This is the kinf of annoying "holier than thou" comment which sounds insightful, but which is utterly divorced from the reality of our crumbling and dysfunctional government.
Just look at how Flint, MI was handled. It took years of nationwide outrage for the government to even admit that there was a problem.
Facts are that the US government is (now) intentionally and explicitly designed to remove all power from the people and give it to lobbyists and special interest groups. All levels of government explicitly ignore majority decisions and do whatever the fuck they want. Even votes barely matter when districts are gerrymandered so hard that all elections are predetermined. When that's not enough, we just go straight for bald faced voter suppression.
Things are not sunshine and roses. The US government is actively working against you.
Try NoMachine. IME, performance is pretty sub-par, but if it's a once in a while thing you probably don't care that much. It's also got a "clean" and "modern" UI that would look right at home on a toddler's toy.
Try RustDesk, and evaluate run your own host (two binaries not really documented, that demand a home directory (well, a directory to write their stuff, basically you need hbbs and hbbr, plus a personal key to avoid having a relay open to the world).
It's essentially the very same service visually, but it's semi-FLOSS, multi-platform and self-hosting it with enough bandwidth offer very nice performances.
No, the reality is that an animal is usually an asset. It costs X to feed and maintain an animal over its life to achieve Y amount of profit from its sale or the sale of its products. If X plus medical costs is greater than Y, you're losing money on this animal.
Tripling the amount you pay the vet does not increase the final profit margin of the animal, so you simply do not. If basic treatment costs more than the animal will generate in its life, you don't treat the animal.
Thinking that any random farm animal is worth infinite medical resources is completely detached from reality. The animal is not worth it. There's not one single reason to pay more to maintain an animal than the money you get out of it. Not in this context.
> for unpracticed or untalented people to perform at the level of the practiced and talented
This is what tools are.
Cheap digital tablets have done away with the need for expensive consumables. You can just download a different brush style instead of learning a physical technique. No waiting for paint to dry or smudged pencils. The barrier to entry for painting has dropped to a one time investment of like a hundred bucks. Almost nobody mixes their own paint, nor stretches their own canvas. Those skills aren't needed anymore.
It's possible to build very precise machine parts by hand. It's very difficult and requires great skill, so nobody does that. Some do and are admired for it, but everybody else uses precise machines to make precise parts with nearly no effort.
It's just a tool. Only difference is that we had assumed art would never be automatable.
Objectively, I don't think this is a bad thing. It doesn't change the subjective value of art any more than the average cartoonist devalues the Mona Lisa. It's just a new form of art, there will always be people mixing their own paints and stretching their own canvas, just as there always has been.
It's only a problem because in our society you either have a job or you starve. No one can afford to be an artist. Those that do tend to grind out as many pieces as fast as they can so they can pay the goddamn rent. If not for that, these AI tools would be pretty cool.
The signal may not have a single source. An attacker could also use multiple antenna to make the signal source appear as originating from some space between them. Could have multiple antenna broadcasting in time slices to maintain a constant signal from a varying source location.
Here's my own 500 mile email story. This happened to me about a year ago.
Just a normal day at the office when suddenly the internet drops out, except for my machine. Everyone else has a network connection, but no internet. Except for me, I can't reach devices on the local network, but I can reach anything outside.
Now, our network is not large or complicated. We have a consumer grade ONT and WiFi router provided by the ISP, and a big unmanaged ethernet switch. There's really nothing to go wrong here.
After some debugging, I notice that I have been assigned an IP address in my ISP's public block. Tracert seemed to show no local network between me and the WAN. It was as if the router had somehow connected my WiFi client directly to the ONT, bypassing the local network. That only barely makes sense, but it was my best guess so I condemned the router.
Next day, new router, same problem. I couldn't explain it. This time though, I didn't have an internet connection, but local network was reachable. Some sanity restored, ar least.
Turns out that our fiber line had been accidentally cut during construction work. Once the ISP fixed that, all was normal.
The question remains, how did I have internet connection through a severed fiber line? It's not likely that the router had a bizarre failure right before the line was cut. I suppose it's possible that Windows had sneakily connected me to some other WiFi network, but then why did I have a weird IP address?
