout this blog post we will commit to the SHA-3 hash of various vulnerabilities and exploits that we currently have in our possession.[3] Once our responsible disclosure process for the corresponding vulnerabilities has been completed (no later than 90 plus 45 days after we report the vulnerability to the affected party), we will replace each commit hash with a link to the underlying document behind the commitment.

Comment Re:My inner editor is incensed. (Score 1) 41

Isolate should be capitalized as Cloudflareâ Isolate©. They're probably running out of synonyms for Sandbox, Container, Jail, Cage, Cell, Vault, Pod, etc... And has the side effect of also being an homage to oldschool Science Fiction (Isaac Asimov The Foundation which probably has the word "Isolate" as a noun used more per page than any non-scientific book in history).

Comment Re:Of course Apple knows the real email ... (Score 1) 90

It could be done in a way that Apple does not know the key and is technologically unable to comply. But for such a low stakes system they would obviously never go through the trouble as it would cause more user friction than it's worth.

(You could have a privacy email be created as a totally unique auth key that's just stored offline on a User's apple computers and synced via an encrypted storage system).

Of course Apple could still associate source IPs for logins between multiple accounts.

Comment Self-Review (Score 1) 73

I feel like a good idea for this sort of thing if it's going to be deployed is include the applicant in the loop.

"Hi, your application will be rejected because:
* You list your qualifications as an electrician, not a medical expert.

If this anything is in error and you want to continue with your submission, please explain the error below and click "Contest" attesting that you believe this to be in error and someone will be sure to review more carefully."

Even without AI it would be nice for job application forms to let applications know that they're just going to get tossed automatically regardless of the automated system. In fact it should be against the law to discard applications automatically without allowing an application to review the criteria by which they were automatically rejected regardless of it being algorithmic or fuzzy AI.

Comment Re:Potential dangers (Score 1) 92

I came here to look for this and add it if I didn't find it.

Lunar "soil" is essentially neutral, just needs some additives. Conversely, Martian "soil" is actually poisonous. Additives alone aren't sufficient to get things to grow in it, you need to remove the poisonous parts first.

Net: It's easier to grow plants in lunar rather than Martian "soil".

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