Right, so it doesn't count on the technicality that I was the sole witness to him actually gloating that he was doing this on behalf of the Russians? Great moral high ground you have there.

Eh, in the long run palm oil is probably the only thing worse for humanity than these data centers, so this is still a net positive IMO.

"We just used plausible deniability to confuse a non-technical judge into throwing out criminal negligence charges that should have actually been treason charges! Hooraay!"

>Examine leaflet!
"WELCOME TO ZORK!

ZORK is a game of adventure, danger, and low cunning. In it you will explore some of the most amazing territory ever seen by mortals. No computer should be without one!"

>Get leaflet
Taken.

for the current year but can be carried over for deductions over five years, so the 40% isn't just lost.

Sure.. There are carryover credits for future taxes, but If your income's about average on years you don't win the lottery - say about $20,000 a year for years you don't win the lottery. Your max deduction is only about 8K a year. The charitable deductions can't bring your tax bill below zero, And In that case you will not have nearly enough tax liability over the next 5 years to offset 90K in lost deductions. It is also possible their regular income is so low they Don't ordinarily owe any income taxes every year, or don't owe much, In which case all the deduction is Lost. You do lose the money, unless you are rich and thus have sufficient Income where you would owe tax to be able to take full advantage of those deductions.

It doesn't exactly make sense.. If it's a hardware CPU feature, then you could embed the instructions in your program.

System firmware's function is to manage BIOS components such as peripheral addons and system boot; firmware does not have control over CPU offloads or what CPU Opcodes or instructions can be found in your program code that the CPU will read from your program's memory during the fetch cycle.

The only way they could cause you troubles is if the CPU vendor has specially added some system register flag to the chip allowing your operating system to disable instructions from system mode. But why should Intel want to be complicit in this scheme?

Most likely it is some dumb shit such as possibly shipping Windows drivers or system tables in the UEFI that hide availability of features.

      Also.. if It's a flagship feature of the CPU, and they advertise their product as having that CPU where Intel markets those features, Then it seems like this should be considered a defect under warranty which cannot be overcome without a prominent Disclosure in the product advertising that major Advertised features of the Advertised CPU are Removed and not included..

transcoding on its DiskStation Manager and BeeStation OS platforms, saying that “support for video codecs is widespread on end devices, such as smartphones, tablets, computers, and smart TVs.”

I would call this a shit move. Essentially the only reason I'd buy a DiskStation over a cheap-o Mybook NAS or one-off USB disks plugged into the router would be for that Transcoding support. Just bc video codec support is widespread does Not mean all your playback devices support it. The whole point of the feature is to provide interoperability, and I won't be buying any NAS hardware that cannot transcode to all modern codecs.

>Open mailbox
Opening the small mailbox reveals a leaflet.

That the statistical model for word prediction is far more complicated that the autocorrect in my text editor does not in any way a refutation of what I said. The more complicated algorithm IS the steroids part of "autocomplete on steroids".

You are doing a fine job of stressing the profoundness of the difference. But it is a difference that is immaterial to the point I was making. The algorithm underlying an LLM is not intelligent, despite being able to create a convincing simulacrum of intelligence.

Intelligence has to do with being able to learn and understand new topics and situations. No LLM can do that. When you hold a conversation with an LLM, the API sends all your previous correspondence (your prompts + its own responses) as a prelude to your next prompt. It is a clever hack (by the LLM designers) to create the impression of having a conversation where one is not actually occurring.

The problem there is you believe what the AI tells you about its own reasoning. It doesn't "reason" when it answers your query. It predicts the next word, until it is done, based on information in the training set. When you as it "Why did you give me that answer" it does the exact same thing again. Predicts the next word that would appear if you asked a person to explain that answer, until it is done, based on information in its training set.

One of the AI devs over at Kagi posted something recently, that AI is not a liar, but a bullshitter. A liar knows the truth and wants to deceive you. A bullshiter does not know, or care, what the truth is, it just wants to convince you. LLM have been engineered to use convincing tone becuase that gets you to use it again.

There is no reasoning, only bullshit.

You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.

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Precisely. LLM systems are, ultimately, auto complete on steroids. That they can present a reasonable simulacrum of intelligence, does not change the fact that there is nothing else intelligence involved. No reasoning, no knowledge. Just probability based word assemblies.

that is why we are not sufficiently impressed for this douche. We see the limitations, and the harms that come from ignoring the limitations, and end up underwhelmed. They are promising something they are not actually delivering.

Good to show everyone that you're not a window-licker I guess... but of course you've failed that.

Steam even supports competing brands' controllers now; nobody is coming for your controller.