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@topspin Can't expect today's kids to run something that doesn't have at least a javascript engine integrated in it.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
@DogsB So how long before they turn it into Notepad Code?
So from something that is 200KB in size and takes 1ms to start into something that is 300MB in size, downloads updates everytime you run it, and takes forever to start?
But does it still mishandle files with newlines?
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@boomzilla probably. It'll also burn through a whole CPU core just to display a blinking caret:
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@topspin Next generation of Intel CPUs:
- 4 performance cores
- 8 efficiency cores
- 6 make-cursor-blink cores
(I'll leave it up for debate whether the MCB cores are more or less powerful than the other cores.)
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A wild @julianlam spotted!
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@loopback0 this one is dummer
IANAL but most of the suggestions are pretty dumb.
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@GOG Gives me an idea for another feature. Instead of moving the cursor, we put the row under the cursor in a <marquee> tag. Just need to hit the key when the position on the row aligns with the cursor, instead of moving the cursor to the right position manually!
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Today in "what's a WHERE clause?"
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
Second of all, that frog is poisonous.
I was about to ask that (because to RTFA). Because of course it is.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
Second of all, that frog is poisonous. So I doubt the French really want it.
Well played.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
that frog is
poisonouspoisonousvenomousokay, carry on... but, it's bufotenin, a poison.
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@cvi Still no extra-secure cores for executing javascript?
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@acrow Removing performance features in HW on the Javascript cores? Controversial. I figure JS needs all the help it can get to perform at all.
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@cvi on a more serious note, it would also be an admission that their speculative execution implementations are still broken and will likely continue to be. And we can’t have that.
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@topspin Whether it is a problem at all depends on other aspects of the system and what it is doing. Many high performance compute systems essentially only ever run trusted code, and can't be reached directly from the outside world (to limit networking cross-talk problems, among other things). They'll have all sorts of things turned up to the max.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
high performance compute systems
But we were talking about running JS.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
high performance compute systems
But we were talking about running JS.
What's needed then is hardware truthiness support.
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@DogsB Maybe an MBA shouldn't be possible to pass with just regurgitated waffle...?
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Another reason to distrust the English!
*edit I kept thinking of this towards the end of the article.
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@DogsB anything to avoid the metric system!
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Article @TimeBandit linked in In other news today... said:
which was trained to recognize a walking soldier
Fucktards.
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Article @DogsB posted in In other news today...:
reduce the value of an MBA education
I agree, my MBA is pretty worthless at the moment.
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Hightlights by me.
The entire heist started as an experiment to see if fish could complete Pokémon Scarlet and Violet unassisted. To do it, Japanese YouTuber "Mutekimaru Channel" set up a webcam focused on his fish bowl. Motion-tracking software monitored the fish as they swam across an overlaid grid populated with controller inputs. If a fish paused or changed direction, the correlating controller input registered in the game.
Mutekimaru had done this experiment before. In 2020, his fish successfully completed the test, finishing Pokémon Sapphire in about 3,195 hours — something an actively playing human could do in around 30. However, this time around, things did not go as quite as planned.
The identity theft occurred while Mutekimaru was away from the YouTube live stream (highlights below). The game went swimmingly, with the fish winning several battles. At the 1,144-hour mark, the game crashed, as games sometimes do, but without Mutekimaru present to fix the situation, the system continued registering inputs from the fish.
Eventually, the pesky little critters got the Nintendo eShop to come up (twice) and, entirely by chance, registered the correct sequence of inputs to add 500 yen (only about $4 US) to Mutekimaru's account from his credit card that was saved on the Switch. They also exposed his credit card information to everyone watching.
Then the scoundrels managed to use some of Mutekimaru's accumulated reward points to purchase a new avatar, download the N64 emulator, get PayPal to send him a setup confirmation email, and change his Nintendo account name from "Mutekimaru" to "ROWAWAWAWA¥." The fish free-for-all went on for seven hours in total before the future bait finally managed to power down the Switch.
