To anyone who finds it necessary to “call out” stuff for being either fake or AI generated when there are no stakes, why are you like that? When you’re wrong, you’re at least as big of an asshole as anyone actually putting out AI generated art as if they made it. Probably more of an asshole because you’re specifically targeting an artist’s work while those posting AI art as if they made it aren’t trying to bring anyone down like you are.

And if they are training for it at all, genAI will eventually get better at not being seen as AI than real people.

Though how many devs does it take to increment one number for the new version of the game?

Something I noticed recently about languages is that there’s three main sets of “settings”: the alphabet (or how letters map to sounds), the vocabulary (how to string letters together to form words that map to meanings), and grammar (how to legally combine words to express thoughts).

An interesting part about the alphabet is that there’s two angles to it: the writing part and the spoken part. Many languages share most of the writing part with english (eg french, spanish, german) but sharing the spoken part is rarer. In fact, different regions that speak the same language can use different letter sounds. That’s what an accent is, or at least a big part of it (cadence and emphasis can also make the same language sound different).

Anyways, this felt profound to me when I realized it but now I’m curious if this was obvious to people more inclined to the language side of learning for why people have accents.

He had to de-optimize the init sequence because the little trick he added that caused the init sequence to return a little power to the grid instead of taking it was causing grid stability issues because the returned power from offices starting up was a bit higher than the extra power required for factory startup weekday mornings.

China includes a lot of high altitude areas. Not sure how they are calculating the average though because it still sounds like it shouldn’t be bringing the average down that much.

Also the “if you had to pick one” ones. Like it’s a public forum and those are real people. Like I get the whole fantasy and thinking about which one you are most attracted to, but any kind of bonding with others around porn (that isn’t just having sex while watching porn) just seems pathetic to me.

Short answer: Contempt. I feel nothing but contempt for Apple and its products. They aren’t evil but they also aren’t good (not the opposite of evil but in the “I think this is worth using” sense).

Long answer: Apple earned their place in my mental category of “polished turd” decades ago with their single button mice and their tendency to pick form over function. Those colourful iMacs back around 2000 were easily the worst computers I’ve ever used, between the mouse that was perfectly round (so you couldn’t tell its rotation without looking at it or at least feeling for the wire), the slowness (simple assignments took forever), and instability (I just avoided using them at all after the nth assignment was lost after an hour of work).

And then they added “trendy walled garden” with the iPhone and serve as a reminder of how many people fall for marketing bullshit with how many people seem to prefer the shittier locked down option while also acting smug about it.

So personally, Mac was labelled irrelevant back during the Win vs Mac wars, before MS really embraced the enshitification and thought they had to make something people wanted to use to sell it rather than do whatever and most people go along because inertia. And now that MS has embraced the enshitification, my own mental model for them is basically “just like Mac except Mac seems like they are trying to be good but just have a very different idea of what ‘good’ is, while MS isn’t even trying to be good and pursue other means of revenue”.

While I don’t think that the next console generation will flop entirely, I do strongly suspect that it won’t be as successful as previous ones have been and will lead to a shift where consoles are just cheap streaming boxes that support a subscription to a cloud gaming service, which will eventually be replaced by a single device that can connect to whichever services you want.

PC gaming will be similar for most AAA titles (and in fact will be one of the devices that can support these services), though indie devs will hold out until the requirement of owning a PC leaves only a tiny market.

Humans don’t work like that. Geographically, some trends finish in the area they started before they even reach other areas, though the internet has reduced the time lag. But there will be people who get into it before it’s a trend, people that get into it because it’s a trend, and people who continue to repeat it after it’s a trend because they either like it or miss the time when it was a trend. It only dies off as those that hold on to it die off.

So 6-7 will be with us for a long time, though it’s frequency of use could be on a downward trend.

Doubling down instead of being embarrassed we didn’t notice there was a way to do it without needing to turn the calculator upsidedown?

That’s how it should work for all shifts IMO.

Though it does suck that attention is being diverted to LLM development because it’s so good at giving the illusion of being smart while still getting so much wrong.

Makes me wonder how many laptops seemed to randomly get bricked because it tried to update but then ran out of battery in the middle of it but the user just sees that their laptop had no battery left and then won’t boot properly after that, never realizing it decided to update itself.

Or my old windows 10 machine would wake itself up in the middle of the night to run updates that the group policy wouldn’t even allow it to download without my permission and then just sit there. If I hadn’t fallen asleep yet, I’d notice the monitor light up the next room and get up swearing at Microsoft until I tracked down where the wakeup timer was set and disabled it. Only to find it re-enabled after some updates.

Fuck Microsoft.

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Yeah, it’s a bit of a double edged sword. On the one hand, you’re less likely to binge on food you find too salty or sweet, but on the other hand, it’s harder to find a treat you’ll actually enjoy when you do indulge.

He’s helping with the mathematical aspects of the emergency. He’s doing the best he can!

Maybe he was trying to get a job at Microsoft and showing off his relevant skills.

No one could possibly figure out what’s really going on, everyone knows error messages are confusing and intimidating and everyone just ignores them!