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Comment Bad training (Score 1) 151

When you move a file to a non-existent directory in Windows, it renames the file to the destination name instead of moving it.

This is true when the parameters are ambiguous. Assuming the command issued was something along the lines of "move foo bar", an incredibly simple trick is to append a backslash change it to "move foo bar\". The command would return an error about not finding the specified path.
Also, don't force overwrites with "/y" when you aren't planning to overwrite data. Of course, the "AI" could just as easily have been running it interactively and just bulled its way through the unexpected results.

Comment Shocking (Score 2) 51

This is a fair and proportionate response to such a ridiculous policy. The idea of a nation taxing a foreign company not operating within their borders for transactions with (or involving) their citizens is preposterous, and it's curious how they even conceived of such a hare-brained cash-grab!

That was, naturally, sarcasm. Uncle Sam *always* wants a piece of the pie. For instance, foreign streamers that monetize will (generally?) be taxed on earnings resulting from viewers in the US. I find this specific example interesting, but, more broadly, "foreign corporations" profiting off US citizens/companies will be required by the US to pay taxes on "Effectively Connected Income" (and possibly non-ECI, as well).
What's good for the goose...

Comment Interesting (Score 1) 86

I'm glad I actually skimmed the article before posting, as I drew an inference from the summary that just wasn't true.
A neat idea, if they can make it practical, but I didn't see anywhere they mentioned the size of the apparatus to generate this result. How long would it take, I wonder, for the cost of building it to pencil out?

Comment AI can solve that (Score 1) 79

They should have asked the AI to help them design these computers for gaming. :-P

On a somewhat related note, the current state of AMD64 -> ARM64 in Windows 11 seems pretty decent, at least for some basic use cases. I had a client who wanted to run a piece of Windows-only software on their new MacBook M3. Originally, I tried the app a Windows 7 VM using x86 emulation, and it was trash. Not unexpected, but had hoped it wouldn't be quite that bad. Loaded Win11 ARM in a VM, instead, and it ran the x86 app just fine.

Comment Re:i9-13000K Owner (Score 1) 66

Ran Memtest86 on it for 3 days, never reported any errors. I presume that the instability only manifested under loads that were pushing the power usage above the limit (that is now) recommended by Intel. Memtest86 may not have pushed it across that threshold. From what I've read online, very math/arithmetic-heavy operations were more likely to be affected.
Didn't particularly test different archives / compression algorithms. The system could definitely extract some other various archives without error, including other LZMA2 archives. Checking the archives I tried, now, I see that the few similar archives I checked only had a 16MB dictionary, not a 64MB as in the NVIDIA package.

Comment Re:i9-13000K Owner (Score 1) 66

I helped a client with a gaming system running the Core i9-14900KS (iirc), that was crashing when trying to launch games. I similarly had to set the power limits to Intel's current recommendations to achieve stability. This was before I had heard about the issues with these Raptor Lake chips.

It also wasn't just games. Part of what tipped me off that I was seeing a processor issue was when the NVIDIA driver (a self-extracting 7-Zip archive) would consistently throw a CRC error at a random point during the process of unpacking the archive. Especially when it continued to occur while in WinPE, haha!
Very disappointing given these CPUs seem to be marketed for gamers/enthusiasts and considering the expense. I've been considering using Intel on my next build due to some advantages Intel enjoys in some proprietary software, but these kind of shenanigans continue to keep me away.

Comment Goodhart's Law (Score 1) 47

When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

When someone is professional [something], they will tend to optimize, consciously or otherwise, for whatever allows them to continue/succeed at their profession. (assuming some level of competition for clients/resources)
Researchers aren't an exception; they, too, are human.
If getting the resources necessary to continue as a researcher requires being cited, then they will optimize for citations...or be replaced in favor of someone who did.

Not quite the same, but my desired for positive modding also leads to optimization. Hence this obligatory XKCD. :P

Comment Waxing and waning (Score 1) 64

They have so many metrics involved in their ranking, and they've fallen victim to Goodhart's Law (relevant XKCD).
This is natural, of course. Google has slowly trashed the end-user experience to presumably support their core business (advertising), so it's only fair that sites target the rankings with attempts at SEO that Google then has to spend inordinate amounts of effort to try to sift through.

Comment Flammable tape and sundries (Score 4, Insightful) 45

This time it's a valve for the liquid oxygen tanks. Last time it was a mile (or miles?) of flammable tape.
And yet, and as much of an eye-roller as the situation is, they're right to scrub the mission for the moment.
That is to say, I'm not sure I'd trust the Boeing launch with everything working perfectly, much less if something was demonstrably NOT working properly.

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