The Cybertruck was supposed to be apocalypse-proof. Can it even survive a trip to the grocery store?
This was supposed to be the truck that would be driven on Mars. On Mars!
Exactly... "Deepseek is a threat against our freedoms!!" also "No one can make any laws to put any restrictions on any AI models". Cool.
My employer has stooped so low as to call it "return to work". Like, what the fuck have I been doing the past 5 years!?
I'm currently in the final round of interviews for a new employer. I don't expect that they will be nearly different, but at least they will pay more.
Money, meet mouth.
Do it!
There are plans to create a 9-foot-tall version in bronze in the works
Oh good, that'll make a beautiful visual as well pull that piece of shit down!
pre 9/11 sweet spot
There's a line in Fight Club about how Jack's generation has no great war, out no way to prove themselves. It really is a great example of how things felt pre-9/11.
I am Jack's overwhelming sense of buyer's remorse.
This is the perfect reply to someone with a 6 charisma.
Because with Google Translate he would be sending privileged company information to Google. With our LLM it all stays in-house. And he does typically write his replies in his broken English and the LLM fixes it to make it more readable, which helps him improve his written English skills.
I have a coworker who didn't learn English until his mid-20s, and it was his 3rd language. He's very hard to understand and is functionally illiterate in English, which is unfortunate because most of our job is done through email or chat. Sometime will send him an email or chat with a request and he will respond with "Call you" and then immediately call them. They hate it because they have a hard time understanding him, and they never get anything in writing from him.
I suggested that he start using a company provided LLM to take what he wants to write and have it rewrite it for him (or he can write in it one of the other languages he knows better and have it translated). He's started doing this and his performance at work has completely turned around. He is a shining example for how an LLM can be properly used.
Then, there's the VPs in the company who send out emails that have been obviously completely written by an LLM. And they brag about asking an LLM for ideas on how to handle certain situations, or the direction that the department needs to head in. They have outsourced their brains and think it was a brilliant move. They are the ones who deserve scorn.
"A man"
This person has destroyed public property. Whether or not he pays, his name should be made public. People who know him should know what kind of person he is. His employer should know who they have hired. His employer's customers should know who they are dealing with.
This is not normal behavior. This person is a sociopath and society needs to know who he is.
"There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind." -Mr. Rogers
-Tom Morello
Arrested for violating the woman's civil rights.
Any IT person working that hard these days is doing it wrong. Unless of course you mean those who work from home, then, yeah.
Red is first dibs on old equipment.
I have to say that the Mulan movie was pretty great, it just shouldn't have been marketed as a 'live action remake' but instead just another version.
Onward, Soul and Frozen II were also solid. Onward and Soul being released in covid and dealing with death/missing loved ones, was difficult though.
It's amazing how all of this investigation relied on various data leaks from several sources in order to connect all of the dots. Just another reminder that there is no such thing as privacy any longer. You have to put in a LOT of work if you want to be anonymous online, and even then there's no guarantees.
To be clear, this is comment should in no way be seen as defending this piece of shit.
This is why it is so important to keep a clean living/work space. Had Pluto just cleaned out its area this planet would be the much cooler named 'Planet X', with 'X' serving double duty as '10' and 'mysterious'.
The output is only as good as the model being used. If you want to write code then use a model designed for code. Over the weekend I wrote an Android app to be able to connect my phone to my Ollama instance from off my network. I've never done any coding beyond scripts, and the AI walked me through setting up the IDE and a git repository before we even got started on the code. 3 hours after I had the idea I had the app installed and working on my phone.
Drawn Together?
It's not just Americans who are fucked, it's basically anything that breathes.

Let's knock down social media's walled gardens - Tim Berners-Lee
From the article: The Open Data Institute that I co- founded in London has taken on the challenge of international co- ordination for a new standard that gives users control over their own data. It is called Solid (for social linked data) and the technical details are controlled by W3C, the web standards consortium. Solid seeks to decentralise the web. The platform can be used to build new applications that request access to user data. This data is stored in such a way that users have complete control over it.

Does anyone use a Stream Deck for office work?
I was curious how well it would work for switching between projects at work. I manage IT for several different offices and sometimes it is difficult to switch between my many various projects.

Mafia plays amazing on the SteamDeck - Now free from GOG through Amazon Games

Mafia: Definitive Edition is a full remake of the 2002 classic, set in 1930s Lost Heaven, Illinois during the Prohibition era. The game follows Tommy Angelo, a cab driver who gets entangled with the Salieri crime family after a fateful encounter. Initially reluctant, Tommy ascends through the Mafia'...

I went in and bumped up the graphics to 'High' and it is beautiful and plays great.
If you want it free from GOG you'll need to be sure you have it setup in Heroic Launcher.

Can Puerto Ricans vote as expats?
I've heard that the reason Puerto Ricans can't vote is because Puerto Rico isn't a state and it is states that choose the president, not voters. But what about expats living abroad? Do they just get to pick which state gets their vote? If so, couldn't Puerto Ricans do that too?And what about people in DC? Where do their electoral college votes come from?
I'm sure I'm missing something here, I'm just not sure what.

In honor of Mexico's upcoming Moon mission... the Burrocket!


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