The 3L diesel in my car takes about 8qt per change. The 5.9L diesel in my truck takes 12qt.
That's why I won't touch new equipment with a ten foot pole. I buy old stuff and then end up having to do major rebuilds. I realize this is somewhat of a luxury, and damn is it nice. In the last calendar year, this is…
Reading codes is only part of it. For the last quarter century or so (some manufacturers more than others) if you replace certain components (radio, any computer module) you need to update the ECU to recognize the new…
Why would you pay extra for some website the company could just take away from you on a whim? I have the bound paper repair manuals for my 1998 Dodge truck, my 1995 Toyota, and my 2002 Kubota tractor. Nobody can…
I heard if you inject yourself with bleach you can perceive the higher dimensions. Many people say this.
That wasn't a shallow dismissal. It's literally the sentence that renders the rest of the article not credible.
Yeah this could just be some vibeslop doing normal computer stuff. AI agents are famously incompetent at reasoning about database transactions. This seems like the sort of failure you get when you try to do distributed…
I have Haier Arctic heat pumps that are made in China. They've been great so far. I've also worked with suppliers in Shenzhen for one-off custom electronic devices that would put western companies to shame in their…
I currently have R410a heat pumps with minisplits, when they're off warranty sometime in the future I might consider putting propane in them. The main question would be whether the oil used with R410a is compatible with…
It's the kind of thing that should make people think, but I wonder to what extent anyone does anymore when it comes to this kind of risk of a vendor stealing from you.
This kind of coercive, threatening rhetoric is really not surprising at all. This is how tech companies operate. What stands out to me is the naive lack of operational security on the part of academics, who should know…
Why is it always "you clearly haven't used the latest model, let me tell you this time it'll blow your socks off!" How many times have we heard this? If it wasn't true all the other times why must I believe it now?…
It would require an authorized human to load the floppy into the drive and make it go. And there's nothing special about that process being done in code, it could just as well be done by people flipping switches…
> Both sides come from fear. Maybe. I'll have to think about that one. It doesn't feel like fear to me, but that could be some kind of coping mechanism. From where I sit, I don't believe I fear this AI stuff because I…
> You and the other poster just need to find some agreeable benchmark so you can decide who won. That is the hard part. I'm not sure the usage numbers we'd need to decide the outcome are public now, and I can't predict…
> They’re in an arms race to build a machine god, knowing full well that it could end humanity. Fantasies built upon extrapolations derived from fever dream delusions. "Could end humanity"? Come on, it's a computer…
Yeah ML systems often do very surprising "cheats". A while back there was a system for automatically landing aircraft on a carrier deck which exploited an overflow in an acceleration parameter in the simulation--the…
The most charitable way I can describe it is just extremely low quality sci-fi fan fiction. I think that's too charitable, because I believe it's far more cynical than that. They're deliberately playing into these sort…
OK so if it's a computer security issue we're worried about, and there is a credible threat, then probably the answer is to build more secure systems? We know how to do it but choose not to because it's very expensive…
> You can prove the test covers the bug without understanding the test code (you need to understand the bug, of course). I'm not following.. When we write regression tests those tests encode invariants we expect to be…
What on earth are you talking about? 1. What does any of this have to do with "A(G)I"? Nobody has any clue what AI even is let alone how to build one. We're talking about language models here. 2. What's the…
Uhh... what? You'll instantaneously feel very differently when the service you're responsible for is down at 3:15am and your logs are full of stack traces that end somewhere in that code that "doesn't need to be…
Just a chat log would be acceptable. Like an IRC channel log or slack channel history. It would be even better if, say in the case of code, that there was a durable mapping between prompts and commits, that way I could…
Hence The Great Smoothening of Minds we're all experiencing in this decrepit era. I blame the financial incentive, and welcome its disappearance. There are too many people doing computers just for the big paycheck, it…
The number of times the friction of writing has saved me from prematurely communicating a poorly understood idea must be in the hundreds or maybe thousands. For me when something is difficult to write about, it's a very…
The 3L diesel in my car takes about 8qt per change. The 5.9L diesel in my truck takes 12qt.
