Also, for extra GTA-doomer content, I still expect them to put online mode’s in-game currency on their own blockchain to prevent exploits, better enabling their bullshit monetization schemes.

Why would they do this? Do you think they’d want people to sell their in-game currency to other people without them being able to take a cut? How would putting it on a block chain prevent exploits?

The UN is a joke tho.

If we keep repeating that Iran didn’t have a nuclear weapons program, maybe it will become true?

The facts are that Iran gets uranium from Russian already purified to the level needed for their one civilian nuclear reactor. Any purification beyond this is for a nuclear weapons program. No civilian reactor uses uranium purifies above 5% Iran had uranium purified to 60%. Not quite enough to build a nuclear device (though it could be used for a dirty bomb) but way more than for civilian uses.

The IAEA reported that Iran was hiding nuclear material. Geiger counters don’t lie.

All in all, Iran was maintaining a capability of building a nuke so that at any time they could have one within a year. Not keeping a loaded weapon, but having some ammunition at the ready.

They still have that material, but reports are they’ve buried it to prevent it from being moved. There’s still some concern obviously, but it will take more than a year for them to construct a nuke now.

Obviously it would’ve been better to have not cancelled Obama’s deal. Trump killed that in his first term, Biden couldn’t get a new one negotiated, it wouldn’t have mattered if he did since Trump would’ve just cancelled that too. Maybe Kamala Harris could’ve gotten Obama’s deal reinstated, but dumbass Americans gotta bring back Trump because “both sides”.

Carney looks at the world as it is, not how we want it to be. We don’t want there to be an Iranian nuclear weapons program, so out of political expediency and “going along to get along” many people just pretend that there is no Iranian nuclear weapons program. We want there to be a US President trustworthy enough to be able to negotiate a deal with Iran, but that’s not Trump. Given who is in power in Iran, who is in power in the US, who is in power in Israel, the options were this or there someday being a true believer take power in Iran that fires a nuke at Tel Aviv. Many on this site might be psychopaths that want this, but people that have actual empathy don’t want millions of people to die.

I’m proud that Iran just flat out refused to sell out to capital

They’re getting $300B from this deal. How much of that is going to get to the Iranian people, and how much will the IRGC just keep for themselves?

Neither Starmer nor Carney are heads of state. Look to King Charles if you can’t stomach the details of how things work.

He’s been consistent about not talking about the world how people want it to be, but how it actually is.

Iran has a nuclear program. If Iran builds a nuke it would be very bad. They also support a lot of terrorism. Terrorism is bad.

If you strip away all of the ideological bullshit, the vibes about who’s a good guy and who’s a bad guy, all of the rationalizations about who’s historically justified in attacking who, what you’re left with is Iran being weakened means less terrorism, less terrorism means less war. It’s imperative that they are prevented from building nuclear weapons since that represents the potential for millions of people getting killed.

Grumman X-29 had forward swept wings in the 1980s.

Likely both the Anime and the su-47 got some inspiration from the X-29.

Can’t have serious discussions about most political topics here without it being just people endlessly spamming “capitalism bad!” or “Israel bad!”

Generally people are just spamming the same talking points, ignoring any facts (like the fact that communism failed). Posting the same antisemitic conspiracy theories I’ve seen on the internet 20 years ago, but with “the Jews” replaced with “Israel”. There’s a lot of hateful people here and they compete with each other to be the most hateful towards the evil capitalist Jews.

I don’t see anyone even attempting to think of ways to improve anything in the world, a lot of people just seem to think expressing hatred on the internet will somehow make things better.

What economic policies could make our lives better? “Kill the capitalists!” How can we make peace in the world? “Kill the Jews!”

That’s the level of political discourse on Lemmy.

He died about a week before Alex Trebek died.

by and large these things worked on paper/transparencies I would presume.

You have to presume because you weren’t involved in helping the people who were used to doing everything on paper learn how to turn on a computer. Do you think people in the past were super qualified and just magically knew how to use a computer in the past? Nobody ever needed help loading a file on a floppy disk and printing it to paper so they can present it to their boss?

There have always been clueless bosses and tech people that had to make things work. If you go back further, why do you think they all had secretaries typing things up?

If I’m going to get a $20,000 bonus at the end of the year if I don’t use any AI, I’m not going to use AI.

That’s a big problem with this tech… how do you price it? I think companies would purchase an allotment of tokens that can be used or banked by employees. Problem is they’d always be cutting the token budget.

Where I work I have to have a meeting and justify a $100 license for software. So I don’t know how this will work long term.

Yeah AGI is a mistake. Maybe someday, but what we need know is token efficient LLMs that are designed for for more specific tasks.

There’s a lot of data that it could be helpful for analyzing, but if there’s customer data in there that you can’t share with a third party? Can’t use any of these tools. An appliance in your company’s server room with a bunch of GPUs that’s optimized for data analysis, that’s something I’d be interested in. But with the price of GPUs right now, that’s unlikely to happen.

So the bubble needs to burst before LLMs are truly useful.

To add to that… when we start looking at the price of things, software engineering becomes very important. Sure I may be able to get the LLM to do something instead of doing it myself, but if it’s costing tens of thousands of dollars to save me one hour of work, it’s going to be hard to justify that cost.

We’ll eventually need to become familiar with which problems it’s relatively cheap to use an LLM for and which problems it will be very expensive to use it for. Hmmmm… estimating performance of an algorithm and making decisions about when to use it and not use it… what does that sound like?

I don’t know why you think it’s a generational thing. There has always technical people that filled in the gaps that the more extroverted management types didn’t care about. How do you think things worked when millennials were still in diapers?

What you’re saying indicates you’re one of those people that don’t understand how many gaps other people are filling in for you. You’re talking about splitting PDFs, who do you think designed the PDF format? Or the http protocol that you use to open that google doc?

Honestly the issue I see happening lately is that because iPads (and now AI) made things too easy for the young people they don’t actually know how things work at the low level, not interested in learning it, and often react with “this is too complicated, make it easier for me!”

OP produces all forms of shit, even those not discovered yet.

File changes its form,

Pages slide into their frames,

Slides ready to show.

I think that’s leftists when centrists, liberals, democratic socialists, the working class, Jews…

Pretty much anyone other than fascists. They’re cool with actual fascists, but they label everyone else as fascist and hate them instead.

Or a Palestinian touring Tel Aviv.

21% of the population of Israel is Palestinian. There’s tens of thousands of Palestinians living in the Jaffa neighbourhood of Tel Aviv.

Or maybe just call it a war?

So people in Taiwan and Hong Kong not Chinese now? You support the oppression of Chinese people, so if anyone is anti-Chinese, it’s you. I support the freedom of Chinese people.

And I never claimed that homogeneity would lead to democracy, but that perhaps democracy could only function in a homogeneous society.

Again… Canada has never been homogenous. “Homogeneity” means oppressing those that are different from the ruler. That’s always the hallmark of authoritarianism.