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Maybe they need to pick a new letter. Bring back Microsoft Bob?

To be fair, they capitalized all sorts of random words in the 1700's.

Are you expecting a train of Democrats to line up here defending Rachel Maddow as a credible source of information on vaccine efficacy? I wouldn't exactly put her in the "innumerate imbeciles with abysmal comprehension skills" category, but also certainly not my first choice as a source of information for, well, just about any topic of consequence.

Yeah 100%. As an advancement in ML (or AI, I'm not bothered by the term for reasons I'm happy to explain) it's really impressive. 100% agree it being sold as a prod ready tool is bad, an the hype ad outrageous claims just poison everything.

That explains why you got so wound up over a cheap joke that you ranted at me about things I never said.

Thanks for explaining yourself.

Never been there, but that "chili" sounds awful.

No argument from me on that one. To quote Ron White: "I don’t even think you all told the Mexican boys you were having a [Cincinnati, chili capital of the world] contest. That’s right, ’cause a Mexican boy’d come up here with a goat and an onion and kick your ass."

It's true that many people have self-serving reasons for hating LLMs.

About 1 million Americans have lost their job this year, with AI being a cited by employers.

I am certainly going to try getting ChatGPT to read and understand legal contracts before going to speak to a lawyer. The more I know, the better questions I can ask. I use a privately staged LLM to posed medical questions. Better than running the gauntlet of Canada's broken medical system. Yes I read articles from NIH. LLMs aren't a replacement for expertise. But these are concrete examples where LLMs threaten jobs while making ordinary people's lives better.

Job losses are a real concern, and people are right to be worried/concerned, even if economic change is good in the long run.

I'm more concerned by the cruddy quality. Ask it questions about the existence of God, and ChatGPT will say it has no opinion, and is NOT agnostic. Mmm, sure thing. Something is true/not true/cannot be talked about, if powerful people will get angry over what ChatGPT will say about it. Apparently there's as many people employed to "manage the message" as there are building the underlying useful technology. I find this pathetic.

The technology is amazing. It is a game changer. It'll be exploited by scammers. It has huge problems. It'll take time for society to adjust.

Long COVID, if I were to take a guess.

"We need money for roads and schools" is sometimes about paying for generous entitlements to previous employees.

Use Linux and MacOS, and iOS heavily. Gotta say that Linux is essentially hassle free. Very very few random changes to KDE system panels. Some minor stability issues with updating KDE. That's about all.

Mac has gone down hill a long way from the high UI standards of the 1980s. Using the control panel has devolved into a linear search. Stuff seems randomly organized probably due to Conway's Law. The worst feature is that you cannot uninstall itunes. The very existence of noTunes (so you don't accidentally boot itunes by hitting the wrong button) is a telling indictment on Silicon Valley's corporate culture.

>>i don't care if 1/4 of the internet goes down, i care about my site.
>To the 1/4th of the Internet that couldn't reach your site, as far as they care, your site is down

i actually mean that my site is down 100%, that is what i care, i don't care other sites being down (unless they are a requirement for my site)

>>do the CF downtime was bigger or smaller than a downtime on my side?
>Bigger. One is inclusive of the other.

again, you didn't understood what i mean, i'm saying that a downtime in my site due to CF is probably shorter than a downtime on my infra if i tried to replicate cloudflare on my infra

>Which would be better if 1/4th of the Internet could use that bypass config to reach your site, but they can't, their traffic routes through CF first and can't get anywhere else.

ignoring the 1/4 traffic, as i pointed above, but related how to bypass cloudflare.
right now my www.example.com site is a CNAME to www.example.com.cdn.cloudflare.net and them i have in cloudflare that www.example.com points to my backend ip. To bypass cloudflare, i can point my original www.example.com to the backend directly, bypassing cloudflare. yes, i will expose my backend IPs, but we can either change it or firewall block any traffic that isn't cloudflare after restoring the original config

For sure. I would argue those same requirements are met by our current smartphone ecosystems. I can install outlook, chrome, whatever on either device, and they provide (I assume) relative feature parity. (I have to assume because I have so far successfully avoided having to learn iWhatevers.) But when you start digging deeper, things like file-sharing or authentication on PC vs Linux vs Mac, things can get dicey. You can make it happen, but it's certainly not frictionless or feature-equivalent. Similarly, I can call or text an iDevice from an Android just fine, but as soon as you start trying to merge "advanced" features the cracks begin to show. ICS is a good example.

I need to get out more. I'm from Michigan, the upper part, I don't recall seeing anything like you described. I have to assume it's another regional thing.

I've had some great baking recipes from LLMs. Fun asking it why you'd do things. Eg., "why would you chill the batter of a cake?" Of course, I never expected it to give me 100% accurate information, and know enough about baking to parse the information that it's giving me.

exactly!! :D

Planned economies would likewise happily replace people with machines, if they could. The set of modern planned economies is very short: North Korea.

State capitalism -- where the state controls the decisions, but the profit motive remains, includes: China, Laos, Cuba, Turkmenistan, Eritrea... there's not a single country there that give a flying fsck about human rights.