That's why I won't touch new equipment with a ten foot pole. I buy old stuff and then end up having to do major rebuilds. I realize this is somewhat of a luxury, and damn is it nice. In the last calendar year, this is…
Reading codes is only part of it. For the last quarter century or so (some manufacturers more than others) if you replace certain components (radio, any computer module) you need to update the ECU to recognize the new…
Why would you pay extra for some website the company could just take away from you on a whim? I have the bound paper repair manuals for my 1998 Dodge truck, my 1995 Toyota, and my 2002 Kubota tractor. Nobody can…
I heard if you inject yourself with bleach you can perceive the higher dimensions. Many people say this.
That wasn't a shallow dismissal. It's literally the sentence that renders the rest of the article not credible.
Yeah this could just be some vibeslop doing normal computer stuff. AI agents are famously incompetent at reasoning about database transactions. This seems like the sort of failure you get when you try to do distributed…
I have Haier Arctic heat pumps that are made in China. They've been great so far. I've also worked with suppliers in Shenzhen for one-off custom electronic devices that would put western companies to shame in their…
I currently have R410a heat pumps with minisplits, when they're off warranty sometime in the future I might consider putting propane in them. The main question would be whether the oil used with R410a is compatible with…
It's the kind of thing that should make people think, but I wonder to what extent anyone does anymore when it comes to this kind of risk of a vendor stealing from you.
This kind of coercive, threatening rhetoric is really not surprising at all. This is how tech companies operate. What stands out to me is the naive lack of operational security on the part of academics, who should know…
Why is it always "you clearly haven't used the latest model, let me tell you this time it'll blow your socks off!" How many times have we heard this? If it wasn't true all the other times why must I believe it now?…
It would require an authorized human to load the floppy into the drive and make it go. And there's nothing special about that process being done in code, it could just as well be done by people flipping switches…
> Both sides come from fear. Maybe. I'll have to think about that one. It doesn't feel like fear to me, but that could be some kind of coping mechanism. From where I sit, I don't believe I fear this AI stuff because I…
> You and the other poster just need to find some agreeable benchmark so you can decide who won. That is the hard part. I'm not sure the usage numbers we'd need to decide the outcome are public now, and I can't predict…
> They’re in an arms race to build a machine god, knowing full well that it could end humanity. Fantasies built upon extrapolations derived from fever dream delusions. "Could end humanity"? Come on, it's a computer…
Yeah ML systems often do very surprising "cheats". A while back there was a system for automatically landing aircraft on a carrier deck which exploited an overflow in an acceleration parameter in the simulation--the…
The most charitable way I can describe it is just extremely low quality sci-fi fan fiction. I think that's too charitable, because I believe it's far more cynical than that. They're deliberately playing into these sort…
OK so if it's a computer security issue we're worried about, and there is a credible threat, then probably the answer is to build more secure systems? We know how to do it but choose not to because it's very expensive…
> You can prove the test covers the bug without understanding the test code (you need to understand the bug, of course). I'm not following.. When we write regression tests those tests encode invariants we expect to be…
What on earth are you talking about? 1. What does any of this have to do with "A(G)I"? Nobody has any clue what AI even is let alone how to build one. We're talking about language models here. 2. What's the…
Uhh... what? You'll instantaneously feel very differently when the service you're responsible for is down at 3:15am and your logs are full of stack traces that end somewhere in that code that "doesn't need to be…
Just a chat log would be acceptable. Like an IRC channel log or slack channel history. It would be even better if, say in the case of code, that there was a durable mapping between prompts and commits, that way I could…
Hence The Great Smoothening of Minds we're all experiencing in this decrepit era. I blame the financial incentive, and welcome its disappearance. There are too many people doing computers just for the big paycheck, it…
The number of times the friction of writing has saved me from prematurely communicating a poorly understood idea must be in the hundreds or maybe thousands. For me when something is difficult to write about, it's a very…