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sobchak

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  • Decompiling Binary Code with Large Language Models

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  • If I understand the results tables on repo correctly, their largest model achieves ~68% re-executability rate on code compiled with the q0 optimization flag. I'm unsure if that just tests if the decompiled code can be recompiled and executed, or if the programs need to produce the same result on some test cases. If the model is used to refine Ghidra outputs (I'm guessing this is some well-known decompilation framework) it can be used to achieve ~80% re-executability rate, which is better than Ghidra's baseline of ~34%.

  • Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

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  • I was curious about an LLM-powered terminal, so downloaded it to check it out. The first thing I did was ask it to do something like "open my resume file," and instead doing something like "ls | grep -i resume" in the current directory, it ran the find command on root and started hitting all my NFS mounts as well.

  • Using Constraint Satisfaction to Optimize Item Selection for Bundles in Minecraft

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  • Seems to be more of a tutorial for the optimizer. Would've been more interesting if they delved into the problem and related problems. I think this problem could be reduced into other well known problems with optimized algorithms (seems related to the knapsack problem).

  • What is your favorite version of FTL in science fiction?

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  • Here's how I remember it, could be wrong, been a long time. The super advanced entity, the Eschaton, descends from humans in the future. Any FTL travel that would break causality within the Eschaton's historical light cone is banned; I.e. anything that could interfere with the Eschaton's development. Human civilizations have causality-safe jump drives that navigate in ways that avoid causality violations within the Eschaton's historical light cone.

  • What is your favorite version of FTL in science fiction?

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  • Yeah, some of it felt a little tongue in cheek though. Like people having their own reputation markets where everyone could buy/sell shares on others reputation.

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  • What is your favorite version of FTL in science fiction?

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  • Singularity Sky by Charles Stross. It deals heavily with causality and "light cones." There's some super advanced entity in the universe that enforces a ban on causality-breaking FTL, so it's not possible for anything to mess with the entity's development, iirc.

    Stross's Neptune Brood also has some interesting stuff about FTL economics. It's somewhat of a satire on cryptocurrency, NFTs, and marketization in general.

  • People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads

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  • I have one of those echo ball looking things with a clock on it. I mostly just use it to play atmospheric noise and set alarms and as a clock. I do get ads sometimes. Sometimes I ask it to play something and it will ask me to subscribe to something. Sometimes it will notify me of a price drop on Amazon. I'll probably get rid of it soon. My life has just been hectic lately, and I haven't had the time to set something else up to replace it yet. Going to completely de-big-tech soon (I'm mostly there already); I don't trust them, with them being so close to this fascist admin. I think it's likely these will be used for state surveillance; some of big tech's products and services already are.

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  • Tbf, many are kinda disgusting to modern palettes. Lamb's quarter sucks compared to stuff like spinach, kale, or collards. Pokeweed needs extensive preparation to make it safe. Wood sorrel, horseherb, and prickly pear grows where I currently live, but I haven't tried them yet. My dog likes horseherb despite the little spines for some reason. My grandmother used to fry dandelions and plaintain which was pretty good.

  • Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble

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  • I don't know the answer, but during 2008 onwards (seems like the economy didn't fully recover until the end of Obama's presidency), every industry slowed down. Was hard for me to get a fast food job or consistent minimum wage assembly line work through temp agencies. Things can go into vicious positive feedback loops during downturns (investors afraid to invest due to bad economic outlook -> factories and such don't get built or expanded -> unemployment rises -> people spend less -> companies start laying off -> economic outlook worsens -> investors selling and moving to "safer' assets -> ...). The entire banking system pretty much imploded during 2008; I don't know how much exposure banks have to AI (commercial real estate is another thing to worry about though). With any luck the AI crash would be more like the dot-com crash, which mostly just hurt one industry (but I remember my father talking about factory layoffs during that too).

  • Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal

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  • The capitalist class loves the idea and rewards companies with investment money. They think it could be the ultimate tool to snuff out any power the working class still has; making many employees optional, total surveillance of the population, etc. I think it will be a long time until it can do many jobs, but the surveillance tech seems to be coming along pretty well (with "AI" cameras recording license plates and biometric identifiers being put up everywhere).

  • This isn't a bubble

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  • That's how I got a R9 290 for "cheap," and continued to use it for something like 10 years (replaced it just a couple years ago).

    The AI cards don't have video-out though :(

  • This isn't a bubble

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  • Do they actually use KW as a measure in these circumstances? Might as well add the equivalent to resistance heating strips in their chips.

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  • TIL beeswax is pretty cheap. I typically use shellac on stuff that is indoor and low wear, Looks like beeswax is cheaper and about as easy to apply.

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    What does it feel like to be a horny man?

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  • Yeah, I've felt my high libido or whatever to be somewhat of a curse sometimes. It's sometimes very distracting and hard to stop thinking about. It's also caused me to make a lot of poor decisions in my life. Thankfully, my libido has chilled out a bit as I've got older; used to be hard for no reason for about half the day when I was younger and had to masturbate before leaving my home for class/work just so I could focus better, lol.

  • How exactly does one get better at programming?

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  • Working with/on things I found interesting helped a lot. I.e. lots of small projects/scripts, using different frameworks/libraries/languages that looked interesting. Experimenting and exploring different ways things could be done. Programming is one of those "10,000 hours" things; you need to be interested in what you're doing to do something like that for so long. Computer Science coursework helped a lot too, especially the courses heavy on algorithms, data structures, big-o, proofs, etc.

    In my CS coursework, we were exposed to many different languages and programming paradigms at the very beginning. It's fine to experiment and start learning multiple languages at once (preferably, all being quite different, such as a pure functional language, procedural language, object-oriented, declarative logic, etc).

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  • Good point. I remember a long time ago encountering a problem with Access shared over samba, because the system time of the "server" was off (bad mobo battery). I also found that the mechanical engineers were running Limewire on the server. (I was just working a summer job doing metal fab work, and they new I just started tech school for IT and asked me to look at it).

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  • IDK know the answer, but I don't think I've ever seen an application that didn't work on a mounted share. Not sure an application can tell the difference. I see autofs comes with a "/etc/auto.smb" file on Debian, though I only use NFS on Linux, so I'm not sure on the exact details for setting it up.

  • Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one)

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  • Outside of the "stars" and directors, people working in the film/tv industry already have a fairly low income (median salary for professional actors is ~$47000/yr).