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For example: Star Wars OT has been released so many times with different cuts that there are fan edits that pull scenes from all of them and discard the trash ones to make a superior movie.

These are now recommended by fans as canon for new viewers, instead of any particular Lucas release.

Please assume the position

Boss makes a million

I make a buck

I cut the converter

Off the company truck

Bonk

To be fair proper integration of an aftermarket VoIP app requires almost every permission a phone has, especially if the app wants to mirror your caller ID, and supports SMS and attaching various media.

Another idealist who has mixed up "allies" with "friends". We don't need to approve of anything our allies do, or even think that they're good guys. All that "allies" means is that they would have our back, just like we have theirs, against our common enemies.

This is because "enemies" in this case refers to nations like Iran, who hate our entire way of life and aren't afraid to say they would like to see us all dead. It doesn't matter to them if you think your government represents you (I certainly don't) but if you believe we deserve to die, why not offer yourself up?

You might get lucky and get thrown off a building, or a fairly quick beheading with a dull-ish knife. Or less lucky, and get roasted alive in a cage over a fire, dragged behind a vehicle, or hacked into various pieces.

"We" are allies with Israel only because they are a shining light of sanity in a region that could otherwise be classified as "batshit insane"

Leaked over into Canada now, trying to scrape up more pills now after months of docs and pharmacists almost aggressively claiming "there is no problem" when I expressed concern that filling my prescription on the exact day the pills ran out might not be sustainable.

but I couldn't think of a better image to use

kind of sums up the problem our society is struggling with. Chad is perfect here. Why should you try to think of a better image to use?

We need to rationalize that humans like this sort of thing, and also that they shouldn't demand it of others.

Is it laughable to demand game characters always be hot? Yes

Do people appreciate fan service characters? Also yes

Humans have been sexualizing everything forever, it's in our nature. But we need to stop being so damn creepy about it.

I feel the OOP debate got a bit out of hand. I hate OOP as well, as a paradigm.

But I love objects. An object is just a struct that can perform operations on itself. It's super useful. So many problems lend themselves to the use of objects.

I've been writing a mix of C and C++ for so long I don't even know where the line is supposed to be. It's "C with objects". I probably use only 1% of the functionality of C++, but that 1% is a huge upgrade from bare C IMO.

I was more referring to the fact that everything is immutable by default. As someone who's just starting to get old (40) and literally grew up with C, it's just ingrained in me that a variable is... Variable.

If I want a variable to be immutable I would declare it const, and I'm just not used to the opposite. So when playing with Rust, the tutorial said that "most people find themselves fighting with the borrow checker" and sure enough, that's what I ended up doing!

I like the concepts behind it, it really encourages writing safe code, and I feel like it's not just going to be a fad language but will likely end up underlying secure systems of the future. Linux kernel rewrite in Rust when?

It's just that personally I don't have the flow of writing code like I would in C/++, just not used to it. The scoping, the way you pass variables and can sort of "use up a reference" so it's not available anymore just feels cumbersome compared to just passing &memory_location and getting on with it, lol

Obviously? Like, this is how war and geopolitics has worked since the invention of the pointy stick.

Whether you like them or not, Israel is an ally and Iran is a self-proclaimed enemy of the Western world.

An enemy jumps in on a war and bombs one of our allies, you expect no reaction? Duh

Rust is heresy. Everything should be mutable, the way that God intended it to be!

Seriously though as someone who has mainly done embedded work for decades and got used to constrained environments, the everything is immutable paradigm seems clunky and inelegant. I don't want to copy everything all the time.

Now if you'll excuse me, these null pointers aren't going to dereference themselves

Digital ownership, not storage. As in DRM, GaaS licensing and always-online launchers.

A ROM cartridge was physical ownership, if you had the cartridge, you could play.

A CD-key was also a form of physical ownership, install the game and type in the key from the case, you could play.

I think you're misreading the point I'm trying to make. I'm not arguing that LLM is AGI or that it can understand anything.

I'm just questioning what the true use case of AGI would be that can't be achieved by existing expert systems, real humans, or a combination of both.

Sure Deepseek or Copilot won't answer your legal questions. But neither will a real programmer. Nor will a lawyer be any good at writing code.

However when the appropriate LLMs with the appropriate augmentations can be used to write code or legal contracts under human supervision, isn't that good enough? Do we really need to develop a true human level intelligence when we already have 8 billion of those looking for something to do?

AGI is a fun theoretical concept, but I really don't see the practical need for a "next step" past the point of expanding and refining our current deep learning models, or how it would improve our world.

And it still can't understand; its still just sleight of hand.

Yes, thus "passable imitation of understanding".

The average consumer doesn't understand tensors, weights and backprop. They haven't even heard of such things. They ask it a question, like it was a sentient AGI. It gives them an answer.

Passable imitation.

You don't need a data center except for training, either. There's no exponential term as the models are executed sequentially. You can even flush the huge LLM off your GPU when you don't actively need it.

I've already run basically this entire stack locally and integrated it with my home automation system, on a system with a 12GB Radeon and 32GB RAM. Just to see how well it would work and to impress my friends.

You yell out "$wakeword, it's cold in here. Turn up the furnace" and it can bicker with you in near-realtime about energy costs before turning it up the requested amount.

Nibbler: "What is one life, compared to the entire universe?"

Fry: "But it was my life!"

We may not even "need" AGI. The future of machine learning and robotics may well involve multiple wildly varying models working together.

LLMs are already very good at what they do (generating and parsing text and making a passable imitation of understanding it).

We already use them with other models, for example Whisper is a model that recognizes speech. You feed the output to an LLM to interpret it, use the LLM's JSON output with a traditional parser to feed a motion control system, then back to an LLM to output text to feed to one of the many TTS models so it can "tell you what it's going to do".

Put it in a humanoid shell or a Spot dog and you have a helpful robot that looks a lot like AGI to the user. Nobody needs to know that it's just 4 different machine learning algorithms in a trenchcoat.

Most claim they can code, but if they were coders they would be coding

I dislike techbros as much as you, but this isn't really a valid statement.

I can code, but I can't sell a crypto scam to millions of rubes.

If I could, why would I waste my time writing code?

Many techbros are likely "good enough" coders who have better marketing skills and used their tech knowledge to leverage into business instead.

The big diagnostic factor is, do you FINISH those lots of things.

It's ok to occasionally try something and be like yeah, this wasn't as great as advertised, I'm walking away.

But if your shelves are covered in an assortment of unfinished projects that never will be finished? ADHD

KDE used to be the feature complete, heavy, memory intensive DE. But now we aren't running Linux on abandoned laptops but on modern hardware. The average PC is so powerful that it's completely irrelevant. All in on KDE/Plasma as well