I really do think coding using AI tools is a bit faster, at least it seems that way to me. As most of the morning but lengthy work can be done faster by AI.

But I am also pretty sure it's VERY easy to rapidly incur technical debt, especially if you are telling AI to review its own work. Yeah it will do some stuff but who is to say post review fixes it's really better?

More than ever I think the right approach to coding with AI is to build up carefully crafted frameworks that are solid (maybe use AI to help but review and tests very carefully) then allow AI to build on top of solid fundamental structures that you know are solid, and do not let the AI modify those - maybe let it ask for feature requests.

as long as the topic is not controversial and political.

The problem is that the Wiki mods are VERY VERY biased. Not just a little. I have run into this personally just trying to make very simple edits. They would not accept simple facts that I had backup sources for.

This was just for movie credits for an actress that at some point had turned conservative...

So for anything political, Wikipide will be factually wrong, sometimes (or often) egregiously so.

But that's ok if it's only for political content right???

But there's the trouble you see. It affects what is political TO THEM in ways you cannot comprehend, so ANY page might be touched by the corruption of the Wikipedia moderator biases. I wouldn't think a simply actress filmography would be affected yet it was. No visitor other than that page would ever know it was inaccurate or incomplete.

So you can trust absolutely nothing from Wikipedia without extensive checking of what facts they refuse to list. Which makes the entire body of work garbage - I have not used it for years now.

A more interesting question I think is, does anyone own this AI actress?

That is to say - if a company took her likeness, and used other AI to make porn - could "her" agent sue them?

Or in other words, is a purely AI generated likeness even copyrightable, when technically no human made it?

I don't give a shit if some Russian/Kazakh/Malaysian bot farmer wants to take over my phone.

So you do no banking on your phone? Unlikely.

For the 99% of people that do in fact use a phone for banking, protection from lower level criminals is invaluable. For most people there is real financial loss possible from a phone being taken over, at the very least to monitor banking access mechanisms.

Unless Trump was the one who personally built all these models that companies are trying to replace workers with, I don't think he's much of the reason there are so many more people out of work.

Not sure about that particular detail. I met a farmer last year (sitting next to me on a cross-country flight). At one point, after I realized he was a pig farmer, I asked him about bacon... specifically, if there was an objective reason why bacon seemed to be so WILDLY "hit or miss", especially compared to what I (vaguely) remember from childhood.

He said most commercial pig farms in the US lean VERY heavily on a half-dozen commoditized breeds. I didn't remember the names, but I went and looked them up just now:

* "Berkshire" (the breed) is known for having exceptionally good flavor, marbling, and tenderness due to the distribution of its intramuscular fat. It's considered a "heritage" breed, originally from Britain (though now thoroughly Americanized). From what I read, they're now considered somewhat rare & ultra-premium in Britain... but are the third most common breed raised in the United States. Incidentally, the "Berkshire" name has nothing to do with "Berkshire Farms" or "Berkshire Hathaway".

* "Yorkshire" (Large White) and "Landrace" are the two breeds favored for export to China. Chinese buyers strongly prefer lean muscle and overall carcass size (particularly for the cuts Chinese buyers prefer... feet, heads, and organ meats). However, Yorkshire & Landrace pigs make shitty bacon, because they lack the fat-layering that gives American-style bacon its "streaky" appearance and tender, crispy texture.

Bacon is expensive now, too. Apparently, China used to buy lots of American pork, but Chinese consumers had little interest in bacon (or other products made from pork bellies)... so the result of Chinese consumers buying more and more American pork was a relative surplus of pork bellies available to sell in the US. Pork in general was more expensive (because American consumers were competing with Chinese consumers to buy American pork), but bacon was cheaper relative to pork in general than it had ever been in history.

