Posts by Ropewash

Re: in this case claiming that Tesla was unveiling a robotaxi in August.

You mean the beta-testers for the newest GTA game?

Guranga !

Re: "Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence"

I think that was very much his point. The electricity is 98% doing the bidding of the hidden intelligence.

The 2% gives you a token so you can feel you've achieved something.

Re: They would absolutely test it nowadays.

My own recollections

Alpha - known to be broken, but it runs well enough to start testing.

Beta - known to be buggy, needs widespread testing to find them.

RC - Mostly bug free but needs a few more tweaks.

Release - How the hell are there still so many bugs? Didn't you guys test this?

Re: Accuracy

He's an idiot.

Sure you could build a truck with all it's parts made to that precision.. If you didn't mind that each one would take a decade to manufacture with an average scrap-to-use ratio of about 9999:1 for all the sheetmetal, welded or molded parts.

I don't even bother to try to hit that kind of accuracy on machined parts unless it's absolutely required. It's simply not cost effective to scrap parts that would work perfectly well. That's why tolerances exist in the first place, you don't just spec a welded tube frame 3 meters long to the same accuracy as a machine-ground bearing fit 5cm in diameter.

Re: not happening

They can't even pick a default window manager without triggering a war.

Re: "Incandescently stupid..."--Miles Taylor.

X.com-rays are certainly part of the ElonMusk spectrum.

Re: Sleep well!

I certainly can sleep well, knowing the future AI overlords are now completely stunlocked by having their heads filled with perfectly balanced conflicting input.

Re: Surprise

Soon to be;

Remand and Aggregation of Personal Expression

Re: Blockchain not at fault

You would need to actually host the image on-chain. Which is beyond expensive for anything bigger than a pixelpunk.

What the current system does is attach a receipt to a link to your image. Your buyer doesn't own the image (it's on someone else's server), they don't own the link (it's pointing at someone else's server), they only own the receipt which doesn't stop anyone from copying the image, hosting it on a different server, minting it on a different chain and calling it their own with all the same digital 'proof of ownership' as your buyer can produce.

Re: So what exactly were all these laid off employees doing?

As one of those machinists, we did not get replaced by CNC. We were replaced by CNC programmers and operators. The machines don't know how to turn a solid model into Gcode, nor how to load themselves and set up their own tooling. They are essentially the same as the old manual machines, but require a different sort of human to control them.

What they did do however was speed up production so now the company asks for 5x more work each day and engineers are free to create all sorts of stupidly expensive parts with obscenely tight tolerances simply because 'the machines should be able to do it' as opposed to designing things in a way that actually makes sense for ease of manufacture & repair.

Re: Stupid "Optimized defaults" nonsense.

For a short period during (iirc)the Intel BX days some board makers de-coupled the RAM from FSB through a multiplier.

So you could run 133 memory while keeping your FSB at 100 and your AGP therefore at 66.

You can get away with pretty near anything if you have a white van, a blue shop coat and a toolbox.

I used to do machine repairs at a large manufacturing site and would usually bypass the hassle of getting a badge from security each visit. Never got stopped once.

Re: One wonders if he has a backup plan.

I was thinking it would come down to either Jonestown or Rapture.

Well somebody has to populate their metaverse.

Re: Why?

Helicopter licensing is difficult for a reason.

People can't even drive in two dimensions without causing fatal events, three dimensions will be an order of magnitude worse.

Power lines, other vehicles, birds all must be dodged and when not dodged you need the now destroyed flier to not drop into people's homes.

Add to that the nasty tendency for people to get drunk or try to show off how good they are at aerial acrobatics.

No way do I see flying one of these to be any less regulated than a helicopter.

Re: We need a better sheriff: let's draw up the job description.

Governments don't 'want' to control the internet. What they want is to have the upper hand at spying on their neighbors.

If they truly desired absolute control, the answer is simple.

Balkanise the network.

Re: Crypto is crud. Bur that's not the issue.

Because, despite what they themselves might think, the people writing code are not the ones who decide the rules.

Re: Google search accurate?

I've been having the continuation of that particular problem.

When I do find a local shop they have no stock, but will gladly order it from Amazon for a mark-up.

Getting anything done without waiting for shipping is getting difficult.

Re: I'm calling them 'net curtains'

Well you might be in luck there as your window glass is a solid black wall to many IR cameras.

They will be expecting a body in the wreckage, brother.

They basically are, the differences come from what they are backed with.

For instance the USD is backed by really, really big bombs while crypto is backed by wishes and unicorn farts.

"screwing the biggest number"

Yes, but we 'trust' that they will do exactly that.

So they are at the "embrace" stage of the Microsoft playbook.

Re: So, DDR is out and HBM is in ?

HBM has to be mounted very close to the processor and is usually soldered there, so it's not like you're going to be forced to choose RAM sticks.

Re: Sting Operations and Red Team

If you are lucky enough to live somewhere that honours such immunities.

Otherwise, you're holding a wad of signed toilet paper.

Re: Art is in the eye of the beholder

Or 32 and has already been out until 2:00am

Re: I hate to say this, but

Read the article. A government certainly did get involved. Perhaps not in the way you are alluding to, but a much more realistic picture of how governments actually get involved.

Don't count on any government to react with anything but 'good idea, how do we exploit it' while also informing the media that they are trying to pass legislation forbidding the exact thing they are currently implementing.

Also, when it comes right down to it, which country gets to legislate anything on a global network that anyone outside that country would listen to? And how well do you trust that country?

Re: Really, now?

4) Money has the benefit of having a government backing it, sometimes a government with really big bombs and an itchy trigger finger if someone tries to mess with their currency valuation in any meaningful way.

Crypto lacks this feature, but otherwise the two are roughly the same.

Re: Major security risk

With enough bugs all bugs are shallow.

Re: conversion to degenerate matter? or just an X-ray mirage

So you're saying we must observe where the sun doesn't shine.

Re: Doh!

Older than that...

The Lord is a shepherd.

Re: Samsung quality software

If (list == null) return;

???

Re: Its a self-supporting bubble

Your first sentences also encapsulate the basics of a fiat economy.

Interesting parallel there.

Socket != chipset

AM4 is just a pegboard and the pinout circuitry.

What you are thinking of is the chipset. B450 and X470 to be precise are the ones that need some kludging to allow for the zen3 parts. It's not really the bios size in general, just that they will need to remove a lot of existing cpu definitions to make room for the new sku's, which will result in market fragmentation and hence why they tried to avoid it by specifying only X570+.

Also note that the 320 chipset AM4 boards cannot be used with Zen2 parts.

So you still need to swap out boards for AMD as well, but at least they tried to keep it to a minimum.

obligatory xkcd

https://xkcd.com/984/

Re: Salvation from the Devil

But at least it is SUSTAINED misery.

Re: Now I feel like a Luddite...

I think you are overlooking the billions of folks in the developing world.

Not many home internet connections, computers, or even toilets... but there's a shitload of cheap android phones.