Mutekimaru contacted Nintendo, explaining what happened, and asked for a refund of his 500 yen. Hilariously enough, Nintendo granted the request. So all said and done, nothing was truly lost except 10 points for an avatar. No harm, no foul. Hopefully, Mutekimaru sees it that way, too, and doesn't flush the little thieves down the toilet.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
Maybe an MBA shouldn't be possible to pass with just regurgitated waffle...?
types will likely remember all the some decades ago about how calculators were making scientific exams too easy.
The fact that this line of thinking has all but disappeared tells me that the same thing will happen with AIs. In a couple of decades, exam formats will have changed to accommodate AIs.
And if that doesn't happen, it means AIs will really replace us all by then, and we'll just all be meatbags slaving to do the physical tasks that AIs can't be bothered to do, so degrees will be useless anyway.
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Police said their young investigator provided them with some partially eaten carrots to determine if reindeer were present along with a half-eaten cookie reportedly left behind by Santa.
Police Chief Matthew Benson said he has forwarded the girl’s evidence to the Rhode Island Department of Health for analysis to examine possible DNA traces from Santa while comparing the bite marks to any of Santa’s reindeer on file.
“This young lady obviously has a keen sense for truth and the investigative process and did a tremendous job packaging her evidence for submission,” Benson shared in a news release. “We will do our very best to provide answers for her.”
Cumberland police said that while they wait for the DNA results, they have shared evidence with the girl, which includes a photo of a reindeer, that supports Santa’s presence in her neighborhood on Christmas Eve.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
Eventually, the pesky little critters got the Nintendo eShop to come up (twice) and, entirely by chance, registered the correct sequence of inputs to add 500 yen (only about $4 US) to Mutekimaru's account from his credit card that was saved on the Switch. They also exposed his credit card information to everyone watching.
Does the Japanese Switch eshop not ask you to re-enter your password for every single credit transaction or purchase like the North American one does?
e: Clicked through to the article, not entirely convinced by the video. Neither is this guy from the comments:
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
Hightlights by me.
The entire heist started as an experiment to see if fish could complete Pokémon Scarlet and Violet unassisted. To do it, Japanese YouTuber "Mutekimaru Channel" set up a webcam focused on his fish bowl. Motion-tracking software monitored the fish as they swam across an overlaid grid populated with controller inputs. If a fish paused or changed direction, the correlating controller input registered in the game.
Mutekimaru had done this experiment before. In 2020, his fish successfully completed the test, finishing Pokémon Sapphire in about 3,195 hours — something an actively playing human could do in around 30. However, this time around, things did not go as quite as planned.
The identity theft occurred while Mutekimaru was away from the YouTube live stream (highlights below). The game went swimmingly, with the fish winning several battles. At the 1,144-hour mark, the game crashed, as games sometimes do, but without Mutekimaru present to fix the situation, the system continued registering inputs from the fish.
Eventually, the pesky little critters got the Nintendo eShop to come up (twice) and, entirely by chance, registered the correct sequence of inputs to add 500 yen (only about $4 US) to Mutekimaru's account from his credit card that was saved on the Switch. They also exposed his credit card information to everyone watching.
Then the scoundrels managed to use some of Mutekimaru's accumulated reward points to purchase a new avatar, download the N64 emulator, get PayPal to send him a setup confirmation email, and change his Nintendo account name from "Mutekimaru" to "ROWAWAWAWA¥." The fish free-for-all went on for seven hours in total before the future bait finally managed to power down the Switch.
Mutekimaru contacted Nintendo, explaining what happened, and asked for a refund of his 500 yen. Hilariously enough, Nintendo granted the request. So all said and done, nothing was truly lost except 10 points for an avatar. No harm, no foul. Hopefully, Mutekimaru sees it that way, too, and doesn't flush the little thieves down the toilet.
<furiously looking for ways to change account name to ROWAWAWAWA¥>
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@DogsB linked an article in In other news today... that said:
Any automation of the skills taught in our MBA programs could potentially reduce the value of an MBA education.
No, it can't, because it's already worthless.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@DogsB linked an article in In other news today... that said:
Any automation of the skills taught in our MBA programs could potentially reduce the value of an MBA education.
No, it can't, because it's already worthless.
