Are you familiar with FISC? I'd say go familiarize yourself with its case law, but you can't, because it's secret. And it authorizes methods much more powerful and invasive than a simple search warrant. Precedent exists, but nobody outside the national security state actually knows what it is.
Extremely rapidly, and it is wholly unprecedented in the geological record[0]. At this point, expressing curiosity about this rather than putting forth the trivial effort to find the amply available high-quality evidence is difficult to read as anything other than bad faith.
I noticed it when I was in Brooklyn two months ago. In DC, where speed and stop cameras are the only form of traffic enforcement and where the bus cameras are also being piloted, the proportion of cars with fake (temp Maryland tags printed on a library printer) or obscured plates is probably approaching 10% of vehicles on the road, and 90% of routine reckless drivers. If NYPD demonstrates a studied indifference to public safety, DC MPD is doing a post-doc in the field.
> Also, while we’re on the subject, can we talk for a second about how completely unnecessary a 900-mile EV is? Why not use a battery a third of the size to give us something much more affordable with a still-useful 300-mile range?
I guess the headline they went with is catchier, but this is the real lede. Don't give me a 900-mile battery, give me a 250-mile battery that weighs and costs 1/4 as much. 900 miles is 12 hours of non-stop driving at highway speeds. I can't even conceive why anybody would want a personal car that does that. (Long-haul buses with bathrooms onboard and the ability to seamlessly switch drivers would be great, though trains would be greater still.)
Sorry, I did not intend to imply that was your case. I was more responding to a the reply (whether sarcastic or not) wishing that a car existed that combined both commuter and "move stuff" characteristics. I know an alarming number of people who do actually have a second "move stuff" vehicle, and my partner took months to convince to sell our second vehicle which was being (dis)used exclusively for "move stuff" after we relocated to a city with good bike and transit options.
I can fit 8' lumber or hundreds of pounds of soil in my Prius. That covers over 95% of my needs as a DIY homeowner. When I need 10' lumber, I rent a truck for $60 and a half hour of my time, which is more than paid for by the cheaper operating costs and insurance. When you throw in the purchase price, owning a second vehicle just to move large/heavy objects doesn't make sense unless you do it multiple times a week for a few years.
The problem is "oh, we're still supporting it, we just released an update yesterday that fixed an issue with kerning when selecting certain fonts on the built-in LCD. What do you mean 12 critical CVEs unpatched for years?" So now you have to define "supported," which will be lobbied to death by every vendor in the world.
I know there are issues with it, because small plaintiffs would mostly suffer it at the hands of extremely well-funded respondents, but I do wish there was some kind of automatic penalty for bringing such a outrageous suit. Like if the judge can´t stop laughing at you for being such an idiot, you get tarred and feathered in the courtroom and Afroman gets to use footage of that in a music video. Which I guess would be a particularly just punishment in this case.
Loads of people have intimated that ChatGPT shows we're on the precipice of a breakthrough in that direction. Chomsky says we're not. If Chomsky's argument is a strawman, Aaronson could write a blog post saying that, instead of a blog post stuffing his own strawman. Anyways, I'm summarizing Chomsky's argument as I understood it, you can read it yourself.
I don't know, that's Chomsky's claim. If I, again a non-expert, had to take a position on it, it seems far more likely to be true than not. Humans have access to a wide variety of non-language stimuli, and demonstrate signs of intelligence well before they have any functional mastery of language. Even after I "mastered" language, I developed lots of skills that haven't the faintest relation to language, like riding a bike. I'm sure ChatGPT can produce a textual explanation of riding a bike, but neither ChatGPT nor a human who doesn't know how to ride a bike can convert that textual explanation into the act of riding an actual bike. But a human, unlike ChatGPT, could, given a bike, learn to ride it by trying to ride it.
This is not a response to the Chomsky piece. The main argument advanced by Chomsky et al is that LLMs are neither AGIs nor are they precursors to what we might consider AGIs, because, among other reasons, LLMs "learn" differently to how humans do, and that difference comes with strict limitations on the upper bounds of what LLMs can achieve. I'm certainly no expert on linguistics or AI/ML, so I don't know about all that, but this blog post avoids engaging with that claim, and opts instead for ad hominem.
Your reply is conflating two different things: updates to games, and updates to Proton. IME Proton updates almost never result in regressions (I think I've heard of it happening once, maybe twice ever), and Valve has and uses the ability to prefer specific Proton versions for specific games.
Game updates are what I have read about breaking compatibility with Proton. In this case AFAICT Valve's only option is to try to fix it with a Proton patch. I don't think Valve's standard distribution agreement gives them the right to distribute whatever old version of a publisher's game Valve feels like. Most games I've seen, Steam enforces automatic updates to the latest version. Pinning a previous version is such a rare use case, it is confusingly under the "Betas" tab of the game properties when it is even available to the user.
