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I was thinking about yesterday - and I can't find it now - a comment or an article about how dangerous LLMs are to folks with ADHD tendencies because it just supercharges the "oh I made this!" receptors and is really hard to break out of. It's like playing Minecraft or something on steroids.

He's been considering it and talking about it for a couple years now IIRC

where do you get free compute? (serious)

Man this is taking me back!

The online groups where we made games together, the tons of ideas and concept art sketches in school notebooks, ZZT as someone else mentioned, the PACKARD BELL...

It surfaced this in my memory too, havent thought about it in a few decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Hamster_Republic_Role...

warms my heart to see this so high. that summer I was 10 and discovered ZZT and the surprirsingly robust editor and language was really where it all began for me tech-wise. and I was just thinking about it two days ago

For real! What a cool little easter egg in this already super-cool web app

I wouldn’t be surprised if US “bans” access to the Chinese models by the end of the year

Yeah that's true to an extent. I've also had many occasions where someone asks for an update on x and I respond with a two line email asking a yes/no question and the person just says "let's hop on a quick call" etc. That's so frustrating because they're turning 30 seconds into 30 minutes.

Not the person you're responding to but just needed to vent that. It's been happening a lot lately in my world

Excellent headline and graphic

Do tell! I know Microcenter has a house brand for Arduino now but I didn't see much in the way of "knock-off brand" for Raspberry Pi

Forgot Arby's Beef 'n Cheddar but otherwise looks like a good list

Did somebody finally “hack the FBI mainframe” !?

That's also the biggest plot-hole in the first Star Wars movie. Princess Leia is supposed to be this righteous noble of the moral resistance and yet she STEALS the Death Star plans!

I think the key is that AI is a spectrum. A writer using AI could mean anything from spelling/grammar fixes to full-on generating whole-cloth works. I'm hoping we kind of settle in on some sort of accepted standard or at least disclosure method.

But who knows -- I've been hoping we settle on accepted social norms for smartphones and social media and we're still not quite there yet either. Hell, if anything that seems to have taken a turn for the WORSE in the past few years.

It's a lot closer to 33% of Americans who voted in favor of the current situation.

Only 65.1% of eligible voting-age citizens even voted. And of that 65.1% only 49.8% voted for Trump.

What’s the eel mystery?

Is there just two examples or is the page not loading for me?

Shelby Foote’s Civil War history and Robert Caro’s LBJ biography come to mind.

They also make me think I may have to work on READING them for decades.

they were using empty directory names as a proto-message board at one point!

Prob dumb question but what about sushi? I'm talking about the storied markets in Japan where they go bid on the fish fresh off the boat.

EDIT: Looks like the next thread down goes into this. It is flash frozen to kill the parasites, usually on the boat.

For real! Imagine if you created "dgellowAI" and trained a model and started offering access to agents etc and it turned out YOUR software hacked a totally separate $13B company. You would be in a cell somewhere and your company would be shredded.

Microsoft had extensive issues earlier in the week. Anecdotally it feels like internet has been noticeably slower this week across sites, networks and devices. Now this. IDK, has anyone else noticed anything this week?

Susumu Kakinuma is the guy and Serinkan is the restaurant. About as good as it gets.

Not pointed at your or even necessarily the person you're responding to but I wonder how many people that are like "just don't let the kid use the phone" are taking their own advice? It's like the smoking parent telling the kid not to try cigarettes, "do as I say, not as I do".

can you draw a pretzel though? Like, if I handed you a pad and pen and said just draw one from memory?

How do you like Pittsburgh? What are some pros and cons?

I spent a day there a couple years ago and it seemed like a really cool lil city that was surprisingly affordable.

How do you know they're flaming out/struggling/etc because of remote work issues rather than other issues like company culture etc?

So, what, should I withdraw my 401k and buy physical gold?

I wonder if we’re actually in like a shadow recession and companies are just using AI as an excuse to do layoffs or hire less.

Idk there’s a lot of diff variables and it’s complicated of course, I really don’t think it’s because “AI’s taking the jobs” tho.

Do those time ranges align with the rise of smartphones perhaps?

An Enders Game for train drivin’ eh