Recent content by yottabit

It’s kind of silly to suggest software level safeguards for this. The fundamental question is “do we want pilots to be able to fly the plane?” and if the answer is yes, which it is today, they’ll always have the capacity to crash it. Almost every system on a plane has some manual override or...

I’m not sure what the context was - AVX-512 support being added to RPCS3 definitely resulted in big performance gains. But between Zen 4 and Zen 5 there was very little improvement in RPCS3 (<3%?) despite the latter having double the theoretical AVX-512 throughput , I’m guessing there is only so...

Yes, I think there’s pretty strong evidence someone flipped both switches with intention but we can’t necessarily conclude they knew exactly what they were doing in that moment, or even who flipped the switches. Sleep deprivation, under the effects of a drug, some undiagnosed medical issue...

Right but my point was the two cutoff switches were actuated one second apart (about how fast they could both be intentionally switched by one motivated pilot) It’s this time gap of one second that IMO precludes a common cause failure. Other indicators this is probably due to human factors...

The report states both switches were thrown 1 second apart, so it even all but rules out any kind of simultaneous failure. I really don’t want to speculate but unfortunately I feel like premeditated nefarious action is the most likely explanation. I don’t know of any similar actions that would...

So tragic, it’s somehow more terrifying than I could have imagined. I’m highlighting the most relevant parts of the report below: After the fuel cutoff was recognized someone did initiate the procedure to restart the engines but obviously they had way too little altitude. This is what the...

Am I the only one that reads MRDIMM in my head as “Mister DIMM” ?

You don’t think the intent of what they were designed to do is a factor? Isn’t that how we commonly define the “purpose” of something? Anyway, I only partly made my point about the cyanide tablets. Where I wanted to go with that it is - as a society we’ve somehow agreed to regulate medications...

If we were being intellectually honest guns are weapons. Lethal weapons. Calling it a tool and likening it to a hammer is ridiculous. What bothers me is not whether people are pro or anti-gun or 2A but the mental gymnastics and logical pretzels they contort themselves into when these...

The way I look at it is, guns intrinsic purpose is killing. We don’t, as a society, allow any other item who’s purpose it is to kill to be so widely available. Why can’t I walk into Walmart and buy a pack of 100 cyanide tablets? Maybe I consider it my hobby to collect them. And I like to...

It’s funny that your GPT code scaled down Jupiter. This is a great video on solar system modeling and how Jupiter causes problems

Why not ask it to generate javascript or python so you can run it in-session?

The big brain play is to leak the real roadmap, but make Intel think it’s a fake

Inflate to sidewall is the first one that really seared into my memory

I see people shilling pretty hard for Strix Halo as a "scalable AI solution" as you say but to me it's very underwhelming in that regard, ESPECIALLY for mini PC form factor where you can get a Mac Mini or Studio with much more memory bandwidth. LLM inference is almost ALL membw... and sure...