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blackoil··on 10-202: Introduction to Modern AI (CMU)
How to flip burgers better than an AI robot!
blackoil··on RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs
1. Most Web clients aren't light weight.

2. People will buy laptop with low RAM because that's only what they can afford (hopefully upgradable).

3. They'll crib Chrome being slow, and will be suggested to use lightweight apps.

blackoil··on RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs
Maybe this RAMmageddon will trigger a wave of optimized softwares that don't need GBs of memory for anything and everything.
blackoil··on CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate
If you still have that wrong kit, now it's the time to sell it to make a fortune.
blackoil··on Mark Zuckerberg grilled on usage goals and underage users at California trial
We may requires, high sugar food to be labeled like cigarettes, maximum portion size available (largest drink can be 500ml), put more tax on it, advertise against it, ban in schools, ban advertisements in children program/movies.
blackoil··on Mark Zuckerberg grilled on usage goals and underage users at California trial
High sugar food is addictive as you don't feel full fast enough consuming empty calories.
blackoil··on Micron's PCIe 6.0 SSD Hits Mass Production at 28 GB/S
> multi-million-dollar enterprise

Puny enterprises

blackoil··on Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use
They'll own entire pipeline interface, conduit, backend. Interface is what people get habitual to. If I am a regular user of Claude Code, I may not shift to competitor for 10-20% gains in cost.
blackoil··on Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway
> market cap of 400 billion

And hence Musk will be the CEO.

blackoil··on Google Public CA is down
> 2 hour podcasts

You have high hopes. Next YT tool will be to split anything long in 30s reels as brains will be completely incapable of focusing for longer.

blackoil··on I’m joining OpenAI
Considering you have built them all in last few weeks, it should not be that difficult and no reason other systems won't reuse same.
blackoil··on I’m joining OpenAI
It isn't an acqui-hire just a simple hiring. Also unless creator is some mythical 100x developer, there will be enough developers
blackoil··on EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear
How feasible is to remove tag, scratch serial number?
blackoil··on Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware
Theoretical question. How much more secure will be a Linux device which uses phone as a dumb Internet provider.
blackoil··on More Mac malware from Google search
As of today you don't need to install one on Windows also. Both OS have inbuilt s/w for this purpose.
blackoil··on More Mac malware from Google search
Is this satire?
blackoil··on India's female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI
There are other trade offs, requiring a real world id to connect to the Internet and fragmenting it to connect only aligned countries will mostly take away problem of illegal porn, fraud and spam. But at some cost.
blackoil··on Data centers in space makes no sense
I just calculated the potential weight of solar cells in space. Can't say about cost. Idea is mot of the weight of panel is because of glass/plastic protection on top and frame, these are there to protect from rain, hail, wind and dust. In space the elements it will need protection from will be different. I could be completely off but have no claims on cost and feasibility of this.
blackoil··on Data centers in space makes no sense
:| Did rough calculations with help of ChatGPT. In space it need not be hardened for rain, hail, wind and dust but for radiation and micro meteors.
blackoil··on The largest zip tie is nearly 4 feet long and $75
Or the utilitarian cost has gone down much faster than cost of decorative. If your bulb cost $10, spending $5 to make beautiful lamp post makes sense. But if bulb cost has fallen to 10 cents now to justify $2 is difficult.
blackoil··on The Codex App
all the extensions followed popularity and ease of development. So, cart horse.
blackoil··on Data centers in space makes no sense
Any idea, what is the estimated cost of a Google TPU. It may not make sense for Nvidia retail price but at cost price of Google.
blackoil··on Data centers in space makes no sense
To add space solar cell will weigh only 4-12kg as protection requirements are different.
blackoil··on The Codex App
Even with SublimeText, most popular IDE is VSCode, most popular interface design tool Figma, all popular chat platforms and so on are all electron based. If people were desperate for faster platforms they'll be migrating to them.
blackoil··on The history of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg [video]
I want something that will bring productivity of Delphi to Web. May be I am old now, but I could have built applications in a weekend in Access or Visual Basic that will take weeks now in latest web stack.
blackoil··on Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered
That doesn't sound very promising for someone who may have only one phone from Apple or just laptop.
blackoil··on Nvidia-smi hangs indefinitely after ~66 days
*China specific code leaked into mainline.
blackoil··on Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered
How is the data recovered if device is lost?
blackoil··on Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Between long lost of dependencies, LLM and these threat models; developing inside containers should be default workflow.
blackoil··on Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Because it is fast enough, easy to onboard to with sane defaults. MS provided initial plug-ins and the ecosystem developed.

Threat model described is not unique to VS Code

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