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New comment by rusk in "Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation"

rusk — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:31:03 +0000

Cries in dystopian

New comment by rusk in "Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models"

rusk — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:38:04 +0000

Wait til you hear about how digital circuits work at die level

New comment by rusk in "AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity"

rusk — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:42:20 +0000

> they are an order of magnitude or more off where they need to be to justify anything

Would you let them near your bank account? I’d be cautious about letting it near my photos and it’s much harder to back up a bank account.

I think the days of this stuff managing serious stuff is at least 5 years off and I don’t believe the economy can keep the current wave of technology afloat for so long.

The tech is there so likely there will continue to be progress in focused areas much like with the web c 2003 but by the time it comes around again there will be an uphill battle for hearts and minds. The social effects could extend the next AI winter long beyond technology readiness.

New comment by rusk in "Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors"

rusk — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 07:23:37 +0000

I can see a pan European project like CERN or Airbus where sovereign nations with aligned values pool their resources, as being useful here

New comment by rusk in "Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con"

rusk — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:11:44 +0000

Did an AI do that on its own though? I heard it was human mathematicians using a sophisticated machine as a tool.

New comment by rusk in "Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors"

rusk — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 09:48:49 +0000

You would need institutions to do this? What do we have besides global megacorps with the resources for this? Universities perhaps training models for their local catchment?

New comment by rusk in "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"

rusk — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:04:03 +0000

It's ineptitude. Of course it is. Otherwise it would be indefensible.

EDIT in which I clumsily express my weariness at hearing some of the smartest people in the world claim they “didn’t know” because they have arbitrated foolishness against liability

New comment by rusk in "Adversarial Fashion Makes a Statement on AI Panopticon"

rusk — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:23:14 +0000

You need a system that does gait analysis, which requires upgrades across the board. All those sunk costs on pervasive facial recon systems. Sucks teeth.

New comment by rusk in "Adversarial Fashion Makes a Statement on AI Panopticon"

rusk — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:18:33 +0000

As Phil Zimmerman might opine, it’s not so much about defying every attack, it’s moreso about making it more difficult en masse by increasing the unit cost. Though perhaps in the 90s surveillance tech wasn’t quite scaling as quickly as it is now.

New comment by rusk in "llama.cpp"

rusk — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:13:09 +0000

It’s not. Try pulling updates after a rebase. Very much not the same as piping arbitrary disembodied text into your shell.

New comment by rusk in "Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls”"

rusk — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:53:44 +0000

Precisely the reason is to give breathing room for big players to invest in development of technology so they can capitalise exclusively for a period

New comment by rusk in "Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023)"

rusk — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:59:48 +0000

Pharma and Healthcare was the implication I believe. The US approach to these things has a bad reputation internationally though I am informed that it’s an amazing system if you’re rich.

New comment by rusk in "EU now fears US interference in European elections"

rusk — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:00:20 +0000

At least they’re allowing their colonies to have elections

New comment by rusk in "The old-school way of keeping the summer heat out of your home"

rusk — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:47:20 +0000

Yeah I think that’s done. Tragically this technique coupled with a poor selection of materials was the structural cause of the grenfell fire. We see this kind of panelling around various European cities. “Cladding” it is called and it serves a few different purposes with regards to thermal management.

New comment by rusk in "Substack writers, you need a website"

rusk — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:34:30 +0000

I actively skip stuff that’s on substack just like I do medium and blogger. Maybe there’s good stuff on there but it’s usually a by-word for slop. I figure if anyone has anything that interesting to say they’d make the effort and put it up on something more serious looking.

New comment by rusk in "The old-school way of keeping the summer heat out of your home"

rusk — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:58:01 +0000

https://steelroofsheets.co.uk/categories/ventilated-wall-cla...

New comment by rusk in "The old-school way of keeping the summer heat out of your home"

rusk — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:13:48 +0000

Already in widespread use https://www.sips.org/what-are-sips

New comment by rusk in "Kill The Cookie Banner"

rusk — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:50:12 +0000

This was tried before but was presumably scuppered by the market intelligence and surveillance communities

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P

New comment by rusk in "Book Corners: Community map of neighborhood book exchange spots"

rusk — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 09:41:05 +0000

> If there are tens of thousands, it may make you feel less bad about tossing them.

That’s a great point.

It doesn’t eliminate the problem but it helps break it up a bit, which is definitely helpful.

New comment by rusk in "Book Corners: Community map of neighborhood book exchange spots"

rusk — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 09:38:22 +0000

I had considered this. Up cycling them as eco bricks but that’s nearly as destructive as burning. Life would be so much easier if I had no qualms.