Posts by Cliffwilliams44 1212 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Feb 2019
Right, and the article, not the people quoted, offer any reasonable assumption as to why this is needed.
If that really is required for this tech to work them it's not practical with current memory technology. Is it going to be error correcting memory? which is expensive!
It's time to step back and realize that currently we don't have the technology to make these autonomous entities work in a practical manner!
"locked areas of vision are a real problem with modern cars"
Actually they are not. The reason most "people" have blind spots in their car is their own fault.
Sit stationary in your car, look out the rear view mirror, find an object at the far left of the mirror, now adjust the left side view mirror so that object is in the far right side of the mirror. Repeat this process with the right side mirror.
When a vehicle or object moves to the edges of your rear view mirror it will become visible in your side view "before" is it is no longer visible in the rear view mirror.
If you are used to your side view's looking down the side of your car then this takes some getting used to, but you do not need to have that, because you have a view now of everything you need to see!
This works in the majority of passenger cars, SUV's and trucks.
The idiocracy of this world has gotten completely out of control!
By what reasoning do they believe they would not be safe in the US? Are they all planning to enter the country illegally? Are they planning to engage in terrorist activity? Do they think that by making jokes they will somehow be targeted? The current administration isn't the one who put a man in jail for posting a meme! (Nor did they arrest a comedian for making a joke! Is that why they didn't select the UK?)
Now granted, if you go walking around the wrong parts of Boston, NYC, Philly, etc. you will not be safe. That has nothing to do with who is in the White House and everything to do with who are running these cities!
So seriously, they can take their virtue-signaling bullshit to Europe! No one over here really gives a shit!
Here is how I see it.
The original author was not maintaining the code (I see this as a big problem with OS software), Bruce was.
The current license was hindering the advancement of the code.
He re-engineered the code (with help) to bring it up to modern spec and applied the MIT license.
If the original author has abandoned the code, which is sounds like to me, then he should let this go. what is he getting out of this except sounding like a spoiled child!
This is where copyright laws fail in regards to software!
A painting, a book, a song, these do not need to be maintained, they don't need vulnerabilities fixed, they don't need to be updated to take advantage on new hardware!
But I also have a heartburn on this subject when it comes to music. So many people have made claims against others for small phrases in songs that if you look back far enough you can find that someone, several hundred years ago, put that same phrase down on paper. As Frank Zappa said: "All music has already been written, a long time ago, my men in wigs!"
What they cannot stomach is paying taxes on income they have not already earned!
They want to tax unrealized income, the value of non-liquid assets, assets whose value changes over time. If the state taxes those assets at 15% today, and those assets drop in value by 40% next year is the state going to refund those taxes? No! Because they've pissed away the money with all the fraudulent programs they are running!
They are not running away from taxes, they are running away from flat out theft from a state that cannot even:
Fix the roads
Enforce animal cruelty laws (the Feds are doing it now there)
Prevent wildfires from destroying property
Issue permits for people to rebuild their homes
And a million other things the state is supposed to be doing but they don't!
What they only seem capable of is stealing the taxes they do collect! The entire homeless-industrial-complex in CA is a scam that makes several non-profits and their operators very rich all the while never even tying to fix the problem.
The modern Democrat Party in the US is one giant criminal organization! We could cut taxes across the board by 60% if we could eliminate all the fraud they commit!
You can shove your head firmly up your ass and refuse to see what is happening here but that doesn't make it any less real.
Once you enable Gemini in a Google Cloud Project any keys associated with that project gain access to Gemini. This is a step that is manual by the dev. The stupidity of Google is that they have ignored how their map keys actually work.
But them Devs should have known, observed that Gemini is not working WITHOUT a unique key and realized that the key in use was a key plainly embedded int heir web site. They should have restricted the Maps key top the Maps API and generated a unique restricted key for Gemini!
I understand that the Devs in the article are a small company but seriously, their lax oversight may have put an end to their dreams.
Their is blame to be had on all fronts here, but just like in life, YOU are responsible for your own security and safety. Don't depend on google to protect your business,
Most debit cards won't report to the credit report companies (unless you overdraw your account).
Honestly, the best and easiest way to build credit is buy a car! Yeah, it sounds like overkill but most car dealers will issue credit to just about anyone who is breathing and has a paycheck. You would probably need to co-sign for it.
Another option is check with your bank and see if you can open a joint card, Where you are primarily responsible for the debt.
The bottom line is, you can get her started but not without you taking responsibility for her if she doesn't pay the debt.
If you do get a card, make small charges and pay them off ASAP. Always make sure the available credit on the card is higher than any balance at the end of the billing period. (debt to credit ratio) This is how credit score is determined.
It never changes!
Late 20th century: "No one ever got fired for choosing IBM!"
In the 21st century: "No one ever got fired for choosing Microsoft!"
