little known historical fact: G+ was actually the mark that service got on its popularity exam

shitty comment, I blame the poster

only needs a quantum chapter somewhere in there for bonus scoring round..

Read on to find out!

do i have to

I guess the supposed appeal is in the implicit dehumanization and racism.

yeah, that's actually how I've always read it. looking at people in lives stretched to the limit of tolerance by the pure drive for survival, and instead of having a fucking lick of empathy and going "wow yeah, all this is kinda shitty, maybe we should change it" they go "oh yeah very clearly this person is incapable of self-directed behaviour and action"

you do realize steaks arriving purple or green are bad things, right

good god this entire post is the most tortured believer whataboutism I've encountered this month and there's extremely strong competition here

are currently spoons, but people are desperately wishing they were katanas

ie. “Steak” tasks

you should make a youtube channel, The Katana Steak-Eater. I'd watch the shit out of that at least one saturday afternoon

Saw this in passing earlier and I just laughed

Until indicated otherwise I’m going to presume it was some bizbro PM/PO/whatever pushing it because they really think it should be there “to be able to compete” (because of some laughably idiotic misunderstanding of their own value proposition and pitch)

Tangent: while I mostly run my own servers and services I did a recent assay on who’s reasonable for service shit. Proton kept popping up massively recommended while some occasional critical mentions from folks in anarchist circles, etc - made me a bit 🤨 and want to dig in more, but also just their product offerings aren’t great. Others I poked into are fastmail and tuta - both seem a fair bit better. Might be worth a look

I'm going to start trolling these dipshits with "I bet you don't even understand something as basic as how BGP makes the internet work" and watch the bad takes fall out

for the viewers at home: BGP operates on (relatively) simple rules, but with hella emergent complexity with a loooooot of intermingled state and subjective truth from the point of view of each actor AS in participation. and table stakes on the internet is edge filters, MEDs, communities, RRs, (sometimes) RPKI, etc. and that's before you get into the more esoteric shit you can do.

The syntax of a programming language you don’t know, and would be trivial to google

yeah so I tried that already, and it turns out these things are both dogshit and insidious in those cases - if I were a less informed user, I would've had bugs baked in at a deep level that would've taken hours to days to figure out down the line

it feels like throwing more hardware/data at it is no longer the correct answer

it was never the correct answer

Mainly the issue here is trust. You never know when LLMs switch from being a decent teacher to being a convincing liar. And that’s kinda the whole thing with teachers, you’re supposed to trust them

wat. I don't really understand this point/mention - what did you mean to convey by bringing this up?

You never know when LLMs switch from being a decent teacher to being a convincing liar.

well.. no? 1) it's always synthesising, there is no distinction between truth and falsehood. it is always creating something. some of it turns out to be factual (or factual enough) that you're parsing as "oh it gave me true bits", but that's because your brainmeats are doing some real fancy shit on the fly because they've been tuned to deal with information filtering over a couple millennia. handy, right?

but the LLM is much more likely to describe a common viewpoint that it’s been trained on a lot.

you mean the mass averaging machine is going to produce something that might be an average of the mass data? shock, horror!

why not just find a scientist to become friends with? it's so much easier (and you get to enjoy them going fully human nerdy about really cool niche shit)

The boot never likes hearing anything but “argggggh” or “ow that hurts”. Really weird, no-one has been able to figure it out!

I didn't even go exploring. on the one hand I feel this is good (in the sense that it didn't depress me even more), on the other it would've made the who clear earlier