Does your machine have a cellular modem that gets prioritized only when there's no route to some well-known service via the normal network adapter? And you disabled it (but forgot to mention doing so in this story) around the same time as swapping routers?
Nope! Only WiFi and Ethernet. I had been using my phone hotspot, but that gives me a sane IP in the local reserved block, not one from the public block.
I also was using our neighboring business's guest WiFi, but again that should have given me a sane local IP.
Every diagnostic I could think of told me I was directly connected to the WAN with no intervening networks. Then again I'm not the best at debugging networks so I could be mistaken on this point. I am 100% certain that the IP address my computer was given was not a legal local network address.
That's about the only thing that makes any sense. Maybe it somehow faulted to route all traffic straight to the ONT, which could only give one address which I happened to get. And then the fiber got cut the very next day around the same time as we got the new router.
A lot of coincidences and extraordinary edge cases, but it's plausible I guess?
The admins could connect to their machines, but not to any user machine.
It was winter and we had some heating issues, so I made a script "warmup_the_office.sh" that was meant to launch a "while(true){}" on each core of each PC of the office, but instead launched itself indefinitely on each and all reachable machines, exhausting all pids and preventing distant logging.
We had to reboot everything by hand, after some nice warmup.
The mystery didn't last long, and no problem to admit it, I maybe even contacted them.
I guess they put safeguards after that, but I didn't try again to check ;)
It's pretty wild. Quite often I'll have a conversation with my husband where he tells me that I've already told this story, or that I said or did something, but I'll have no memory of it. Not even a vague recollection once reminded.
Generally, the past doesn't exist. Or rather it exists in the same sort of hazy uncertainty that the future does. I do remember certain facts and events that my brain deemed important enough to commit to memory, but only as an abstract concept. My brain doesn't store past events in the same way that I experience them. There's no visual or sensory component, just raw facts and abstract ideas. There's usually no emotional component either.
> Is losing autobiographical memory inmediate, or could you remember a few seconds of what you see?
There's multiple levels to it. During some task or event, everything is available in working memory for up to a couple of hours. Basically it depends on mental focus keeping things in a single coherent state. Events not receiving active attention drop into a medium-term memory. They can last a few days depending on how impactful the events were, but generally things get cleared out during sleep.
Essentially it's the same way most people's memory works, it's just that the way the information is formatted is very different.
> Can you think in other languages?
My thinking doesn't really involve language unless I'm thinking about speech or writing specifically. But yes, other languages work the same way in my head.
It's one step removed from language. I tend to deal directly with the concept that a word represents. Ideas get converted to words as a post-processing step. Switching languages is pretty much just picking the word out of my French vocabulary instead of English. Formatting grammar works the same way, it's just rules and heuristics used to format data.
> Can you learn patterns like chess moves?
Yes, but not easily. Straight up memorizing an arbitrary sequence is pretty difficult. At one point I was actually really good at Rubik's cube solving, but it only took a few months of no practice for the rotation sequences to just evaporate from my brain. Games like Simon Says aren't any more or less difficult for me, as it's an isolated event trivially stored in working memory.
> What is your oldest memory?
Pretty typical, around 4 years old. I have very few memories of my childhood, but they're exceptionally vivid. They come closest to how I assume normal people experience memory. I remember seeing my mother at the stove and watching the pot boil, I remember what I was thinking and feeling.
> Can you suppose future events, like an accident about to happen?
I'd say I'm a bit above average at predicting events in the short term. I also tend to have pretty accurate gut instinct about the medium term.
> Do you have olfactory memory?
I recognize a smell if I've encountered it before, but I generally can't conjure a scent in my head. Memories almost never have scent included. However, the usual phenomenon of scent triggering a strong memory does work. Generally I'll remember qualities of a scent, it was harsh and acrid, soft and flowery. Same way other memories are reduced to a set of facts.
> Do you like any kind of puzzles? Can you follow or find thing with a map?
I like puzzles about as much as the average nerd.
