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For example, I no longer generally enjoy videos of animals doing cute things. LLMs have taken the wonder of that from us, because though animals do really unexpected things sometimes, it's more common these days for it to be someone puppetting an AI in the hunt for internet points. I discard anything post-2022 or so, unless it comes from a known good source. (which also generally has to have a presence pre-2022 in order to feel safe)

LLMs are butchering whimsy and wonder.

I am compelled to point out how much "For uint64_t and UINT64_MAX you will be waiting a long time" really undersells it. If we assume that the uint32_t version runs in one second, the u64 version will take 136 years. In reality, on the machine in my lap, u32 takes 0.6s, so we can expect the u64 version to take at least 81 years! Statistically, "you" will not be waiting a long time, because you will die first.

"128 bit values? Even longer." Yes, 2^64 times longer than u64, and 2^96 times longer than for u32! 2^96 just about 80e27. Age of the universe is ~13.8 billion (13.8e9) years, or ~435e15 seconds.

If we consider a more moderate 96-bit size, and I started at the very beginning of the universe, I will only have been able to run that program just over 25 times by now. That's all.

Disempowering deputies is how you end up with customer service that can't actually provide service to customers. Low-trust societies are a huge efficiency loss, and just a general pain in the ass if you are acting in good faith.

We are not all selfish actors here. Who have you surrounded yourself with in your life, that you would end up believing that we're all self-interested actors here?

It's better for five people to earn $100k than for one person to earn $500k and four people nothing. That is a societal negative that progressive and marginal income tax discourages.

Claude: Solve this jigsaw puzzle for me...

Because I believed in the product! (Firefox, in my case)

I do, yeah. Hope that helps!

As a VRChat regular, Meta's VR world efforts have been hilarious every step of the way. So long and thanks for all the headsets! :)

Maybe not everything has to be the next big thing for everyone. Maybe it's valuable for smaller companies or sovereign divisions to find niche markets, and simply build products and services for modest profits for strong customer bases that will never hit hypergrowth. (And are therefore resistant to the cancerous financialization that hypergrowth invites/incites)

I hope they figure out how to make a modest but steady profit making headsets still. The Quest Pro is still my favorite headset, ever since I ditched the awful controllers and went back to Index controllers.

Then again, the Steam Frame is likely to deliver us from this reliance, though it would be really nice to keep having budget headset options.

You are not allowed to discard the more reliable source, but you're excused from, and basically forbidden from, asking for more info or for info from third parties.

We all demand Windows but without ads, but that doesn't cause the market to spit one out. The OS market isn't a healthy market, and government is stepping in here in part because of that market failure to provide a satisfactory solution here.

2A just says that if the e.g. client request headers say the age bracket, the server (dev) can trust the reported age, but also shall not ignore it on purpose. No "just ignore the do-not-track flag" escape hatch here. "A bartender can't willfully refuse to check someone's ID if they are presented with it."

For incorrect OS answers, keep reading. 3B covers what happens if there's clear and convincing evidence that the age covered in 2A is inaccurate. (Reported profile birthday, for instance) This is "if someone shows a bartender a valid drinking-age ID but says they're celebrating their 17th birthday, this can't be ignored".

I read Hyperion and I found it... alright, just not my thing. Maybe it is indeed a masterpiece but "that every fan of sci-fi ought to have read" oversells it. I honestly can't conscion the time to read the rest of the Cantos versus other things on my reading list. Quality does not alone compel consumption! :)

Absolutely!

It's also true in a moral sense though. Choosing "defect" rather than "cooperate" shall not be excused by game theory rationalization, appeal to popularity, or "just following orders".