I agree, the ghost of Stalin is right behind the curtain waiting for a 2nd, 3rd, 4th chance at making it work ("oh, no but this time we will REALLY get it right and eliminate only all the REAL enemies of the people")
Yeah, I remember having a friend over and we would take time playing Blood Money on Amiga 500 and then the C64 which fam still had at that point, the Amiga was so much better but the difficulty on both platforms was mentally deranged (as game reviews of that era also indicated)
I'm mildly confused as to the value over, say RustDesk. The latter allows remote control of external machines and has ip hole punching .. no hardware involved! Any takes here?
Exactly this - vaccinate even a small town and cardiovascular issues will start popping amongst the neighbors, there is very good reason why there has been, and is, a public backlash on the MRNA vaccine usage among those who have eyes to see and ears to hear.
Blood Money was a good game - way too hard for me as a child but it had an atmosphere and soundtrack that gave it it's own following at the time and place in my memory banks as an extremely well crafted game. Thanks to OP for the article, appreciated!
I think someone is missing a massive marketing/product-improvement opportunity by not selling a scaffold for the bike to allow it to be used as an exercise bike - this is turn would make significant savings on people's electricity budget .. then suddenly the direct-to-battery pedal arrangement would go from weakness to proper feature! #feelfreetocontactmewithmonetaryreward
Additionally it would be excellent to have a "community support estimate" score so that one might factor in how much of a support bus-factor is at play.
I started out with WinGet but found the coverage lacking and ended up sideloading stuff which then soured the whole thing for me.. Choco basically has better coverage in my experience.
>> to perform up to Apple's typical standards of polish and control.
>i no longer believe they have kept on to the standards in general.
One 100% agree with this, if I compare AI's ability to speed up the baseline for me in terms of programming Golang (hard/tricky tasks clearly still require human input - watch out for I/O ops) with Apple's lack of ability to integrate it in even the simplest of ways.. things are just peculiar on the Apple front. Bit similar to how MS seems to be gradually loosing the ability to produce a version of Windows that people want to run due to organisational infighting.
The only, as per personal exp, way to properly setup a Win11 machine these days is strictly via LTSC release and WinUtil from Chris Titus + local account - clean and no "feature" updates for almost 10 yrs. Add to that Chocolatey for package management that takes away the "every piece of software adds it's own autoupdater crap"-pain and the OS is suddenly very capable for almost all computing needs.
Even if you do ALL the techinical work you can still find yourself banned/ignored as I learned years ago the hard way.. even big providers outside MS/Goog duopoly finds themselves partially unable to deliver business emails at times.. fun times for a small shop (not).
The legendary status is also enhanced by the absolute nightmare that pointers enable if used with indiscretion or high level proficiency - a triple pointer is a good example for me but there's many many more, and arguably worse, examples out there.
This is literally amazing research, just because we are getting closer to rejuvenating tissue does not imply that suddenly we will stop dying - it just means vastly increased health span which means less health care cost and more joy in life! Congratulations to the authors of this paper!
All centralized services will eventually present a variant of this disease and indeed almost all are already. Actual baseline improvement in technology requires fully decentralized software similar to bittorrent and it's ilk imho.
I find some of the language around FrankenPHP difficult to parse - is FrankenPHP always in loop mode (ala ReactPHP) or is it simply an option? I can't tell.. my gut reaction upon reading the intro material is that they "simply" replaced Apache/Nginx with Go's inbuilt, and much lighter, server structure and that PHP itself is left to run completely isolated as per usual?!
Can not be emphasized enough imo. The amount of absolute ridiculous levels of pain instigated by expecting a core code loop to run -forever- and doing so well while being written for some web project or other is just too much to fathom. Just use PHP and serve the request. Then let it die. Then serve a new request.
No no, not at all, see: https://openai.com/index/why-language-models-hallucinate/ which was recently featured on the frontpage - excellent clean take on how to fix the issue (they already got a long way with gpt-5-thinking-mini). I liked this bit for clear outline of the issue:
´´´Think about it like a multiple-choice test. If you do not know the answer but take a wild guess, you might get lucky and be right. Leaving it blank guarantees a zero. In the same way, when models are graded only on accuracy, the percentage of questions they get exactly right, they are encouraged to guess rather than say “I don’t know.”
As another example, suppose a language model is asked for someone’s birthday but doesn’t know. If it guesses “September 10,” it has a 1-in-365 chance of being right. Saying “I don’t know” guarantees zero points. Over thousands of test questions, the guessing model ends up looking better on scoreboards than a careful model that admits uncertainty."´´´´
Very impressive numbers.. wonder how this would scale on 4 relatively modern desktop PCs, like say something akin to a i5 8th Gen Lenovo ThinkCentre, these can be had for very cheap. But like @geerlingguy indicates - we need model compatibility to go up up up! As an example it would amazing to see something like fastsdcpu run distributed to democratize accessibility-to/practicality-of image gen models for people with limited budgets but large PC fleets ;)
Bet you don't miss Python's massively lackluster performance when compared to PHP though! Nb. I use both for diff things (good luck instrumenting ai stuff with PHP!) but the fact that I have to reach for C extensions for python to even get a basic loop to run at reasonable speed remains peculiar/scary for me.
Well, in a sense it's the Milgram experiment ratio (roughly 2/3rds will go along with whatever those in authority say). I have personally gone from being discouraged about that factoid to simply being intrigued.. A very early example of the awareness of this situation would be the concept of the wide vs narrow gate from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount.
I'm thinking it's time for a 2nd phone (in my case old one from cupboard) to become the regular daily GrapheneOS enabled driver and then keep a modern Google(tm) updated one at home for all the "official crap" whenever needed. That way I can also separate banking / paypal / etc. from my carry phone with all it's various apps that I trust to varying degrees.
This so many times over, using/introducing AI in an already managerially dysfunctional organisation is like giving automatic weapons to a band of vikings - it will with utmost certitude result in a quickening of their demise.
A demise that in the case of a modern dysfunctional organisation would otherwise often be arriving a few years later as a results of complete and utter bureaucratic failure.
My experience is that all attempts to elevate technology to a "pivotal force" for the worse is always missing the underlying social and moral failure of the majority (or a small, but important, managerial minority) to act for the common good rather than egotistic self-interest.
I mean, yes. And also; it's the age old problem that arises every time a new technology arrives in full: it requires a steadier-than-priorly hand in order to not have ballistic effects on society. This goes for books over what-my-betters-told-me, swords over flint-blades, automotive cars over horse-carts and indeed; ALL technology. New tech of any real substance invariably carry the need for cultural shift towards a more advanced stance that allows for the gainful use of said technology at scale.
Well, as a fellow parent I agree; but in my experience it only works when the trainer presents a perpetually lived example of said empathy (which at times can be hard!)
Once heard a good sermon from a reverend who clearly outlined that any attempt to embed "spirit" into a service, whether through willful emoting, or songs being overly performary, would amount to self-deception since aforementioned spirit need to arise spontaneously to be of any real value.
Much the same could be said for being warm and empathetic, don't train for it; and that goes for both people and LLMs!