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"AI, but verify" -- Winston Churchill (alternate universe)
I'm just replying reflexively because suggesting Powershell on Linux is an abomination, and because I didn't know about nushell, and it looks awesome. I wonder why the documentation is still that incomplete, though.
I'd wonder instead if anyone still thinks of USA as the good guys of the world. In these days where information (and disinformation) happens fast, propaganda can only cover reality up to a point.
I'm not buying that. We know vices are bad not because they're immoral, but because they are harmful to the self and others. Knowing what's harmful doesn't require imaginary superadults, just common sense.
How does that even work in a democracy that has systemic flaws, where the elections boil down to which candidate had the most financial support? USA's democracy is beyond fixing, it needs a complete refactoring amd stronger checks before elections of both candidates and officials become meaningful for regular citizens.
According to this widely cited comic strip, if you are over 30 and didn't know it, you should be ashamed.
Becoming a "Linux power user" is a harder task than one might suspect, though. More so nowadays, where distros like Ubuntu just work, and you can use it as a daily driver without debugging issues.
Fun fact: a tortilla, being made of cereal flour, is classified as a bread. That means tacos are sandwiches.
At least culinarily, but actually coded in law in Indiana.
Despite the downvotes, I'm with you in this hill. Kids are gullible because they instinctively trust adults, especially their parents. It's fine to prank them and teach them afterwards how not to be as credulous, it helps their growth. It's bad to abuse their trust for fun, specially long-term falsehoods. It stalls their growth.
Also, culture changes, and treatening a little kid with psychological or physical harm isn't as funny as it was back then. You had to grow up in that era to appreciate it. Despite loving and being loved by their parents, Calvin is frequently terrified of them.
I think this implies that Calvin is not as unruly as it appears, and he was raised with good values, so he still obeys his parents most of the time because he knows they want the best for him.
If we still had Calvin and Hobbes nowadays, it wouldn't be as well received if it didn't change with the times. I can't picture them going to family theraphy, for example, although I haven't read all the strips.
But the ones that repackage as part of improvement are the ones that usually stick. Repackaging as a lesser product only works if your brand strength is being cheap.
Sincerely blows my mind to see someone recommend cryptography to generate pseudorandom numbers. It speaks volumes of how fast computers are now, and how used we are to waste that power.
Slay the Spyre is a rogue deck builder, the PRNG of Windows Freecell (3.11) would be good enough for it.
Edit: From https://github.com/joshuamkite/freecell
Microsoft FreeCell RNG Algorithm: Uses seeded random number generator (seed = (seed * 214013 + 2531011) & 0x7FFFFFFF) for reproducible deals (games numbered 1-1,000,000)
I'm still waiting for the new generations to rediscover screen savers.
Counter example: The Internet
- Nerds build something nice
- They can't touch us here
- Stop touching us! I'm leaving!
This is pretty insightful. You might or not become interested in spectating sports at a young age. Once you define yourself as a sports fan, or indifferent to sports, it's very hard to change attitude.
It's even simpler than that IMO. There are still nerds creating things out of love for creating something useful and clean, but as soon as it becomes successful, the smell of (potential) money attracts parasites, and they will eventually enshittificate the clean and useful thing if they get the chance, as they do with everything else.
It's the equivalent of the cycle of life: birth, maturity, decay, and death.
I feel a little pain seeing how big, fully-formed apps appear in GitHub, created in days, completely hollow of pull requests, issues, or discussions.. just imagining the chain of prompts.
"Make me a web app like Stellarium"
"Make it dark mode"
"Increase the resolution of the graphic assets"
"Oh, I'm out of credits for today. Where is my wallet?"
"..."
"Suggest me a catchy name that is not in use right now"
"What a productive weekend! I'll license this as MIT so other prompters can freely benefit from my prompts. I made this".
I'm probably being unfair, maybe this wasn't vibe coded in days, maybe the author worked more on it than it appears, was very careful Claude didn't use GPL code that can't be relicensed as MIT, etc. I can't know. I'm basing my opinion on what I can see.
Neo wasn't an elightened being, he just escalated privileges.
For the non British:
Twee: affectedly or excessively dainty, delicate, cute, or quaint.
Getting in the flow means continuous, deep concentration and attention, at least in my experience. Prompting and checking is more like managing an underling, I couldn't get in the flow that way. It would be like a driver trying to get in the flow with a vehicle that randomly does unexpected things.
This has the same energy as people who don't care if controversial images in social media are AI generated, as long as they're engaging.
It makes a huge difference if the writing was manual or automated. LLMs generate verbose, generic writing, and ideas that could be concisely expressed in a sentence inflate to entire paragraphs. It's disrespectful to readers when the author saves a couple of hours by wasting thousands of their readers.
ejected a complete idiot
Don't give us hope.
The "my train" convention is an interesting argument. It's not actually yours, you're buying a train-as-a-service single-use license, and there are tiers to that too.
I guess the main difference is that TAAS has many different trains where the experience varies wildly, so it helps to be specific on which train you're licensing; but LLMs are the same product for everyone, and you can't stay with say, ChatGPT 1.0, you get the same choices as everyone else.
I didn't get mine, but I suspect I might be using yours when I use it.
This is completely fine, as those are your own installs, but LLMs can't be owned by the users, your Opus is the same Opus as everyone else's, your only difference is the suscription tier to their API.
If you had your own on-premises LLM, that would indeed be your LLM, and it would make sense to compare it to the on-premises LLMs of other people, as your setup particulars would affect the result.
The Japanese flag references the Sun, and it's hard to aim for astrological minimalism and not look similar. Still, the transparent background is a bad idea IMO, because a spaceship/space station with painted flags will look very funny.
Nevertheless, I think the Earth flag should include the moon too. A blue Earth, a white Moon, and a black background. When the Moon secession war starts, the laser holes in the flag could double as the starry sky.
Your Opus 4.8? Is it now usual to refer to LLMs like that?
I miss it too, and think of it every year. This is also very nice, though.
this app I've never used and don't want launches
I'm by no way an Apple fan, but why not uninstall the app if you don't need it?
It hurts, doesn't it? I also thought a few measly questions would be a piece of cake, and mainly focused on speed.
Isn't this a work-life balance issue? I work 8 hours a day on my work computer(s), yet I'm still eager to use my home computer for hobbies or pleasure.
This person could read for pleasure if they set the time for it. When I was coding all day, I didn't have the will to code for hobby at home, so maybe they had the time but not the drive.