I bet you’re still giving them too much credit and most won’t know the difference between a steam deck and all the windows-based clones that popped up when business saw that people wanted something like that so made more corporate versions. A non-trivial portion of them will try one of the shitty clones and decide based on that that the steam deck is garbage.
Because their legal system is captured by people who don’t give a fuck about what’s right and who see “competition” as something that needs to be squashed rather than encouraged.
It’s going to get even more dangerous over time because the LLMs are coming out of the uncanny valley but still have subtle problems, they are just getting harder to see. I just did a bunch of AI training at my company and on the one hand, some of it was already out of date, and on the other hand, the language used to describe it gave it a lot more credit than it deserved.
People are already thinking it can do things it really can’t. Like think or analyze.
I’ve been in this cycle since the first time I’ve interacted with an LLM or AI coding system where at first it looks impressive and I’m not sure what its limits are and then I slam into a wall that makes me realize in horror that it’s capabilities are far less than it seemed at first, then improvements come out and I’ll repeat the whole process because the previous wall seems to be dealt with and it becomes hard to argue with the people who are gung ho for AI.
It doesn’t happen often, but there were horror stories like this before AI was a thing. Not just from interns, one that comes to mind was a guy running two terminals: one for the production db, one for the dev environment. He wanted to delete the dev db to start fresh again but accidentally ran the command in the production terminal.
Can’t remember if that was the gitlabs one, but the gitlabs one also had issues where multiple backup options were never tested and none except the longest time period one worked (or maybe one did work but the initial command nuked that either directly or via mechanisms that “backed up” the deletion command).
Not that that makes these any less stupid. LLMs aren’t genies that must follow the word of your orders to the letter. They are text prediction engines that use statistics from their training data to determine the most likely token that comes next. Any instructions you give it are just part of the context prior to the tokens it needs to predict. Any other part of the context could be determined to be more important or forgotten entirely. Especially by agents that are intended to work on their own, which might have conflicting instructions to ask before doing something dangerous while trying to do things without human input.
These frameworks like claude code help set up a good context for the LLMs to work in but it’s not perfect (and might never be).
You ask the question while demonstrating why she did so.
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I haven’t gotten to the point of actually finding where to get them, but my research so far has told me that the number of cars being imported is limited at least to start, so I’m expecting them to be somewhat hard to get. Makes me wonder if allowing them was more about leverage for deals with the US rather than truly trying to distance ourselves from US reliance.
DRAM*
NAND is what (some) SSDs use.
Posts like these make me glad I can sleep through pretty much anything. It might wake me up but I can just ignore it once I’ve identified it isn’t a threat of some sort and go back to sleep.
Only time I can think of that this wasn’t the case was one time when I lived in a basement apartment, the landlord must have been installing hardwood floors or something right above my room as I was trying to sleep in. I eventually gave up and my coworkers were surprised to see me in early that day lol (still later than any of them, landlord wasn’t being an asshole with the time).
That said, people who do loud things because they want attention are assholes (outside of specific contexts like concerts).
Yeah, this is ultimately why utopias are impossible. It’s not that we can’t come up with a fair system that would distribute resources fairly and not abuse any group for labour or anything else. It’s that no matter what system we come up with, there will always be power hungry fucks looking to abuse that system for their own gain and corrupt fucks that will take advantage of what powers or privileges that system grants them and use it to abuse and dominate others.
It’s why we both need police and militaries in some form and why they so often turn into something just as bad or worse than what they were intended to prevent.
Bullying is just the same thing at an individual or small group level.
Just for clarification, but do you mean you can automate that stuff? Because FF already has debug tools built in that lets you edit the HTML or CSS of the page however you want, but it’s only for the current session. I’d occasionally use that before realizing I could just use reader mode for sites that did client side html5 bs for access control. Just go in and delete nodes using the picker tool. Until the annoying thing is gone.
