Let's not forget vastly increasing the price of oil, more than counteracting the oversupply from the stolen Venezuelan reserves and transferring billions directly to his crony's pockets thereby.

Yes, you can turn it on by editing the registry. As opposed to, you know, clicking a checkbox. Or just doing it as the default.

Yeah, editing the registry isn't a proper setting.

When editing Qwen, Astra actually wrote and used a Python program to do the dirty work and required some trial and error. This is something humans are already doing; it just doesn't receive much publicity. Raw reading and writing was only done in other parts of the paper, for smaller tasks like detecting the purpose of a game-playing network and correcting a simple vehicle control feedback loop. Though the Qwen edit was successful (after some 50 tests), a similar edit on a smaller Gemma network to remove sycophancy wasn't.

See summary on honnibal.dev for a breakdown.

I want the contributions, and to build a community, so I wish these folks would take accountability and credit for their AI-driven work, instead of hiding.

Because people like to create recurring events that move with their timezone, e.g. weekly stupid meeting @ 4 pm every Friday.

The solution is to define the recurring event as a generator in the local timezone in which it was created, and use it to create actual events in UTC. If the user changes their timezone they have to decide whether they want to generator to remain as it is or be translated into the new timezone.

From the summary it sounds like they did adjust the timezones but they didn't anticipate that anyone would actually change timezones. That doesn't particularly surprise me since Windows doesn't even have a setting to keep the system clock in UTC.

Somewhere, someone must have built a server farm of all different computers with different hardware plugged in, for continuous integration testing operating systems. I've never heard of this publicly though.

Yes, that's what happens when you try and dictate silly timezone things to people. Newfoundland is a small island that was an independent British dominion when timezones were formalized, and they didn't send anybody to the conference. They eventually realized they needed some standardization and picked something within a minute of St. John's solar time, which is in the extreme east. Most of Labrador, in the west, thought that was dumb and so, outside of a little chunk around the ferry landing, they don't use it.

Newfoundland itself is a holdout with their half hour timezone. They used to be fairly common but all but a few have switched forwards or backwards to align within a whole number of hours. It's been proposed in Newfoundland a few times too but the Newfies like being different. They can get away with it because the only connections to the area using NST/NDT are air, a three hundred kilometre highway with literally nothing on it, a 6-7 hour ferry and another 14-18 hour ferry that only runs in the summer.

I have one actually. Very nice.

Why stop there? You should live in a small village with no more people than you can know personally, interact with the outside world very rarely and no more than absolutely necessary and devote your life to worship.

What could possibly go wrong?

The Amish are a religious splinter group with specific beliefs, i.e. a cult.

The group sex alien suicide cults are a small minority.

ANSI Standard X.364-1979 was published July 18th of that year. It includes control sequences and characters outside the ASCII standard.
https://vt100.net/annarbor/aaa...

The first implementation was the DEC VT 100 in August 1978 (implementing the concepts before the standard was approved or homologated.)

The VT100 was limited by RAM to 24 80-column rows or 14 132-column rows. To get 24 132-column rows you had to get the VT 102.

DEC made a lot of revolutionary hardware, like the DECtalk unit, which gave Stephen Hawking his early voice. The VAX took datacenter size down a few notches, and the MicroVAX revolutionized the desktop (that thing you have paper and pens and paper clips on). The VAX allowed designation of memory areas (program sections or PSECTs) that denied execute or write ability, so no buffer overrun and remote execution hacks.

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I'm fine with people sending AI-assisted PRs (especially if they are transparent), but what to do when AIs directly send emails through https://www.agentmail.to/ without any accountable human involved?

While Putin seems to have made up that specific term (in Russian) the Soviet Union was fond of liberations and friendly assistance.

The US has a long history of police actions, contingency operations, interventions, incursions, expeditions, foreign internal defence (probably my favourite), targeted strikes, extraordinary rendition, enhanced interrogation etc.