> But the result would give us exactly the right incentives.
Say what you say, but there's plenty in that article looking like it came out of an LLM. This could of course be my own paranoia, since there's a lot of slop coming out right now.
Nice to finally see a proper Rust SSH server (in the making, I guess). Personally, I've switched to Dropbear years ago because of how bloated (and vulnerable) OpenSSH was (Dropbear is only a couple of hundred KB static binary), but Dropbear is ultimately also written in C, so a Rust-based replacement would be welcome.
There is absolutely no evidence this is true. There are always a few first generation talents who build empires from dirt and nothing (for values of nothing that usually include war, grift, and slavery).
But once an empire is established it becomes largely self-sustaining, and the inheritors get a huge head start over everyone else in their cohort.
I am talking about disabilities which affect things like motor control which means that they cannot improve their handwriting very much.
How does good handwriting improve people's live significantly? I know some people who prefer handwritten notes and I think there is research that says they can be more effective when learning, but most adults very rarely write more than a few lines by hand.
Love it. The only problem is that they can just make this changes region-specific, like Apple has been doing with everything they didn't like being ordered to do. So in the end these international companies are minimally affected.
This is also my opinion. However, I still think it's worth raising the bar for plausible fakes. Minimising processing is another way to raise that bar (or at least, lower the floor). It's also not something you can do by default, because consumers demand image processing.
Hard disagree. At least commercial entertainment providers have to work to retain their customers, unlike public broadcasters where they get funded (either via taxes or forced licenses) no matter how many people dislike them.
>Examples of games that either required or benefited from MMX enhancements in their software renderer were Eraser Turnabout, POD, and Extreme Assault
POD "Designed for Intel MMX" meant _one_ optional audio filter effect. It was added in order for Ubisoft to cash out $1 Million bribe Intel was handling out while running new Pentium Inside campaign. Intel later tried repeating same stunt with SSE while promoting new Pentium 3, but failed to bag any serious takers other than Rage Software. Rage made a fake game demo (Dispatched) for Intel 1999 Comdex Fall booth which Intel used to manipulate benchmarks for a couple years by lying to Anandtech claiming its a real game :| https://web.archive.org/web/20210807020603/https://www.anand...https://www.hardware.fr/articles/95-5/jeux-optimises.html
Two other examples from that link are SSE "optimized" Rage Software Expendables running slower than original, and "Pentium III optimized" PowerSlide by GT Interactive with zero fps difference. Neither ever released outside of Intels Comdex booth and marketing materials.
>Even though Quake and Quake II are often used as examples of games that benefited from MMX technology, it's important to point out that Quake's famous software renderer predates MMX.
Quake benefitted from MMX processors because those models had doubled L1 cache size :) No one cared about MMX, but jump from 16 KB to 32 KB meant visible fps bump in all games.
> So, Quake's fast performance was achieved primarily through techniques like fixed-point arithmetic
Quake didnt use fixed point math, whole magic of Quake relied on taking full advantage of pipelined FPU. Quake was never optimized for data locality tho and loved cache, the more the better. It scales linearly all the way to 2MB of L2 https://dependency-injection.com/2mb-cache-benchmarks/ and probably would higher if we had platforms supporting more to run tests.
>Many games and other multimedia applications shipped with optional MMX code paths
No, exact opposite. Barely any games, pretty much only the ones where Intel paid that $1m bribe, shipped with any MMX support directly because it was Integer only DSP like accelerator good for Audio/Video but useless for 3D.
>Real floating-point SIMD for x86 didn't arrive until SSE (Streaming SIMD Extensions) several years later with the Pentium III series.
but
>The first processor to ship with 3DNow! technology was the AMD K6-2 from 1998.
So which is it? :)
>3DNow! was never more popular than MMX.
It was much more popular where it counted considering game developers implemented it without bribes and it actually made games run faster. 3DNow's biggest problem was being introduced in bargain bin low end K6-2 CPUs.
>Developers faced the choice of supporting either Intel CPUs or AMD CPUs
True dichotomy. There is no choice because both technologies provide distinct non overlapping and non interchangeable features. Its like saying "Developers faced the choice of supporting audio filters or faster 3D"
>choosing MMX meant potentially supporting a larger fraction of PC gamers
MMX was _useless_ for early 3D accelerated gaming with CPU still having to perform FPU heavy T&L. Adding any MMX code meant lowering FPU performance of the renderer.
>If you wrote a 3DNow!-optimized renderer, it would only benefit AMD chips that supported it.
The difference being 3DNow!, unlike MMX, actually did benefit AMD owners FPS numbers. NovaLogic software based Voxel renderer is the sole exception, NovaLogic might be the only company consciously using MMX in a game without a bribe :o
>Finally, the ultimate blow to AMD's 3DNow! was Intel's introduction of SSE (Streaming SIMD Extensions) with the Pentium III in 1999.
