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speaking on the movie : Tank Girl doesn't portray a world that's great for the rich, either.

it's pretty shitty for anyone outside the singular theocratic military enclave that hordes all the water and decapitates scientists.

given that the subsidized plans from all companies are getting worse by the hour it's probably a smart thing to consider, at least.

>Continuous AI dependence of a large fraction of society is coming fast. It needs a name. Cyborgism? Umbilicals?

"Quick, everyone! There has been an event in the time line that causes derision between the masses, let's assign derogatory phrases to blindly label individuals on each side -- we'll call them slurs -- according to the corresponding biases before any kind of human oneness or organization can take place, otherwise we risk human relations improving!"

or, another route : every single step need not be 'us or them'.

... on another hand, 'gargoyle' is kind of cool.

my entire interest in the meta vr glasses is on-device eye tracking; I think that interface concept has been under-explored.

this is the sensation I get when I run nested VMs.

projected ideology doesn't really match reality, so not really.

detecting AI written code without a minder chained to your arm watching your every movement is still a topic of research...

...and as someone who has been to the last 10 miscellaneous FSF/GNU celebrations I can tell you that community has just as many license cheaters and scoundrels as the rest of the computing world, they just tend to bias towards the good stuff, similarly to how every microsoft employee isn't required to drink the blood of infants (it just looks good on quarterlies.)

this is more like .. survival harness, no?

>The app is the same everywhere. When it opens, it checks your computer's memory and downloads the AI model that fits. More memory means a smarter model.

first thing an emergency tool should require, internet access.

at first glance I figured it'd be an ultra small specialty trained survival model that'd be small and runnable anywhere, sorta like an emergency flavored version of those tiny tts models that have been all over recently.

Maybe that's an idea for someone.

asbestos on military/science stuff is/was used longer after it left the home.

I agree with you insofar that the primary motivator for these press releases is public relations and investor confidence, so it should be made as minimally hard to understand as possible just by sheer virtue that it exposes oAI to more cash thrown at them.

I totally disagree with you on the precept that all difficult to understand things need be needlessly dumbed-down/watered-down until palatable for a mass (average) audience. Requiring 'math50' before 'trig101' isn't gate-keeping in any moral sense, it's an effort to save everyones' time involved when the effort is futile.

Similarly I don't demand that haute couture fashion companies explain the style to me until 'I get it' ; I just take it for granted that i'm not going to be able to understand the entirety of the world in one lifetime.

which is even more damning because tesla stock was like 20-25 bucks a pop around when they started those pre-orders and now its 300+

tesla will screw everyone involved, but they shouldn't. those excited early birds were the primary advertising campaigners.

I find it totally unsurprising and uninteresting that the tool makers themselves are the first to adopt the new tool they made.

this is literally the textbook historical process across every industry ever.

other industries by and large have been able to figure out how to separate novice practitioners away from actual public utility until they're ready to participate.

I don't claim to know whether that could be done feasibly for medicine, I only point out that medicine is uncommon in how it educates.

"ThinkingCap PRO: want even better efficiency? The PRO version of this model uses up to 87.6% fewer thinking tokens, 62% on average. Faster answers and lower inference costs at scale. Contact us at enterprise@bottlecapai.com."

lol what's old is new again, software selling performance options like it's the beginning of the multi-core days again.

it's hard to make a phone with a 3.5mm jack that is A) razor sharp thin B) diving proof to 50 fathoms.

and the market has proven that the audience needs those two characteristics, apparently.

bad politics has a habit of showing up in weird places, if anything that makes things more credible for me.

the sexual abuse of the catholic church was first exposed in a local paper for Lafayette Louisianna.

the My Lai massacre was first uncovered by a small alternative group called Dispatch News Service.

the CIA cocaine stuff of the 90s was first discussed in a local San Jose paper.

Larry Nassar was outted as a predator by a local Indianapolis paper , a local DC paper uncovered the Tuskegee Experiments, the Seattle Times uncovered the 737 MAX safety certification skips..

I dunno, I don't think i'd be that surprised to first read about the upcoming impending meteor in the latest issue of Teen Vogue.

'Network' and "Margin Call' are two movies I go back to once every few years to kick myself into remembering how things actually are.

cinema that can do that is powerful.

yeah.

my mind is still stuck in an era where "written from scratch" means no packages and pure language.

people older than me scoff at the concept of how easy it is to be given an already working compiler..

