Readit Newsfurryrain commented on Anthropic chief back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal ft.com/content/97bda2ef-f... · Posted by u/ajam1507
Sounds like pg is trying to justify an expensive new hobby :)
No, he's advising us that we software developers might be coming to an end of a golden age, that if so, resistance is futile, and how to find another.
furryrain commented on Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability ifixit.com/News/115827/ne... · Posted by u/wrxd
> There are “repairable” laptops, and then there are ThinkPad T-series laptops
By elevating ThinkPad T-series above other laptops by reputation, do iFixit weaken their notion of objective repairability ratings?
furryrain commented on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Defends Pentagon Work to Staff wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-ce... · Posted by u/cdrnsf
I'm surprised this thread is only on page 5, despite 65 pts and 66 comments in 3 hours.
What other factors go into listing position?
furryrain commented on Our Agreement with the Department of War openai.com/index/our-agre... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
Could just be latency. You don't want your terminator killbot to take 200ms to decide where to aim.
I feel gross thinking of it, but 200ms to decide a plan sounds not limiting. The act of enacting the decision could be done by local tracking compute.
furryrain commented on Our Agreement with the Department of War openai.com/index/our-agre... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
My bullshit alarms were blaring at this line. They really think we are that stupid.
It feels like a sleight of hand, either to not spook OpenAI employees (I.e. the audience of this post), or allow some later minor change in contract or interpretation or customer deployment posture to suddenly permit fully autonomous weapons.
furryrain commented on Our Agreement with the Department of War openai.com/index/our-agre... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
> Fully autonomous weapons. The cloud deployment surface covered in our contract would not permit powering fully autonomous weapons, as this would require edge deployment.
Can anyone explain this constraint?
Why do fully autonomous weapons require edge deployment?
Does "fully autonomous" in this context mean "disconnected from the Internet"?
If so, can a drone with Internet connectivity use OpenAI?
Or maybe it's about on-premise requirements: the military doesn't want to depend on OpenAI's DCs for weaponry, and instead wants OpenAI in their own DCs for that?
furryrain commented on Jane Street Hit with Terra $40B Insider Trading Suit disruptionbanking.com/202... · Posted by u/shin_lao
The tweet used as the source is a troll. That guy uses the "I just got off the phone with..." template all the time to joke/troll about things going on in markets.
Ah, what a world.
> like every popular crate
buy into their marketing hype
> follow community "best practices"
Yea, I get smug judgement from Rust zealots for not picking the in vogue crates.
I get a lot of help too though.
People are passionate about it. That has good and bad outcomes.
- company folded and changed hand multiple times, including russian ownership
- the tablet scandal leaving users with lost funds
- closed source parts
- locked bootloader
- charging a $50 device reset fee
- not much change in Sailfish OS since ages
- buggy Android compatibility and near zero native devs, all jumped ship
At this point I think they are just one of the grifters preying on naive "EU first" supporters shoveling whatever they still have in a new casing.
I'd love the idea of a greenfield EU Linux mobile OS, but I don't think it should come from this company.
I'm a bit confused by this. Are you saying that the developers who once wrote native Sailfish OS apps are no longer writing those native apps?
Is there any hope for using the responsive libadwaita programs from the Mobile Linux space? I realise this isn't particularly large, but it is active.