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Comment Market Manipulation (Score 1) 314

This smells like market manipulation. Imagine you're a feckless con that only cares about getting rich, and you're president. Have you and your friends pull money out of the stock market and put it into gold or crypto. Tank the market with tariffs, and then buy back into the market knowing that once you lift the tariffs everyone on the inside of this game will profit in a big way.

This is what Americans voted for. Choices have consequences folks.

Comment Re:Coding vs Concept (Score 1) 44

DevOPS is for lazy people. "We can waste a lot more effort itterating than bothering to design right in the first place."
Ansible is an excuse for DevOPS people to say "We don't test our code, but we could if we wanted to."

This comment about DevOps and Ansible is worth unpacking a bit.

DevOps is a philosophy and a strategy for collaboration between development and operations, while Ansible is a tool for
automation. They are not substitutes for quality control, testing, or systems thinking. Effective DevOps requires a culture that
prioritizes reliability, safety, and design and it's up to an organization's leadership to promote that.

Comment Intelligent life is rare (Score 1) 42

Things like this make the idea of intelligent alien life seem more and more remote. Even on Earth we needed random and unpredictable events like 100 million years of a snowball Earth to kickstart multicellular life. Then consider all the events that had to happen after that, though further billions of years, until you arrive at human beings. We got stuck in a rut with dinosaurs and needed a meteor to wipe them out in order to keep moving forward.

There are probably billions of worlds out there where life has never moved past single cellular life, and we are in all likelihood alone in our galaxy, if not our universe. This is both scary and exciting.

Comment Ridiculous (Score 3, Insightful) 60

Certificate expiry and renewal failures are a few orders of magnitude, maybe a dozen, above proven in-the-wild compromised TLS key attacks. There is a point where the tradeoff between security and reliability becomes far too bad to be worth it, and this tradeoff was already pretty bad with annual renewals. Now we see this insanity playing out.

No. No more short lived certificates. Just stop.

Submission + - Linux kernel 6.12 has been released! (kernel.org)

unixbhaskar writes: Linus has released a fresh Linux kernel for public consumption. Please give it a try and report any glitches to the maintainers for improvement. Also, please do not forget to express your appreciation to those tireless folks who did all the hard work for you.

Submission + - Once Worth $7.3 Billion, Grubhub Sells for Just $650 Million (cnn.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Europe’s biggest meal delivery firm, Just Eat Takeaway, said on Wednesday it had struck a deal to sell its U.S. unit Grubhub to Wonder for $650 million, sending its shares soaring 20% in early trading. The Amsterdam-listed company had been looking to offload Chicago-based Grubhub since as early as 2022, after acquiring it in 2020 in a $7.3 billion deal amid a pandemic-driven boom in delivery services — a process that was hampered by slowing growth, high taxes and a question of fee caps in New York City.

“Just Eat Takeaway is at last putting an end to its disastrous U.S. journey,” Bryan Garnier analyst Clement Genelot said, noting the group had destroyed more than $7 billion in shareholder value there. Grubhub’s enterprise value of $650 million includes $500 million of senior notes and $150 million cash, Wonder said in a statement. Wonder is a food-delivery startup led by former Walmart executive Marc Lore.

Comment We're getting closer (Score 1) 74

Having played with LLMs now for awhile, a hypothesis has been growing in my mind. Our own language model surely isn't much different from the functionality of an LLM, we just have a bigger / faster context window really. The magic is in the coordination.

The magic of the human mind is probably to be found in how the thalamus coordinates all the inputs from around the cortex, along with the various senses, and then how it takes account of impulses from the reptilian brain for base survival, reproductive and emotional motivations. The net output is us.

I feel like we're very, very close to nailing AGI. We've got all the pieces of the car splayed out on the garage floor, we just need to put them together. A controlling model that coordinates between many "agent" LLMs in a continuous process, with a continuous motivator, is going to complete the circle. And imo it won't be very long coming.

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