Mass manufactured catcaves are inferior to artisanaly crafted cat forts.

No, it’s a fucking monopoly 30% extortion fee.

Like honestly, have you ever even seriously contemplated running a business in your life?

What do you think you pay 30% of REVENUE for? Go ahead and list of out expenses for any normal business that chew up 30% of revenue.

We’ll wait to see how comparable they are to the glory that is Steam’s two decade old launcher and blob storage account.

Vale literally and probably does and has. 30% of revenue is not a reasonable fee for basically anything. That’s a Mafia markup.

Like lmfao, it takes dozens to hundred of devs like 5-7 years to make a game like Baldur’s Gate, and you think that Valve deserves 30% of all of their sales for managing the same basic storefront they built 20 years ago.

That’s absurd.

Because of Valve taking a 30% cut of revenue of every sale.

Gamers hear that Valve has been overcharging them for years, and think Epic is the villain.

Everyone’s collective dick slobbering of Valve and billionaire Gabe is embarassing as fuck.

Someone who wants to be able to see the screen during the day when there’s sunlight in the room, or someone who wants to be able to see the full spectrum of visual fidelity during a movie.

Its not like you’re going to have a blank white image on screen all day, but if you want to accurately portray the contrast between say, the shadow of the jungle, and the bright colours of a bird that has sunlight glinting off it, then you need to be able to have the brightest parts be very bright and the darkest parts be very dark, because that’s what reality looks like, the outdoors gets brighter then 100 nits.

Honestly, we have way more work to do when it comes to brightness, contrast, and colour.

I’d rather a 1080p screen that has OLED infinite contrast and over 1000 nits of sustained brightness to be fully viewable during the day, over a resolution bump.

The original Copilot is GitHub Copilot which is a coding assistant and it’s very popular and useful for developers. I think most of the paying copilot customers and usage are coming from there.

3x increase makes sense to me.

GitHub Copilot (the original copilot) is wildly popular amongst professional software developers, and is used more and more as it gets more powerful.

I suspect most of the original paying customer base are developers and they’re seeing a 3x usage, primarily amongst them, with a small bump from users of all the other copilots.

Most major languages these days are multi-paradigm languages that can do procedural, functional, or object oriented coding.

C#, Kotlin, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Python, Swift, etc all fall into this bucket.

Java has made a lot of efforts to support functional programming, but it’s still not first class.

I would argue that these languages adopting functional coding as a first class citizen has made dedicated functional languages somewhat more obsolete, but they also paved the way and set the standards for the general languages that came after.

On the web side of things, the most popular JavaScript / TypeScript frameworks these days are often fundamentally functional though, from React on the front-end to Express on the back end.

Functional languages are inherently built on non-functional ones, for the same reason that object oriented languages are built on non object oriented ones, because cpus are fundamentally not object oriented or functional.

They are computational machines with specific instructions around moving values in memory and performing certain operations on them.

Assembly / machine code is always, at a fundamental level, procedural programming because at a the most fundamental level, cpus are designed as procedural machines, so all higher ordered languages, from C, all the way up through Python and Lisp, have to translate down to assembly, which maps to the machine’s instruction set, which is procedural and imperative.

However, there is an OS that tries to be functional as much as possible though, and that’s a Linux distribution called NixOS, based on the functional language Nix.

Lol I know, but they were essentially making the point that beans are just an overall better protein source.

Now, don’t get me wrong, beans are a great and nutritious food, and a good source of protein, but if you’re analyzing them just as a protein source, then they’re just objectively not as good as most meats, or like you pointed out, eggs.

I do agree that you should want to eat a healthy and balanced diet with a large variety, but at the end of the day macros do still matter, especially if you need to gain or maintain muscle mass. That can be because you’re an athlete, or because you’re over /under weight, or because you’re elderly and need to prevent muscle mass loss to maintain the rest of your health, or if it’s because your sick or recovering from an injury. In all those situations, where macros do actually matter, then it’s perfectly possible to gain muscle while eating vegetarian or vegan, but just normal beans are not the protein source to do it. You’re either going to want to eat quite a decent number of eggs on the reg, or supplement with a concentrate like whey or pea protein powder.

