Now pipes freeze at 32, so that is a pretty outrageous amount of manadatory wiggle room --23 degrees. I honestly don’t know enough about plumbing or insulation to suggest a fix
If the inside of your apartment is at 55, and the outside is at 9, and the insulation between the pipes and the inside/outside is equal, that puts your pipes at 32. In theory the pipes should be “closer” to the inside temperature, but plumbers don’t always put pipes in with an aim to avoid future plumbing work…
With cheap, clean, safe magic (fusion?) power, you can turn CO2 from the atmosphere back into jet fuel.
And using breeder reactors that 50,000 year figure could be pushed up to 5 million years.
That’s the thing, at least right now, AI is dependent on new data centers, excess capacity built just for it - it’s not going to “escape” to the banking system and the tractor navigation chips, if it could do that they wouldn’t need to be building all this capacity for it.
They’re talking, they want other people to become more afraid, but is anyone actually afraid - or just latching on to this delusion of power to push their own agendae as if we all should be afraid?
how will they sell literally any garbage, how do they get you to buy that any garbage, and how do they make you actually want that any garbage above anything else. its mass manipulation from start to end,
“We could sell horse piss if we put it in an aerosol can!”
Johnathan Lute played by Orson Welles in the 1967 feature film: I’ll Never Forget What’s’isname
So far, every target is different - like the one with the 3.5" touch display built in, that has its own display driver module. Then there’s Windoze vs Ubuntu vs Raspbian OS, and the Pi Zero 2W has a few different considerations than, say, a Pi 4 or 5, and basically every place I have deployed this so far has had something unique that needed custom attention. Once that’s all worked out, sure, ansible or whatever, but customizing for each target isn’t something “last year’s tools” did as easily as the new agents.
45K of those lines are documents, specifications, testing results… It’s an overbloated mess bull-headedly pursuing a couple of arbitrarty goals of mine that not many other people have pursued (use of Disk At Once (DAO) audio files with passages defined as sub-sets of the file, 71 dimensioal passage “flavor” determination for next track selection using the now offline AcousticBrainz algorithms, deployment on 5-6 so far various hardware/OS platforms adds a bit as well…)
On the bright side: synchronization of 2 independent players is “coming together” - got some decent performance in the steady state case last night, now chasing the edge cases for faster convergence at startup, etc.
running
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
Is the really hard part.
That’s not the hard part to do, it’s the hard part to get other people to do, particularly those who can’t just run the package manager or let in-doze play patch roulette every Tuesday.
Security through obscurity isn’t going to cut it in the future, much less than it already didn’t in the past.
Security through air-gapping is still pretty good.
Apologies. In Westpondia nobody knows what Romani means…
Living under a bridge in a box sounds like a better life.
It’s the Gypsy lifestyle of the new world. Gypsies prefer their life to the alternatives.
disasters that were unintended and didn’t need to happen.
As you say, every “scientifically based” industrial innovation / breakthrough has had the potential to cause new kinds of mayhem, and most of them did to some degree or another. Burning rivers and CO2 overload in the atmosphere spring to mind, but industrial “accidents” are part and parcel of industrial activity, always have been.
can be so unreliable, it might kill us by incompetence.
Same can be said of Homer Simpson manning the console at a nuclear power plant.
AI is a tool, irresponsible use of a tool is… irresponsible. Just like people puttting “not-self-driving” cars into “supervised driving assistance mode” and taking a nap at the wheel at 80mph.
any kind of intelligence
A photocell that turns on a streetlamp after sundown, or when a dark cloud passes over the sun, is a kind of intelligence.
either accelerate humanity to new heights or kill off the species
Arguably those are two ways of describing the same event.
Unlike a bio-virus that has evolved for a billion years across all the niches of our ecosystems, when AI “escapes the lab” it’s entirely confined to man-made infrastructure, it’s not going to infect a flock of migrating birds and hop to the other hemisphere, it’s going to be in systems we built, mostly within the past 30 years or less, mostly in the past 30 months for the powerful ones.
When AI starts demonstrating “copying itself” through DNA encoding infecting living beings without killing them (too quickly), and/or “running” on something more ubiquitous than massive data-center hardware, that’s when it’s over.
I think that they’re seeing all the scary movie stuff start to come true - but missing the essential plot holes like that one: just unplug it.
People complain about AI slop - well, before AI slop there was lazy human slop, but lazy humans generally gave up before writing too many words or painting too much mess, or digital clone-stamping too many generic things… Truth is: if you put in 1/2 the effort of making something great without an AI tool into making something great with an AI tool, you can usually get something much better out in the end - if you’re sincerely trying to use the tools well.
It’s the people who don’t know / don’t care whether the result is slop or not who are putting in 1/10th (or less) the effort of making something great who are putting all the slop out there.
I’m not afraid of the machines taking over (yet), but I am afraid that the same explosion in copy-pasta document vomit that came with word processing 40-ish years ago is going to explode again into a docpocalypse with people using AI to drown each other in supposed “legal written” communications that are only even vaguely understandable using AI tools to read them.
If you don’t run any water overnight then turn on the cold tap (preferably first thing in the morning) and take temperature readings as it runs, you can (likely) spot if you’ve got any cold spots / weak insulation against outside cold, assuming it’s a lot colder outside than inside that night.