Do you really mean that if your git repo were corrupted, restoring a snapshot of the repo from backups wouldn't work? If that's true, then it sounds like your backup system is broken. The hashes after restoring ought to be identical to what they were before the backup.

If git used the files' iNode numbers for its hashes, then I could understand how a filesystem-based backup/restore might not really work; you'd have to backup at the block level instead. But git doesn't use the iNode numbers.

git isn't magical. It only knows files. It doesn't know if you moved the repo, copied the the repo, or restored the repo from a ten year old backup. I have moved git repos around plenty of times, `cp -a`ed directories with repos, tared and un-tared directories that contain repos, and the copies have always Just Worked without any hash mismatches.

mkdir ~/test. cd ~/test. git init, touch test.txt, git add test.txt and git commit. cp -a ~/test ~/test2. cd ~/test2 and check out the backup repo. The backup is valid. Then simulate a disaster with rm -rf ~/test. Then recover from the disaster with cp -a ~/test2 ~/test and you've just restored a repo from filesystem-level backup. The resulting repo works perfectly and its hashes aren't off. git has no idea you deleted and restored under its nose. Try it yourself.

What am I missing? I'm not surprised to be called idiotic, and the shoe often fits. But I'm surprised to be called that over this.

My router's hardware's parts were made in China. Its software was made as a worldwide effort but the team seems to be officially based in the Netherlands. And I'm not asking my government's permission for updating either one. Trumptards and their micromanaging far-left centralized-economic-planners can go fuck themselves. Keep your damn dirty ape hands off my computers, comrade.

Turning the link purple to go to the report, then following that link to the actual study, you can look at those concerns.

Oddly enough, the post-doc researchers at University College London doing research in behavioral science and psychiatry, published through Oxford University, do indeed answer the questions.

The paper shows is something they noticed and want to investigate further, presented as "the first evidence" not a final conclusion. They started from the UK Household Longitudinal Study data, data going back to 1991 and publicly available to any registered researcher, and cross checked against a few others with related sampling information. They looked at ages from 16 to 90, marital status, children, education level, employment status, household income, area deprivation index (living in poor areas to rich areas) and reported disabilities.

I don't need 1000 miles. 600 (unencumbered) is definitely sufficient, and 500 might be okay. The thing is that I'll lose half to 2/3 of that range when towing my camp trailer, and that's not even considering that I'm typically towing it up into the mountains, gaining ~5000 vertical feet. I also need minimum 12k pounds of towing capacity and I'd like a little headroom, so call it 16k, and the bed payload has to be able to take at least 2000 pounds, because that's how much the trailer puts on the fifth-wheel hitch.

I'm anxiously awaiting an EV pickup that can do this. I'd love to have essentially unllimited electricity to buffer cloudy days (I have 1 kW of solar panels on the trailer and on sunny days they generate way more than enough, but consecutive cloudy days can leave be difficult).

3/4 ton and 1-ton gas and diesel pickups typically have oversized fuel tanks that provide about 600 miles of range, because that's what you actually need when you start hauling or towing significant loads. I don't think an EV pickup needs to have more range, but it needs to be comparable, and to be able to tow and haul comparable loads.

I'm not anti-EV by any means. I bought my first EV in 2011, and have had electric cars ever since. Trucks are a different sort of problem, though.

That's getting there, though I'd like to see some driving tests with a good-sized fifth wheel at highway speeds. The towing capacity is probably okay, though it provides very little headroom for when I'm towing both my camp trailer (~8k) and my boat (~3.5k), which I actually do several times each summer. But I think the payload capacity is too small to tow the trailer, which puts about 2000 points on the truck.

Agreed. My sedan has been electric for nearly a decade now, but I'm still driving a diesel pickup (1-ton, though a 3/4 ton would be sufficient) because EV pickup range is inadequate -- and I think it may be inadequate for a while. I need 250 miles of range when towing a trailer, which means I need ~500 -- maybe 600 -- miles of range without.

I'm not generally a fan of hybrids, but I think plug-in hybrids with large-ish batteries may be the sweet spot for a while with pickups. The Dodge Ramcharger is looking really good to me, though I'd like to see them make a 2500.

It is effective at reducing staff cheaply, but it has a huge downside, shared with most attrition-based schemes for reducing payroll: The best employees are also the ones who find it the easiest to leave. The worst employees are also the ones who will grit their teeth and hold on to the bitter end.

It's harder and more costly (in the short term) to do targeted layoffs which allows the company to target low-performers, or those who are low performers relative to their cost. It's the better choice, though.

Lots of the top performers will.

Is there room for consciousness to manifest in a brain?

