NBA Street Vol 2 or V3. Never found another sports game that’s as much fun.

Games only last a few minutes and there’s no concept of seasons or anything. It’s just casual streetball where no rules matter - including the rules of physics.

My dad had a brown 76 Triumph TR6 stored in our garage when I was young. Spent years wishing I could fix it up myself.

It seems like a good way to actually determine productivity would be to make it competitive.

Have marathon and long-term coding competitions between 100% human coding, AI assisted, and 100% AI. Rate them on total time worked, mistakes, coverage, maintainability, extensibility, etc. and test the programmers for knowledge of their own code.

It’s been clear that the best use of AI in a professional environment is as an assistant.

I don’t want something doing my job for me. I just want it to help me find something or to point out possible issues.

Of course, AI isn’t there yet. It doesn’t like reading through multiple large files. It doesn’t “learn” from you and what you’re doing, only what it’s “learned” before. It can’t pick up on your patterns over time. It doesn’t remember what your various responsibilities are. If I work in a file today, it’s not going to remember in a month when I work on it again.

And it might never get there. We’ve been rapidly approaching the limits of AI with two major problems. First, scaling is becoming exponential. Doubling the training data and computing resources won’t produce a model that’s twice as good. Second, overtraining is now a concern. We’re discovering that models can produce worse results if they receive too much training data.

And, obviously, it’s terrible for the environment and a waste of resources and electricity.

Kagi.

The downside is that it costs $10 per month.

The upside is:

• Privacy first
• You can pin websites to the top of results, promote them so they appear higher, demote them so they appear lower, or have them completely removed
• Lenses - quickly tell Kagi what type of results you want (News sources, academic articles, forum posts, programming sites, small web, etc.)
• Snaps - search shortcuts kinda like bangs. Eg, typing @w is the same as typing site:wikipedia.com
• An actual good AI summary. Completely unobtrusive - only activated when you press the button, doesn’t overextrapolate your request, and will only source the same results that you get from the search
• Direct image results

When I first migrated a couple years ago, it was a bit worse than Google but pretty close. Nowadays, I find it to be much much better. It’s honestly close to how Google was back in 2015 before they made it garbage.

Kagi’s summaries are great.

They’re hidden by default, requiring you to click the button first. They don’t extrapolate too much. And their sources will be the exact same links you got from the search.

That’s stupid, that could cut the stock market by a percent or two!

What kind of motion would rather have a better life instead of seeing numbers arbitrarily go up?!

Fwiw, the President can’t just “declare” that a group is a domestic terrorist organization. That’s a violation of the Fifth Amendment.

We’ve been able to get away with declaring foreign groups as terrorist organizations because they’re not based in America so the government can claim the Constitution doesn’t apply to them.

Of course, we all also know this won’t stop Trump…

Y’know what would be the best way to get rid of Hamas?

Provide aid and policing. Help establish long-term stability. Prove that you’re on the same side as the people. Treat them as humans and not cannon fodder, unaffected casualties, or shields.

Basically, the opposite of what Israel is doing.

This is what boggles my mind when the right attacks anyone who is Pro-Palestine. Almost none are in favor of Hamas - they just recognize that most Palestinians are innocent people who just want to live in peace. We don’t have to kill hundreds of thousands of Palestinians or create a massive diaspora.

The war feels a lot as if Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy were on opposing sides. Yeah, I’d want Mussolini to win, but why did it have to be him?

Hamas needs to be eliminated in order for long term peace to be established but we all know Israel isn’t going to stop there.

Okay, sure, but how often does it spam ads?

Does it keep asking me to register for something that either shouldn’t need registering or exist at all? Does it tell me to subscribe for a service every time I open up the terminal?

We all need one or two ads, as a treat.

I like Matthew 7

Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye…

Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.

Or Matthew 22:34-40

But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

That’s not how DEI policies are supposed to be applied. You’re not supposed to just reverse who’s being discriminated against. DEI means that you consider equivalent factors and ensure that your hiring pipeline and methodology doesn’t improperly harm certain classes.

For example, you have two new hires coming straight out of the same college with the same degree.

One of them grew up in a rather wealthy household. Everything was paid for them. They could spend their entire time at college focusing on schoolwork and socializing. They graduated with a 3.5 GPA.

The other grew up rather poor. They had to work multiple jobs during college just to afford food and rent. They really couldn’t study except late at night and during the occasional lull at work. They graduated with a 2.8.

If you just look at the GPA, it’s clear that the first candidate is better. But if you consider the factors behind it, well, then it’s the second. That’s an impressive work ethic. It’s rather common for people like that to drop out because they struggle too much making ends meet and can’t afford to stay.

A proper DEI policy should be fighting back against misapplied policies like hiring quotas. It should be recognizing additional qualitative and quantitative factors.

A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more; otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation…

Every species of animals naturally multiplies in proportion to the means of their subsistence, and no species can ever multiply beyond it. But in civilised society it is only among the inferior ranks of people that the scantiness of subsistence can set limits to the further multiplication of the human species; and it can do so in no other way than by destroying a great part of the children which their fruitful marriages produce.

The liberal reward of labour, by enabling them to provide better for their children, and consequently to bring up a greater number, naturally tends to widen and extend those limits. It deserves to be remarked, too, that it necessarily does this as nearly as possible in the proportion which the demand for labour requires. If this demand is continually increasing, the reward of labour must necessarily encourage in such a manner the marriage and multiplication of labourers, as may enable them to supply that continually increasing demand by a continually increasing population.

• Adam Smith, the father of capitalism

Those eagles remind me of something, but I’m not thinking Russian…

This is definitely AI but similar ovens used to be built and, I’m sure, still are.

However, there are still plenty of issues.

Open flame plus a flammable painting. And the painting is right over the oven where it will get covered in grease. And that’s a gas range with no hood.

There’s a reason ovens usually open from the top these days. It’s safer and allows you to peak without opening the entire oven or leaning at an odd angle. Locking handles are also no longer used because little kids can climb in and accidentally get stuck.

The multiple drawers sounds like a good idea but it just means that you can’t cook large dishes. Usually you’d only see styles like this in restaurant kitchens because they will know how large of an oven they need and can benefit from having multiple sizes for different dishes.

Iirc the issue was that the researchers left the manufacturer’s logo on the scans.

All of the negative scans were done by the researchers on the same equipment while the positive scans were pulled from various sources. So the AI only learned to identify which scans had the logo.

People who pour grease down the drain have definitely never unclogged a drain before.

Usually something like half fibers (hair, tampons, “flushable” wipes, etc), half grease and fats.

If it’s a solid at room temp, it probably shouldn’t go down the drain.

Butter is already like 90% fat.

I’m pretty certain that you can turn Relay off in your account settings.

Your first source is about women working in Canada and your second is about poverty in Canada.

Unless I missed something, Canada still is a sovereign nation despite what Trump wants.