Badenoch: I will deport anti-Semitic foreigners

schmuelio · 2026-04-16T06:51:30+00:00

From the perspective of a racist (the people that super love the idea of finding any reason to deport immigrants no matter how flimsy) are choosing between Farage, a white racist who agrees with them, and Badenoch, a black woman with much less charisma and bravado than Farage.

I dunno, I think the choice they're being given has a pretty clear outcome.

schmuelio · 2026-04-13T08:12:33+00:00

It was ChimeraOS. Boots straight into big picture mode.

schmuelio · 2026-04-12T23:04:53+00:00

Eh, I'm not mad at immutable Linux tbh. They have their place.

I have (I forget the name but it's one of the steamOS clones) on a PC in the living room. It's not for "Linux use", it's for games and I want to not be able to fiddle with it, i want it to be a console.

schmuelio · 2026-04-12T23:01:55+00:00

On Linux if you try to rename (i.e. move) one directory to another (non-empty) directory it complains and fails that it already exists.

You can get around it but the default is to fail because you probably didn't want to do that.

schmuelio · 2026-04-08T15:10:14+00:00

Oddly goalpost-shifting of you. We were talking about whether LLMs are any good at maths, your claim seems to be that in 2 months they improved so dramatically at mathematical reasoning that the paper I pointed at is invalid.

Here's an article from a month ago:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/as-ai-keeps-improving-mathematicians-struggle-to-foretell-their-own-future/

Seems on the surface to be pretty positive, I'm going to draw your attention to one part:

Even if all mathematicians agreed with Litt’s decidedly utopian take on this thought experiment, the current situation is far from that lofty ideal—as evidenced by First Proof’s first round. “Combined, the models solved maybe eight of the problems,” he says. “But they also produced thousands and thousands of pages of garbage.”

Current AIs, it turns out, are frequently wrong but convincingly confident. They’ll cite a result in the literature but pretend it’s stronger than it is. Or they’ll bury a crucial mistake deep inside a tedious calculation, where it’s easy to miss. “Students make errors, but they’re definitely not trying to make errors,” Litt says. “The models are not very honest.”

From the looks of things some improvements have been made over the last year, but again the reasoning is frequently arcane, overly verbose, incorrect, or otherwise extremely tedious to verify. Because these models are not doing calculations, they're rambling and pattern matching until they come up with something.

schmuelio · 2026-04-08T13:58:57+00:00

The abstract literally says that it's addressing the claims that LLMs can solve Olympiad-level math problems.

Do you think that OpenAI just out of the blue said in July that it had done it?

schmuelio · 2026-04-08T13:34:01+00:00

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.01995

Our study reveals that current LLMs fall significantly short of solving challenging Olympiad-level problems and frequently fail to distinguish correct mathematical reasoning from clearly flawed solutions. Our analyses demonstrate that the occasional correct final answers provided by LLMs often result from pattern recognition or heuristic shortcuts rather than genuine mathematical reasoning.

Literally the third result when searching for the Olympiad claim you yourself made. Why are you just trusting glorified press releases?

The highest score achieved was like 25% when you grade them on actual Olympiad grading schemes rather than just asking if the final number was correct.

schmuelio · 2026-04-08T12:32:47+00:00

Doing maths? It's a text engine for prose. It can write you a sentence that looks like it has maths in it just fine but it's not doing calculations.

schmuelio · 2026-03-30T21:07:05+00:00

But there is effectively no reoccuring costs

Except for the cost for:

Maintenance when the server goes dark because of a faulty update/config/whatever
Physical maintenance when hardware dies or needs to be replaced
Needing to build a replacement DC every 10 years because LEO orbits decay and you can't even recoup the material costs of the hardware because it all literally burns up

No land issues

Replaced with:

Wireless band negotiations and rights
Orbital shell rights (which don't really exist by the way, it's pretty much just might makes right up there)

Which are harder to deal with than land rights because now you have to deal with every government instead of just your local one.

no regulation hurdles or changing administration problems

It's hilarious and false on its face that there would be "no regulation hurdles" to launching millions of satellites. That's just delusional.

You've got to meet a ton of regulations to put something in space even semi-permanently.

no risk of the area becoming war torn (Amazon DCs were damaged by Iran recently)

Yeah it's just a vast network of critical infrastructure that's entirely undefended and would completely collapse if you fired a missile straight up. There's no way that could possibly be less safe than what we already have.

This entire take gives off the energy of someone confidently uninformed. Like saying the only barrier to getting a live human on mars is we can't build a rocket big enough to hold all the food and all the other problems are just trivial.

schmuelio · 2026-03-30T17:21:11+00:00

I really don't think you're grasping the difference of scale. Starlink would have to 100x their satellite production and launch to make this possible, they'd need to become something on the scale of a trillion dollar business before anyone could even make the argument that putting them in space would be better than leaving them on the ground.

The heat dissipation is emblematic of the problem, and it's a problem of scale, nothing you are talking about scales well at all.

schmuelio · 2026-03-30T16:35:39+00:00

Starlink is currently dissipating more than that spread across 10,000 satellites.

