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The novellas are fantastic and more bite sized. They published the anthology for the expanse ones that I read after book 9. Even if you're burned out on the main series, I feel like I'd still recommend the novellas.
While this is far out of my wheelhouse, I am not aware of a commercial venture doing actual organic creation or manipulation of material (I.e. capable of creating a modified strain of COVID). This broadly still seems in the nation-state level of lab.
But, just to get this goalpost out of the way, even _if_ such a venture exists, then would it not hold a bunch of doomsday cultists would already try to do this? This is what I’m getting at by my third question. What changes? Why don’t we see modified anthrax attacks in Palestine or Ukraine _today_?
I take no contention with the social engineering argument. I fully accept that LLMs, today and for a while yet, are capable of social engineering their way into anything. I likewise take no contention with the sheer amount of effort LLMs could wield in pursuit of this.
> If you disagree with it, where do you disagree with it?
How would a malicious actor:
1. Successfully turn these 20k pathogens into actual reproducing viruses / bacteria / etc (in a lab)
2. Successfully turn that lab prototype into something weaponized (i.e. as a bio-terrorism drop in NYC)
And then
3. How is this materially different from today? If we can produce these pathogens in a lab and they can be successfully turned into a weaponizable bioweapon, what is AI accelerating?
Here is New York: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/140.20
But, like, that's divergent from "This SpaceX contract is pure grift" that OP was not so subtly implying.
Or is your argument that the "real" cost of this $1.6B SpaceX / Space Force contract is in fact closer to ~$16B or ~$160B after accounting for tax subsidies and investment fraud?
Software people (generally) have a limited idea of just how complex and rigid customs enforcement can be. Moving physical product between countries is actually a very hard problem.
All that is to say, the government is not harvesting tax from homebrew.
Generally, the Steam cut is considered “fair” for Indy devs. The benefits of steam (discoverability, massive audience) generate more sales. My Indy dev friends are not upset about the steam cut at all.
This, however, is one area where eventually Epic Games shines — they take a much lower cut and if they increase in popularity with gamers then steam might be forced to lower their share.
(I did enjoy the sarcasm, though!)
Maybe useful if you were really committed to the tool. I've been casually interested in fountain pens for a while but the downsides seem to stack up whenever I actually look into it.
Where the original gotchya is that the Surgeon can be the son's mother or other adoptive parent.
The modification catches the LLM because with the modification, the surgeon could just be the cousin's parent -- father or mother -- so there is no gender/sex at play here but the LLM continues to remark that there is, therefor exposing its statistical training sets.
What you seek is available and has been available for a very long time. Mathing out how your individual tax dollars map to these buckets is a fairly straightforward (IMO) exercise.
Damages won't be awarded based on the defendant's ability to pay. They are awarded based on the damages the plaintiff successfully argued they are owed.
I generally don't subscribe to the "this event is more important than the news cycles let it be" thought. Its argument boils down to strawman or quickly circles to "news bubbles are a problem".
> That's so much worse than the guys walking around the capitol building and shuffling papers, yet people only remember the date of the great January 6th nothingburger because it's the one convenient to the establishment.
I don't think that's a fair characterization of the day. Security personnel were _murdered_ in the _capital building_. Six people died. President Trump himself labeled it as the "Save America Rally". The _stated_ goal was to defraud an election. I'm sorry, I don't subscribe to your view that it was an event blown out of proportion. It is very much just as noteworthy as every Revolution Precursor I have ever heard.
As an aside, I find the comparison of the Trump Assassination Attempt and the Jan 6 Uprising as if one is more important than the other is false. Both are very much reprehensible acts of political violence aimed at destabilizing the American institution. Bluntly, they both terrify me. That one seems "overblown" says more about your political beliefs than you think.
Revolutions have happened over less. The King of France lost his head because a small group of angry women marched on his palace, changing the course of history. Even if the net impact of this event is small, it is still _important_ and worthy of awareness.
My _literal_ engineering 101 case studies on "engineering failure":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge_(1940)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge
Are all failures traced down to the underlying design and engineering. Granted, they are famous because they are rare. I almost linked the Columbia disaster but that is sufficiently murky between engineer and management.
Stop being elitist.
Gravity is the curvature of Space Time. From that perspective, objects under gravity are traveling in a straight line.
Fun Veritasium video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1W0dpunOaM
> Hot (and perhaps tangental) take here,
Indeed.
> but I can't understand why companies that attempt to enforce these policies for security reasons, do not just mitigate their largest attack vector and move to macOS for their endpoints where possible.
Citation needed that Macos is more secure than windows.
> Far more reliable in terms of stability and security,
In my experience, macos/windows are about par for security and the "stability" also seems par. If anything, windows is _more_ stable since it is backwards compatible to a fault.
> and dramatically less patch management required for macOS clients.
Fair, but I think this is mostly a boon to IT teams who want more control from windows.
> I'd argue a more productive user experience also, instead of fighting the advertising, new AI integrations, Candy Crush and layout changes that Windows generously provides every 30 days
These concerns are not generally applicable in an enterprise environment. I feel them on my gaming machines, but corporate is generally locked down pretty tightly. Also, I mean, Macos is famously getting new AI integrations in 18.2 so this seems like a false comparison.
> Hardware is also pretty easy to resell
Admittedly this is a boon to Macos, but I think there is an argument that the cheaper windows machines may have a better full cost-of-ownership metric than macs.
> AppleCare covers replacements
Everywhere I have worked, the company pays for replacements out-of-pocket or has _very_ generous enterprise agreements.
> and the fleet can be pretty uniform with stock available anywhere if needed.
Fair. I'm not sure that it matters for enterprises that already have a locked down hardware procurement process but its pretty hard to argue against the 2023MBP16GB is more uniform than {windows soup}.
> Keep incompatible apps that are required in a Citrix Workspace or equivalent for isolation. This doesn't address social engineering or file leaks due to malicious employees obviously.
I'm not sure what you're saying here, but I'm hard pressed to see how this applies to any specific OS and not others.