It's a fantasy, an aesthetic. There is no living off-grid when you depend on a giant gas-guzzling truck with a thousand moving parts for your every needs.
How about an electric vehicle, a few dozen kW of solar, and a drilled well?
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15155 commented on Uncle Sam shouldn't own Intel stock wsj.com/opinion/uncle-sam... · Posted by u/aspenmayer
> How long would it be until their entire fleet is sunk? 2 days? A week?
That's not something you or anyone else could predict.
> How long after that should the Three Gorges Dam be allowed to exist?
This would immediately cause a death toll in the millions and a nuclear response would follow.
> That's not something you or anyone else could predict.
You're right: nobody can possibly predict how a nation with no blue water navy, and zero relevant (naval or otherwise) combat experience (ever) might fare against the most expensive, trained, veteran naval combat force in the world - backed by the world's two largest and most expensive, trained, veteran air forces (USAF, USN).
> This would immediately cause a death toll in the millions and a nuclear response would follow.
This presumes that the United States would ever allow a blockade to happen to begin with. The US Navy goes where it wants.
15155 commented on Uncle Sam shouldn't own Intel stock wsj.com/opinion/uncle-sam... · Posted by u/aspenmayer
Given with how poorly Ukraine has been treated, why would Taiwan ever think they could easily get an emergency supply of chips for drones and planes exported from the US and past a Chinese blockade?
If Trump or someone similar is in the office I'd expect that there would be demands that the chips stay in the US to protect the country from Chinese aggression unless there is some kind of bribe.
> Chinese blockade
I laughed a bit.
How long would it be until their entire fleet is sunk? 2 days? A week?
How long after that should the Three Gorges Dam be allowed to exist?
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15155 commented on The issue of anti-cheat on Linux (2024) tulach.cc/the-issue-of-an... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Good luck booting a custom kernel with SIP enabled, and I'm pretty sure any anti-cheat will nope out immediately if SIP is disabled.
So intercept whatever mechanism it's using to detect SIP enabled status...?
15155 commented on Monero appears to be in the midst of a successful 51% attack twitter.com/p3b7_/status/... · Posted by u/treyd
Unknown crypto vulnerabilities and 51% attacks are crypto currency risks that are theoretically out there, but we mostly haven't seen play out.
At some point, someone doing AI might amass enough GPUs to do a 51% attack on Bitcoin. You're right that it destroys confidence in the coin, so if you short Bitcoin futures before the attack, you might make money.
> At some point, someone doing AI might amass enough GPUs to do a 51% attack on Bitcoin.
This is electrically impossible for Bitcoin specifically, modern ASICs exceed 3 orders of magnitude more hashes/Joule and hashrate/chip than a RTX5090 and cost $2-40 retail per chip.
Certain parts of what we call AI will definitely be used more in the future: facial recognition, surrogate models, video generation.
I don't, however, see LLMs as consumer products being that prevalent in the future as currently. The cost of using LLMs is kept artificially low for consumers at the moment. That is bound to hit a wall eventually, at the very least when the bubble pops. At least that seems like an obvious analysis to make at this point in time.
> The cost of using LLMs is kept artificially low for consumers at the moment.
If the results of current LLM performance is acceptable, costs to achieve these same results will inevitably go down as semiconductor process improvements bring markedly reduced operational expenses (power, density, etc.)
Plex already supports remote access via UPnP. https://support.plex.tv/articles/200289506-remote-access/
Tailscale is able to hole punch in scenarios where UPnP is disabled (just good practice) as well as many NAT environments.
Speaking of SSH, Tailscale has special support for it whereby it handles any incoming connection to port 22 from the Tailscale network, and deals with authentication itself. No public keys or passwords: if you’re logged into Tailscale you can be logged into the machine. This is particularly handy when you SSH from a phone, as proper credential management is a bit of a nightmare there.
this has me worried. i would not want that. i use zerotier, not tailscale, but the principle is the same. i have my laptops and my phone connected to my servers. given that all of those machines are already on the internet, connecting them into a virtual network does not add any risk in my opinion. (at least as long as you don't use features like the above). all i get is a known ip address for all my devices, with the ability to connect to them if they have an ssh server running. when i am outside the primary benefit is that i can tell which devices are online.
This feature isn't enabled by default.
15155 commented on We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes pavpanchekha.com/blog/9bi... · Posted by u/luu
Author here. It's true that you'd need one more bit to represent a bit position in a word, like for shifts, but we're already vastly over-provisioned; even in 64-bit registers we're only using six of eight bits. (Plus, in a lot of places we'd have that extra bit around!)
Some hardware circuits are a bit nicer with power-of-two sizes but I don't think it's a huge difference, and hardware has to include weird stuff like 24-bit and 53-bit multipliers for floating-point anyway (which in this alternate world would be probably 28-bit and 60-bit?). Not sure a few extra gates would be a dealbreaker.
> Some hardware circuits are a bit nicer with power-of-two sizes
Basically all FIFOs or addressable memory works far nicer with power-of-two sizes.