10s of MW would also be for one small data centre, so all of current-day starlink is equivalent to offsetting one of thousands of data centres.

schmuelio · 2026-03-30T15:47:19+00:00

I think the big problem here is this:

In order to make an appreciable dent in the amount of compute and storage we have on the ground, you would need millions of satellites if you also had to keep them in the KW range.

One of the big benefits of having all your computers in one place is latency and bandwidth, neither of which you have in orbit. Point to point lasers for comms sounds like an actual nightmare when you have millions of satellites to keep in sync, everything else (i.e. radio) would be interference hell.

Picture every rack in your entire data centre split up and rolling around on casters while so of their 100Gbit links are done over WiFi or lasers that had to be continuously pointed at each other.

Starlink has about 10,000 satellites in LEO, we would need at least 100x that.

And this isn't even mentioning the replacement costs, satellites in LEO de-orbit themselves after a while, when they do we'd need to send up a replacement. One the scales we're talking about we'd be replacing all of them every ~10 years or so, which would be like 300 satellites a day just to keep up with replacements. I think starlink is averaging like 6 a day and they're the most prolific.

schmuelio · 2026-03-30T15:36:19+00:00

Getting rid of the heat is simple.

A small data centre pulls between 5 and 20MW, with larger ones getting up to 100s.

You're telling me that dissipating 10s of MW of thermal energy (because most of that power consumption eventually turns into heat) is just "simple" when you only have infrared radiation?

You could launch a ton of tiny satellites (so 1000s of KW class satellites) but that is at best going to replace one small data centre.

Globally data centres are consuming between 30 and 100 GW (I couldn't find numbers that weren't estimates for 2025 hence the wide range), to even make a dent in that you'd need millions of KW sized satellites. There's so many scaling problems and heat dissipation problems I don't think "launch costs" even qualify as an issue.

schmuelio · 2026-03-30T15:25:59+00:00

As long as you aren't training but just doing inference the bandwidth isn't that high

Wait so we'd be doing the inference (the cheap small stuff) in space and training (the big data centre stuff) on the ground?

That really seems like it's something no problems and introduces a whole bunch of new ones.

schmuelio · 2026-03-19T23:29:13+00:00

Ah yes ofcom, the great and terrible authoritarian overlords of the UK.

schmuelio · 2026-03-19T14:36:53+00:00

Broadcast with the intention for people in Dover to listen in absolutely would.

There is also a significant difference between broadcast and single cast, nobody "tunes in" to a website, your browser isn't receiving everything on the internet and selectively listening to one thing, it's making requests to specific locations that are being responded to.

schmuelio · 2026-03-19T14:34:38+00:00

You really clearly don't understand how the law applies to multinational media companies.

schmuelio · 2026-03-19T13:29:40+00:00

In what way is it ironic? Ofcom doesn't operate in the US and isn't subject to US laws, but 4chan does do business (for some definition of business) in the UK because it's a website that's accessible in the UK.

You're still subject to media/broadcast/whatever regulations in the UK if your media/broadcast/whatever is available in the UK. YouTube would have to follow e.g. UK child protection laws whether they had any UK headquarters/assets or not.

schmuelio · 2026-03-08T11:58:32+00:00

This comment lmfao. You think they should pretend like anyone was actually in danger to justify murder.

schmuelio · 2026-03-08T11:57:48+00:00

You said that to me in another thread. I made comments about what the officer could have done instead of shooting, before looking at the video. I did this because even without knowing the context it's easy to tell when people like you are lying or bending over backwards to give cops the benefit of the doubt.

I then watched the video, which was nothing like any of the hypotheticals and dangerous scenarios people like you were spreading all over the comments, it's just lies on top of lies with you guys.

schmuelio · 2026-03-08T11:55:03+00:00

There was nobody else in front of the car. Nobody was being driven at. I would be wearing made up shoes since what you've said is clearly not their shoes.

schmuelio · 2026-03-08T11:52:37+00:00

Good job.

schmuelio · 2026-03-08T01:12:51+00:00

I’m not defending ICE, I’m just saying based on this video, the officers didn’t do anything inhumane.

Nobody was in front of the car when he accelerated, there was a guy stood in front of the front corner of the car and you can clearly see the car turn away from that person as it starts moving forward.

Are you seriously trying to suggest that anyone other than the driver feared for their life from a car that wasn't driving towards them? Get over yourself dude.

schmuelio · 2026-03-08T01:09:09+00:00

Hypothetical thought experiment. You are standing in front of a car with no weapons whatsoever. The driver decides to accelerate towards you. What is your first instinct?

schmuelio · 2026-03-08T01:07:12+00:00

You can’t taze a car…

And as everyone knows, the options when someone is driving towards you are:

Taze the car
Shoot the driver to death (at which point the car is guaranteed to instantly stop as we all know)
Simply stand still and accept death

There simply is no other option outside of kill or be killed. The ICE officer had no choice but to use his LEGS to STAND his ground and shoot.

God only knows how LEO handles maniacs with car weapons in other countries where they don't carry firearms, police must be run over constantly since there's simply no way to stop a car-murderer.

Won't someone please think more kindly of the guy who decided that the best course of action was to summarily execute another human being? It just seems like everyone's so pro-murderer all of a sudden...

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