Neuralink test subject: Why do I smell burnt toast?

Who would I jail? The C-officers. Your shit show, your responsibility. If you can’t trust your employees, figure out why or do the work yourself.

This will never happen. Smell-o-Vision and its successors have been in development for decades, and they all have the same issue: where to store the numerous scent liquids. You can’t just digitize scent and generate it on demand with some kind of solid state device. You can’t just combine three liquids to make 1000 scents—the article’s analogy of combining light to make colors is overly optimistic, bordering on delusional.

The other two related problems are convenience and cost. This is 1000% a novelty, and novelties quickly lose their appeal after you experience it the first time. Who is seriously going to be going out to buy replacement cartridges for a thing that is essentially a toy?

Seems like a paltry amount, given what savvy social engineers could do with that data.

If you don’t use proper security practices, you should be on the hook for prison time at a minimum.

It was ChatGPT from earlier this year. It wasn’t a huge deal for me that it made mistakes, because I had a very specific use case and just wanted to save some time; I knew I’d have to troubleshoot grafting it into my function, but even after I pointed out that it was using depreciated syntax (and how to correct it), it just spat out the code again with even more errors and still using depreciated syntax.

All LLMs will fail like this in some way, because they don’t actually understand what they’re generating (i.e. they have no mechanism for self-evaluating the veracity of their statements).

There’s certainly room to grow with regard to workers’ rights. I think you could probably solve at least a few of them if they were covered by a union, and publishers who hire them would have to bargain for good development contract terms.

That’s true. The mistakes actually make learning possible!

Man, designing CS curriculum will be easy in future. Just ask it to do something simple, and ask your CS students to correct the code.

cash treadmill

Borrowing this turn of phrase

Bruh, what do you mean “future?” That’s me right now!

A-one. A-two-hoo. A-three… *Crumch*

You have to be hallucinating to understand.

Wow, the text generator that doesn’t actually understand what it’s “writing” is making mistakes? Who could have seen that coming?

I once asked one to write a basic 50-line Python program (just to flesh things out), and it made so many basic errors that any first-year CS student could catch. Nobody should trust LLMs with anything related to security, FFS.

And I’ll add on to that, even if every GPU company stops innovating, we’ll still have older cards and hardware to choose from, and the games industry isn’t going to target hardware nobody is buying (effectively pricing themselves out of the market). Indie devs especially tend to have lower hardware requirements for their games, so it’s not like anyone will run out of games to play.

And continuing that thought, OP can just contact the app maintainer and request lowering the minimum version.

I know it’s an odd recommendation when we’re so used to taking what we get from companies, but sometimes they respond to requests like that.

If only we had some way of working with a bigger integer…maybe we’d call it something like BigInteger…

I’m a PC gamer, and it looks like things are stagnating massively in our space.

I would like to introduce you to the indie game scene. Where AAA is faltering, indie has never been in a better place.

Overall, I don’t see things the way you see them. I recommend taking a break from social media, go for a walk, play games you like, and fuck the trajectory of tech companies.

Live your life, and take a break from the doomsaying.

That’s kind of my thought as well. It’s certainly possible someone might go through the effort to find a single pirate downloading The Lion King, but that’s a lot of effort (read: money) to find just one person.

There’s certainly the possibility that an ISP could note that you connected to a VPN, but given that it’s not a remarkable event, since people connect to VPNs for all kinds of legal reasons, they aren’t likely to track your particular IP’s connection to a VPN apart from a court ordering them to care. They get paid their monthly internet plan price whether someone pirates or checks their email.

If someone was running the Pirate Bay from their home servers, however, more parties would likely be interested in finding that person, and that person’s threat model probably exceeds just using a logless VPN.

How so, specifically for logless VPNs?

Long nails can look pretty, and while I’m sure this would help people with long nails, I think it would just give me an RSI or just be differently frustrating.

No thanks. I’ll paint my short nails so I can—you know—use my hands. And that’s free.

It was this: https://github.com/sqshq/sampler

It’s irrelevant to the topic of replacements for neofetch, however, but it looks neat, nonetheless.