So what does this all mean? Is a time machine just around the corner?
Sadly, no. Our experiment is fully explained by standard physics.
But it does show that negative dwell time is not an artefact. However paradoxical it may seem, it has a directly measurable effect on the atomic cloud that the photon traverses. And it reminds us that there are still lands to discover on the odyssey that is quantum research.
30V won't kill you. Even with 170V it might not cause much harm, since the current is in micro Amperes. I hope you have a good MCB, and even even good curcuit breakers. If they are present and they don't get tripped while operating or testing, it should not be lethal.
That said, you don't know the reason for this leak. Better to take it a repair shop. If you like doing it yourself open up and see if there is any visible tear on power line insulation. If nothing is visible if can be some issue with winding of motor, some other component.
You can use it with gloves, a good foot wear, and a good set of circuit breakers, if it has to be used, but I won't recommend taking such risks. Since it is an old machine I would say you get it repaired if possible.
My mental model is slightly different. I think of average speed of the car between source and destination. Every segment of the road will have an average speed at a given time, which may vary depending on the time of the day. This average speed is dictated by numerous factors, including traffic lights, number of slow vehicles on the road, speed limits, etc. You cannot really go significantly higher than this average speed, even if you try as aggressively as possible.
There are exception, especially in Asian roads. If you are a large vehicle, who doesn't care about the law and limits, and they do very aggressive driving, then they go at a larger average speed. I have some completely asshole private bus services in my country.
The sudden rapid re-release of all that sequestered carbon is as natural as the process that formed it 378M years ago.
Let me highlight. You are telling industrial revolution, and the emmision of green house gases is as natural as, some other process happened in the nature? And humans continued doing it even after knowing the consequences of it, even when there were much better alternatives abundantly available?
I think we are giving too much credit to LLMs. It's not ChatGPT that is central to this, but a system called Maven from none other than Palantir. ChatGPT is part of it. But the blame should be more on Palantir. This long read, first appeared in a substack, is really an eye opener.
I think it is just chain of trust. Many used Microslop as the trust authority (may be due to convenience? I have no idea). Debian has a nice page on Secure boot and how it works.
On one hand I believe, ads industry is behind the age verification laws, and governments and law enforcement agencies are taking this as an opportunity to increase surveillance on citizen.
On the other hand, there are genuine risk in not regulating tech products used by kids. Especially AI chats. But I'm not convinced age verification is the solution.
When the IT proliferated in 90s and 2000s, tech companies played the standard game of arguing that the laws present at that time were inadequate for regulating them, and this resulated in the surveillance nightmare we are currently in. The former Commissioner of Federal Trade Commission of USA, Lina Khan, in an interview with Jon Stewart, pointed this out, and drew parallels on how AI comapnies are using the same playbook now.
This is a classic trick played by capitalism, where they push for "unregulated" free market. This usually results in severe harm on kids and marginalized groups in the society, because oppressor get more power and accountability is non existent. But at the same time, every attempt to bring in regulations usually results in increased surveillance by data brokers and governments, which helps these groups to either make money or get into power.
All these power hungry maniacs, and money making machines, don't care about a common person. People are commodities for them. A resource to make money or get into power. Unless things start to have a people first approach, ironically which is what democracy claims to do, this is going to be bad for a common person like you and me. We suffer, they gain. We get oppressed, and they get more power to oppress.
Hows Adobe doing with all the AI slop being available for everyone?
I used Adobe Products for 20+ years (regarding the total amount I spent, IYKYK). Last couple of years I moved away from graphical design to system design and occasional programming. Recently I made a complete switch to Linux, and now I use only open source products.
The tooling around AI should be to improve the quality of the programmer. Not to write the code for the programmer.
For example if you ask an agent how to scale things well, and best practices in architecture, it will have a lot of resources on it. But that does not mean the code it will produce when you ask it to write a programme will consider and include the best practices it gave you in a separate question. That is the 'intelligence' part that LLMs cannot have. If you ask a it to do a certain way it will create it. Context tries to address this by prompting the user to give more, but that is not persistent.
This is exactly why senior devs finding LLMs works for them, because they know 'how' to do it, and they explicitly state it. But at the same time junior devs feel they think the code written by LLM is the 'best' way so solve a problem and superior in quality, even if it is not, because they don't know any better.
Tooling should be able to help the developers improve their knowledge and skill on 'how' to do it. Instead it always focus on writing the code. I want to add that I'm not talking about algorithms. But every aspect of coding, in which the programmer needs to know 'how' to do it.
Amm.. That means British Monarch in India had conscience, when Mahathma Gandhi was promoting non-violence and hunger strike. Which I don't think is true.
In India it worked because British was sure that if they use force against someone promoting non-violence the retaliation will be uprising of a violent mob. Atrocities in India reached a high were majority of the people were affected by it and fed up by it. Like the modern times it was not possible to sway the public opinion through media of any kind.
Gandhi was a saint in practice, but more than that he was shrewd politician, who identified the weakness of British monarchy in India.
I don't know much about American History. But I believe that America not having a conscience could be one of the reason why the non-violence will not have worked. I am not sure if that is the primary reason. Can someone with more knowledge in American History provide an elaboration on this point? I feel there will be some missing context.
Krafton? The same publisher that fired the founders of Subnautica 2 to avoid paying bonus? Also the stupid CEO who asked ChatGPT to create a plan to orchestrate this entire drama? And lose spectacularly in court? Well...