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It’s interesting, over the past 15 years I’ve had occasion to work with other c/c++ devs on various contracts, probably 50ish distinct different companies. Not once has rust even come up in casual conversation.

Ha that feels like the butt of this whole joke: “no we’re literally creating a god, what don’t you people understand? But this one will be a benevolent and wise god, not like a shitty one. Trust me.”

Agree. I have two recent Samsung smart tvs. The screen quality I like (OLED) but everything else about them I hate. I use a PS5 as an entry point for the tv, after the atrocious “tv boot up to functional time” which is a phrase I never considered having to say 20 years ago.

It’s funny how some people think shitty lawyers are good and some people think good lawyers are shitty, huh?

With a little bit of lag time (school) we could have a metric fuckton of doctors. We have a metric fuckton of shitty lawyers. Doctors are artificially gated in the US

What’s the joke? “What do you call the person who graduated last in their class from med school? A doctor.”

> Is there even a way to cut this pollution out in the future?

No, is the short answer.

Ironically, in the UUV space, they use the term “flying” when talking about controlling UUVs.

> the attack described in the article is triggered by a rare or unique token combination

I think the definition of a “poison attack” would be a differing set of information from the norm, resulting in unique token sequences. No?

Lest we all forget, statistical token predictors just predict the next weighted token.

No, the “promise” is forced. It’s like an arranged marriage.

s/latent reasoning/next token prediction with guardrails

A single malicious scientific study can fool thousands or perhaps millions of real people as that fact gets repeated in different forms and amplified with nobody checking for a valid source. Llms are no more robust.

I was stuck in a very remote location trying to update vehicle software. I needed both a monitor and keyboard (long story, serial wasn't outputting, no ssh, partition table was hosed) and I had neither a keyboard nor a monitor.

I now carry a little HDMI screen and not one but two portable keyboards with me for all work travel. One of the keyboards is a larger but rolls up, the other is tiny but also has a mouse built into a touchpad.

These devices have saved my bacon more than a few times. Highly recommend.

You’re conflating two things and ignoring the thrust of the point: nobody buys a fast car to drive it slowly. Maybe some people do, the vast majority do not.

If promises about licenses meant a damn, we wouldn’t have speeding cameras.

Nobody does that.

Sure doesn’t.

What, the 4th biggest economy in the world needs an investment? Aren’t they supposed to be the investors?

“This person is corrupt!”

Is that an opinion or a harmful false claim?

Sure seems like a combination of TINA and massive amounts of hope.

As long as you realize a strong Chinese dollar is the worst thing that could happen to China right now, and as long as we just excuse away the whole “LLMs make more money than they cost” (which they absolutely do not) sure thing.

> If there is an AI race, I have zero doubt that China WILL win.

A race to what? What does the winner get? What does the loser get? What does 'winning' even fucking mean? My statistical next token predictor is better than your statistical next token predictor?

The quote I quoted said, quite literally, “under Biden” I offered no new information

> IIRC, under Biden, inflation was stoked by the Covid stimulus(arguably necessary to avoid rapid deflation due to Covid, but probably kept for too long)

I think you answered your own question.

I can’t tell you much I recommend getting off social media.

I post here, and sometimes in a dynasty football reddit.

You’ll realize how evil the whole thing is.

Are you making an analogy of having a moral obligation to engage in a flame war online?

I also feel like there is a bubble.

However, looking at it impartially, it seems to mean sama is planning on making more money. Which seems to conclude in ads are incoming.

Why would the US want to fight a proxy war with Russia? Before the recent Ukraine invasion, nobody really cared about Russia. They were just kind of around, cheating at the Olympics was like the big news if anyone talked about Russia.

What does Russia have that US would want to fight a proxy war over? Certainly isn’t technology or natural resources.

It would be a "unique" situation. Most AMTs (not all, but most) only dispense $20 bills, the rarer ones will dispense $5s or $10s, and they're rare enough that I make a note of them. I have never encountered an ATM that gives a $50.

Your best bet of happening into a $50 is if you go to a bank for an in-person withdraw and they ask you for preferred denominations. Generally the money is dispensed in $20s even there unless specified.

Your second best bet would be if you're selling something "on the side" and the purchaser uses a $50 in a transaction, which I would say is also rare these days, most people use Venmo or equiv.

Your best bet of handling a $50 is probably as a bartender, or of course as a bank teller.

I have held $50s a few times in my life, and even my reaction is "huh, a $50, don't see those often"

Best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, the second best time is today.

What is the plan today?

> If the tax "worked" and reduced their wealth

There is a disconnect between those two ideas. The tax doesn't need to reduce their wealth. Wealthy people generally continue to make money, usually without even having to try or work.

I agree with you, but I also don’t do webdev. Docker seems neat, I’ve dabbled just to understand the stack and how it works. Not much of a container person I realized. Closest I get is spinning out yocto images and flashing them to hardware. Same image every time with updated versions of software. So maybe kind of like docker in the abstract sense, I suppose.

I’m mid-way through my career at this point and I’m hoping to skip the web/cloud bit, I just don’t enjoy it as much as I do hw/sw integrations.