If we are held in low esteem because we can spot a tautological non-sequitur from a mile away, then so be it. That doesn't mean we are wrong.

I strongly encourage you to engage with the literature on the topic. You dont even have to read philosphers, there are plenty of cognitive scientists and neurologists who have excellent treatments of the topic.

Yeah. China *does* have a shit load of coal , but considering their population and the relative underdevelopment of the "backwater" areas , I've been impressed by Chinas attempts at turning the ship around.

I guess shitty dictatororships at least seem good at making the trains run on time

I'm assuming (the article really isnt clear on this) that its refering to the energy of a bunch of billion computers actually running the AI model, as GPUs running AI chews a tonne of energy. At those scales it does add up.

I've gone and deleted chrome. I'm using Brave, but its crypto-bros in charge of that so I dont exactly trust them either. They just have a really effective adblocker that doesnt seem to trigger youtube into issueing shrill threats about breaking TOSs with adblockers

If it can, then it breaks the deterministic behavior of the known and understood physical components.

Ok. Maybe its the philiosophy graduate in me but....... lets hit the breaks on this non sequitur. Determinism has absolutely no bearing on the question of what is consciousness. Practically no philosopher, cognitive psychologist or neurologist thinks indeterminism is a necessary condition for consciousness.

This seems to be your tautological invention, and your attempting to argue it as a fait acompli. Well no, that isn't sufficient. For the most part, consciousness is , to badly summarise Heidegger, the state of paying attention to things (ie your never just conscious, your conscious OF things), Viewed this way, and pretty much any other definition of consciousness we've come up with (and there are many), not only is indeterminism NOT a requirement, in fact on the contrary determinism is required for consiousness, because when you are consious OF something there is by necessity a transference of state. The outside world CAUSES an impression in the mind.

You *really* are going to need to expand on why you seem to think what you do.

Nah. He's still sharp, and he's been like this for a while. Its a variant of the "Nobel disease". He's accomplished great things and is a recognized expert in his specific field (evolutionary biology). This unfortunately means he also thinks he's an expert at everything else. And because he spent so much of his spare time arguing with a minority of christians that even the other christians think are whackjobs, the young earth creationists and flat earthers, he now thinks everyone who disagrees with him are superstitious fools.

Unfortunately the turbo-atheist scene has seen a few people fall down this dark path. In my home town Iain Pilmer went from accomplished geologist and notable skepticalal talk circut pundit to ratshit-crazy climate change denier, because he has a vested interest in oil extraction and therefore anyone who disagrees with the oil industry must therefore be like the crazy creationists, never mind that the people he's accusing are a global community of PhD having physicists with 150 years of evidence based science behind them

Dawkins needs to go speak to actual AI researchers. While yes there are interesting philosophical questions raised by modern AI, there is no scientific basis to conclude they are conscious and they have no analogue to the parts of the human brains that consciousness actually arises from. Like the example of Pilmer I gave above, he's not recognizing his own lack of expertise.

Honestly the only thing I find LinkedIn interesting , is watching people posting horrifically racist rants and then seeing their employment status flip to unemployed the next day. (Life tip: If you have an opinion you'd be nervous about sharing in a crowded bar, dont go blasting it out on a social media environment your boss uses to speak to investors)

Using a proper password hashing algorithm mostly addresses this concern... and standard cryptographic hashes like MD-5, SHA-1, SHA-256, etc. are not appropriate. They're designed to be as time and space-efficient as possible while still achieving their security goals. Password hashing functions (more precisely, password-based key derivation functions) are designed specifically to be time and space-hungry, efficient enough that you can execute them in half-second or so for user authentication, but slow enough that brute forcing even moderately-good passwords is intractible.

The best widely-available algorithm is Argon2id. The modern algorithms don't focus so much on requiring lots of CPU cycles because GPUs. Instead, they focus on requiring significant amounts of RAM, in ways that provably cannot be reduced. The most-recommended Argon2id configuration requires 2GB RAM. This makes it feasible for most servers to handle fairly easily, as long as they don't have to verify too many passwords in parallel, but it means that GPUs don't help the attacker, and it's also slow enough that while you can get some traction by using a large botnet, it's really not very much. If a PC requires 500ms per attempt, and you have a million-machine botnet, you can still only try 2M passwords per second. If user passwords have, say, 30 bits of entropy, your massive botnet can find one every five minutes on average. If they have 40 bits, your botnet can find a password every ~3 days, on average. That's not nothing, but if you have control of a million machines, you can definitely find better uses for them.

Of course, even better is to use passkeys or similar, but as a practical matter you probably have to have a password to fall back on.