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  • They're a niche product that has a very solid use case (court transcripts). They require far less training than a stenotype, but because they're so niche, the people who do make them can more-or-less charge what they want. If we're being less skeptical, the low demand means the manufacturers can't take advantage of the efficiencies of scale, so the price remains high.

  • What happened is that we lost several big fights against fascism, and governmental entities are barely bothering to even pretend that they care about the citizens any more. If they want it, they'll ram it through no matter what we say.

    We're saving our energy for the next election, and if that fails, then we're cooked.

  • It's a part of gaming history and a conversation piece, as well as a neat piece of kit. It has sentimental value above and beyond its utility. People who are buying from scalpers are doing it for that reason.

  • I hate to break it to you, but most Americans never have the opportunity to personally interview their representatives.

    Of course Americans vote for who they're told to vote for. Every candidate is being built up by someone else. You'd say the same thing if all the candidates that the establishment DNC propped up had won. The trick is finding someone who both shares your values, and has the knowledge to give you an informed opinion. Mamdani is a pretty solid voice to listen to.

  • From my perspective, it seems like Mamdani has a personal policy of finding things that will make a positive impact, no matter how small, and giving them the push they need to get done rather than letting them get bogged down by committees or fishing for funding.

    A lot of politicians in similar positions spend their days wrangling and maneuvering, rather than finding a thing and just doing it.

  • If they did that, it would trash the cell reception. Metal blocks signal.

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  • It's a skull-and-bones. In modern day it is far more associated with pirates than it is Nazis, and he was in the Marines.

  • Also it's cheap if you use their stupid app, depending on what you get. When I'm trying to pinch pennies but don't have time for anything else, it comes in handy.

    Their app really is stupid though

  • It's not even that. It's about Steam apparently trying to enforce a clause that doesn't exist. The most-favored nation clause applies to Steam keys only, but Steam allegedly sent Ubisoft a nastygram about them selling a non-Steam version for less.

  • I told you a joke via UDP, but I don't know if you got it or not.

  • Only connected with cinch straps. They don't have any wire connection to the pole. That's what makes them so easy to place all around a city; they're just throwing them onto pre-existing poles.

  • Honestly, it's possible that your cat knocked something over in your neighbor's yard and panicked. It'd sound like something big and scary, which would cause the cat to hole up and yell to be saved - and then when you came around the corner, perhaps thought that the 'big scary monster' was coming without knowing it was you.

  • They have solar panels and batteries, they aren't connected to anything.

  • I doubt anyone can actually calculate a line of best using ordinary least square linear regression by hand with no mistakes but no one’s crying about that.

    That's because I can write an algorithm to do it for me reliably and quickly.

    LLMs are just the next generation of calculators and programs.

    LLMs can do it quickly, but they cannot do it reliably by their very nature. They are very much NOT the next generation of calculators and programs, because the whole POINT of calculators and programs is to do it quickly AND RELIABLY.

  • nowadays most of it is done by robots.

    The difference is that the robots are actually better at reliably making cars than the humans were. Vibe coding very much does not produce better, more reliable code.

  • LLMs are neat, and useful for some things - but as with practically everything in modern society, capitalism is ruining it.

  • I think maybe we're talking about a different Jon Stewart, because the one I know hasn't shied away from criticizing Israel.

  • That's because it doesn't really 'know' things in the same way you and I do. It's much more like having a gut reaction to something and then spitting it out as truth; LLMs don't really have the capability to ruminate about something. The one pass through their neural network is all they get unless it's a 'reasoning' model that then has multiple passes as it generates an approximation of train-of-thought - but even then, its output is still a series of approximations.

    When its training data had something resembling corrections in it, the most likely text that came afterwards was 'oh you're right, let me fix that' - so that's what the LLM outputs. That's all there is to it.

  • They're too used to being able to get whatever they want by whining and threatening loud enough.

  • Technology @lemmy.world

    AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds

    futurism.com /artificial-intelligence/new-findings-ai-coding-overhyped