Oh that actually worked fine in Ice Cream Sandwich, they just removed it a bit later so you’d buy a new phone with more storage or something.

Not “196gb of memory” of course, that’d be stupid, it’s removable storage and you can’t put system files on it for example. But you could easily transfer apps to SD card, they’d just stop working when you changed cards.

Hey, that’s untrue!

Sometimes you just had the wrong 3.5mm jack on the headphones for the 3.5mm jack on your phone.

It’s why I don’t really miss it myself.

Banks also have control of their own ledgers and can just issue a reversal transaction. If it’s between two banks, it’ll be more complex, but overall that’s still the case

The people actually buying and selling crypto don’t care about the decentralized part nor the currency part, it’s just an extremely speculative investment vehicle.

Might’ve thought genocide is popular enough among the Israeli that there wouldn’t be any need to cheat.

This is also what made the pensions shoot up 2x in about the last 4 years, so meh.

If we are talking autocomplete for IDEs, not generative AI

They’ve been using small-ish LLMs for that for a few years for now actually, started with github copilot in 2021, but then other plugins became available and Jetbrains started including their own.

I don’t mean intellisense that we had 10 or 20 years ago already where it suggests based on namespace visibility or whatever, I specifically mean where it suggests based on the context of your entire method or even file, not just the single statement

I was wrong though, apparently older content-aware fill is not generative AI, merely transformative. So I guess for example Photoshop has only had AI (generative fill, generative expand) for 3 years. Still, it’s getting likelier and likelier that people working on different projects in different domains use AI features without even realizing it’s AI.

If we’re talking things like ESRGAN, sure, and I absolutely have problems with that as well, but they’re ever so slightly lesser versions of the problems I have with LLMs and such.

Yes, stuff like that is mostly what I was referring to. Anything ML, neural network and so on. Not promptable, but still trained on a bunch of data that most likely is other people’s art.

The thing with reddit, and why it used to be so much better than other corporate media, is that they’ve always under-monetized their users. Facebook and such earned at least an order of magnitude more per user.

If reddit loses half of its user base and doesn’t gain a single user, but 10x’s their revenue per user, well, they’re still making 5x more money.

It’s been fucked since the leadup to the 2016 murican election. Wasn’t perfect by any means before that, obviously already had paid shills and astroturfing, but that seems to be when everyone realized how much you could use it to influence people. Really kicked into high gear then

A lot of crapware coming from large AAA devs these days and a lot of good games from small-time devs who put all their life’s savings into starting their little indie studio… Which one do you think could better afford the 150k surcharge, Ubisoft listing yet another 5 Assasin’s Creed titles or, say, ConcernedApe releasing Stardew Valley for the first time back in 2014 or whenever?

You’re already using an operating system where generative AI was being used in some parts of the process and creative tools have had generative AI functions since even before the LLM craze.

Which, sure, Palestine has it much worse, but then 2 decades vs 2.5 years (so far) is also a big difference.

You don’t think there’s a difference between

Read the full comment next time perhaps.

You get a choice between candidates approved by the party and you’re not allowed to even start a competing political party. I wouldn’t call it choice.

I have no doubt that people would like the government in my country a lot more if it wasn’t for the conservative opposition working to drive hate against anything progressive that the government is actually achieving from time to time. Being gay was never illegal, but the law was antiquated and said that marriage is between a man and a woman. Literally just changing that so that two people of the same gender getting married would be possible, was an absolute media shitstorm. I wonder how it would go in China if they tried legalizing gay marriage now - there’s simply no opposition party to campaign off it.

That’s why I say that it’s easier to have better satisfaction ratings when people have 0 choice. There’s just no reason to sow division in the first place.

Outright war has been pretty rare for most western countries at least. Like, when was the last time you had to dodge bombs? I can tell you that my country for example hasn’t been invaded in my lifetime (mostly because we joined NATO in the early 00s). Suddenly being under attack would be pretty extreme circumstances around these parts.

Also, Palestine hasn’t held elections in 2 decades and are only now finally planning a new general election in 2027. It is quite curious I’ve never heard someone on .ml criticize them for it whereas Ukraine often catches shit for it. Which, sure, Palestine has it much worse, but then 2 decades vs 2.5 years (so far) is also a big difference.

Elections being postponed during wartime is pretty standard. If he won’t voluntarily leave office when the war’s over then we can talk about it not being a democracy.

So the latter two are fairly easily explainable by racism and homophobia and are actually easier to avoid if you don’t have a democracy. China’s done well, they not had a real refugee crisis lately and don’t have too many black people to hate (they DO still be hella racist over there, somehow Africans were even at fault for COVID according to some Chinese officials).

There was a huge social media outcry about refugees in much of Europe about a decade ago that the conservatives kept milking for a long, long time. Then they’ll claim black men are rapists and take the one example that keeps doing it again every time he gets out of jail as if that’s representative of every African. Then the outcry about LGBT people trying to groom your kids and whtaever. This is all for conservatives to get votes. They get almost half a country thinking that the damn librul communist (yes, they consider those to be the same thing, I’m not even going to get into that) government is out to erase straight white people… In a country with 10 black people and 5 muslims (okay, I’m exaggerating, but there REALLY aren’t a lot of them here, whereas the conservatives will tell you that they’re completely taking over and they’re all getting billions from the government in aid and whatnot)

If the people don’t actually have a choice (like in China, where there’s literally only one party allowed), there’s no need for manufactured outrage about foreigners. Which is great because then there’s less hate, but it also means you literally don’t get to choose the political ideals of the people who govern you. If you have a bad faith opposition party to worry about, they will make up shit to get into power.

TL;DR: Completely subdue your people politically so there’s no competition, then there’s no manufactured outrage, then people won’t think literally all their tax money is going to a single refugee center that in reality holds 10 families.

Probably not any time soon? China’s buying 5090s in bulk to literally remove the chips and transplant them onto server form factor boards for AI.

The stocks crashed because there’s so much competition now and nobody can expect to take the whole market. Deepseek, Qwen, GLM, Kimi are ALL way cheaper than the US counterparts and quite comparable. It’s not exciting anymore. When Deepseek R1 came out, everyone thought that Deepseek was going to completely take everything over. Now pretty much everyone is getting close to Claude in performance.

blackbox memories

I’m fairly sure you can just check what the memories are and IIRC even delete them (haven’t really used ChatGPT recently so maybe it’s changed)?

A 5050 is 500€. About 400 without tax, but that’s still about 450 murican dollars.

3060 ti launched just over $300 MSRP, the 3050 was actually about 250.