droans

joined 2 years ago
[–] droans@midwest.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

NBA Street Vol 2 or V3. Never found another sports game that's as much fun.

Games only last a few minutes and there's no concept of seasons or anything. It's just casual streetball where no rules matter - including the rules of physics.

[–] droans@midwest.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

It means you're gonna be the major break for some psychologist.

[–] droans@midwest.social 11 points 2 weeks ago

Nope! The correct answer was - absolutely nothing.

Sure, the kid had to go to the hospital but it was his fault for existing.

[–] droans@midwest.social 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

My dad had a brown 76 Triumph TR6 stored in our garage when I was young. Spent years wishing I could fix it up myself.

[–] droans@midwest.social 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It's a parody account but the county sheriff was caught on film punching a child in the face while piss drunk at the Three Rivers Festival.

Two guesses on what happened to that sheriff.

[–] droans@midwest.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

It seems like a good way to actually determine productivity would be to make it competitive.

Have marathon and long-term coding competitions between 100% human coding, AI assisted, and 100% AI. Rate them on total time worked, mistakes, coverage, maintainability, extensibility, etc. and test the programmers for knowledge of their own code.

[–] droans@midwest.social 10 points 3 weeks ago

It's been clear that the best use of AI in a professional environment is as an assistant.

I don't want something doing my job for me. I just want it to help me find something or to point out possible issues.

Of course, AI isn't there yet. It doesn't like reading through multiple large files. It doesn't "learn" from you and what you're doing, only what it's "learned" before. It can't pick up on your patterns over time. It doesn't remember what your various responsibilities are. If I work in a file today, it's not going to remember in a month when I work on it again.

And it might never get there. We've been rapidly approaching the limits of AI with two major problems. First, scaling is becoming exponential. Doubling the training data and computing resources won't produce a model that's twice as good. Second, overtraining is now a concern. We're discovering that models can produce worse results if they receive too much training data.

And, obviously, it's terrible for the environment and a waste of resources and electricity.

[–] droans@midwest.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

Kagi.

The downside is that it costs $10 per month.

The upside is:

  • Privacy first
  • You can pin websites to the top of results, promote them so they appear higher, demote them so they appear lower, or have them completely removed
  • Lenses - quickly tell Kagi what type of results you want (News sources, academic articles, forum posts, programming sites, small web, etc.)
  • Snaps - search shortcuts kinda like bangs. Eg, typing @w is the same as typing site:wikipedia.com
  • An actual good AI summary. Completely unobtrusive - only activated when you press the button, doesn't overextrapolate your request, and will only source the same results that you get from the search
  • Direct image results

When I first migrated a couple years ago, it was a bit worse than Google but pretty close. Nowadays, I find it to be much much better. It's honestly close to how Google was back in 2015 before they made it garbage.

[–] droans@midwest.social 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Kagi's summaries are great.

They're hidden by default, requiring you to click the button first. They don't extrapolate too much. And their sources will be the exact same links you got from the search.

[–] droans@midwest.social 7 points 1 month ago

That's stupid, that could cut the stock market by a percent or two!

What kind of motion would rather have a better life instead of seeing numbers arbitrarily go up?!

[–] droans@midwest.social 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Fwiw, the President can't just "declare" that a group is a domestic terrorist organization. That's a violation of the Fifth Amendment.

We've been able to get away with declaring foreign groups as terrorist organizations because they're not based in America so the government can claim the Constitution doesn't apply to them.

Of course, we all also know this won't stop Trump...

[–] droans@midwest.social 5 points 1 month ago

Y'know what would be the best way to get rid of Hamas?

Provide aid and policing. Help establish long-term stability. Prove that you're on the same side as the people. Treat them as humans and not cannon fodder, unaffected casualties, or shields.

Basically, the opposite of what Israel is doing.

This is what boggles my mind when the right attacks anyone who is Pro-Palestine. Almost none are in favor of Hamas - they just recognize that most Palestinians are innocent people who just want to live in peace. We don't have to kill hundreds of thousands of Palestinians or create a massive diaspora.

The war feels a lot as if Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy were on opposing sides. Yeah, I'd want Mussolini to win, but why did it have to be him?

Hamas needs to be eliminated in order for long term peace to be established but we all know Israel isn't going to stop there.

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