This might be one of the best summaries of LLMs in their current state I’ve seen here. People claiming they’re useless are stuck in 23’ but to say they’re at AGI/ASI is accelerationist techo-paganism.

Based and levelheaded take

Totally unrelated but another post on here is of a news article that uses precisely the same thumbnail as this one to describe how Ukraine is considering taxing porn to fund defense.

Ehhh,

Eehhhhh

I see what you did there.

They know, it’s used to self incriminate and filter out people that won’t lie under pressure.

Guix.

Try Guix. It’s great.

Not being engaged in politics is synonymous with not being engaged in life.

Politics is “of the people”, unless you’re living alone in a cave in the middle of the woods and never using anything you didn’t yourself make or extract, you are engaged in politics. Every time you interact with literally anything, ever, at all, for any reason, you are doing something political.

My biggest complaint about modern neo liberalism is the cultural work it’s done to convince people “politics” is not synonymous “existence”.

I’m afraid you’ll have to get over that hangup. Considering how politics literally means “of the people”

Okay I’m seeing a lot of your replies here this is a really weird argument to make. You’re literally arguing from symantics.

Hi! I use FreeBSD as a daily driver.

I browse the web, code, and game on it. Works great for me.

My current wishlist is for FreeBSD to have a more robust process supervision system (Dinit I’m looking at you) and for pkg to include some kind of declarative way to build.

It’s great, I love it, join devil Linux.

Thankfully it’s bad enough now that a plurality of young people can’t own property.

My wife and I just had our first, we both make engineer salaries, we can’t afford a home.

Now, to be clear, that’s a good thing; private property is theft. I myself don’t have any interest in home ownership but the fact that even we can’t hopefully ensures that the working class is sufficiently poor enough not be lulled back into complacency.

The bourgeois won’t give up capital without a, literal, fight and the proletariat need to be sufficiently desperate to take it by force.

It’s always refreshing to read something that I can be 100% sure was not written by an AI.

That is fun to know!

With regards to why the culture hasn’t changed. To be honest nuclear power is really safe. We used to play little thought experiments on the boat about how we would get a meltdown to happen and it’s hard

It goes beyond safety systems and automatic protective actions. The design of the cores themselves makes it so you have to jury rig a situation where you get prompt criticality (reactor criticality due entirely to prompt neutrons vice delayed+prompt; very very bad). Frankly operators are there for regulatory reasons; nuclear operations are so safe and formulaic you could run a 1GW plant with ~3 people total given all the available automations.

So why change the culture? The program has literally never had an incident in 70 years of operation. Not one fission product release in close to a century. We have no blood to write rules in.

You don’t want to know about the number of times a fast recovery has been done asleep or a full plant startup is done by an RO who is actively blackout drunk.

We all have, at least, one of those stories.

Yeah that’s… Not how the Navy does things.

Sleep deprivation is the norm across the Navy, particularly in the engineering community and particularly in nuclear engineering.

I would commonly go 36 hours without sleep, generally a few times a month. People keep this up for decades.

Absolutely goated. There’s just something about it that feels good. I think it’s the fact the it feels a bit like writing Unix pipelines but in reverse. You can visualize data move through your program like pipes.

A few of the erdos problems have been independently verified. It’s legit.

This is what I’m saying. Political violence is 100% a valid form of protest.

It’s not the first pick, more like second or third, but we’re WELL past that point.

Loving the recent “New York is a part of New England” trend.

A joint northeastern political identity will help with soft balkanization.

Is this bait or are you actually 14? There are a group of people engaged in genocide and performing a fascist coup, this guy ran on a “stop the genocide and fascist coup” platform. Barring the existence of a legitimate alternative (and let’s be honest, there wasn’t) please, for the love of god, explain to me why I should care about literally anything but the fact that he wants to stop the genocide and the fascists?

When the gestapo come to your door and you need to defend yourself are you going to not reach for a gun because that would imply tacit approval for the gun lobby?

They’re a fed. Or a useful idiot. We lost this week. With the margin being what is is we may have lost overall.