Other than “not seeing the use case” I think the meme is right on. People hate Windows but don’t want to deal with Linux, people hate being trapped in the walled gardens of Microsoft or Sony consoles, but don’t want to deal with a full-on gaming PC. Kinda like how when iPads came out people where like, this is worse than a phone and worse than a laptop, who are these things even for?

They are useful for doing the kind of boilerplate boring stuff that any good dev should have largely optimized and automated already. If it’s 1) dead simple and 2) extremely common, then yeah an LLM can code for you, but ask yourself why you don’t have a time-saving solution for those common tasks already in place? As with anything LLM, it’s decent at replicating how humans in general have responded to a given problem, if the problem is not too complex and not too rare, and not much else.

I don’t like to judge idiots too harshly, but if you bought a product marketed as an encrypted toilet camera you deserve whatever happens to you

pressure cook some whole oats (like the kind they sell for horses, not rolled oats/oatmeal), spawn on that in mason jars, then transfer to a bed of pressure-cooked coco coir when fully colonized, mix, cover, and wait.

Yeah this is the kind of shit you literally couldn’t put into a fictional movie because viewers would not buy that a first-world democracy would do that to their citizens. You’d need an intentionally over-the-top cartoonishly evil fictional entity like Vault-Tec to even approach a “Moron Corps” scenario in fiction…

And don’t forget Gomer Pyle.

Where I live I see mom and dad getting pulled over all the time for going 30 in a 25 on the way to drop Little Timmy off at preschool, so different everywhere I guess. I wish cops would focus on catching people who’ve committed major crimes rather than being citation money printing presses.

Oh yeah, I was not even considering trying to jam everything in that tiny case and getting the cooling and cabling sorted out. I would for sure skip that and just go with a standard mid-size tower, were I going to try this (I’m not)

Maybe he’s referring to the fact that McNamara, the architect of this and all-around terrible person, was an Elder in his Presbyterian church during the time he was also conceiving and running this program. IDK, that’s the first direct connection I could find. That, and a lot of this was under Kennedy, who was famously and publicly and proudly the first Catholic president. So I agree it’s not a great look for Kennedy in terms of his Catholicism being a major part of his identity, to have allowed his SecDef to run this program on “the least among us” if you will.

Holy crap this is what Forrest Gump was about I never realized…

Well first we don’t know the price, other than “like a PC” unless I missed something.

Second, sure, someone like me, who already has the background and experience building gaming PCs, maybe (maybe) I could replicate most of the specs at the same cost, possibly even improve them in a few areas. But economies of scale, the labor on my end, shifting market prices… Unless Valve is marking these things up like 50% or more I just don’t see how an individual is going to compete on cost once you include labor.

Wait Dad, you just gonna leave us hanging without a link?? 🤣

Boy EA really hit rock bottom and just kept on a-diggin til they struck oil didn’t they.

In highschool we used to just repeat large portions of the script of Grail to each other in place of actual human conversation. I can still trot out the whole “Old woman!” scene by memory when the moment calls for it.

Or “like my dear Pa-Par” in some versions 🤣

Everyone trying to look serious or intellectual and Cleese just grinning like an idiot in the background love it

it turns out you can effectively recycle plastic! And re-cycle it, and re-cycle it, pretty much forever if you get get into the Ocean, fish, and humans, it can cycle over and over again for as long as you like!

haha yep that message was a more a secret one for my fellow browncoats ;) That opening battle scene blew my mind so much when I first saw it, like the Buffy guy made this? For TV? On a TV budget?!

You, sir, are obviously not thinking of the children /s

FI. ERR. FLY.