artifex

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[–] artifex@piefed.social 1 points 6 minutes ago

A combination of strong state level incentives from China, Korea, and Taiwan, disinterest in super expensive R&D by GlobalFoundaries after they were spun out of AMD, and decades-long mismanagement at Intel.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 46 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

So every AI’s gonna identify as an Arch user with striped socks now?

[–] artifex@piefed.social 12 points 22 hours ago

Ok reading a little more the class has been certified but it hasn’t gone to trial, so there’s still a possibility of a closed-door settlement of some sort, though given the number of parties involved that seems unlikely. Maybe I’m just being optimistic. But if it goes to trial and makes it to judgement there will either have to be cases where using copyrighted materials to train AI (which seriously how is that not for generating derivative works) is found to be ok, or copyright will be held sacrosanct and the whole gen AI industry will have to pay… something. Punitive damages would make the industry cease to exist overnight, and I’d bet most publishers would prefer a check instead.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 16 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

It has to set some precedent though. Either there are valid reasons to violate copyright are there aren’t.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

oh, definitely. I just meant it's going to be something much closer to a "conventional" compact fission reactor (the only examples of which I could think of being for naval uses) than an RTG. I have to imagine that bleeding off all of that heat is going to be an interesting challenge in a hard vacuum.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The call is for a 100kW reactor, which is way more than an RTG. This will be more like a submarine/carrier pressurized fission reactor that’s fitted out for use in space.

 

Now we just need to find plausible evidence that there might be important natural resources so we can gear up a squad of space miners/marines.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 92 points 2 days ago (6 children)

There have been scarier graphs in the 2020s 🙄

[–] artifex@piefed.social 12 points 2 days ago

Yeah but the cool kind of nerd.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah for all his shortcomings Pat Gelsinger had the right plan for Intel. But the board wanted to see the numbers go up every quarter -- long-term viability be damned -- and he couldn't do both that and push all of their advanced engineering directives, so something had to give (which in this case was Gelsinger himself).

[–] artifex@piefed.social 25 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Such a pity, too. Not long ago something like this would have ended even a powerful politician's career. Dead. Full stop. But now, who can blame them? They've learned that there are no consequences for their hypocrisy and bad behavior, so why would they change?

 

I expect the real issue here is that Cotton doesn't abide by having a non-white CEO at the helm of a good ol' American company. That said, Cadence was caught with their pants down, and should be punished accordingly.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 9 points 3 days ago

We're already "helping" in that climate change is significantly expanding their range. I removed 4 Lone Star ticks in a 1-week period earlier this summer on Long Island. There was a time when that kind wasn't even around the area.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 64 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (19 children)

I'm all for eating less red meat, but I'd rather do it myself than rely on an deadly autoimmune response that might also kill me if I have a slice of buttered toast (or anything made from mammal proteins, for that matter), or carageenan, a seaweed-derived thickener.

Edit: also, fuck ticks in particular. They also can carry Lyme which is hard to diagnose and, for many, forever life-changing, and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, which can outright kill you.

 

Woke ticks are out to turn the US South into soyboys

(did I do that right?)

 

Fei et al. designed a cement-based paint that cools both radiatively and through evaporation and that appears to keep buildings relatively cool even in humid environments. Although radiative cooling is effective at reducing temperature, it requires the material to be sky-facing. Designing a paint that also cools through evaporation allows the material to be effective when applied to the sides of the buildings as well.

 

Spoiler alert: it makes them more relatable. Maybe Marvin knew what he was doing the whole time, and diodes down his left side were perfectly fine.

 

Supergiant Betelgeuse was recently discovered to have a companion star - it's bright blue, not yet fusing hydrogen, and actually orbiting so close that it's inside Betelgeuse's outer atmosphere! I wonder what it'll be named.

 

A lemmy server's /instance page shows lists of federated and blocked instances, but piefed's version doesn't seem to have this (you see Online | Dormant | Gone forever | Trusted - and I'm not 100% clear on what some of those mean). Is it possible to see a list of servers that my piefed server has defederated/blocked?

 

While the thought of lawyers lawyering with AI gives me the icks, I also understand that at a certain point it may play out like the self-driving car argument: once the AI is good enough, it will be better than the average human -- since I think it's obvious to everyone that human lawyers make plenty of mistakes. So if you knew the average lawyer made 3.6 mistakes per case and the AI only made 1.2, it's still a net gain. On the other hand tho, this could lead to complacency that drives even more injustice.

 

There are several old avocado trees on my corner, including the one that makes these small (tho not usually this small) green avocados that turn purple and shiny like an eggplant when fully ripe. The taste is pretty typical for a green avocado -- so much less fatty than a Haas -- but with a nice floral note that I haven't come across in other varieties.

 

When Reaction Engines went bankrupt a few years ago there was much speculation about when -- not if -- their technology for a supercooled hybrid ramjet/rocket engine would be picked up by another entity. It seems we now have our answer as the ESA hopes to revive and complete the ambitious project for a single-stage-to-orbit, air-breathing spaceplane.

 

Having fucked up social discourse with Twitter and then Bluesky, Jack Dorsey claims he has seen the error of his ways, and definitely won't do it a third time with his new nonprofit aimed at helping developers build and deploy (OSS or commercial) social media tech built on the Nostr platform (with AI!). Yeesh, I might be biased. Maybe I shouldn't be writing these summaries.

 

Having fucked up social discourse with Twitter and then Bluesky, Jack Dorsey claims he has seen the error of his ways, and definitely won't do it a third time with his new nonprofit aimed at helping developers build and deploy (OSS or commercial) social media tech built on the Nostr platform (with AI!). Yeesh, I might be biased. Maybe I shouldn't be writing these summaries.

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