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  • Decisions, decisions

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  • So far I've watched all of SNW with the fam. But I only made it through season 4 of The Burnham show before I gave up. And after the disaster of Picard season 1's ending - I had zero patience for that one. Yikes. "We're religious extremists which have feared an android apocalypse for a thousand years. But you're cool, Mr P. We'll set aside a literal millennia of dogma and doctrin while the very scenario our beliefs are founded upon takes place right in front of us because you gave a great 45 second speech."

  • Al Green introduces article of impeachment against Trump

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  • Even if many individual GOP members of the house morally know it is the right thing to do, they will pragmatically choose to condemn the action instead because they are A) bribed B) blackmailed and C) threatened with violence D) all of the above.

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  • The US House's CAO informed congressional staffers that WhatsApp is now banned on their government devices as the app is deemed “a high-risk to users”

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  • Yeah like basic communication and the general concept of democracy.

  • AI Models from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic Solve 0% of ‘Hard’ Coding Problems

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  • Did you even read my earlier comment?

  • Trump Is Losing Support for Anti-Immigrant Raids, Deportations

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  • From Honduras?

  • AI Models from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic Solve 0% of ‘Hard’ Coding Problems

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

  • AI Models from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic Solve 0% of ‘Hard’ Coding Problems

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  • 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.

  • 'They quit after a few hours': Farmers admit they can't find American workers

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  • I think those exceptions are made (, in principle,) to to let farm workers get paid per unit. They pack a crate, they get $3. They can probably pack 10 crates an hour if they work their asses off.

    But I'm sure it is exploited egregiously.

  • Trump Is Losing Support for Anti-Immigrant Raids, Deportations

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  • 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

  • Decisions, decisions

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  • It took me until I got to the Badgey episode (I think episode 4 or 5) to click with it. It's like a less raunchy Rick and Morty humor with a Star Trek skin.

  • Am I the only one who thinks social media has destroyed the spirit of the internet?

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  • Is that an Animal Farm quote?

  • Scientists discover promising new way to filter microplastics out of human body: 'The dose makes the poison'

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  • 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.

  • Scientists discover promising new way to filter microplastics out of human body: 'The dose makes the poison'

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  • 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.

  • Captain Cook's missing ship found after sinking 250 years ago

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  • Is there an east coast equivalent to the Goonies?

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  • 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?"

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  • 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.

  • Vomiting Emoji

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  • Bummed about the lack of vomiting statue of liberty. I feel like I'd get some solid use of that in these times.

  • Decisions, decisions

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  • Oddly I can recommend Lower Decks. It's not star trek, but it's a star trek themed farce.

  • Decisions, decisions

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  • Bro - they went out of business because A) amazon stole their consumer base and B) Mitt Romney's vultures did a leveraged buyout where they made Toys R Us pay all of the debt service while he looted anything not bolted down and sold all of the real estate to themselves then leased it back to TRU at inflated no-bid prices.