I think all of your points were covered in the video, sometimes almost verbatim.

How is the X in xitter pronounced? Is it “sh” like in Xi? This seems to fit this time line, but it would be nice to have confirmation.

The hassle is that I have to have a second device to login with, and I have to keep that device with me and functioning at all times.

Obvious answer is of course my phone, but I’ve had a few situations where I needed to access an account on a new system and didn’t have a 2nd device available.

Thank you, that was a really helpful explanation that I haven’t seen elsewhere. It helps a lot and I think I now understand the difference between passwords and passkeys.

I still don’t like the hassle inherent in passkeys, but at least I understand it now.

Are sufficiently long passwords susceptible to brute force attacks?

Don’t passkeys get that feature by just being longer?

I have a question that is kind of off topic. If I use a password manager and generally use randomized secure passwords, do passkeys offer any additional security?

By practicing good password behavior, I have struggled to see how the benefits of passkeys out weigh the hassles.

I think youtube makes itself terrible if you don’t have premium. I have the problems you describe and others on both my desktop with FF or my chromebook with chrome.

Landlines are dead, but I recently installed a VoIP phone because cell service at my house isn’t great.

It is nice being able make calls reliabily now and the kids have a way to call 911 too.

They don’t exactly fail the quality checks, they get binned into a lower grade. It’s a common practice in many industries when reworking isn’t possible or financially viable.

It isn’t necessarily a bad thing either. Consumers can save some money when they don’t need top performance, the company gets some revenue, and the products don’t go into a landfill right away.

Article states the use of an electron beam to enable this. So not currently scalable, but still a seemingly significant result.

I get that, but is this on-die? It says that it is modular, so I interpreted that to mean that it was not on-die.

I get that this was primarily created to benefit laptops, but would it provide any advantage for desktops?

While text based messages on usenet may be dieing, the file sharing is still quite popular. My radar and sonar still pick up plenty of signals.

The author of that article seems completely out of touch with the requirements of a modern office. Also, that is in no way related to a note taking app.

I do agree with the sentiment that low tech can be good. While I find note taking apps helpful, I also like a notebook and pen (even lower tech than a typewriter).

They offer additional features. One Note ties into the MS eco-system in an okish way. Obsidian is basically text (actually md) in a folder/folders but supports plug-ins that can do a lot. Notion is backed by databases. Others run in the terminal and can support plug-ins. Evernote was one of the first to offer additional features and offered syncing and connections to other apps (seems a lot of that has been restricted in the last 15 years).

I’m sure pharmacy has some crazy value density, but it’s hards to put accurate values on their products because of insurance.

The boxes of wafers I was talking about is roughly 1.5 ft cubed. The fabs will have hundreds of these boxes moving around by robots at any one time.

It is possible to make glass and ceramics that are resistant to shattering from fair hard impacts. I don’t know if that can be employed here, but there are other ways to deal with the problem.

Additionally, if 100,000 TB is something that people can carry by hand, then it is also possible to back up those drives relatively easily (relative to that technology).

Lastly, current silicon fabs have boxes of wafers that at the final stages can exceed $1M in the retail value. They have robots that handle those. If the 100,000 TB is worth something close to that, then a human will not be carrying it.

https://gprivate.com/67w4x

Researchers need to be able to publish negative results or failures. They need to be encouraged to do that. Funding needs to support that.

Right now it doesn’t. Mostly only “successes” are published and that’s what gets further funding.

Swearing helps, it’s a frustrating task.

Try laying the wires across a piece of tape to help keep them aligned. Painters tape or a narrow strip of duct tape should work. Striping back just the right length actually makes it easier for me since the wires can’t move around as much.

I was looking at total revenue, for the global market, but you’re right that I probably should have been looking at units.

Slightly different picture it seems.

Laptop sales are expected to rise year on year.

This is an Apple problem, likely because of their price point. Apple’s previous advantage was usability, but they pivoted to luxury. Luxury demand goes down when markets are surpressed, but the demand for utility does not.

Maybe not in the field of computer science, but silicon valley is home to a lot of hardware companies that are doing great research every year. Intel, Applied Materials, Lam Research, KLA-tencor, etc. That’s just in semiconductors. There’s also a ton of battery research in the area. Lots of consumer electronics too, particularly from Apple (I don’t like their products, but they have been the driving force behind advancements which have helped other fields, such as O2 blood sensors and hearing aids), but there are many others as well.

Silicon valley is not just software. Maybe by market cap it is, but in terms of hours of labor I don’t think software wins.

Agreed, subscriptions only make sense when there is an on-going service, like on-star (no idea if it is worth anything).

So if the digital assistant and driver assistance programs where getting service updates, then this would make sense. However, I’d say that driver assistance really shouldn’t need a lot of updates if it was truly ready for the road.

I can only offer my own experience as evidence, but this is what I was advised to do (stop engaging by not selecting anything) and it worked. Prior to that I kept getting tons of stuff that I didn’t want to see, but it stopped within a few days once I stopped engaging with it. And I agree, it is infuriating.

Because I got this advice from someone else, I guess it has worked for others too.

Indicating “not interested” shows engagement on your part. Therefore the algorithm provides you with more content like that so that you will engage more.

You can try blocking the channel, which has mixed results for the same reason, or closing youtube and staying away from it for a few hours on that account.

As of yet, AIs are not taking independent actions (arguably unlike the cars). So for now, I think the person using the information would be liable, just like if they copied and pasted information from a site. The individual is responsible for the actions they take, although they may not have the necessary intent to commit certain crimes.

Regarding the cars, it could be argued that the drivers are responsible regardless of the features of the car. But it could also be argued that the features malfunctioned, preventing the driver from safely operating the vehicle. The manufacturer will likely argue thst the driver was operating the car incorrectly, and they will spend millions manufacturing this evidence.

I thought the point of captchas was to train AI models?

So does this mean all that work is finally paying off? This is a success right?

That’s already built in. If you answer too quickly or too accurately (with the pictures at least), it will give you another one. Best way to beat this is to select an incorrect answer and then deselect it before submitting

I think a lot of people feel that youtube is getting to eat all of the cake and is only offering crackers in return.

I think people accept that services need to advertise to survive, but become upset when that level of advertisemeant becomes excessive.

Hence why RAID5 is so popular!