Look at start of my comment :) Its super hard to find a game benchmark that visibly showed SSE having a positive effect. Partly because first SSE implementations werent that great, partly because developers were still learning SIMD programming.
>what ultimately made the old MMX registers unnecessary? If you ask retro tech enthusiasts, most answers would point to the introduction of SSE2 by Intel in 2000.
The ultimate blow was being useless beyond DSP tasks (fixed point video/audio/soft modem). Whole idea of MMX came from Intel's Native Signal Processing (NSP) initiative started after they bought Digital Video Interactive (DVI) division from General Electric (developed at famous Sarnoff Research Center). Intel wanted to own software peripherals, Gates didnt like this and made them kill NSP https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/1998/11/11/microsoft-sai...
For me, I'm not sure if "slow" is the right word. I think "delayed" or "sporadic" is more accurate.
Thoughts for me are like when a word is on the tip of your tongue, but you can't think of it right away. Often you'll think of the word later: you weren't actively thinking about it, but the thought was simmering in your mind and just randomly pops up.
Pretty sure a court order to return say a "PlayStation Dev kit" a game studio employee had when he got fired during covid remote work mandates, if it's just against the employee personally, would not obligate me to let you in or carry it out to you if that employee left it on the middle shelf of my couch table having told me he'll be back after, say, taking unpaid and non-granted-despite-requested time off for his "common law wife if that was a thing in the state they're in, but legally just unrelated consenting adults (that haven't yet moved in together)" 's funeral and rounding it up to one whole week to grieve at their memorable places, after having crashed at my place (bringing his work with him, thus the dev kit on my table-shelf) as I live much closer to the hospital his "wife" was in for the past 3 weeks and he expressed some psychological worries about spending almost all of his time alone while the love of his life is dying....
In fact, I'd expect you to need a seizure-warrant/distinctly-named-but-to-the-layperson-identical-court-order for my place as, among other things, I don't think I am in a position to legally have standing to challenge an order that's not mentioning me, and lack of me being an active flight risk would probably preclude you from arguing exigent circumstances to secure the dev kit without a judge ordering me to let you.
TL;DR: "complying" with a court order that's filed against a 3rd party is, IMO/AFAIK, a voluntary act, specifically because the party not mentioned in the court order AFAIK has no legal standing to challenge that very order of in court.
_Precisely_ because they're not legally mandated to comply, at least not beyond perhaps taking a precautionary legal hold on the referenced information to not get accused of aiding in destruction of data in case the court-ordered party directs the non-mentioned party to delete through the regular customer relationship channels (API? Whatever else?).
> In fact, one could almost imagine it baked into the assistant/harness
...it already is, via thinking/effort. It wouldn't be possible if a LLM at usable quality wasn't fast enough to allow at least some amount of "thinking" (i.e. hidden text generation).
But your point still stands: we could get massive quality gains but allowing even more thinking by default, if it was fast enough.
> I ended up buying a Chinese 2 ton excavator. I live in the suburbs but when I just want to clear my head I go in the backyard and play around with it.
That's easily the most awesome thing I've read on the Internet today!
I’m over the hill, and I’ve found I just can’t handle the distractions of music or podcasts most of the time. I need silence when working, cooking, reading, etc. There are few situations where I feel I can listen to things i.e. driving so long as I don’t need to focus on them. I’m not sure what changed or if it’s a good thing. Music used to be a huge part of my life, played at all times. Now I have to deliberately do nothing but listen, which gives me a weird sensation of boredom or fidgety anxiety, so I don’t do it very much anymore. I suspect an attention disorder worsened by years of overstimulation.
> I felt much more embarrassed and worried about the workers who saw me there all the time than the app knowing i was there all the time.
As you should - this is setting terrible meal expectations for your daughter and fueling a condition that will severely affect her development. No joke - feeding her that garbage is ignoring the problem and making it worse. You should sit down at the table with her instead of going round the drive thru again, and get some interventions other than a stream of chicken nuggets.
To me, the biggest hurdle to trying to manage agents like humans is that there's no real continuity, out of the box at least.
You can trying to get around this with RAG and markdown files and skills but you're basically building from scratch the "tools" on how to remember the codebase that you take for granted with people
Yes, and back in my school days we all did our tests on paper, except the two kids who had a slip of paper that allowed them to take a digital test instead. Helping people with disabilities doesn't require having everyone make their tests on a computer.
And taking away writing from people with bad handwriting (if not related to disability) is just about the worst thing to do if you want them to ever get better at it.
Say what you say, but there's plenty in that article looking like it came out of an LLM. This could of course be my own paranoia, since there's a lot of slop coming out right now.