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- I feel really sad about this -- I was amazed as a child to learn that I was allowed to just... GO IN to buildings and lectures as long as I was quiet and respectful. I always took pride in my university's openness.
Then I took my boyfriend for a tour a couple years ago and found all the buildings had signs warning that access was only permitted with a University ID card. Nobody challenged us or kicked us out, but it was a sour demoralizing shock.
- Yeah no, (1) Mozilla was going to be in for a tough go no matter what; I don't think Eich would have fared any better. But (2) you can't donate to stop your own employees and users from having civil rights without repercussions.
People with an axe to grind always hide what Brendan Eich did behind "politics" which is a dishonest slight of hand.
- I've found Organic Maps to be better than any paid app for hiking (and I've tried a bunch) for what it's worth
- This is... I'll go with "dystopian". If you're not sure you can properly explain an idea, you should think about it more deeply.
- I mean, 8 was easily the most functional of the new trilogy, if a somewhat overly ambitious muddle, so that's a bad example.
There is a real problem with too many sequels and adaptations though.
- Star Trek was basically the only reason for Paramount+ to exist.
Once they axed Prodigy and sold season 2 to Netflix (ironic, in retrospect), the writing was on the wall.
- The AI Overviews are... extremely bad. For most of my queries, Google's AI Overview misrepresents its own citations, or almost as bad, confidently asserts a falsehood or half-truth based on results that don't actually contain an answer to my search query.
I had the same issue with Kagi, where I'd follow the citation and it would say the opposite of the summary.
A human can make sense of search results with a little time and effort, but current AI models don't seem to be able to.
- I'm not aware of there being a single lick of evidence to suggest that kookery, but even if he was a Russian agent, he certainly accidentally provided Americans a laudable service.
- I'm a pretty prolific gamer, but at the start of the year I finally kicked Windows to the curb.
It's been fine. Surprisingly few games I'm interested in to begin with have anticheat that doesn't work on Linux, and it's comforting to know games aren't allowed to just shove trash into kernel space at will.
- ...a complaint that definitely has not been continuously espoused since the ancient world.
With apologies if you're being ironic.
- Those 90s LaserJets were genuinely incredible, and aside from (understandably) dog-slow PostScript processing, I think they were a pinnacle of office printer engineering.
We had one keep on trucking for... geez, as far as I'm aware it's still out there.
- I dunno, I'm not fully anti-LLM, but almost every interaction I have with an LLM-augmented system still at some point involves it confidently asserting plainly false things, and I don't think the parent is that far off base.
- Maybe in the sense that a CueCat is interesting to us today.
- The Coral TPUs are closer if anything to what's in Pixel phones. In particular they're limited to iirc 8-bit integer types, which puts them in a very different category of applications compared to the kind of TPUs being talked about here.
- > on American-dominated forums people often view public libraries nowadays as a place for the smelly homeless to hang out, look at porn, and possibly shoot up.
I think this says far more about your specific forum bubbles than anything else, to be honest.
At worst I see a perception that libraries are for children.
- I'd be willing to bet that's the only time the teacher had to deal with that specific skulduggery.
Is it actually worth it for a teacher to spend time red-teaming basic lesson equipment? I really think not unless the teacher has reason to believe her students are particularly mischievous.
- If you have unusual self-discipline and mental rigor, yes, you can use LLMs as a rubber duck that way. I would be severely skeptical of the value over a diary. But humans are, in an astonishing twist, wired to assume that if they're being replied to, there's a mind like theirs behind those replies.
The more subjective the topic, the more volatile the user's state of mind, the more likely they are to gaze too deep into that face on the other side of their funhouse mirror and think it actually is their friend, and that it "thinks" like they do.
I'm not even anti-LLM as an underlying technology, but the way chatbot companies are operating in practice is kind of a novel attack on our social brains and it behooves a warning!
Bicycling would make 5 miles a cinch, however.