If the hardware is still present, but is disabled, you're still carrying around the hardware. Most importantly, you're probably still powering its logic even if it's inaccessible to you.

BMW, like most German cars, is overcomplicated and overpriced garbage sold only to self-proclaimed car enthusiasts who wouldn't know how to change a tire let alone a timing chain. BMW got themselves into a bit of controversy by including heated seats which only functioned by subscription.

Now, say I had bought a BMW but didn't want the heated seats. I don't pay for the subscription. There's no additional cost to me, the purchaser of the car, because the profit from the people who do opt for the subscription are the ones paying the cost of the extra hardware in my car, correct?

Wrong. I am now carrying around an extra-beefy alternator to power the heated seats. I am now carrying around all the extra wiring to power the heated seats. All of this impacts my performance and my fuel efficiency. And all of this extra complexity adds a failure liability when something damages part of the heated seat hardware. All for a feature I specifically did not ask for by refusing the subscription.

With a disabled chunk of logic embedded in a processor, is it a negligible cost and a negligible risk? Maybe, but as the purchaser, it's crap that I didn't ask for, and you are imposing on me. If I have to carry it around and power it up, I expect to be able to use it.

If the manufacturer doesn't want to supply a feature then they should not supply the hardware. Leave the spots on the circuit board unpopulated. In the case of a chip, leave it off the die.

There's nothing like a good smack to the beitzim to stop a would-be rapist. And there's nothing like biting someone if it's all the leverage you have.

Remember, this is not a video game or a sanctioned fight in a boxing ring. This is your life versus the life of a terrorist or other attacker. Kill or be killed. Learn to fight.

As an extra bonus, it turns out, bitcoin mining rigs are a crucial part of the cat distribution system. Ah, the great circle of internet life.

I can confirm, slashdot isn't working for me either.


/jk , relax Maurice.

And returning to Earth safely?
Returning to Earth safely, right?

Reflecting on that is instructive. Either:

• there is an easy way to verify that LLM output was real and verifiable and useful, and if we implement that, we eliminate the useless or incorrect outputs, making the LLMs way more useful,
• there is an easy way to verify that LLM output was real and verifiable and useful, but if we implement that, we show that all the answers are either incorrect or useless, and people lose confidence in the LLM, or
• there is no easy way to verify that the LLM output is real and verifiable and useful, and we're stuck having to verify the slop manually.

The fact that the verification processes haven't been implemented, means that either there is no way to verify the output, or the verification process would reduce confidence in the output rather than increasing it.

Now it's possible that there is *currently* no way to verify the output, but that we might come up with a good verification process in the future. Once we're in that future, we can then take the chance that we end up on the first possibility.

So this is Geniza from between the First and Second Temple? Sorry, just had to ask. :)

That skill proved useful in his later career.

The previous washing machine I had (a Hoover from 2017) had that behaviour - I could never understand it. Not even pressing any buttons could get it to unlock earlier.

The new washing machine I just bought (which happens to be an LG) seems like it's even worse - after the tune, the machine stays locked and rotates the drum every couple of minutes, for what feels like forever, but is probably around 20 or 30 minutes. But this appears to be a hidden "feature", as it unlocks immediately if you press the start/pause button after the tune has played. I assume the idea is to rotate the clothes to prevent damp spots in the middle.

We MUST be able to inspect and age verify every AI slop porn image to protect the fictional children!

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Have they done any long-term testing yet? How long does this paint last, is it cost-effective?

More details omitted by The Guradian -
The company created to commercialize the technology
Press Release from the University of Sydney

That's my opinion too.

Unfortunately, after a certain amount of actual progress we are now regressing again.

Yeah, we have a long history of not practicing what we preach.

Remember when the USA took pride in being a melting pot?