Shakes Magic 8 Ball: Signs point to never.

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Given the recent NASDAQ changes, looks like US pension funds will end up with the bag. What a scam.

Microslop can suck it.

It could explain why some people suffer emotional distress while under antibiotics

Or just that nuking gut bacteria messes with the gut brain axis…

And provides fertile ground for evolution by providing space for gene duplication and divergence. Likely also for miRNA control systems.

Angry.

I like most of the original Punk stuff, even Sex Pistols, fond of Dead Kennedys. RATM, German Industrial, second Midnight Oil.

One missed so far is KMFDM, lyrics like ‘Your Government Hates You,… Hate Your Government’ and ‘Those who would trade liberty for security, deserve neither and will lose both’ seem especially on point today.

right to your own picture

That’s pretty handy. Seems like that means you should therefore have the right for it not to be non-consensually sucked into the Meta AI training corpus (and you know it is) or sold to face recognition companies etc.

Just some evidence away from a massive class action lawsuit against Meta. Yes please, spank 'em hard.

To hire them back cheaper, later, while making line go up now, same as always.

AI is just today’s excuse, plus hype that crap for stupid investors and profit.

A trick I use when deciding between closely balanced possibilities is to flip a coin. If you immediately think to yourself I wanted the other side, switch. Job done.

That said, first, IMO hobby shmobby. Perhaps you actually want to do jerky but are caught up on definitions, but also why not both?

Do one hour of each, 4 tomato seeds and a tray of water (+ nutrients? idk) in the sun, see what happens. I know little about hydroponics but have been meaning to try that bottle method (Kratky Method) for mint. Just crack out a minimum viable product and refine later.

I occasionally do jerky, actually got an air fryer specifically because it did dehydrate and it works fine (more than 10C resolution would have been nice, but adjust time as needed), get some stacking wire trays to do more. Use what you have, make it stable at 60-70C, I’ve used an oven on low cracked open a tiny bit with a thermometer in the past, wasteful but works. To get started just do a baseline without marinade. Get a round or other lean cut, half freeze it (easier to slice), sharp knife, slice as thin as practical, don’t sweat the mistakes. Start dehydrating it. Come back in 4 hours and have a look (don’t keep checking too often, messes with temperature) and every hour after until you think it’s done. Eat. That’ll do for a first pass, refine.

TLDR: pick one or two and have a go, try not to overthink.

Back dooring subscription revenue for an OS you ‘own’.

If you feel the need to dumb it down, ‘statistical parrot’ works OK. I’m happy with the original.

Do not look at laser with remaining eye…

Used to be as people got older and their lenses lost flexibility they’d develop farsightedness (presbyopia) and need reading glasses, now it’s common to become shortsighted instead, due to screens. VR may help, or at least let you choose your own adventure.

Why would you do that?

Because you hate yourself?

Oh, right, you found a tool (self reflect) that let’s you do it with zero effort. FU…

As much as I’d like this to be true (don’t believe all the benchmarks), in reality, using e.g. gpt 5.5 is still a lot less pain in the ass, mostly has to do with more reprompting (gpt is just smarter, oneshots stuff more often) + a lot slower (on an RTX 3090 for reference).

You’re not wrong, but perhaps you are not giving them adequete time to be wrong. Oneshotting is not the be-all, right is, especially maintainably correct. I’ve found letting them fight over it useful.

Eh, valid I do in fact agree and perhaps I exaggerated with 16GB, I do in fact have two,

AI is software. We never stopped any software change before.

Good point, hard to stop something that has near zero cost of copying (see also ‘piracy’)

Which is why techbros are trying to put a moat around it with ‘datacentres’ . Problem is, as the tech advances, it keeps getting smaller. QWEN 3.6 27B can run fine on a 16GB video card and if you give it more time it’ll be as ‘smart’ as bigger models. Doesn’t have as much world knowledge as the bigs, but for many usecases that’s irrelevant.

Really, ‘datacentres’ are more about stealing compute from the masses so they can rent it back, with control.

Nice yard.

(Using insane maniac as a compliment here; the world would be a much more boring and unenjoyable place without insane maniacs willing to waste their time making it a better or at least more interesting place.)

Thank you Sir/Maam, a better day was had here due to this…

Tenant: really solid actor (see also many things (including doctor 10, but really enjoyed Good Omens and much else). Has his clone from some season of Doctor Who as a wife (related to the 5th Doctor just for fun, love the nepotism)

Also super scary concept in Jessica Jones S01, meme approved.