NO! This is not just false, it’s dangerously false.

If a country takes measures to emit 500M less tons of CO2 per year, the result is… 500M less tons of CO2 in the air per year than otherwise. That helps!

There isn’t a single fucked/not fucked threshold. There are a lot of nuances of fucked and each one we dodge puts us in an incrementally less awful place. Who knows how many more lives saved for each Mton CO2 not produced. Who knows how many species get to live, how many fewer days of heatwave per year, how many more glaciers survive.

I STG, “we’re already fucked anyway” is oil shill talk. Fuck that noise, let’s make oil obsolete, let’s avoid entire shades of fucked, we’ve already made insane progress with renewables and electric cars, let’s just keep going! Let’s pressure our individual politicians because you know the fuckers love it when you give up! You on board?

OH. 😂

Just wanna quickly applaud the writing in this comment. Conveying a show’s vibes this effectively in just a few sentences is not easy.

(What’s the long-payoff Andor joke though? I may have missed it.)

I’ll venture, it’s a natural if misdirected immune reaction from people who are all too aware they are being tracked ceaselessly and relentlessly, all day, everyday, not to their benefit. So sure, this one piece of software swears its own tracking is just for debugging purposes… But why risk it?

I know how MV3 works, thanks. The point remains that from the moment it was announced people have been claiming, usually with much hyperbole, that Chrome was trying to kill adblockers, and yet here we are with adblockers still blocking ads. In terms of software engineering, I actually find it interesting that they managed to achieve the stated goal of preventing a certain class of malware extensions while letting adblockers still work (though I know it’s not a widely shared sentiment).

Mind you, I still preferred living in an MV2 world, and I still encourage people to switch to Firefox. It’s better for everyone if the ecosystem is more diverse.

uBlock dragged its feet supporting MV3 but AdGuard works fine.

Yup, some do! There’s a whole spectrum out there. My point is, though, that some don’t, and that’s okay.

Except the aces, which is fine too.

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Seattle is pretty great, as US cities go. NYC is hit and miss but also feels like a place where real people live real lives.

Naples is breathtaking, but… Yeah. That constant niggling feeling dampens the experience a wee bit.

You better start believing in furry stories on the Internet. You’re in one. The joke that furries run the Internet is only a joke until you discover that it’s, in fact, largely true.

Hey, so who are you? What kind of person?

Loyal to your people? Introverted but faithful in friendship? Curious and playful? Are you more dignified, or carefree? Given to hoarding, or full of wanderlust? Drawn to the forest, the sky, the sea, or your den? Single-minded or scatterbrained? A mix of all that? Something else entirely?

Gee, that’s a lot of options. If only there was a way to put some kind of symbolic label on the many little traits that make up the identity of the person that is you… :)

Also, it so turns out that if you come hang out with those who chose to self-label thus as wolf-like or fox-like or dragon-like or deer-like, you may find they’re chill and welcoming people, throw great parties, and don’t mind one bit if, ultimately, the you that makes sense to you is in the end human-like.

They invented a hybrid attention design that drastically reduces the amount of memory needed for the KV cache at inference time. Like, dividing it by 10. And memory is a large part of the cost of inference.

Everything, Everywhere, All At Once would definitely also be my recommendation. Because a kung fu comedy that’s also a sci fi thriller, a bilingual family drama that can switch languages multiple times per sentence, a Ratatouille parody, and a 10 minute silent shot of two rocks in a desert, that just SHOULD NOT WORK. The fact it does, and does brilliantly, with ten new directing ideas every minute and a climax that leaves me in tears every time, borders on genius.

All Your Base is the granddaddy of Internet memes and yet I can’t help feeling that its specific subgenre was sublimated a bit later on, with this, the legend, the joyful, the unforgettable: Yatta!

Moroccanoil, the ESC sponsor, is despite what its name suggests an Israeli company. So the overall incentive structure there might be a tad skewed.

There are a few, yeah. Whether it’s enough to balance the massive weight of all the externalities, I have no idea. Currently leaning no. Could be wrong about that, who knows.

Basically: we now have the tech to make sense of language and language semantics, and use language as a universal interface. You and I are fine clicking buttons in programs, sure, but you and I are also having this discussion on an obscure federated social media platform the general public has never heard about. Interacting usefully with a computer system through language alone becomes possible in a way that it wasn’t before. I’m not quite sure how valuable this is going to be in the long term, but then, I’m also a tech nerd who is used to clicking buttons and writing command lines.

We can now process large amounts of text fast for data extraction, which is a deceptively hard problem. You can do things like importing itemized PDF bills into an accounting database with no prior knowledge of how those bills are formatted. This extends beyond text. We can now generate a textual description of arbitrary images and videos. That too is a very hard problem. It can now be done on a regular desktop computer using a small local LLM.

It’s an even harder problem when the text is computer code and the data being looked for is the cause for a specific behavior. The process of debugging an obscure issue can now be massively accelerated.

Given a reliable corpus of knowledge, that corpus can be queried more or less instantly using natural language. That’s also something we could not do before.

LLMs suck at designing software but can produce code to spec faster than a human, which means they can be used to increase throughput where a skilled human does the design and is limited only by the speed of implementing it. Given the prevalence of software in the economy, the impact of that alone will be significant.

All of these come with major drawbacks and sometimes intractable problems. Language is squishy and ambiguous. LLMs don’t THINK, they extrude statistically probable continuation tokens. AI content sucks, be it writing, images, videos, because the probable tokens there are the median of the training corpus, and median is a cognate of mediocre for a reason. I hope AI slop goes away. But I don’t think it will. The ability to generate custom porn on demand alone will likely sustain a market.

And I didn’t think we can go back to the world of before. But personally, I wish we could. Because the externalities here are, and remain, enormous.

Successful rolls are mostly not necessary to progress the game. Your guy is many things, including a bit of a loser who just hit rock bottom, but your success as a player of the game is only loosely connected to his success as a character attempting things.

If it gets too much, remember that the arthropods are in silent and meaningless awe of you.

10 kg mylar bags of rice.