Off-and-on trying out an account over at @tal@oleo.cafe due to scraping bots bogging down lemmy.today to the point of near-unusability.
I doubt that this is political theater. The judge — who is a neutral party here, and introduced the question — is asking a pretty straightforward question, testing the argument that the lawyer is making. “If your argument that Trump can rebuilt the wing of the White House holds, it seems that it’d entail X (where X is something that it seems like we wouldn’t want). Is that true?”
If you read court transcripts, this isn’t an uncommon thing for a judge to do.
I haven’t watched anime for quite a while, but when I do, I’ve certainly preferred subbed.
That being said, I can imagine computer voice synth hypothetically getting to a point where I’d prefer dubbed.
“use a strong password” whats that gonna do if the database gets pwned, sandra?
Strong passwords aren’t intended to simply protect against brute-forcing a password via trying to authenticate repeatedly, but also to help protect against brute-force attempts to obtain passwords from a compromised password database using a dictionary attack, the scenario you’re describing.
Typically — if an authentication system is storing its password database competently — the password shouldn’t be stored in plain text. Instead, the password will be salted (to avoid rainbow table attacks) and then hashed via a cryptographic hash. The password database entry will look something like a tuple of (username, salt, salted hashed password). If the password is a strong one, it will be computationally-hard to obtain the plaintext password, even if someone has the salt and the salted, hashed password.
I just wanna draw some boxes, put some text in them and connect them with lines, ffs.
If I want to do so textually — useful for very large, automatically-laid-out-diagrams, such as those generated automatically — I’ll use graphviz.
e.g.
foo.dot:
digraph {
A->B
B->C
B->D
C->A
}
And then:
$ sfdp -Tpng foo.dot >foo.png
produces:
I think that the /r/place-style collaborative pixel art thing is neat.
https://placedata.reddit.com/data/final_2023_place.png
To be fair, that is explicitly not infinite canvas — it has finite dimensions — but there have been derived programs with infinite bounds that work the same way to do pixel art.
It sounds like the software you’re using is intended for some kind of idea organization team stuff, though. For that, it doesn’t sound like it’s a great paradigm to me, but I also don’t spent a lot of time using software of that sort.
I’ve used visual programming languages. These use flowcharts to represent data flow, are often used for signal processing stuff. Same kind of idea. My general feeling is that that doesn’t really scale up to large problems — you wind up wasting way too much time trying to navigate around the thing. It’s a quick and intuitive way to view very small things, though it still isn’t my preferred approach; I’d rather use text.
Trump’s strongest support in 2024 wasn’t actually in the South.
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/95f42ca4-771c-4a27-b039-969f7ae8160a.jpeg
West Virginia and Wyoming, the two biggest coal producers, were the strongest supporters. There were states in the South that went for Trump, but there’s also the Great Plains.
Contrast with, say, the 1920 presidential election, which was clearly a South-vs-rest-of-US result:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_United_States_presidential_election
They don’t have the means to produce at scale…steamdeck OLED
They aren’t going to be manufacturing it themselves. They’ll pay someone else to make it.
And I’d bet that that party isn’t limited by their own capacity, but by how many units Valve’s ordered, which is going to be limited by how many units that Valve thinks the public will buy at current elevated-by-memory-prices rates.
EDIT: Sounds like their manufacturer is Quanta Computer, in Taiwan.
EDIT2: And they probably aren’t constrained by their own capacity:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Lam
Quanta designs and manufactures for clients such as Apple Inc., Compaq, Dell, Gateway, BlackBerry Ltd., Hewlett-Packard,[13] Alienware, Cisco Systems, Fujitsu, Gericom, Lenovo, LG, Maxdata, MPC, Sharp Corporation, Siemens, Sony, Sun Microsystems, and Toshiba.[citation needed] It is the largest manufacturer of PC notebooks worldwide[14] and has diversified into servers, storage, and liquid-crystal display terminals.[15]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
In philosophy of mind, a philosophical zombie (or “p-zombie”) is a being in a thought experiment that is physically identical to a normal human being but does not have conscious experience.[1] For example, if a philosophical zombie were poked with a sharp object, it would not feel any pain, but it would react exactly the way any conscious human would. In other words, the being has full access consciousness but no phenomenal consciousness.
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It’s got those faux slit windows and things made up to look like crenelations, but I’d say that it was never a fortification, as it has large, indefensible downstairs windows.
That’ll probably place some constraints on construction timeframe, since the “manor houses styled to look like fortifications” thing only happened after wealthy people owning fortifications were a thing.
There are three major DRAM chip manufacturers: Micron, in the US, and Samsung and SK Hynix, both in South Korea.
Micron has two new fabs coming online in Boise, Idaho. The earliest one is scheduled to start operation in the first half of 2027 (they recently announced that they’d moved that timeline up from the second half of 2027) though it’ll take time to ramp up; it will not be doing output at full capacity immediately when it first starts up.
https://www.micron.com/us-expansion/id
They announced late last year that they were going to do a second Boise one as well for more capacity.