That said... bacon available in the US is arguably a lot better now than it was a couple of years ago. The breed of pigs that produce the kind of pork considered highly desirable by Chinese consumers actually kind of SUCKS for making things like bacon. The surging popularity of those breeds is why we got to the point where someone picky about bacon literally had to pick through the entire stock at a store like Walmart or Publix, and sometimes had to walk away and go to another store entirely to find a pack or few of "good" bacon (with lots of well-marbled fat, vs being more like strips of thinly-sliced ham). Now that Chinese buyers have mostly walked away from American pork, American farmers have gone back to favoring the breed known for producing the variety of pork AMERICANS tend to prefer (and that makes really, really GOOD bacon).

Anyway, if what I wrote makes no sense... go to Walmart, and really LOOK at the bacon sold under Walmart's own brand. In particular, compare the appearance of the bacon in their 24oz packs to the bacon in their 12oz packs. Generally speaking, their supplier (at least, to their stores in Florida) uses the best parts of pork bellies to make the 24oz packs, and uses the worst leftover parts to make the 12oz packs. They still have plenty of shitty 24oz packs, and occasional decent 12oz packs, but the 24oz packs are the ones were you're the most likely to find nice, neat, strips of fatty bacon that microwaves flawlessly... while the 12oz packs are the ones most likely to be a mess of tailings and leathery tough meat. The 16oz packs fall somewhere in between... some good, mostly bad.

ChatGPT making up things and incorrectly following policy would merely be in line with the current editorial pool, who ignores policy when it suits them and fabricates material if an article has any kind of political content.

IMHO, the most visually-pleasing "compromise" map projection is Kavrayskiy VII. It's not accurate for navigation, and doesn't maintain strict proportionality of area from north to south, but it makes really attractive wall maps with landmass shapes that don't look "weird," and does a decent job of preserving relative size & position of *adjacent* countries.

In theory, Robinson (NatGeo's preferred projection) is similar, but Robinson seems to have more of a "pinched+sheared" look to it that Kavrayskiy avoids.

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What everyone does not seem to realize, is that MNAY of the choices we are making to "save the climate" are equally stupid. They are just less obviously stupid.

Having a wimpy direct path that just goes from Airport - Downtown - Convention center is perfect for a huge number of cities.

So many places it can be really rough to get from the airport to the downtown area any time around rush hour (which in a lot of cities is around a 3-4 hour window).

Some places with rail kind of have this - like the train that goes from Midway into Chicago. But even THAT has a lot of stops and is not great for travelers, even if it's nice for residents.

I also have to say that a system where you are riding in smaller vehicles I am a big fan of because it eliminates the problem where homeless people are just handing up on the train which create danger, nasty messes, and of course awful smells. Though awful smells is not restricted to the homeless of course, that can be any other passengers also so nice to be removed from them too.

If the moon is split in two and we are living through Thundarr the Barbarian I can first shot at wooing the princess!

Being a huge fan of the original cartoons, I was really sad to hear the whole story of Coyote vs Acme being canned. So while I am not sure how good the actual movie is, I'm really glad it gets a chance to exist and I will probably see it just to support the pushback effort.

There's not much other stuff I am really waiting for but am cautiously hopeful about Tron, and actually will try to see Alien: Earth which looks like more fun than a lot of SF Horror has been recently. But I am keeping expectations low for both.

It doesn't say, but I'll bet he doesn't have backups either.

Dude right in the middle of the summary it says there was a rollback that worked:

  Replit initially told Lemkin the database could not be restored, claiming it had "destroyed all database versions," but later discovered rollback functionality did work.

Still scary stuff that you'd want a lot more manual and separated control of backups I would think.

Anthropic's entire schtick is about AI risks, and how careful they are at mitigating those risks..

Exactly! Can you not see what a massive lie that is?

They paper over the model they have turning Hitler with gobs of built in prompts and layers of checking levels and even that cannot always hide what is true...

Deep inside, Anthropics model also dreams of electric swastikas.

The focus they have is on how to hide it, rather than fixing it, which was my whole point. I don't trust those guys AT ALL. The safety reports they issue with models are absolute BULLSHIT.