bigfishrunning

No, Machine Learning is an unfortunate name for a well documented process for creating black-box classifiers. The process is good, the name is not.

Generating a set of weights is not learning.

Those two qualities tend to go hand in hand

Power supply being short meant that residential customers have had to pick up the tab for heavy industrial users.

Maybe some kind of progressive pricing for power would be appropriate. I'm not sure if this exists, and correct me if it does, but maybe the second MW should cost an order of magnitude more then the first, and so on.

The best way to keep the AI people from getting rich selling unicorn farts is to not buy any unicorn farts.

I definitely roll my eyes whenever i see a poster with that obvious-AI-generated cartoon-people style. or the "edgy rock-and-roll poster" style that seems to be so prevalent. It seems that everyone generating posters is using the same 3 prompts! it's maddening.

So why can't the cursor instance on your laptop have a slack bot? I've had a slack bot on my build machine written in chicken-scheme of all things for years, I feel like the great people (or clankers?) at cursor ought to be able to figure this one out

I feel like chatGPT did that years ago...or maybe ELIZA?

Isn't everything Dorsey does these days his vibe-coded side project?

And it was a fine goal, but BAT did so many shady things (like blocking ads but then showing brave's own ads), and the PR poison that is anything cryptocurrency, meant that it was ultimately doomed to fail.

have no say over what they are doing with your data

It seems like you already have no say over what they're doing with your data, and they're selling it to the US.

There's a difference between "The state will seize your property" and "You may sell your property to the corporation at a rate you choose, and if you don't want to then they'll have to find some other land to use". In either case, development does happen, but the primary beneficiaries of the development (the owners of the data center) would have to pay the people who's land they're using (or taking!) instead of lobbying the government to just take it.

I think that unwitting land owners should not be subsidizing the AI grifters...

There's a high-voltage line that crosses over a park (with soccer fields etc...) near me, and you can hear it crackling whenever you're there. I'm sure it's a noisy radio environment.

Either the data center is in the wind belt and you run fiber to the people, or the data center is near the people and you run power to the source. Either way you have to do some kind of cable run, and that means land.

Yes! if they did care about that, they'd use some copy-left license.

The two arguments against that

1) People writing BSD licensed software want people to use it, and don't really care about any reciprocal contribution (or else they would write copyleft-licensed software)

2) "the company" never pays the bill. It is always passed to their customers in one way or another.

Well then AliExpress is not the storefront for you

Why type truth when you can have some LLM generate lies?

It's wordpress; it renders well on firefox anyway.

Not too mainstream, and i still use Linux in a ton of places. Mostly freebsd is simpler and more consistent; having the whole operating system in a single place means that the documentation is better and I don't have to worry if some setting is in /etc or in some database somewhere or in one config language vs another.

I still really like Linux, but I think it's healthy to have multiple viable open source operating systems.

If it were a GPLv3 OS, it's likely that they would have chosen something else.

FreeBSD's license means it shows up in a lot of unexpected places -- the last two Sony Playstations run a FreeBSD derived OS for instance. It's around, more then you think, but it's very quiet...

As a 25 year Linux user (for work and at home), I've been experimenting with FreeBSD in the last year or so and I've found its simplicity refreshing. Maybe I'm swimming against the current, but I'm sure there are dozens of us!

"weak computers" is the funniest part. The computer I'm typing this on *right now* is orders of magnitude faster then the Athlon XP processor that i was using in 2003, but it doesn't feel much faster. I think that hardware advancement is just slower then software bloat...

Which is funny, because whenever I encounter a language for which `for` *doesn't* work this way it feels antiquated. I do however wish another keyword was used in many cases, becuase `for` in C and Go is so much different then `for` in Rust or Python. I think the higher-level case (Rust and Python) should really use a word like `foreach` or maybe something compeletely different like `itr`, although I get that they want to "look" more like C

I would doubt many of them are using those smartphones to collect bug bounties.

I had a pair of sennheiser urbanite headphones that used USB (micro :( ) for digital audio input, and you could use them while charging. Was shocked and disappointed when i eventually replaced them with Audio Technica ones that could only charge via USB but didn't do audio via USB, only bluetooth or analog.

I agree (and am sad) that it's not a ubiquitous feature, but headphones with a built-in dac do exist

This sounds like work for a personally aligned local agent interacting with your past and future media timeline.

I have one of those. It's me. I'm my personally aligned local agent.

You can be yours too, as long as the atrophy hasn't set in yet.

does rust have the worst community of all time?

no worse then crossfit or vegans...

3 load-bearings. incredible.