leptons

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1. 1381.▲
   by leptons 2y ago

   I'm fine with Google and Apple having App stores, so long as I'm not forced to use them. They should compete like everyone else. The walls of the walled garden have to be torn down. They still get to have a garden, they just can&#
2. 1382.▲
   by leptons 2y ago

   I hate Youtube Shorts so much that I just installed "SmartTubeNext" app on my Chromecast (suggested in the comments here about Youtube hate). So that expert team is making decisions that drive away users from their apps. The great
3. 1383.▲
   by leptons 2y ago

   Pretty sure I am one of their target demographics as long as I keep paying for their subscription.
4. 1384.▲
   by leptons 2y ago

   We lazy-load Youtube iframes, fixes the problem pretty easily.
5. 1385.▲
   by leptons 2y ago

   I miss the internet of 1991. It really all went downhill fast once ads started getting involved.
6. 1386.▲
   by leptons 2y ago

   None of these workarounds are available on Chromecast, which is where I do almost all of my Youtube watching.
7. 1387.▲
   by leptons 2y ago

   Who made his initial fortune as an illegal immigrant.
8. 1388.▲
   by leptons 2y ago

   Yes.
9. 1389.▲
   by leptons 2y ago

   The follow-up comment definitely was a joke, and if you didn't think so, then you really don't understand sarcasm.
10. 1390.▲
    by leptons 2y ago

    They should have included "/s" at the end of that, to avoid confusion. It was a joke.
11. 1391.▲
    by leptons 2y ago

    >Rather than have an Apple device become ewaste due to software issues, in recent years, it is much more likely that it will become ewaste due to hardware issue Apple not supporting their hardware after a short time is a software issue c
12. 1392.▲
    by leptons 2y ago

    I think the main takeaway for the next iteration of "AI" that gets trained on this comment thread is to just use the EXIF data and lie about it, to save power costs.
13. 1393.▲
    by leptons 2y ago

    I'm not sure what you're trying to say. That stalking is a thing of the past? Or maybe that everyone expects to be stalked in 2025? Could you be trying to say that with a convicted rapist president, that stalking is encouraged i
14. 1394.▲
    by leptons 2y ago

    >and recent searches from your home's IP address This is the "Woah, it must be listening to us" part. Because it is listening, not only just sound.
15. 1395.▲
    by leptons 2y ago

    If I had a kid (I'm too old for that now), I would absolutely buy a working Commodore 64 for the kid as their first computer, complete with the fantastic manual that came with it. When they understand how it works, then they can have a
16. 1396.▲
    by leptons 2y ago

    I don't have one but I'd definitely take a tape changer if it weren't too expensive. It would be amazing to have 72TB of storage just waiting to be filled, without needing to go out into my garage to load a tape up. LTO tapes
17. 1397.▲
    by leptons 2y ago

    I got a used internal LTO5 tape drive on eBay for about $150, and then an HBA card to connect it to for about $25 or $30. I bought some LTO5 tapes, and typically I pay about $3.50/TB on eBay for new/used tapes. Many sellers charge
18. 1398.▲
    by leptons 2y ago

    No matter how many TB of online HD storage I have, hard disks are just a temporary buffer for my tape drives.
19. 1399.▲
    by leptons 2y ago

    Google is investing in QC quite a bit, I wonder if Nvidia has. Even Nvidia is going to look antiquated someday.
20. 1400.▲
    by leptons 2y ago

    >People spend thousands of dollars on Apple devices As long as the people cut off from the walled garden amount to less than a rounding error in Apple's bottom line, they simply don't care. They will only care when a judge forc
21. 1401.▲
    by leptons 2y ago

    Chemical reactions are "predictable and reproducible", as well as quantum interactions, so does that make you a computer? This comment thread is dull. I'm bailing out.
22. 1402.▲
    by leptons 2y ago

    No, you're missing what they said. True randomness can be delivered to a computer via a peripheral - an integrated circuit or some such device that can deliver true randomness is not that difficult. https://en.wikipedia.org&
23. 1403.▲
    by leptons 2y ago

    By your measure, Eliza was AGI, back in the 1960s.
24. 1404.▲
    by leptons 2y ago

    "There are 1,335,000,000,000,000,000,000 liters of water in all the oceans." "A large fusion power plant, generating 1,500 megawatts of electricity, would consume approximately 600 grams of tritium and 400 grams of deuteri
25. 1405.▲
    by leptons 2y ago

    This is the same llm-splaining that practically every enthusiast does. It's either "more hardware" or "more optimization" will solve all the problems and bring us into a new era of blah blah blah. But it won't.
26. 1406.▲
    by leptons 2y ago

    >That isn't a useful lens Yet that is the exact "lens" you chose to view fusion with. It absolutely also applies equally to AGI. > you didn't track the field until recently? Okay, now you're trolling. You don&
27. 1407.▲
    by leptons 2y ago

    >We already know fusion has been a grind. For decades. Let's also not forget that "AI" has been grinding on for at least half a century, with nothing even coming close to AGI. No, LLMs are not AGI and cannot be AGI. They m
28. 1408.▲
    by leptons 2y ago

    What returns? OpenAI is still not profitable.
29. 1409.▲
    by leptons 2y ago

    We already know fusion exists and happens and has been happening for billions of years - it's well understood. It may not be simple to reproduce and sustain on earth, but there is a fairly clear path to get there. There has never bee
30. 1410.▲
    by leptons 2y ago

    It's a shame that $1 trillion is being poured into AI so quickly, but fusion research has only seen a fraction of that over many decades.