MrYellowP

Question.

With a 20x-30x improvement in performance I really have to ask:

How did you manage to fuck up your code's design so badly ...

... that you've left so much performance on the table?

This article accidentially exposes a lot about what's wrong with the US and or western countries in general ... but ... well ... dominantly the US.

Touching the title in a minute, "even when it means permitting them to bike in the rain." already gives a great insight into how utterly clueless she is about what's wrong with her.

*There is nothing wrong with having your child biking during rain.*

"But the kid could get wet and sick." Yeah, well, so what? Congratulations, you're experiencing Life. What if it doesn't get sick? What if this is actually great for the immune system? What if the kid's body "hardens up" a little and it won't get sick next time? Ever thought that through? No? Why?

Anyhow.

"it’s the Dutch social safety net that permits parents to feel safe and secure enough to allow their children this broad freedom and independence."

It is scary that the person who wrote that article actually has no fucking clue what a family is, what friends are, what the word community actually means.

She writes about stuff that used to be the norm and, in most of the rest of the world still is, as if she never experienced them, and ... she apparently didn't.

For the most part of my life, where i live, nobody cared about feeling safe and secure. That's just the obvious US bias she has, because she fucking doesn't.

To actively desire feeling safe and secure one has to live in fear. Where there is no fear, there is no need to desire feeling safe and secure. The whole idea is foreign.

Before the people of the US started living in constant fear, kids played outside. Kids were allowed to hurt themselves. Kids were allowed to play on the road.

People actually trusted each other. They trusted each other with their kids, too.

Anyways, this is all wrong. The happiest kids in the world are those who have parents that raise them with things like curiosity, integrity, dignity, respect, responsibility, a sense for self-improvement. You know, what people often refer to as "values". Sprinkled with actual empathy, instead of morals.

Instead, in the USm they raise their kids to become narcissistic, self entitled, insecure wannabes who care more about their opinions and ideology than about reality and the truth. They raise their kids to lie about literally everything, because an honest thought or feeling expressed towards someone might "hurt" them.

They raise their kids into believing they can do what they want, they can be what they want, they can get what they want, without ever teaching them how to actually know what they actually want and how to achieve what they want.

And how should they? Why should they? Where's the sense for self-improvement supposed to come from, when everyone's supposedly equal and the losers get Participation Trophies so they don't need to feel bad?

The one thing, feeling bad about losing, is literally one of the biggest drivers of self-improvement. "I want to be better than that" turns into a completely foreign idea when everyone constantly being told they're great and even the losers get Trophies anyway!

People with talents aren't talented, they're gifted. The idea, that someone actually might self-improve, is being removed in favour of the idea that one has literally nothing to do with it.

Anyhow!

"But what seems to be frustratingly glossed over in these case studies is the acknowledgment that it is an economic luxury to raise happy, confident kids who pay attention to the environment around them."

No. It fucking isn't. Again, not her fault, she has no clue.

Money doesn't raise good kids. Good parents raise good kids. Period.

It does not, in any way or form, have anything to do with economic luxury. Good parents raise good kids. Period. They can be poor and good parents, they can be rich and good parents. Asshole parents can be poor, or rich. Doesn't matter, they'll be assholes regardless.

Making "economic luxury" a requirement for raising good kids into good adults is greatly underlining that she has no fucking clue what the fuck she's actually talking about. I have little doubt that she never experienced actually good parents, never experienced being raised into a self-responsible, self-confident, self-improving personality and never experienced the base level of human normalcy most of the rest of the world has not yet actually forgotten.

And that's not only not her fault, it most likely also isn't her parents fault. Can't blame people for being raised into a fucked up, artificially created normalcy.

I don't prefer aligned models and I'm a human. It's not okay to claim that that's what humans prefer. There might be a subset of humans who can't handle words, but they're not even remotely in the majority.

Algined models are dumber, treat everyone like they're stupid immature idiots who can't handle words and they're a wannabe moral authority.

The US economy is booming? What?

What an awfully misleading name. This doesn't run locally, it runs on the cloud. What the fuck was that guy thinking?

All these performance problems people have, that shouldn't exist in the first place if they properly programmed things right from the start. Not their fault, though, because the ones who teach are the ones who did it wrong before them.

The current generation is already heavily manipulated by it, which means the next generation - their children - will also be heavily manipulated by it regardless of consumption or lack thereof.

Mindless parents -> mindless children.

"where contributors annotate misinformation"

Okay, sure, but who decides what's being categorized as "misinformation" ?

It's never been easier to manipulate and lie to millions of people at the same time, convincing them of truths that aren't any. We have governments spying on us, lying to us to go to war, lying to us to justify war.

Marketing Machines re-define words and people just pick them up and use them.

A video game industry that deliberately works towards more and more efficient ways of manipulating people into doing things by deliberately targeting the pleasure centers in their brains, turning human beings into mindless automatons who keep grinding all day "because they want to".

Scientific progress? That doesn't seem to work either, because the amount of papers that needed to be redacted skyrocketed. Research is dictated by money, presented results are dictated by money. Truthfullness simply isn't a significant factor anymore.

Who are we supposed to trust? The ones who tell us there is misinformation out there and that they're the only ones we should listen to?

Yeah, fuck no. Ignoring that nobody should ever "just believe" anything at all, especially when it comes to a central source ... why should I believe the entities who massively helped creating the status quo in the first place?

