ForOldHack

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https://gunkies.org/wiki/User:ForOldHack Thank you for laughing at my jokes. I have given lectures in OMG. Orbital Mechanics Group, and Calculus, "Misuses of Infinity"

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6 dagen geledendiscuss

My friend Eric, had an unused Alpha server 4100 under his desk...It was used for testing more than a year ago, ( in the early 2000s ). He asked for the install disks, and got a entire box of everything it came with VMS/Ultrix/NT 3.5.. We tried to use raid, but none of the drivers worked. So what... we loaded NT, then Digital UNIX, and finally VMS, but we knew nothing about VMS, so one disk for NT, and one for Digital UNIX. The floating point was outstanding. just wish there was more software for it.

6 dagen geledendiscuss

Google? Wells Fargo? Are you LISTENING?

9 dagen geledendiscuss

Where you can encode an entire Command and Control server within rounding errors! You sneaky skunk!

9 dagen geledendiscuss

Oh my god, and to think that OCC used to just be ways to torture the pre-processor... stunning work. Utter and complete no holds barred mud.

11 dagen geledendiscuss

Pinball machines are great entertainment, but a plane? Wow. Someone next door to me, when I was growing up, built a boat in their driveway. It was amazing, and they took a long time to both get it right, and to make it seaworthy and comfy. After launch they sailed it around the world. Amazing.

11 dagen geledendiscuss

However, self driving vacuums are a done deal.

"I have no faith that we are close to useful humanoids." I agree completely. We still have competitions about having robots walk up stairs and open doors, and balance while doing those things...

What would be the top uses of humanoid robots?

11 dagen geledendiscuss

I would say that turtles are the pinnacle of stability, and longevity, and so we have Roombas. But, Racoons are at the pinnacle of dexterity, and Octopodes are at the pinnacle of dimensional manipulation...

but personally, I would welcome our cyper-coon overlords.

11 dagen geledendiscuss

So... like vertical markets? Ram for the data centers, data centers for the robots, robots for the Humanoid? or... the other way around? Robots to build data centers, and robots to build Ram.

I see... tech giants and R & D at the top of the pyramid, and I have seen Gumee, the fab that started all this Korean ram prodution.

14 dagen geledendiscuss

Clearly, it was the fault of the AI, and it should be thrown in jail.

18 dagen geledendiscuss

Yes, AI can write a solution, but cannot visualized a solution. When I was 9, I refused to learn my times tables, and addition, so I was relegated to work with blocks. I loved the blocks... I was able to complete all the problems, come up with my own, and return to class, with some extreme facility.

Two years later, comes a challenge in class... make a formula for summing the integers... well everyone started with 1+2+... I starred with blocks, 1+n, 2+n-1... I had the complete formula in minutes...

That was the very last class for which I was with my peers of that grade... I was put in a HP High Potential class, with a high school algebra book, and although was a bit lonely, was in my element.

The point is- the recognition of the problem, can save huge amounts of time, where as AI can only brute force it, or use a pretrained solution.

18 dagen geledendiscuss

Its all a math problem, and if it isn't a math problem, its a database problem. I come across a lot of problems, and since I always try to reduce it to a math problem... I intuitively come up with both the solution to the problem, but solutions to other problems. But, if it's not a math problem, of course, its a database problem.

I would safely assume that there are no limitations of what mathematicians can do, with one important exception: Andrew, for whom I argued about the mis-uses of Infinity. Andrew is, well, rather famous.

18 dagen geledendiscuss

Pay the tax of - reliability problems, ever one came with a cable, where is the termination, each had power, need another power strip...etc, etc, etc.

as well, as Wide SCSI, so all your 50 pin stuff needed to get upgraded to 68pin...

Bernoulli... ultra reliable. Zip? Clock was ticking on the click of death. Bernoullis were not the fastest, but they were the quietest and most reliable.

19 dagen geledendiscuss

At the same time, I was running a home router without any HDD on LRP, Linux Router Project, which was a distribution from Swansea Linux, and was a floppy image, that decompressed into RAM, and then chrood to the RAM image. Really nifty, except for the 486 machine had a Pentium Overdrive, which was vulnerable to F00F, and we got owned... only to reboot again, and back to our normal image.

Since it had no hard disk, and no monitor, it was quiet, and used little power.

22 dagen geledendiscuss

It does not just sound insane, it is insane...

"He reverse-engineered an actual attack. The project contained scripts that enabled code injection and crypto-wallet theft. His post (highly recommended):"

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/como-identifiquei-um-golpe-em...

"The execp package (version 0.0.1) is an infamous, malicious dependency frequently used in recent supply-chain attacks and job interview scams. Threat actors embed this 9-year-old package into seemingly innocent "technical assessments" or projects. When you run npm install, it quietly executes arbitrary shell commands in the background to compromise your machine."

22 dagen geledendiscuss

Nice quote of Darth Vader there ;) "The cycle will once again be complete."

Also reminds me to update my fake CV.

22 dagen geledendiscuss

This is what it is used for:

https://dev.to/andersoncontreira/warning-to-developers-a-new...

A “recruiter” (sometimes pretending to be a CEO/HR) contacts you. The job looks amazing — above-market salary, remote position, paid in USD, etc. They ask for your CV and GitHub. They say you’re “approved for the next stage” without any real interview. Before the call, they send you a codebase to review or modify as a “technical test.”

When I get one of these, I automatically spin up a cloned VM, and test it there, which for the most part it gets infected immediately. as I watch the VM connect to odd places ( C&C computers ) for which I add any names/IP addresses to my host file, and then spin up another cloned VM, with the adjustments to the hosts file, and watch the malware get all lonely... but once, it was able to escape the VM... so I had to scramble to disinfect both the RM and the VM, and then update, and look around for hardening tools.

Its satisfying to delete an infected VM, with a "Not this time Jack."

23 dagen geledendiscuss

MEPIC fuses... ok... Green? Oh my!

24 dagen geledendiscuss

Isn't any one interested in the technical? I would love to pay this guy a way to figure out a way to put a 8Gb USB stick in the light bulb, and start to fill it with the stuff from that Minecraft library... in all the languages... I would buy 16 of these light bulbs, and see if I could mesh them, or IPFS them, and start plugging them in in libraries...

24 dagen geledendiscuss

When does the movie come out? Totally kidding. Its just propaganda from one of the most murderous regime I can think of, but looks like the USA is going to give it a run for its money.

28 dagen geledendiscuss

This is a brilliant observation, in regards to the first edition's depiction of Gollum.

In the first edition, he was depicted as a large creature, and Tolkien was upset about it, and in the second edition, changed the description to small.

This information was gathered by a rare book seller who's videos I find immensely interesting.