have been using semiconductor based tools for a few decades now. phones and tablets certainly only fit the toy category.

and you people find joy in watching this?

i’m pretty sure two Ukrainian soldiers did the same.

once weere told that increases the quality of digitally encoded audio signals!!

fwiw, this is the “permalink” to the text: https://www.stilldrinking.org/stop-talking-to-technology-executives-like-they-have-anything-to-say

don’t know, i do neither. but i think the time that users take for manual copying and adjusting from a quick web server’s response may level out the time an LLM takes.

yes, but it’s way more energy efficient to produce that garbage.

i’d also be careful with products that seem to have religious followers.

i recently had a look at Proxmox and found it very underwhelming. it might be interesting of you want to set up and run a cluster of hosts conveniently. other than that it’s just a web ui, and given that this is a key component of the product in its ninth incarnation, it’s disappointing; cluttered, bloated with redundancy, unintuitive. its concept of deploying containers is a joke.

it’s also sort of a description of his own role, innit?

i’m also looking forward for https://sourcehut.org/

We need LLMs as much as we needed 3D movies or augmented reality.

als brechmittel.

i’m generally fine with stealing as practice in the daily class struggle. i mean the owning class has the legal right to do so. and in doubt they just exercise it, judges will later find it to be fair use. no need to justify, it’s description of societies’ order.

it is what it is: a very expensive toy.

yet you need these masses of input for the technology to exist. the business models that base on the technology aren’t sustainable even without payment of the input data.

now that meme shows off.

but also because it isn’t practiced anymore. it’s always surprising what human beings are capable of.

ever heard of Microsoft?

what got regex to do with critical thinking?

how does he know that the solution is elegant and appropriate?