scratchee

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[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 7 points 1 week ago

That’s true regardless, batteries will never power intercontinental wide-bodies (short some major new developments in battery design). This will probably reduce the maximum aircraft size where batteries remain viable, but they are obviously very viable for short hops in small jets, the point where they cannot compete is somewhere but it’s not “never”, even with this limitation.

That all said, maybe someone will explore just dropping batteries along the way? It sounds ridiculous, but it also sounds like something we have the tech to solve…

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Apparently the defence missed it too, which is pretty damning for whoever was (supposed to be) defending him, I’d think.

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 7 points 2 weeks ago

Honestly cheap ram that has a 50% chance to fail in a year sounds perfect for the llm industry, they already struggle to plan a year in advance, and all their hardware would be obsolete by then anyway, so why the hell not? Plus they could keep the bubble going a few more months by blaming their problems on hardware failures and claiming they’ll sue China or something

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 23 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Yeah, not the same industry, but I’d never dream of putting valuable stuff on an unencrypted drive, shocked anyone has somehow missed all the stories of laptops getting stolen with secret documents on etc over the years.

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 3 points 4 weeks ago

I think you’re probably right actually. I suspect I read about the importance of repetition in learning which seems to be a real thing, and then either over interpreted it or read it from a source with an agenda. It’s true that repetition is critical to learning, but the idea that it’s fundamentally opposed to “fun” might have been layered on top without justification. Though I do maintain that the require practice is tough to keep fun, and is important, so I think there’s some practical truth to it even if it’s not a requirement as such.

You’re definitely correct that boredom isn’t a goal in itself, plenty of ways to be boring and teach nothing, I’ve definitely suffered through that!

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 12 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

I don’t entirely disagree, but it’s worth noting that to some extent learning is inherently boring, like, making it more interesting makes it less effective. Reiterating the same thing to the point of boredom and beyond had been shown to be effective if I remember correctly. It’s why things like Duolingo take so much longer to teach you a language, because they’re trying so hard to be somewhat fun they actually compromise the effectiveness of the teaching.

So I do think schools need to remove distractions, especially ones engineered to be distracting like Facebook.

But your point is valid too, just because some boredom is necessary doesn’t mean they can’t do better, a lot better.

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can imagine they presumably must have made some changes, almost certainly for the better or at least not much worse

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yes, it varies a lot. But by and large cases where robots wildly outperform humans were automated decades ago, because the obvious benefits justified the cost and complexity of either building a bespoke robot or programming one to do the job well (all those robot arms you imagine swinging doors into place at the car factory)

The cases left over (and discussed here) are either requiring a level of flexibility that older designs of robot couldn’t handle, or where humans were pretty efficient at anyway, so the complex process of prepping a robot wasn’t justified.

But a robot that can be taught without programming (by any worker or their supervisor), and slots straight into an existing human-shaped hole? That could massively reduce the upfront cost, especially if economies of scale make the robot itself cheaper. possibly to the point that the robot could be worse at the job than a human and still be cheaper in the long run.

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The user would be unable to use E2EE as soon as the key is swapped, so the only real issue here is impersonation.

If an admin mitms all the messages then they can re-encrypt using the users original/real public key, leaving the user unaware that they have been hacked and able to use encryption as normal, or am I missing something?

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

The function of a market is not the movement of goods, but the movement of prices.

This particular market is not functioning, or at the very least, it’s not functioning like a market for a commodity that has no particular resource limitations.

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Makes me think of the classic yes minister national service scene, https://youtu.be/ahgjEjJkZks

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 9 points 1 month ago

Yeah, and not like it needs to eat radiation to be successful, all it has to do is survive in a place where everything else dies, and suddenly it has no competitors or predators, and is free to grow explosively.

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