Not entirely true. While a handful of bean-counters are regrettably necessary, most MBAs are found in management, which has negative value overall.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
While a handful of bean-counters are regrettably necessary, most MBAs are found in management, which has negative value overall.
The problem comes when you have everyone in charge being the sort of person who doesn't really care what the company does, and for whom it is just another cookie-cutter management job. Especially if they charge an enormous amount to the company for doing this entirely interchangeable job.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
The problem comes when you have everyone in charge being the sort of person who doesn't really
careunderstand what the company doesTo be fair, either is a problem.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Not entirely true. While a handful of bean-counters are regrettably necessary, most MBAs are found in management, which has negative value overall.
I would rather have the people in charge have MBA's than have them have all of these certifications in specific methodologies, like Scrum, SAFe (shudder), etc., which gives them a motive to perpetuate those specific methodologies.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
While a handful of bean-counters are regrettably necessary, most MBAs are found in management, which has negative value overall.
The problem comes when you have everyone in charge being the sort of person who doesn't really care what the company does, and for whom it is just another cookie-cutter management job. Especially if they charge an enormous amount to the company for doing this entirely interchangeable job.
This. Management in general is useful, but MBAs tend to make the worst managers.
In Czech we have a backronym for MBA—“mladý, blbý, arogantní” = “young, stupid, arrogant”. Fits a lot of people coming from MBA programs quite well.
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Speaking of MBA, I have an IT-related story. It's actually about reverse case: existing high-ranking manager of a major (energy) corporation has been doing MBA (presumably to award himself a raise). So he wrote a thesis... in Word... and the file got corrupted.
Obviously, he threw it at "IT department" to solve it.
The IT department had (as was usual in that era) two parts and each of them worked on the task their own way:
- The beard-and-suspenders UNIX oldsters fired their hex editors (the real veterans printed it on continuous paper) and scourged the internet for all possible reverse-engineered information about the file format. With no success, the text simply wasn't there.
- The Microsoft youngsters gathered all MVPs and spent round-the-clock on phone, navigating all possible Microsoft support hotlines (and even cold lines). Without any success either, the only statement from Microsoft was "Word is intended to be used for short auxiliary text, we don't guarantee that any longer text is reliably retained"
In the end, the Management (and, presumably, true MBA) solution proved superior: the Manager just tasked one of his
minionssubordinates to write new thesis from scratch.
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@Kamil-Podlesak There are a lot of things that management does that's in the weasel zone, but that's almost blackmail level. He would be thrown out of his degree program if they became aware of that.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
He would be thrown out of his degree program if they became aware of that.
With an honorary PhD?
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
mladý
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@Kamil-Podlesak There are a lot of things that management does that's in the weasel zone, but that's almost blackmail level. He would be thrown out of his degree program if they became aware of that.
And that's when AI comes handy.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
The comments are retarded.
I agree that the whole collection valuation is utterly dumb, but this doesn't mean that someone deserves to have USD10k fucked up by government.
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No.
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Ah good, I can finally use the vat of molten metal I keep in the corner.
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@DogsB Calling it a ‘robot’ is a stretch. A very, very long stretch. It's just a piece of completely dumb material (though with somewhat special properties) manipulated with external magnetic fields.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
The comments are retarded.
I agree that the whole collection valuation is utterly dumb, but this doesn't mean that someone deserves to have USD10k4k fucked up by government.Have to ask though, was it declared to be $4k on the shipping label? Because if not, and he tries to keep customs accountable, then we're talking of remuneration to the tune or whatever was on the label. Or even a charge of customs fees and tax evasion if he decides to demonstrate the full $4k.
I have to assume that border agents treat the contents according to what the value printed on the label is. Otherwise, they'd be destroying valuable items more often.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
OK, maybe my is showing, but... is a "sealed and graded original copy" of a game [cartridge]????
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Looks like an Emotiv EPOC. They've been around since 2010 maybe? They had a kickstarter back in the day. Took a while for them to turn up on Twitch...
Software back in ~2010 was super janky, and later they moved to progressively more asshole licensing models (e.g., limited dev access unless extra $$$, no raw signals, ...). I'm kinda wondering if it's less jank these days.