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Comment Re:You Both Lack Lateral Thinking (Score 1) 70

From GPT-OSS 120b (MLX, 6b quant)

Each of these representations contains only the letters I, V, and X – none of which is “e”.

(If you spell out the numbers in English words, every odd number from1 upward includes an “e” (one, three, five, seven, nine, eleven, ). So the trick is to avoid the word form altogether.)

So, LLMs can think outside of the box, and have general intelligence?

Comment Re:You Both Lack Lateral Thinking (Score 1) 70

"Each of these representations contains only the letters I, V, and X – none of which is “e”.

(If you spell out the numbers in English words, every odd number from1 upward includes an “e” (one, three, five, seven, nine, eleven, ). So the trick is to avoid the word form altogether.)"

I love it when LLMs demonstrate superior intelligence than cocky people.

It was given a task that was impossible in what you consider to be the implied and uncommunicated context, and you're all sour grapes about it finding a context that worked in order to complete the task?

Comment Re:Well, true (Score 1) 70

Fuck, you're so clever.
I truly wonder what it's like inside of your mind trying to deal with the fact that even these dumb black boxes exhibit more clear signs of intelligence than you can.

Comment Re:Still not very intelligent (Score 1) 70

I think you're probably a liar.

It told me:

It seems that:

There are no odd numbers under 100 whose English word form does not contain the letter "e".

So, the task is likely impossible without going into very obscure or compound numbers, or by allowing non-standard word forms.

Comment Advice wanted on archiving Slashdot RSS feed (Score 1) 160

I use the RSS feed reader in Thunderbird to have a local copy of things. If I don't check my email on my laptop twice a day, I tend to lose Slashdot feed items because the Slashdot RSS feed keeps less than a day's worth of items. For example, I only checked my Thunderbird RSS feed on 2025-08-04 once early in the morning and lost about half a day's worth of Slashdot feed items by the time I checked it the next day.

I did not see a mention of that short feed limit here: https://slashdot.org/faq/feeds...

What software could I set up somewhere so that I always have access to a complete local set of Slashdot RSS items? Ideally I think I'd like something so I could maybe have copies on a home server (Linux) which is usually-but-not-always running, my laptop (Linux), and perhaps even a remote server (Linux) to help with local outages -- and then perhaps somehow use a tool to bring all the feed items together now and then.

On a tangent, there are also occasional days when Slashdot's RSS feed seems to get stuck with the older feed items being hours old (when there are newer items on the site). Usually it fixes itself in less than day, although a few weeks ago I emailed Slashdot support when it had been stuck for over a day, and then it started working soon after. I know Slashdot briefly suspends RSS feed access if you check it too often (something made more likely by the short feed duration) -- but I don't think that was the issue there. Nothing much I probably can do about that other Slashdot feed issues though, but maybe people here have some insight into that anyway.

Comment Re:Chinese Solar is untrustworthy (Score 3, Informative) 27

Solar works great when it's made well but Chinese solar is untrustworthy because it's made to fail suddenly and catastrophically as a means of military attack against other countries that buy it.

[Citation Needed]

I believe they are referring to this story: Rogue Communication Devices Found in Chinese Solar Power Inverters

Comment Not really. (Score 0) 27

Kiss cheap shit goodbye

Seems unlikely because of "overcapacity and tepid demand". However, "cheap stuff" is already evaporating as a result of tariffs.

The benefits of Comparative Advantage are being downplayed at the expense of supply resilience.

Any change in behavior is more likely due to the market turmoil caused by Trump's unpredictable and inexplicable tariff policies. The situation is so volatiles that even MBAs, who can't see past their noses, are nervous.

I fully expect that when the threat passes that MBAs will go full single-point-of-failure again.

Comment Re:Microsoft pushing Win11 (Score 1) 103

AAA is a marketing buzzword with no meaning.

AAA is a financial term used to describe the level of financial investment which generally reflects the excepted financial return. The natural consequence of a heavy initial investment is an expectation of wide distribution AKA popularity. This plays into my point of using it's popularity to pressure people to switch to Win11.

It's not the first of many.

Only time will tell.

It's simply the latest e-sport title to do this and doing this has nothing to do with Microsoft. Kernel Level Anticheat is a thing that has been playing a technological game of cat and mouse with users for decades.

Would you still believe this Activision started making this a requirement for all PC games that use Activision's "RICOCHET Anti-Cheat"? I say this because there are five older titles that use RICOCHET.

Comment Re:I watched it. (Score 1) 49

binning it and taking the tax writeoff - I've seen what were probably far better films binned for this reason.

Maybe the "big beautiful bill" had something hidden in it that changed that? It always seemed odd to me. One gets to write off expenses for tax purposes anyways, I never understood how not releasing a film would increase them.

Now, the anticipation that marketing and releasing the film would cost more than the expected revenue, I can see, but streaming services are cheap, they don't even need to especially advertise it, and it would theoretically still bring in some revenue. Like the old direct to video model but even cheaper.

Comment Re: seafloor carbon-fiber cannoli (Score 1) 120

I didn't say it was the same, I said it didn't rely on a software hack to keep stable. The A320 doesn't aerodynamically nose up when thrust is increased.

Unless it defies the laws of physics, yes, it absolutely fucking does.
The ELAC in an A320 is a "neutral trim" system.
It automatically adjusts trim to make sure the plane does not change angle of attack based on thrust or any other environmental condition.
The reason it has to account for thrust, is because like a MAX, the engines on an A320 are not perfectly in line with their center of lift.

False, the two systems are nothing alike.

Sure, they're nothing alike because ELAC is in control of your plane in an A320, not you, while in a 737, MCAS is not. It can be turned off.
Other than that, yes ELAC contains MCAS functionality.
This is literally fucking undeniable. A320s are neutral trim fly-by-wire.
You don't manipulate control surfaces- you manipulate a flight model, and ELACs makes the plane do what you want it to do regardless of current conditions.

Right back at you.

Wrong fucking answer.
You are literally wrong, and literally talking out of your ass.
You're talking about stupid shit like clearance- the A320 has no additional "clearance". It moves the engines further forward or backward depending on the size, just like the MAX did.
A320s have been fly-by-wire since the beginning, and are neutral-trim, so this doesn't matter to the pilot. If the system misbehaves, you just die.
737s are not fly-by-wire, if the MCAS misbehaves, you just die- if you don't know how to turn it off.

How did you get so confidently wrong?

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