Eccitaze

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[–] Eccitaze@yiffit.net 5 points 11 months ago

And the second and third quotes, that were you?

Take the goddamn L, man. You made a statement in ignorance, you were wrong, and you were given evidence showing you were wrong. Accept it, learn from your mistake, and be better in the future.

[–] Eccitaze@yiffit.net 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Or anywhere relatively rural. I just got home from a long weekend in rural Minnesota/Wisconsin, and there's literally no viable way to run public transit out there in a manner that wouldn't either be so restrictive as to be useless, or would lose so much money it would be first on the block for service cuts (and therefore become useless). I'm talking "town of 600 residents, most people live on unincorporated county land on a farmstead, and the only grocery store in a 50 mile radius is a Dollar General" rural. Asking these folks to give up cars is an insane prospect.

[–] Eccitaze@yiffit.net 26 points 11 months ago

Nope. Been there, done that, turned a relatively amicable breakup into a "you're a piece of shit and don't ever speak to me again" situation, ruining another friendship in the process. It's a horrible, horrible idea.

[–] Eccitaze@yiffit.net 1 points 11 months ago

The grilled cheese burrito just isn't the same!

[–] Eccitaze@yiffit.net 4 points 11 months ago

And run red lights, and drive recklessly and...,

[–] Eccitaze@yiffit.net 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

People always assume that generative AI (and technology in general) will continue improving at the same pace it always has been. They always assume that there are no limits in the number of parameters, that there's always more useful data to train it on, and that things like physical limits in electricity infrastructure, compute resources, etc., don't exist. In five years generative AI will have roughly the same capability it has today, barring massive breakthroughs that result in a wholesale pivot away from LLMs. (More likely, in five years it'll be regarded similarly to cryptocurrency is today, because once the hype dies down and the VC money runs out the AI companies will have to jack prices to a level where it's economically unviable to use in most commercial environments.)

[–] Eccitaze@yiffit.net 7 points 11 months ago

Yup, and also how to orient yourself and the direction you were going by the progression of the address numbers--for example, if you were on Sunset Blvd SE, you knew address numbers increased as you drove south and east.

[–] Eccitaze@yiffit.net 39 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Yup, I delivered pizza for the Hut around the same time. Big ol' map of the area divided into sectors, each order listed which sector the address was in. I'd write directions on the back of the order slip, and go off into the night with nothing but a flashlight. First day I got a lecture by the manager on how to navigate by address and tell which side of the street a house was on, I learned more about navigating that day than in the entire rest of my life.

Sometimes I miss those days and wish I could be 19 and driving my tiny Honda Civic through the highlands again, listening to video game songs downloaded from OCRemix on my little MP3 player plugged into the car audio with a tape adapter.

[–] Eccitaze@yiffit.net 37 points 11 months ago (8 children)

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[–] Eccitaze@yiffit.net 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm personally a little nervous about Harris--I remember the 2020 primary where her only notable accomplishments were accusing Biden of being racist over opposition to federal busing policies, and then flaming out shortly after and shuttering her campaign two months before the first caucus and polling single digits in California. Admittedly, she doesn't have the same headwinds now that she had in 2020--she doesn't have to differentiate herself from over a dozen other candidates and she won't struggle to raise money--but she also made some unforced errors (e.g. coming out for total elimination of private insurance before revealing a plan that included private plans, or admitting her own policy on busing was essentially identical to Biden's).

Hopefully, she'll run a much tighter campaign now since she'll inherit Biden's staff and can focus solely on attacking Trump, but I do have some concerns.

[–] Eccitaze@yiffit.net 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Black hat hacker, I break into people's servers and fuck up their shit

[–] Eccitaze@yiffit.net 7 points 11 months ago

And here I am proud that I can open a file, save it, make edits, jump to the beginning/end, and quit it. 😅

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