i80and

8 ms·

31.
by i80and 9mo ago
It's hard to pick just one reason, but off the top of my head: * Any failure tends to turn flying things into unguided missiles * Noise is extremely hard to control -- I did an FAA helicopter discovery lesson, and oof * Cities tend
32.
by i80and 9mo ago
This sort of thing has been a devolving disaster since the Settings App was included in Windows 8 as a partial replacement for the Control Panel. I'm not sure the current state of things, but as of the last time I used Windows, the s
33.
by i80and 9mo ago
There really isn't that much GNU on a modern Linux system, proportionately.
34.
by i80and 9mo ago
I use an Amex as my primary and preferred personal card, and legitimately can't remember any place in the US where it wasn't accepted. In Europe it is pretty hit or miss though, unfortunately.
35.
by i80and 9mo ago
Just so we're clear, the voter base of over a year ago asked for this because they were actively lied to, and were foolish enough to believe said lies. Current polling however says the current voter base is quite unhappy with how
36.
by i80and 9mo ago
I think I prefer that AI-generated websites not be presented by search engines, thanks
37.
by i80and 10mo ago
Very few people want to walk 5 miles for groceries. I'm lucky enough to be able to walk to my grocery store, and even being healthy and able, 1 mile each way is the most I want to do. Bicycling would make 5 miles a cinch, however.
38.
by i80and 10mo ago
I feel really sad about this -- I was amazed as a child to learn that I was allowed to just... GO IN to buildings and lectures as long as I was quiet and respectful. I always took pride in my university's openness. Then I took my boyfr
39.
by i80and 10mo ago
Yeah no, (1) Mozilla was going to be in for a tough go no matter what; I don't think Eich would have fared any better. But (2) you can't donate to stop your own employees and users from having civil rights without repercussions.
40.
by i80and 10mo ago
I've found Organic Maps to be better than any paid app for hiking (and I've tried a bunch) for what it's worth
41.
by i80and 10mo ago
This is... I'll go with "dystopian". If you're not sure you can properly explain an idea, you should think about it more deeply.
42.
by i80and 10mo ago
I mean, 8 was easily the most functional of the new trilogy, if a somewhat overly ambitious muddle, so that's a bad example. There is a real problem with too many sequels and adaptations though.
43.
by i80and 10mo ago
Star Trek was basically the only reason for Paramount+ to exist. Once they axed Prodigy and sold season 2 to Netflix (ironic, in retrospect), the writing was on the wall.
44.
by i80and 10mo ago
The AI Overviews are... extremely bad . For most of my queries, Google's AI Overview misrepresents its own citations, or almost as bad, confidently asserts a falsehood or half-truth based on results that don't actually contain an
45.
by i80and 10mo ago
I'm not aware of there being a single lick of evidence to suggest that kookery, but even if he was a Russian agent, he certainly accidentally provided Americans a laudable service.
46.
by i80and 10mo ago
I'm a pretty prolific gamer, but at the start of the year I finally kicked Windows to the curb. It's been fine . Surprisingly few games I'm interested in to begin with have anticheat that doesn't work on Linux, and it&#
47.
by i80and 10mo ago
...a complaint that definitely has not been continuously espoused since the ancient world. With apologies if you're being ironic.
48.
by i80and 10mo ago
Those 90s LaserJets were genuinely incredible , and aside from (understandably) dog-slow PostScript processing, I think they were a pinnacle of office printer engineering. We had one keep on trucking for... geez, as far as I'm aware i
49.
by i80and 11mo ago
I dunno, I'm not fully anti-LLM, but almost every interaction I have with an LLM-augmented system still at some point involves it confidently asserting plainly false things, and I don't think the parent is that far off base.
50.
by i80and 11mo ago
Maybe in the sense that a CueCat is interesting to us today.
51.
by i80and 11mo ago
The Coral TPUs are closer if anything to what's in Pixel phones. In particular they're limited to iirc 8-bit integer types, which puts them in a very different category of applications compared to the kind of TPUs being talked abo
52.
by i80and 11mo ago
> on American-dominated forums people often view public libraries nowadays as a place for the smelly homeless to hang out, look at porn, and possibly shoot up. I think this says far more about your specific forum bubbles than anything el
53.
by i80and 11mo ago
I'd be willing to bet that's the only time the teacher had to deal with that specific skulduggery. Is it actually worth it for a teacher to spend time red-teaming basic lesson equipment? I really think not unless the teacher has r
54.
by i80and 11mo ago
If you have unusual self-discipline and mental rigor, yes, you can use LLMs as a rubber duck that way. I would be severely skeptical of the value over a diary. But humans are, in an astonishing twist, wired to assume that if they're
55.
by i80and 11mo ago
Users would hate a simple deny list, even if it may be a good idea. That means the safeguards, to the extent they currently exist at all, have to be complicated and stochastic and not interfere with growing metrics . The industry has k
56.
by i80and 11mo ago
There's something very dark about a machine accessible in everybody's pocket that roleplays whatever role they happen to fall into: the ultimate bad friend, the terminal yes-and-er. No belief, no inner desires, just pure sycophanc
57.
by i80and 11mo ago
The user of the code may plausibly want to make a different tradeoff than the author, without wanting to rewrite the project from scratch.
58.
by i80and 11mo ago
You almost had me for a moment.
59.
by i80and 11mo ago
Most garbage collectors are precise, if possible.
60.
by i80and 11mo ago
It is also true that making attackers spend time and resources has value. Just because you're trapped in a Red Queen race doesn't mean you should stop running

More ›