For middle managers it's all about CYA, they can fall back on that argument, that they chose Microsoft because they are the biggest.
I've had this argument with some managers re: cloud services. AWS is clearly superior (and cheaper) but they want to go with Microsoft. When you press them for why they are making this decision their only answers can be summed up as "because Microsoft!"
This is absolute nonsense!
This harkens back to when vendors would demand:
It needs a dedicated server
It needs a dedicated SQL Server
The service account needs Domain Admin rights
The user must be a local Administrator
Even back in the day these requests were met with a stern NO!
And a reminder that if they want the contract with our company then well, they had better find a way around those requirements.
Yes, I have come up against the inevitable, "but we already signed the contract", which results in, "well we are still not giving in to these demands, so you need to negotiate this with the vendor."
When you threaten to withhold the cash, it's amazing how fast these demands are not so "non-negotiable" after all!
And the days of "it only works in X browser", are long gone!
If your company identity is also your identity at LinkedIn, That's not a Microsoft problem, that's a YOU problem.
I so wish my company would implement a policy that if you use your company identity for anything not internal to the company, that's a disciplinary offense. They won't!
Re: GitHub, if it's enterprise GitHub, why do you care? If it's personal, I revert to my original point!
"POC is fully conscious according to any test I can think of, we have full AGI, and now my life has been reduced from being perhaps the best engineer in the world to just raising an AI that in many respects acts like a teenager who swallowed a library and still needs a lot of attention and mentoring but is increasingly running circles around me at coding."
This is obviously the musings of a very disturbed man.
We thought this person was a bit off for some time now, this just confirms it!
"Government powers should be restricted"
I love how you idiots say these things when referencing Trump/Conservatives but will "bend the knee" and grant virtually unlimited power to any leftist tyrant you believe will "give me the thing I want most!"
It is not "we" who attempted to squash the free speech of millions of people because they disagreed with policy, it is not "we" who put a man in prison for posting a meme, it is not "we" who arrested a comedian for criticizing Islam.
You people would gladly surrender your liberty if you thought it would "avenge your political enemies" and feed your toxic empathy!
Be careful what you wish for, because I'm sure you will probably get it! The UK has pretty much got it, how's that working out for you!
Yes, CoPilot should not be reading these emails with those tags, but there is also a user issue here.
1. why are you keeping sensitive information in Drafts? Yes, part of this is Outlook's fault as it has a habit of saving drafts even when you don't need it to. If you job is to handle sensitive information, clean up your drafts folder (and that includes cleaning up your deleted items folder)
2. Sent Items. Why, oh, why do people need to keep sent items FOREVER! If it's that important, put it in a separate repository, hopefully somewhere outside of your mailbox!
Because they are using the F16 in a role it excels at! Air defense and intercept! The intercept role is mostly against non-stealth drones, so they are not engaging stealth aircraft. They are also being used for ground Attack & BAI (Battlefield Air Interdiction) so likely not going against advance, permanently emplaced SAMs. Therefor Stealth isn't a major requirement. You need stealth for deep penetration against advanced anti-air defenses, less so in air-to-air once within infrared/electro-optical sensor range. Once within gun range stealth is off the table! This is where the F16s (and also the F18s) capabilities shine. Though, in today's world, air-to-air engagements are rear.
- Forgetfulness - They'd forget some key detail we'd already discussed 10 minutes earlier. Suggesting it again, or rehashing old ideas.
- "Looping" - related the the forgetfulness - they'd offer a solution, didn't work, modified solution, didn't work, propose something different.. didn't work, then finally come back to their original solution, and despite pointing out "we'd already done that" and getting apologies for the oversight, they continued down that "looping" path.
These 2 points are the mistake many make when working with these LLM models. They WILL forget context. They will take your latest prompt, and treat is as if nothing said before was discusses. This gets worse the longer the chat goes on.
To mitigate this the best thing to do is at some point request a summarization of the chat, copy that and start a new chat.
Claude AI has projects, where you can upload files that the LLM can reference during the sessions, it will also reference all previous chats.
Think of it as the LLN needs a feedback loop. Keep feeding the output back into the input until the result is "somewhat" correct.
Port 23? WHY?!?!?
There are so many clients that support ANSIBBS AND SSH? What BBS Software are you running that doesn't support SSH? As far as I know the only BBS Software that is currently actively supported is Synchronet, and that 100% supports SSH. They even provide a terminal app SyncTerm that supports SSH.
Allowing Telnet is blithering insanity!
Why are you storing secrets in a file IN YOUR PROJECT!
There are many solutions that you can create a local secr4t store in your computer, there are also many ways you can store secrets in locations accessible over the network or internet! AWS Secret Manager, Azure Key Vault, I am sure there a many! You don't have to store a secret on your machine to access them, there are so many ways to do this securely it amazes me that people still do this stupid stuff!