I've always had a very good sense of direction. There's a little corner of my brain that's always aware of where I am relative to landmarks, or checks the sun to find north. To a pretty good approximation, I always know where north is. I can count on one hand the number of times I've actually felt lost. Though that specifically I think is just a habit I developed at a young age.
The (US) academic system is not set up to accommodate anyone, really. It's designed to get someone just below average through their standardized testing and not much more. If you don't fit that mold you're shit outta luck. You either suffer through it like "normal" people, or you find it utterly intolerable and fail or drop out.
Personally, I learn best backwards from everyone else. Building up very slowly from fundamentals and basically starting over with basic algebra every semester is actual hell. I need to see the goal concept fully formed and functional, and then work backwards to derive the fundamentals I'm missing.
Generally speaking, once I understand a concept I have it forever. I usually only need the briefest of refresher on mechanics and formulae as I use them. Spending the first month of calculus class going over 9th grade algebra is an unbelievable waste of my time.
My final attempt at college was a CS degree. I made it through one semester and did not even get to a single CS concept. It was at least a year and a half of bullshit prerequisites that I had to pay for. I dropped out when I had to write a presentation to the board of my hypothetical company on the benefits of upgrading their printers. I'm not kidding. I paid real money for this.
I've totally given up on the educational system. I don't fit into the cookie cutter ideal of the average idiot grinding out a degree. I just can't do it.
I think probably the ideal way for me to learn is to spend a lot of time one on one with a domain expert that can show me the final concept and work backwards with me to fill in the gaps in my knowledge. I don't want or need, nor can I tolerate spending time going over things I already know for the 30th time. I need to learn the things I don't know. School just doesn't work that way.
>Personally, I learn best backwards from everyone else. Building up very slowly from fundamentals and basically starting over with basic algebra every semester is actual hell. I need to see the goal concept fully formed and functional, and then work backwards to derive the fundamentals I'm missing.
Same, and at work too. I think it's because we think big picture and conceptually. Tell me the outline, and I'll seek out missing information and fill in puzzle pieces, until I can grok it. It's a slow process but learning from first principles I find absolutely boring and unengaging.
I found math in high school utterly meaningless, a set of drills and exercises to do again and again without explanation.
If you go to the gym and you want to do some exercises, you'll generally get a list and try to learn them correctly.
If math teachers taught sports, no one would ever do anything because they would never understand what the goal was. What's the end result? The complex end result should be made known so that we know why we're doing something.
With math it's, shut up and do your drills and if you don't you'll be punished with bad grades. See that guy in the corner with his head down and protractor? He loves it, be like him.
That's one area where I think LLMs will shine outside of the hype zone: they could boost a student's ability to make progress without supervision.
And I understand that there are great teachers out there and an LLM cannot replace that, but at the same time there are a lot of bad teachers wasting everybody's time.
Yup, I've actually gotten pretty decent results out of an LLM for subjects I'm already pretty familiar with. If we ever figure out the hallucination problem, LLMs could revolutionize education overnight.
I think that almost everyone would benefit enormously from having a focused and dedicated one-on-one tutor. Just imagine if you could call up the leading world expert in any field at any time to ask any question you could possibly have. We as a species would get so much more done.
At least that's what I want AI to be in the next decade or so. A tool to push humans to a much higher potential where we can solve our own problems more effectively. I'm afraid we'll skip that step, though and go straight to worshiping the AI that makes the most paperclips.
Anyway, I'm still experimenting off and on with local LLMs to get me closer to where I want to be. I'm not sure it's much faster to use an LLM and continually verify its output, but it does at least provide structure and guidance for my own self-teaching.
Just look at how Flint, MI was handled. It took years of nationwide outrage for the government to even admit that there was a problem.
Facts are that the US government is (now) intentionally and explicitly designed to remove all power from the people and give it to lobbyists and special interest groups. All levels of government explicitly ignore majority decisions and do whatever the fuck they want. Even votes barely matter when districts are gerrymandered so hard that all elections are predetermined. When that's not enough, we just go straight for bald faced voter suppression.
Things are not sunshine and roses. The US government is actively working against you.