Comment Re:Which is it? (Score 1) 126
Translation: The idiot employee in Sector G-7 will never push the big, red button that disables the cooling pumps to the nuclear reactor.
D'oh....
Comment Re: heh (Score 1) 126
Whether you're 20, 30, 40, or 50, you're gonna be fucked by AI in some way in the next decade. It doesn't matter if you're old or not.
How?
Can you give some realistic, meaningful ways the average person like myself will be fucked by AI?
Comment Re: Summer vs Winter (Score 1) 200
Comment Re:Makes me wonder (Score 1) 128
My other question, is how long will they be able to get away with this sort of thing, before customers decide the risk of disclosing your data to these external AI firms, is greater than the cost of building the capacity to run your own models in-house.
I don't use LLM, generally. But I was messing around and got some older models running on my laptop last night. Nothing special, no idea what I would use them for (couldn't generate a paragraph of text before clearing losing all coherence, because these were small old models running on 5 year old hardware). Supposedly Mac Studios and Mac minis are selling like hotcakes because hobbyists want to run local models. How long before the Venn Diagram for "can be run locally" and "capable enough model" overlaps for most use cases, making the risk of data exfiltration by these firms not worth the risk?
Lot of words to say this kind of thing may accelerate the bubble bursting.
Comment Re:When demand nears peak capacity. (Score 1) 200
They just turn off your water heater.
What good does turning the gas off to the water heater do....?
Comment Re: Summer vs Winter (Score 1) 200
If you can cope at 12C in a T-shirt
... up to you, I wear a real jacket and a scarf.
Ugh...had to get on ChatGPT and find out what the fuck 12C was in F.
Ok, so about 54F...roughly. That's cool...I guess depends a bit on how high your humidity is. In the New Orleans area, it can be 54F and very humid...if the wind is coming in off the lake it can be quite chilly....but if lower humidity, more into winter months,...that's not too cold...I'd be wearing a sweater or a jacket....not both.
Comment Re: Summer vs Winter (Score 1) 200
Last week it was high-90's and low 100's along the central coast (Santa Cruz & Monterey). It cooled down at night, but I also don't have A/C because I almost never need it, maybe for 3-5 days every 3-4 years it would be appreciated.
You can't get a couple window units to have AC when you need it?
You can put them up and take them down pretty readily......better than baking/roasting on those days when you really don't need to.
Comment Makes me wonder (Score 4, Interesting) 128
Comment Re:Until it's Free as in Linux (Score 1) 107
Comment Re:No Balls (Score 1) 279
Talk shows have been exempt from the equal time law right up until 2026.
Not quite true....
NEWS shows are exempt.....talk shows and other entertainment shows most decidedly are not exempt.
Comment Re:We get it (Score 1) 94
and destroyed multiple fields of STEM research
Interesting claim....
Can you give me a list of / citations of such?
Comment First they came for the press (Score 2) 279
Comment No fair, shut up about that! Just shut up! (Score 3) 132
Goddamn it, we were talking about Iran here. The whole fucking point is to avoid talking about the objective fact that Donald Trump rapes children and all Republican House members endorse his pedophilia.
Shut up about the Epstein files coverup and Todd Blanche's blatant violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Get back to talking about how we're whooping Iran's ass at no cost to oursel-- SHUT UP, I SAID NO COST!!!!1