LittleHermiT

There’s no physical button to open the glovebox? Better not keep anything critical in there in case of a software failure.

I said the same to a Tesla owner who informed me buttons on the steering wheel provide all these functionalities. But upvoters don’t own a Tesla.

I would do the mighty parentheses first, and then the 2 that dares to touch the mighty parentheses, finally getting to the run-of-the-mill division. Hence the answer is One.

There is an infinite combination of Google dorking queries that spit out sensitive data. So really, pot, kettle, black.

You’ve discovered the secret sauce of marketing.

Good to know which instance to avoid!

I asked chatGPT to generate a list of 5 random words, and then tell me the fourth word from the bottom. It kept telling me the third. I corrected it, and it gave me the right word. I asked it again, and it made the same error. It does amazing things while failing comically at simple tasks. There is a lot of procedural code added to plug the leaks. Doesn’t mean it’s overrated, but when something is hyped hard enough as being able to replace human expertise, any crack in the system becomes ammunition for dismissal. I see it more as a revolutionary technology going through evolutionary growing pains. I think it’s actually underrated in its future potential and worrisome in the fact that its processing is essentially a black box that can’t be understood at the same level as traditional coding. You can’t debug it or trace the exact procedure that needs patching.

Cut scene. It was Starfield. Cut scene. Once was enough. Cut scene. Fast travel back to Skyrim…

A spectrum analysis and bandpass filter should take care of that.

You missed the point of my statement. SSDs are far faster than physical HDDs, therefore you can get away with providing less RAM. And the lifespan of a modern SSD is the same as a HDD. But yes, they are cheaping out by providing only 8GB, unless you pay hundreds more.

Perhaps with an SSD, memory swapping is less intrusive, hence you won’t noticed any performance issues. This is referring to the vast majority of users. At least for a few years. They will have an intolerable machine later though, when the OS becomes more bloated, and they can’t figure out how to upgrade those soldered RAM modules.

Commas, although sometimes omitted, should be used, and used often, as a means to clarify, and especially improve, long-winded statements, such as this one.

‘Food might get cold’ is a euphemism for getting spat into.

There are already instances where chat bots demonstrated unintended racism. The monumental goal of creating a general purpose intelligence is now plausible. The hardware has caught up with the ambitions of decades past. Maybe ChatGPT’s model has no real hope for sentience, as it’s just a word factory, other approaches might. Spiking neural networks for example, on a massive scale, might simulate the human brain to where the network actually ponders its existence.

Don’t be ridiculous, time travel is impossible.

If you’re wondering how AI wipes us out, you’d have to consider humanity’s tendency to adopt any advantage offered in warfare. Nations are in perpetual distrust of each other – an evolutionary characteristic of our tribal brains. The other side is always plotting to dominate you, take your patch of dirt. Your very survival depends on outpacing them! You dip your foot in the water, add AI to this weapons system, or that self-driving tank. But look, the other side is doing the same thing. You train even larger models, give them more control of your arsenal. But look, the other side is doing even more! You develop even more sophisticated AI models; your very survival depends on it! And then, one day, your AI model is so sophisticated, it becomes self aware…and you wonder where did it all go wrong.

And so on and so on. If you want to be tracked, you can be tracked, regardless of a mac address, or the hoops a user jump through to create the illusion of privacy. I can think of lots of unconventional ways to track a naive user.

Still within a subnet. If you connect to an internet cafe Wifi, you should be more worried about your dns traffic for identifying you.

How is this a problem when the hardware address is dumped once packets are out onto the web? Are you worried your router knows it’s you? Outside your subnet, on the internet, your Mac address is not part of the packet.

Strange, I get a mild hostility vibe from colleagues if I review too ambitiously.