> but this is evil CEO garbage
Correction: this is Evil CEO vs Evil CEO garbage. Casting WPEngine as some sort of saint is highly inaccurate.
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Correction: this is Evil CEO vs Evil CEO garbage. Casting WPEngine as some sort of saint is highly inaccurate.
Realistically, there's nothing particularly interesting about the Dallas Frackers versus the Washington Rentseekers. But if you have money on the outcome, watching a game (with a sufficient supply of alcohol) is actually bearable.
Edit: I'm explaining a real, actual reason for the value of sports betting for some people, but it seems that the Sportsball enthusiasts don't like desecration of their Holy Church. I apologize.
Again, I still don't think you understand the normie mind. They don't want a challenge. They don't want to suffer. They don't want to put in any effort at all. There is a very large market for anabolic steroids, SARMs, and GLP-1 agonists, and it's not because normies care about the struggle.
The only time I've ever seen a normie care about their fitness is when it's been connected to their vanity.
This is the case for some of us, yes, and for us, this is obvious.
What I've found, however, is that most normies don't actually have an internal drive to monotonically increase stats. For 90% of people, vanity is the only driver that works.
Nobody is getting "ripped off" by ML models any more than by other humans. When a human wants to launch a high-quality podcast, they survey the market, listen to a lot of other high quality podcasts, and then set to creating their own derivative work.
What ML models are doing is really no different. It's just much, much faster.
Everything humans create is derivative of other works. Speed is the only difference.
Missing in this discussion is what it meant to be a boy interested in STEM socially.
It's cool to be an engineer today. It pays very well, it's easy to make friends, find a mate, etc.
Those of us who grew up as nerdy kids in the 1980s dealt with the kind of bullying and social ostracism that future generations cannot even imagine.
Are boys being downplayed in favor of girls for advancement opportunities? Maybe. But you still have it MUCH MUCH better in a holistic sense than we did, to a degree you'll never know.
QAnon folks, for example, are biological models that are trained on propaganda and misinformation.
Trauma victims are models trained on maladaptive environments that therapists take YEARS to fine-tune.
Physicians are models trained on a corpus of some of the best training sets we have available, and they still manage to hallucinate misdiagnoses at a staggering rate.
I don't know why everyone here seems to think human brains are some collection of Magical Jesus Boxes that don't REGULARLY and CATASTROPHICALLY hallucinate outputs.
We do. All the time. Give it a rest.
You jest, but there's some small (<10%) cohort of cancers for whom minimizing available glucose will significantly slow their growth (obviously not stop or reverse), allowing more time for other treatments. Tumors in general tend to be highly glycolytic, and making the body's fuel mix oriented toward fatty acids and ketone bodies may help in these cases.
So, basically, exactly like human beings. Until human-written software stops having bugs, doctors stop misdiagnosing, soft sciences stop having replication crises, and politicans stop making shit up, I'm going to treat LLMs exactly as you should treat humans: fallible, lying, hallucinating machines.
I suspect this is primarily a liability issue - an issue with the law, not the stores themselves.
Believe me, I'm sure the loss prevention departments would love to hire Terry Tate, Office Linebacker, or Dirty Harry, to handle the situation, but most jurisdictions will leave YOU on the hook for anything from personal injury, to unlawful detainment, to brandishing, to whatever.
The problem is with the DA, not with the store, in most cases.
Systemd, particularly journald, violates this severely by snarfing any stream you want to send to /var/log or wherever and locking it in a binary database somewhere, that you have to use journalctl to access.
I have no problem with journald as an idea, but the audacity that it knows better than the user what to do with stdout/stderr is insane, and 100% anti-Unix.
DPI scaling works fine with Wayland + Kanshi, and a few environment variables for GTK+ applications.
The "mess" of application styling is an application-level problem, and the same problem exists in plenty of Windows applications.
All of these models, including the "open" ones, have been RLHF'ed by teams of politically-motivated people to be "safe" after initial foundation training.
Happiness is irrelevant, especially when it comes to geopolitics.
In the US, criticism of Israel is antagonistic to our Judeo-Christian values.
In the EU, criticism of Israel is tantamount to the rise of a Fourth Reich.
Germany, in particular, is scared shitless of this accusation, and will accept any and all actions by Israel. This is a country who can do no wrong, and will get away with whatever they feel like.
> This is going to create a lot of distrust in the international supply chain.
This reminds me of people who were legitimately shocked to learn about the Snowden disclosures. If you don't already know the supply chain is thoroughly poisoned, and has been for decades, there is no helping you.
"It's hard to empathize with the people engaging in homosexuality. It's an inherently careless and risky thing to do, and meeting up in gay-friendly districts is very obviously (and ironically) done to avoid public decency orders and legitimate family formation."
A man ahead of his time, if you ask me. We need to ensure that those who fail to lick the boot hard enough should be separated from their tongues.
People are quick to forget that the morality of any given action should always be judged by its legality in any random jurisdiction.
Ok, but was it wrong?
Put your friend's precious fee-fees aside, and ask yourself the important question: was it wrong?
If it wasn't, then it sounds like the problem was with your friend, wasting everyone's time with a pedestrian analysis that benefited nothing except for their own ego, so they can be heard, so they can climb that all-important neurotypical status ladder, so they can put another insignificant bullet point on their C.V.
Was it wrong?
Yes, I think that if you're neurotypical, and you find it difficult to relate to the neurodivergent, you should dismiss them as being assholes.
> who just doesn't realize he's rude
NT's make the social rules, and everyone else should fall in line, I get it. In this case, you should just go old school and stuff them in a locker because they're harshing your chi, bro.
> Is this everyone else's experience?
Absolutely. I'm not in academia, but I've found that we need to address this scourge early on. Identify these pieces of shit early in grade school. Give them wedgies, laugh at them, beat the shit out of them on the playground, steal their property, call them names, isolate them in the cafeteria, make them the butt of every public joke, and make sure they know where their station is.
And don't get me started on those paraplegics. Neurodivergent people are bad enough, with the wiring in their brains making it difficult to understand our arbitrary social rules. Paraplegics, with the wiring in their spinal cords that make it difficult to walk need to get out of their fucking wheelchairs, what a bunch of assholes, always getting in the way.
Oh my god, and the homosexuals, too! Why won't they just love the correct gender?
I am 100% with you, academictemp. Maybe we can just load all these people who are not exactly like ourselves, or think and behave exactly as we do, onto cattle cars and be done with it.
But if this test were applied to other kids, it would be off the charts. Abused and neglected in every way imaginable by my peers, growing up.
It's always annoyed me that if your abusers weren't your caregivers, your trauma is never taken seriously by the mental health community.
But it is what it is. I'm doing very well financially and professionally, I have a wife and kids, I am strong, fit, and healthy. But I have no friends, and it's impossible to relate with other people. Perpetually lonely, always the outcast, even decades after adolescence.
Optical isolation isn't the only way to protect equipment.
I've observed this, myself. All the people I know with RSI issues are touch-typists. I suspect it has to do with pinky extension being a highly unnatural movement. Three fingers and thumb are all I need to type very fast, and I have never experienced anything remotely approaching hand/wrist/finger pain in over two decades of professional software development.
Same goes for Apple. It is what it is.