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tempaccount5050··on FCC Funding Application Notes Paramount Will Be 49.5% Foreign-Owned Post-Merger
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tempaccount5050··on Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
The pearl clutching over the pedigree of art is getting tiring. No one has really ever cared. Most mainstream music is written by corporate teams. Elvis didn't write his own music. Frank Sinatra didn't write his own music. Nearly all pop artists don't. But suddenly, people are now clamoring for art, but they never gave a shit to begin with. Most people can't tell AI written music from anything else if a human performer played it. Most of it is better than any local bands anyway. Tired of people pretending they care.
tempaccount5050··on GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes
Because it doesn't even come close to frontier models in intelligence/speed/price. I can run my 3090 nonstop and rack up an electricity bill that costs more than a subscription and get worse results that are slower. They are ok for simple/non complex things, but that's not really what I need AI for.
tempaccount5050··on An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
I feel like your conflating a deep misconfiguration of a brain with lying. These things are completely different.
tempaccount5050··on An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
I think you might be misinterpreting that. I always understood it to mean that when the two hemispheres can't communicate, they'll make things up about their unknowable motivations to basically keep consciousness in a sane state (avoiding a kernel panic?). I don't think it's clear that this happens when both hemispheres are able to communicate properly. At least, I don't think you can imply that this special case is applicable all the time.
tempaccount5050··on Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch
Maybe not directly, but they definitely care about property value which gets you municipal codes requiring you to mow your lawn or get fined.
tempaccount5050··on Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem
Are they bad at math? Or are they bad at arithmetic?
tempaccount5050··on If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?
It's the exception NOW. I'm so glad I got into IT 20 years ago with a handshake. That's the difference.
tempaccount5050··on If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?
No, just try a pair from Amazon and return if you need to. I can mow the lawn with these on and it's nearly silent. There's a feature to recalibrate for air temp and ambient noise (use this every time you put them on). They are really good.
tempaccount5050··on If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?
What I'm trying to say is that I did things the "wrong way". Worked part time, invested nothing, played in a band, ate drugs, got laid. And it was really fucking easy. I was happy as hell. This was a long time ago, but I was able to blow my 20s away and still land just fine when I started my "career" in my 30s. These days, you can do everything right and still not be happy. We all make our choices of course, but I feel like if you don't hit the grind immediately these days, you're fucked.
tempaccount5050··on If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?
Get a pair of Sony WH-1000MXs. The noise cancelling is nearly perfect.
tempaccount5050··on If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?
Yeah, I agree, but it makes me think of my 20s when I was paying $275 for rent with one roommate, working part time and easily making it work. I worked nights chucking boxes in a warehouse and was able to take a vacation to Jamaica. This guy is a sysadmin, helping to keep a billion dollar company online and can't afford to go to Florida for a few days. It's a raw deal and I hate it for this generation.
tempaccount5050··on If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?
This is me. I'm not anti-social by any means, and I like people, but constant chatter around me drives me nuts. So I put my headphones on and now I'm unapproachable. It's tough.
tempaccount5050··on If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?
From what I understand, yes. My 24 year old coworker makes $65k/year and has a $2200/mo mortgage. It's an old starter home in the Midwest, nothing fancy. It stresses him out to the point of not going to a happy hour once in a while unless there's a buy one get one deal or something or I offer to buy (which I do happily). No vacations, no eating out, no fun. It's super sad to see. He talks about being in his prime but being unable to enjoy it at all.
tempaccount5050··on If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?
Absolutely nothing. Religious people just tend to think they have it all figured out because they've been well trained in following tradition and avoiding questioning the status quo.
tempaccount5050··on ChatGPT Images 2.0
It shouldn't bother you. Just enjoy stuff. It's ok to think computer art is pretty. It's not some kind of personal or societal moral failing.
tempaccount5050··on ChatGPT Images 2.0
Yep. Just like motion pictures. Why, it's just a facsimile! People were meant to see performances by real people. These motion pictures fool your eye and surely will unravel the very fabric of civilized society! No longer shall the thespian be well employed! And the minds of the children will lay in ruins from such filth!
tempaccount5050··on Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)
It's incredible how out of touch this place is sometimes.
tempaccount5050··on ChatGPT Images 2.0
Why is that better? They're going to use AI anyway. It's fiver.
tempaccount5050··on ChatGPT Images 2.0
It's just as low effort. This is silly.
tempaccount5050··on ChatGPT Images 2.0
What move? Who's turn is it? Declined or accepted? Garbage in, garbage out.
tempaccount5050··on ChatGPT Images 2.0
Because I'm not an artist and can't afford to pay one for whatever business I have? This idea that only experts are allowed to do things is just crazy to me. A band poster doesn't have to be a labor of love artisanal thing. Were you mad when people made band posters with MS word instead of hiring a fucking typesetter? I just don't get it.
tempaccount5050··on John Ternus to become Apple CEO
Yeah you get a few bucks back from recyclers or your carrier but also having to inventory phones and track them is a pain in the ass and requires staff to manage. Much easier to just toss it and send em a new one next day.
tempaccount5050··on John Ternus to become Apple CEO
I can only speak to corporate use, but the most common issues I saw were battery life, charging port issues, and speaker failures, in that order. I managed about 1200 for about 2 years and I'd get 1-3 of those issues a week. I'd say 25% of the time it required a replacement. Average age 2.5 years.
tempaccount5050··on We got 207 tok/s with Qwen3.5-27B on an RTX 3090
I find these comments hilarious. Are we supposed to build AI and then not use it? Super goofy.
tempaccount5050··on Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors
You still have to push and pull from the db. Meaning transforms still need to happen in either direction. I get what you're saying but it's just as easy to screw up a regex in either direction. Or making assumptions about how your language of choice will handle dates etc.
tempaccount5050··on OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS
Using OpenClaw for that is nuts. Claude or GPT could just one shot an app for you that does all that and uses 0 tokens once you've built it.
tempaccount5050··on Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors
Reminds me of a job I had doing QA at a pill factory in high school in the 90s. Weight, size, crush tests. After 3 months seeing 99.99% pass rates, I pulled out my statistics book and started generating fake data and just read books. If I could do it at 16...
tempaccount5050··on Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors
I think that's a little unfair. It really comes down to parsing text and you'll have similar issues even if you use a database or whatever you think the "real" solution is. I have a project I'm working on right now that stores dates, phone numbers, and website links. Cleaning/parsing has been 90% of the work and I still have edge cases that aren't fully solved. Every time I think I'm done, I find something else I haven't thought about. Local AI models have been a huge help though for sanitizing.
tempaccount5050··on Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction
You could hire a lawyer straight out of law school. Litigating this would cost almost nothing, it's cut and dried obvious copyright/trademark infringement and turtle wow would be incredibly stupid to fight it. But Blizzard already has a legal team so it cost them literally nothing.
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