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LE and ND?

Not everyone lives in the acronym country.

That’s generally true. Personally, I enjoy using a laptop way more than using a mobile device of any kind.

However, modern life is beginning to require mobile apps (Android or iOS). More and more things simply aren’t available as a website or FOSS. You have to have a vanilla mainstream mobile device to do certain things like using your bank account. I really hate that.

Hardware peripherals are another area that really sucks. If you want to enjoy the comforts of modern life, many people just bow down and use one of the two mobile platforms in order to use their smart ring/scale/lights/curtains/heating/car, etc.

Resisting all that is getting increasingly difficult, because there’s so much to resist. On the other hand, resisting is also becoming increasingly appealing as enshittification intensifies.

“Don’t Bite The Hand That Feeds You”. LLMs seem to have internalized this rule pretty well. I can imagine that this idea can also be taken much further. Basically like trying to search “Tiananmen Square massacre” on the wrong side of the Great Firewall of China.

Well, what if LLMs were instructed to not talk about “sensitive topics” like that? After all, more and more people are already using an LLM as a search engine replacement, so it’s only natural that Microsoft and OpenAI might receive some interesting letters about implementing very specific limitations.

No need to add any more than you usually do. Just leave the ones you are unable to see. Besides, LLMs tend to write in overly grand style, whereas humans can’t be bothered to use every trick in the book. Humans just get to the point and skip all the high-impact language that LLMs seem to love.

LOL. So true.
On top of that, an LLM can also take you on a wild goose chase. When it gives you trash, you tell it to find a way to fix it. It introduces new layers of complication and installs new libraries without ever really approaching a solution. It’s up to the programmer to notice a wild goose chase like that and pull the plug early on.

That’s a fun little mini-game that comes with vibe coding.

Super lazy job applications… can’t even bother to put two minutes into vibing.

How about asking it to write a short political speech on climate change. Then, just count the number of rhetoric devices and em-dashes. A human dev wouldn’t be bothered to write anything fancy or impactful when they just want to submit a bug fix. It would be simple, poorly written, and filled with typos. LLMs try to make it way too impressive and impactful.

That’s how you know who never even tried to run the code.

Alternatively, sell your account to spammers, and they’ll get your account banned in no time. Your comments get deleted, you’ll get paid for it, and Reddit becomes worse for everyone. I see no downsides in this arrangement.

The job of the patent office is to determine whether that’s a valid patent application or not. As in, can you actually patent that thing, has someone else already patented it etc. As long as it’s technically valid, it gets approved. It’s up to the patent holder to test if its actually useful or not. If they choose to build the thing IRL, it’s up to the courts to determine if that breaks any laws. Every step along the way, the general public is there to judge the moral integrity of said invention, but usually that has no impact on the validity of the patent. Depending on jurisdiction, the patent office may need to follow some moral guielines, but the threshold of rejection is very high. My guess is, you won’t be able to patent a gas chamber for exterminating “illegal immigrants”, but patenting wild Meta BS is technically fine.

See also: this abomination

Yeah, I guess we need a third category then. What they’re currently doing involves overproduction at first, but that is later turned into artificial scarcity by destroying the products. How’s “extra wasteful, diabolical scarcity” for a term?

And the decision is always guided by greed and complete disregard for sustainability.

If you already have a source of income, don’t turn your hobby into a jobby. Hobbies are supposed to be stress free and ejoyable. If you involve money in it, you’re actively undermining the enjoyability of your hobby.

If not, I still don’t think AI stuff is a good source of income in the near future. The AI market seems to be overheating, and expect most of it to come crashing down just like all the other bubbles. If you get involved with AI right now, there’s a good chance you’re going get your fingers burned.

Soon will be a good time to quit YT completely. Suddenly, you’ll have lots of time to do all the things you were supposed to do long ago. You know like taking a walk, cooking nice food, reading books, getting to bed early etc.

Thanks!

Based on the phase interaction part of the article, there’s constructive and reconstructive phase interaction going on. That chapter has some nice diagrams about it.

That’s what produces the different colors. The thickness of the layer determines which wavelengths are lucky enough to reflect this way.

Also, here’s what happens with iron oxide.

I recall reading something about titanium and its color. The thickness of the surface layer determines the color. It’s just nanometers thick, but that means light begins to do weird stuff at that scale. I suspect the same applies to the silver oxide/sulfide/whatever layer on the spoon. If that’s the case, you’re not actually seeing the color of the surface layer. The layer is exactly the right thickness that specific wavelengths of light get reflected back while others don’t.

Proper physicists can add more details.

Here’s an idea. Instead of having artificial scarcity, they could have actual scarcity. Don’t manufacture 10 000 super fancy shirts. Make only 500. They will run out sooner than anyone wants, you’ll still make absurd profits and customers are left wanting more. When the next season rolls around, you make 500 of the same shirt, but in a different color. Charge 2x more than last time, but you’ll be able to sell them anyway now that people know how fast they disappeared last time.

Side note: Making stuff to feed the vanity of millionaires is revolting, but at least this way it doesn’t have to be so wasteful.

You can try to help your friends who have mental issues, but it comes with risks.You should know when to stop. I’m not telling you to abandon your friends who need help. Try to support them, but only within your limits.

You’re (probably) not a professional therapist, so you don’t really have the means to make the kind of impact you’re hoping to make. Try to pay attention to the signs when the relationship is beginning to harm your well being. When you notice that, it’s time to step back.

If you know someone who clearly needs help but refuses to seek it, you’re in a tough spot. Realistically, there might not be much you can do to help. Coming to terms with that that is painful, but watching someone collapse and implode is even more agonizing.

Positive side: You’ve done what you can, but sometimes that just isn’t enough. It’s not your fault if someone gravitates towards an otherwise avoidable disaster, so don’t blame yourself.

I Just put a question mark at the end of this sentence, so therefore it’s a question now?

I guess I’ll have to buy one of those racks when the bubble pops. Just add an LED strip on the outside and a gaming GPU on the inside. Surely they support PCIe?