Even when Valve has the rights to arbitrarily pick an old version of the game to distribute, the only way to find out if an update is breaking is to test it, so if the developer doesn't test it, the players do. So either way, if Proton isn't a target platform, you have a higher risk of breaking bugs making it in front of players. I guess since serious bugs make it into release so frequently on supported platforms, this may not seem like an issue, but there is a very real psychological phenomenon where when software breaks on Windows, it is the software's fault, and when software breaks on Linux, it is Linux's fault.
It's still not a target platform (either native Arch Linux or Proton) for very many games, so updates have broken a number of games that were previously rated "playable" or "verified", rendering them unplayable. TBF in every case I've heard of this happening, Valve has been quick to address it, so you may or may not consider that an issue. I don't game much these days, but when I do it's exclusively on my Linux desktop, so I have a high tolerance for troubleshooting occasional issues, but I definitely think it's a stretch to call that "ultimate."
I know a few people who have the Deck and enjoy it, but "ultimate gaming platform" seems like a stretch. I look forward to Valve continuing to improve and iterate on the platform, though I haven't owned a device exclusively or even predominantly for gaming in about 10 years, so I probably won't ever buy one. Still, the knock-on effects for the rest of the Linux ecosystem are positive.
That is probably in the top 3 most common English typos, made millions or billions of times a day by native English speakers, up to and including people with PhDs. The issue the author is complaining about is completely different.
Arabic is both a (group of) language(s) and an alphabet/script. The page isn't claiming that 2B people speak some dialect of the Arabic language, it is claiming some 2B people have a degree of literacy in the alphabet/script, so a quarter of the world's population will potentially know if you've screwed up your website/app/game/whatever. You don't need to speak Latin to know that "anunmtMh mucjmydDDDDD" is just the result of me mashing random keys on my keyboard, because you can read Latin letters. Likewise no Mongolian speaker would believe "прнтзх йоэЁюи" is proper Russian, even though those two languages are wildly different.
I don't have enough information to form strong opinions about this specific case, but
> what White Castle's lawyers described as "annihilative liability"
sounds like something that should very much be on the table more frequently when large companies have repeated egregious violations of law as is alleged here.
> so code would have to find a way to switch modes it runs in as it is shuffled between core
It's even worse than that. Initially you could disable E-cores in BIOS to get the system to report AVX-512 being available, but Intel released a microcode update to remove this workaround[0]. Intel also stated that they started fusing off the AVX-512 in silicon on later production Alder Lake chips[1]. Also compare the Ark entries for the Rocket Lake[2], Alder Lake[3], and Raptor Lake[4] flagships. Only the 11900k lists AVX-512 as an available Instruction Set Extension. So it's reasonable to say that AVX-512 on consumer Intel lines is dead for now, whereas AMD has just introduced it in the Ryzen 7000 series.
Well, that's it for me. I've been nervous since the acquisition, but that post has all the telltale signs of imminent brand doom. I've had a few small services running on Linode for years I'll be pulling the plug on/moving to other providers.
Every exposure to COVID results in one of two possible outcomes: infection, or no infection. The COVID vaccines without a doubt increase the frequency of the second outcome and decrease the first, although their efficacy by this metric has been waning for over a year (they still seem superb at preventing serious illness and death). "Infections" doesn't mean "people who have ever been infected," which at this point is approaching 100% of the human population, it means "infections." The COVID vaccines prevent infections.
The vaccines do NOT do the same thing. Molnupiravir directly modifies the RNA in the SARS-CoV-2 active in the patient's body. That vaccines can serve as a forcing function for viruses is not new information, but so does immunity from previous infections, and vaccination comes with the benefit of preventing a non-zero number of infections and transmissions relative to immunity from previous infection. Vaccines in general, including the COVID vaccines, remain the single best tool for disease prevention.
I've been fixing ThinkPads since the IBM days (my first laptop was a 770x), and I seem to recall reasonable documentation having been available then, too. Or it's possible that it was just so easy to do the most common things (eg separate labeled RAM covers set into the bigger bottom cover) that I never even bothered looking for repair docs and I'm conflating their availability with their lack of necessity.
FOSS as infrastructure doesn't mean every piece of FOSS is. And infrastructure can be incidental. While we're using analogies tortured beyond all meaning, a goat path in the forest is infrastructure if I ride my bicycle on it to get somewhere, but the goat herder was just herding their goats. If you want to rely on something (code, forest path, whatever), you should probably take steps to ensure the longevity and security of that thing, especially if you depend on it to make money. If I really need my goat/bicycle path, I could do path maintenance on it or try to get the government to do it, but complaining that I'm late for work because the goat herder didn't clear a fallen tree that their goats can jump over but I can't bike around is both foolish and obnoxious.