Not much to say here other than… FUCK YEAH!

I hope his schmeckel no longer works.

I’m so sick and tired of the self-evident stupidity of free speech absolutism.

It also expects that people are content to actually fix things, or sew tears in clothing, or whatever, and that often requires a little research and initiative in a world where it’s been made abundantly cheap and convenient to just replace almost everything.

I don’t think it’s necessarily ignorance so much as a combination of laziness and incredible convenience.

A few years ago I taught myself to fix my laptop screen via Youtube and saved myself a $400 repair, but most people would just chuck it and buy a new one.

At my work we call the ‘granny browser’.

I love this.

Also love this comments section.

Barf

And not the good version from Spaceballs.

Oh, true, but back then game companies would sell you those single disks you needed. My copy of Baldur’s Gate 2 was missing one that I was able to replace for a few bucks.

In hindsight, I kinda miss the awesome customer service that used to exist.

I have fond memories of Windows XP working well.

Do not have fond memories of the multi-dvd game installations, but I still have my library of physical games. :)

In the future, please resist the urge to give people advice they didn’t ask for. Thank you.

If time travel were a thing I would happily go back and prevent myself from being conceived. I’m not suicidal and don’t want to die, but given the choice, I’d rather not exist than have to work for most of my life.

There’s a reason why the vast majority of the US celebrated when one millionaire, mass-murdering piece of refuse was gunned down in the street.

Imagine the party that would erupt if it were one of Donald’s golf buddies.

Or mine: Ron Jeremy.

Okay… so?

Yup.

In some instances that’s sufficient though, depending on how much precision you need for what you do. Regardless, you have to review it no matter what it produces.

In hindsight, I’m really glad that the first time I ever used an LLM it gave me demonstrably false info. That demolished the veneer of trustworthiness pretty quickly.

At my work, we don’t allow it to make citations. We instruct it to add in placeholders for citations instead, which allows us to hunt down the info, ensure it’s good info, and then add it in ourselves.

I do admire that Canadians voted with their money against Trumpian interests.

The point isn’t AI.

The point is that Harris doesn’t differentiate herself enough from Trump’s politics for her election to mean a whole lot if you’re a working class voter or impoverished in the US, and that’s by her own admission. She literally said publicly she wouldn’t diverge from Biden’s politics.