Thursday, February 29
Daily News Stuff 29 February 2024
What Could Possibly Go Worng Edition
What Could Possibly Go Worng Edition
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- Google CEO Sundar Pichai has responded to the Gemini Catastrophe. (The Verge)
"Gemini accurately represented our views here at Google", said Pichai, "and users don't like that. This is completely unacceptable, and we are working around the clock to replace our users with better ones."
Tech News
- The Biden Administration is urging programmers to stop using unsafe languages like C and C++ and switch to more modern and robust alternatives like... JavaScript. (Tom's Hardware)
Uh huh.
- The Biden Administration is also asking whether American companies should be permitted to sell of customers' private information to Russia and China. (CNN)
Or rather, asking where their cut is.
- After Micron announced its 24GB 9GHz HBM3E memory, Samsung has responded with 36GB 9.8GHz HBM3E. (AnandTech)
That's 12 24Gb chips stacked up. A lot of memory - relatively - and a ton of bandwidth in a very small space.
It would be amazing except that it's also very expensive.
- The European Parliament has banned Amazon from its premises. (Euractiv)
No delivery for you!
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That article on the Biden regime reports and policies is a perfect encapsulation, in my view, of bureaucracy and hearsay. But, if I need 1d8 thousand words to explain my thinking, perhaps I am simply confused?
The people who are a contributing cause of the problem want to make it go away from the public eye. They perhaps cannot allow the problem to be fixed. Their available means cannot fix the problem.
So they have staff sort reports, and identified a course of action that seems plausible, and has citations. It is an option that bureaucracy can purport to act on.
It is also deeply useless, and will not have effect. C and Fortran are memory unsafe languages that fed gov needs to use for very specific applications, where you have screwed up badly and grossly if memory safety is a serious security problem. (C is aviation software. I understand that high performance scientific computing may still be using a lot of Fortran, or etc.)
Computers are potentially a great labor savings, but we were stupid in some of our automation choices, and for security we should just do them manually.
The people who are a contributing cause of the problem want to make it go away from the public eye. They perhaps cannot allow the problem to be fixed. Their available means cannot fix the problem.
So they have staff sort reports, and identified a course of action that seems plausible, and has citations. It is an option that bureaucracy can purport to act on.
It is also deeply useless, and will not have effect. C and Fortran are memory unsafe languages that fed gov needs to use for very specific applications, where you have screwed up badly and grossly if memory safety is a serious security problem. (C is aviation software. I understand that high performance scientific computing may still be using a lot of Fortran, or etc.)
Computers are potentially a great labor savings, but we were stupid in some of our automation choices, and for security we should just do them manually.
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Shocked they didn't endorse visual basic dot net plusplus.
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