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First they came for writers and I didn't say anything because I wasn't a writer.


Is apt update && apt upgrade enough for pop-os users?


I think you'll need to reboot for the microcode to be updated


Probably eventually yes, but if you are really concerned you need to discuss it with your distro maintainers.


This. Not everyone is as quick as say Arch or Fedora in updating/patching. Please reach out to your maintainers of the distro you use.


Even Arch seems out of date as of 24 jul 2023 17:55 UTC.

The latest amd firmware version is 20230625.


Gentoo already has it, however the latest ebuild is still masked, so one would need to put "sys-kernel/linux-firmware ~amd64" inside a file in /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords, or better yet, always run the git version, using * instead of ~amd64.

Apart from that, it's necessary to "sudo emaint sync -A && sudo emerge -av sys-kernel/linux-firmware", while checking that the correct files are included in the savedconfig file if using it. After that, rebuild the kernel or the initramfs and reboot.


The 6.4.6 kernel has mitigations, but the arch “linux” package is still at 6.4.5.


Los alamos used a room full of women for doing simulations when their IBM machine was out of order:

We needed a man to repair the machines, to keep them going and everything. And the army was always going to send this fellow they had, but he was always delayed.

Now, we always were in a hurry. Everything we did, we tried to do as quickly as possible. In this particular case, we worked out all the numerical steps that the machines were supposed to do — multiply this, and then do this, and subtract that. Then we worked out the program, but we didn’t have any machine to test it on. So we set up this room with girls in it. Each one had a Marchant: one was the multiplier, another was the adder. This one cubed — all she did was cube a number on an index card and send it to the next girl.

We went through our cycle this way until we got all the bugs out. It turned out that the speed at which we were able to do it was a hell of a lot faster than the other way, where every single person did all the steps. We got speed with this system that was the predicted speed for the IBM machine. The only difference is that the IBM machines didn’t get tired and could work three shifts. But the girls got tired after a while.


This should be attributed to Richard Feynman.

https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/34/3/FeynmanLosAlamos....


Pipelining is a pretty effective optimization.



Now translate the 20 minute tutorial to mini.


No surprises here. The entire architecture is based on mass production. There is an immutable base model and the only mutable part is the chat context. There is fine tuning but it takes a long time and there is no temporal relation between the fine tuning prompts. Even then it costs a ton of money. This immutable model is shared among all the users of their services. There has to be a supercomputer version of this product that focuses on quality over quantity.


Yes. Level 1 could live their whole life not knowing about it and level 3 autists are basically chimps in human bodies and very difficult to care for if not disciplined properly. https://www.reddit.com/r/regretfulparents/comments/uhu7av/fu...


I agree with the other replier that describing autistic people as "chimps" is very inappropriate, though perhaps unintentionally so. I'm all too familiar with the coarse language some people like to use for those who are intellectually/socially disabled in some way, and I don't welcome seeing more of it here.

BUT I do think there is an important point buried in that comment.

It used to be when we spoke of autism, it was describing a very disabling condition, but increasingly we see a greater number of (for want of a better term) high-functioning cases falling under the label of 'autism'. Medical professionals even decided to get rid of the the separate diagnosis 'Asperger's' – a label that at least was something the public could understand as "like autism, but not quite".

None of this is to say that there weren't good reasons for broadening definition of 'autism'. And nor is it to say that high-functioning autistic people don't have problems they must deal with in everyday life. But I think one dangerous side effect of the conflation is that when we talk of "treating" autism, it is more obvious why one might want to do this in low-functioning cases. It's also obvious why high-functioning individuals might see this as an attempt to "erase" what makes them unique. Society can't adapt to everyone, but I absolutely think it can change to better accommodate the "high functioning".


Dehumanising people is abhorrent and has no place here.


I always wondered why there is such a huge discrepancy in people's perceptions of autism. You would think that people with autism are worse than Hitler based on what you read on the internet. The people who say the worst things (or even commit murder) also tend to be close relatives or professional caretakers, which makes it particularly shocking because this is in direct contrast with the other stereotype which is that even high functioning people with autism tend to be quiet and don't talk very much and stay out of the way of other people.

I don't know why these two things are lumped together as one thing.


Surprised he lived so long. Maybe because he was a celebrity so he received good care. Level 3s have an average lifespan of 30-40 years.


This includes things like suicide. In this case, however "he returned to his supportive hometown, where he worked for 65 years at a local bank that was partially owned by his father."


That's twice the average yearly salary. Still pretty low though.


I don't think this is true. https://www.averagesalarysurvey.com/iran


These SEO-optimized salary websites are a joke, and usually never cite sources for their figures. An average annual salary of $17,600 makes Iran a relatively rich country...in reality, it's much lower than that. With crippling sanctions and extreme inflation, it should be somewhere between $100 and $500 monthly.


What is this? I am living in Iran and avg salary a month is 15 million tomans which is around 330 usd a month.


Umm..no it is not. Minimum wage in Iran is ~$7500 USD/yr and average in the bigger cities is a lot higher than that.


I am Iranian, working as a software developer full time, I'm getting paid around 250 usd a month. It's a shit show here. I'm trying to buy a car and I should be paying about 20 month of my salary for this (shit)[https://dl.bahalmag.ir/images/%D8%B9%DA%A9%D8%B3_%D9%BE%D8%B...]


Super interesting. What's life like over there for you? Are you planning on moving away at some point?


Sorry your dealing this! 250 usd is really low for a software dev, Could you apply jobs abroad?


Iran is under US sanctions, which makes it impossible for developers to apply for remote jobs. It's even harder for boys, who are required to spend 2 years in conscription in the military without payment before they can leave the country.

Even after that, the government won't release the academic certificate and requires a high price of working at least 5 years to earn that money. In short, if anyone is born in Iran, they should also die there. Additionally, I should mention that the dollar exchange rate, which Google shows, is completely inaccurate and is even worse than that.

P.S. do not believe other claims either, as those who succeed in Iran usually come from wealthy families or have connections to the government, or they have both.

Sadly, this country is worse than North Korea (T-T).


How is it more dangerous than nukes and ICBMs?


It is dangerous because of nukes and icbms.


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