planish @ planish @sh.itjust.works

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I don't think this is true.

The models (or maybe the characters in the conversations simulated by the models) can be spectacularly bad at basic reasoning, and misunderstand basic concepts on a regular basis. They are of course completely insane; the way they think is barely recognizable.

But they also, when asked, are often able to manipulate concepts or do reasoning and get right answers. Ask it to explain the water cycle like a pirate, and you get that. You can find the weights that make the Eifel Tower be in Paris and move it to Rome, and then ask for a train itinerary to get there, and it will tell you to take the train to Rome.

I don't know what "understanding" something is other than to be able to get right answers when asked to think about it. There's some understanding of the water cycle in there, and some of pirates, and some of European geography. Maybe not a lot. Maybe it's not robust. Maybe it's superficial. Maybe there are still several differences in kind between whatever's there and the understanding a human can get with a brain that isn't 100% the stream of consciousness generator. But not literally zero.

Has anyone ever seen a "woman from birth"? Like a whole-ass adult woman popping out of somebody not appreciably larger than her? Ready for a beauty pageant at zero minutes old?

Completely independent of gender, people should know that "women" are adults and have zero overlap with "children" or especially "newborn infants".

Or is this a bad translation from the Italian?

Call your lawyer and sue the shit out of those raccoons. I hear they're rich.

I think if you want to write a fake story, you need to make sure that by the end of it people realize they've been had. A high-effort troll is entertaining. A person who writes a story that just happens to not be true is just wasting everybody's time.

EDIT: What if OP wasn't a Reddit story faker? 😮

They still seem to be working though, or at least the ones I was using are. So that would suggest they weren't using API keys to access stuff.

Probably because they're big meanies.

The market share thing is real though. Computing is like 1% actually making hardware and software and 99% about getting the humans to agree with each other about how the hardware and software is meant to work, how pieces cooperate, and what it is meant to mean when any given piece does any given thing.

Proton et al. are amazing, but swapping out the whole system underneath a program for one it was never tested on, to provide APIs that are not actually expected to vary in their implementation details, and using GPU drivers that weren't extensively tested by the manufacturer in exactly these circumstances and individually tweaked to do specific things for that specific workload, is necessarily going to get you a worse result than doing it the way the program authors expected.

And you don't need very precise numbers to know that Linux is much less used on the desktop.

Maybe with developers targeting and testing on Steam Deck the situation will change, but trying to get two things to work together when only one of them is willing to change for it is extremely hard and I understand why one might compromise principles to avoid having to do it.

It would have been anything that implements Bios enough to boot MS-DOS, more or less.

But now that's not what anyone actually wants anymore since Windows, the thing people usually boot, wants UEFI instead. So I would say now it is probably anything that can run x86 code and boot Windows, even if it's from System76 and meant to run Linux.

Aww shit try this one:

Attachment: hunter2.mov (384 kb)

I feel like the management engine card is sneakily changing the threat model in the middle of the conversation.

Is it bad? Yes. Is it a big source of security holes? Absolutely.

Is it a way that Facebook is going to profile you to try and sell you to advertisers? Or a reason why you can't ditch Windows? No.

So if we already took down Twitter, and Reddit, how do we kill Chrome?

Can I interest you in my new Lemmy instance, blanket-banned.zip?

Usually for Windows VM gaming you want to pass through a GPU and a USB controller and plug in directly. You might be able to use something like Steam streaming but I wouldn't recommend a normal desktop-app-oriented thin client setup, not having tried it.

You may run into weird problems with latency spikes: mostly it will work great and everything runs at 90 FPS or whatever, but then inexplicably 1 frame every few minutes takes 100ms and nobody can tell you why.

There can also be problems with storage access speed. What ought to be very fast storage on the host is substantially slower storage once the image file and host FS overhead, or the block device pass through overhead, come into play. Or maybe you just need an NVMe device to pass straight through.

How much does the money supply go up by? It can't really count as supplied if it's locked in a safe.

Some TLDs that aren't country codes but also aren't very useful or popular will sometimes be blanket blocked by institutions, on the theory that there's so many more garbage malware C&Cs or whatever than actual useful sites that it makes sense to ban the whole thing. So you might not want to go with .bingo or .rest or anything with no perceivable use.

You might be looking for a "smoke test"?

How micro are the cuts? You might get pretty far with the "ping" tool without any fancy monitoring setup around it.

Sure it won't marbelize him?

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They might be 64 bit numbers.

It's not just that they've printed the code. I've printed code.

It's that they've printed a screenshot of the editor.

Can we have antiwork back