A weirrd things about dementia, folks will randomly remember/engage with clarity on something.

Someone who didn’t know her own daughter recognized and spoke with clarity with her son in law. A similarly confused person managed to competently comment on the state of EVs for US versus China and America’s isolation thanks to trade wars making things even more favorable for China.

There’s good days and bad days, but even with bad days there are sometimes randomly good topics.

And he never even went for his gun. The agents saw the gun without him going for it, took it from him, and then shot him after he didn’t even have a gun on him anymore.

Helping them en masse would materially contribute to their capability, but responding to an isolated health event isn’t going to help them, certainly not more than the story as it played out undermined them.

Certainly for the detainees, this was a better outcome. They actually honored their rights after what they did, when they clearly were on a trajectory to deny them contact, and even got released.

This was the right move. One agent doesn’t make a material difference, letting him die wouldn’t have impeded ICE one bit. In the bigger picture, it has more of an impact as a story.

As a story it could have been an agent dying due to a medical emergency that no one could have done anything about.

This action changes it so that the detainees were caring and compassion and competent. By contrast, it exposes the agencies lack of training, falling to recognize the situation and not knowing what to do and letting detainees have control of the firearm. They showed ICE as incompetent and targetting obviously good folk.

On a smaller scale, it spares them. Who knows, maybe this event gives some of the agents involved some pause about how bad they are being.

Yeah, funny they said that when they had suffered zero casualties and inflicted some…

Juries don’t seem to come into play often in ICE. If the ICE officer would be the one on trial, the trial will never happen. If it’s an ICE target, they’ll either be dead or deported. I suppose there was attack with a deli weapon guy, but opportunities for a Jury to make a difference are slim…

While optional, it is also the default behavior.

It’s a bit directly on Microsoft, unless you go out of your way, bitlocker will upload the keys to Microsoft. They assume you want them to help recover your data if your tpm becomes unavailable.

Interesting fun fact, when I tried to swype type bitlocker it really wanted to put bootlicker instead.

For one, they might have had some NDA as part of the interview process.

But even if not, they can bring a civil case even on dubious grounds, and the defendant still has to suffer having to defend themselves and go to court.

If they do sue, it isn’t like the company has huge consequences to be scared of, and even successfully defending yourself won’t feel like a “victory” compared to never having attracted the company’s attention in the first place.

Well they should be, but they could get litigious if they get bad exposure.

My guess is that they have email hooks into LLM and call each entry point into LLM invocation an ‘agent’ and I have seen in a lot of companies the easiest way for them to have an email is to just add them to the directory.

It’s still dumb as hell, but I am no stranger to non-human’s in an ‘employee directory’, though usually it is supremely obvious that it is a non-person so if it’s at all confusing it means they are being ‘cute’ about their accounts.

Yeah, very good analogy actually…

I remember back in the day people putting stuff like ‘Microsoft Word’ under ‘skills’. Instead of thinking ‘oh good, they will be able to use Word competently’, the impression was ‘my god, they think Word is a skill worth bragging about, I’m inclined to believe they have no useful skills’.

‘Excel skills’ on a resume is just so vague, people put it down when they just figured out they can click and put things into a table, some people will be able to quickly roll some complicated formula, which is at least more of a skill (I’d rather program a normal way than try to wrangle some of the abominations I’ve seen in excel sheets).

Using an LLM is not a skill with a significant acquisition cost. To the extent that it does or does not work, it doesn’t really need learning. If anything people who overthink the ‘skill’ of writing a prompt just end up with stupid superstitions that don’t work, and when they first find out that it doesn’t work, they just grow new prompt superstitions to add to it to ‘fix’ the problem.

Unless Nvidia gets in on remanufacturing, those GPUs are never going to repurposed for residential usefulness. B300 was designed from the onset for datacenter ai use exclusively, with no concessions for theoretical video out integrated to a board that overall demands over 15 kw. You couldn’t even power it with a 60A 220V circuit.

Some of the storage could get more consumer support, SAS is unusual but if there were a glut then various solutions could emerge. Similarly EDSFF cages aren’t really a hot consumer item, especially not e1.l, but I could imagine a glut driving home friendly adaptions.

DRAM modules are somewhere in between, though practically speaking they won’t be workable outside of their initial application.

There was a time when home and datacenter got closer together, but there’s been quite the divergence the last few years.

Yes, because Microsoft’s revenue growth is in fact the most important thing the folks at Davos had to think about…

McCuntneck thank you very much

Getting a dns name is straightforward enough, and let’s encrypt to get a tla cert…

But for purely internal services that you didn’t otherwise want to publish extremely, the complexity goes way up (either maintain a bunch of domain names externally to renew certificates and use a private DNS to point them to the real place locally, or make your own CA and make all the client devices enroll it. Of course I’m less concerned about passkeys internally.

And the USA gets real pain.

Oh certainly I think they imagine the likelihood of a full way is low, not fall to recognize the likelihood of a more surgical clandestine op which absolutely could have a high chance of success even from one of the less resourced adversaries they are pissing off.

Note that violent means only had 4%. So 13% wouldn’t mind a peaceful purchase. Which is still dumb but at least not as outright insane as Stephen Miller would go.

I didn’t know if that’s “doing” anytime. It’s all rhetoric.

They also said all sorts of stuff about curbing his actions in Venezuela but when it came time to vote they couldn’t even get it to need a veto.

Maybe violating European sovereignty is a bridge enough to actually pass something, but I expect them to just let the veto happen