Don’t disagree with you, but yeah - good luck with that

As long as someone is willing and able to maintain it.

It’s open source. All the work is either done by volunteers or by corporate sponsors. If it’s worth it for you to keep a GPU from the 90s running on modern kernels and you can submit patches to keep up with API changes, then no reason to remove it. The problem isn’t that the hardware is old, it’s that people don’t have the time to do the maintenance

opens task manager

sees a system uptime of 4 years

I’ll lose my tabs!

My 18 month old really likes Bluey (and tbh so do I) but I’m a little bit scared for when she starts expecting me to buy into games as hard as Bandit does

Trust fund kids: talk to your parents about cryogenic freezing before someone else does and convinces them to blow your inheritance on SciFi technobabble

Some Epyc SKUs are firmware locked to specific motherboards - eg if you look on eBay, you’ll see plenty of listings for “Dell locked” CPUs. Afaik they aren’t locked to specific motherboards, just to a specific vendor, and there are plenty of unlocked SKUs as well

Opposing legislation to restrict access to tobacco because of the risks of forming a black market while also opposing legalisation of cannabis is such an amazing satire of conservative politics

Depends on how much money you’ve got now I guess? If you’ve got a spare million or so that you can’t work out what to do with I’d be more than happy to take it off your hands and put it to good use.

$2.5m clears my mortgage, puts my daughter through private school and uni, and still leaves me with a big enough chunk of cash that the interest would let me be picky with whatever job I take after.

Well the alternative is a convicted rapist who wants to harvest your organs…

Not directly, but depending on the airspace you are violating you might end up meeting some people who have absolutely zero chill

Imagine that you are right and a person is on drugs; what kind of inhumane psychopath do you have to be to see someone having a medical emergency - regardless of the cause - and think that the police are the best people to deal with the situation?

Balloon cops

As they are more commonly known the FAA, and their enforcement arm - the USAF

For anything that is related to my backup scheme, it’s printed out hard copy, put in an envelope in a fire safe in my house. I can tell you from experience there is nothing more stressful than “oh fuck I need my backups but the key to unlock the backups is in the backups fuck fuck fuck”.

And for future reference, anyone thinking about breaking into my house to get access to my backups just DM me, I’m sure we can come to an arrangement that’s less hassle for both of us

I don’t think it’s all grift - there are absolutely places where LLMs are the best tech out there, but it’s probably not going to take everyone’s jobs any time soon (at least not on merit - in sure there are plenty of places that’d accept a 50% drop in quality for a 90% drop in price)

I’ve seen a pretty compelling case study of a company using an LLM as a “tier zero” support tech - instead of getting a tier 1 tech to classify a case, decide if they had the tools to address the issue or if it needs to go to tier 2, work out if it was an instance of a known issue etc before they actually start working on the problem, give the LLM some examples and get it to do the triage so the humans can do the more complicated stuff. It does about as well as a human, for a fraction of the price.

Work paid for me to go to a “getting started with AI for businesses” seminar run by [redacted reputable organisation name] and holy crap the FOMO.

• The whole premise of the thing basically boiled down to “LLMs are a massive game changing technology that is going to make huge amounts of human tasks obsolete and if you don’t get in on it now your competitors will and you’ll be bankrupt in a decade” which… idk. Useful technology for sure, but this isn’t the AI singularity. The vibe I got was all these people are old enough to see the fortunes won and lost when the internet exploded, and are terrified that this is going to be that all over again and that they’ll end up left behind.
• People massively personify LLMs without thinking through the actual detail in how they work. Someone asked a question about how you can rely on information the LLM gives you, and the suggestion was to just ask it how confident it is which isn’t really how LLMs work - they are fancy auto complete, it has no theory of mind or actual reasoning - it can’t know if what it’s saying is true or not, but because it is being presented as something you can converse with, it feels like there is some deeper cognition that you can interrogate

Why couldn’t they? The supreme court is literally the final authority, and there is no mechanism to automatically remove a justice from the bench. There is an ethics code that says they should recuse themselves if they have a conflict in a case but it has no enforcement mechanism - two sitting justices have literally taken bribes in violation of the ethics code

True, but silicone is 10-20x the price of TPU

The ruling is limited to “official acts”, but the same court is the one who decides if an act is official or not

Having tried similar things, I cannot stress enough how much you want to be printing molds like this in TPU unless you really really want your mold to be permanently embedded in the concrete

The emotional damage of simultaneously realising that you are old and understanding all the people you laughed at for yelling “get off my lawn”