It’s not Yo-“he”. It’s Yo-“she”. It’s right in the name.

(/s)

I wonder if when he says “necessary” he’s referring to some longtermism weird BS.

I mean, he’s definitely referring to some weird BS. But I wonder whether specifically it’s longtermism BS.

The DMCA is such bullshit. I mean, U.S. (and other WIPO countries) copyright law is bullshit in general, but it got 100 times worse when they passed the DMCA.

LLMs in medicine. What could go wrong?

I’ve got my caps lock key remapped to escape.

I use my left pinky for ctrl, shift, a, and my remapped caps lock/escape key.

I use my right pinky for shift, enter, and I’m pretty sure that’s all.

I use my ring fingers for backspace, tilde, tab, q, backslash, quote, and that probably isn’t a comprehensive list.

I use my middle finger for semicolon/colon! I never realized that before. Wild.

There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with LLMs.

Disagree.

LLMs should die in a fire.

Every time Harry does that, they just pull a Latent Image (5x11) on the computer.

Come to think of it, Harry was the one whose comment in the teaser set off all the events in Latent Image.

Fan theory: Harry has a sadistic erasing-intelligent-computer-programs’-memories fetish. “Erotic compuamnesophillia” if you will.

Yeah, and the magnet was not to blame for this incident despite how the title of this article reads. Given all the (alleged, I guess) facts of the case, I’m pretty sure sure the cops showed up in a clown car that played Yackety Sax when the horn was pressed.

The article mentioned in the screenshot.

Probably better be careful to proofread it. If you’re about to be fired for something you let ChatGPT tell an important client, I wouldn’t think “it was ChatGPT’s fault” is going to make much difference in your favor.

We have to go deeper.

It was just like a clueless captain to say “energize” as if that’s going to magically make it work. Like, I’m trying to invent a whole new field of engineering here, Kathryn. Maybe step off a bit if you want them back in one piece.

• Torres (later to Vorik over a mug of something replicated and syntheholic)

Did people think they meant something else? Or was it more that they didn’t really elaborate and folks didn’t know quite what they meant?

I can’t imagine it’s going to be very long before Elon’s hostile attitude toward basic safety results in a high-profile catastrophy involving human deaths under the ospices of Space X.

“Have?”

If by “we” you mean humans, we only “have” one planet. And it’s habitable for now.

Aside from Earth, we have found some that might have liquid water, an oxygen-rich atmosphere, a relatively-close-to-Earth gravitational acceleration on its surface. But there’s no real likelihood that we’ll ever be able to get to any of those… like… ever. And I’d think probably even those would require some teraforming to be habitable.

Honestly, this isn’t much of a hypothetical for me. At work, my choices are Windows, Mac, or Ubuntu. I’m quite happy with Ubuntu, though I’ve switched away from the default desktop environment to i3.

I use Arch (BTW) on my personal systems. And Ubuntu isn’t as bad as I worried it would be.

My main gripe is snaps. Firefox is practically unusable as a snap. And my employer forbids installing any software (save for a select list of exceptions) not via the officially-supported Ubuntu way of doing things. Chrome is available without snap, so I use it on my work machine. Which annoys me, but if I’m less efficient in my job as a result, it’s their own fault.

Good call on both counts!

I went ahead and fixed the suit/denomination mixup. I’ll leave the reast as-is so folks can learn from my mistakes and your post continues to make sense.

Cheers!

Yeah, #2 is both more space efficient and more time efficient.

How I’d generally do something like that:

1. Create an empty linked list.
2. Generate a random integer between 0 and 51 inclusive.
3. Iterate over the linked list and increment the random integer by one for each integer in the linked list less than or equal to your newly-generated random integer. You can break out of that loop as soon as you hit the first integer in the linked list greater than the newly-generated integer.
4. Binary insert that integer into the sorted linked list.
5. For the denomination, output the newly-generated integer modulus 13 plus one. Translate 1 to ace, 11 to jack, etc.
6. For the suit, output floor of the newly-generated integer divided by 4 plus one. (Translate zero to “hearts”, one to “diamonds”, etc.)
7. Loop back to step 2 51 more times.

Step 3 can definitely be optimized much more with a B-tree and a little thought. If you want jokers included, it’s pretty straightforward. (Just change step 2 to generate a random integer between 0 and 53 and tweak steps 5, 6, and 7.)

I was really excited for CJDNS (not to be confused with “Domain Name System”) at one time. It’s a mesh networking protocol. And they’d established an “Internet 2” (as in, a sequel to “The Internet”) based on the CJDNS protocol called “Hyperborea.”

I haven’t heard anything about CJDNS in a good while now. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were other efforts looking to do something roughly the same, but I’m not up to date on anything more recent.