I just got home to use a proper calculator instead of estimating in my head, and with 700 quintillion (as per the screenshot / meme), and gold density less “roundabouted”, at 19000 kilos / cubic metre, this would be the same as a solid gold sphere of 8.9 kilometres in diameter (3rd root of 700 is 8.88 - and wow, my rough estimate of 1km for 1 quintillion was spot on! :)

And yes, that would absolutely be a planet killer asteroid. I don’t see how anything but primitive life forms on Earth could survive that: https://www.space.com/asteroid-apocalypse-how-big-can-humanity-survive

Not if that size is accurate. gold price at 10^5 EUR/kg, a quintillion being 10^18, makes 10^13 kilos, at ~20000 kilos per cubic metre 5*10^8 cubic metres, or a block of 1000x1000x500 meters (~ sphere of 1km diameter), and that’s only for a single quintillion, and assuming it’s all gold, no rock. Nothing of that size burns up on atmospheric entry

Muhaha. Those morons were never software engineers in the first place. A software engineer would neither benefit from LLM any more than from a deterministic assistant (tenplates), nor would they be stupid enough to label a stochastic slop generator as “AI”.

(Yes, this is a “no true scotsman” kind of argument, yet I stand by it. People who call this bullshit AI, as well as people who claim it is better than coding stuff yourself, should not be let anywhere near any kind of software more relevant than a mobile game, and probably not even those)

Yeah, I was hesitant to encrypt backups for a long time, and now I have the problem that you can’t store backups of encryption headers on the encrypted device(s)

My main concern is that all my data is online, potentially forever (I have to assume it will be) and the only thing needed to access it is a comparatively tiny encryption key (we’re talking Megabytes) that I have to keep safe forever (or until I delete it). If I ever mess up, or a computer with the encryption key gets compromised, then there goes my data into the public domain…

Storing important data online on someone else’s computer is beyond fucked up levels of stupid: You only need to lose your encryption key once in your lifetime afterwards, and you can consider your backup public for all the world to see. And a single encryption weakness / backdoor will expose data just the same. Not to mention using third party sw to “do the backup” for you and relying on them to encrypt it so that they themselves can’t read it, is very naive.

Once your data left your home network, it is no longer yours to control.

Been there, done that.

How do you not know? ;) j/k, but I think occasionally the prices do pop up in some posts or articles

No, I think it’s everywhere.

Except they don’t? If you have a sensitive nose, all you need is for places to be clean and not smell bad. Most higher-priced hotels I have smelled have either smelled “normal” as expected, or if there were added scents, it was irritating.

Well - I guess I’ll just skip the occasional visit to their site then. Had no account anymore anyways. gfys spez

Without knowing further details beyond the summary, it sounds like Nazi Germany putting heroes on trial that were fighting against a genocidal regime.

Ok that’s a fair point I had overlooked. Thanks for explaining.

Mhh today I learned. That’s wild. I would have thought that any sane person would allow only 7-bit ASCII for the source code, and forward-compatible character sets in strings (every standard iteration being allowed to add characters, but not remove them).

*LLM assistants

And no shit, Sherlock. If you thought otherwise, you are living proof why there should be laws protecting people from such predatory snake oil vendors.

Very funny, <insert most liked name>.

It’s like russian roulette with lower stakes

Nah, I would absolutely want my compiler to error out hard on characters that are not allowed per the standard.

Shit - the next five weeks I’ll read C++ lines in upspeak in my head :(

Corporate needs you to find…

An hour? Wtf? I swear that 5+years ago I saw a tool that would trivially modify any file by appending MD5-sum-length bytes to match any desired MD5, within a fraction of a second.