They also have New York fabs that they’re doing:
https://www.micron.com/us-expansion/ny
For the South Korean manufacturers:
Samsung
This year, Samsung is prioritizing the conversion of its lines to memory chips at its Pyeongtaek campus in Gyeonggi and the acceleration of new facility construction at the site.
At the P4 plant, the company is upgrading dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) production to its latest 1c process, which will be used for high bandwidth memory (HBM) and advanced DRAM chips. Samsung aims to secure 1c capacity of more than 200,000 wafers per month by the end of the year through line conversion and additional equipment installation.
Construction of P5, which had previously been delayed during the semiconductor downturn, resumed this year with a timeline accelerated by roughly six months compared to earlier plans. The chipmaker is bringing in tens of thousands of new workers to construct the megafab, capable of producing HBM, DRAM, NAND flash and potentially foundry chips. Construction is expected to be completed in the first half of 2027, with equipment installation beginning shortly afterward and mass production targeted for the latter part of 2028.
Construction of the last Pyeongtaek facility, P6, is currently expected to start in the third quarter of 2028.
SK Hynix
SK hynix is currently concentrating short-term investment on expanding capacity at its M15X fab in Cheongju, North Chungcheong, while also upgrading older lines.
The company is adding 1b DRAM capacity at M15X, while accelerating 1c node conversions at its M14 and M16 fabs for production of HBM and server DRAM. After hitting a capacity of 10,000 wafers per month last year, it is expected to expand capacity by up to 70,000 wafers per month this year.
For a new greenfield project, SK hynix is advancing construction at the Yongin semiconductor cluster in Gyeonggi, one of the largest semiconductor manufacturing projects globally. The cluster will ultimately host six Samsung fabs from Samsung and four SK hynix facilities, and the latter is moving ahead first.
Construction of the first fab, Y1, is expected to be completed in February of next year, earlier than previously planned. Equipment installation is scheduled to begin in the second quarter of 2027.
Y1 will be built in six cleanroom “phases,” a unit used in fab construction for the capacity expansion stage. Each phase adds more floor space and related equipment for wafer capacity expansion. The first three phases are expected to begin operation within the same year, providing a capacity of 150,000 wafers per month, with the remaining phases adding another 150,000 wafers per month once fully operational.
The second fab in the cluster, Y2, is expected to begin construction around the third quarter of 2028.
Would you let artificial intelligence take care of your children?
I mean, there are presumably going to be AI systems of a sort that I’d consider capable of reasonably acting in a life-critical role.
If we’re talking something like the current 2026 crop of LLMs, like Grok or ChatGPT, then no. Self-driving cars have systems developed using machine learning, and those can operate in limited, specialized life-critical roles in 2026. If you call those AIs, then I’d trust them to drive a kid from Point A to Point B.
Could you have a romantic, platonic or other relationship that imitates interpersonal relationships with artificial intelligence?
I don’t see any theoretical reason why it’d be impossible, given the right environment. But I’d be inclined to think that any sort of human-AI relationship will look different from a human-human relationship, just because the kinds of human-human relationships that we invest time into are because we are, well, humans, with everything that comes with that. We can’t easily be modified, we invest in building long-term relationships, we are expensive to create, we can’t be “rolled back”.
A sexy chatbot or something like that, whether-or-not it can be fun, isn’t really the same sort of situation that one has with humans. You can erase or tweak the thing at will, just walk away. You can “undo” things that you’ve said. I doubt that, by-and-large, those properties, which exist now, will be removed from AIs. I’d say that those characteristics necessarily create a different environment, no matter how sophisticated or human-like you could make something, no matter what kind of robotic systems you hook up to them, no matter what visual representation they have, no matter what their speech can sound like.
Further, I’d say that it’d similarly change what human-human relationships looked like if human-human relationships had those properties. What if you could “undo” things that you said to a human partner? Fork them, modify them, and try interacting with them with those modifications? Discard forks freely? I’d think that that’d likely change how we interact with human partners a lot.
With a human partner, you are, to steal a video gaming term, playing on ironman mode, with permadeath, and with a fair bit at stake. That is going to affect how you act. I think that it is unlikely that human-AI relationships will, by-and-large, wind up in that situation, whatever technological developments happen.
Do you believe that artificial intelligence will ever gain consciousness?
To steal a famous quote from Edsger Dijkstra:
The question of whether machines can think is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim.
That is, it’s really a matter of definition. Lots of words in the English language haven’t been fully-defined. How many grains of sand are there in a “heap”? If one grain isn’t a heap, but a lot are, there must be some sort of point where you transition to a heap. But…we can usefully use the word “heap” without ever bothering to specifically nail down any precise definition, because our use doesn’t really rely on there being a precise, agreed-upon split between “heap” and “non-heap”.
In general, in philosophy, questions about definitions aren’t terribly interesting. That is, if I have already defined what “green” means precisely, asking whether-or-not something is green is interesting. But if I haven’t, well…asking whether or not a given hue is blue or green (if you even have a language that has the blue-green distinction, which not all do) isn’t really all that interesting. You could define it whichever way you want, get people to adopt that convention, and the world would still go on, using that now-nailed-down definition.
