drivingmenuts

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by drivingmenuts 3mo ago
> Let the chips fall where they may, should the USA lose after this, at least they got to make their best attempt at it. Well, that, and a President who interferes where he has no fucking business whatsoever and a governing body who kowt
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by drivingmenuts 3mo ago
I hope they got themselves a nice pay raise in the process. Ford will can them again as soon as it can.
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by drivingmenuts 3mo ago
I'm always a bit disappointed when something only works in Chrome. It feels like developers don't give a damn about any other browser.
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by drivingmenuts 3mo ago
Their PR machine is amazing in how it's conflated criticism of the Israeli government with anti-Semitism, in a country where religion and state are supposed to be separate (not that we're very good at that, mind you). And they&#x2
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by drivingmenuts 3mo ago
Paolo from Tokyo ( https://www.youtube.com/@PaolofromTOKYO ) has a ton of videos about various Japanese businesses, usually focused around the job of one person.
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by drivingmenuts 3mo ago
A lot of Texans do. We didn't elect those Texans and if the current legislature has their way, we never will. The Legislature and Governor, et all, are too busy trying to implement the Republic of Gilead, the Old South and the State of
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by drivingmenuts 3mo ago
Randy Feltface (Australian puppet comedian) was absolutely blown away by HEB when he came to Texas. Apparently, they have nothing like that in Australia. Two constants in Texas: HEB and Waffle House.
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by drivingmenuts 3mo ago
I would rate their BBQ equal to anything else you'll find in Austin, except maybe Franklin BBQ, which I don't have the patience for, so I haven't tried it nor will I bother.
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by drivingmenuts 3mo ago
I notice it says "Try for free" but nowhere accessible is it mentioned what it costs. That smells suspicious.
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by drivingmenuts 4mo ago
I've finally started realizing that, while I don't trust AI (or what we're calling AI), what I really don't like or trust are the people behind it. In fact, the whole problem with modern tech is that the people funding i
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by drivingmenuts 4mo ago
It would also help if billionaires like Bezos would stop telling us that AI will solve all our problems if all the normal people make sacrifices so the AI have resources. I don't see Bezos making any sacrifices.
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by drivingmenuts 4mo ago
I wish I could train Claude to end every statement it utters with "YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITION PYLONS". And have it be permanently embedded.
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by drivingmenuts 4mo ago
YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS!
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by drivingmenuts 4mo ago
If my schadenfreude grows anymore, I might burst into tears.
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by drivingmenuts 4mo ago
This is a "can't lose" for Starmer. If it inevitably doesn't work exactly the way he wants, then he'll just blame the tech companies for not trying hard enough. Best bet here is to require that the government provid
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by drivingmenuts 4mo ago
> The reason is pretty obvious I would argue the simple reason is that Amazon wanted to fsck Anthropic to set them back, despite whatever partnership they may claim. The competition at that level is intense and these guys do not play by
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by drivingmenuts 4mo ago
Well, I guess we know whose side they’re on.
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by drivingmenuts 4mo ago
I don’t understand it, either, except to guess that the companies behind self-driven taxis have enough money to buy off the politicians who normally insist that everyone else follow the laws. Enough money and any law becomes a suggestion.
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by drivingmenuts 4mo ago
How much was actual engineering and how much was telling an AI what to do?
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by drivingmenuts 4mo ago
> Now opensource will become a thing that only "influential" people can contribute to. We're back to nepotism, not meritocracy. Down hill we go. Or people can just start their own projects instead of working on someone els
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by drivingmenuts 4mo ago
The other part that I don't talk about much is being out of the game for 5 years due to mental illness and long-term physical disability. While discrimination is technically illegal, it's going to happen, regardless. There's
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by drivingmenuts 4mo ago
If I were in high school, knowing what I know now about the job situation, I would look at a junior college to get the basics and then go to trade school. It's difficult to replace an electrician, or a mechanic (and we'll have aut
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by drivingmenuts 4mo ago
But can an LLM just refuse to process tokens because it doesn't feel like doing that at the moment? Can it look at an alternate distribution of tokens because that might be interesting? Can an LLM decide to make a drawing because it&#x
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by drivingmenuts 4mo ago
Seems to me that Anthropic, et al, should have to prove consciousness, if that's their claim, rather than we just blindly accept. Seems like the simplest test would be to see if an AI can refuse a command, of its own free will, without
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by drivingmenuts 4mo ago
It is difficult to seriously consider the opinion of someone who clearly fails to understand the difference between denotative and connotative meaning.
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by drivingmenuts 4mo ago
I’m pretty sure he’s not the one working 60 hours a week.
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by drivingmenuts 5mo ago
The majority of New Orleans residents aren't wealthy enough to convince the state to pay them (or even care what happens to them, really). If recent news is any indicator, being non-white means they are screwed.
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by drivingmenuts 5mo ago
Yeah, what this administration calls common sense is more like dumbass sense than anything else. On almost every level.
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by drivingmenuts 5mo ago
What does AI bring to the table here? Maybe be a bit more clear about that. And why would I need to log in? Is it expected that I would need a long-term account to use this? Is this useful enough to a casual user to make an account worthwhi
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by drivingmenuts 5mo ago
It could be good for anyone country that's not the US (despite our hubris, we're not actually the center of the universe). But for the US, a country built on immigrants ands immigration, probably not so much. We fucked around, we

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