My friend worked in a hardware store for a couple years and he said that around Christmas time you get about a dozen people asking for these.

Man, literally day one after the election, which probably didn’t go the way you predicted, and already with the prognostications of doom.

It’s ok to be happy for a little while.

I like the spirit of this comment and want to keep it going.

I am excited about El-Sayed because of all the people who had a real shot at this position, he showed the most compassion for humanity. How often do you get to say that about a fucking senate race?

Dude’s huffed so much of his own farts he can’t smell the coffee.

Hm, yeah I don’t see any way of arguing that Microsoft wasn’t wildly negligent in this case. They’re the ones that positioned themselves as the vanguard of secure boot and they made it clear during the windows 11 TPM fiasco that they’re fine leaving hardware behind, so how are they not in control of vending and checking their own certs?

You don’t need an Internet connection to have a control system keep temperature around a setpoint, though. That’s usually handled by a lower level circuit that will continue to operate in the case that the high level interface is not responding.

Observability is nice, but you don’t need to expose controls to do this, you could just have a Prometheus endpoint.

I suspect it’s because the manufacturer is trying to sell RaaS (refrigeration as a service) and to ensure they get their monthly dues, they “offer remote maintenance and monitoring” or something.

Nit: it doesn’t beg the question (a logical fallacy also known as tautology), it raises it.

But yeah, is it really that helpful to network something you only want to set one time?

I don’t care about anyone’s vote but yours, Internet stranger. Fuck the news, make sure you’re counted.

“Well I couldn’t get what I wanted so I think I’ll do the cringiest thing imaginable and abandon my entire career”, the incredible true story.

I don’t think it proves anything, and I don’t think it even set out to prove anything. I think it is trying to establish bounds on the problem by distinguishing between intelligence and consciousness.

But if you’re specifically interrogating my comment, the answer is pretty simple: an LLM mimics intelligence, but not consciousness; a fruit fly is conscious but not intelligent, and achieves this without an inner monologue.

If we wanted to compare LLMs to actual intelligence, we might say it’s like the voice in your head. It doesn’t solve math problems, or express emotions as art, or plan your motion to climb a ladder; it merely surfaces these things in a way that is observable across your conscious mind and communicable to others.

Some people don’t know that their consciousness is more complicated than a linear thread of words, so the idea that some other linear thread of words might be conscious is sincerely plausible to them.

W after W from MapQuest.

I mean, I think this is a particularly intriguing case because I’ve never seen Meta so closely connected to an attempted assassination. If you know of other cases I’d be interested to see them!

Holy shit. Meta, what the fuck have you gotten into?

It’s worse than most realize. When I went to Guangdong 10 years ago, I expected to meet fabricators and technicians making our products, but I instead met engineers probing our customers and capabilities.

That company has since been acquired for pennies on the dollar by Google, to the surprise of no one.