I’ve never really played around with ublock’s capabilities, though did know that it must have been more sophisticated than just dns lists to stay in the arms race vs youtube (as well as why google was pushing “security features” that would kill it).
It’s shorthand for “the federal government”.
Though from my POV, opposition to the Albertan oil industry is popular rather than just driven by the federal government. If anything, it seemed like Trudeau wanted to work more with Alberta but faced loud complaints (including court challenges) from the rest of Canada.
Like I’d much rather see a long term strategy that ends up leaving most of that oil in the sands than any further investment in extracting it. I also interpret “don’t worry, it’ll be perfectly safe” as “we’ll extraxct as much value from this until it fails and if the consequences are severe enough, make sure retirement funds have invested in us so that we have hostages”.
Yeah, the fact that they still tried to sell or use so much AI slop that still had major flaws should have been a clear sign that you should never trust marketers because they’ll still try to push obvious garbage as if it is amazing. Same thing with those early coke AI ads that were just a series of unrelated scenes that look ok until you look any closer, but someone greenlighted it despite all that.
They were phoning it in so hard they pushed what were technical demos at best as final products.
Though from my perspective, I already had inverse trust based on apparent ad budget even before AI slop showed up because enshitification and apathy about actual quality were rampant long before AI slop was a thing.
I’ve decided I’ll compromise and give it up for an EV, probably for my next car, assuming I can get a Chinese one (would have never expected to say something like that just a few years ago).
Though maybe if my current car dies before I can do that I’ll try to get a pre-18 MT something or another. Something without touch screens and outside connections other than AM/FM radio.
Though the kid inside me also wants a fun car since I can now afford it might just rent a Ferrari or something for a few laps around a track to get that out of my system. Probably an or something since the top end cars don’t even come with MT anymore. I don’t even care that stick shift isn’t peak performance anymore, it’s more fun and using a clutch is engaging (heh).
If you keep stacking them high enough with a perimeter strong enough to keep them contained, the heat and pressure would eventually get high enough to liquify the ones at the bottom.
What exactly did feminists do to atheism or gaming?
Though it would be cool to do that and then set up microphones to pick up the house settling sounds and see if there’s a correlation. If only those with the resources to set that up could be trusted to not abuse that access to data because I wouldn’t consent to some data firm having access to mics in my place.
I hope there was a bee involved in that picture.
Religious roots or religious “justification”? Like they don’t seem to put as much importance on other things their religion says is important, like the commandments about lying or being envious of their neighbours or most of what their religion’s namesake said, who was pretty clear that punishing sinners isn’t supposed to be a duty of his followers.
Try making a game. I think minesweeper might be a good one because it can be broken down into many different problems with different complexities. Like user input could start out as entering coordinates into specific cells to interact with a seperate grid, then you could switch to using an input grid where you enter a value into the cell you want, and then move on to clicking on cells like in the real minesweeper, including different behaviours for left, right, and both clicks.
Pretty sure you could implement a full version of minesweeper in excel, though even if you can’t get all the way, there should be enough low hanging fruit you can reach to learn a lot from the process.
Or if you’re feeling really ambitious, I think a realistic physics racing simulator is also possible, though I wouldn’t expect a lot on the graphics side of such a thing. Just lots of formulas that then get used to simulate a car accelerating, braking, and turning. But this one might also be great to get started with because you can start with a simple model and add complexity from there.
It’s one of those movies that is a horrible part of its franchise but wouldn’t be so bad just standing on its own. The only thing it really had to do with Mario Bros was it used character names and some items from the games. It was a wtf for fans but if you ignored that part, it was ok on its own.
I think similarly of SW ep 8. It’s an absolute dogshit Star Wars movie but if Rian had instead made up like his own space balls universe except not really funny, and did the same movie there, it wouldn’t have been bad. But instead it made me stop caring so much about Star Wars. Which isn’t really a bad thing tbh, though probably not what Disney had in mind when they bought the franchise.