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Comment Re:Law #1 anywhere: Disturbing the peace (Score 1) 6

Most of the noise that a Kia or Hyundai makes is artificial. The bullshit noise they make that sounds like water running in pipes and which I experience mostly as painful pressure in my head is louder than most ICEVs. Do these delivery vans make bullshit noises they don't need to as well?

Comment Re:Hardware is not obsolete (Score 1) 82

Isn't it strange that an emulated TPM is good enough for a cloud VM but not for a personal desktop?

FWIW, which I know isn't much, I have Windows 11 in a VM with an emulated TPM right now. It doesn't know the difference.

Anyway a lot of motherboards have a TPM port, but Windows 11 will still refuse to run on some fairly modern CPUs even if you have an addin TPM, won't it?

Comment Re:say what? (Score 1) 77

I've written things in Java and in Swift, and you aren't going to see an 85% difference. Swift has a lot of its own weird verboseness going on.

In an extremely heavy allocate/free environment, GC in Java will take something like 10 minutes out of every hour. Which is significant, but you shouldn't see a 40% increase in throughput from that either.

Someone else suggested they were probably parsing JSON/XML repeatedly or something similar, which is possible considering 'parsing' is just a simple function call.

Comment Re:ChatGPT is not a chess engine (Score 1) 116

LLMs are mostly composed of regular old fully connected ANNs, and the remainder, the transformers, are also ANNs.

You're talking theoretical things here, not practical reality.

ANNs certainly can learn the rules of chess, and you can train one to play chess at a level that is generally regarded as superhuman.

No one has ever made an ANN that plays chess at a level that is superhuman. AlphaZero is still primarily a tree searching algorithm with an ANN used to evaluate every node of the tree.

There's also a proof that any 2+ layer ANN of sufficient size can learn any IO function.

To remove the tree search, the ANN would need to be VERY big.

The fact that they don't, or don't do so very well, means that the way they are trained is an inefficient way to learn chess.

LLMs are trained in an inefficient way to learn anything. How many billions of pages did you need to be trained how to read?

Comment Re:Sounds like a good lawsuit (Score 1) 49

You are right, get legal advice, the cost can be passed on to them anyway.

AIUI, your costs can't (or couldn't) generally be passed on when using the small claims system. Has that changed? It's been a while since I went through the process, so it's possible that my information here is out of date.

Comment Re:Sounds like a good lawsuit (Score 3, Informative) 49

There is obviously a personal data angle here. There might also be a defamation angle if the system works as implied by TFS, since it appears that someone's reputation has been affected because someone else lied about them and this has demonstrably caused harm? If there was more than one relevant incident then there might also be a harassment angle.

Please be careful with that advice about requesting compensation in a Letter Before Action, though. There are fairly specific rules for what you can and can't claim under our system and just going in with claiming some arbitrary figure of a few thousand pounds in "compensation" for vague damages is far from guaranteed to get the result you're hoping for. If someone were serious about challenging this kind of behaviour, they might do better to consult with a real lawyer initially to understand what they might realistically achieve and what kinds of costs and risks would be involved.

Comment Re: Near native performance? (Score 1) 29

They didn't fuck up.

They clearly did, if this is that much faster than dmg then they fucked up with dmg.

This is not a full sized disk format

Nothing I wrote makes it even seem like I'm confused about that, except to people who are confused by mice with more than one button.

This is basically approaching raw disk performance.

Yes, I read the fine summary. Some of us do that.

What was it about the implementation of dmg that made it so much slower, and why did apple think it was okay?

Comment Re:this isn't a new idea. (Score 1, Informative) 40

There are really two parts of a vaguely modern vehicle that are attacked by the results of using ethanol fuel, fuel pumps and the injection equipment whether that's a carburetor or a fuel injector. Those parts have steel bits, including jets or nozzles, and the ethanol draws water in from the atmosphere and then it evaporates. That leads to corrosion of these parts.

Ethanol is a potential problem for hoses and seals, but this is only usually an issue for much older vehicles and the fix is pretty easy, except where carburetors are involved. Then they need to be re-sealed, and if there's not a kit available, that requires making new seals on a laser cutter. And those are still moderately expensive.

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