speculate7383

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[–] speculate7383 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No, they can't think and reason. However, they can replicate and integrate the thinking and reasoning of many people who have written about similar problems. And yes, they can do it must faster than we could read a hundred search result pages. And yes, their output looks slightly better than many of us in many cases, because they are often dispensing best practices by duplicating the writings of experts. (In the best cases, that is.)

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.01191

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/researchers-find-llms-are-bad-at-logical-inference-good-at-fluent-nonsense/

[–] speculate7383 2 points 5 days ago

I though they're why the desert racists box spread so far to the north.

[–] speculate7383 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

While that is true of heat pump technology in total, I have not seen any heat pump water heaters in the US that work below freezing. One example: my Rheem manual says it will work down to about 42F / 5C. Below that, it uses resistive heating elements.

But I'm sure it's coming eventually to water heaters.

[–] speculate7383 4 points 2 weeks ago

Often known as the "Gartner Hype Cycle"

[–] speculate7383 2 points 3 weeks ago

GlusterFS is (was) really cool, but I would not set up a new instance. It used to have significant support and development from RedHat, but they decided to halt their work on it, and focus on Ceph.

GlusterFS is getting a few slow updates from some alternate developers, but I would only count on that being fixes for current installations.

[–] speculate7383 9 points 1 month ago

For a certain very specific usage of the word "better"

[–] speculate7383 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, many bad ideas are possible to implement. At least temporarily. Until the next cleanup process figures out how to remove cadvisor dir regardless of file contents. Or the next OS release turns /tmp into a ram disk. Or... or... or...

Yes, it's a fun academic exercise to think through possible mitigations. And in the end, it will still be dumb to keep this in /tmp

[–] speculate7383 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Why wouldn’t changing to permissions keep the file from being deleted by the internal process?

That's like keeping your lunch laying outside on the sidewalk, getting stepped on by people and destroyed, and then wondering if your lunch would be safer if you put it in a stronger bag (but still left it on the sidewalk).

Don't leave your lunch outside laying on the sidewalk, regardless of what you might do to "protect" it. Don't keep important files in /tmp

[–] speculate7383 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I would wonder about leaching. Modern lead-free plumbing solder is safe for drinking water, but is silphos considered safe for drinking water?

[–] speculate7383 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I just did this. I installed a banana pi r4 as my main router with no wifi, and a couple of separate APs. I bought some Extreme Networks APs on ebay for USD$15 each, already flashed with openwrt.

I used the YouTube tutorials by OneMarcFifty to set up vlans for alternate SSIDs. Works great!