And truth is an absolute defence. I imagine the Atlantic had lots of meetings with lawyers about publishing a story about Patel being an unqualified, paranoid, incompetent drunk.

What porn did they take with them?

That doesn’t surprise me. The guy is and always has been a grifter.

If something can be done in 10 minutes, then fine but if it’s something 15 programmers do every single day forever then maybe the automated equivalent is worth that work.

Conversely sometimes it isn’t and part of the role of being a senior / principle developer is knowing when something is worth the effort and when it isn’t.

I have a feeling that OpenAI won’t be long for the chop. They’re burning through capital and unlike Google or Facebook they don’t have any other revenue stream than AI. Nor did they focus and specialise on something, such as coding so even by that metric Anthropic is shitting all over them.

Demanding a Macbook when the place doesn’t use Macbooks is entitlement, not demanding better conditions.

Guy just sounds entitled and precious they wouldn’t stump for a Macbook.

Digital ownership tokens could work if there legal framework imbuing digital property with the same attributes as physical property, i.e. legal ownership and the right to sell, trade, donate, loan or destroy it just as with a real thing. And tokens would have to be maintained by a single platform with legal weight behind it. If there were such a thing and platforms were compelled to support it, then it could work.

But NFTs were not that. They were a scam from the get go. I truly wonder how anybody could be stupid enough to believe a URL pointing at a machine generated picture would ever be worth something let alone appreciate in value. Or buying content in dogshit NFT based games like Legacy or Earth 2. Or that scam game Logan Paul endorsed. Or buying real plots of land such as on “Satoshi” (Lataroa) Island - a malaria riddled jungle that was sold as libertarian asshole utopia before it flopped. But people did. Because people are stupid.

I wouldn’t trust any vehicle to be safe for wading unless it was explicitly designed from the outset for that purpose. There are offroad vehicles with snorkels, and double seals around everything like doors, electronics & batteries which are designed to go through deep water.

The cyberturd… not so much regardless of the lies Elon used to sell it. I would not be surprised if there is small print in the warranty which basically tells people to take a hike if they attempt to use it in the ways Elon has described.

LLMs are only as good as their training and they’re not “intelligent” - they’re spewing out a response statistically relevant to the input context. I’m sure a delusional person could cause an LLM to break by asking it incoherent, nonsensical things it has no strong pathways for so god knows what response it would generate. It may even be that within the billions of texts the LLM ingested for training there were a tiny handful of delusional writings which somehow win on these weak pathways.

No ethnicity has a monopoly on racism. It is global to the human condiction. It may be that in European / US it’s predominantly by white European people. But it’s not hard to find examples of it all around the world, extant and from the past where ethnicity, caste, religion, language is used as an excuse to hate on and subjugate some outside group.

That would be a completely unworkable law since devices may not even have internet connectivity, or a user interface. And even if they did, it would have a chilling effect on software development in California.

No but the people using GrapheneOS by and large are.

Trying to capture the street criminal demographic

I opened Microsoft Solitaire on my phone the other day and the fucking thing wanted to age verify me. Over on the desktop the same thing happened in MS App Store. The stupid part? I’ve had this Microsoft account for so long that it legally qualifies as an adult in its own right.

Probably hard to support old platforms if the entire toolchain, predominantly owned by Microsoft isn’t supporting them either.

It’s like a slippery slope of stupid. If they wanted kids to not see porn, or social media, they could have mandated ISPs, mobile operators and Apple / Google implement parental controls on < 18 accounts and provide parental control software for family accounts. Adults or families who did not explicitly opt in to this law would be fully exempt from it.

Yes ears are different. And eyes. And preconceptions. That is subjectivity. If you want to know what is actually better you need to eliminate those biases. e.g. in audio the standard is an A/B test where the test plays audio from 2 sources at the same volume through the same headset and the recipient has to choose which is best without knowing anything else. Done properly you’ll know if there is a measurable, objective difference between the two sources. Double blind is even better.

The issue for audiophiles is that this is not the way things are done. More often they’re sold snake oil - hyper expensive audio cables, beech wood knobs, concrete turn table bases etc. Things that do precisely do fuck all to improve audio quality except in their imaginations.

Exactly. Open source is fine when it suits them but not fine when it doesn’t.

Tangy pickle yes. Branston, piccalilli. Or pickled onions, relish, or somesuch.