Nah - the english language is just full of ambiguities that people tend to understand through context or intonations from speaking that are lost in text

… what?

The problem is they have found it cheaper to buy ALL politicians than it is to actually pay tax. It only leaves a few options left…

Did you even read my earlier comment?

I explicitly meant “as”. It’s great as autocomplete. Not as an agent to complete programming tasks.

Well, this kind of AI won’t ever be useful as a programmer. It doesn’t think. It doesn’t reason. It cannot make decisions besides using a ton of computational power and enormous deep neural networks to shit out a series of words that seem like they should follow your prompt. An LLM is just a really, really good next-word guesser.

So when you ask it to solve the Tower of Hanoi problem, great it can do that. Because it saw someone else’s answer. But if you ask it to solve it for a tower than is 20 disks high it will fail because no one ever talks about going that far and it flounders. It’s not actually reasoning to solve the problem - it’s regurgitating answers it has ingested from stolen internet conversations. It’s not even attempting to solve the general case because it’s not trying to solve the problem, it’s responding to your prompt.

That said - an LLM is also great as an interface to allow natural language and code as prompts for other tools. This is where the actually productive advancements will be made. Those tools are garbage today but they’ll certainly improve.

Some FOSS projects are supported by having a for-profit company offer turnkey packaging and support for those projects. Look at TrueNAS. They sell nice NAS hardware preconfigured with their software and the profits support the development.

Sounds like the bedrock-only part is just a visual update. If you’re on Java you already have access to shaders.

But still - fuck MS for making bedrock a totally separate game so they could avoid giving alpha buyers free in app purchases.

Wow… even a finger nail ruins that screen. Shamefully bad design decisions went into making those things if they’re THAT fragile.

Well according to bullshit, the US Border Patrol’s jurisdiction is within 100 miles of any international boundary, the sea, or international airport. So that covers approximately 75% of the continental united states.

Oh. I’m going to go practice some of that now. Thanks for the link.

That’s an interesting way to frame them letting up on their support of the price reduction.

The buybacks are always bankrupted by guys showing up with 3d printed guns. What SHOULD be done is if it is 3d printed, they offer them the cost of the filament by weight and tell them the buyback is for people who aren’t trying to intentionally be pieces of shit and waste the money.

What about when the sex is … wrong?

No he just got lucky a few times. Then he flagrantly broke the law because he realized the SEC would never hold him accountable and that let him turn Tesla into the first memestock. That’s why he is megawealthy. Luck and fraud.

Yeah I really hope he goes after Vought and the truly evil people next. It’d be glorious to watch them all fight and get ripped apart so they can’t harm anyone else.

<progress> ---- <status_quo> ---- <regression>

It’s pretty obvious what happens when you vote. Sure, the Democrats really only represent status quo. But by voting for them at least you don’t regress into fucking fascism. It’s been shitty and I really hope Schumer kicks the bucket already so we can get leadership in the only party that even vaguely resembles a functioning representation of a democracy. But the whole “VoTe YoUr IdEaLs” approach just results in… regression. If you want your ideals to be represented then fucking run for office or be rich enough to splash large amounts of money and influence the vote.

“well the military was ultimately responsible for holding those contractors accountable,”

This is arguably one of the worst aspects of contracting any kind of service. The contractors act like they don’t have a duty to listen nor are they willing to be held accountable. Once the contractor and the signor shake hands then the contractors just go and do the worst fucking job possible with no one to steer the ship. The money has been spent, and accountability is nowhere to be found.

I see what you did there.

For real though it’s going to be hard to undo all of this. The political process for all public services is being hung by a noose made by contractors and GOP voters.

No my point is they offload too much to corporations and thus are beholden to the same concerns of those corporations by proxy.