Every place has long term hazard and short term utility. Foolishness can just as easily be defined as leaving that utility on the table.
My 6 year old informed me today that the Sun will explode in 4 billion years. Shall we set out into the void today as in hop on the next rocket out then?
Demand software developers start caring about memory print of their software again. Both in RAM and storage.
Unironically. We've lived out at least a decade and a half of "this software stack is utterly unoptimized garbage" "who cares, just slap bigger system requirements. We're not spending money on optimizing something that doesn't matter to anyone since hardware is advancing so fast".
It's good that every decade or so we get a memory and storage crunch and developers actually have to rediscover things like better compression algorithms and methods, proper garbage collection, and general software optimization.
Seriously, have you seen the size requirements of modern games? Have you seen the retarded chugging of modern office software running win11 on 8GB RAM machines when they have to actually start swapping? Have you experienced the joys of Chrome and all the memes about it being a ramvore?
What in the actual fuck are those tabs doing eating gigabytes of RAM? And why in the fuck are most Chromium based browser installs now almost a gig of storage?
You could do the same things a decade and a half ago on 4 gigs RAM and tiny SSDs that were less than one gigabyte and the system flew and most things except the porn torrents could be stored on it.
And then you consider "ok, what did we actually get for that insane increase in system demands?"
Built in always on spyware. Slightly redesigned UI according to the latest fashion trends. A few arcane additional features barely anyone uses. Games with "that unreal look" that look worse than unreal games a decade ago. And "modern" webpages that essentially ask you one question: "Would you like scrips with those scripts so you can enjoy scripts while you're enjoying scripts".
While reading a text based news article.
Just kidding. They don't ask.
Are there any tools to watch my lsmod, walk
All of these exploits are in distro modules I'd never use.
Local access, unless you haven't patched apache this week, then it's remote access.
> What are normal people supposed to do?
It looks like a omen to take up farming.
Maybe I should pull some of my 4TB nvme sticks and buy my kid a used car...
XX = ALWAYS female. No alternative. If you are healthy you have a womb and can bear babies. They are intrinsically connected. You have large gametes.
XY = ALWAYS male. No alternative. You cannot ever bear babies, no matter how healthy you are. You have small gametes.
If they ever dig up your body, this is how you will be identified. Your feelings have *nothing* to do with the matter. Nor does your sanity. They will 100% identify you according to the actual, empirical physical characteristics that make you male or female (or a genetic sport of some sort).
That you keep repeating the delusion just makes you delusionAL.
No matter how many times you repeat 1+1=3, it's still not true and never will be.
I might have cared about unwanted potentially autonomous ai agents being pushed on user machines.
But given that you're bitching about it from a global warming angle...that just tells me you're pissed they beat you to the party to pick my pocket with the killer robots when you were all set to pick my pocket from the treehugger angle.
Facts > Feelings.
If you have XX chromosomes, you're female and thus a woman. Cutting off your tits or bolting on a Frankenphallus just makes you a woman with surgical alterations.
If you have XY chromosomes, you're male and thus a man. No amount of makeup, women's underwear, or stripteasing in front of children will change that.
Anything else is an aberration and, like a one-armed person or someone born without eyes, recognized defective. It doesn't make them less human, but the idea we should just pretend that's normal is a weird delusion.
It's not md5 collisions that are the problem here, it's poor passwords.
Which is something that we can't actually fix, and maybe have tried for the past 22 years.
As mentioned above, memory-hard algos are better than hashes now.
No, you're wrong. Period.
Being transgender, like any mental illness, requires sympathy and care - not pretend-endorsement for political points and virtue signaling.
It's no more deserving of "respect" than any other human being, but it is worthy of pity. Some wiring has gone wrong in their heads; that's not their fault.
It's not 2022. Only the truly dogmatic believes that silly shit any more.
I didn't say evolution considered anything an error.
That would be stupid, evolution is a process.
But certainly a mutation that causes insanity IS an error in human evaluation..that is, unless the insanity has a political faction, then we'll shriek 1+1=3 because, well, politics.
I love you guys.
Dawkins when attacking Christianity and religion is a super genius, insightful, brilliant
Impossible.... IMPOSSIBLE that you might be wrong.
The frothing left can't stop itself from the purity spiral, driving even your allies right. Dawkins himself had to start looking at his intellectual allies and realize they might be the baddies.
You are great. Keep it up. Never change and certainly never, ever doubt yourself.
There are two sexes. Period.
Anything else is, by definition, aberrant & basically broken. Yes, biology makes many errors. Usually they die. Sometimes they don't.
It doesn't mean transgenders should be mistreated, they deserve our pity and whatever help they can get to be happy in their lives.
But fortunately the world has moved on from this absurd delusion that if you really really really pretend you're a donkey, you MUST BE ONE. That's silly. And... basically insane.
The process is such that the IEEPA refunds will proceed with the liquidation of the imports.
Customs basically finally closes a file (liquidates) about 315d after the entry. So if something was imported on July 1 2025, then May 12 2026 it would liquidate.
Importers having filed their CAPE data (which was super easy, took me about 15 mins for more than 1200 entries), those entries will be flagged for the return of the IEEPA duties plus interest, which is a usual customs thing.
Note that 'issuing the refund' and getting the refund $ actually might take a bit. Some brokers are suggesting it might take up to 60d for the funds to flow, or, it could just be CBP is awaiting June1, as the White House still has a chance to protest the CITA court ruling until then. (There is no suggestion they will but still, better to wait then have to un-de-retro-re-bill people for refunds that need to come back or whatever.)
Short version, it's not like these companies will suddenly get a giant pile of refunds; they will trickle back at (approximately) the frequency they went out last year.
I did some math the other day on running local AI models and the net result is most homes can't afford to run the current median models.
They don't just need 80GB of VRAM, they need newer architectures - to be supported by CUDA, to be supported by pytorch, etc.
These problems may well be solvable with more clever use of hardware, MoE, acceptable quantization, etc., but today you're in for several grand and something north of 100W idle to use what is effectively a $20/mo plan.
A small enterprise can afford local, so that's good. We paid more than that for one SGI machine back in the day.
The point of the exercise was to plot the position on the curve. We're at something like 2006 YouTube where nobody could afford the drives or bandwidth that YouTube/Google was giving away for free (aka with VC money). Eventually hard drives got cheaper, people got gigabit at home, FlashServer was replaced with h.264/HTML5, phones could stabilize video locally, etc.
So it looks like these AI companies need to stay alive for about seven more years giving away product at a loss, or at least highly oversubscribed, to turn a profit. Hence the low token allowance, the banning of OpenClaw, etc.
On the other hand, I read the blog of a security researcher yesterday who found an exploit with (IIRC) Claude, tried to refine the PoC, but got dinged on "out of tokens" before he could finalize it. So he just deleted the work and moved on.
It sounds like they're trying to not lose money at such a velocity and are trying to find a sweet spot where people don't just declare it too underpowered to use.
A global energy depression may well take out the supermajority of the companies that believe they can burn investment money for seven more years. There is circular financing money, then there is real return on capital money. One is to fool the markets, the other is grounded in current physics.
Memory fault -- core...uh...um...core... Oh dammit, I forget!
