Pushing SSL was probably the last big tech effort/push that actually benefited users. Sure it made self hosting a little harder, and probably consolidated some tracking behind bigger players, but overall end users did benefit.

Most of what I see now is purely for their benefit and users don’t benefit.

While true, the latest opus model has 1m token context. Which is a lot more than the previous 200k limit. Hard to fill that up with regular work, but easy if you try to oneshot a whole product.

Believe it or not in some ways they are better and more flexible and in other ways they’re more limited. Basically they are totally separate situations to the same problem.

Since they now have the same owner, you’ve already identified which one is gaining features and fixes.

While I agree with this, and I’m not defending skirting regulations, before rideshare apps, taking taxis was an awful experience. At least half the time, if you try to pay with a credit card, the machine was “broken”, if you wanted to get a ride at a specific time you had to call ahead and hope that a taxi would show up.

Rideshsre apps forced regular taxis to up their game and provide better service, some did and now have their own apps.

Slowly I turned.

There’s value in brevity and clarity, I took two paragraphs and the other was two words. I don’t like it either, but it does seem to be the way most people talk.

Let’s be generous for a moment and assume good intent, how else would you describe the situation where the llm doesn’t consider a negative response to its actions due to its training and context being limited?

Sure it gives the llm a more human like persona, but so far I’ve yet to read a better way to describing its behaviour, it is designed to emulate human behavior so using human descriptors helps convey the intent.

Non developers and non technical people that are already accustomed to bad software, basically following the broken window problem combined with lack of knowledge to do better.

I’m not saying I agree, and I hope saner heads prevail, but I can definitely see the future trending this direction not because it’s best but because it’s easier and maybe cheaper (by some measurement).

I have been really enjoying working with Avalonia, it is a .NET library that works across windows, Linux, and Mac and allows you to use C# for desktop app development on those environments. Its what MAUI should have been.

So you’re saying mining crypto is gonna come back into fashion?

I don’t mean this as a broad category of AI defense, but this doesn’t seem much worse than a bad Photoshop job, which is perfectly reasonable standard for a shitty image macro that conveys a funny point.

There is definitely a lot of work and improvement in this area needed. It’s frustrating to see them pouring resources into other parts of the ecosystem that I don’t use, but my hope is that brings in enough users to help increase functionality across the whole ecosystem over time.

I’ve done it, and it’s really marvelous. Once there, a car really is necessary to get around because the park is huge and everything is very spread out.

This used to be more true than it is now. More centers are requiring folks to enter through the main entrance and scan a membership card to enter.

Not all locations, but more are moving this direction. The two nearest me did within the last year.

If being proficient at using teams means people can work from where they prefer, it’s my opinion that it’s your duty to do it, so everyone has better choices.

Obviously that isn’t the opinion held here, but that is more indicative of companies trying to reduce headcount because their growth has slowed. Growing companies are meeting people where they are. Broadly speaking of course.

Wait until we tell them that Java and JavaScript are also different languages that are completely different things.

I notice this in mine. The electric motor does most of the speed changing work. From stop to start is obvious, but also while changing speeds once moving. The tachometer reads pretty consistent, but the electric motor adds the speed.

Ah yes, the old turbo mode button was needed to fix.

Not automated, but I have a regular signal backup to a local folder that occurs nightly. I manually push a copy up to proton drive once a month or so. 🤷‍♂️

The annoying part is when the kids roll into the party iPad already blasting.