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someacnt ,

Exactly, C++ is what came to my mind when I saw this. Some people don't put references??

Soo just sharing smthng.. i fucked up my competitive exam today

Yeahh.. for the past few months i had been consistently studying for 7-8hrs a day consistently for my competitive exam (avg asian teen energy) and today i had my first attempt, and i kinda fucked it up very bad.. its a physics chemistry and math exam and i kinda went blank and the first few questions were very tough and my ...

someacnt ,

That must have been soul-crushing.. On the other hand, you get a second chance where you will do much better! Do not fret about the past mistakes, only think of how you will do well in the future.

In some countries (like mine), we don't have second chance like that.. You are in much better position than us!

someacnt ,

Oh, do you happen to be a physicist or an analyst?

someacnt ,

Security by obscurity does not work, because people are only so creative up to a point. Hence, there are only handful of configurations for the attacker to try out.

This contrasts to e.g. 128-bit secure encryption, which involves trying 2^128 times to break it - which is a number with whopping 38 zeros. It takes 10^22 years to break it with trying at 1GHz rate. It is simply incomparable, and adding a few bits of security by obscure combination is simply not worth it.

Yet, so many people and organizations seem to prefer obscurity to actual security.

someacnt ,

Same. Maybe I.. gasp.. like trains?

someacnt ,

I feel like they are confounding LLMs AND general AI/ML. The latter is useful in many areas, while the former is mostly hype imo.

I don't understand how Moxie Marlinspike's Confer "Private LLM" works

So I was reading this article about Signal-creator Moxie Marlinspike's new project, Confer , which claims to be a verifiably E2E encrypted LLM chat service. There are a couple of short blog articles that give the gist of it, and some github repos including this one that includes scripts for producing the VM that will run your ...

someacnt ,

I wonder if we can really trust the TEEs. Isn't it their hardware where they are quite free to do what they want? Also it looks very vulnerable to the side-channel attacks.

someacnt ,

That's such a way to dismiss the theory and academia

someacnt ,

Maybe I should admit defeat and go back to reddit.. Perhaps everyone is supposed to be slaves to the shareholders

someacnt ,

You know that is a lie, a lip service for the gullible mass. Samsung just does not care about security and privacy because it does not boost their profits.

How do people actually fall into the "Tankie" mindset?

After seeing a megathread praising Mao Zedong, an actual mass killer, and a post about a guy saying "99% of westerners are 100000000000% sure they know what happened in 'Tiny Man Square' [...] the reasons for this are complex and involve propaganda [...]," I am genuinely curious what leads people to this belief system. Even if ...

someacnt ,

Interesting, is it difficult for people to admit they are wrong? As someone who's almost always wrong, I cannot fathom why it would be so hard to admit wrongness.

someacnt ,

Do you mean python has something to do with functional programming, or did I misread? Because I would say e.g. Typescript is (slightly) closer to FP than Python.

someacnt ,

It still has two holes compared to a sphere, and that is our usual frame of reference.

someacnt ,

Wonder if this makes the business profitable, are there enough traffic for this?

someacnt ,

This made me realize that I am a nerd. Sad.

someacnt ,

Fuck, what do I do when they inevitably discontinue support for 20xx? Just cry and accept that I no longer have a computer, as every component costs as much as a house? D:

someacnt ,

Why is this painful truth not the top comment? Maybe people are still hopeful after all the time?

someacnt ,

Since they leaked data, here's more sensitive data to leak for them? Dafuq?

someacnt ,

Sometimes I feel sad I am incapable of chicanery like this, it sounds like the only path to an affluent life.

someacnt ,
someacnt OP ,

First of all, thanks a lot! I should try different ones.
To try the different ports, I need to open up the case, right? That sounds like work, but maybe that's unavoidable.
Guess I should check if the tearing occurs with laptops first.

Strangely, the tearing seems to happen more frequently in Linux. I am not sure how...
Also, turning the monitor off and on briefly fixes the tearing. Does it say anything about it?
Plus, it only happens in one monitor, another monitor is completely fine - although another monitor flicker when the monitor tears.

someacnt OP ,

It only happens in one monitor, another monitor is completely fine - although another monitor flicker when the monitor tears.
I will check the monitor with other hardware (e.g. laptops).
The connection type is HDMI, sadly the monitor does not seem to have DisplayPort connection.

someacnt OP ,

Yeah, the 2nd monitor briefly turns itself off and on in the same moment the 1st monitor tears.
I will try to follow the steps.

someacnt ,

Wait, so that was also Microsoft? Oh no.. I just gave away more money to them :/

someacnt ,

It has been going up recently, so I would not hold my breath.

someacnt ,

I relate to others, but isn't the Rubix cube quite common in STEM people? Dunno what that has to do with autism

someacnt ,

Wow, so they observed the emitted gamma rays directly, meaning we basically saw the dark matter directly? This is exciting! Of course more research would be warranted, tho.

someacnt ,

I mean, thoughts on nuclear waste? They certainly need management, and I dunno if humans are good at waste management.

someacnt ,

I am living in a good enough apartment and is still suffering from it.
Well, the apartment is old now, maybe that's why..

someacnt ,

Oh, does this mean my ASUS laptop would be supported better?

someacnt ,

I thought it is in the process of bursting, but the stock price is not going down fast...

someacnt ,

To be precise, it is LLM bubble. We never know if other, more useful flavors of AI would need that much resources.

someacnt ,

For once, my aspie ass could understand the joke behind it.

Valve says "the Steam Machine is equal or better than 70% of what people have at home," but I feel like that's missing the point ( www.gamesradar.com )

Before you start making plans to evict your current rig, I want to explain how the Steam Hardware Survey actually works. Rather than representing every player that uses the storefront, the monthly census instead uses a small percentage of participants who've opted in as a sample. It's anything but representative of all 154 ...

someacnt ,

Oh no, will steam machine flop again? Sometimes I wonder I am being delusional, thinking steam deck and machine has any edge in today's world where AI apparently reigns supreme.

someacnt ,

But.. But think about the battery megacorps!

someacnt ,

B..but it works, at least!

Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3

Sony believed that they had so much market share that they could make a console that was leaps and bounds more complicated to code for, which would lock devs in and prevent them from going elsewhere, and they’d just have to suck it up because of said market share. Sony was wrong, and they lost out big time that generation ...

someacnt ,

Microsoft just has so many users unwilling to change, that I do not foresee that happening. Just 10% of people switching to Linux would be absolute win for me.

someacnt ,

So there is nothing that is particularly incriminating Trump? Ugh.

someacnt ,

Sorry, I could not resist the impulse, and am now shorting it.

someacnt ,

I have some silver but it is not faring well compared to gold :(

someacnt ,

No one wants to donate it to charity of my choosing?

(What if the charity is just a thin veil over my own account)

someacnt ,

Do they care about what e-mail you use? Weird.

someacnt ,

Does not work for many of us

someacnt ,

Wish I could confidently say that it is going to pop soon, but I am not sure the current rebound is the bull trap. Maybe the correction was just a small blip in a huge bubble..

someacnt OP ,

Not so fast, lemming. My bet got back to profit, theoretically I can close it now. I am waiting, though. If things go awry, I can always close at a small loss when my stop-loss is reached. Never do naked bets.