Agreed. If you don't know what you're doing it's hard to even ask for the right thing or know what's possible. For example: I'm currently developing a system that uses a local AI to help debug internal issues. The initial incarnations of it were very slow to start up each command; clearly, it wasn't doing proper KV caching and was having to prefill every turn; it required patches on the llama.cpp fork and our API wrapper, and also adjusting the system prompt to keep variable content at the end. But if you have no idea about KV caching issues, how do you even know something is wrong with the backend, let alone what to tell the AI to fix? You'll end up deciding you need to upgrade the GPU instead.

(That said: "lovingly handcrafted" code is a hilarious phrase that should give any developer who's ever worked on a big corporate software project the giggles, and also, these software devs are clearly people angry at knowing they're going to be let go looking for revenge by badmouthing their boss to the press)

Yes, they were. All they had to do was not have Netanyahu as president making sure October 7th happened. Or barring that, maybe not be doing illegal settlements and having soldiers support those illegal settlers for literally their whole existence. The same clown fucks who rant about illegal immigration in the USA love it in Gaza.

They worked almost literally hand in hand to accomplish it. The point isn't that one of them is great. If I thought that, I would say it.

They've been interested in censoring it ever since they became aware of it. It's truly remarkable how the CDA backfired so beautifully. It's somewhat stupefying how many people who ought to know better (as in, they wouldn't even be allowed to opine further about it) would like to undo that!

He didn't have to trick them. He did it to trick Israelis, so they would support him. He did it for a pretext, and got one. There is no need to trick a captive population.

What they put at the top is worthless garbage that is always wrong if I am looking for any information more sizable than what I would normally see in search result summaries. I run a Firefox addon to suppress the AI results because they are distracting dogshit.

The corruption is just too obvious here, it cannot be anything but an attack on our financial systems designed to cause delay and disarray.

This place is dying for real

Netanyahu voted for Hamas. He bragged repeatedly about making sure they got funded as part of his strategy on Gaza. He is far more culpable than any other single person for the attacks that people like to claim led to this genocide, ignoring that Hamas was founded in response to an Israeli settler doing a massacre in a mosque.

Cry harder, white supremacist clown. I live for your tears.

IME the very best information can't even be found in fora, it's on private mailing lists.

Back when I had a Nissan 240SX I was on such a list called the 240-list which was at least twice as good as any forum.

The public is just too problematic for people who actually know and do things.

Stephenson mentions this phenomenon in The Diamond Age, where as people approach higher strata, their news gets to look more the same so they're all on the same page. I have another proposal for why it would be such and why it's NOT desirable, though: the wealthy pissing down on us actually do tend to read the same shit in the real world... Because they have the same goal of treading upon us.

I have a crappy dynamic website and people do read it, though not as many as when Google search functioned. But I keep creating content, which helps.

Like most websites, Reddit is on a downward spiral. It got great, then compromised everything that made it that way for money. But the goose doesn't die all at once, so I guess there's some money to be made there before it crashes and burns.

Is it moral to blame victims?