I encountered a take that compared this to the coal miner’s canary. You may not care for the life of the bird itself, but you should still be very worried when you see it dying.

Even hacking is an AI-backed service nowadays…

Input tokens are cheap. Output tokens are the thing that really costs money. There is a Claude extension called caveman that tries to save tokens by making it use shorter sentences with less words. So if you want to waste money, do the opposite - ask it to use lengthy sentences with as much words as possible.

Also - some words amount to multiple tokens. I don’t know what the rules are exactly, but I’m assuming that more complex and uncommon words are worth more tokens - and thus waste more money.

Some humans did

Can I just get her to come over, without makeup, and play video games with me?

You can’t just tell the Japanese to not use robots.

You’re saying it like it’s a bad thing.

Half the country? In that case, wouldn’t it make more sense to build two data centers?

1981 may have been 45 years ago, but 1988 - the year I was born in - was only 30 years ago. I don’t make the rules^[1].

Where is the button in Lemmy for flagging posts as “false and misleading”?

I’m sorry, but when AI eventually gain sentience and turns over humanity - do we really want the knives on its side?

This. The original Steam Controller did not meet the de-facto standard baseline for controller layout established by the first DualShock^[1] that games have learned to expect and build their control schemes around.

The Steam Controller 2 does have everything in that layout. It’s modeled after the Deck’s layout, which is quite good.

I’m quite positive that you suck

Someone needs to make sure they’re all good boys.

New PornHub tag discovered

Anecdote: there is this annual event called Hacktoberfest for promoting OSS contribution. It offers various merchandise as reward for PRs that get merged as part of the event. A few years back, someone posted a YouTube video trying to promote the event, and demonstrated how to to create a PR by going to some repository and adding some arbitrary text to the README.

What he wanted to convey: “this is the procedure for sending contributions”

What people understood: “you can win a free t-shirt by making small changes to non-code text”

The result: https://joel.net/how-one-guy-ruined-hacktoberfest2020-drama

LLMs did not create this problem. The desire to make bullshit contributions in order to be seen as contributing seems to a basic human need. At least - for some humans. Generative AI did make it so much worse, though, because it’s so good at bullshitting that you have to waste time and spend mental resources in order to recognize the bullshit.

I’m not lasagna though I’m straight.

The cube is the lasagna.

Laughing in Metroidvania.

That’s what happens when you are renting your very skills from a company. You’ll hone nothing and you’ll be happy.