It’s times like these when I wish I could just block an instance that isn’t defederated from mine.

“I’ll go absolutely barebones on electricity usage. Just a router and my gaming console!”

I don’t think it’s a good idea to opt out of something like a fridge or lighting.

Nvidia making bank though.

If life ain’t just a joke

The result type in rust does not return a true/false but a type. More importantly though, it doesn’t return err if both values are set but simply returns the first value:

So… It’s not only not mapping your input to truth values, it also behaves more like I’d expect an “or” to behave, which is not “xor” or, if there’s more than two inputs, “exactly one”, but succeeding if any input is set.

The or() combinator means exactly one succeeds.

Using “or” to define a function that does “xor”… Did that guy never hear about formal logic? That’s, like, first or second semester stuff…

Here’s the thing: I don’t have a CS degree.

sigh

What about Sony phones? They have headphone jacks. They don’t get long update guarantees though.

Samsung’s Galaxy A series still has jacks, I think Samsung promises 5 years of security updates for them.

Dude, this is .ml. Don’t attempt reason here.

“Everything” referring to a single other sentence that picks up the example analogy from the previous post. Yeah.

With AIs, it’s the same. It’s not an issue if your teacher gives you an assignment that allows our requires you to use it. But using it despite not being allowed to is cheating. Same as the calculator.

This one?

The point still stands. If you get an assignment, you can use the tools that are allowed. If ai isn’t allowed, using it is cheating. It’s not a hard concept.

The thing is that people get a calculator after they understood how the operations work and have mastered them.

With AIs, it’s the same. It’s not an issue if your teacher gives you an assignment that allows our requires you to use it. But using it despite not being allowed to is cheating. Same as the calculator.

So… Who processes the donation?

Oh really? Man, you don’t say!

What’s your point?

It doesn’t even resemble a consciousness. It’s not even close.

Also, why are you asking your question to begin with if your answer is then just a condescending “but sometimes we can’t tell AI from humans apart”? Yeah, no shit. It’s been like that at least since the 60s. That’s not the point. If that’s all you have, then go ahead, be happy you found something “wild and so trippy”. But don’t ask if there are legitimate reasons to reject AI if all you want to do is indulge yourself.

It is the coolest invention since the Internet and it is remarkable how close it can resemble actual consciousness.

No. It isn’t. First and foremost, it produces a randomised output that it has learned to make look like other stuff on the Internet. It has as much to do with consciousness as a set of dice and the fact that you think it’s more than that already shows how you don’t understand what it is and what it does.

AI doesn’t produce anything new. It doesn’t reason, it isn’t creative. As it has no understanding or experience, it doesn’t develop or change. Using it to produce art shows a lack of understanding of what art is supposed to be or accomplish. AI only chews up what’s being thrown at it to vomit it onto the Web, without any hint of something new. It also lacks understanding about the world, so asking it about decisions to be made is not only like asking an encyclopedia that comes up with answers on the fly based on whether they sound nice, regardless of the answers being correct, applicable or even possible.

And on top of all of this, on top of people using a bunch of statistical dice rolls to rob themselves of experiences and progress that they’d have made had they made their own decisions or learned painting themselves, it’s an example of the “rules for thee, not for me”. An industry that has lobbied against the free information exchange for decades, that sent lawyers after people who downloaded decades old books or movies for a few hours of private enjoyment suddenly thinks that there might be the possibility of profits around the corner, so they break all the laws they helped create without even the slightest bit of self-awareness. Their technology is just a hollow shell that makes the Internet unusable for all the shit it produces, but at least it isn’t anything else. Their business model, however, openly declares that people are only second class citizens.

There you are. That’s why I hate it. What’s not to hate?

Isn’t Europe like… The bigger of the two markets? Can somebody explain to me why we didn’t just tell him to fuck off and have him eat his damn tariffs?

I’ll tape this to my office door.

It really depends. I’ve been to airports where it took me less than 10 minutes from the entry door to the gate. I’ve also been in security lines that took hours because of whatever. Unfortunately, the conditions usually state that you have to take this into account and should be at the airport at least 2 hours early, so that’s what I do to not miss my plane without being able to request a refund or something.

Yeah, no shit… Just go to your nearest station 5 minutes before departure instead of wasting hours in security checks and at gates sounds terrific.

The last time I booked an internaional ICE from northern Germany to Bruxelles, the return connection and its follow up connection were cancelled. Best connection to get back would have been a Eurostar but tickets weren’t transferable and the guy at the station wouldn’t even sell me one. Had to take three short distance trains just to cross the border back to Germany, ended up about five hours late.

National trains are often a mess already but with international connections you’re just lost. Booking night trains would be awesome, go to bed in Hamburg and wake up in Barcelona sounds like a dream. Instead, they all go to Vienna, which is nice to go there but isn’t helpful for European connectivity as a whole.