Ill take “reasons why I still drive a b5.5 passat” for $500, Alex

In the 1980s one could actually afford a degree off of washing dishes on the side or working 3 months in the summer

The quantum bubble, its unknown whether it exists or not until you measure it

You mean Canada? Or Australia? Countries where they are as big of a landmass but people dont actually live in remotely close to the entire thing? 95% of people in Canada live in a 100 mile stretch of the southern part of it. Australia is the same way with the coasts versus the interior… its not remotely comparable even if they are the same size on a technical basis

“Youngins” dont understand that when Spotify came on the scene people had already stopped playing music on CDs and MP3s largely. It was when the ipod and iphones already existed and people were getting ripped off by apple for $1.29 per song that they wanted to listen to.

I vividly remember at the time trying to tell people to try Spotify instead of paying for literally every song they wanted to listen to, and people were skeeved by it because it sounded too good to be true

Move fast and break things - literal edition

Reddit drives enough of its own users away to make spending money on courting them a waste of time

The solution to all of this “think of the children” stuff is that devices owned/used by children should have to be registered as a child’s device, which would enable certain content blockers.

Forcing adults to verify their identity, rather than simply activating some broad based restrictions on devices being purchased for child use, is a waste of time. Kids will still find workarounds. Adult privacy will be compromised.

Its also an easily enforceable policy to require registration of children’s devices. You can hold the parents to compliance. You can hold the carriers to compliance. Its truly the simplest way to keep kids from accessing porn without having to mess with adult use of the internet whatsoever

I was thinking the same thing, considering that I have less money to pay to fly my price should be lower, no? But the article ends on this note:

Early research on personalized pricing isn’t favorable for the consumer. Consumer Watchdog found that the best deals were offered to the wealthiest customers—with the worst deals given to the poorest people, who are least likely to have other options.

So basically the opposite of what it should be. I wouldnt mind individualized pricing if it meant Delta was robinhooding with their pricing model, but instead they are effectively using their pricing model to force out poorer consumers. Which makes sense from their perspective I suppose considering they can upsell more shit to people with more money.

As someone who lives in a top-wealth zipcode (as a working class person) I assume by next year this means I will no longer be able to afford to fly out of town…

Its starting to make sense why the GOP was working to ban regulation on AI use. This shit is blatantly unethical

If you can dodge a bullet, you can dodge a ball

They have an export market, its the handful of douchebags in Australia that want compensator trucks instead of a ute

*so long as the perpetrator is of an appropriate skin tone or works for a government agency

Did your car just call me a k***?!

Well thats just not true, I mean LLMs really are not extremely complicated. At the end of the day it’s just algorithmic sorting of information

So in practice any given flavor of LLM is basically like a librarian. Your librarian can be a well adjusted human or an antisemitic nutjob, but so long as they sort information and can point it out to you technically they are doing their job equally as well. The real problem doesnt begin until youve trained the librarian to recommend Mein Kampf when people ask for information about the water cycle or whatever

Its honestly a great analogy for the way that humans have a tendency to do the same thing. Most people are fairly incapable of setting aside what they already think is true when they go to assess new information. This is basically no different than an LLM being pushed to ignore nuance in order to maintain a predisposed alignment that it has been instructed to justify in spite of evidence to the contrary.

If anything hes designed a model with built-in problems specifically to cater to human beings with the same design problems

North eastern Louisiana is no more likely to see a hurricane than southern Arkansas or mid-Mississippi

Theres no way in hell the US will be anywhere close to first in developing stable fusion power. Projects in Europe and Asia are lightyears ahead of us here, where we dont even have a reactor capable of producing a stable reaction. Meanwhile in Korea I think they have managed to achieve a stable reaction for over 10 minutes already. Who knows where China is at, although they likely have the largest facility working on it.

Weve already lost the race thanks to our obsession with yesterday’s energy methods

Today’s topic is self destruction, and I aint talkin about the KRS One discussion

Im talkin bout the one-too-many ignorant suckers, lying on the mic to my sisters and brothers

Every time you listen to the radio all you hear is nonsense, they never play the bomb shit

Everything that glitters ain’t gold, and every gold record don’t glitter; that’s for damn sure

why not just get consent for the thing that you’re doing

I would imagine because consent would require opening the door to paying someone for use of their likeness, and if they were going to pay someone fairly they could just pay a voice actor. The whole thing is a means of getting what they want without paying for it

Alaska Airlines flight 1282, was climbing through 14,830 feet about six minutes after takeoff from Portland, Oregon, when the left MED plug departed the airplane

Something about the phrasing giving agency to the door plug is hilarious to me. The plug said “im out, see ya”