In the top three of all the things that never happened, that comment occupies all three positions

It’s the kind of wording that “electrochemistry” and “Physical instrument” use in Disco Elysium

It might be real, just bad. The stitches might just be holding the folded rim of the leather, while the bolts might be holding the leather onto the metal. Still, the bolts look small for the purpose.

I wasn’t entirely earnest. A more precise question would be “why the fuck an EDC tactical wallet”

Call them Mr Boombaspis

What is that? It looks interesting but it also might be an AI image of something that doesn’t exists

Edit: what the fuck is an EDC tactical wallet? I thought it was some kind of rugged electronic thing

C’mon they could have at least placed it in place of the menu key instead of rctrl… It’s like they want you to hit it by accident

It’s a small form factor PC, pre-installed with Linux and steam. Period.

Can you build something more powerful cheaper? Probably

Can you build something more powerful with the same form factor for cheaper? Maybe, probably not… We don’t know.

All of those are beside the point.

They sell millions of desktop PCs pre-installed with windows, they often make terrible hardware choices, and don’t even have a small form factor, if they do they have the computing power of a laptop. All of this at an unreasonable prices. At the very least the steam machine will be better value than those. Anyone who would consider one of those PCs, might consider a steam machine instead.

May I interest you in the program I just wrote. I think you might like the subcommand type.

I use it to automatically copy mime types “video” and extensions “.srt” from the Torrent folder to the jellyfin folder. The other two subcommands, I use them to save user dotfiles and system config files on git

I too used to be young and reckless once…

(I’m 26 and still in uni)

This is one of those you download to send on the group chat, and then decide is better not to send it

IMHO, with all its problems, Wikipedia is still (one of) the best achievement of mankind

You guys are all doomed. Telecom Italia is ranked 9 among ISPs, and it’s a tier 1 ISP.

Imagine your global communication infrastructure being dependant on fucking Telecom Italia.

I have only watched about 3 seasons of the boys (and read the entire comic) and I think the show is better than the comic.

The story is very different, and for the better. In the comic, the protagonist is always Hughie, but the main focus of the story is Butch and how he kind of “shapes” Hughie. Home Lander and the seven are a lot more of a plot device than anything else and three of the seven almost never do anything, this is because the real villain is the concept itself of a company like Vaught. All of this is fine, if that’s your cup of tea, my problem is that everything else is kinda just thrown there just to be splattery and outrageous without much rhyme or reason. There’s a lot of very dull monothematic characters that appear in their arc and then pop up once in a while.

In the show every character is a lot more developed, instead of just Hughie and Butch. And their journeys are a lot more intertwined with one another, and the story itself is a lot more complex. I think the worst part of the show is when it tries to wink at the comic fans and it just looks out of place, while swooshing over the head of who didn’t read the comic (e.g. “take away that …😉 Love sausage 😉😉… from me”; “hello …😉 Vic…toria 😉😉”)

There are many more interesting proposed approaches though. Like creating a religious cult around avoiding nuclear waste, all kinds of hostile-looking architecture, and my favourite is the idea of stocking waste in containers so durable that any people advanced enough to break into it would have to be advanced enough to know how to behave around nuclear waste

He’s getting the french culture alright

Oh, it probably wasn’t about an existing language, but about some guy studying what would become high level languages. Like studying linkers and symbolic representation of programs

LLM are not the path to go forward to simulate a person, this is a fact. By design they cannot reason, it’s not a matter of advancement, it’s literally how they work as a principle. It’s a statistical trick to generate random texts that look like thought out phrases, no reasoning involved.

If someone tells you they might be the way forward to simulate a human, they are scamming you. No one who actually knows how they work says that unless they are a CEO of a trillion dollar company selling AI.

I don’t like it because people don’t shut up about it and insist everyone should use it when it’s clearly stupid.

LLMs are language models, they don’t actually reason (not even reasoning models), when they nail a reasoning it’s by chance, not by design. Everything that is not language processing shouldn’t be done by an LLM. Viceversa, they are pretty good with language.

We already had automated reasoning tools. They are used for industrial optimization (i.e. finding optimal routes, finding how to allocate production, etc.) and no one cared about those.

As if it wasn’t enough. The internet is now full of slop. And hardware companies are warmongering an arms race that is fueling an economic bubble. And people are being fired to be replaced by something that will not actually work in the long run because it does not reason.

I’ll try to find it later, I read he said that in a book from Martin Davis. He didn’t speak about Fortran, I just used it as an analogy