“Meteor” by Dan Brown (could be a different name in the original language). It was the first time I read something that was bad. Up until then book were cool and fun and interesting. It was a puzzling experience.

Edit: it’s called “Deception Point” in the original.

I was only talking about the doctors that I know personally. I wasn’t making a point about all doctors. I’m pretty sure they’re not that representative. I’m not sure why I brought it up, as it doesn’t have any statistical weight. I was just trying to give a perspective from the other side. Not all doctors are like that monolithic group of uncaring assholes that OP puts them in. Even if they might appear that way. It’s simply the external constraints that make it necessary for them to act that way. Most doctors don’t choose their profession, because they want to make tons of money and can be mean to desperate people. They’re idealistic and their dream turns into a nightmare - because of unhinged capitalism. With lots of other jobs - bullshit jobs - it’s easy to quit. But as a doctor quitting would mean throwing many years of very hard work around the clock away AND have an immense negative impact upon the patients most desperate for help (and also leaving your colleges (friends?) with even more work). If I’m stopping to be an Uber driver because it doesn’t make me unhappy nobody would get hurt. The societal impact of that would be: “who gives a shit?”

So they are much less likely to quit and have a strong incentive to keep living in that hell. They might not appear to be the nicest people.

The guy who wrote Winamp Sold it decades ago. So you should clarify who is defensive about their code :-) The original coder is really good - he also wrote the awesome AVS visualization plugin for Winamp which among other things utilizes a special programming language called “eel”. After selling Winamp he went on to create Reaper which also uses eel I think.

I feel slightly angry with you punching on the people working in healthcare that actually provide the care.

Nurses, but also doctors are working nonstop to keep the patients and also the system running as good as possible within the constraints that they’re given. They cannot afford the time to try and change the broader political environment in which they have to operate. Doing so would cost lives. I’m not American, but German and I know a few doctors personally. They’re pretty decent and even very left leaning people. The shit, human misery caused by a broken system, privatization/monetization of healthcare they have to deal with necessitates a certain dark humor, fatalism or cynicism to just stay sane enough to continue doing it. We as a society have failed to address this problem - the conditions that we put on them - and their only option is to develop a defense mechanism. You may not like it, but this defense mechanism against all this shit is better than the alternative - them all giving up and quitting. At least short time. Maybe the only way to fix it would be a mass walk-off/strike that actually causes a lot of deaths for us (society) to actually wake up and fix it. Unfortunately the majority only has to experience health care in exceptional circumstances. Otherwise it’s pretty invisible to us. We only know about the overworked nurse or the uninterested uncaring doctor. We don’t know the rest of the story - all the other patients they have to deal with at the same time. The bad news that they have to bring and the angry responses they get a thousandfold from unlucky patients, the treatment they have to deny because of asshole CEOs of insurance firms and the politicians who enable them (that we as a society don’t remove with some pitchforks). We only see the end product of a person that has been molded by this broken system and we get angry at them. But they are not the problem. Doctors don’t start their job wanting to be this cynic version of them. That’s just the shit they have to deal, because we as a society don’t help them that makes them so.

And yes they get tons of money and all that (the doctors), but I’m not convinced that they get to enjoy it that much.

I’m really sad oabout his passing. He always seemed like a very fine gentleman even without knowing about this. This makes me even more happy and sad at the same time 🥹

Why do they have the data in the first place?

Your communications on telegram are not encrypted by default. You can have e2e encrypted 1on1-conversations, but group chats are blown for them to do everything.

They had a hilarious argumentation where they claimed that the key to unlock your chats is stored on a different server than your chats are and therefore they cannot access it. A company that argues like they (“trust us”) isn’t trustworthy.

Signal has been audited over and over again by internationally respected cryptographers. They cannot decrypt your chats by design. No need for “trust us bro”.

True! We need a margin of error for the margin of error!

It cannot “analyze” it. It’s fundamentally not how LLM’s work. The LLM has a finite set of “tokens”: words and word-pieces like “dog”, “house”, but also like “berry” and “straw” or “rasp”. When it reads the input it splits the words into the recognized tokens. It’s like a lookup table. The input becomes “token15, token20043, token1923, token984, token1234, …” and so on. The LLM “thinks” of these tokens as coordinates in a very high dimensional space. But it cannot go back and examine the actual contents (letters) in each token. It has to get the information about the number or “r” from somewhere else. So it has likely ingested some texts where the number of "r"s in strawberry is discussed. But it can never actually “test” it.

A completely new architecture or paradigm is needed to make these LLM’s capable of reading letter by letter and keep some kind of count-memory.

Maybe he doesn’t have the time to form the correctTM opinions about everything that exists in the known universe. I just look what he’s doing and has been doing for the last 3 decades: writing an open, free and secure operating system that everybody can use. Linux is IMHO the proof that something like communism can work in the real world. Nobody owns it and you thousands of people work on it from all around the world. If people can collaboratively write software together then we can theoretically do everything together. Also: our modern world wouldn’t be possible without Linux. It runs everywhere. Windows is just on a tiny fraction of all computers.

How dare you! 😅

I really really struggle taking posts like this serious. It’s a screenshot of a YouTube-preview that has a clickbaity title and shows me a very badly done ai-rendering of George Lucas.

I kinda like George Lucas. He’s not perfect. he created a few really great films that might be considered slightly “woke” compared to the times they were created in. He mostly keeps out of the spotlight these days and only from time to time tells people who don’t want to listen that - “yes, the storm troopers are definitely named after the nazis” and “yes, of course the rebels are like the viet cong (pretty embarrassing for you that i had to spell it out for ya, isn’t it?)”.

In my mind he keeps in his lane and hasn’t become convinced that his success from yestertimes is making him a much needed voice in all kinds of modern political discussions that definitely needs to add their two cents from time to time to allthefuckingtime.

No Rolkercoster Tycoon???

they’re objectifying their own children by seeing them as the means to fulfill some weird ideological goal. Reading their kids names definitely adds proof to that. Who names their child “Industry Americus”??? WTF? They sound like product releases from some weird Silicon Valley company.

I have no idea how to fix the problem, but I’ve read somewhere that burn (a relatively new machine learning framework in Rust) is capable of loading models like stable diffusion. As Burn is built with webGPU and all the shader transpiler-stuff that comes with it doesn’t that mean that it can also run easily on (even older) AMD cards? I think what’s lacking is equal performance as nvidia drivers are heavily optimized already.

Maybe someone knows more here?

what does “rootfull” mean?

I saw it three times in the cinema. At one time in my live I saw a movie two times at the cinema. Every other time i only saw a movie once. Bladerunner 2049 is so good. For about 4 years before it came out i was really angry that Hollywood would commit this sacrilege and make a sequel - why?! - they would definitely fuck it up! But then when it came out i was surprised that some people actually said that it was good.

it blew me away. For now about 6 and a half years that picture of K walking into that orange void has been my desktop background.

Glad that isn’t Rust code or the pass by value function wouldn’t be very nice.

wat? you cannot buy the phone and then choose the provider yourself?

It’s been a while since i used fedora but last i remember dnf was awe fully slow compared to pacman. In fact so slow that i was wondering if there was some kind of bug somewhere. Glad this is being addressed. Fedora is imho the best distribution to get someone to use Linux for the first time. It works so well.

Where would you have to touch internals in zed? In reality would you have to come into contact with rust when using Zed? If it works it wouldn’t be apparent what it was build with, wouldn’t it?