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rob_c··on Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards
Yes, but how else do they plan to announce they have achieved it without 1984 word management/control and polluting the training pool so badly that future trained models agree?
rob_c··on Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards
Tbf "ai" probably helped him write the guff rather than improve anything.
rob_c··on We rebuilt the Linux MicroVM stack on Apple Silicon
No, they're realists.

Plus show me an off the shelf solution to MDM that exists in the Linux space? (Not too mention an easy to buy consumer devices which supports suspend/resume correctly in 2026, not even Windows can do that any more)

Apple is crap and evil about many things, but at least here they know their paying audience...

rob_c··on England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C
There's also a difference between treatment and cure but we call it all a "vaccine" now (I prefer the transitional OED definition from pre 2019). We've already entered 1984s use of good speak especially around healthcare.
rob_c··on England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C
And that same problem leading to him is the same reason why we have 3rd world diseases coming back...
rob_c··on England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C
Given the recent outbreaks of diseases we should have already eliminated here (for other reasons that "we shouldn't discuss")...

I view this as a wonderful "they don't report in and the coroner doesn't check" type of elimination

rob_c··on Big Tech is stoking unrest in the UK. Why?
There are extremists who claimed the ocean would be destroyed by acid rain, oil would run out by 2020 and co2 levels would push the temps to 25+C in the UK for most of the year.

None of these things have happened but these people were still let near schools unvetted with these claims in the 90s. If day we've learned to communicate science better but fools in the know all to quickly become political bedfellows with money with agendas attached to it...

rob_c··on Big Tech is stoking unrest in the UK. Why?
Yeah that article is missing a very major point that immigration in the UK hasn't meant assimilation or a coherent mixing of cultures as people want or may have observed at times.

The problems in the UK are actually focused around sticky blobbyness caused by a) lack of integration, b) left vs right flavor of the moment causing further segregation and c) long term socioeconomic factors leading to govt(councils) fixing the problem in the cheapest way possible which is unfortunately high profile in the British high street by the public.

A lot of British are moving out of the city centers themselves (or already have) and into suburbs which leaves the cities hollowed out. Lack of footfall means lack of investment means decay and cheap housing/buildings.

All of this is a predicable recipe for friction but very short term British politics combined with a "not my problem" attitude prevalent in the nhs and public sectors means people doubled down in short term solutions for over a generation.

That combined with more hardship causes people to look at the biggest broken problem which is our immigration system needed reforming over 20yr+ ago and unfortunately this was locked into place by EU laws and policy (such ironically we pushed for, for other political reasons).

It's less of a grand conspiracy and more of the dominoes we're set to fall this way after dragging us out of the 80s without fixing anything and then the post recession being used to fuel boom and growth vs fixing underlying issues at a national level.

rob_c··on Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes
No, that's the quality of candidates. I wish I was joking as a PhD holder for only 15yr.

A lot of skill of is getting bled into the private sector because getting the PhD in a lot of regions doesn't mean the step up it used to. A lot of that comes from awarding them to layabouts doing "a gender critical analysis of ...".

Industry doesn't how/what/why they just wanted the 3 letters as a performance barrier to hire competants.

rob_c··on Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes
Those who can use it better, those who can't out who cheat are (for now) let down by obviously cheap and slightly crappy models.

The worry is in ~5yr time when the generic models catch up to this level (basic undergrad mind) that we need to worry about how to thin the herd. We could always go back to the tried and tested student staff engagement but most unis tried to turn themselves into sausage factories in thirst for the almighty dollar so the student/staff ratios are all off

rob_c··on Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services
> You pay red hat for compliance reasons

You may, have you heard of docker?

rob_c··on Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services
So why else do we pay someone to package and certify/verify open source projects? This is absolutely 90++% of what should be RedHats core day job.
rob_c··on When AI Crosses the Line: The Matplotlib Incident
Again. "AI" for what it is is just basic "ML". And say it with me ML has no form of agency.

This is a human screwing up and blaming their tools. Nothing to see move on.

Unfortunately there will be both the LLM crowd evangelicals and those demanding human jobs not be expunged in terms of progress and efficiency, but, sigh...

rob_c··on AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes
I'm fairly sure the FPGA space is big enough there are alternate products for most of the offerings
rob_c··on AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes
Think academic and small companies who don't pay for support opening corner case issues all the time publicly. They want none of the complex support unless you pay (reasonable imo).

