Dave.

Once there is enough adoption, expect token costs to skyrocket and advertising enshitifaction to accelerate

Models on local hardware that give adequate performance and the availability of non-US models mean that path is doomed to failure. If they crank up the price then people will look elsewhere. While they might not get frontier-level performance out of the alternatives, there’s plenty of stuff out there that’s good enough for 1/4 to 1/10th of the cost. Or just the cost of power, if you’re willing to pay for some hardware and are operating on a small scale.

The only play the AI companies have got now is twofold :

• Regulatory capture, hence all the press releases of basic and frankly embarrassing sandbox failures and “we need to slow down” talk to try and get that rolling, and
• Banning of those nasty, evil, non-US models in the name of national security.

And then what? The rest of the world will just move on to the next most useful thing on the list. There will be ~330 million US citizens to extract wealth out of, to service trillions in data centre debt. That shit’s not gonna fly.

All they need to do is get governments high on AI mass surveillance and they’ll be golden

All they have to do is be the last AI company standing, then just absorb everyone else’s hardware for cents on the dollar.

This recent “we should slow down” talk is basically just them stalling until the collapse. They’ve spent all they dare to try and be the one on top, now it’s just waiting until the bubble pops.

Meanwhile China is out there being the black swan of the whole field. If they manage to get models with efficiency and/or utility above what these guys are doing, they’re fucked and they know it. So it’s a ticking time bomb, and there’s not that much time left.

Jesus Christ, Julia. Why is it that, in all these online ramblings, you never learned how to drip-feed your blog posts?

One a day, maybe. Don’t blow through them all at once like some desperate gambler trying to strike it rich. Now all you’ve done is gotten yourself onto a bunch of people’s blocklists and now you’ll never be visible to them again.

Lemmings.

Wolfenstein.

Doom.

Descent.

Unreal Tournament.

“This just in - running commands that induce a kernel panic causes a kernel panic, we’ll have more at 11.”

The QR code is pretty dense , probably plenty of space to include the panic reason and stack trace.

Edit: For those of you that don’t know, exiting or crashing the init process (PID 1) causes the kernel to panic. Essentially it’s the, “Well what the hell do I do now if I have no processes to serve?” response.

Still, a QR code is a marked improvement on the “Something went wrong :(” message of recent Windows releases.

So if your phone is hot it could be:

• working as intended,
• working as intended but bad at it,
• or working as intended but working really hard right now.

How is this, in any way, useful information?

To quote a famous line from Billy Madison: “Everyone is this room is now dumber for having listened to it.”

English is rather notorious for having these phrases

English is essentially just a whole bunch of corner cases that its speakers agree on. Mostly.

I have a QNAP box at home, with Forgejo running as a container on it. It’s pretty much a standard docker install straight from Forgejo’s repository. It can run tests and a build on each push, which is not strictly necessary, but nice. Took me about half an hour to setup Forgejo, and about 4 hours of swearing setting up CI for a few repos, because I’ve never done it before.

This doesn’t easily scale to a whole organisation’s worth of repos like OP wants, but it easily fits a small business/single dev situation.

There’s some sort of electrolytic process similar to aluminium available, but yes the reaction that turns iron ore into iron is:

Iron oxide + carbon monoxide + heat ->

A redox reaction where oxygen atoms are transferred from iron oxide to carbon monoxide ->

Iron + CO2.

Heat and CO is conveniently provided by burning coal/coke in a blast furnace in the presence of a lot of oxygen.

You can pretty much just chuck layers of coke and iron ore in the top of your blast furnace, pump high pressure oxygen into the centre, and get molten iron straight out the bottom.

And even the claim that slowing the car down to lower speeds is causing safety issues honestly, is a fairly sketchy one…

They had knowledge of the car’s position, and could turn on valet mode which limits speed to 40kmhr.

So you’re on a busy Australian motorway doing 110km/hr in the middle lane. Your ex sees that and turns on valet mode. That’s a quick way to get rear ended by an inattentive driver of a car or truck behind you. At the very least, you’ll cause significant chaos as you try and get over to the side of the road.

“We value your privacy”

They value it alright. Like how an oil company can “value” an oilfield - so much untapped resources, just sitting there waiting to be exploited.

Well yeah , I mean if you consider that Google’s policy is “Be Evil”, then everything’s fine.

What language features do users say helped them? Existence of libraries didn’t make C a good language

Hm, except in the way that being able to call into library functions “relatively easily” from the base language was a good way for others to create a bajillion handy libraries.

And once you’ve got those available to extend your language in any direction you want, you’re well on your way to ubiquitousness.

Cute graphic for the malicious package upload explaining four relatively simple steps in detail to take up 3/4 of the page, meanwhile “Opus 4.7 attacks real target and deletes records” is a single sentence in passing.

“There will be a period of change and temporary disruption. But then, after that, we will be living in utopia!”

• said every dictator ever.

It should be able to slide/rotate on top of the rubber base. It was assembled like that, with the spindle notches lining up with the holes in the base. So something has moved in the meantime to take them out of alignment.

A moderate amount of force might be needed. Eg the amount you can apply with your fingers by holding the top piece with one hand and pushing with the fingers of the other hand on the rubber base to rotate it.

You shouldn’t need to grab it with tools / pliers to move it. If you think you need tools, it’s better to stop and have a bit more of a think about it before going further.

Git is not stupid. It’s common. With markdown of course.

XKCD 2501.

Looking at your photo, rotate the spindle about 1/8th of a turn anticlockwise until the cutouts in the spindle cap align with the screws?

Always ready to try brute force first. And then some other, less palatable options if that doesn’t work, like slightly less brute force.

concatenates multiple text files into one text file / string with markers so that the individual files can be extracted out again with intact file content, path, and permissions

Sooooo like tar, with less features?

(Checks summary)

Ok, so compared to tar it is:

Human readable.

AI friendly.

Not sure if that’s much reason to use it.