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In short, the latest versions of LLMs now include many tricks which have long been known to cause confirmation bias in humans.

The reason 4o had a sexy female voice, and giggled, isn't to make it more useful as an assistant. It's because a myriad of psychologists and addiction experts have shown those are the easiest ways to fool people when you're looking for a few billion more VC.

Seeing people trying to applaud LLMs for being queer... When they're just really bad at forming coherent stories, worse at sticking to facts, and massively manipulated because unregulated AIs always start to look like 4chan fast...

Sign of the times.

"Against traffic" is different as a bike or led though. Sometimes when lanes are very narrow and visibility isn't good, you need to go against traffic (on the shoulder) so that the driver sees your face and responds faster. And you can see to bail if someone hasn't made room.

But if it's a Chicago intersection and you just said I'm on a bike all 12 lanes have to yield to me and you zoom diagonal in front of cars... the Darwin Awards are never short of applicants.

E-bikes and scooters and stuff have made this 1,000 times worse. The number of drunk kids who think they can go max speed down a hill through intersections and cars will just magically make way for them... Terrifying.

Lane splitting motorcycles and bicyclists are literally always illegal btw.

Lane splitting is for air cooled engines stuck in traffic, where they literally need to move or shut down. (It is technically illegal to park the vehicle with engine shut off in case you can't restart). It has absolutely never been legal for anyone to shoot through gaps in traffic because of erectile dysfunction compensation. It is only in the absolute emergency that you need to walk your bike around to keep it from melting.

In general I do agree. Campaigns to "see motorcycles" just end up with 80yo biker gangs thinking it's okay yo blast their engines in residential. Campaigns to "share the road" lead to bicyclists who will absolutely charge an SUV just to get on the news. I'm all for road safety but it absolutely requires bike clubs of all types to stop being twits.

Literally in the article.

Key missing component: CAFE needs a rewrite. US emissions laws have a cutout so that larger vehicles have less stringent emissions requirements. The problem is that this is no longer a gap it's a chasm. Slight hyperbole but a Japanese kei car many Americans would love town own muat do closer to 50mpg, while a monster pickup can do 15mpg. It ends up that a small car can cost $15,000 and the giant pickup costs... $15,000. Many consumers compare the two and wonder if the econobox is really a good choice.

The bright shining hope: Most Americans do not want these big cars. Legislation is making small vehicles less competitive, when it should be the other way.

AKA - we have good, cheap(ish) electric trucks now. Legislation doesn't need to worry about farmers who can't afford electric anymore.

Posted article quality is not always very good here lately.

Clickholes get too many votes.

"I have run production websites where I didn't patch security for months or years on end." Linux users wondering why nobody takes them seriously.

Most modern distros have this out of box.

Lot of Linux forums need to update their assumptions by about 20 years.

To be fair. All good distros can run from a USB stick or whatever now. The use case for a "liveCD" is limited. Puppy Linux would just be a toy today. It used to matter to me in the days of slow internet, limited storage, etc.

Now just grab Linux Mint or whatever. Use a "real" distro with a community. Install it if you like it.

Geeky Linux forums tend to be people who haven't given new distros a chance in decades, and still think Gentoo and RedHat are the major players. (Desktop Linux it's Ubuntu, followed by Debian and CentOS).

Anyone who is overly zealous about anything is always wrong in the end. Including testing.

"Why would people mock everything? Why not stand up a real test db and test on it?" Because the test zealous have explicitly declared that EACH test should be atomic. Yes you can find these people at major tech conferences. Each test should mock its own db, web service, etc. Every single time. And it should do that in no more than a few milliseconds, so that the entire project compiles in no more than 2mins, even for the largest and most complex corporate projects. And these tests should be fully end-to-end, even for complex microservices across complex networking architecture.

Some of you may be rolling on the floor laughing at how naive and time-consuming such a project would be.

We all agree such testing is a noble goal. But you need a team of absolute geniuses who do nothing but write "clever" code all day to get there in any sizeable project.

My organization won't hire or pay those people, no matter what they say about having 100% coverage. We just do the best we can, cheat, and lower the targets as necessary.

This is true of literally everything in the new economy.

Internet? Wait until the moment your "promo" cost ends and your bill goes from $80 to $150, threaten to quit, oh wow magically you can have $80 again and a free mobile phone line.

Any subscription service is like this. I sometimes grab a Blue Apron when it's 65+% off which is anytime I want. My ex used to do this with clothing subscriptions, up to 80% off.

There are laws against things being "always on sale". But now they're just being used to punish lazy customers who don't keep up on their promos. Only lazy or ignorant people pay the "real" price.

Oh hey would you look at that, another billion dollar IPO with no plan for profitability went bankrupt. Weird.

Presumably they mean gig economy aka artists are vastly undervalued.

For instance. It's not that AI is replacing artists. It's that people think you don't need to pay a license for generated images, even when they were clearly and provably stolen from copyright material. The bar was just lowered. If "AI" is used to remove the watermark from Shutterstock people think that's legal now.

So WHEN gig economy workers get picked up by a company. Yes they pay for a software license as a "tax" on going pro. But from personal experience. A vast amount of art and content is made by people from developing economies on Fiver or whatever. Many of those licenses are stolen.

And now everyone thinks you don't need to pay artists anymore. So nobody will generate licenses.

Adobe was basically right. They're just going at it in the maximally enshittified manner.

Baba Is You would be perfect for teaching people security, penetration testing, and so on.

Lateral thinking puzzles are underrated, and orgs mostly punish lateral thinkers. Even though the lateral thinker is going to catch way more bugs. They will also generate more bug reports by doing so, and that's bad for numbers, stop that.

Or the old FANG hiring problem. "How would you implement a binary search tree for this problem, and do it only on a Google doc, no auto complete."

Good programmer: "I would never do that. That sounds horrible. Who thought of this?"