And for those who forget RHEL for instance has to pay salaries to back port fixes and such and the same logic applies here.

rob_c··on AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes
But you just showed you have deep pockets and they think they can get you to open it again every year for the rest of time.

Xilinx was never positioned that it made sense for them to open it up. If/when it gets run into the ground by AMD short sightedness they might just open it to claim that was the plan all along...

rob_c··on WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency
Or the stupid stop being so loud
rob_c··on WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency
No. Not at all. The simulations were based on old data with the artificial cut off. The particles were and are much much smaller. Please don't recite rhetoric and do some reading.

And frankly I'm saddened that you're arguing for an educated by tryany and trying to make things political which are simply fact based

rob_c··on WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency
Global fact most died from a related underlying disease and COVID simply hastened on the process. Actually killed from just this is way below the 1M mark globally.

Also we've now reached vitD in kids cereals and butter so you know, we know how to avoid this...

rob_c··on WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency
Water + heat + sieve

Unless you have industrial pollutants in which case you also have someone to blame...

We didn't get this far as a species being that ignorant

rob_c··on WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency
The alternative being to tell your neighbour to tell their neighbour to stop defacating in the river or you'll stop paying their bills to bring the analogy closer to home...
rob_c··on WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency
So your position is 0.01 Vs 0.001 and given error bars bigger than that you're arguing that I'm clearly wrong to say 0.1 is wrong... Slow clap...
rob_c··on WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency
> the anti-mask wackos

Well thank you for your service to stupidity. The only measure of worth was actual social distancing which was quickly admonished by the pointless mask arguments as nauseum. No, there is no science good to bad to back up things which are broken by common sense, virii spread in Japan at the same rate as the west after accounting for population densities. (faster without the correction as you'd expect) So let's just move on.

Please, oh please, do not start with some form of "the masses seek to be ruled". The only, only end of that game is to justify totalitarianism which is often what those arguing the point are stupid enough to believe they are arguing against.

If you're going to make an argument for they need lead then yes. And we need both control in the dining water. But we'll never see my version of an idealised advancing civilisation because of "mah feels", "personal experiences" and such drivel.

You may not be used to hearing this but if I was to be grading you you'd get a pass for a coherent sentence but a fail for correctness and coherency, in short. You are wrong.

rob_c··on WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency
> some nuanced point

it's not nuanced to point out a very large statement which at the time was very VERY anti-trumpian and pro ultra-left, lest not forget "hug a tourist", "lets change the popular naming conventions to technical" and, "oh crap too late now human to human is higher than anything we've seen before" which is basically all memory holed now

rob_c··on WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency
> you guys

I'm a wonderful citizen of heir u-turn starmer unfortunately so plenty of wanting to clear the waterways here :P

rob_c··on WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency
> With what money? There's a reason they're dependent on USAID.

How much does BASIC hygiene cost it's like manners. It's education (which is more than well funded at a "throw cash at it problem".

> we just dumped our excess production

Well in a nutshell, yes we'd dumping quite a lot on Africa, that doesn't mean we should shore up the system with yet another western derived screw-up. At this point I'll go for the good old star trek perspective of impacting a cultures development by suddenly advancing their technological position.

rob_c··on WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency
> Why should we expect the US to step up?

Le all-mighty dollar, it tastes best when given freely no?

> It's almost as if the double standard is off the charts.

I agree. I love how the same people will typically call for US withdrawal from any/all military theatres; whilst promoting sending <FORCED> aid at the end of a needle. I think a lot of these people were of the "lock them up for their covid heresy" category...

If this was China exerting influence I'm sure we'd start complaining there's poison in the needles, bribery and how they should go back and focus on China.

rob_c··on WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency
It's healthy to remain sceptical of all information, pointing out a very widely blindly trusted organisation has serious problems which means this trust and faith placed in it is blind is NOT "an enemy of my enemy" situation.

That leads to sectarianism.

The WHO can both simultaneously be responsible for many good things and have very bad leadership doing more harm than good in other areas. But pointing out that dichotomy of the truth is beyond the conversational chattering class I fear.

rob_c··on WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency
which is the statement being made to cancel the money since after X years there are almost zero deliverables rather than being the a&e dept for the world, in countries where leaders have fleets of sports cars whilst their people die of situations not far from cholera.
rob_c··on WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency
No, it raises the question of what is going wrong if you've spent the last x years teaching them to fish and they still refuse to. Either your approach, their willingness or something else has clearly gone wrong here.
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