quietpain

There’s a military history channel I follow that did a special on this topic. I remember that nerve gas initially came out of the pesticide research:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P0D4Ph_yRYM

quietpain

há 3 anosdiscuss

I recently installed the STM32 Cube IDE from ST [1] and discovered that it contains a stealth binary of Google's Chrome in my home directory. The fans started spinning and I found the culprit pretty fast, but if you delete the Chrome executable in the double-hidden directory it just gets installed again at the next run of the IDE.

I wonder what percentage of market share can be attributed to this kind of clients that are used not for browsing but for lazily loading some web interface or product page.

[1] https://www.st.com/en/development-tools/stm32cubeide.html

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há 3 anosdiscuss

   The downside is that it would probably just end up increasing fringe and dangerous behaviors

This reminds me of a different type of “banning” I heard about some 20 years ago. There was a physicist who had a separate mailing list for laymen who would mail him to discuss their pet theory. Since he didn’t want to be bothered with them he added them to the mailing list, telling them that they would have the chance to discuss this with other experts in the field …

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há 3 anosdiscuss

The world of publishing is certainly seeing the attempts for such an llm:

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/24/1159286436/ai-chatbot-chatgpt...

And I do wonder how difficult it is now. We have datasets like libgen and Anna’s Archive … are there public llm’s out there that have been trained in this way?

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há 3 anosdiscuss

I suggest we add its origin to the SETI list.

One of my pet theories is that the Fermi paradox is due to cloaking of extraterrestrial civilisations. We’re not entitled to observing them, and as a result the mass and energy of the universe doesn’t add up. Hence black matter and black energy.

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há 3 anosdiscuss

One of the comments got me intrigued, and wow:

"OptiNAND uses a large non-volatile memory on the drive. It optimizes write performance by using DRAM as a cache. So, when the drive is powered up, performance is on par with WCE, well it is WCE technically as DRAM caching is enabled.

In the event of an emergency power off (EPO), the contents of DRAM are written to non-volatile memory (NVM) using the power of the spinning disk, so the data is protected. Since NVM can hold the data for a very long time without needing power , as soon as the drive is powered up again , the data can be transferred from NVM to the drive."

https://pnpdxb.com/blogs/hdd-2/what-is-wd-armorcache-and-opt...

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há 3 anosdiscuss

If there's even a diode worth of band-gap technology in there: yes, ageing would be demonstrably different in a device that lived a couple of decades longer. The crystal lattice is not set in stone and atoms move around.

quietpain

há 3 anosdiscuss

The car would be authentic, built in 1967. What the person is asking is whether there's a technique to distinguish a car from 1967 from a sibling that was brought back from 2036.

quietpain

há 3 anosdiscuss

Why is this subject giving me Silicon Valley season 2 flashbacks with every update?

quietpain

há 3 anosdiscuss

It sounded nice

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há 3 anosdiscuss

So every plane, train and automobile that went missing in the past 9 years did so without this system offering help?

quietpain

há 3 anosdiscuss

In Europe the entire mains grid is synchronised - the smallest deviation in fase & frequency is the same. It’s fairly straightforward to sync them with this distributed reference clock.

Edit: https://www.mainsfrequency.com/

quietpain

há 3 anosdiscuss

I thought that antibiotics would have a detrimental effect on an animal’s growth since it wreaks havoc with the intestinal ecosystem.

Has there been any research to determine why growth improves with diminished gut bacteria?

quietpain

há 3 anosdiscuss

    ...our validation pipeline produced an interesting assertion...

What is a validation pipeline?

quietpain

há 3 anosdiscuss

Oblig. Aphex Twin Easter Egg mention:

https://forum.watmm.com/topic/8121-another-hidden-aphex-imag...

quietpain

há 3 anosdiscuss

Even the toilet water is heated

https://www.wired.com/2012/03/google-sewer-water/

quietpain

há 3 anosdiscuss

   processing speeds in devices based on them could reach femtoseconds

That would also mean switching times that allow rectifying infrared light. I.e. capturing light energy with um-sized antennas instead of bandgap traps.

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há 3 anosdiscuss

   First, I think it would be a great idea for any future Single Board Computer or Router designer -- to design their product such that it will work with any power supply from 5V to 12V (assuming that the power supply can provide enough amperes at that voltage).

Devices that do that have been available for 10+ years, e.g. the OKI series: https://www.mouser.com/datasheet/2/281/oki-78sr-56393.pdf

It's about the size of your thumbnail, costs around $5 and takes input voltage up to 36V

These are my go to devices when I'm installing something in an old device, e.g. adding bluetooth to an old amplifier.

edit: handling more power would require some more space but isn't exactly rocket science.

quietpain

há 3 anosdiscuss

Thank you for pointing this out.

Unfortunately, this becomes $64

Unit price:€32.59

Total price:€32.59

Subtotal€32.59

Estimated shipping (42gr):€16.76

Taxes (21.0%)€10.36

Total in EUR €59.71

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há 3 anosdiscuss

In 2017 this popped up:

https://kottke.org/17/04/incredible-low-light-camera-turns-n...

and the quality of nightvision is much better than the one shown in this video. Or am I missing something?

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