Nah - the english language is just full of ambiguities that people tend to understand through context or intonations from speaking that are lost in text

… what?

Yeah like basic communication and the general concept of democracy.

No, not really. I just take an opt-in to js approach to the internet. It won’t perfectly hide me from databroker fingerprinting - but that’s hard to do unless you want to just use TOR for your everyday browser experience and that’s too paranoid for me.

I’ve been using ublock origin for the longest time. Set it up in advanced mode and block all 3rd party domains by default. I know it can block individual line items during the js interpretation stage based on matches to plugins like anti-malware scripts. I tend to whitelist some domains I trust on all domains and I’ll even blacklist some domains I don’t ever trust on other domains (like facebook and anything with px in the name).

Ultimately - the more protection you put in place, the more likely you will stand out to fingerprinting. They don’t give a shit about user agent descriptions. They look at things like how does your browser render a semi-transparent pixel when aliased ontop of something else. What HTML5 Canvas features does your browser support. Attempt to run this list of scripts and see which ones fail. All of that helps make a non-unique print of your browser that hints at an identity even without your Windows Device ID.

Did you even read my earlier comment?

I explicitly meant “as”. It’s great as autocomplete. Not as an agent to complete programming tasks.

Well, this kind of AI won’t ever be useful as a programmer. It doesn’t think. It doesn’t reason. It cannot make decisions besides using a ton of computational power and enormous deep neural networks to shit out a series of words that seem like they should follow your prompt. An LLM is just a really, really good next-word guesser.

So when you ask it to solve the Tower of Hanoi problem, great it can do that. Because it saw someone else’s answer. But if you ask it to solve it for a tower than is 20 disks high it will fail because no one ever talks about going that far and it flounders. It’s not actually reasoning to solve the problem - it’s regurgitating answers it has ingested from stolen internet conversations. It’s not even attempting to solve the general case because it’s not trying to solve the problem, it’s responding to your prompt.

That said - an LLM is also great as an interface to allow natural language and code as prompts for other tools. This is where the actually productive advancements will be made. Those tools are garbage today but they’ll certainly improve.

Thanks, MBA textbook answer. The reality is people dont like being treated badly. If you treat them badly, especially in person, they tend to avoid your service. It’s hard to quantify so bad MBAs don’t bother to think about that when they get in charge of big businesses and then they proceed to shit all over everyone.

I know there’s a simple explanation for it. But there’s another simple solution: if you are in person, you get service first. You took the time to enter the restaurant and can see the service being performed - so you should get priority.

Oh good. I’m glad we can just let 3M give microplastics to children in Indonesia once we all decide to quit our pack a day habit. Plus it’ll be nice to not be asked by the hostess if we want to sit in the microplastics or non-microplastics section of the restaurant anymore.

It’s even better because you can pop in whatever fat you want. If you toss the salt in there while popping then it’ll evenly distribute across your popcorn as well.

And their order priority:

1. uber eats orders that pile up for hours
2. drive through customers
3. attending to some other random task
4. i dont know but it sure feels like there should be more items here
5. you a customer who ordered in person

Republican stranglehold on finances makes bollards price prohibitive.

I bet they said the same shit too “I understand you dont like this and want to protest it, but you inconvenienced me and therefore are wrong!”

Some FOSS projects are supported by having a for-profit company offer turnkey packaging and support for those projects. Look at TrueNAS. They sell nice NAS hardware preconfigured with their software and the profits support the development.

TBF we’re rapidly approaching an idiocracy situation, so maybe killing children is a mercy. (/s in case it’s not abundantly obvious)

All of the M$ office apps have premium features now too. Pay extra monthly and you can use python in excel. Pay extra monthly and Teams will… I dont even know because I closed that popup so fucking fast. FFS my company must pay M$ at least 7 figures a year - why are they trying to nickel and dime us?

Yeah now we’ve gotta use the pickle.

Oh my god it is real!

https://xkcd.com/1813/
https://emojikitchen.dev/