The article quotes the 1st law without understanding the problem with it!
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Computers (robots) make binary decision, e.g. when 2 people are in danger the robot (AI) will make a decision based on probability of outcome, without consideration as to who the 2 people are. For instance, save the child instead of the adult, save the President instead of the aid!
Wow, that's rich!
I work (in the US) for a British company. I can't tell you how many times we have had to implement some really stupid idea (and waste a lot of money) because the "blokes" over there just had to use the new "shiny" thing! The current "shiny" think is AI of course; we're spending thousands on it, it doesn't work, but we are "full speed ahead"!
" don't think I'd ever read programmers were propping up the US economy"
You didn't, maybe you are too young, but it did happen. In the 90's with the .COM boom.
I started in the industry in the 80's and getting a programming job was hard. Most programmer worked in the mini/mainframe space and that was a club hard to crack. By the time the .COM boom hit I already had a career as a sysadmin. Programmer made this boom happen! Then everyone had their web site, their e-commerce site, the data centers were built, they had their programming staff, and it all came crashing down
AI is going to plateau; we are not going to reach the SkyNet/Matrix level of AI until quantum computing becomes a real thing.
What the AI movement may do if force the building of the Energy infrastructure the world should have been doing for the last 60 years and put to death the political scam that is Climate Change forever!
"...at some point there may be an opportunity for wider adoption of a desktop/endpoint OS in large organisations as Windows and Microsoft generally may be seen as either too expensive(*), unnecessary, or a possible risk."
Wake up, you are having a dream!
Why won't this happen? Because the people responsible for the primary support of those desktops WILL NOT learn another desktop OS to support! This is why Macs have not infiltrated the corporate environment en-mass!
There are 2 types of people who work the primary service desk.
1. Entry level people with limited skills. The good ambitious ones don't stay there long and are replaced with more entry level people
2. The lifers! The 40-50 year old service desk tech who won't learn anything new, only knows his company systems (that all run on Windows) and pisses and cries whenever he's asked to learn a new skill!
Any cost saving on licensing will be lost once the cost of replacing these people with qualifies support staff (that is if you can find them and they WILL cost more) is factored in.
I see this a lot of times in places with existing conduit. The conduit is so full of other cables you cannot pull the fiber through without stretching it. If it stretches too much it develops micro cracks in the fiber.
I've seen this in office buildings where the main conduit that runs up the elevator (lift) shaft is so full you can barely run any new cable. 50% of the cables in the conduit are no longer in use because each tome a tenant wants new or replacement service the provider runs new cable because they cannot use or remove the old one.
“The political views of children inform the electoral choices of many current electors, including their parents and their teachers, as well as others interested in the views of those soon to reach the age of maturity,” the company’s court filing states. “Preventing children from communicating their political views directly burdens political communication in Australia.”
And here-in lies the reason for the downfall of our western societies!
Only someone who does not understand how AWS works would make a statement like this!
AWS may fail over hardware behind the scene because of many factors you are not aware of, and the actual IP address of your load balancer may change, that's why you always use the assigned DNS address.
Your targets are references by service, e.g. Instances NOT IP addresses for the very same reason!
Speak not of what you do not know, because you do not know what you do not know.
Let me corrupt all the SRV records in your internal DNS and see how long your wonderful on-prem infrastructure stays working!
The problem was not the cloud, it was not the architecture, it was a human fucking something up! Which can happen on-prem just as well as in the cloud!
The entire internet, intranet, your on-prem infrastructure is ALL built on a line of dominoes known as DNS! When DNS fails, everything fails!
Dork up your DNS in Active Directory and watch your entire enterprise come to a halt!
All of these services and their dependencies rely on functioning DNS to work because IP addresses change as instances are spun up, swapped over, etc.
It kills me how you server jockeys think you can provide the complex interdependent infrastructure that AWS provides On-Prem.
The simple answer is not use Microsoft. Sure you need to use them for Exchange if you already have it but putting your infrastructure workloads in Azure is just asking for trouble!
We've been in AWS for 7 years and the reliability is outstanding, the support is outstanding!
Re: Desktops. If you can get away from Windows on the Desktop, more power to you. Unfortunately, that's just not an option for many!
Seriously? Apparently, you have no idea what went on during the Biden regime!
The FCC has every right to regulate the public airwaves, that is written in the law! The FCC has no authority over cable/streaming and has never said it did!
The Kimmel situation had nothing to do with Trump, it was the affiliates who pressed the issue, and THEY still won't broadcast his show!
We are only arresting people who have violated out law by entering the country illegally! The LAWS passed by congress!
You are the one living in a closed echo chamber full of ridiculous absurdities!
Trump did not do this, Congress did, and Biden signed it!
Trump tried to make this work and keep TokTok working in the US. The alternative was a complete ban!
Claw yourself out of your echo chamber for Christ's sake!
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