Insanity

Same! I just finished the book a few days ago. The first half is really good, a cool premise and interesting story. The second half just got a bit too weird for me and by the final chapter I was happ…

Well technical difficulty is one piece. Cost and ROI are a different one.

Have you missed the events of the past year under Trump? With literal claims of taking over EU territory? I know that Trump is the equivalent of a hallucinating LLM, but you can’t just ignore his word…

GH being bought by MSFT way precedes their OpenAI involvement IIRC. And I don’t think it was even needed to train their models given Anthropic does fine without owning GitHub. So this logic doesn’t pa…

Honestly given that they’re nowhere near profitable even with their main product this is the right move.

I started out gaming on CRTs in the late 90s. Moved to LCD in the mid-2000s and haven't looked back. I don't miss CRTs, not least the bulkiness of them lol.

Yeah, moving from EU (induction) cooking to Canadian (electric) stove took some getting used to. Boiling water takes so much longer lol.

That’s unfortunate! But you can start your collection going forward haha :) Yeah Sabaton is great, I’ve been a fan since Primo Victoria, their debut album. They’re also doing an NA tour this year (aft…

I think what the article is driving at is that The Ramones are the _first_ band where that became true.

I’m a big fan of rock and metal music and often go to concerts. I’ll always buy a t-shirt of the main band I go to see, even if I don’t particularly vibe with the design, because I know it’s an additi…

I find that many online payments require CC. And yeah credit score is the other issue.

I wonder how much these are still being used though. None of my friends or family in EU use these, it's mostly induction stoves nowadays.

The third point in this article is what really gets me. The credit card culture in Canada and the US is just insane to me, coming from a European point of view. You can get by without credit cards in …

Yes, and I'm increasingly bored of talking about 'the internet'. AI definitely plays a part in that, I don't want to deal with randomly generated articles or content. But even regu…

Pretty large amounts of energy go towards training large language models. Running them is also a non-negligible energy cost at scale. But yeah, there's way worse industries out there when it come…

I had assumed heat generation on the controller if it's continuously reading. But maybe it's not actually bad.

"Once you stop learning, you start dying." Don't know if that quote is actually by Einstein or just attributed to him, but it rings true for me. Back when I studied philosophy at univer…

This is a pretty cool project! Essentially this is like using Swap memory to extend your RAM, but in a 'smart' way so you don't overload the NVMe unnecessarily. I do wonder in practice …

Disagree with this. Sending a text saying "Can we call when you're free" is more considerate of the other persons time than a random call. It sounds like you're trying to make it s…

100% this. Apart from my SO and scammers, no one randomly calls me. If my brother would call me out of the blue I'd assume the worst. (Also, the one random call I vividly remember getting the pas…

I'd hate that. I have a (small) group of friends, and we play games (almost) every weekend morning for 1-2 hours while on voice chat. I really enjoy that time but we have to schedule it in advanc…

I like his videos, I'm not in 'aviation circles' and I find his videos both educational and I like his demeanor. Do appreciate the link to Blancolerio, I hadn't heard of him (I…

No, but I'm just saying, people vote based on feels.

mh. Guess my view of betting is too naive. I wouldn't have expected anything beyond (1). With my usual addictive behaviour, I think it's prob best I stay away from that though.. :)

Highly skeptical of using a betting platform as an indication of insider knowledge and something to base your decisions off of. People will bet, and it's a 50/50 decision between "ceasf…

I love my Kindle, I think it's Amazon's best product. But even so I'm not sure who the target audience is here. It's an already pretty saturated market for Android devices, and I d…

Lol yeah, that's fair. Either way it's hard to take an article seriously when it starts off like that.

It's a geopolitical reality. Not liking the 'us against them' mentality is fair enough, I agree with that, but we can't be blind to what's happening around us. Also, I do thin…

Ah, I did not know that. I thought it was more Electron-like.