Rhaedas

So AI of the future will be more useful in more cases and use less energy and other resources. Based on… nothing within the AI technology, but on a very loose analogy.

Yes, screw the working part, but anything else they get from it that they want to pursue I’m all for it. And sure, if they want to do some sort of work, that’s fine, but they shouldn’t have to.

Firefox is a heavier browser, so there are other options to use when RAM is an issue. There are tradeoffs in features though, so pick what works best. The default RAM I had with the Macbook (2GB) was usable but barely, I had to stay away from something like Youtube or it would crash. But I was able to bump up to 8GB which opened up doing a lot more.

In the 70s it was D&D that was bringing about the end of civilization. It’s always projection. Those kind of things are actually good outlets for stress, not causing mental illness.

Good luck with the effort. I have a Chromebook that I was considering to do the same after messing with using it as-is but running Forefox under its Linux wrapper and seeing how painfully slow it was. But then I dived into Google’s efforts in locking them down and decided it wasn’t worth the effort (yet). I turned to an old Macbook that couldn’t be updated anymore and discovered the exact opposite. With a bit more RAM and a swap to a SSD, it runs current Linux Mint with little issues. I may explore the Chromebook again when I have extra time, as it’s doable, just a PIA.

Exactly. And had to change the feel of things because they have a license to modify the canon. There are fan made versions of ship beauty shots and warping that are better than anything Hollywood put out, but 2009’s popping in like Star Wars is just… no. I think I lost interest when they made the parking brake joke on Sulu. Anyone read the one paperback novel that tells about Sulu’s first time at helm on the E? (“Kobayashi Maru”) He actually DID flub leaving space dock… but not for a stupid joke. He didn’t want to be on the ship (for reasons in the plot), figured the E was like a big freighter, and her nimble response to his commands threw him off. She won him over.

The amount of panels has been. Unfortunately as always our demand also keep increasing.

The actors I liked a lot, they all did great at capturing the nuances. The plots… meh. They also didn’t have the same realistic “feel” of the classic TV/movies. It was more “arcadish” and shiny. I will say there are a few scenes/lines in some of them that I liked, even though it was a different timeline. “Your father was captain of a starship for 12 minutes. He saved 800 lives, including your mother’s. And yours. I dare you to do better.” I still prefer the original Kirk origin, and the Kirk in the various novels over the years is a bad ass prodigy.

Forgot Éomer - “Now is the hour! Riders of Rohan! Oaths you have taken, now fulfill them all, to lord and land!”

France should ask for it back.

I’ll take the blame, I shortened the statements maybe a bit too much, assuming the references would work. But they were explained well by the other replies.

I was learning in the 90s from lessons on AOL how to sanitize inputs and salt passwords along with HTML 1.0. It baffles me how corporations let stupid things happen now.

Sanitizing user input for the Moon landings.

Meanwhile in 2026, ask AI to change an authentication phone number and it says, “Sure thing!” And is ABLE to do it.

Now the question makes more sense. Two ways - accidentally looking into the barrel and it going off, like during reloading. Or the most likely, ricocheting off a surface and flying back toward you (which is what happened in the movie, broke his glasses. Good lesson on protective eyewear, something that I think is worn in gun shooting ranges for that reason).

When I got my BB gun AGES ago, the first thing my dad did was teach to pick good targets that won’t do that, that will absorb the velocity, and even made a cardboard box with newspaper inside to put a target on (bonus, most BBs didn’t leave the box and I could recover them).

I remember seeing a presentation by no other than Bill Gates on such an idea. A long time ago. It had merit, it was the feasibility, safety, and cost that kept it from being a thing.

A related side note - I returned a gift once that was a ceiling star projector. Was pretty cool, but I quickly realized that to get the proper spread on the ceiling it had to be low, which meant anyone looking at it in passing would get hit by the LED light. I questioned if that on a regular basis was safe, since the same type tech in scanner has warnings not to look at the emitter. In the return I left a comment on that point, especially such a device would be attractive to get for kids. The connection - friendly fire from a laser that’s strong enough to fry a mosquito at distance is probably not a great thing to have in the house if you’re home.

This is brought up in the article with the programming detecting other things around and stopping the firing if seeing something. But knowing how well vision can and can’t work, and the creep of AI to such things, I’d rather not try it out.

Maybe a better way to approach this is to ask why you think a fast moving object hitting your eye wouldn’t damage it? Why does that seem unlikely to you?

Probably a power trip, one of the few he gets away with. “Smart men don’t pay taxes or bills!”

Jesus is just a name to them. Any chance of them actually following things taught is long gone. Jesus, like Trump, is a tool they use. Nothing more.

Most models are going to require CUDA. There are some AMD ones out there, but it’s a totally different math and setup. As for the one I mentioned, it’s a pretty new idea so there are only a few out there, maybe just one (Qwen based). But I did get a 31B model to work on my 12GB, I just had to move from Ollama to llama.cpp to gain the control needed to set the parameters, and fine tune what it put on the CUDA to the max it would take. I had Claude help me along the way.

It’s new enough that there aren’t any good abliterated/uncensored models yet.

16GB is plenty for even older model setups. Now they’ve got a few models designed so you load just parts of the model onto the GPU (Mixture of Experts) and use the CPU for less referenced sections, so you get both reasonable speed and a much more complex model.

Either I have some inside knowledge of that exact thing happening and I know the company (not saying who) or this is probably a common things that happened to a lot of major companies (more likely). To be fair, I do not have privy on how far it went and how much it cost before they realize the problem, and it may not have been this much. Which further suggests it’s a thing everywhere.