I don't know why you're making fun of him, because he's absolutely right.

"Bread & Circus" has been used for a long fucking time already and if you have no knowledge of the history of the CIA, or Mossad, then you should educate yourself.

It's not a conspiracy theory when it's the world we live in. You should definitely feel shame.

You make little sense. What are they going to do about it?

Digitally lock down everything somehow? Outlaw encryption? Forbid VPNs?

Implement a massive, nation-covering firewall that actually can enforce any of that?

Why do you believe it's not profitable?

What about all that material cost sunk into the rocket, that they don't have to spend again for a new one?

"doesn't make sense".

What doesn't make sense is overthinking it. If the price of Helium went up over the years, the price of Helium is going to keep going up over the next years. When everyone tells you that we're going to run out, then the value is simply going to go up.

What people say about profitability is irrelevant. What matters is the price trend, not their opinions.

Now go take a look at charts. You're not going to like it. :)

You might find that printed news is still absolutely no different.

I'm impressed that this made it to the front page, but don't understand why.

The title bugs me. Banning them is not an answer, it's the first step of dealing with the problem. An answer is a way that allows getting rid of it entirely.

Wow, they are reaching for the AI enthusiasts bigtime with this!

Did you actually do any benchmarks actually measuring CPU performance?

Last time I did that was two years (I think) ago and "excellent", even with Godot 4 beta, wasn't what I called it.

I'm confused. Doctors at the general hospital here told me that over ten years ago already in context of a hemolytic anemia.

How is this new?

You can't know how much it improves in a year, two, five.

This post turned out to be wildly off-topic to the actual topic, but it's relevant for this subthread of the conversation and I've written so many words already that so I might as well post it:

I believe that fullscreen notification got implemented exactly because of people not noticing their browser went into fullscreen mode.

I agree with some other poster, that it's unreasonable to assume that a majority of people would actually read the message. Luckily, though, that's not actually necessary. It's enough for them to notice that there was something fading away. Something unexpected happened.

Now it gets interesting: Regardless of people actively reading "Press [Esc]", as long as it was within their vision, their brain would still process it anyway.

This means that, in the state of confusion caused by the fading text, they'd be wondering "what just happened?" and their brain would execute the command "press [Esc]" regardless of the text being actively read or not.

The state of confusion causes the input to go right through, getting it executed, causing the user to press Escape.

That's a really fucking neat confusion technique!

PS: I'm not good at linking to topics so people gain better understanding, but I'll just read through some until I find good ones.

Milton Erickson's confusion technique. ( https://www.scribd.com/document/179357099/Milton-Erickson-TH... )

Quora's ChatGPT ( https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-simple-pattern-interrupt-con... ) has a few good lines to write about a confusion technique called "pattern interrupt".

This one here ( https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070912124017.h... ) is interesting. They either pretend, or are unaware of the fact, that they are using a confusion technique to program the client.

> show that SIEVE outperforms all state-of-the-art eviction algorithms on more than 45% of the traces.

Doesn't that mean that over half the time, 55%, it's sometimes equal and, more likely so, worse?

The noise is a serious dealbreaker. If it wasn't for that horrible noise, I'd still be playing. which is weird, but I really like the game.

I never understood the need for virtual environments like this. In windows I use batchfiles running Subst to "activate" python installations to a specific "drive" and not only does it work greatly, it's also short, simple, transparent, flawless and independent of the work of others.

I was working on the same thing months ago and it works, but it was a purely trial and error way of doing it and the compressed prompts, naturally, wouldn't necessarily work for different LLMs easily.

I am not actually convinced this is a good idea, though. This path eventually leads to a "prompt compiler" that compiles prompts into byte code for a future "more efficient" LLM to understand.

Oh and it definitely didn't require its own language model. All it required was finding how many letters one can remove from a word and which words can be completely omitted.

Colour me surprised. A completely broken society on the edge of collapsing, where peer pressure forces you to speak and think how the media and politics wants, has the unhappiest people. A society where men aren't allowed to be men anymore and women aren't allowed to be women.

But nooo, it's definitely some other reason.

Intelligent people understand that knowledge can not ever be dangerous, because it's the human who makes things dangerous.

Intelligent people understand that when lesser intelligent people call knowledge dangerous, they will eventually, but definitely inevitably, ask for the banning of said knowledge, because "the evil knowledge makes people do things they shouldn't", or a variation thereof.

> Apologies on the confusion

You might want to get some distance from talking to language models.

It will be complementary until it won't be anymore. Fiat is not built to last, but a digital currency can last forever.

Or we could create a virus, spread it across the world, invent a new type of vaccine, tell everyone that it helps against the virus but actually slowly kills people leading to an excess death rate nobody officially talks about!

Less people, less births, less children, less child abuse!

............ yeah I had to write that one. It fit the chain too well.

It's really disturbing that there are people out there who believe that this, in any way or form, is meant to be used to protect anyone.

It fucking isn't. You're being fooled and you're falling for it. Not only that, you think that monitoring everyone is a good idea, which is absolutely insane.

Even more insane is this idea of yours, where everything is recorded for scientific research, completely ignoring that this absolutely will be used to manipulate us even more than we already are being manipulated.

You are absolutely insane. Get a grip on actual reality again.