Yeah, security screws are security theatre. I had an electronics screw driver set that came with a bunch of the rarer screw bits by default. Actually ran into one I didn't have, then noticed another set with that one (plus other features like the long bendy bit for hard to reach screws) next time I was in the tool section and just bought it.
That said, I won't be needing this one. Driving a BMW would go against the image I'm trying to cultivate of not being an asshole.
You: the existence of the subway is actually a lie to make Russia look strong to the west.
Bob: oh damn
You: we aren't allowed to talk about it in English. The birds are microphones.
Similar with mp3 bitrate. While I do think I noticed a difference going from 128kbps to 192kbps, anything beyond that I can't hear a difference for.
Which clearly means I need to dump 15k into my sound setup because it maxes out somewhere between 128kbps and 192kbps!
Edit: dumb -> dumpaound -> sound
Glad you used "effectively impossible" because I think it is possible, though it would be tedious as fuck to do because you'd have like a hundred different shades where each one gets used only a handful of times. It would probably take a computer program pattern helper where you tell it what colour you're doing so it can highlight where that thread is supposed to show up. You might need to spin some of your own threads to get the correct shades, too.
That would be like a $1000 pillow for the number of hours that would need to go into it, at least.
Sounds like the people who are realistic about AI are going to end up having a huge advantage over people who use it naively.
Like with statistics, there are a lot of tools out there that can handle them perfectly accurately, you just don't want an LLM doing "analysis" because the NN isn't encoded for that. Consider how often our own NNs get addicted to gambling while not being fully specialized for processing language. An LLM might not get caught up in a gambler's fallacy, but that's more on account of being too simple than being smarter.
I wonder if this will break the trust in MBAs because LLMs are deceptively incompetent and from the sound of this comment and other things I've seen, that deception works well enough that their ego around being involved in the tool's development clashes with the experts telling them it's not as useful as it seems.
I read the comment, then judge the comment and use that judgement and voting scores to judge the community.
Yeah, windows came from a different era where if you're seeing a new exe, it's because you put a disk in the drive and explicitly navigated to it. Speaking of which, this isn't even the first time that convenience ended up opening up a wide security hole because they handled CDs differently and added an autoplay feature that would check the disk for autorun.exe and just run it if autorun was enabled. I started disabling it after word about sony's rootkits got out but have been appalled to see it enabled by default still ever since then.
I was one of the few that appreciated UAC when it was there and kept it on one of the stricter settings. I'd rather my PC ask than assume, but people bitched about it so they weakened it and eventually just got rid of it entirely I think?
Though a permissions setup would be even better. I didn't like that UAC was an all or nothing prompt, plus it didn't give any details about what a program wanted to do. Are you asking because this program is trying to create a new directory in program files or because it wants to replace system32 dlls with its own versions?
It's an area even Linux can improve in (though probably depends on flavour). I like the android permissions model, where there's various actions and you can allow or deny categories (though GrapheneOS does it even better by also sandboxing everything). I'd love to see something like that for my desktop, where apps are free to save files but can't touch files that aren't their own unless an explicit share is set up, where I might want one app to have network access and no disk access and another to have the opposite. I'd love to be at a state where I could just run any executable from the internet because I know that my OS won't let it fuck anything up other than its own address space. Hell, could even dedicate a core to monitoring apps to detect if one breaks out of its sandbox without my explicit permission (while the OS also doesn't use that to enforce the desires of other developers over my own).
Back in the 00s, a story about CPUs getting so hot they'd start on fire went viral. In it was a video of someone removing the cooler while it was running and then a few seconds later a flame appears.
On the one hand, obviously you shouldn't remove your CPU cooler while it was running.
But on the other hand, fans and mounts can fail, so this was still a risk even for people who were smarter than removing the cooler entirely.
It prompted CPU makers to add thermal protections that started out as "if CPU hits threshold, cut power", but over time more sophisticated heat management was integrated with more sophisticated performance and power management.
So these days, if you aren't sufficiently cooling your CPU, it won't die much quicker, instead it will throttle performance to keep heat at safe levels. OP would have gotten better performance out of it after removing that plastic. Assuming it was CPU bottlenecked in the first place. Things like RAM choice and settings can make it a moot point because the RAM can't keep up with the CPU at 100% power anyways.
I believe it was a product of the earlier conflict between copyright owners and AIs on the training side. The compromise was that they could train on copyright data but lose any copyright protections on the output of the AI.
If a director's vision involves either potentially disturbing neighbours or not being able to understand dialogue, fuck their vision. I'd much rather my devices be controlled by what I want, not anyone else's desires.
And the existence of idiots doesn't mean everything needs to be limited so that the idiots won't screw themselves. We exist in an age where if you don't understand something, you can easily look up information about it. Enshittification might ruin that over time but it hasn't done so yet. And it can be designed in a way that can make it easier to figure out. Don't stick it deep in the settings, make it easy to find in "volume settings" or "audio settings" with preset options that cover common sound system setups. If such a system were common, then plenty of people will learn it and know what's up when grandma's TV only plays the music track very loudly (which actually might be kinda nice if you just have the TV playing for background noise).
I can't think of any good reason why links opened via notepad should be treated as trusted. Or any remote exe being treated as trusted regardless of what program is trying to open it, including the windows app store. If anything, the default behavior should be to download the file or open a prompt. I'd call that the second flaw.
Glad to be away from that platform.
On yeah, the little mouse puzzles. I always figured it wouldn't be that hard to give cursor movement a more natural curve, just give it an interpolation that clamps the first 3 derivatives of position and adds jitter and a little overshoot and correction or clamps the derivatives even harder at the end to mimic slowing down for precision.
I'd say countdown to programs that pretend to be webcams and display an AI video of the requested action has started but I bet at least someone has already done it. And then the arms race between actions to be requested and what AI can do will start until eventually passing the test will be a fail because the actions requested are either too difficult for humans to understand or too difficult for humans to perform, at which point AIs will be trained on knowing the physical limitations of humans.
This will come in handy for when they get tired of our shit.
Personally, one of the reasons I mostly play solo video games is so that if I feel like taking a break, I can do so without affecting anyone else or needing to wait until everyone is ready for a break. Sometimes I think I want to play a game and then am just not feeling it a few mins in. Or I'll be really into a game for months and then just drop it when that obsession passes.
Playing together is a big commitment!
Instructions unclear. It was working at first, but then after I ate the tuna, my cat peed in my boots despite being fully litter trained prior.