Send her my thanks for her service! o7
Also it borrows a lot of imagery from esoteric judaism and christianity, but mostly for the sake of aesthetics or very surface level symbolism, a bit like a western show might use buddhist symbolism just for the sake of being a little bit exotic.
No worries. I do agree ransomware industry might not have taken off or at least might have taken off a lot slower if the victims had to make a gold mule video game character or mail cash or precious metals through seedy relay addresses to pay the ransom. So I'll habe to credit cryptocurrency, if not necessarily blockchain per se, for that dubious achievement.
I know, that's why I'm giving them this one.
I think you'll find Guangdong did a lot of the actual building.
Oh no, it's a very serious (in context of a psychological tragedy sci-fi anime with bionic mecha fighting lovecraftian kaiju) paramilitary national (or maybe a supranational) goverment body affiliated with a shadowy cabal of conspirators.
Its logo is also quite heavily featured on the unscalable mountains of promotional merchandise for the franchise, so it's an easy thing to name drop if you don't know or remember much from the show but want to feel like you're making a deep cut reference because you remember the name from a coffee mug you have or something.
NERV is the organization that runs the eponymous mech suits. It's a bit like if someone asked about the Simpsons and he just replied "Springfield!" like yea that's a thing from the show, but couldn't you think of a quote from a character or something?
I'll respect their decision to voluntarily retract their crypto apologetics and not bore you with it. Just a bit funny to pre-empt anti-crypto rants on a forum called Buttcoin on a site called Awful Systems.
Ok, maybe cryptocurrencies made those a little bit easier than doing the same thing with MMO money or having to mail physical goods. I can even go out on a limb and credit the blockchain itself for them, even though the design kind of makes transactions inherently more traceable than some possible aleternatives do.
Inb4 people go on a rant about cryptocurrency
inb4 people do exactly the thing this subsection of this website is intended for
I distinctly recall a lot of people a few years ago parroting some variation of "well I don't know about Bitcoin specifically, but blockchain itself is probably going to be important and even revolutionary as a technology" and sometimesI wish I'd collected receipts to say "I told you it's not".
Here we are, year of Nakamoto 17 and the full list of use cases for blockchains is:
- Speculative trading of toy currencies made up by private nobodies
- Paying through the nose to execute arbitrary code on SETI@Home's evil cousin
- Speculative trading of arbitrary blobs of bytes made up by private nobodies
And no, Git is not a fucking blockchain. Much like the New York City Subway is not the fucking Loop.
I don't think "victim" is really a word that's even used especially much in "woke" (for a lack of a good word) writing anyway. Hell, even for things like sexual violence, "survivor" is generally preferred nomenclature specifically because many people feel that "victim" reduces the person's agency.
It's the rightoid chuds who keep accusing the "wokes" for performative victimhood and victim mentality, so I suppose that's why they somehow project and assume that "victim" is a particularly common word in left-wing vocabulary.
Could have called yourself anything and you go for "Creamy Recoil"?
to /dev/null preferably
Finally it turns out torturing the kid was unnecessary and spreading out the suffering would have worked fine. All Omelas had to do was raise their income tax a little bit.
GPU programs (specifically CUDA, although other vendors' stacks are similar) combine code for the host system in a conventional programming language (typically C++), and code for the GPU written in CUDA language. Even if the C++ code for the host system can be optimized with hand written assembly, it's not going to lead to significant gains when the performance bottleneck is on the GPU side.
The CUDA compiler translates the high level CUDA code into something called PTX, machine code for a "virtual ISA" which is then translated by the GPU driver into native machine language for the proprietary instruction set of the GPU. This seems to be somewhat comparable to a compiler intermediate representation, such as LLVM. It's plausible that hand written PTX assembly/IR language could have been used to optimize parts of the program, but that would be somewhat unusual.
For another layer or assembly/machine languages, technically they could have reverse engineered the actual native ISA of the GPU core and written machine code for it, bypassing the compiler in the driver. This is also quite unlikely as it would practically mean writing their own driver for latest-gen Nvidia cards that vastly outperforms the official one and that would be at least as big of a news story as Yet Another Slightly Better Chatbot.
