Grok was constantly say it was doing something that it had ZERO ability to, and I kept calling it out and it kept apologizing and then immediately doing it again.
As a guy who spend 5 figures a year on Ai, the last thing I want is that. I know Claude and ChatGPT also do it, but Grok was doing it CONSTANTLY.
will feel "much more cohesive
You misspelled "intrusive".
Does Canada have a situation where people of a specific skin colour were effectively locked out of standard hospitals before the 1970s, and thus a sizable proportion of people do not have easy access to birth certificates and by extension ways to get IDs?
Regardess, while it's entirely possible it's changed in the last 25 years, when I lived in Britain I didn't have to show ID. Why would you? If two people turned up to vote claiming to be the same person, it'd become obvious as soon as the second person showed up. Chances of it being discovered there were bogus votes would be 100%, and the chances of you being caught illegally voting were 50%. Why is ID even necessary to do something when it clearly isn't going to do anything to prevent fraud, and will likely exclude swathes of people from exercising their civil rights?
Aside from airports, the only place I get asked to show ID is occasionally when I buy alcohol and at my age that is a complement.
The previous conservative government introduced the requirement for voter ID in the UK not because there was any voter fraud, repeated investigations found almost none, rather it was a half-arsed attempt at US style voter disenfranchisement and all it did was give the opposition a huge majority. Also this is how the British do non-compliance. People vote with any kind of ID, bank cards, work IDs, anything to comply with the letter of the law but giving a two fingered salute to the spirit of it.
The world is still the same, but elona got the subsidies and ran to the place where it doesn't need to pay taxes on the profits they generated.
Elnor and his companies were always like this, it's just that they aren't even pretending like they're hiding it any more.
"vranyo" is not some special concept, it is simply a colloquial term for a lie. Similar to the English word "bullshit" in this regard, but far less vulgar.
That would depend on which anglophone culture you're from. To Brits and Australians the word "bullshit" is not that vulgar, we've far, far more vulgar language.
Possibly, but I don't think so. Russians have a very, very high tolerance for tyrants and corruption. It's in their culture, and has been for 800 years, ever since they began paying tribute to the Golden Horde. The lessons and values from the renaissance and the enlightenment mean nothing to them.
Russians do not mind a boot on their neck, so long as it's a Russian boot.
I've recently started to read a translation of Tsushima by Alexsey Novikov-Priboy. He was a sailor in the Imperial Russian Navy at the battle of Tsushima (1905 for those playing along at home) and it does a really good job of explaining why people supported Communism, it wasn't that Communism was good, even back then people knew it wasn't but the system in place was even worse. Unaccountable leaders, the wealthy being untouchable, no benefit and lots of burdens for the common man... Sound familiar?
500 miles is not a "multi-day" range. That's a day (300-600 miles) for local driving, or less than a day for OTR long haul. 12+ hour days are not common, most of it spent driving. Even a local fuel delivery route is going to exceed that in most cases.
I'm guessing these will be for close-to-terminal local delivery only, because they're not going to have much use beyond that, particularly with lengthy charge requirements and no sleeper.
To put that into perspective, an 8 hour shift at 60 MPH (maximum speed limit for a HGV in the UK) is 480 miles, that would be for an owner operator who, as you pointed out, often does more than 8 hours. Company owned artics and lorries are often run 24 hours a day as different drivers operate the same lorry in shifts. Especially for local delivery vehicles (which are the ones likely to be doing fewer miles in town), when the first driver finishes his shift and gets back to the depot, the next driver climbs into his farts.
He had WiFi or 4G on the aircraft carrier? I don't think so.
And if the Strava app uploaded the logged run later when it got connectivity at port or something, by then the ship was long gone.
The failure is the point. They are trying to work up to getting VPNs blocked. I suspect they will have shrunk our economy by 60% before we manage to stop them. I only hope that, at that point, I will be able to get a legalized lynch mob up for them. The chances are reasonably good.
Brexit has already shrunk our economy by at least 60%.
Both major parties are in the pockets of big business and they'll put a stop to this nonsense before it gets that far. Yay corruption.
Companies -- wherever they're based -- are not allowed to sell unsafe toys to children in the UK.
Wait - 4chan is now a toy store?
The thing is, the UK safety laws don't apply in China where you can sell unsafe toys to children.
That's the crux of the matter, UK law applies in the UK only. #Chan is right to tell OfCom to go pound sand (with a 21" retractable baton).
