Exactly what I was thinking. Those NASA guys must be pretty smart

Probably it’s supposed to demonstrate that it’s a liquid

Nothing can beat real organic stupidity

I don’t think this is true. People are out here having straight up AI psychosis. Do you really think there aren’t fools who believe their computer is actually thinking like a human?

What are the odds this was AI related vs some underpaid intern

Ideally people who say that aren’t misled into believing their computer is thinking in the same way that a human is

I agree it’s unnecessary to point out. Using anthropomorphising shorthand to talk about technology is extremely common, and AI is no different; saying an AI is “thinking” or whatever is fine. But there is a difference between using that language as shorthand, and actually holding misconceptions about what is really happening. So saying that it’s fine for someone to be misled and use that language is different than just saying the language makes sense to use.

Having an inaccurate view about something so fundamental to the topic leads you to predict reality incorrectly and make bad decisions

lmfao based

I wouldn’t call this an “experiment” exactly, there wasn’t a proper hypothesis. They also mentioned they hoped to find out what LLMs think about when they’re not being prompted, which shows such a fundamental lack of knowledge that it frankly disqualifies any of their opinions on the subject.

This is true, but it is not possible to solve every problem you come across; sometimes the most you have time to do to help is to provide feedback. It is also much more efficient for someone who already has experience and familiarity with the codebase to make the change. “Do it yourself” should not be the first option taken.

For example, after learning from experienced people in this thread, I now know that if I had tried to implement this change myself, it would either be rejected or I would have wasted an hour or two of research finding out why it would be rejected-- apparently this program’s plugin system has plugins make new desktop files, so it’s done this way for plugin support. An experienced maintainer of this project would know that and avoid wasting time on a change (or have the social authority to make the choice to move to a different desktop file system for plugins).

I feel like people still haven’t internalized just how much of our fields go to corn for ethanol

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This is emotionally resonant but it’s actually sometimes better to cover fields. The right thing is not always intuitive.

Doesn’t sound very “cool” to cook your servers with waste heat in the vacuum of space lmao

Honestly this place could use some more diversity of opinion anyways

Is there literally any justification for this or have they just completely lost their minds

I disabled sleep-on-close for my server laptop (I use NixOS btw), although I do prefer to keep it on for my personal laptop.

Agreed

Apparently it causes issues with “Open With” menu entry spam in some DEs. It’s a minor issue but easily solvable and it impacts usability.