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I’m only half joking when I say this could be the modern replacement. I’ve caught both myself and the S.O. using “no take only throw” in conversation, often about unreasonably demanding people.

Is that graph supposed to say bottom 50%? The top 1% would be included in the top 50% so it makes no sense for the 1% to be a higher value.

I’m currently using Tuta, but the complete inability to do SMTP has pretty much guaranteed I’ll be finding an alternative before my plan expires.

Mass Effect 1: the minute-long unskippable cutscene before the fight with Matriarch Benezia. I can’t remember if I was just terrible at that fight or what, but I had to watch that scene SO. MANY. TIMES.

Apologies if I’m reading too much into what you’ve said here, but it reads to me as if you’re implying search engines couldn’t keep up with the volume of the internet and AI is the logical next progression.

Search engines actually worked pretty amazingly at one point, but then were kneecapped because Google et al were more interested in advertising money than useful search results. Then when they needed an excuse to justify ludicrous spending on AI, they shoehorned AI into web search where it is very much the wrong tool for the job if you want accurate, high relevance results.

For AI, it’s as though the library were just a massive pile of books tossed around haphazardly and the librarian had to make sense of it enough to pull whatever you’re looking for out of the chaos. Is it at all surprising, then, that it takes a huge amount of energy and computing resources to make any of this work?

It’s more like the librarian has taken it upon themself (for some reason) to write a book that is the mathematical average of every other book in the library. Then when any patron comes looking for a specific book, the librarian just hands them this slag instead hoping they won’t notice the difference.

Now that said, I 100% agree that running a good “old-style” search engine does still take a huge amount of computing resources, but I’d be surprised if the requirements were anywhere near what is being thrown at training LLMs.

That depends upon how narrow your definition of “right” is. Sort of reminds me of this parable.

I originally got it to rescue my Pokemon before the battery dies

This is probably the edible talking but… I’m enjoying this through the lens of the sci-fi trope of humanity trying to cheat death by digitizing the soul.

We haven’t figured out the technology for ourselves yet, but here we have a person at their workbench, driven by empathy for a digital pet, going apeshit with a soldering iron to try and transfer their little friend’s ghost before its shell fails. That’s cyberpunk as fuck.

So do.

I haven’t given Amazon money in a decade or more.

Options:

1. Local stores if you have any that haven’t been strangled by chains yet.
2. The manufacturer of whatever product you’re buying.
3. A non-Amazon retailer listed in the “where to buy” section of the manufacturer’s site.
4. In those rare cases where a manufacturer ONLY sells through Amazon, just buy from one of their competitors unless the product literally turns lead into gold.

I’m seeing a lot of “but I can get it the next day” in this thread. If my options are to wait a week for a product or to put money in the pocket of a billionaire who is actively contributing to the destruction of the free press, democracy, and the QoL of the working class, like… I’ll find something to do for a week?

I lived in a remote mountain town and could either travel 1,5 hours in either direction to see if a store happened to carry what I need for a reasonable price

Or call them?

Real easy fix here: stop giving Amazon money.

Because he’s part of the reason they’re not dischargeable in bankruptcy in the first place.

Please stop giving Amazon money.

Question for those of you who have read it:

I tend to exclusively read books electronically. Am I correct in assuming that because of the idiosyncrasies of this particular story, it’s essential to read it in physical book form?

Yep. https://github.com/latchset/clevis#pin-shamir-secret-sharing

Let us not forget that both the Conways are complete shitheels.

Very true. Since it probably wasn’t clear, that wasn’t me trying to talk shit about the culinary skills of lunch ladies so much as situations like this. But in retrospect, this is probably not the thread for that discussion anyway.

Food, in a lot of places.

…oh, you meant things they won’t learn in school? My mistake.

Gee, if only those senators had some sort of mechanism they could use to depose an unfit president. Imagine if such a mechanism existed, they’d had the opportunity to use it TWICE, and instead they’d thrown their full-throated (ahem) support behind this kid-fucker each time. I bet they’d feel pretty silly right about now. 😐