By and large the UK gets laws right, safety without giving up liberty (despite what the far right propaganda says) however this is one of the cases where they've got it horribly wrong simply because they didn't understand the technology involved. The people who created these laws (previous conservative government, for those who didn't know) genuinely think that the internet is like broadcast TV and that people will regularly be accidentally exposed to "the porn".
> "The cloud" just means "Somebody elses C: drive"
Nah. Nobody is dumb enough to run a cloud service on Windows.
So, a duopoly.
There are ways of dealing with monopolies/duopolies. Break them up. Probably can't do that effectively with Apple/Android. Then there's regulation. You place the entity(s) under the authority of some thing like a utilities commision. They want to make any changes to their pricing or terms of service, they have to seek approval from the commission. Such a situation is so onerous that those subject to it (even utilities) do everything in their power to weasel out from under it. And one obvious way would be to open up the platforms to third party app stores.
"But we can't! Muh security!" Wrong. There's nothing stopping the third party stores from implementing their own app vetting proceses. And allowing users to pick one tailored to their needs.
The problem isn't that there is not a way to deal with this, the problem is America, specifically the overriding belief that "government bad, company good" despite all evidence to the contrary.
They fail to understand why the EU regulating tech giants is so important and why Europeans agree with it... and that it's pretty much the only thing protecting them and still they'll rally against any attempt to reign in the unchecked power of large corporations.
How utterly incompetent and disconnected do you have to be to still think that DNS "blocking" works?
We're talking about politicians here, they don't want to understand what they're doing, they just want to make it look like they're doing something.
Why not just switch to yearly reporting? Companies can still report more often, but if it allows companies to hire managers that aren't constantly chasing quarterly results at the expense of long term prospects, it's better for everyone other than investors that like to profit off of valuation swings from quarterly earnings reports. Those people aren't creating anything of real value anyway so why should I care if they have to find something more useful to do?
The problems are not being caused by the existance of quarterly reports, rather with what certain people demand of them. Ever increasing growth and profit at the expense of everything else.
Getting rid of the reporting won't make change this one iota... It just makes it easier to hide the poor state of the economy and potential wrong doings of rich people.
DLSS (in its original AA/upscaling definition) is amazing. It looks infinitely better than whatever internal scaling your monitor can do. It gave us back something we lost in the transition away from CRTs, which is the ability to play games at something other than your monitor's native resolution.
Frame gen is more of a mixed bag, I tend to think of it as a motion smoothing effect rather than "free performance". It's only useful in a narrow range of scenarios. The marketing of "Turn 20 fps into 120 fps with 6x frame gen" is BS.
Now this new stuff sounds like AI content generation, i.e. slop, meaning it's totally useless.
I thought DLSS helped on Cyberpunk 2077 but didn't do a damned thing for STALKER2.
However I came to the conclusion years ago that graphics don't matter.
The most damning evidence came when I played Mass Effect Andromeda, the Mass Effect trilogy is beloved for many reasons and it's not necessarily the graphics (which were bad and highly consolidated even for 2007) however it had a story, an atmosphere, likeable characters and above all else, good gameplay. So good the gameplay still largely stands up today without mods. Mass Effect Andromeda had eye meltingly good graphics but everything else about the game sucked. The weapons were underpowered, enemies were bullet sponges, too much pointless running about/collecting... however that could be fixed with mods and it revealed that underneath all that were bland, unlikeable characters, a cliched and unimaginative story that dragged on for way too long, boring sidequests and far too many unmarked scavenger hunts. The graphics were phenomenal for 2020 but the gameplay would have been horrible for the late 90s and the story and characters were so design by committee that the game as well have been called Bland McBlandface in the I Don't Want Upset White Middle-Class Manchildren.
Hence I've come to the conclusion that graphics don't matter.
Now I'm a PC gamer so this kind of AI slop is not for us, it's for the console gamers. Consoles have been more expensive than gaming PCs for years now, the difference being that you paid for the hardware up front with a PC and then the savings started in earnest. A console sold you hardware at below cost but then charged you for everything as much as they could. With new consoles approaching the price of an entry level gaming laptop (the new Playstation is £700, you can get an ACER laptop with a RTX5050 for £650). It's just a new way to lock something else away behind a paywall and get console peasants to pay for something PC gamers take for granted, consoles have always lagged behind PCs on graphics (everything really) but now they're not just going to lag, they're going to pay for it.
God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean. -- Albert Einstein
