Though, to be fair, Framework laptops can’t charge from all of their ports. The 16 can charge from one port each per side; not sure about the 13 and 12.

Nope, still perfectly legal. Proprietary charging ports are allowed but have to be accompanied by a USB PD port that supports the same wattage (or 240 W if the device needs more than that).

So basically the law says “devices must support USB PD”, not “devices must only support USB PD”.

They can.

USB-C goes up to 240 W now and the law has been amended to acknowledge the new USB PD spec. Devices are also allowed to have proprietary charging ports but must include a USB-C port capable of showing the full power draw of the device (or 240 W of they need more than that).

So a big gaming laptop might have a USB PD-capable port that supports 240 W and a barrel jack that supports 350 W.

I said I can respect it, not that it’s good. It feels like a deliberate attempt to torpedo the revival of a series that really didn’t need to be revived. That’s what I can respect, not the movie on its own merits.

They do; the article points that out.

However, this doesn’t work in enterprise environments. Companies want to download updates once and then deliver then themselves when and to whom they want. And that means they need to download all of them.

These days they’re all bundled up in one huge package so companies have to devote a of storage for update files that mostly contain the same stuff as last month’s.

And on the diagram it only has “influenced by” lines going to it. There’s no contradiction here.

I can respect the fourth one. Sure, it was a terrible movie but it feels like a deliberate piss take on the idea of reviving the franchise. And I can respect that.

Yeah, that’s what I refer to with offloading. Depending on the model and runtime it might be a bit fiddly but it usually works fine.

The newer CPU generations come with cores optimized for this stuff (referred to as an NPU). It actually seems to work fairly well for the kind of model you’d run locally.

Barring that, a typical laptop dGPU will also work, although not super efficiently since they often don’t exceed 8 GB of VRAM and thus can’t run most models without partially offloading them to the CPU.

Of course a laptop with a dGPU and NPU cores will make the offloading less painful. So yeah, workable for most reasonably-sized models.

I don’t think that a plane in flight is likely to have good EMT coverage.

There’s a significant difference between “we’re in an easily reachable party of a major city and I can expect a fully equipped ambulance to be here in minutes” and “we’re in mid-air and even if we make an emergency landing the patient won’t receive medical care for another hour unless I provide it”.

Some of the newer C# features are nice. Of course .Net is not handled by the same people who keep setting Windows on fire.

Yeah. 60% more responsive for something infamous for taking multiple seconds to launch is depressingly bad. That’s “not even trying” levels of improvement.

The start menu should open essentially instantly (excluding optional animations) – 100 ms is good, 200 ms is somewhat adequate. They’re aiming for somewhere between 400 and 1200 ms.

I hope for them that they underpromise and overdeliver because this does not inspire confidence.

That does make sense when you need absolute precision like when doing abstract math. Otherwise you can just use whichever unit and number of significant digits you need and be precise to that amount. That’s what you do with imperial/American customary units as well; a 5/32" screw isn’t going to be manufactured to the precision of a Planck length; manufacturers specify their sizes to three significant digits of an inch.

Let’s say you have a machining project and your tools are precise to 0.1 mm. So you plan things out at a precision of 0.1 mm. It doesn’t matter that a distance is 17/38 cm exactly. It doesn’t matter that it’s 4.473684210526315789… mm. You can’t set the tool to anything better than 4.5 mm anyway.

Also note that the metric system doesn’t prevent you from using fractions. You’re perfectly free to work with fractions where useful. That’s just not how people talk about lengths because those fractions have no meaning outside your specific use case.

Those planets typically don’t heave a breathable atmosphere, though. You pretty much need a large biosphere if you want to be able to walk around without a spacesuit. An iceball world or a barren rock probably won’t contain a breathable amount of oxygen in an otherwise mostly inert atmosphere. If you want to breathe pure carbon dioxide or get fried by nearly unfiltered UV radiation, though, they’d be great.

I have. Never had your machine just sit there and refuse to boot because a network share is down? Or because the wifi isn’t connected yet?

I absolutely have. The solution wasn’t found in the init system, though, but by giving my NFS mounts the nofail option in /etc/fstab. Filesystem handling isn’t init’s job.

Overall I haven’t had significantly more or less issues with systemd over OpenRC. I’m not a particularly big fan of their approach to things but their init system is perfectly serviceable.

So your argument is that since you are opposed to the app’s very existence it’s immoral to test it for security flaws.

I’d like to argue against that with the principle of defense in depth. I’m also not a friend of OS-level age verification and would like it to be dropped. But if it is implemented I want it to be implemented in a way that isn’t wildly insecure. I can simultaneously argue against the principle as a whole and insist that any implementation of it be secure. If it does come I at least want the damage from a botched implementation to be mitigated.

To use your cage analogy, I can both complain about the principle of caging people and about the fact that the cage is badly made and poses an injury risk to the people inside it. Neither is acceptable.

Struwwelpeter is a mixed bag.

There’s the story about the boy who starves to death because he refuses to eat soup. Or the girl who plays with matches and burns to death while her cats helplessly watch. Or the boy who sucks his thumbs so a tailor randomly shows up and cuts them off.

And those are mixed in with the guy whose extremely bad grooming habits make him unpopular or the guy who doesn’t watch where he’s going and falls in a river. Not quite as traumatizing.

An LLM trained on the PoE ingame chat would try to solve all my problems by asking to buy my Kaom’s Sign Coral Ring for 1ex.

That has happened to me… twice. Once they sent spam to abuse@<domain> and once to postmaster@<domain>. Both of those are “well-known” addresses that received one spam mail each.

Having your own domain with a catch-all address is rare enough that spammers don’t seem to try to target it.

Meanwhile I set up straight-to-spam rules for a handful of companies that leaked my email address. Very useful.

It’s known that AI companies will harvest content without care for its veracity and train LLMs on it. These LLMs will then regurgitate that content as fact.

This isn’t a particularly novel finding but the experiment illustrates it rather well.

The researchers you consider to have acted so immorally did add useless information to the knowledge pool – but it was unadvertised, immediately recognizable useless information that any sane reviewer would’ve flagged. They included subtle clues like thanking someone at Starfleet Academy for letting them use a lab aboard the USS Enterprise. They claimed to have gotten funding from the Sideshow Bob Foundation. Subtle.

By providing this easily traceable nonsense, they were able to turn the generally-but-informally known understanding that LLMs will repeat bullshit into a hard scientific data point that others can build on. Nothing world-changing but still valuable. They basically did what Alan Sokal did.

Instead of worrying about this experiment you should worry about all the misinformation in LLMs that wasn’t provided (and diligently documented) by well-meaning researchers.