They are useful for doing the kind of boilerplate boring stuff that any good dev should have largely optimized and automated already. If it’s 1) dead simple and 2) extremely common, then yeah an LLM can code for you, but ask yourself why you don’t have a time-saving solution for those common tasks already in place? As with anything LLM, it’s decent at replicating how humans in general have responded to a given problem, if the problem is not too complex and not too rare, and not much else.

pressure cook some whole oats (like the kind they sell for horses, not rolled oats/oatmeal), spawn on that in mason jars, then transfer to a bed of pressure-cooked coco coir when fully colonized, mix, cover, and wait.

it turns out you can effectively recycle plastic! And re-cycle it, and re-cycle it, pretty much forever if you get get into the Ocean, fish, and humans, it can cycle over and over again for as long as you like!

yeah I barely can bring myself to give like Fidelity or Charles Schwab photos of my ID, just even having a digital image of my ID on my computer feels wrong lol

That is really interesting the differences there. I think the intended goal of the US system is to make sure that you get 12 people capable of being objective about the subject at hand, rather than 12 random people. For example, it usually takes all 12 jurors to make a conviction, so if you get just one person who won’t convict no matter what because of religious reasons or pre-existing biases or whatever, then automatically you have a hung jury that can’t be swayed by evidence. So the US system tries to insure we get 12 people who are willing to put aside their biases and be objective (enough) to render a verdict based on the facts before them either way the facts lead. So it’s a long process, but in our system anyway we try to weed out anybody who might believe, for example, that all Mexicans are criminals if it’s a Mexican on trial, or someone who doesn’t believe that rape should be a crime in a rape case. And the big one of course, people who are already so convinced by media they’ve consumed that the person is guilty that they can’t act as a fair juror.

It’s a pretty bedrock part of every nation with trials by jury that the accusers don’t get to unilaterally select the jury. “Finding 12 people that will have him killed” would as you said, be easy. So would finding 12 people that would not. That’s why the prosecution and the defense are given equal powers to appoint and reject jurors, in a process that sometimes goes on longer than the actual trial.

Good thing we thought of that already (250 years ago or so) and don’t let the prosecution just pick whoever they want to be on the jury.

Here, have a read: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/jury-selection-criminal-cases.html

This actually seems like the kind of nonsense that gets “invented” once a decade or so. There’s just no way this is humanity’s very first crack at “washing machine but it does people” lol

What’s spiking is everything needed to run a AI datacenter, in order. First they spiked the price of GPUs, then the very instant that started to cool DRAM spiked. Electricity itself looks very much like it might be next, and we’ll be on to water before too long.

Yeah this is a very old and well-worn joke that is usually about adultery or casual sex:

https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/prayables/2011/12/good-leads.html

http://www.campbells.org/Humor/Jokes/joke_confession.html

But hey, putting a new twist on an old classic like this and being upfront about that being what you are doing, good on him

Maybe I’m just not getting the distinction between “The Fuhrer” literally redirecting to the Hitler page on Wikipedia, isn’t that Wikipedia saying those two terms are so synonymous that they don’t need separate pages?

I’m sure Grokipedia is dumb as hell but so is this article, just look at the actual Wikipedia on Hitler, it says nearly word-for-word that exactly:

Passing the same $300 billion dollars back and forth between 5 companies does not make a great quarter ya nob, everyone sees how close the game is to falling apart.

I do NOT want to have ditch Windows after this long. Microsoft. Please don’t just carve a big, Copilot-pilot-shape hole out of Windows and weld it in there, expecting that that is somehow what your users want.

Of course, I do look forward to the brave new era of “Sam Altman will shut you down unless” being the new “run as administrator”

There you go. Any of these things is just another datapoint. You need many datapoints to decide if the information you’re getting is valuable and valid.

I run quantized versions on deepseek that are usable enough for chat, and it’s on a home set that is so old and slow by today’s standards I won’t even mention the specs lol. Let’s just say the rig is from 2018 and it wasn’t near the best even back then.

naw, I mean more that the kind of people who uncritically would take everything a chatbot says a face value are probably better off being in chatGPTs little curated garden anyway. Cause people like that are going to immediately get grifted into whatever comes along first no matter what, and a lot of those are a lot more dangerous to the rest of us that a bot that won’t talk great replacement with you.

Grok is Harrison Bergeron and Musk is Diana Glampers

It’s why I trust my random unauditable chinese matrix soup over my random unauditable american matrix soup frankly

While true, I gotta suspect that Peter Thiel, specifically, gets to peek under the hood before he makes his bets to a degree that most of us can only imagine.