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They probably are, but it’s not really about cost, it’s about fear. I fear that while it costs $x to switch to Unreal Enigne now, it’ll cost $x+10 after a few weeks when they do their next decision, and $x+20 a month or so after that.

I remember Yudowski being a thing like a decade ago, and people were making fun of his “AI” research even then. It’s scary to realize that not only did some people take him seriously, but those people are at the helm of AI companies and making decisions affecting tens of billions of investment capital. I think there was a quote by Kurt Vonnegut that “true horror is waking up one morning and realizing your high school class is running the country”.

For the other poster lower down, I’d almost successfully forgotten about his Harry Potter fanfiction, people kept praising it so I actually read through a bit of it, it’s painful reading. He also wrote a Superman fanfiction and that’s even worse. I think they both say a lot about his internal mental state and his perception of other people though.

Maybe, but I’m betting that the CEO who floated the idea that FPS players would be willing to pay per-reload didn’t push back too hard against the board’s ideas.

That’s fair. nixOS can be savage. But I think it’s also helpful for a beginner since you can’t break it. A beginner is much more likely to break their system than an expert.

nixOS , because it’s a completely atomic distribution, like a docker container OS style. You define the state of the system in a configuration file, which can even control the kernel, and you can switch to an older configuration file in any reboot. It’s more of a pain than the others, but it works ok out of the box and when you fix something it stays fixed so you’ll never end up in a situation where something breaks and you can’t fix it.

Also, all the packages bring their own versions of their own libraries and directly link to them so they’ll never break during upgrades, but conversely a lot of Linux installers that try to link to system libraries won’t work.

Possibly. It also suggest you’d get all these benefits by just disabling one of the GPUs, because unless battery life is a concern for your gaming laptop the difference in power draw on the desktop will be fairly minor.

This actually sounds like a really cool feature.

It gets me how every single comment is the same three tired old jokes about AI. Between “It’s only good for imagining up stuff that has no right answer”, “And so the downward spiral begins as LLM’s are trained on the output of previous LLM’s.” and "But somehow it still can’t remember what I said one minute ago " we’ve covered every single anti-LLM talking point.

For one, it looks like the actual training data hasn’t changed, even if the model has changed and it’s been able to access the internet for a while, this is non-news. For another, a lot of people haven’t tried GPT v4 and are just complaining about the free version sucking, well, things you get for free often suck.

And so the downward spiral begins as LLM’s are trained on the output of previous LLM’s

I think we can be fairly confident that the people in charge of training the LLMs have heard this too and are probably on top of it.

This is what I got.

Step 1: The Setting
An old farmhouse, slightly dilapidated but filled with charm and history, stands surrounded by fields and woods. The farmhouse, located in a rural area, has been in the old woman’s family for generations. However, the closest college town is just a 20-minute drive away, making it a feasible place for college students to stay.

Step 2: The Characters

Lillian (Lilly): An 88-year-old woman, sharp as a tack, with a mischievous sense of humor. Widowed, with stories of her late husband and her adventures. She's fiercely independent but realizes she could use some help around the place.
Mike: A 20-year-old college student studying agriculture. He's grounded, serious about his studies, and is always looking for practical experience. However, he's a bit socially awkward.
Jasper: A 21-year-old college student majoring in digital media and film. He's spontaneous, energetic, and often comes up with wild ideas. He's in college more for the experience than the education.

Step 3: The Premise
Mike finds an advertisement where Lilly offers affordable rent at her farmhouse in exchange for help with chores. Seeing it as a great opportunity to gain hands-on farming experience, he jumps on the offer. Jasper, looking for cheaper rent and a break from the monotony of dorm life, decides to join Mike despite having no interest in farming. Lilly is initially hesitant about having two young men living with her but warms up to the idea, thinking it could be fun and helpful.

