Zos_Kia

For a particularly brutal morning :

Strapping young lad : underneath the waves

Dillinger escape plan : sunshine the werewolf

And Levan’s polka so it gets stuck in their head for the whole day

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At some point I noticed that she always sounds like she’s talking with clenched teeth, as if she was on speed. Kinda ruined it for me, also her format is kinda lame.

Didn’t know about those other things so… Yikes…

I remember reading this in one of our class books when I was maybe eleven and it damn right fucked me up. I was so moved by the lonesome atmosphere, and I suspect it’s one of the early things that made me so much into post apo a few years later.

Bradbury was a rare voice in classic sci fi, and one of my all time favorites.

I remember 15 years ago being in a club in Acapulco and there was this old Mexican guy just going around with a modified car battery and two handles. He’d offer the handles to you then turn this big knob that controlled the voltage. And then he’d ask for a tip! It was so stupid.

I think my latest physical purchase was the orange box some 20 years ago. And that was only because I was abroad and it was stupid cheap.

Yeah that’s a bit aspirational to my taste. Sure a script is just a list of instructions but when you start adding complex data and network hops and async work there are definitely “non-deterministic” behaviors that will emerge. Ultimately yes everything is ones and zeroes and there is probably an explanation but it will be something stupid and contrived.

As a developer you lay out a plan for what should generally happen but there’s no way you can anticipate all the micro variations that happen in production. It’s like any kind of real life plan, really.

I think there’s a categorical issue in how this whole story is framed, at least for the examples that have been cited by the booksellers themselves. These books are “rare” because they are low-print and have basically no demand, think obsolete technical books from the 60s or university theses printed at 100 copies. This kind of books are routinely destroyed by booksellers, and even publishers, because keeping inventory is expensive and nobody is buying or reading them. That’s how AI companies are able to buy them for pennies on the dollar, and whatever they don’t buy is probably eligible for recycling or burning by the seller/publisher anyway.

It’s basically a way to slurp up a few billion tokens for cheap. They’re destroying the copies by chopping off the spine and feeding the loose pages into page-fed scanners, which is way less expensive than those non-destructive scanning robots, but this doesn’t work on really old books from previous centuries as the paper is different and fragile and will jam your scanner constantly.

What they’re looking for is industrially-produced books with low circulation, not because they are culturally valuable but because they contain prose that hasn’t yet been digitized and that’s what they need for pre-training.

Like most American “solutions” it’s a very good idea from a technical point of view but a terrible societal choice

This is completely separate. It’s something they ask when you apply for a job with them.

This is actually standard gdpr / data protection verbiage. It means the company cannot use your data for its own purposes, only to provide you services you agreed upon. Selling your data to a third party, or sending you marketing emails you didn’t subscribe to, isn’t “providing you with services or products” so it is explicitly forbidden.

I’m not sure what you mean by this. Yes I am aware that an open source project needs developers.

Actually I have ! When I started this setup all I had was a bunch of reclaimed screens and the specs were all over the place.

Funny cause there’s a similar meme in France about a tv host who used to repeat “BUT DO YOU CONDEMN HAMAS” with an exaggerated Arabic “rrramas” pronunciation

My config is close to 15 years old and I’ve never had any issue with it. What are those horrific things you speak of? How do they affect me? I have no intention to migrate away unless I’m forced by circumstance.

The ruling explicitly says that the settlement never had any legal standing. There is nothing to nullify.

I feel GUIs complicate everything. You need graphics drivers and a display server and a compositor and a window manager etc… it’s a pain and in the end you still have to open a console to type in commands for your actual self hosting. Not worth the effort in my opinion, and it’s better to bite the bullet and get used to the terminal and ssh early.

I recommend using something like tmux or screen, so you still have basic comforts like tabs and multi task. Once you get used to it you can configure it and add themes and plugins if you like. A modern tmux setup really feels like a desktop except everything is faster and it barely consumes any resources.

No what the Chinese do is much more ethical because they actually pay for the tokens. Basically anthropic is complaining that companies use and pay for their product :'(

And yet you talk vicious like they do, when someone doesn’t 100% align with their moronic takes. You didn’t even address 1% of my comment before resorting to insults. Fuck you and your kind.

Yeah I know. It’s just so generalized on us-dominated platforms. It’s frustrating.

Also they didn’t really do massive coordinated volleys