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lol, no. I actually saw one at a client's and beside being uglier than what a 5yo would be able to draw, it was also built like shit. I'm talking about going to the hardware store for aluminum panels and bend them, cut with scissors and some soldering job here and there kind of bad.

thank god these monstruosities were forbidden in europe

I.. I just wanted a pixel with more battery but also cheaper because mass produced.

one thing for sure, we are all being hit by a huge wave of slop, the reasons are always the same: some random moron wants his 15 minutes of fame and vibe slops something, let it be a landing page, a piece of software, a drawing, music, firmware, a book, whatever.

Creative / intelligent / motivated individuals instead use the instrument creatively (whatever that means in that person's field) because it's so easy to not make slop if you care just a tiny bit about the output the slop machine is producing.

Still, seeing the slop being churned out for fame still hurt me (i'm a software developer, hardware designer, used to be a musician and back then i had a couple of good ideas but i missed the eurorack train), but i am doing my best not to be an hypocrite about it

I have a laptop for work. 95% of the time i'd prefer a tower or at least a mini PC with proper cooling, but that remaining 5% i have to be around with the laptop is enough. I don't like the idea of having to remember to sync the projects every time (especially while i'm in the middle of testing something new so it's not like i can just pull the latest commit or sync the latest good version of something)

which is mind boggling.

my skoda simply has an entry in the menu: DST? which puts the clock one hour ahead or behind.

This posts remind me that when i will be in the market for a new van i will have to decide to get the trafic or the vivaro, solely on the head unit they use (renault ones have had incredibly stupid design decisions for years, on ergonomics alone, even more in firmware)

musicians do not want AI in what they believe is the product of human mind and soul but will not have so many problems with whatever they're not skilled at, or find tedious and boring.

Just like us, but with graphics or landing pages ;)

I'm just so tired of the narrative.

It didn't really bother me during the altcoin/nft scam era, other than from time to time trying to explain at a normie that they were mostly scams, you know the concept that if you want to sell an asset for X you have to find somebody willing to buy.

But at least you could simply ignore all the mentally ill megalomaniacs that were like duude this is the future

This time instead it's so pervasive that you can simply not excape the narrative and simply concentrate on the good stuff about the technology. It's the narrative, the pressure, the whole global situation, not AI in general

> I highly doubt these incidents were faked in order to advance regulatory capture

yeah? the incidents were faked in order to create hype

well i have a couple of laptops at work that are dedicated to programming/test software.

A touch screen would be actually better than a laptop, but android tablet won't cut it (we make some of the test hardware so are in control of the drivers, but for most of it we don't)

so apple switches to oled. gasp. my lenovo is suddently on par with macs? apple switches to touchscreen for macs, double gasp. mostly a gimmick.

yes :) we can have different opinions

the 2012 was a really solid generation (the 2010 as well. i still have both, not running osx anymore of course)

Disagree. I like my S3425DW (and my oled laptop) much more than whatever my colleague's macs

one of the points is that LLMs are NOT deterministic so you can't run them yourself a thousand times and expect the same output.

why would i even care, if what's currently provided is better than good enough, and can be extended in post training / augmented with search?

one can truly dream

I wish they'd go back to text and images for the teardowns.

same!

no, i never cared for that series, sorry

please point me to an LLM that can write like that without extensive handholding

have you ever played first party titles on the switch?

the level of polish and stability on the open world zeldas is astonishing, i never experienced anything like that in third party AA/AAA games form the last 15 years or so, playing on the switch or on the pc.

written at the top: current 23.01 version (i did get the sw2 on first day because you never know but...)

not on 10

everybody cloned stuff before. You keep your clients because you offer more than the lowest available price: the human touch (support, design, quality, problem solving)

LLMs only appear to do that, if they do it effectively is because you can.

like primus

you know we already had firefox back then? anyone with half a brain only used IE for the institutional website with ActiveX that wouldn't work otherwise

it really does though

who exactly owns a fairphone?

Now, if we had support for say, a pixel, that would probably change things. Incidentally, there seems to be initial support for the tensor G5 (pixel 10 onwards)

will be free when everyone owns the means to make it, instead you're going to rent the compute to make the software to escape the rent

and not only in ireland.

It is so depressing to wake up, go to work in the dark and go home in the dark.