Honestly I’m not sure, maybe halfway through Trump 1. Definitely before Trump’s third supreme court pick, but it’s been long enough now (and I was sheltered enough) that I can’t actually remember how bad the early years of his first presidency was. Definitely not as bad as this last year though.

I don’t think it’s fair to blame Democrats for not doing this 15 years ago, at least back then the Republicans were still pretending to follow the rules overall.

Honest question, what gripes do you have with the Switch?

And following decent coding practices there shouldn’t be a ton of code there (not saying a small amount, just little enough that AI would be able to compete in volume in this amount of time), just because less is so often more.

Hey hey, let’s be honest here, bragged, it’s been 9 months or so by now. Who knows how much of windows is vibecoded at this point, it might be as high as 50%.

peaceful protester that shows up with a gun and ammunition rather than a sign.

Kyle Rittenhouse? At least by their own logic.

IIRC they contractually get to charge you the price of the TV if the ads are blocked or disabled.

Fascinating, the most recent update seemed to have massively improved things on my Linux system. At the very least I am no longer getting the problem where my entire computer freezes so hard even caps lock doesn’t work.

I mean, it is kinda expensive, but that would be more tollerable for everyone if wages weren’t stagnating to fund yachts.

Since when are there savings accounts with interest rates worth even calculating? The interest rate on my savings account is down at 0.01%.

Krafton fired the creators to deny them a million-ish dollar bonus that was promised to them, then made a whole bunch of accusations against the creators to try to shift the blame.

That didn’t happen.

And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.

And if it was, that’s not a big deal. <- We are here

And if it is, that’s not my fault. <- Or maybe here

And if it was, I didn’t mean it.

And if I did, you deserved it. <- And I’m pretty sure they used this one already

I’d buy that if your original comment didn’t sound very much like something a tankie would say.

In case you didn’t know, the .ml instance has a very earned reputation for hosting tankies.

Is that going to kill the need for the various modloaders?

reducing foreign aid

You mean like the $40 billion offered to Argentina by Trump?

Why yes, I do frequently google things. Searching for proper tutorials and official documentation for technical subjects is a more intelligent thing to do than asking an LLM to do all my thinking for me. As for the actual humans I was talking about there, I meant bringing my car in to be serviced by a mechanic as an example, if I learned the mechanic working on my car was just following instructions provided by chatGPT I would be fucking livid.

I’ll be honest, my biggest problem with something like this is that ai sophisticated enough to do anything useful cannot be run locally. That means every single time the clanker is asked to do something you are uploading significant amounts of personal information in an unencrypted form to some datacenter somewhere, for whoever to just do whatever they want with it.

Except for the medicine stuff, I am confident I would be able to do all of those things actually, given a bit of time for research and enough motivation. Even more critically, when I have a problem like that where I don’t care enough to figure it out for myself, I call upon the expertise of an actual human that really knows things, not a glorified autocomplete with internet access.

My answer to you is that I fully expect the ability to do stuff yourself to be seen as extremely valuable in about 2 or 3 years. This whole AI thing is pretty definitely a bubble, and on top of that it also looks to me like the blockchain and metaverse tech-fads, and I strongly believe that when the bubble bursts people that can say “I spent all that time learning to do things myself rather than rely on ai to do my thinking for me” are going to be the only people with careers.