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Cake day: 2023年7月16日

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  • Apart from every other answer already given, Venice is existentially threatened by the continuous influx of people causing huge costs to the city while contributing absolutely nothing to the local economy.

    I am Italian, I have stayed in my uncle’s house in Rialto and loved to experience the little local life that was left at that time (20 years ago, more or less). Nonetheless, I have made the conscious choice not to visit the city ever again until it gets its shit together.

    It is in fact cursed to disappear, but to deny young people to experience it because it is turning into a Disneyland for old people is just cruel.






  • I am personally supporting Ukrainians every week. I am also pro-rearmament in the EU.

    That said, said by Germany, this should be read as “we are strongly reliant on heavy industries, but our cars in record low demand, so we really, really, really want to build a lot of weapons for Ukraine (and we will keep some for us, while we decide whether to agree or not on standards and common resource pooling with the rest of the EU)”

    EU needs to take several other steps before going head-first into (over-)production of weapons at the levels being discussed here.

    Germany sounds every other day like they forget there other 26 countries with them in the Union. And I could say the same about France, but under the military POV France is much more defendable.





  • I got downvoted to hell last time I expressed my views about religion, but it has served me well for 29 years now (having been born in the shadow of the Vatican), so I am willing to share again:

    I work, collaborate, spend time and even sometimes have sex with religious people, all while maintaining the idea that each one of them is akin to a dormant terrorist cell, and that given the right conditions their fundamental distancing from reason and in some cases recognition of undeserved authority can turn against me and everyone else.

    I live a subtly tense life, but usually I am already in a safe place when shit hits the fan.

    I also have a very wide definition of religion and of priest.


  • I have read the threads up to now and, despite being ignorant about security research, I would call myself convinced of the usefulness of such a tool in the near-future to shave off time in the tasks required for this kind of work.

    My problem with this is that transformer-based LLMs still don’t sound to me like the good tool for the job when it comes to such formal languages. It is surely a very expensive way to do this job.

    Other architectures are getting much less attention because of this the focus of investors on this shiny toy. From my understanding, neurosymbolic AI would do a much better and potentially faster job at a task involving stable concepts.