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- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 6 days ago:
Yes, it’s probably good to note, although in this context it sounded like you were giving a reason government help would be pointless.
Have an upvote, friend.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 6 days ago:
Yeah, some of them need assisted living as well.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 6 days ago:
We are not allowed to simply give it out to anyone. This is not like a church pantry where all of the food is donated by the community and’s parishioners. There is government funding, as well as private businesses, which I am guessing get their money back from the government for funding this. If we could simply give it to anyone we would not be in this situation.
Yep. That’s really dumb. When people talk about government inefficiency, this is what they mean.
- Comment on These captchas are getting ridiculous 6 days ago:
It’s not how AIs work. They’re pretty brain-like, and learn through their experiences during the training process.
It’s possible they still might be able to learn this spelling fact from some bit of their training data somehow, but they’re at an immense disadvantage.
- Comment on These captchas are getting ridiculous 1 week ago:
It was always a kind of unfair test, when you consider words are rendered down to a token before the thing ever sees them.
- Comment on Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions 1 week ago:
I mean, the industry itself was onboard with regulation this time. At least some of it.
It didn’t happen in the US because the US is basically in terminal gridlock at this point. The EU passed something.
- Comment on Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions 1 week ago:
Ah yes. Someone made a GPT version of it that was much more fluent, too.
People who aren’t impressed by LLMs don’t remember pre-LLM chatbots. The first time I played with GPT2 I knew everything was going to change.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
This seems like a golden opportunity to fuck with him in subtle ways. How many girls things can you disguise?
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 2 weeks ago:
I worry a day will come it’s all of them.
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 2 weeks ago:
Does common sense no longer exist?
Yes. A government that’s out to get you is pretty much outside Western living memory, and people seem to think that their rights are a law of physics now.
I wonder what the conversation about digital privacy is like in former East Germany.
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 2 weeks ago:
Look at the Luigi situation. Police tipped accidentally that they have advanced AI they’ve been using for a decade that we didn’t even know about.
Except that’s not what did it, and I suspect any such thing is shitty corporate bloatware. In the end, distinctive eyebrows and a good-old-fashioned snitch did him in. He wasn’t anywhere close to the radar before that.
Privacy defeatism was already fully going in the days of MySpace. That should tell you a bit about how empirical it ever was.
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 2 weeks ago:
Mostly the latter. Name a private thing, any private thing. most people will punch it into GoogleMetaX without skipping a beat.
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure there’s any way you could make a computer work that non-technical people would question, at this point.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
That’s actually pretty unusual in the big picture. I’m guessing you’re North American, maybe European? In East Asia, no such thing ever happened, and historically even in the West immigration and free markets were championed my the liberal parties. Ditto from what I know of other regions.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Nationalism and communism have had pretty heavy overlap over the years, even if it didn’t start that way. If you accept conservative communism as being a thing, sure, I guess you could argue that.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I mean, it’s more nationalism. Not all conservatisms have been nationalist, and not all nationalists are conservative.
- Comment on Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected from 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, not surprised. An experienced software engineer in the US won’t have to do unskilled labour unless there’s something else massive going on.
- Comment on Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material 1 month ago:
Holy shit, why even implement the message then? There is no good answer.
- Comment on 'About Us' page locked behind a paywall 1 month ago:
I’m not sure that’s better, though.
- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 1 month ago:
It sounds like you’d know better than me, haha. Since they’re talking about being capital-lean I’m guessing they must outsource the frame pressing. Having a rare super-specialty injection molding machine would not be lean.
IIRC they mentioned fibre reinforcement, but it couldn’t possibly be the aerospace-style precision product, exactly because that would cost a lot.
- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 1 month ago:
Hmm. Well, plastic can have a pretty good strength to weight ratio. Famously the best if you include fibres. If sheet metal can do it maybe they went all-plastic.
- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 1 month ago:
And breaking. There’s no turning it back into petrol.
- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 1 month ago:
Why not? I’d assume there’s a cast frame, and a thick piece of plastic will hold a person just fine (although I do wonder about bed durability in the back).
- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 1 month ago:
Dope. I wonder if there’s a way to customise it into a sedan. I can speak less to the mechanical aspects of having a super-bespoke super-integrated manufacturing process, but I’m confident the electronics need to go back to basics like this.
- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 1 month ago:
Quite possibly. They’re gambling on a market for a no-frills car existing, but it might just be too small. That’s what killed economy cars the first time.
- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 1 month ago:
As I understand it, the aerodynamics can be no joke on EVs. The motors are very efficient, and there’s very efficient regenerative breaking. That means drag is pretty much where your whole battery charge goes.
For an example off the top of my head, the Arrow concept car manages 500km by not having side mirrors.
- Comment on I Believe That It's Important For All of Us to Understand What 'Decentralization' Truly Means. Please, Let's Talk About That 1 month ago:
I’ll second the mom-and-pop thing. It’s a lot more realistic than the average Joe having to configure and manage things, but still will kill monopolies and associated fuckery dead.
- Comment on I Believe That It's Important For All of Us to Understand What 'Decentralization' Truly Means. Please, Let's Talk About That 1 month ago:
It’s one of those strong network effect things where nationalisation makes the most sense, for sure.
- Comment on I Believe That It's Important For All of Us to Understand What 'Decentralization' Truly Means. Please, Let's Talk About That 1 month ago:
It will cost way more and work significantly less. There’s a reason networks are built like they are.
- Comment on I'm a 6'1" man with size 3 feet which means every they measure my feet at a shoe store, the Brannock device gatekeeps my gender 1 month ago:
Do they get sore all the time? That sounds like a lot of weight on not much area.