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They're definitely investing in the chips as well. It's an ecosystem play.

You see similar levels of hypocrisy leveled at the capacity for Chinese EVs to surveil consumers, but not at Tesla, when we know that Tesla employees had access to sex tapes of their customers in their cars. As long as it’s western capital or western police doing the surveillance, it must be permissible, right? /s

We should be clamping down on all surveillance, and this is not a problem that has a technological solution. Quite the reverse, actually.


Ah, but the number of people who are capable of this type of work who could be imprisoned is quite large!


It's rather difficult to do enough bad things to get a lengthy prison sentence these days. Usually requires a violent offense in the context of significant priors.

If you're interested in doing hard federal time, I would suggest you consider interstate trafficking of distribution quantities of drugs.


>It's rather difficult to do enough bad things to get a lengthy prison sentence these days

If you're white, maybe. There's still stories of some states having the book thrown at recreational drug usage.


At the state level, by far the most common reason for long sentences are violent offenses. At the federal level it is more often trafficking at distribution scale.

There are always stories, but the majority are the above. If you have a state in mind we can look at the data together.


> It's rather difficult to do enough bad things to get a lengthy prison sentence these days.

...there are two million people in prison. Several million more in various stages of the carceral cycle who be be easily subbed in when more labor is required.

Slavery of this variety is alive and well.


What you're saying isn't necessarily mutually exclusive to what gp said.

GPT-2 was the most impressive leap in terms of whatever LLMs pass off as cognitive abilities, but GPT 3.5 to 4 was actually the point at which it became a useful tool (I'm assuming to programmers in particular).

GPT-2: Really convincing stochastic parrot

GPT-4: Can one-shot ffmpeg commands


Sure, but the GP said "the most major leap", and I disagree that that was 3.5 to 4.


> Still when I ask Claude.AI to double-check the math on our power consumption, it thinks we have an incredibly leaky apartment. Like ridiculously off the charts.

Ah. That answers my question about how you ventilate the apartment for fresh air: it's thoroughly perforated.


You’re probably being downvoted because the author ended up not using c2rust.



Have fun reading the article.

> I threw away all of the C2Rust output and decided I would translate all of the files into Rust manually from C.

> My hand translated code isn’t that much better than the output from C2Rust.

It may look like C2Rust but it was all done by hand


I have read the article, and I still think this is not how Rust is typically written. He is not going to learn Rust this way. Maybe it is not the goal for all I know.


You are correct:

> ...each of the 117 drones launched had its own pilot.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1ld7ppre9vo


They need to make a movie behind this one, that just looks like such a cyberpunk operation.


There are so many possible scripts that could be based on what has happened since 2022 in Ukraine. There would be no need for exaggeration of the heroism, bravery, and loss. The only issue might be that people would not believe it actually happened.

From Zelenskyy, a previous comedic actor refusing to flee, "I need ammunition, not a ride," to the defense of Snake Island "Russian warship, go fuck yourself," to all the brave women who volunteered, the farmers towing abandoned Russian tanks, the constant drone attacks on residential and commercial areas, the 40,000 stolen Ukrainian children, this most recent attack on Russian air bases...

If this was a movie, I would probably think it was a bit much myself, but this all happened. We witnessed it.

"Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes!"


An actor who's last role was the lead in a sitcom about an ordinary citizen who becomes the unlikely president of Ukraine.


... is not particularly more surprising than the US president who starred in "Bedtime for Bonzo"

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bedtime_for_bonzo


> Rust projects are easier to hack on and contribute to.

This was actually the subject of a study at the University of Waterloo:

> We find that despite concerns about ease of use, first-time contributors to Rust projects are about 70 times less likely to introduce vulnerabilities than first-time contributors to C++ projects.

https://cypherpunks.ca/~iang/pubs/gradingcurve-secdev23.pdf


Meh, dropping actual human troops anywhere is largely romanticized. I'd bet on orbital drones, myself.


What coding assistant do you use?


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