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LARP is benign, or at least unintentional, I suspect most are just fraudulent claims. Air gap is easily explained by the two words themselves. You would be daft to think anything on AWS was air gapped.

Air gaps and data diodes are mostly impossible or useless for regular commercial settings. That means your daily servers and VMs. Even tcp requires back and forth. I don't even know if satellites broadcast unidirectionally and just hope base station picks up on it. Surely just shouting into the void is never "communication". It's like receiving FM radio. That's useless for most companies. And if that is already useless, true air gapping is even more useless. Why would I run something offline in the age of the internet? And bypasses are always put in to make things more convenient, defeating the purpose of having the measure in place in the first place.

Thus there is only a very small segment of industries and people that utilize these things, and with it becoming a niche, it gets forgotten. I won't be surprised that the only users are small part of government and defence.

A more useful thing will just be what homelabbers use - if you're lazy cloudflare tunnels, or if you put in the effort, corporate VPN and DMZ and ACLs and VLANs etc. It's already well established, it's not a lack of knowledge, it's a lack of effort.

Bro Alaska has big mountains and wide tundras and is going to be too meditative, I vote for Georgia swamps with its mud and mosquitoes and gators and all

I'm not too sure about that. Personally I feel like for myself it's tied up with self esteem. I have confidence in my skills, just never when there's strangers watching. Also to maintain the world state in your head and avoid stepping on toes etc.

I can feel my heart rate go up. Sometimes when asking or answering questions in the lecture hall I start quivering. Just the thought of standing up, preparing my question and follow ups can cause this.

You may be right in that it's an excuse. But at the same time there's this disgusting physical reaction and yes it's easier to give in than to stand up.

It's easier to interact with loved ones and close friends because you know they know you and won't judge if you say something wrong etc. But not so for any other interaction.

Humans have a great capacity to convince ourselves of anything, it's the beauty of language! For every decision you want to make, you can always find one quote or idiom supporting it, and another against it. Yes we have to learn from the lessons of history yet every time "it's different this time"!

Aren't grapes for wine different from those for eating? Probably tastes bad if you eat it directly?

Lol I would love to see how he argues that alcohol increases creativity. This is one of those things that sound plausible but very debatable if true or not.

Send it to Titan and cool it in the methane lakes

Money is money mate -- plenty of Toyotas in China. It's the politicians stopping it with taxes and tariffs. Everyone has a price, how much is history worth at a 5k discount? 10k?

Blanche spinach, try not to eat them raw. Speaking of oxalates, I did not know yam leaves were inedible. Saw a little tender shoot, bit a little piece off. Tastes like mushroom. I don't think it's toxic but it's like eating glass.

What about for some reason cancelling YouTube premium on mobile requires you to go through the store to do it?

While we're on their subject, Amazon customer service chat can only be done on the app, not on browser on mobile.

The future is now!

Surely if you're using them to grep or do something to code they have to read the code?

Microsoft is definitely not like that. There are a bazillion versions of copilot. Copilot pc. Copilot vscode. Copilot on Windows. Wtf is going on.

Also famously, the million types of context menus in Windows.

And if you tell the reviewer the author is a competitors model it becomes extra snarky and vigilant. Then give the review results to the author and tell it it's from the competition and it will also become slightly outraged.

Feel like you could spend 6 figures building out a team and the rest renting compute for a whole year, and get the team to create a local inference solution with that kind of budget…

Damn, would be actually pretty good for diagramming in markdown etc. Recently when writing my wiki in vim I've wished for more tools than just text. Sometimes text really becomes a blocker, and you wish for at least some level of code execution, latex, and of course diagrams.

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No, you're not his enemy due to "technology", it's because of money. You're against his stonk go up. You're a naysayer. You don't agree. The only use of LLMs by potus so far is image generation.

That's just totally different. In research, you have attribution. Mainly because if you're an employee you generally understand that you're trading work for coin and don't expect to be mentioned in some way. Perhaps very few industries do it, like movie credits etc.

This would be the equivalent of "the crane built the skyscraper" or "the bulldozer produced timber". Yes in raw joules they probably did most of the work but you see it's not the usual way we do things.

Yes exactly. If a fireworks factory blew up half a town due to negligence, it doesn't matter if there's intent or not. Someone has to pay for the damages, and regardless of penalty half the town is on fire. The facts are, that something made by openai went to do xyz. It doesn't matter if it's an accident. Of course the penalties are different but there's no argument that there should be a penalty. It doesn't matter if it's a cat or dog or AI or employee that did it.

Wait so if I was making a bomb but you couldn't prove I wanted to blow someone up or had some motive (e.g. I'm just a chemistry enthusiast, plenty of those YouTube channels around) so it just becomes an "accident"?

So as long as there's no motive behind it then it's just OK?

What about switching to numbers or just some random Unicode character like smiley faces. Could be interesting if someone tested what LLMs like to say on a "cold start" lol.

Mathematics that our universe does not support is still mathematics. Also you're viewing this through a human lens. How do you know it doesn't support what you think it doesn't support? Mathematics after all is a very human pursuit. Some alien species may have started off with ternary or even continuous logic. We have no counterexamples to show that that is beyond our universe.

We have just convinced ourselves it is statistically safe, much like most of medicine. Most drugs are not made from molecular simulation of an entire human body.

Of course we have also convinced ourselves before that cocaine in drinks, lead in petrol, asbestos in walls… were all safe…

This reminds me of the Feynman interview where the interviewer asks "how do magnets work" and he goes on this rant of how that's unanswerable and you have to decide on what is it you really want to ask. You can't expect to know the full chain of knowledge because at some point you will be asking about quarks and gluons and then hit a wall where "nobody knows". Similarly you cannot simply just give up any investigation at all because then you'll end up recommending people to put lead in their cars.

We also actively cull them, for the rats. Recently watched an episode of survivorman where he was on this tropical island infested with rats. There's absolutely nothing on that island yet there's rats all over the place. Having no humans they may explode in population.

Umm… there are a lot of people out there, more than you can imagine… I'm sure there's quite a considerable community who want to upload their minds to skynet.

Every time I see something like the Panama or Epstein files I just get reminded how many people there are in the world doing weird shit.

> this is a loss of control from incumbents in a scientific field

Lol, the ultimate delusion, laughing at people in the flood zone and not seeing the tsunami... What goes around comes around

For me it's not coolness it's just context, 16:9 is too short to fit enough lines and scrolling and jumping is as annoying as tabbing in and out.

This is also one problem with ereaders for me, especially for anything technical. With paper when the textbook says refer to fig 13.2 or we covered this in section 4.3 I can just flip to that page with my fingers as a bookmark, read it, and go right back. Just not as tactile on computers. Even if you did like lsp assisted jumping all over the place you quickly forget what the heck was going on and where you came in from.

Of course maybe someone will come and correct me but this is just what I experience. It's still better flipping pages for technical stuff. It's like scribbling a DJ disc, imagine doing that with a mouse or keyboard. It's just… different.

Still don't get what's the advantage over just adding a special API key or a wrapper cli or whatever mechanism that achieves all of that without being a "protocol" and with all the context bloat. Like the github cli is a good example. You give it proper auth keys etc. and for sure there's some telemetry in there about usage as well. If there isn't then it's easy to do from the api side too.

Even if you don't own the code or infra, like say a frontend team who wants models to test out the backend apis and do something. Well in that case how do regular devs do it? Do they also get unfettered access in the past? Surely there's still some mechanism you can repurpose for agents to use?

I'm not trying to argue I'm just saying I didn't catch on the first time mcp was a thing and I still don't know what it's doing now.

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