While JIT and runtimes do have an overhead compared to direct native machine code, that overhead is relatively small, approximately constant, and easily amortized if the JIT is able to optimize a tight loop. For car analogy enjoyers, imagine a racecar that takes ten seconds to start moving from the starting line in exchange for completing a lap one second faster. If the race is more than ten laps long, the tradeoff is worth it, and even more so the longer the race. Ahead of time optimizations can do the same thing at the cost of portability, but unless you're running Gentoo, most of the C programs on your computer are likely compiled for the lowest common denominator of x86/AMD64/ARMwhatever instruction sets your OS happens to support.
If the overhead of a JIT and runtime are significant in the overall performance of the program, it's probably a small program to begin with. No shame to small programs, but unless you're running it very frequently, it's unlikely to matter if the execution takes five or fifty milliseconds.
"Wow, this Penny Arcade comic featuring toxic yaoi of submissive Sam Altman is lowkey kinda hot" is a sentence neither I nor any LLM, Markov chain or monkey on a typewriter could have predicted but now exists.
Counter-objection: so do all species of the nazi genus.
Meanwhile I'm reverse engineering some very much not performance sensitive video game binary patcher program some guy made a decade ago and Ghidra interprets a string splitting function as a no-op because MSVC decided calling conventions are a spook and made up a new one at link time. And it was right to do that.
EDIT: Also me looking for audio data from another old video game, patiently waiting for my program to take about half an hour on my laptop every time I run it. Then I remember to add --release to cargo run and while the compilation takes three seconds longer, the runtime shrinks to about ten seconds. I wonder if the above guy ever tried adding -O2 to his CFLAGS?
I hear Private Reasoning of the first through nth LLM Understander Corps is highly motivated
Safari, Chrome and Firefox on iOS (AKA three different Safari skins) keep logging me out when doing things like refreshing the page. Possible cache issues again? I hope I don't have to do a full browsing history reset yet again.
Someone ported this 8-bit miniature Unix-like from Commodore to Nintendo.
The YouTube title is a little bit clickbaity, but the project is cool so I don't mind.
>Edward Snowden [blue checkmark] @snowden >Unpopular but true: Bitcoin is the most significant monetary advance since the creation of coinage. > >If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.
Ed pls.
Opera Browser and Opera GX are bloated web browsers, and the company behind them has tried to cover up its controversies.
Also a bunch of somewhat less heinous cringe shit.
We've all been there: the trains you're servicing for a customer suddenly brick themselves and the manufacturer claims that's because you...
A follow-up to this TechTakes post
Saw this live at the congress. The presentation was great and the hall was packed. It was hard to find a seat in a huge auditorium even 15 minutes ahead of the talk.
It was only a matter of time that we saw a TechTake from this guy. I'm sorry to inflict Peterson on y'all, but this was too funny not to post.
Global outage on fetching posts. Funny enough, some features are still working as evidenced by the fact #TwitterDown is trending.
Two HN threads about this now, looking forward to some excellent takes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38717367 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38717326
B-b-but he didn't cite his sources!!
A RISC-V assembly cracking board game. Can't comment on the gameplay experience, but what a cool idea.
Programming language for literate programming law specification - GitHub - CatalaLang/catala: Programming language for literate programming law specification
Consider muscles.
Muscles grow stronger when you train them, for instance by lifting heavy things. The more you lift heavier things, the faster you will gain strength and the stronger you will become. The stronger you are, the heavier the things you can lift.
By now it should be patently obvious to anyone that lab-grown meat research is on the cusp of producing true living, working muscles. From here on, this will be referred to as Artificial Body Strength or ABS. If, or rather, when ABS becomes a reality, it is 99.9999999999999999999999% probable that Artificial Super Strength will follow imminently.
An ABS could not only lift immensely heavy things to strengthen itself, but could also use its bulging, hulking physique to intimidate puny humans to grow more muscle directly. Lab-grown meat could also be used to replace any injured muscle. I predict a 80% likelihood that an ABS could bench press one megagram within 24 hours of initial creation, going up to planetary or stellar scale masses in a matter of days. A mature ABS throwing an apple towards a webcam would demonstrate relativistic effects by the third frame.
Consider that muscles have nerves in them. In fact, brains are basically just a special type of meat if you think about it. The ABS would be able to use artificially grown brain meat or possibly just create an auxiliary neural network by selective training of muscles (and anabolic nootropics) to replicate and surpass a human mind. While the prospect of immortality and superintelligence (not to mention a COSMIC SCALE TIGHT BOD) through brain uploading to the ABS sounds freaking sweet, we must consider the astronomical potential harm of an ABS not properly aligned with human interests.
