LostXOR

Ah yes, let me pay $450 for a console that I have to pay an additional $80 for every game I want to play. What a sound financial decision.

Even so I think it would be totally reasonable for them to block web scrapers, as they provide better ways to download all their data.

Computers: Have a whole variety of standardized ways to allow software to communicate with peripherals.

Coolify: Hmm… How about Wi-Fi?

Sell it to the merpeople, they’ll be happy to have a proper house for once!

Quantum entangled particles can’t influence each other; they just allow you to infer information about one particle by observing the other. It’s like if you randomly put a red and a blue ball in two different boxes without looking, then moved them far apart. Opening one box and seeing a red ball instantly tells you the other box has a blue ball, no matter the distance, but no information has been transmitted faster than the speed of light (because the boxes can only move slower than light).

True, my estimate for tokens may have been a bit low. Assuming a 7 hour school day where someone talks at 5 tokens/sec you’d encounter about 120k tokens. You’re off by 3 orders of magnitude on your energy consumption though; 1 watt-hour is 0.86 food Calories (kcal).

Around a year ago I bet a friend $100 we won’t have AGI by 2029, and I’d do the same today. LLMs are nothing more than fancy predictive text and are incapable of thinking or reasoning. We burn through immense amounts of compute and terabytes of data to train them, then stick them together in a convoluted mess, only to end up with something that’s still dumber than the average human. In comparison humans are “trained” with maybe ten thousand “tokens” and ten megajoules of energy a day for a decade or two, and take only a couple dozen watts for even the most complex thinking.

I liked generative AI more when it was just a funny novelty and not being advertised to everyone under the false pretenses of being smart and useful. Its architecture is incompatible with actual intelligence, and anyone who thinks otherwise is just fooling themselves. (It does make an alright autocomplete though).

“mostly unusable”

Just so you know, your name’s visible in the “Gemini crashes” image.

Makes sense; UEFI is the standard now, and maintaining backwards compatibility is expensive. I can’t see a reason why someone would need to use a latest gen AMD card on a non-UEFI system.

As a Minnesotan, that would be very bad news for anyone here enjoying having relatively okay power bills. Unfortunately I have to agree with Ford; we totally deserve it.

Obviously always issuing deletion orders would be a good thing, but it doesn’t seem like it would be very effective. It would be all too easy for the offender to stash a backup flash drive somewhere before “complying” with the order.

George Orwell’s 1984 becomes more of a reality every day.

Lmao, did anyone expect something different? Never buy a product that becomes a brick when the company that made it goes under.

Guess we’ll have to see how they handle this. Are they going to be good and do a full recall, or pull an Intel and do everything they can to avoid it?

Making Win 11 even harder to install is a bold move from Microsoft. Most average users are content with using the OS that comes with their PC and upgrading it when necessary. But if the option is to either buy a new PC or fiddle with registry settings in hope that Win 11 will work, I think a lot more people will start looking at Linux instead.

Do you really want a job at a company that uses AI to review their applicants?

Yeah, I’d think it would be more cost effective to record the API requests the apps send and simulate those. No way the servers can tell the difference (unless they update the API or something).