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luke0016
·8 miesięcy temu·discuss
Or similarly having a gasoline engine without an alternator and making the observation that there's an absurdity there in that you're generating large amounts of energy, yet aren't able to charge a relatively small 12V battery with any of it. It's a very practical and natural limitation, yet in some sense you have exactly what you want - energy - you just can't use it because of the form. If you step back there's an amusing irony buried in that. At least in my humble opinion :-)
luke0016
·8 miesięcy temu·discuss
> reasoning ability should enable them to handle numbers of arbitrary size, just as it enables humans to do so, given some pencil and paper.

Or given a calculator. Which it's running on. Which it in some sense is. There's something deeply ironic about the fact that we have an "AI" running on the most technologically advanced calculator in the history of mankind and...it can't do basic math.
luke0016
·7 lat temu·discuss
> Traditional Unix implementation of ps and similar tools work by directly reading the appropriate data structures from kernel (through /dev/kmem or something to that effect).

This is not correct - /dev/kmem and similar are typically only readable by root. If what you say were correct, ps and friends wouldn't work for unprivileged users (unless they were setuid root, which they're not).