Why you snitching?

That makes sense and seems obvious. I’ve worked in tech for over 20 years and have learned the most while banging my head against the keyboard trying to solve a problem. I wouldn’t have learned all I know now without that experience. I doubt that process is specific to tech. If AI can just give us the answers, what kind of long term impact does that produce? Ideally it frees us up for higher/order thinking but that seems like a pie-in-the-sky dream to me. I’m concerned but hope those concerns end up unwarranted.

Good to know I can at least upgrade my motherboard and processor without having to buy new memory. I ain’t giving up my 32gb.

This is pervasive throughout any segments where AI is leveraged. I’ve heard it called a Diamond-shaped market. What used to be a pyramid of entry-level to mid tier to experienced staff no longer has entry level. So it’s just mid tier and experienced staff. There is no one in the pipeline to move up. What happens then? The genie is out of the bottle. The big AI shops could close up now and it would only slow the decline as local models are getting more performant. I’m impressed at what Qwen can do on a MacBook with 32 gig of ram. The question I have is, what’s the solution? I got nothing other than hoping the process of decline drags out longer than I think it will.

I guess that is part of my question. Maduro was captured and the Venezuelan people (more or less) didn’t seem to really care. Is the Cuban leadership popular enough for the people to care or would they more indifferent like the Venezuelan response?

I don’t know much about Cuba. Anyone have a guess on how they would do in an engagement similar to Iran? I don’t recall seeing news about them building missiles or drones, they don’t seem to have allies that could help, and I have no idea if the local population is going to be looking to resist. Even if the population wants to resist, what are the odds they can? Sure guerrilla warfare will be likeliest outcome but would that allow them to hold a majority of the island?

I actually thought that the uniform mockups were AI to make fun of the whole “Department of War” thing. I can’t believe they either completely misunderstood Starship Troopers or (more likely) want to openly pursue a fascist aesthetic.

I’m guessing that as the guardrails are out in place on Anthropic models, they will still use Claude code but leverage Qwen (or similar) as the LLM. Maybe they are doing that already and simply misunderstanding what Claude is. The LLM wasn’t named…I would expect them to call out Opus (as an example) but they just refer to Claude. My basic guess is just Claude Code witha random model. Could be like Mistral-OBLITERATED or something.

LOL. I saw that one country voted against it and kept saying, “please not the US, please not the US”…but alas…here we are.

The main challenge I see is that Aaron Schwartz and countless others have been prosecuted for access to information but AI companies have been rewarded. There is precedence that access like this is not legal. Had they gone through a library system or used a mechanic like that it may have worked but from what I understand, they used torrents and other mechanics to access the data. So you have companies that go after individual infringement but pursue their own mass infringement. Whether AI generated materials is infringement is above my pay grade but their consumption of the materials seems pretty straight forward as infringement.

That is pretty sad. I wish them the best but they could have gotten the benefits and safety of joining the EU while negotiating protections for their fishing rights and waters. Britain kept their currency when they joined the EU, Iceland could have kept their fishing. Anyways, that is my take but I’m not in Iceland or the EU so maybe it’s misinformed. Middle countries are safer and more prosperous together. Hopefully Canada will pursue EU membership.

I’m not driving a race car to where I need tire pressure that accurate. The mornings here start cold and warm up so that line impacts my tire pressure more than the variance in the gauge not to mention the tires warm up during driving. It does seem nice to have a constant ability to see tires pressure in the dashboard though. I just don’t have that.

How am I supposed to check tire pressure without a pressure gauge? My manual transmission is reliable and so is my alarm clock.

That’s like 16 Costco hotdog meals.

This is a level of fucked up I should not start my day reading. So so so fucked up.

There are a bunch of areas where AI has really struggled and design like this is a good example. My closest experience is AI trying to create Lucid charts. Everytime I see it done I think, “what drugs are you taking” and realize it’s an AI creation. At the super high level it looks like it could be accurate and then you start following the flow diagrams and it’s insane.

Has anyone in Germany been on the Italian trains? I’ve done it a few times and the trains that weren’t broken were pretty dilapidated. Like the bathroom was a hole cut in the floor of the train car. That’s for the trains that weren’t broken.

Uh excuse me sir, question out here in the back. I was told the war was over and we won. Care to comment?

Yeah but it’s like $7USD to just buy the mold to freeze your own. This may or may not come with a reusable mold but my guess is that folk will just use it as disposable which is a metaphor for modern society.

Supreme Court narrowly rules in a stunning 5-4 decision that the ocean does indeed contain water.