southsamurai (he/him/pronoun agnostic)

I’m going to add to the previous responses that a token is also the billing unit used.

If you hire a lawyer, they charge a rate based on their predetermined “billable hours” arrangement. They beak down their jobs into small time segments, often much smaller than an actual hour. Similar to how a mechanic might use a predetermined labor cost based on a time estimate chart; swapping a battery takes X time, but rebuilding an engine takes Y time, with the actual number of hours and minutes not being useful in terms of billing because neither lawyers or mechanics can precisely track exactly how much of the time they’re digging working on your specific job is being spent “hands on” vs the time necessary to do all the little things that come up to interrupt the work. So they bill by the abstracted time a job takes when stripped of real world necessity.

Tokens are, as others said, chunks of data. When you enter a prompt, and get a response, those chunks get tallied up and billed for. From what I’ve read (and I’m not in the field, not even as s hobbyist/amateur; I just wanted to know exactly what you asked) the various companies bill by large chunks, usually per million tokens, or a similar chunks.

As an example, a given word might only need three tokens to process as input, and another three as output. But, because the cost of doing that work is more intensive to output (generate) a response, output costs more per unit. Now, I’m not saying the capitalist hellscape reality of that is a good thing, I’m just saying that’s the reasoning of the capitalist twats that run the companies. Anywhere other than lemmy, I might not need that disclaimer lol.

Now, why they chose token as the jargon, I’ve never looked to see if I could find an answer, but that’s just me wondering just enough to type it, but not enough to go looking ;)

No, really? Wouldn’t have guessed that.

Well, there’s wired over ears with anc, but they have a battery iirc.

Which I guess would be possible for iems too, just clunky as hell.

Man, I’m not defending it, just pointing out the way the system works

Your autocorrect made a booboo.

It entered priority instead of proprietary

Iems with anc? Or regular ones?

I don’t doubt that anc capable wired iems exist, I’m just not sure they wouldn’t be absurdly expensive

Anyone trying to navigate that section of the sidewalk.

It’s still bullshit, and it’s still a first amendment issue as it is a form of protest.

But standing somewhere, blocking a public space is obstructing the flow of traffic, and meets the standard. Being arrested is part and parcel of protest because legal challenges form precedent. Sometimes you want to be arrested for both visibility and that opportunity to challenge a law, or otherwise shift things.

Blocking the robot isn’t the same as blocking a human. But blocking robot did block other humans. They had to navigate around it. Rubbernecking is inevitable. You’ve got the people interested in what she’s doing and why standing there too. In terms of whether or not she violated that law, there’s zero doubt she did.

And that’s part of the process of changing that law, hopefully

They didn’t do due diligence. It was easily prevented by double checking everything