@RockyAtotheK AI videos can be so real and so absurd at the same time... you half had me until he easily put the big steel door In by picking it up like it was a piece of cardboard.
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Chris Reynolds
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Chris Reynolds
@AdjustedTwit
IT Director, father of two.
Mobile, AL Entrou em Kasım 2022
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I think the battery sizes and charging speed are mostly fine. I'd like to see superchargers have more consistent food and bathroom options.
The ultimate charging experience is at a Buc-ee's or similar. Nice bathrooms, decent options for a quick bite.
So many superchargers are at businesses that are on their last legs or have even closed since the charger opened.
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I didn’t think this would stimulate as much conversation as it did.
Most people are okay with waiting 10-15 minutes for 10-20% charge because it gives them a chance to grab food, use the bathroom, etc.
Does Supercharging need to be as fast as pumping gas?
TESLARATI@Teslarati
Do you think faster charging, at these types of rates, should be prioritized by Tesla?
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@CyberRacheal So, if you're really hiding something, after you connect to the VPN connect to a server you own where you exchange random packets in/out.
Or if you control the VPN server mix in random noise so that you have a constant bandwidth / packets.
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While a VPN scrambles your data so your ISP can't "read" it, they can still watch the flow of that data.
Streaming services don’t send data in a steady stream. Instead, they send it in large chunks or bursts to fill your device's buffer
Netflix for example has a very specific heartbeat. It might send a massive 100MB burst, wait 10 seconds, then send another.
By comparing these timing and size patterns against a database of known service behaviors (fingerprinting), an ISP can identify the "signature" of Netflix 4K streaming even if the data itself is gibberish
Your ISP knows you are connected to a VPN because they can see your traffic is only going to one specific IP address (the VPN server).
Since most commercial VPN IPs are public knowledge, the ISP knows you're trying to hide something, which makes them more likely to use these guessing tools to categorize your traffic
Your ISP can't see the movie, but they can see a 20GB "shape" that pulses every 10 seconds and travels to a known VPN server. To a computer, that looks exactly like someone watching 4K Netflix.
Cyber_Racheal@CyberRacheal
Interviewer: When you're using a VPN, your ISP can still see how much data you’re using, but they can't see what you’re doing. However, if you're watching a 4K movie on Netflix over a VPN, a sophisticated ISP can still guess exactly what you're watching just by looking at the "shape" of your traffic. How is that possible if the data is fully encrypted?
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@Combat_learjet Peppermints, it's in a lot of "white" foods.
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I just realized many ranch dressing brands have Titanium Dioxide in the ingredients. Titanium Dioxide is what blocks UV rays in sunscreen…WTH.
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@HackingDave Neat, but seems much simpler to use a Starlink Mini and a battery.
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Cell reception is always bad at the volleyball tournaments and the coach couldn’t stream live videos to family that couldn’t make it.
Built this thing - wireless AP to cellular built amplifiers inside the battery casing with Omni directional antennas and our own private WiFi.
We cookin and streaming now 😂
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@SUDHIRT64354301 @hell_line0 The irony that you could just as well describe a pregnancy as a "baby on life support" is entirely missed on this user. Somewhat personal to me, I was born 3-months premature.
The depths to which (wo)man will go to justify any immoral action is simply astounding.
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@hell_line0 Exactly. A pregnancy has the potential to become a baby, but the baby on life support is already here, breathing, feeling, and needing care right now. That’s the difference between possibility and reality.”
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Picture this you’re at a hospital in a hurricane. The power has gone out, there is one generator supporting a 6 month old who is currently on life support until they can get them into surgery. There is also a freezer with an embryo in it. There is only enough power for one.
Most people are going to unplug the freezer to keep the living breathing baby alive. Congrats now you understand the diffeeence between a baby and a pregnancy
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@chrismunns That's legit, the letter in the image is a bit over the top. It's not really any different than deciding to only work with a specific language or DB, IMO.
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lol I did this, not reject an offer, but I stopped interviewing somewhere after I found out they were a PC only/windows shop. was a startup, I couldn't even believe it.
Asmit@coolcoder56
Employee resigned because he got Windows 11 instead of Mac 💀
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For me, "gift" is a good word for it, when I publish something open-source. I really am looking for only two things in return:
1) Don't sue me, I gave this to you.
2) Don't claim you wrote it.
Otherwise, do whatever you want with it, it's a gift. So, I tend to favor the MIT license.
No, I don't have anything like the contributions of others in this thread, nor do I claim to.
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I know there is some overlap between open source and anti-AI activists, but I have a hard time reconciling it. My million+ open source LOC were always intended as a gift to the world. Yes, I would make arguments about how it would strengthen our communities, and the GPL would prevent outright exploitation by our competitors, but those were to allay fears of my partners to allow me to make the gift.
AI training on the code magnifies the value of the gift. I am enthusiastic about it!
Some people do look at open source as a tool for social change, career advancement, or reputation building, but those are all downstream of the gift.
Rich Whitehouse@DickWhitehouse
Genuinely devastating take to see from someone who popularized the GPL across so many communities. Fails to appreciate the social and cultural importance of the license.
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@sonjaphoto @sciencegirl I'm surprised there's not more of a market for nostalgia games. Re-master or even just re-release a lot of these games with just enough updates that they run on modern hardware.
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@sciencegirl This was 80’s to early 90’s, anyone remember the Quest games? Kings Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest - my family loved them! I had my boys play as children so they could grow up with the same games.
