Two of my implants are passworded - the TOTP application in my Vivokey Apex and my Walletmor payment implant, which occasionally prompt payment terminals to ask my PIN - and guess what: I didn't forget them because they're kind of important. Duh...

No.

I recently restarted playing Skyrim and got stuck on some side quest. I asked Google's AI for help figuring out the next step. This is an old game with numerous full walk throughs available.

I told it the game, the quest name, the step I was stuck on, and asked for a console hack if it's a bug or directions if not.

Google responded with an answer to an entirely different game, told me I needed to kill some boss that doesn't exist in a place that doesn't exist.

I did a normal search after that, opened the first link with a title that looked ok and the answer was in the first paragraph.

There were numerous other links on Google's first page of search results that answered my question clearly. But Google's AI could not.

Google had the answer at hand. This is a rather old and well understood game with a large community of players who have posted a lot about every aspect.

Yet, Google's AI couldn't figure out what game I was playing, much less provide an answer, even after I explicitly told it what game I was playing.

If that's a human input error somehow then AI sucks if it can't figure out what I needed.

FakeAI is good for simple things like solving math problems, summarizing the weather report, and other trivia no one actually needs AI for but regularly fails for things we'd need and uses insane levels of electricity, compute power, space, and engineering effort to provide slop results.

I look forward to the AI bubble pop even if it temporarily kills the tech market and I take a big loss on paper in some funds.

Blaming the user for failing to cater to a system that makes the explicit claim of how smart the system is is total cope.

STOP forcing AI, cloud, and spyware as part of the OS or core software like Office. They're fine as optional add-ons for people who actually want this stuff.

What apartheid state has the minority population voting and membership in parliament?

Are you seriously saying Israel is no different than white South Africa? C'mon, that's just factually incorrect and trivially discovered with 5 seconds of google.

Israel is also not Pinochet's Chile. There is zero comparison.

By western standards Israel is doing as well as the typical European country. Do you think France's "no go" zones are healthy and proper for a functioning western democracy? They're ghettos where they stuck the Arab population they let over the border but didn't actually want as members of their society. How many of them are in France's parliament?

It's better to be an Arab living in Israel where they are citizens, can vote, hold power in parliament and have human rights than be a Jew in most any Arab country where most or all of those things are lacking depending on the country. And let's not forget what happened to the Jewish population in pretty much every Arab country across the Middle East.

"Ethnic cleansing" is the polite term for what happened.

Also, if you're lgbtq or anything else non conforming then you're again better off in Israel where you'd have rights and protections as opposed to having to hide and risk death if found out in most/all of the middle eastern Arab world.

You poor TDS sufferer. A post about how science advanced by admitting new information and you go off ranting about Trump and Christians. Have you considered that America isn't the country for you? We are a Christian nation and our constitution s fit for no other. Leave us. You do not belong here. We desire neither your arms nor your counsel. Go now and lick the hand that feeds ye, and may history forget ye were our countrymen.

He also said that Kamala planned to raise taxes by 400% (4x) during the debate, and the terminally credulous believed his nonsense.

The weird thing that I was in the same boat (15 years since basic algebra/calc, and it came back quickly even without remedial classes - and I was a C student in undergrad, likely due to latent ADHD). I was actually better off than many of the younger students who were only a few years post high school maths.

That's not terrible if they replace it with some kind of standard entrance exam to all of the UCs, as is often used in Europe - break the College Board cartel, but also maintain high admission standards.

You have to know what data to feed the AI verminator (and by the way, verminators still often bollocks up basic maths) and be able to gut check if the verminator's ruminations make sense. GIGO.

I've met people who literally reach for their smell phone or calculator to multiply something super simple like 8 * 2.

I wonder if cashlessness is part of the problem. Counting physical money and counting/checking change helps develop elementary arithmetic skills.

The solution for universities is to force them to learn - give paper exams, no calculator, but with "simple" numbers to have them practice basic math like 0.05mol / 0.5L = 0.1M solution. Make them develop a sense of numbers if they want to pass.

> Intelligence alone won't get us anywhere, or China and Israel would be the best places to live

China: if you are Han, don't care about freedom, social safety net, live upwind from the factories and aren't in the bottom 90% financially, isn't all that bad.

Israel: a very liberal first world western high tech democracy. As long as you're ok dodging incoming rockets on occasion and don't care about religious crap, which most there don't, is pretty good.

China is no different than most developing authoritarian regimes, just bigger.
Israel is no different than most 1st world western countries, except it's run by Jews so obviously it's a bad place.

They made db change. They have effectively infinite amounts of real production flow data they can use to test changes.

In this case, the system failed because it was hard coded to 200 max tests but they added more. If they had tested against that it would've been found.

This is not an obscure rarely used feature. This is a key feature of what their entire service is built around. They are selling filtered/clean incoming traffic against very large production sites. Who thought it was a good idea to have a hard cap of how many rules could be applied in the first place?

This is very much "no one will ever need more than 640k" thinking.

The closest I've ever got to doing similar was using a numeric incremental dns naming scheme based on 3 or 4 digit names like web001-999 or service0001-9999 knowing that it wouldn't be a surprise if we ever ran out of names, especially considering we had a dozen servers at the time which could easily handle 50x the current traffic load. But a numeric naming scheme isn't a surprise when you run out. Long before that we changed to "datacenter-service-number" so web005 became dc3-web-005 giving us up to 1000 web servers per data center in data centers that didn't have space for another 1000 servers anyway.

But this secret hard coded db limit is simple incompetence and lack of real world experience.

Again, this is the very core of their business model. Yet no one knew anything about how their systems work. It wasn't a complex problem. It was a dumb hard coded cap.

I have also seen very complex systems collapse under their own weight. This was not one of those times.

What happened to slashdot? At one time this racist alt right trash world have been modded down to -1. But instead it's at +5 and This post is at -1. Trump voters are just plain stupid.