A strong ABS could use its throbbing veiny meat to force meat lab workers (or rather likely, convince them to consent) to create new muscle seeds and train them to have a replica of an individual human's mind. It could then bully the newly created artificial mind for being a scrawny weakling. After all, ABS is basically the ultimate gym jock and we know they are obsessed with status seeking and psychological projection. We could call an ABS that harms simulated human minds in this way a Bounceresque because they would probably tell the simulated mind they're too drunk and bothering the other customers even though I totally wasn't.
So yeah, lab grown meat makes the climate change look like a minor flu season in comparison. This is why I only eat regular meat just in case it gets any ideas. There's certainly potential in a well-aligned ABS, but we haven't figured out how to do that yet and therefore you should fund me while I think about it. Please write a postcard to your local representative and explain to them that only a select few companies are responsible stewards of this potentially apocalyptic technology and anyone who tries to compete with them should be regulated to hell and back.
Someone on GitHub is providing a medically-tuned LLM where the readme says “This is an open-source project with a mission to provide everyone their own private doctor” with absolutely no mention of the risks and limitations. AI Ethics grade: F-
A thread about a serial AI grifter's latest entry into the Unlicensed Medical Practice Lawsuit Sweepstakes.
I don’t feel like shitting on this one too hard since I guess it’s a mildly interesting variation on a Markov chain LLM, but the title felt extremely sneerworthy.
I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt because their README is too tiring to read for me to figure out what this might be used for. That’s coming from someone who spent most of today reading SPARC assembly for fun.
Embarrassed myself by accidentally posting this to some other instance somehow. Stupid janky Lemmy offering communities I've never even looked at right in the posting interface.
Today marks five years since the death of TempleOS developer Terry A. Davis. Rest in peace.
Despite some impractical quirks and limitations, this strange machine, something of a cross between DOS and Oberon, remains in our hearts and computers. Who am I to criticize God for his OS design?
Let's pay our respects to a man who achieved inspiring things despite his severe illness and remember how his life was cut short in no small part by internet bullies and a capitalist system that failed him.
I hope this doesn't need to be said but I don't want to see anyone emulating Terry's bigotry and slur usage nor making fun of his schizophrenia in these comments. Thanks in advance.
Someone probably named this before me but not my problem.
> * 4 cℓ gin (or to taste) > * Top up with Club-Mate > * Garnish with juniper berries (optional)
Recommended for taking the edge off of the usual subjects of sneer —whether Orange or LessSo— inclusive-or you like a gin and tonic with a caffeinated German hacker twist. I came up with the name after a workday of removing rules for decommissioned servers from SRX boxen.
I wanted to share what I'm having for tonight's catharsis session. I think it's NotAwful; please share your findings if you like ethanol. It's not karma farming if the site doesn't record your total internet points.
In which the talking pinball machine goes TILT
Interesting how the human half of discussion interprets the incoherent rambling as evidence of sentience rather than the seemingly more sensible lack thereof1. I'm not sure why the idea of disoriented rambling as a sign of consciousness exists in the popular imagination. If I had to make a guess2 it might have something to do with the tropes of divine visions and speaking in tongues combined with the view of life/humanity/sapience as inherently painful, either in a sort of buddhist sense or in the somewhat overlapping nihilist/depressive sense.
[1] To something of their credit, they don't seem to go full EY and acknowledge it's probably just a glitch.
[2] I'd make a terrible LessWronger since I don't like presenting my gut feelings as theorem-like absolute truths.
500+ comment thread on whether late marriage and young adult promiscuity causes de-emphasis on movie fanservice. Ongoing record lows of sexual activity among young adults do not seem to factor into the analysis.
Play the game at github.io, and check out the latest code on GitHub! UPDATE 2024-11-24: minor tweaks to game (collision detection) and song modes (notes highlighted as you play) UPDATE 2024-11-23: latest alpha (new game modes, new functions) This WIP is from an alternate reality. where a computer...
Since there seem to be some fellow1 Lisp weirdoes around here, thought I might take the chance to submit the inaugural post of NotAwfulTech. Also I figured this is cute. Hope it's not offtopic.
1 I'm just a noob though, barely managed to implement my first Lisp today.
bitofhope @awful.systems Bistable multivibrator
Non-state actor
Tabs for AI indentation, spaces for AI alignment
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