Anthropic’s still considered a startup? I’d have thought that they would be too big for that.

I’m half-expecting for it to turn out that he was being wholly compliant, and he’s being accused of destruction of evidence because they were looking for something that never existed to begin with.

The garden might be walled, but apparently nobody’s bothered to check for weeds.

You also have the benefit that, since it’s a single memory pool, it can be used for other things, and allocated dynamically.

Where in a conventional machine, VRAM is exclusively for the GPU to use, and RAM is generally for the system. The capacities are usually fixed (I think it’s possible to offload GPU memory into system memory for some uses, but that’s about it, and your performance usually falls off).

Downside is that because it’s a shared memory pool, everything uses it, so you lose some of the actual capacity for things like your OS.

Interesting. I had no idea genetic damage was linked to Alzheimer’s disease. Thought it was chance/inherent genetics, a bit like cancer is.

That’s not true, though. There’s nothing to corrupt. The human genome is 41% fruit fly, 60% banana and 8% virus simultaneously. Hugh Mann Georg, whose genome is 131 billion percent human is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

Plus natural selection isn’t solely random by nature, nor is it independent of humans. It doesn’t magically go away, even with sci-fi gene technology, since people would naturally select genes that they find attractive, make them superhuman, or won’t give them some nasty disease. Humans deciding that they want a gene that gives them breasts all-year round because they find them attractive is no different to humans selecting for the trait over generations, for much the same reason.

At least in this case, yes. They’d just not get them, since they’d want something they can already easily process, and the source for the quote is a bookseller, who isn’t likely to sell something like that to begin with.

An old book that might disintegrate and damage the scanner and hold things up would be undesirable, compared to either a new one, or a reprint of an old one.

It’s worth pointing out that this is standard practice when digitising books in most places, if they’re not irreplaceable. Mass-produced books would fall under that category.

Turning the page and photographing what’s there is really only done for some books, which you can’t afford to destroy.

The reason Firefox still exists is that Google can prove it’s not a Chrome monopoly. Now this is just me forming conspiracy theories, but I do believe that Google would stop these payments the day Firefox would really out-innovate Chrome and get more market share.

I don’t know about that. One of the big reasons chrome even got off the ground when it started was that it had the reach and backing of Google. If you opened Google, you had a “Get Chrome”. If you did a search on Google, you had a “Get Chrome”. You had advertisements, etc. It being faster to start with was nice, but even then, the other browsers at the time caught up pretty quickly.

Without that help, Firefox might just get left in the dust. We’ve already been at the point where websites are mainly designed for Chromium browsers, and that you’re encouraged to fire it up if something doesn’t work for you, and you’re using Firefox, Safari, Konqueror, etc, since the majority of users use some form of Chrome.

Microsoft couldn’t hack it when they tried developing their own browser, and they’re both much larger than Mozilla, have the reach of Windows, and whatever was left over from IE. They ended up switching over to Blink/Chromium.

I can’t imagine Mozilla would fare any better, after losing a decent chunk of their funding. The fact that they’ve done decently so far is a minor miracle in and of itself.

For example, I’ve already had a decent bit of resistance just trying to encourage friends, and family to use an ad-blocker.

That’s basically a recommended standard for using the internet these days, like pop-up blockers were. Government agencies use and generally recommend them.

Part of the report is also a contingency for when they need to find alternative income.

They’re hardly abandoning all Firefox development and dumping it into this.

Unfortunately due to the inverse square law, they don’t have a very long range.

Possibly for the better. Last thing you need is people accidentally hitting a plane with one of them.

People already do it with lasers. Something that destroys the electronics would be even worse.

Or from the other angle, when there are better forms for working in a factory. We don’t make cars giant mechanical humans you sit atop of, why do the same for robots?

It also doesn’t preclude the device using other means than IP to detect location.

Social media has also done its hardest to try and push people away from using it. Between the culture being awful, and there being an increasing number of roadblocks to using it, that ironically ruins discoverability for anyone who might want to use social media.

For example, if you want to use Reddit, and see a link, there’s a lot of posts that you can’t see without having an account and logging in. That’s a big ask for something that you’re not even sure that you want to sign up for, which would only be worse since you couldn’t sidestep that using the old reddit interface.

Meanwhile, Twitter not only makes it so that you can’t see much of anything without being logged in, but they’re trying some new scheme where if you have an account, you need to download the app and give them your biometrics to confirm that you’re human before you can use your account.

If you’ve scarcely used either site, why would you start now? Everything wants you to jump through more and more hoops to verify that you’re actually a human, and if you don’t have an account, the content that you can see doesn’t seem to much of anything interesting. When not logged in, some subreddit and posts are completely inaccessible, and on Twitter, you can only see the tweet, but not the replies, or recent user posts.

Both of those were the main draws for each site. Why would any new user want to use them now? The only thing that they have is their reputation, and that will slowly go away with time.

Once upon a time, for example, Twitter was once the haven for beginner programmers, because they had a nice, free easy-to-use API that anyone could use to make bots and learn how to use APIs in general. Reddit was not far behind that. But that’s mostly gone now. Reddit no longer approves API keys for the most part, and is working to shut down the public APIs that it has left, and Twitter has locked theirs behind a paywall.

It’s also arguably the only thing propping up the American economy right now. They don’t have anything to bail with, if the AI bubbles goes on fire. Their economy may well come tumbling down in short order.

On top of that, you don’t have to stay bleeding-edge. Computers have mostly reached a steady-state these days. A decade old computer now is still a fairly usable machine. It won’t be fast, but it also won’t be a slug.

Not the screen, but it would be nice if I could replace the keyboard on my laptop, since it doesn’t work properly any more.

But since it’s built into the lower body, it costs about as much to replace as the device is worth, since I’d be replacing a big piece of the casing, so I just make do with also carrying a Bluetooth keyboard.

I was thinking more along the lines of the big evaporative cooling towers you see with a lot of reactors, since they rely on vaporisation to cool off, most of that water can’t be reused, short of getting picked up in the water cycle again.

Unfortunately not. Computing hardware doesn’t get that hot.

The chips would be fried if you had them at the temperatures where they were generating enough steam to run a turbine.