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Thank you, the comments were getting pretty rough the last couple days.

“non-fascist conservatives” have spent the last 40 years obstructing and cozying up to fascists rather than play well with others. They knew what they were doing.

Primes are actually useful…

With only a phone, an app, and a radio you get a radio!

After a little sleuthing with reverse image search, I think it’s an episode of The Outer Limits “The Invisible Enemy” guest staring Adam West.

Instant gratification is a hellava drug

Will that be before or after the metaverse arrives?

I have not seen quadlets before, that’s really neat.

Jennings was already in the back of a patrol car by the time Roberson, the white woman who called police, emerged. Jennings, she told officers, was a neighbor and a friend of the home’s owner, Roy Milam.

“OK. Does he have permission here to be watering flowers?” Smith asked.

“He may, because they are friends,” she replied. “They went out of town today. He may be watering their flowers. It would be completely normal.”

Milam told the AP that was exactly what happened: He’d asked Jennings to water his wife’s flowers while they were camping in the Tennessee mountains for a few days.

Watering flowers wasn’t the problem, Smith told Roberson. The issue, he said, was Jennings’ refusal to provide identification after acting “suspicious.”

Realizing that she’d called police because one neighbor was watering another’s flowers, Roberson said: “This is probably my fault.”

A few moments later, officers told Roberson that a license plate check showed the gold sport utility vehicle that prompted her call in the first place belonged to Milam. They got Jennings out of the patrol car and he told them his first and last name.

“I didn’t know it was him,” Roberson told police. “I’m sorry about that.”

https://apnews.com/article/alabama-arrests-race-and-ethnicity-e8638d2a3c479526abee0acb894356d8

Nope, racist neighbors and racist cops

Whatever floats your boat…

Finding a thing that worked for you is great, but that does not make you an expert in that thing or qualified to give advice to other people about it.

Shooting on low budget stuff is whatever, but the amount of software filtering that goes on in a smartphone camera seems like it would make the raw footage really difficult to edit.

Same for me, local and the other tabs work but the main timeline is failing.

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Only time will tell I guess, but it seems to me like they’ve trained what they can train, it stopped getting better a while ago, and the core issues of reliability are unsolvable problems.

I think we’ve seen pretty much the limit of what LLMs can pretend to do. They can sort of spit out code snippets in a stack overflow kind of way, but are not capable of starting with a set of requirements and producing a complex program. Programming has never been about remembering all the syntax and having all the design patterns memorized, that’s what documentation and search engines are for. Programming is engineering a complete, maintainable solution given a set of requirements.

I do think LLMs will eat Stack Overflow’s lunch as a source of quick code snippets for programmers to copy/paste.