Putting fiber in the ground is expensive. I work for an ISP, and we estimate fiber overbuild costs at $15/ft. So a mile of underground fiber costs about $79,200.

And don’t forget it’s hard-coded to inject affiliate links on certain sites.

Oh, wait, I forgot they said that was an “accident”.

Imo, the main advantage to cast iron vs literally everything else is how you can abuse it as long as the one rule you follow is to clean it after use.

Teflon and other nonstick coatings are too easily damaged by things like scrubbing pads or metal utensils.

Cast iron don’t give a single fuck.

Yeah, totally not literally disappearing people en mass to feed their souls to Gwi-ma. Just totally harmless, innocent demons.

Interns aren’t that intelligent, either. But they can generate content even if they’re not intelligent and that’s helpful, too.

An intern has the capacity to learn, an LLM does not.

Having the right answer is a lot less useful than looking like you have the right answer, sadly.

Only if you care about accuracy, which is 100% the problem with LLMs.

It’s got intern-level intelligence

The problem is, it’s not “intelligence”. It’s an enormous statistical based autocorrect.

AI doesn’t understand math, it just knows that the next character in a string starting “2+2=” is almost unanimously “4” in all the data it’s statistically analyzed. If you try to have it solve an equation that isn’t commonly repeated, it can’t solve it. Even when you try to train it on textbooks, it doesn’t ‘learn’ the math, it tries to analyze the word patterns in the text of the book and attempts to replicate it. That’s why it ‘hallucinates’, and also why it doesn’t matter how much data you feed it, it won’t be ‘intelligent’.

It seems intelligent because we associate intelligence with language, and LLMs mimic language in an amazing way. But it’s not ‘thinking’ the way we associate with intelligence. It’s running complex math about what word should come next in a sentence based on the other sentences of that sort it’s seen before.

No company has to tell me that they are inclusive. I just assume that they hire the best person who applied for any given job. If that person was LGBT, I fully expect them to have given that person the job. If you have to tell me that you are, that means you werent.

Welcome to being gay in society just a short few years ago. We live in a world where Alan Turing was arrested, charged, and convicted of being homosexual and chemically castrated as a result. It didn’t matter that he helped the Allies win WW2 and he wasn’t hurting anyone, it was a crime to be gay. When AIDS was first ravaging the homosexual community, there was talk of just letting it run rampant as it was just killing ‘the gays’ not anyone important.

I’m happy that we’ve made progress as a society that this isn’t as well known anymore, but that doesn’t change that it did happen.

I dunno, these don’t feel the same to me.

Having LGBTQ representation is a way of trying to attract customers: “Get a Mastercard because we’re LGBTQ friendly” is different than your boss saying “Jim, I know you have a wife and kids to support, and that you’re a valuable member on this team; but we’ve decided it’s more cost effective to have this LLM code our app and have two junior developers clean up the code, so you’re being laid off.”

The quote I’ve seen and agree with is something along the lines of “The AI push exists to try and give the owners of ‘Capital’ access to ‘Talent’ without giving the talented working class people access to ‘Capital’.” It exists solely to try and make paying workers redundant.

Having a gay character in a show isn’t anything like that at all IMO, unless your the type of person who thinks homosexuality is contagious and/or that you’re scared you might realize you’re gay if you watch two men being romantic with each other.

That’s not a problem at all, so long as the first boot device is the Linux drive.

GRUB has no issue chain-loading the windows bootloader. You can even set GRUB to default to Windows if you want, it’ll just show the menu for a while (whatever you set the timeout to be, I find 3 seconds to be plenty) and if nothing is selected, it will hand off to Windows.

If you want to boot Linux, just hit the down arrow key when you see the menu to stop the countdown and choose what you want to boot, then hit enter.

I feel like this is missing a big point of the article.

The vulnerability that the xz backdoor attempt revealed was the developers. The elephant in the room is that for someone capable of writing and maintaining a program so important to modern technical infrastructure, we’re making sure to hang them out to dry. When they burn out because their ‘hobby’ becomes too emotionally draining (either because of a campaign to wear them down intentionally or fully naturally) someone will be waiting to take control. Who can you trust? Here, we see someone attempted (and nearly succeeded) a multi-year effort to establish themselves as a trusted member of the development community who was faking it all along. With the advent of LLMs, it’s going to be even harder to tell if someone is trustworthy, or just a long-running LLM deception campaign.

Maybe, we should treat the people we rely on for these tools a little better for how much they contribute to modern tech infrastructure?

And I’ll point out that’s less aimed at the individuals who use tech, and more at the multi-billion-dollar multi-national tech companies that make money hand over fist using the work others donate.

Sure, but who knows what shenanigans the techs and pilot were trying to convince the machine to drop the landing gear.

Under normal operations, I’d agree, but I’ll bet they were putting something in a maintenance state while it was in the air, and at that point all bets are off.

Firewall redirect and masquerade.

Bitch you thought

“You mean if I delete data, then it’s gone? No matter what platform?”

Wherever checkouts are asking for a phone number for rewards, I use (local area code) 867-5309. Works at all the gas stations, and it’s luck of the draw who gets the fuel discounts because other people use it too.

So we all charge the discounts up, and one lucky asshole gets to benefit.

It should only be concerning if you find you like torturing them, and you start escalating to other animals.

Some early signs of psychopathy are torturing small animals, like cats and squirrels. Something to do with a lack of empathy.

If you can remain content to simply murder slugs and other crawlies that invade your domicile, then you’re not a danger to anyone.

The most powerful words in the world are the things we tell ourselves and believe.

I went to some workshop my mom really wanted me to attend after my marriage fell apart. It was years ago, and I don’t remember much because it really wasn’t my thing, but I clearly remember that phrase.

I took that to mean that it starts with how you treat yourself.

As someone who hit rock bottom, it gets better. My marriage ended with me in handcuffs, accused of something I didn’t do, with one of my daughters in an ambulance going to a psych hospital and the other daughter with my mom.

The charges got dropped the next day (long story) but I still spent a night in jail, and all I could think about is how long 20 years would be. How old my kids would be. I was 31 at the time.

I’m 35 now, moving in with a woman I couldn’t imagine not sharing the rest of my life with. My kids are with me for the school year, and they go stay with my ex for the summer. Literally everyone (even my ex) is better off, even if it doesn’t make me happy to admit it.

It gets better. And I think it starts by being nicer to yourself.

Therapy can really help, too.

That raises a fundamental question to me:

Are companies required to get permission to get data from people?

Because currently, they sure seem to think they need permission, except when it suits the company’s interests (IE gathering data from people who explicitly reject their services and choose not to use them).

And while I understand that not everything is private, we have laws against gathering public data about people but only if you’re just one person. Stalking is a crime, unless you’re Facebook apparently.

That choice is called not using their service.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_profile

Turns out, that isn’t enough.

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See also: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/

The health insurance lobbyists won’t hesitate to inject money into a local election for a candidate that agrees to keep things as they are.

But hey, I remember being naive and idealistic once, too.

You have a lot of faith in the US government’s willingness to solve problems for people vs for companies.

We have a gun violence epidemic because gun manufacturer profits matter more than children’s lives. Forgive me if I’m skeptical that congress would do anything other than protect big business. Health insurance lobbyists will make sure of it.