There's dead and then there's wish you were dead. Also, the additives in the animal stuff vs what you would get from a Dr.'s Rx could be vastly different and not necessarily well tolerated by humans. Delivery mechanism, drug release timings, active ingredient concentrations, isomers: none of it titrated for human consumption if you get your drugs through a veterinary supply warehouse.

IIS has good integration with active directory, and a lot of government networks run on AD. When I did government work our Java/Tomcat app had to deploy behind IIS so that IIS could do all the CAC/PIV crypto/AD windows stuff and hand us a user identity. Then I had the pleasure of doing NTLM/kerberos binding against an AD forest from java for authz - good times.

The main point of plex for me has been that it has client apps on most major platforms like Android, Roku, Apple TV, iPhone etc. So I get a nice media browsing experience that is not the hell that is DLNA that the wife and kids are willing to use without having to root my devices. I understand the situation /w Jellyfin in terms of client support is better now, but it was not there when I started using plex to build my media library.

Yep. Whenever I heard a "that's not X, that's Y", a "here's the surprising thing", a "here's what no one's talking about", a "it isn't about P, it isn't about Q, it isn't even about R, it's about S", and similar sloppisms, I immediately stop watching/listening/reading, downvote, block, and try to forget the broken timeline we all ended up in.

The silver lining is that there's a tiny but growing movement among young people, late Gen Z and early Alpha mostly, who are so tired of all the BS they're actively going offline and analog, which makes sense, after all, all the adults are online, and kids always want to do the opposite of whatever boring adults are doing. I hope something worthwhile comes from that impulse.

This isn't LLM self learning. There is no training taking place. This is using an LLM for pattern matching and classification, something they are quite good at.

This is why I've been against individual homeowner solar subsidies. It's basically a subsidy for upper middle class homeowners at the expense of renters and homeowners with less capital or on a site ill suited for solar. As more and more homes either disconnect from the grid or draw from it less, the per-kW delivery charges have to increase as grid maintenance is a roughly fixed cost. Subsidies should go to utilities or municipalities to build grid scale solar and wind farms that pass the renewable savings on to everyone. If you want your own off-the-grid capable solar farm on your roof, pay for it on your own dime.

Electoral politics is for harm reduction, but it won't solve our problems as long as all we can do is vote for the least worst candidate. We need to be building real communities on the ground for mutual aid and direct action where appropriate. We should use the state where it is a useful tool, route around it where it is unhelpful or inactive, and fight it where it is against us. We don't owe any party or politician our loyalty.

He's talking about the well-known behavior of the Gandhi AI in the Civilization game series where a quirk of programming caused the Indian empire to be enormously aggressive and prone to initiate nuclear first strike.

I live in Boston, where it gets considerably colder than NYC and have no issues charging outside /w an outdoor L2 device mounted to the side of my house. I also spend most weekends in the winter in the mountains in Maine, where it gets very cold. Also no issues with outdoor L2 charging.

New math is back. They just call it "common core" now. The problem with it "working itself out over time" is that yeah it's fine for society as a whole in the long run, but my kid in particular only gets one shot at a primary education. It doesn't really matter much to her if they get it right 5 years from now.

My conclusion about that thought experiment is that it is trivially obvious that the system of books+human agent speaks Chinese even if the components do not. That's tautologically true. I think whether it understands Chinese is unanswerable at the moment. With our current level of understanding of intelligence, it quickly devolves into metaphysics.

Like you said, no individual neuron or even collection of 100K neurons in my brain can be said to really comprehend English, and yet the emergent entity that is me somehow does.

I think the only real conclusion is that until we really understand what intelligence is, to a better level than "I know it when I see it", then we don't really have any business dissembling about what entities are intelligent. Turing said as much when he defined his imitation game.

Democracy is for retards.

Government did this. All of this. Government regulated so much that only a rare few can afford to compete.

This is late stage statism. Retard voters are to blame.

Like you.

You've proven you don't understand what you read, so whatever. ~ shrugs ~

Here's your Internet point, little troll.

That AI slop article forgot to provide the "free fall" part: "Compared with 2000, in 2024 Japan is ranked 4th out of 182 by GDP (down from 2nd), 35th by GDP per capita (down from 4th), and 37th by GDP per capita PPP (down from 24th)."