Exciting!

What is the “cutoff” for mainstream? How far do you stretch the definition of “social media”?

The real root crisis here is the rise of selfish entitlement rather than anything particular about cars I think.

A lot of arguments are not winnable by either side and it doesn’t imply they should both change their minds. Sometimes there is no “right” view.

I like to hear opinions of people who find it interesting; myself I’ve tried Claude and did not like the experience and don’t use it. I have a similar gaming GPU that could run small models but not ones powerful enough to be very interesting.

You have a good point that I missed about pricing that will keep many hobbyists away who can’t run something like Qwen Code locally. I don’t think the models have gotten worse although I don’t have data to back that up, but what I do know is a lot of devs in the private sector I know have gotten onboard recently and they had positive experiences with using it for coding tasks.

So given that it is more likely to me that opinion would soften even here. Most people just don’t care that much about the ethical or philosophical problems of LLMs and pragmatism for solving problems they care about will win out.

I have been expecting there to be some softening and some people who use AI for coding on the DL here. It really has gotten significantly more common to at least try out tools like Claude Code. But those people aren’t writing articles like that and I’m not seeing them.

I’m sure it was vaporized but I still think we should get MythBusters to test it with modern camera and tracking equipment.

There isn’t a universal answer, I expect it depends a lot on your worldview and whether you got past your hangups earlier in life, and what your health, regrets and living situation are. I have anecdotal evidence both ways.

Another fun tree fact I heard, the reason why coal exists was because trees existed on land for a long time before decomposers existed to digest their fibers. They just died and were buried intact. This actually caused a problem with sequestering so much CO2 that the earth went into an ice age.

Edit for clarification: decomposers did exist but they couldn’t decompose tree lignin specifically so it just stayed around.

We normalized the idea that regulations on business that prevent them from springing us with shoddy products that harm us, or maliciously use our data to exploit us, are too onerous and anti-competitive, so let’s just let the corpos put some magic words in an EULA/TOS/Privacy Policy to allow them to caveat emptor us to death.

We could use a revitalization of the consumer rights movement from the grassroots, but it’s a real uphill battle and every year it gets harder.

I always thought it was crazy to wonder what the qualia of colors we can’t see but other animals can is. It’s sort of like being a cat or some other animal with limited color vision and trying to imagine what humans see. How would you prove to a cat that those colors exist?

Mostly feeling the vibes given the recent Australian report linking nicotine vapes to cancer and the anecdotal evidence I have for these strong vapes causing all sorts of negative mental outcomes or dependency for people I know who use them heavily. We still have a lot of space to learn about unintended consequences here and I’m pessimistic.

High THC cannabis vapes.

I’ve got the big 4 birthday coming very soon. I already have enough ailments to complain about but I’ll wait for now. Not enough time in the day to be bitter about that.

I think you might have a little bit to go yet, enjoy your remaining youth!

Looking good Sandy!

I’ve been here for a while without having ever posted yet. But I do comment and upvote.

I think its neat too! Hydrogen bonds ftw.

“You won’t believe how many people each year die from asphyxiation due to this rocket fuel combustion byproduct!”