'computers' probably have one of the most diverse fanbases as far as age and expectation goes of nearly anything around, and we're definitely entering a new era.

now the question for the media for the next week :

ban LLM discovery of horrendous security practices because as it turns out security-thru-obscurity is being practiced as 'good enough' across the world , or actually enforce realistic and livable security practice ?

given the insistence on picking overblown and totally partisan poor choices lately, I presume the media will sit on the side of 'we'll just ban LLMs from checking the rest of our security apparatus for single digit keys' and charge 'Wayne' with terrorism statutes.' -- but hopefully i'm just being a jaded pessimist.

the fact that you're quick to tell me you're a pardoned felon but not why gives me a creepy feeling, and I say that with a lot of felon friends and family..

probably not the detail to omit to try to hook a readership..

technical aside : on low bandwidth connections your site acts really inconsistent and weird; it appears to be downloading those on-hover sound files.

by necessity of Marathon having turned out to be a flop.

probably not related[0]

[0]: https://www.autismparentingmagazine.com/autism-and-sarcasm/

game to game, sure. story to story, I disagree.

kotor was one of the first interactive media franchises to showcase that era in the Star Wars universe, and it was an era that's radically different than anything in the movies.

bg3 is a typical DnD setting + sex + lovecraftian elements and flayers sitting in for beholders to spice it up; and they were only there because during dev-time lovecraft was a huge gaming trend.

don't get me wrong; I love both of them, but the BG3 story was the one that ended up feeling like -- for me -- something that would have been a modpack for Neverwinter Nights.

'the press' is seen as a pillar of democracy, without which the rest of things fall apart.

it's more important than you make it seem.

or, for the pessimistic parent : "Be happy with surviving"

That was my mom's strategy seemingly, and it didn't create anything near her intent; it just taught me a lot about her.

kids are smarter than people realize, and they don't glean the things that people intend.

that's counter to recent news about newly-developed never-to-be-developed land all over the U.S. [0]

[0] : https://www.americanprogress.org/article/unprotecting-americ...

I think that's a charitable read, and I submit that starting slow and ramping up is vital not just from a UX and usability standpoint but to imbibe a sense of panic later on.

The contrast from simple and slow to complex and rapid and the buildup between is what produces the emotion, a cluttered and busy UI is just a cluttered and busy UI.

Also : a city planners' job is still fairly serialized and procedural even if it is busy and back-and-fourth; a cluttered UI does little to convey 'busy-ness and conflict'.

that's ridiculous.

one of the reasons that BSDs are less popular is because of the community advice of "The best supported machine is a ten + year old thinkpad."

so yeah you're right there isn't a finish line, but you do need to keep up with current stuff enough to give a possible fan base a decent selection of hardware to run the thing on.

in other words : if the companies that the BSDs already had a hard time keeping up with hasten development via LLMs the gap will grow ever wider until a critical point is hit and the thing becomes irrelevant.

if linux is the only show in town that supports flashy-hardware-Z then it's going to drive audience migration.

the thing that has allowed openbsd to adopt new things so slowly is a rock-solid set of core competencies; the amount that bsd is entrenched into the internet itself makes irrelevance hard to imagine -- but it's still a facet.

I still hear people bitch that BSDs don't support WiFi, and that hasn't been true in years and years.

Greg Abbott going out of his way to use the cheapest piece of shit hospital chair whenever involved in a public photo-op irks me to hell as a wheelchair user myself, and I can't quite explain why. Him making bonkers money while doing so brings it up a notch.

I guess because it just seems fake. If Newsom came out in a torn t-shirt and a pair of converse flat-tops with the soles coming apart just to drive home that he's an every-man like me it'd drive me similarly mad.

It's a mad stupid thing to get upset about, i'll admit that, but next photo-op check it out, half the time he's not even sitting on a cushion; something unheard of and unthinkable for most wheelchair users.

(Why? Because he's using that chair for ten minutes before jumping back into whatever real chair he's using when the cameras are away and his image is secure.)

other folks have some interesting views on this[0] , essentially the thought is that he's foregoing relations with other disabled people to prove himself to the able public.. it's an interesting concept, but I don't know how true it is.

[0]: https://publicseminar.org/2025/06/greg-abbotts-wheelchair/

totally agreed, and..

>, the firmware of the GPU it runs on.

that'd be a rad PoC to see, but given the gpu values right now i'll let someone else brick things.