$12.39; that’s way to expensive!

they don’t actually understand it. My guess is that if someone is interested in learning quantum mechanics they would talk about more niche things within the field than superposition and/or entanglement.

similarly, when someone talks to me about the concept of calculus, that’s not what interests me. When I think of discussions in calculus I think of how gauss proved that for any 3 dimensional surface there is no 2 dimensional projection of it without distorting some areas of it. Hence why there is no perfect 2 dimensional representation of our globe, It’s been mathematically proven you can’t have a perfect map of earth. Theorems Egregium

“who may not be quite as stubborn as I am” that is the most Linus torvalds thing to say. good to see his passive agressive nature being put in a press release.

I think he doesn’t understand “anti-ai”

rhetorical question: when you’re anti-*, do you go out and do the thing you’re against? Like if you’re anti-smoking, do you go out and smoke a big fat vape? No, you do not. In other terminology, we call that hypocrisy.

I’d say the majority of people’s reasons against AI isn’t just about the environmental impact but the offloading of your cognitive and mental ability, why would someone be anti-ai and still use ai when it directly hinders the ability to cognitively think in the first place.

Anyways, the reason I’m pointing this out, is if you’re anti-ai, the philosophy assumes you don’t use LLM’s in the first place. So when someone asks this (redundant) question of “can you work without chatgpt?” or “if chatgpt disappeared, would you still be able to get through the day?” I’ve already been doing it.

I can get through my day without using chatGPT. It’s a tool for the briefest of my circumstances (mostly for tedious work), and I could do my day without using it and without hindering my performance.

so, its like a dildo for our ears?

the things you are describing is mentioned a lot when people treat agi as a friend.

when I have used it, it does use that comforting language a lot, aggreeing with your points to stroke your ego. if I were to describe it’s persona with a character, it would have to be Mr Jelly Bean from Rick and Morty.

I can see the appeal, but holy shit I’m getting pervert vibes from it.

I’m sorry, that’s too many going up my anus.

silly goose, it’s not like they’re actually going to guillotine him as trump rioters tried to hang mike pence.

I like to think so.

The entire premise developing agi isn’t about a “new scientific breakthrough” as much as it is a way to surveil and profile people.

with web search, you have the option to opt out of cookies, which basically doesn’t allow trackers to track you on websites. were not even taking into account adblockers such as UblockOrigin or privacy badger, which has been an ongoing war with big tech.

Anyways, with LLM’s, they have control of your prompts, they have access to your account and they can target advertisements or sell your data to the highest bidder.

So, when google announced that search will be depreciated and replaced with their Gemini AGI, that to me was the first real indicator that their intentionally making search shitty to boost usage of their AI.

on a abstract level, he is correct, using AI has the same effect as drinking alcohol which has the same effect of doing meth.

the people who use AI, if it were to all be taken away, would have the same problems (on an abstract level) as say a recovering alcoholic. As for those who haven’t relied on it as much, you could think of it as a temporary blackout.

zipties, cloth, and nap time!

well, generally these can range from a few hundred dollars to several thousand or 10s of thousands of dollars. The ones we use in my university are about the 10s of thousands range.

That said, you can find some for 100,000 to 200,000

signal generator - $2000

oscilioscope - $200000

nope, and that confirms it.

it’s not managing, as you seem to imply, it’s just hosting.

Arch hosts the AUR repository, the maintenance of the packages is on the developers who developed the package.

If someone sneaks in spyware or malware inside the makepkg, that isn’t arch’s fault, that’s the maintainers fault of the makepkg.

more importantly, they don’t recommend that users use the AUR repository (that isn’t to say they are opposed to it). Some advice they have given is to review what the dependencies are before executing the package with an AUR helper or manually.

Just to make a point, there is a surplus of these non officially supported (from OS developers) repositories, such as the terra repository for fedora. It has the same vulnerability as AUR, and yet that is targeted for new users.

Much like how fedora doesn’t officially support Terra, arch doesn’t support AUR. There is a reason why it’s called AUR (arch user repository) over ASR (arch supported repository). AUR entails that it is not supported by arch.

this was me buying $100 yoyos… then I got an associates in applied mathematics and I now can’t stop talking about it.

moral of the story: every hobby leads to math autism

I mean were talking about skin and tissue it will bend and stretch when it comes in contact to pressure. Also energy depends on mass not just velocity/speed. It would need to have a large enough energy while being precise enough to not be distributed over a surface to penetrate and damage tissue.

do you know why bullets penetrate tissue, its because it has a large enough kinetic energy fixated on a very small region of area. Similarly light that is emitted by a radioactive source penetrate and damage skin cells from the same principles.

don’t forgot signal processing. Complex number theory is used a lot when it comes down to Fourier transforms of discrete or continuous functions.

but yea the naming convention of “imaginary numbers” is pretty bad, we did the same thing for negative numbers (we called it imaginary) when people couldn’t comprehend of a negative quantity.

negative numbers are defined from a conservative system, basically a gain/loss relationship: if I have 2 apples and I give away 1 to a friend, I have 1 apple left, that loss – that apple I gave to a friend – is the negative quantity. For imaginary numbers, we don’t really have a way to comprehend an imaginary quantity; what does it mean that I have sqrt(-1) apples.

whether it’s good or bad publicity, its still publicity. Companies strive for publicity, if anything defacating on it just adds monetary value.

there’s always going to be some individual who finds the advertisement appealing or just looks up the website of the advertisement

my point is whether it is fatigued or it stopped working as a result of a large enough electrical impedance that current can’t pass through or god knows some other reason. You would have replaced the motherboard either way because of 10 other motherboard/component failures. in which case, buy a new laptop.

thinkpads are rapidly depreciative. They approximately depreciate linearly compared to a theoretically and practically non-depreciative product; The longer they are used (or just held in stock), the cheaper they become. I’ve found used thinkpads that are worth the same amount for a same spec’d framework motherboards. until integrated circuits become cheaper your just purchasing a more expensive thinkpad that’s easier to understand (from an upgrade perspective) for the user.