My point is just that beans are not an equivalent protein source to meat, and there’s no point pretending like they are. No one is going to fall for it and suddenly convert. You’ll have more success convincing people to go meat free by actually giving them viable alternatives, not gas lighting them.

Lmfao you don’t even understand the analogy.

Cite your source on protein needs or shut the fuck up.

And you’re definitely so simple minded that you need to put people in buckets.

Lmao, stop projecting bro. You’re so social media pilled that because rfk likes protein, you reactionarily think protein is bad.

Educate yourself on the very basics of nutrition, and then go touch some grass.

The standard Daily Recommended Allowance for protein intake is ~0.83g / kg body weight. I.e. that is the minimum amount of protein you need to eat every day to maintain your basic nutrition, which for a 180lb person is about 70g of protein per day, at minimum.

You need more it you’re an older adult, and you need close to double that if you’re an athlete trying to gain muscle.

Beans are great, but you need to eat 7 cups of beans, ~1.75 Litres of beans to get 100g of protein.

Even if you’re vegetarian there are better sources of protein then that.

I mean, this is literally an argument against using oxen to plough fields instead of doing it by hand.

The answer is always that society should reorient around not needing constant labour and wealth being redistributed.

Free will exists and you feel it every time you’re dieting, lol, or restricting yourself in any way for higher reasons. It escapes the realm of words because it’s fundamental to our existence, you can’t argue against it in good faith, it can simply be denied the same way you could deny the rising of the sun… And, again, I think you’re confused.

Lol, “free will exists because I think it exists” is not an argument.

Okay, could a calculator with all its parts be considered intelligent/more intelligent than us simply because it can make calculations faster and with more accuracy? A computer? It’s the same principle.

Computers have long been limited to not being more intelligent than very complicated calculators, because they had no good way of solving fuzzy pattern matching problems, like ingesting arbitrary data and automatically learning and pulling out patterns from it. This famous xkcd points that out: https://xkcd.com/1425/

The entire recent surge in AI is being driven because AI algorithms that model our neurons do exactly that.

We simply haven’t made anything that 1) understands the world around it in any way 2) has volition.

LLMs contain some understanding of the world, or they wouldn’t be able to do what they do, but yes I would agree. That doesn’t meant we won’t or can’t get there though. Right now many leading edge AI researchers are specifically trying to build world models as opposed to LLMs that do have an understanding of the world around them.

We have made a code eating, code spitting machine that works when we want it to, that’s all.

No, this is a reductive description of how even LLMs work. They are not just copying and pasting. They are truly combining and synthesizing information in new and transformative ways, in a similar way that humans do. Yes, we can regurgitate some of that book we read, but most of what we get from it is an impression / general knowledge that we then combine with other knowledge, just like an LLM.

Language is literally the basis for almost all of our knowledge, it’s wild to flatly deny that a multi billion collection of simulated neurons that are trained on language could not possibly have any intelligence or understanding of the world.

Are they or just simulating a model of a model?

So you’re saying there’s a magical other plane that the material objects on this world are just a model of and the objects in this plane don’t actually determine behaviour, the ones on that plane do?

What evidence do you have to support that? What evidence do you have that consciousness exists on that plane and isn’t just a result of the behaviour of neurons? Why does consciousness change when you get a brain injury and damage those neurons?

And it doesn’t have to be magical for it to be unreachable for us (read Roger Penrose)

Roger Penrose, the guy who wrote books desperately claiming that free will must exist and spent his time searching for any way it could before arriving at a widely discredited theory of quantum gravity being the basis for consciousness?

and what we have today is just inert code ready to work on command, not some e-mind just living in the cloud

So? If we could put human brains in suspended animation, and just boot them up on command to execute tasks for us, does that mean that they’re not intelligent?

Come on, man, this is not debatable.

It obviously and evidently is debatable since we are debating it, and saying “it’s not debatable” isn’t an argument, it’s a thought terminating phrase.