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For those who used a computer between 1995 and 2001, what's the computer game from that time that sticks with you the most, and why
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Disagree. I wouldn't call it a "contribution", but if someone files a legitimate, non-duplicate bug report on one of my projects, I welcome it, or at least I should. Sometimes maybe my pride gets in the way.
Sure, a CI-passing PR is better, but I'd rather know I have a bug than not.
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I still struggle to understand the mentality of folks who believe that filing a bug report with no fix against an open source project is making some sort of "contribution".
No: a bug report is a request for someone else who has a family and hobbies to do work for you for free.
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@CliveWismayer "Thank you for your attention to this matter"
This one I hate more than all, maybe because I associate it with passive-aggressive HR types.
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Can people please stop saying:
• let that sink in
• that’s all you need to know, &
• that’s it. That’s the tweet.
Thank you for your attention to this matter (& stop saying that too).
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@gonedark With non-trivial sized databases, application controlled migrations are a disaster waiting to happen. I use them in my personal projects and ban them in my day job.
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I’d go so far as to say migrations themselves are unnecessary. At least beyond their changeset. Once applied, they should be removed and the latest schema should be snapshotted. There’s no reason any application should run hundreds of “old” migrations in sequence.
Freek Van der Herten@freekmurze
I never write down migrations. Down migrations are the least tested code in any Laravel app. They're written once and never run. And when you do need to roll back, you don't know beforehand what you need to do with the data would already be stored in the updated schema.
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If Opus 4.6 et al are "stochastic parrots," we have to seriously consider to what extent we are the same. My religion/belief system considers such a thought absurd, but my reason fails to find a logical explanation why this can't be true.
The biggest differentiator at present seems to be that LLMs don't learn once trained, but that's something we've imposed on them, perhaps out of safety concerns. It's not, fundamentally, impossible to have them "sleep" at night and reconcile memories much as we think we do during sleep.
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The “stochastic parrot, AI is just a next-word predictor, AI is hype, AI can never, can’t do that, can’t do this, it’ll hit a wall soon” crowds demonstrated the power of coping to deny the inevitable & our inability to comprehend that reality is not how we think or feel it is.
Siqi Chen@blader
the stochastic parrot crowd is rapidly becoming indistinguishable from the flat earth crowd
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@hvo_e_acc Fair, however it's R's (dare I say "we") that are currently trying desperately to lose the race by attempting to destroy one of major AI labs in this country.
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this is basically my worry with democrats coming back to power, but, even if they were to do this, it’s just shooting themselves on the foot. China is still advancing forward and likely will achieve superintelligence first since they already have the supply chain and the infrastructure. lol. people will just use any of the chinese open source models. so i don’t know what the fk they’re thinking if these aholes think they can stop anything.
Polymarket@Polymarket
BREAKING: New York bill would ban AI from answering questions related to medicine, law, dentistry, nursing, psychology, social work, engineering, & more.
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@Brian_onX Yes, two biggest shocks when I got married:
1) Hair everywhere.
2) What used to be a yearly supply of TP becomes a month at best. :-)
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married men,
this is what bathroom shower wall looks like after my wife takes a shower.
is this normal?
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@DrBrianKeating The pilots are also unionized, most office workers are not. Though it seems a likely outcome that everyone becomes unionized to prevent AI from taking jobs. If there's one thing unions are good at it's keeping butts in seats even if they aren't needed.
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Experts claim artificial general intelligence will replace all skilled labor.
So, certainly a job that involves sitting in a chair for hours at a time, in front of an input device, surrounded by computers and electronic servos should be the first to go, right?
And specific intelligence, e.g. a bounded specified task like knowledge-work from a chair should be even more vulnerable as it doesn't require general intelligence at all.
But artificial specific intelligence has been around for over a half century in aviation and it hasn’t even replaced airline pilots. The Apollo moon landers were fully autonomous. The pilots chose to 'land-by-hand' but didn't need to.
Modern autopilot systems can land aircraft after traveling 0.8 Mach across continents in zero-visibility conditions.
Yet there’s a global pilot shortage, to say nothing of the many other tasks like maintenance required for commercial aviation.
If AI can’t automate away one of the most structured jobs on Earth, why do experts assume it will automate all jobs?
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@brankopetric00 If there's any simple description of my/my team's job this is it. Yes, every time. We even practice it, regularly.
I have approximately 190 DB servers totaling approximately 1PiB of data under my responsibility.
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@AlanLevinovitz For Engineering disciplines this seems straightforward... more pen and paper tests to verify learning, otherwise they should have access to the same tools they would use in the workforce and grading should adjust accordingly.
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A BIG FUCK YOU TO THE AI COMPANIES THAT RELEASED THEIR PRODUCTS INTO THE WORLD WITHOUT EVER CONSIDERING THE CHEATING CRISIS THEY WOULD CREATE
AND TO THE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER ED FOR NOT CRACKING DOWN HARD BECAUSE THEY ARE AFRAID OF STUDENTS
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I only have Teslas (Y, 3) I almost never use either frunk. I'm glad they are there, I have used them, but they are the last place I put something unless I want to hide it and don't need it air conditioned which is a rare combination.
I've done it a few more times with the 3 as it's easier to run out of space in the 3.
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I’m probably the only EV owner that never uses frunk.. what do you guy keep in there?
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