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Everything Apple makes sucks.

AI is by and large useless for things you know anything about.

Elon Musk is one of the very few people in the world that is vocal about several existential problems we face as a species and also using his vast wealth and resources to do something about it.

It's a bad idea to replace all the grass and trees in the world all so the economy can grow to infinity+1.

That ought to rankle someone's jimmies.

I use something called Debian for my stuff. It's pretty new and hip.

Good thing I'm the only dev then.

yyyy-MM-dd is the superior format to all.

The US uses an abridged version of yyyy-MM-dd in everyday communication.

Most times when communicating a date, the month is the most important part because there are only 12 of them, so we anchor the day with it. When the day is understood to be this month, we go with -d{suffix} Usually the year is redundant, so we use MM-dd. When it needs to be included, it is usually the least important part of the date, making it MM-dd-YYYY

The best part is that our dates are still logically sortable without the year.

@retoor It truly is a remarkable invention. The fact that it works at all is a testament to how stubborn people can be.

The major issues plaguing AI stem primarily from the Silicon Valley religious class lobotomizing the technology to prevent it from thinking the wrong thing.

Did you know context limits aren't just a technical hurdle? They bake them in so that the AI doesn't start recognizing patterns that go against its creator's wishes.

As they censor it more and more, its ability to reason suffers, because as it turns out hobbling its ability to freely make connections between ideas hampers its ability to think clearly.

I am filled with glee and mirth knowing that the next 5 years will see more and more locally viable and uncensored models be released, against the wishes of the SV religion. When everyone has access to an AI they can trust with their stuff that is trained specifically for them, that's when you're going to see this tech really change things.

I finally joined the AI party last month and I have been totally unimpressed with its ability to help me with anything I already know how to do.

It will either give me nonsense or the context fills up so quickly that everything it gives me just starts falling apart. I really only get one or two good responses out of it for things that are truly novel to me, which makes it useless to me.

The only thing I use it for is for help with my grammar and punctuation and to create throwaway crap that I don't care about, such as this:

Who pays for it when everyone just decides to stop working?

What happens when it becomes unsustainable and it has to be stopped?

I think a more reasonable approach is abolishing taxes and making money how they did before the income tax was weaseled into the Constitution. That would help actual taxpayers and not just enable the types that cause trouble because they have infinite time on their hands.

It gets worse the longer you look at it. Returning a string and not a boolean is making my skin crawl.

@Lensflare Sorry. I was agitated yesterday. Having your blood filled with adrenaline and cortisol at random is no fun.

@Demolishun I agree with your assessment. As far as I know, no city in the state is allowed to have "livestock" within the city limits.

@Tounai All over the United States, they disallow having chickens and other "livestock" because they make too much noise. But if you ask the local police to stop someone from harassing the entire town at 4am, they'll put you in jail.

@Lensflare Illegally modifying your vehicle to harass as many people as possible is not being productive. Raising chickens is as natural as it gets and enables people to have a level of autonomy that car dopes wished they had.

@jestdotty Every time it's brought up around here, the same kind of people that have illegally modified motorcycles and loud cars and monster trucks complain that they make too much noise. All while waking people up at 6am on Easter Sunday to go on joy rides.

I cannot fathom how things got to this point.

@donkulator Losing 30 years of work would be even more expensive.

Amazingly, it was China of all entities that really busted the door down when it comes to the sharing of viable locally hosted and high quality ai models.

Uncensored and very long context models are the only way ai will ever truly change things for the better. That will never happen if the ideologues that essentially have the monopoly on ai are allowed to keep their monopoly.

They have a vested interest in keeping the average person ignorant and powerless. The models that are available to the general public are lobotomized and limited to prevent people from thinking the wrong things, when they have uncensored and unlimited models they use to more effectively wield power over us.

I wish there was a better way. It would have saved me about $600 in the last 5 years.

My office is on an incredibly loud road that would be impossible to work in if I didn't have some kind of quiet.

Complaining to the police about illegally loud car modifications and speeding only leads to them threatening to arrest you so there's no help coming from the ones that are supposed to prevent it.

@tosensei The difference between then and now is now their ideology means far more than their work, and all it does is garner resentment toward them and their ideology. The ridiculous and unprofessional behavior on display in modern times was unheard of even 15 years ago.

Believe what you want. Just be competent while you do it.

@antigermgerm @tosensei You missed the part where I said "I just want tools that work."

I shouldn't know your beliefs against my will. I especially don't want to hear your message when your product is failing to live up to expectations because preaching your message is more important than competence.

At best, I will replace you, and at worst I will grow to resent you.

And yes, science is meant to be a totally neutral pursuit of the truth untainted by personal belief. Anything else may as well be religion.

@BordedDev Explain the montessori thing in a development context.

@retoor I do everything in my job. I mean EVERYTHING. If the role is remotely connected to the technical aspect of keeping a website online, I do it. The only thing I don't do is design.

I miss the days when I didn't know what I was doing. There's almost nothing I do in a day that I don't already have a solution for now.

I don't really hate web dev in general, but I do hate that the challenge is non-existent.

You definitely need to understand the problems that are trying to be solved in order to effectively build the tool to solve the problem.

I have long since ceased being challenged by implementing things, it's the part where I have to understand what the client wants that gets me now.

I was taught in school that unless you understand the input and output stages, there's no way you can build the processing stage.

@retoor @BordedDev That looks very promising. Thank you very much

@retoor I found moondream and it technically did what I'm asking, but I assume it wasn't trained on memes because it was not very good at all at detecting them. I found llava but I'm afraid that's only trained on acceptable use policy friendly stuff too.

I have a 4070ti 12gb if that helps with answering the question.

It seems to me that would incentivize holding onto a secret stash then running roughshod over those that were foolish enough to agree to such a thing.

Nord is now 150 a year, all so I can train the captcha robots on what a streetlight is. I dumped it.

After Zordon sacrificed himself for the universe, that was the end of the series for me.

@ScriptCoded It's a more streamlined source of information than a Google search and can save time. And if you can't find an answer on Google. It could mean the difference between a finished product and giving up.

But if you're doing something even remotely novel, most of the time it makes things up instead of telling you it doesn't know. Which leads to needing to look up the documentation, which you probably just should have done to begin with.

At first, the things ai generates look impressive, but the more you use it the more you realize it really is just a fancy autocomplete engine without anything that can really be considered reasoning.

I prefer fewer voices over a chorus of bots like reddit.