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Not being cynical - what is the difference please?

I absolutely do. Unlike you, I don't let my misogyny get in the way of objective opinion. I've worked with a lot of intelligent, strong women, including savvy engineers and strong leaders. I've worked with some real stinkers too.
 
Just like men.
 
Do you sit and do things like "I bet that man is there in a position of power because he was pushed into place and he doesn't deserve it, he's there simply because he's a man." Because it sounds like you do that for women, and that's honestly a bit sad. When there are a LOT MORE MEN who are put into positions of leadership and authority who absolutely positively DO NOT deserve it but have friends and/or momentum behind them, and are sometimes chosen simply because out of the two choices, they are the male.

WTF, seriously? I could just as easily say "Not because females are different, but because some people are so desperate to think their masculinity is better they will look for red flags simply because the person is female, when the female in question is highly qualified and intelligent".
 
This product is a 'me too' since there's already tools to help you fine tune various Big Player models. Writing a fine tuning app for llama is quite simple, you can even get llama to write the fine tuning app for you. The whole *point* of this is this female, since you pointed out her gender, worked for OpenAI for many, many years, and knows a metric fuck-ton more about machine learning than you and has oodles of trust due to her position at OpenAI and is getting investments to be a competitor.... (and I can't believe I have to do a basic research for you, since misogynists are just gonna hate no matter what, but here you go - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira_Murati#OpenAI

You do realize these are user submitted? Very rarely, as in almost never, do slashdot editors actually do as their title suggests and edit. They are more like traffic cops, where they make sure something that was green-lit from the firehose isn't TOO much flame bait or racist or stupid...its why there's the never ending cycle of dupes. If you're seeing summaries its because users submitting them are more likely using AI to generate the summary rather than their own meat sack brain.

Computers are an extra expense that increase productivity, and they don't result in mass layoffs. This is getting measured all the time with ROI by financial analysts with most companies. I think most (not all) software devs are using AI and feeling more productive, though its definitely hard to measure actual ROI on a tool like this... Whether your typical office worker feels that way remains to be seen, though the 'quality' of powerpoints and emails has gone up, if you consider AI email drek quality, which it seems most managers and execs do.

If the cause is environmental, then evolutionary pressure will reduce the birthrate and we'll either catch up or we won't. *Everything* is DNA issues when it comes to the birthrate, that's my point of contention. Live in a place with too much of a chemical or not enough of another, or too much heat or not enough? We can keep the DNA exactly the same and force artificial birthrate increases through tech, or we can modify the DNA to adapt. Its not hard to comprehend. We evolve our buildings, our food, our way of life, why not our DNA to adapt to whatever problems, whether 'genetic disease' or 'genetic expression of environmental factors'?

You literally picked the one thing, menopause, that is nature's way of saying "No more babies". I am over 50, so fuck off with your pedantry. The bureaucratic nightmare of adoption comes from people wanting *newborns*, not 5 year olds, or babies that look different than them. On any given day there's around 100,000 kids that need adoption in the USA with no one standing in line because people want babies that look like them or they can tell 'you're my real child', not 'someone elses' children.
 
Want to reproduce? Go ahead, I'm not even trying to stop you or say anything about that.
 
All I was saying is that if we continue to manipulate DNA to the point where people who have DNA issues have babies from their own DNA, we need to first FIX THAT DNA or we'll eventually end up with no one who can reproduce without medical science.
 
Sounds like I hit a nerve with you.

Not one thing you said negates the evolutionary factor I'm talking about. EVERY point you mentioned has a genetic component. The few times its not (environmental causes I suppose) is incredibly rare. You literally said "genetic component" or "genetic factor" on every point - except for age and PLEASE we do NOT need more old people having babies when the young people are having too many already. The low birth rate in western countries is not due to medical issues but due to societal choice and there's plenty of children that need fostering and adopting.

There's a reason for that, and they probably should NOT have children, unless we can also correct flaws in the DNA that does not allow them to have children, or we will breed a race of future humans that can only have children via methods like this....

(sigh) I know, don't feed the troll, but this is for other people who might believe your nonsense - https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2024/mozilla-fdn-2023-fs-final-short-1209.pdf
 
Keep in mind also that Mozilla foundation is losing money since some money came from USAID. (even the US Govt at one point wanted an open standards browser).
 
Disclaimer: I do not nor have ever worked for Mozilla, though I've worked with a few people who have. Your average corporation wastes A LOT more money on 'political crap' and people that aren't developers - its impossible to organize humans and continue to get and use grant money without attorneys, accountants, and communication folk. That's the reality of 21st century organizations.

If you want to nitpick - Sure its a corporation but Mozilla Corp is not out to enrich shareholder value or even make a profit - its fully owned by the Mozilla Foundation without a rich board or venture capitalists trying to expand the profit footprint. The corp status is for tax convenience. Unlike OpenAI which has a similar structure, Mozilla Foundation has complete control over the corporate side. The Gecko and firefox source is 100% open source promoting open standards using open projects. Mozilla has proven time and time again they actually have the Open Web and Users Privacy at heart. They make deals for search crap with Google to keep funding them since Mozilla operates at a loss, and due to people like you who think "they shat themselves" people can't or won't contribute either time or code to the project.
 
Also......ladybird won't work on Windows any time soon, nor on android or iOS. So keep applauding 'competition' that's not aiming to compete with the majority of users....
 
PS - for the record I have nothing against this project, wish them well, and hope it does one day become a viable alternative, but I don't see that happening any time soon. There's a reason no one writes an HTML/JS engine from scratch....its bloody hard to write an engine like this around decades of evolution without sacrificing some area of support.

What competition are you talking about? We need standards compliant browsers that don't ship personal data back to a corporate overlord and allow for extensibility and use how the users themselves want. That pretty much IS Firefox or Waterfox or Seamonkey or Icecat or whatever other Gecko-based browser you want. If you *really* want another alternative, Mozilla is working on Servo, written in rust. I can't imagine this Ladybird browser is somehow more compliant or memory safer than Gecko, other than having Yet Another Corporate Sponsor attached to your personal data. At least with Mozilla they have an incredibly strong track-record of focusing on user's rights and privacy.
 
The problems I have with Firefox are NOT firefox themselves, but rather websites that want to ensure you are using Chrome or require some windows/chrome specific extension. That's not Firefox's problem but rather the nature of the websites trying to enforce this (the majority of which work if you switch the user-agent to be Chromium based.)

This isn't a publicly owned SEC examined company. Musk has a cult of personality about him when it comes to his private equity owned bullshit. He is maximizing THOSE shareholder's value (does anyone own xAI but Musky anyway?) hrough getting people aware of grok. I mean no one wants to actually pay for grok or use it for coding or anything like this, its popular for making nudes of celebrities and spouting right wing bullshit. Otherwise no one pays for it.
 
Anyway they will use the government transaction logs as training data for future iterations of grok, thus enhancing value.

Correct, someone like Sergey Brin has tens of billions of dollars in Alphabet stock at current valuation. The more he can get current employees to work without hiring new people, the more his own valuation goes up. Its not about his Salary so to speak, its about his owned Stock and competing with other rich assholes for who is the richest asshole.