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times_trw··on FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s
Well now we can add all the planes Boeing manufactures to the list of things which the inevitable bankruptcy will jeopardise.
times_trw··on Royal Navy forced to recruit for tob job on social media
One only needs to look at the Glorious Revolution to see what a hostile takeover of Britain by a foreign power which pays lip service to Britishness would look like.

Also one rather needs ones army to be xenophobic, a xenophilic army would be somewhat poor at its job.

I've been musing that the majority of ~canon fodder~ lower class working men are so destructively disengaged from main stream western culture that a new branch of Islam with 19th century western sensibilities - nationalism, nativism, chauvinism, etc. - would have very little trouble in taking over.

times_trw··on Royal Navy forced to recruit for tob job on social media
One has to wonder if a majority of lower class able bodied men would particularly care if an enemy took over.
times_trw··on Age verification is incompatible with the internet
And what about producing porn?

Do we arrest the parent or the child when the child posts a picture of their genitals on insta-snap?

times_trw··on Multigenerational Living Often Makes Sense. That Doesn't Make It Easy
>Society has mutually agreed that if two people don't want to put in the work, they can split. Society has yet to really get to the next step of "living with kids is hard work, so you can just abandon the kids".

Society has decided that kids are a fashion accessory and the primary driver of population growth will be immigration - it's cheaper too no need to things like schools.

times_trw··on Multigenerational Living Often Makes Sense. That Doesn't Make It Easy
It's kind of funny that someone from a country like the US where the opinions which were mainstream 20 years ago are now hate crimes can say something like:

>I think the trend of modern people toward individualism is mostly the result of revealed preferences. People, for better or worse, want to make their own choices about their lives.

times_trw··on Multigenerational Living Often Makes Sense. That Doesn't Make It Easy
On the contrary it servers it's purpose perfectly and lets you know exactly what the speaker means when they use those words.
times_trw··on Researchers have identified the enzyme that gives urine its yellow hue
> Please note that homo sapiens sapiens is EOL and will not receive any security updates or bug fixes. Please update to homo sapiens sapiens sapiens as soon as possible.
times_trw··on Multigenerational Living Often Makes Sense. That Doesn't Make It Easy
The simplest way to get around that is to make it very clear that if you're not involved with raising the children you will not be involved with the children at all.

If you want to live in as an individual, more power to you, now fuck off and don't expect videos.

times_trw··on Multigenerational Living Often Makes Sense. That Doesn't Make It Easy
> Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.

I think we need to bring back sticks and stones in primary school so people understand the difference.

times_trw··on Multigenerational Living Often Makes Sense. That Doesn't Make It Easy
We had perfectly good words for it.

If we added new words someone would come along and claim them too.

This is what happens when you move from a society which values dignity to one that values suffering.

times_trw··on Browsers are the most likely disruptor of the mobile duopoly
The question is why all those things need to be in the same application.

All those were solved problems 25 years ago, they just needed a basic level of tech literacy to achieve.

times_trw··on Linux hits nearly 4% desktop user share on Statcounter
We're in the odd situation where AMD cards are vastly superior for gamers in dollar/performance terms.

I'm on the market for a AI work station and I'm honestly thinking of doing a amd/nvidia split so I can have the graphics just work and the AI also just work.

times_trw··on With revenue declining, Mozilla CEO gets a 20% raise
How does that compare to a company which has lost 95% of their market share in the last 15 years?
times_trw··on With revenue declining, Mozilla CEO gets a 20% raise
No, in the same way MS didn't have say who is at the head of OpenAI.
times_trw··on Browsers are the most likely disruptor of the mobile duopoly
>We have been lucky on desktop/laptop that we have added 5 zeros to the available compute, memory, network and GPU capacity. This allows a browser to run slack at the same speed as MIRC, from 2002.

I war running mIRC in 2002. Slack is worse.

times_trw··on LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024
Yes, that's what I was getting too.

I imagine what changed is that Kagi started getting traction on site like here and some managers at google actually did something about it.

My own test "voynich illuminated manuscript" which used to give nothing but pintrest spam on google. Now there is just one result from pintrest in google and pretty much every result in Kagi is from pintrest.

There is an academic tab which seems interesting. I will give it a try later.

times_trw··on LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024
Do you know of an article that covers LLMs from the point of view of a tutor/study partner/reading group?

Yours is the first blog which matches my experiences with the code side of things, but I've found them even more useful in the learning side of things.

times_trw··on LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024
Sure, but can you please give me an example since I only have so many searches and I've switched over to chatgpt for most of my former googling tasks.
times_trw··on LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024
No. I've completed projects that have been on the back burner for years in hours. They weren't on the back burner for lack of interest but mainly for lack of expertise in a specific stupid area.

It's not an exaggeration to say that I now do two weeks of programming a night. Of course a lot of times the result gets thrown away because the fundamental idea was flawed in a non-obvious way. But learning that is also worth while.

times_trw··on LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024
Can you give an example where kagi is better than google?

I've tried a couple of searches on the free tier and they gave pretty much the same results. I only have so many free searches to check too.