I think that we all recognize that there is some level of complexity and sophistication where something is self-aware, and that humans — absent suffering serious brain damage — normally qualify as being self-aware. And that we also think that a four-function calculator is not self-aware. If we were less-and-less complicated, our degree of self-awareness would probably become more-and-more primitive, and at some point, we wouldn’t have it. But…as to the question of what level of complexity, what set of features exactly “counts” as self-awareness…shrugs It’s like asking what qualifies as a heap. We’ve never bothered to define it, since it hasn’t really been something that we’ve had to deal with. You could define it wherever you wanted. It’s possible that someone could define self-awareness in some sort of way that it’d be possible for it to be impossible for an AI to do. I personally feel like you’d have to go out of your way to do that, but my real point is that I just don’t think that the question is all that interesting, because it’s really one of definition, of defining something that isn’t today defined.
I think that we will, sooner-or-later, achieve computer systems that can increasingly reason and act in ways that today, only humans can do. It is possible that we will never build computer systems that work in exactly the same way that humans do. For example, we could probably build a camera that works more like a human eyeball, but we have digital cameras in 2026 that work on different principles that are preferable for our uses. Aside from pure amusement or academic curiosity, we don’t have much reason to make a “human-eye-style camera”. But I think that our machines will increasingly be able to do what humans do. I don’t think that there is some sort of obvious and intrinsic “unreachable” property of self-awareness that humans have that human-built machines cannot have. As long as it is desirable to build a machine that can think about itself as a thing, which I think it probably is, then I imagine that we will build such a thing sooner-or-later.
So, two points.
First, new memory fabs start coming online in 2027, and there are more being constructed that will be coming online in subsequent years.
But, second…I think that some perspective is in order. Set new production aside. Let’s imagine a world where that didn’t happen. In fact, let’s imagine that not a single additional memory chip was going to be produced. Video games were around when I played games on an Atari 2600, to pick an early video game console. I had fun with it. It didn’t have the latest, real-time rendered photorealistic graphics. But…the Atari 2600 had 128 bytes of memory. Not gigabytes, not megabytes, not kilobytes. Bytes.
There are people building microcontrollers right now that have onboard memory, and those aren’t impacted by this. It’s just the high-density dedicated memory chips that go on DIMMs that are seeing all that demand.
According to Wikipedia, there were 30 million Atari 2600s made. The CPU I currently have in my desktop has a little over 145MB of onboard cache. Twenty-six of those CPUs, looking just at their onboard cache, no external memory from Micron/Samsung/SK Hynix, have more memory than all of the 30 million Atari 2600s ever manufactured, combined.
Like, don’t get me wrong. I enjoy using all this memory that we have had available in recent years. But…video games are here to stay and would be even if no dedicated memory chips were around.
As you can imagine, this is enormous pricing pressure for enthusiasts trying to build gaming PCs or upgrade their rigs in 2026.
Waiting until 2028 for anything involving RAM would be a good idea, if possible. You’re likely to get more for your money.
If you’ve got money burning a hole in your pocket and are determined to spend on gaming computer hardware in 2026/2027, it might be a good idea to consider things like game controllers, displays, or something like that, since those don’t have prices driven by memory price.
They’re building out. The first ones are going to be mid-late 2027, but those aren’t expected to be at full production until about 2028.
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Hmm. Micron says that they’re aiming to move up their first fab becoming active to the first half of 2027, now:
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/business/article314253330.html
Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra says the company is pushing up its timelines for opening its first semiconductor fabrication plant, or fab, into the first half of 2027, instead of the second half. His announcement in a Dec. 17 earnings call came months after the chipmaker unveiled plans to start construction on a second fab in 2026, eyeing a 2028 ribbon-cutting.
They also have a second fab in Boise, Idaho, and some in New York that theylre building.
Both Samsung and SK Hynix have fabs in South Korea that they’re building.
Yeah, but he’s got a point. The GOG new game library is much smaller than on Steam.
I hope that Micron, SK Hynix, and Samsung don’t hit any hiccups with their memory chip production buildouts.
You can see that the occupant in that one is clearly outside the triangle formed by the three wheels.
shakes head sadly
Just tell your passengers to shift their mass to the area of the vehicle in the triangle formed by the remaining three wheels.
I’d just stick screens on one’s windows and maybe use DEET if you’re really at the height of mosquito season in a bad area.
Like, this has a DSLR camera, a GPU constantly churning away, a laser…
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https://lemmyverse.net/communities has a list.
It’s on the lemmy.porn instance, !forcedincest@lemmy.porn. Presumably that instance is, well, for porn.
If you don’t want to see it, you can block that community and you won’t see any more from it. If you don’t want to see anything from that instance, you can block that instance. If you don’t want to see NSFW content in general, you can block that.
As to “why” in the broader sense, it’s because the Threadiverse is a global system. It spans many countries and different groups of people. It’s like asking why something is “allowed” on the Web — everything is allowed as long as the local country is okay with it.