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  • Anti-antifa does not subscribe to the law of the excluded middle, so double negation elimination does not apply.

    EDIT: This was a math joke, but I'm proud that it seems to have gone over so many heads.

  • I love how the heart is way off-center and the arteries look like they turn into ribs instead of actually connecting to something.

  • If the government cared at all about accessibility, then you'd be able to do your taxes in an HTML form.

  • Oh gosh I'm so afraid of the anonymous business daddy that told you AI is sexy.

  • I could see large companies paying to train the LLM on their own IP even just to maintain some level of consistency, but it obviously wouldn't be as valuable as hiring the talent that sets the bar and generates patent-worthy inventions.

  • Humans are also now incentivized to safeguard their intellectual property from AI to keep a competitive advantage.

  • Because it will lead to an incomprehensible mess. Ever heard the quote, "Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute"? This is well-trodden ground in science fiction. If you have AI writing code that's so lacking in abstraction (because machines require less of it to understand) then humans will become useless in maintaining it. Obviously this is a problem because it centralizes responsibility of maintenance onto machines who depend on this very code to operate.

  • It literally cannot come up with novel solutions because it's goal is to regurgitate the most likely response to a question based on training data from the internet. Considering that the internet is often trash and getting trashier, I think LLMs will only get worse over time.

  • If your goal is to "self-host" a password manager, you might as well use Keepass + SyncThing.

    • free software
    • master password protected
    • has organization and auto-fill features
    • can sync across multiple devices

    Usually the downfall of rolling your own password manager is it's easier to make mistakes and accidentally lock yourself out. Or if you don't keep backups/replicas then you could easily lose your passwords.

  • We think we're Ricks but we're actually Jerrys.

  • Millenials and Gen Z are tight. It's Gen Alpha that has Millenials... concerned. We are watching with bated breath.

  • “Daemon”, for a process that is detached from your terminal

    That's factually incorrect. Daemons are often spawned from "early" processes whose ancestors are not TTYs.

  • It's slightly more nuanced than that, but you've got the basic idea.

  • The irony is that the layout of this post is so bad on the official Lemmy website.

  • Actually making good on insurance claims would defeat the point of insurance, which is to make money off of people in need, i.e. those who can't afford the financial burdens that insurance purports to protect you from.

  • I'm not convinced, considering the US and many other countries with high standard of living are also leading the world in external debt (both total and per capita).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_external_debt

    Maybe you mean debt to GDP+wealth ratio? Or more specifically, bad credit with international banks.

    I'm not an economist though, so I'd be curious to hear if there is more explanation for why you consider debt to be "the main reason."

    I am aware that some countries have been "screwed over" by large banks that had specific detrimental stipulations for debt forgiveness though. For example, look at the Latin American Debt Crisis.

    ...the Fed convened an emergency meeting of central bankers from around the world to provide a bridge loan to Mexico. Fed officials also encouraged US banks to participate in a program to reschedule Mexico’s loans (Aggarwal 2000). As the crisis spread beyond Mexico, the United States took the lead in organizing an “international lender of last resort,” a cooperative rescue effort among commercial banks, central banks, and the IMF. Under the program, commercial banks agreed to restructure the countries’ debt, and the IMF and other official agencies lent the LDCs sufficient funds to pay the interest, but not principal, on their loans. In return, the LDCs agreed to undertake structural reforms of their economies and to eliminate budget deficits. The hope was that these reforms would enable the LDCs to increase exports and generate the trade surpluses and dollars necessary to pay down their external debt (Devlin and Ffrench-Davis 1995). Although this program averted an immediate crisis, it allowed the problem to fester. Instead of eliminating subsidies to state-owned enterprises, many LDC countries instead cut spending on infrastructure, health, and education, and froze wages or laid off state employees. The result was high unemployment, steep declines in per capita income, and stagnant or negative growth—hence the term the “lost decade” (Carrasco 1999).

    https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/latin-american-debt-crisis

  • This is fake, right? Right?

  • My greatest strength is already also my greatest weakness: hyper focus from ADHD.