The battery life is definitely worse because of it but it doesn’t bother me much

The moral absolutist, black and white view of the world: as bad as any religious nut.

Taiwan is a natural fortress as well. Even if the mainland invaded the guerilla fighting in the mountains would be a new Afghanistan for the occupying force.

All for the political victory of “we did it!”

Taiwan has few natural resources that China doesn’t already have. They mostly have high tech industry… Which would be annihilated by an invasion. No way chip fabs survive: either they get bombed while softening up a landing or they get sabotaged as a spoiling action.

Note: the latest pixel fold is about the same size and weight as the pixel 9 pro.

It’s actually kinda incredible that it is that light and thin while folding.

Snowboard, ski or surfboard wax

What I find particularly interesting is that it’s an ad they’re serving directly from their own infrastructure - ublock isn’t blocking it as an ad.

That’s pretty normal for financial charts like this though.

3.4bn is their gross - we have no idea what their operating costs are since they refuse to share them.

Some estimates say they’re burning 8 billion a year.

The latest releases ChatGPT 4o costs $600/hr per instance to run based on the discussion I could find about it.

If OpenAI is running 1k of those models to service the demand (they’re certainly running more since queries can take 30+ seconds) then that’s 200M/yr just keeping the lights on.

I am not! I hadn’t heard of it until just now. Very neat project.

No I’m just someone with a particular interest in corvids who feels represented by a god of Thought that is a bird

What a mediocre story

Not op - as far as I can tell they weren’t particularly warcrimey for WW2.

They killed a bunch of German POWs during the invasion of Sicily and killed 20 civilians while burning down a town for a supposed civilian killing a commander (turned out it was an enemy combatant).

Both deeply abhorrent but not “inventing new crimes”

Are you sure the parental abuse isn’t why? Not even a little?

Oh I’m 1000% in agreement with you. I think Copilot for programming is more expensive than it’s worth right now, both for my employer and for Microsoft.

OpenAI et al have done nothing to address the fundamental issue of hallucinations. In code hallucinations are pretty quickly evident: your IDE immediately throws up error highlights whenever the code complete fucks up.

The latest open AI model is to chain together a computational centipede to try and create reasoning structures out of stochastic processes. It takes longer and still doesn’t fix the issues. In their own demo video there are clear bugs with the “code” their 4o model writes.

Ish.

You’ll have assertions that are entirely new or different, other pieces of setup or teardown. It really is one of the best use cases for GH’s Copilot that I’ve run across.

In my day to day the intellij autocomplete is what I prefer.

Yeah my usage of it is similarly limited. But the plagiarism engine is more useful than it is annoying in my experience. Especially in writing kdoc or unit test variations. Write one, write the name of the next, have autocomplete fill it out with the expected conditional variation

The plagiarism engine effect is exactly what you need for a good programming tool. Most problems you’re ever going to encounter are solved and GenAI becomes a very complex code autocomplete.

An LLM constructed only out of open source data could do an excellent job as a tool in this capacity. No theft required.

For writing prose it’s absolutely trash, and everyone using it for that purpose should feel ashamed.

That’s because officially Putin knows who he supports has negative connotations for the electorate.

Whoever Putin visibly puts his weight behind is the opposite of who he wants to win.

It’s the correct decision that will never happen - Children have no rights⁺ in modern society.

Any zealous religious parent being told they can’t bring up their child in their religion would throw an absolute shitfit.

⁺The only “right” of a child is framed in terms of parental responsibilities.

It’s not a misreading at all. In many fundamentalist sects (such as the one I left) that’s the dogmatic truth of those verses.

Everything material is sinful and holding you back.

I have lived with and continue to love many religious people - that does not make them rational. That does not make their religious beliefs OK. With all the love in their hearts they still participate in evil and coercive control of others. They are particularly dangerous in that they believe in their heart of hearts that they are doing the right thing.

This is the reality of religion: it is dangerous, coercive, self propagating brain washing that forces people into shape. It creates panopticons. Window twitching neighbors that snitch and shun.

This is true of all religion. In Christianity it’s true of southern baptist and Lutheran’s and Christian scientists and episcopalians and Jehovah’s Witnesses and 7th day Adventists and Mormons and Catholics and Orthodox and …