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  • What the fuck is a conker? Wrong answers only.

  • Oshkosh would probably win a large amount of the original contract price without even having to produce. So it's a corporate handout at our expense.

  • The problem is they have found it cheaper to buy ALL politicians than it is to actually pay tax. It only leaves a few options left....

  • No, not really. I just take an opt-in to js approach to the internet. It won't perfectly hide me from databroker fingerprinting - but that's hard to do unless you want to just use TOR for your everyday browser experience and that's too paranoid for me.

  • I've been using ublock origin for the longest time. Set it up in advanced mode and block all 3rd party domains by default. I know it can block individual line items during the js interpretation stage based on matches to plugins like anti-malware scripts. I tend to whitelist some domains I trust on all domains and I'll even blacklist some domains I don't ever trust on other domains (like facebook and anything with px in the name).

    Ultimately - the more protection you put in place, the more likely you will stand out to fingerprinting. They don't give a shit about user agent descriptions. They look at things like how does your browser render a semi-transparent pixel when aliased ontop of something else. What HTML5 Canvas features does your browser support. Attempt to run this list of scripts and see which ones fail. All of that helps make a non-unique print of your browser that hints at an identity even without your Windows Device ID.

  • I explicitly meant "as". It's great as autocomplete. Not as an agent to complete programming tasks.

  • Well, this kind of AI won't ever be useful as a programmer. It doesn't think. It doesn't reason. It cannot make decisions besides using a ton of computational power and enormous deep neural networks to shit out a series of words that seem like they should follow your prompt. An LLM is just a really, really good next-word guesser.

    So when you ask it to solve the Tower of Hanoi problem, great it can do that. Because it saw someone else's answer. But if you ask it to solve it for a tower than is 20 disks high it will fail because no one ever talks about going that far and it flounders. It's not actually reasoning to solve the problem - it's regurgitating answers it has ingested from stolen internet conversations. It's not even attempting to solve the general case because it's not trying to solve the problem, it's responding to your prompt.

    That said - an LLM is also great as an interface to allow natural language and code as prompts for other tools. This is where the actually productive advancements will be made. Those tools are garbage today but they'll certainly improve.

  • Seeing as how quite a few legal immigrants here supported those raids at first, and now they're being targetted - he is quite literally deporting his own base. Lmao

  • Oh good. I'm glad we can just let 3M give microplastics to children in Indonesia once we all decide to quit our pack a day habit. Plus it'll be nice to not be asked by the hostess if we want to sit in the microplastics or non-microplastics section of the restaurant anymore.

  • It's even better because you can pop in whatever fat you want. If you toss the salt in there while popping then it'll evenly distribute across your popcorn as well.

  • Oh I didn't know Broadcom bought it. Screw them. Ansible does look like a direct replacement. I'll have to check it out. As it is, I kind of hate Salt. They invent new terms for everything so its hard to make sense of how anything really works. "Yeah I want to monitor this one file on a system and do something if it changes" "ok well you need to program a salt pillar to do that." "A what?"

  • Tell the IT guys about Salt Stack for administration of the computers. It's not user friendly to set up but you could use it administrate ten thousand computers from a declarative script.

    edit: Listen to the comment talking about Ansible. Avoid Broadcom products.

  • The funny thing about when leopards eat republican faces is that they no longer have eyelids to close to the other atrocities that their despot inflicts upon us all

  • Theoretically sure. But the regime he sold it to go toppled like three times over. So it's not the same people anymore and the context he could provide is out of date and ... checks notes still based on his treasonous actions.

  • Oh this is going on the powerpoint slide deck they use at their next mega orgy with human decanters and virgin sacrifice. Got it.