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Cake day: June 28th, 2023

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  • Crude oil prices are up more than 15% since the conflict began amid production stoppages ​as Tehran attacks energy facilities in the Gulf as well as ships crossing the Strait.

    Prices at the pump are ~$3.80. It’s at times like this, when the pedo-in-chief starts a full-on war in Iran, that I’m glad a Democrat isn’t president, as oil would be up 120% and the price at the pump would be near $7 with stickers of the president plastered all over it saying “I DID THAT.”

    Edit: sarcasm, for anyone who can’t parse it - not entirely sarcasm though, I’m actually insinuating the fossil fuel industry controls prices and will use price control to actively hurt a Democrat in office by keeping prices artificially higher than they would if a Republican was in the same office.




  • This is a really late reply but I just read this again and it’s surprising how similar the paths you and I have traveled are. I was a Linux guy since 1998 (server side). In about 2002 my company gave me a Macbook because we had to develop for Macs and it became my daily driver for web and email. Since then I have had a succession of Macbooks as daily drivers, I am currently posting this to you from a 2020 MBA. I never had a problem with Apple hardware except their shit laptop keyboards from 2016-2019, but I’ve always had a Windows desktop around for gaming. I also do music production and atm I have a 2019 MM running Logic (I had a 2016 MBP that since I hated it so much because of the keys, I just was using it for a music machine, but it experienced a mobo failure).

    I’ve completely wiped Windows now. I’m all Macs for laptops/daily/music and Linux for everything else. Happy as can be.

    Anyway, cheers!










  • I’m not saying they’re conscious, because not even fully understanding what consciousness is precludes saying that. But it also precludes saying it’s “impossible” they are conscious.

    Consciousness and AGI however, are two different things. I believe my cat is conscious, but it’s not even close to being intelligent. AGI is, you know, a thing. I’m quite certain this dude’s LLM isn’t AGI because if nothing else, it’s not “his” LLM. It’s based on a black box public model he knows nothing about and which very likely changes frequently on the back end without his knowledge.