Step 4: Recurring Themes/Scenarios

Cultural Clashes: Lilly's old-school ways often clash with the boys' modern college lifestyle, leading to comedic misunderstandings.
Teachable Moments: Lilly imparts wisdom from her long life, while the boys teach her about modern technology and current college life.
Odd-couple Dynamics: Mike and Jasper have contrasting personalities, which often lead to humorous conflicts and reconciliations.
Farm Misadventures: Jasper's lack of farming knowledge causes regular chaos, like accidentally releasing all the chickens or trying to turn a part of the farm into a film set.
College Intrusions: College friends and events spill over into the farmhouse, like surprise parties or study groups, much to Lilly's amusement or chagrin.

Step 5: Sample Plotlines

The Drone Debacle: Jasper tries to film the farmhouse using a drone for a class project. However, the drone scares the livestock, leading to chaos. Lilly, Mike, and Jasper then have to work together to restore order.
Secrets of the Attic: Mike discovers old photographs and artifacts in the attic, sparking a trip down memory lane for Lilly and history lessons for the boys.
The Farmhand Competition: After another one of Jasper's mishaps, Mike challenges him to handle the farm chores for a day. Lilly becomes the judge, and comedic challenges ensue.
Digital Farming: The boys try to modernize the farm operations using apps and digital tools, leading to humorous consequences.
Lilly Goes to College: Jasper thinks it would be fun to bring Lilly to one of his classes. Her old-world wisdom ends up stealing the show.

Step 6: Underlying Message
Despite the age and cultural gap, the trio forms an unbreakable bond. The sitcom highlights the beauty of intergenerational friendships, the blending of old-world wisdom with modern innovation, and the comedic adventures that ensue when worlds collide.

In the end, the show would be a heartwarming comedy that celebrates the unlikely friendships that form when people from different walks of life come together.

EDIT: The point of posting this is to demonstrate that even if two outputs are similar, they’re very sensitive to the user’s built in pre-prompts and the version of ChatGPT being used. So two people can get very different outputs for the same prompt.

I’ve never had a bluetooth device that worked well and connected reliably, so “better than bluetooth” is not hard.

Absolutely. The security argument is used so often I’m surprised people aren’t more cynical about it.

They’re not offsetting anything, they still charge money for the boxed copy sold in stores. This is pure profit for them.

I think they’ll go even harder, making Windows only run stuff purchased through the Windows Store so they can completely lock in the market.

I already donate to my Mastodon instance, if my instance needs or wants money for any reason, they should set up a donation button and I’ll subscribe. Which will give them a lot more money than they would ever make from showing me ads. We should normalize removing all ads from the internet, forever.

I use a physical sim. I’m not sure it even supports eSIM, but I’d be hesitant to ditch the physical sim for precisely the reasons you mentioned. I’ve swapped sims around between phones and even borrowed them from people when I was in a new area, something that’s much harder with eSIMs.

Harsh but true. I also need to sell stuff to people, and I hate ads, I realize that other people hate ads too and that in fact ads generally suck. The solution is word of mouth advertising, not ever-more-intricate tools. The real truth is that what the ad companies are selling is the idea that ads are actually cost efficient and worthwhile, and the gullible customers are actually the advertisers, not the people who they’re trying to flog stuff to.

It’s better because Bing may still have selling ads as a priority when building the indexer. If you’re not the one paying, you’re the product.

Because last time I checked they just used Bing anwyay, while Kagi runs their own indexer.

I can tell you from experience I have a Samsung T5 (500GB) that has over 95TB of writes over 5+ years to it and it’s only used up 17% of its spare blocks. The T7 which is the newer model is like $40, I’d just get one of those. They’re very reliable, I’ve bought a few and none of them have failed. The larger drives have more spare blocks and are even more resistant to writes.

Personally I would recommend a portable SSD, over a HDD as I’ve had several HDDs fail but never lost an SSD, BackBlaze backs this up with their total drive failure statistics being 2.5% for HDDs and under 0.5% for SSDs. Your real danger will be that a portable drive is guaranteed to get jostled and an SSD is far more resilient to that.

Google’s becoming pretty terrible anyway, it only seems to return pages that are selling things. I’ve switched to Kagi at this point and it seems to work better, it’s subscription only, but you know you’re the one paying for it and that means that you’re the end customer.