a city without a square, or some central park or large open space tends to depress me, especially if the only central hub is just an ugly stroad littered with far too many low density commercial buildings.

but yeah, a simple area to display art and allow some street vendors to exist, also makes a cool meeting spot and space to organize semi-formal events.

(nice pic btw)

https://t.me/Udemy_Courses_Free_Daily

maybe

try looking for telegram channels, there’s some that share courses, but what they share varies

would have been better to use the breaking bad “Jesse Pinkman and Jane” template, no?

“Oh no! We must protect the poor MPA! The poor organization that’s been hell bent on policing what films and media ought to contain and ensuring the multi-million dollar corporations continue to make their millions in peace!”

~ Denmark’s Ministry of Culture, probably

(nevermind the fact that countries with anti-piracy policies have not ever proved that they “repair” the so-called “market-damage” that they purport piracy has done)

It’s bought as a luxury vehicle in places like the Carribean, in my experience

yep, the “bigger is better” mentality isn’t something new

and DOTA!

I really do appreciate art, but like anything meaningful, such things usually deserve more time to appreciate. I’ll come around to it with time.

Well, I’m still glad offline LLM’s exist. The models we download and store are way less popular then the mainstream, perpetually online ones.

Once I beef up my hardware (which will take a while seeing how crazy RAM prices are), I will basically forgo the need to ever use an online LLM ever again, because even now on my old hardware, I can handle 7 to 16B parameter models (quantized, of course).

See, I find, that “critically acclaimed” and “popular” usually don’t go well together. However, something with just critical acclaim from people I like (and sometimes a Criterion release) tends to be some of the most amazing things I’ve ever witnessed.

But to the meme’s point, Tarkovsky’s Solaris was boring, and hard to understand for me, so much so I didn’t ever finish it. I’ll have to try again maybe from a different perspective.

funny, I have long hair as a man, and I couldn’t tell you how many times in my life people have suggested that I cut it. I don’t go around telling people to grow their hair, so it really does feel like they want me to appear “normal”.

reading this, my faith in humanity died a little bit more. Not because of your question, but holy fuck, I avoid advertisements like the plague, so I totally forgot slop like this actually gets funding. . . . .

Linus Torvalds slams people who think they understand software development, Elon Musk being one of them.

capitalism worked pretty well in the 40’s and 50’s, in the USA, and then the corporate leaders realized that they could be overlords if they just stopped caring about everything but money.

We know kindness and money can coexist, but if little boy jack is taught from day one that if you don’t game the system, you will lose, he’s going to grow up to be Elon Musk.

I mean, even open source LLM’s at the moment can solve somewhat tedious and tricky problems, and just on somewhat mid-tier consumer hardware. Supercomputers exist, and it just seems, with time, breakthroughs are inevitable.

But I will admit, like you say, we have limits, but in the realm of technology, the only real limitations are energy and hardware.

It has just never occurred to me that what I need while surfing the arch wiki at 3am are some thigh high socks.

So yeah, it’s me not society. Society can go fuck itself though, and if I had to wear them in solidarity with my linux fam, I probably would, just not as a regular thing.

(and i have some hairy legs, I refuse to shave them so I don’t imagine them looking that great on me either ahah)

If you don’t see AI replacing many roles, yet you know that LLM’s are not what many seem to think they are, text generators and not AGI, then it seems you don’t believe that AGI will ever happen.

Technology will continue to develop for decades and maybe centuries to come. To only see the short term possibilities is to forget how quickly technology advances.

And even just limiting the discussion to the short-term, what makes you think billionaires aren’t taking advantage of the hype and coercing governments to forego safety and regulation? Maximizing profit over enhancing the lives of the common man?

fedora, debian and arch linux user here, and no, as a man, I ain’t rocking thigh-high socks, but if I was a woman, hell yeah I would.

giving AI the power to do things on your PC will lead to cases like:

Google’s Agentic AI wipes user’s entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure

I love doing this.