riskable

I had to share this because no one else in my life will listen.

I'm listening, but more importantly, I completely understand 😭

Also, if you think this setup (with the Xbox controller) is great, wait until the Steam Frame comes out with the new Steam Controller integration (it has IR LEDs on the front of it so you can see a virtual representation of it in the menus). You also won't need to plug it into your PC as the Steam Frame itself is basically a full PC.

I'm so hyped about it! Finally, a real Linux OS we can customize TF out of instead of locked-down versions of Android that look like they are designed for toddlers.

I work for a huge bank and we tested voice recognition technology: Even under the best circumstances (high quality microphone with no ambient noise in a sound booth), it was far, far too easy to copy someone else's voice by simply playing back a sliced up recording a la Sneakers (the movie). We ruled it out as an option over a decade ago.

The problem was fundamental and had nothing to do with the quality of the technology. If your bank is using your voice as a unique identifier they had better be using something else in addition to it! Because it's super insecure.

From the perspective of human perception, people's voices are only unique enough to about one in a few thousand. There's a few outliers with much more unique voices but believe it or not, there's a lot of people walking around on this earth that sound just like Morgan Freeman, James Earl Jones, and other voices people think are super unique.

I view an anti-cloning law as too risky: It sounds exactly like the type of thing that would prevent Grandma from cloning her own voice before going down for surgery because it just so happens to sound a lot like a famous person.

How do you implement voice cloning prevention? Human voices aren't that unique. Also, AI voice cloning isn't perfect. So... At what threshold is a voice considered, "cloned" from a legal perspective?

I mean, people couldn't tell the difference between Scarlet Johansson and OpenAI's "Sky" voice which was not cloned.

Before any of that can happen we need some non-ambiguous definitions of what "AI" is.

Big AI is a bubble but AI in general is not.

If anything, the DRAM shortages will apply pressure on researchers to come up with more efficient AI models rather than more efficient (normal) software overall.

I suspect that as more software gets AI-assisted development we'll actually see less efficient software but eventually, more efficient as adoption of AI coding assist becomes more mature (and probably more formalized/automated).

I say this because of experience: If you ask an LLM to write something for you it often does a terrible job with efficiency. However, if you ask it to analyze an existing code base to make it more efficient, it often does a great job. The dichotomy is due to the nature of AI prompting: It works best if you only give it one thing to do at a time.

In theory, if AI code assist becomes more mature and formalized, the "optimize this" step will likely be built-in, rather than something the developer has to ask for after the fact.

How could pleasing older women ever bring dishonor‽

Mohammed himself did as much with Khadija!

Be the change the world needs by replacing oil with pleasure as Saudi Arabia's strongest export!

Who says you get reincarnated right away? It could be a 1000 years between your death and rebirth!

That's how I set it up in my silly comedy Isekai, Maizy's Tails (it's free to read on the web if you care... Just search it, it'll be the first link): After death souls need to be "aged" at least 1000 years before they can be put in a new body. The gods think it's a multiversal rule but the MC figures out a workaround 😁

It actually opens with the gods bidding on souls from Earth... A world that ended about a million years prior to the auction (because that's how long it took to sort and categorize them all) 🤣

I’m curious what was in your pods?

Loads of containers.

Think the acronyms are bad now? Wait until your plane is in the cloud!

"Plane pod bay doors open unexpectedly! Engaging emergency AWS FaaS! AWS unavailable! Engaging GCP FaaS! GCP unavailable! Local CDN AZ cannot be found! No MSP available! Engaging SRE! Blaming DNS!"

Pilot: "We haven't even taken off yet! Also, I told you to open the doors, you dumb AI!"

"Good catch! Would you like me to continue blaming DNS?"

They'll claim that because someone is LGBTQ+, their birth certificate is fraudulent and that counts as enough evidence for denaturalization.

Mrs Brisbee is pleased.