Nobody casually says they’re "playing licensed [GAME]”, they just say they’re “paying [GAME]”, but they might say they’re playing a pirated copy. This meme is saying that, in Russia, people just say they’re playing a game, and the assumption is that it’s pirated, unless they specifically clarify that it’s a licensed copy. The expectation and use in conversation is reversed.
Aren’t there also a lot of open-source LLMs that aren’t “morally constrained”? There’s no putting the genie back in the lamp.
Research shows it still affects you, though. You’ll have more brand awareness, whether you want to or not. Everyone in the US & Canada know what a RAV4 and Forester are. You don’t need that explained to you when your coworker tells you about their new car.
And even if you don’t drink pop at all, you still know Coke is better than Pepsi.
On the last point, a better comparison would be base 6 or base 14.
10 = 2 × 5
6 = 2 × 3
14 = 2 × 7
Or maybe a better way of thinking about it is the percentage of numbers that divide nicely in the base, as a percentage.
Base 10 has 2, 5, 10 = 30%
So maybe base 3 is the closest, at 33% of numbers being easily divisible.
Either way, 7 is a significantly worse base than 10.
It’s not a flagship, but I’m really liking my Sony Xperia 10V. It’s lightweight, narrow, has amazing battery life (I’m at 80% after a full day of light use, 1h37m SoT), has lots of RAM, microSD, and 3.5mm. Its processor is weak, apparently, but I haven’t noticed; I don’t do heavy gaming on mobile and it’s snappy enough for web browsing and has enough RAM to keep lots of apps running.
So, there are good compact phone options. Hopefully other people keep buying them to keep them profitable for companies to support!
The idea is also that a compromised system will remains compromised after all storage drives are removed.
To clarify, only if you decide to go back and add the asterisks later. To add an asterisk inline, you need to add a space manually before already.
This is a feature of “smart compose”, apparently, and I’m now going to turn it off…
Neither are in MAM (private tracker for books). Sorry.
The cybertruck demo units are making the circuit and auto reporters are mocking it, mostly.
The union busting isn’t as easy to summarize since it’s happening in lots of Musk’s operations around the world, but TL;DR he’s an arrogant, anti-labour asshole who’s likely breaking laws but mostly getting away with it (for now). Or at least that’s my limited understanding; I don’t follow it very closely.
Musk is also a hateful anti-trans bigot. Not related to this at all, but I think people should be reminded about his encouraging anti-trans hate speech on Twitter.
I’ve heard there are (more expensive) debris services that seed back, but I haven’t researched it. I’d already paid for Real Debrid when I read that and it hasn’t come up for renewal yet.
Fuck phone cases and bad search. I just got the Sony Xperia 10 V. The whole Sony Line is just changing the number to 1, 5, or 10, and the Roman numeral from I to V (and growing).
Good luck finding anything. It literally took me hours (including advanced Google Fu) to find out that the style of case I want doesn’t exist for my model. (But the 10 IV has it.)
Is there a site that categorizes cases by exact model? I feel like it shouldn’t be this hard.
LitRPGs are like that, too.
Swing sword. Cast spell. Numbers go up. Defeat dragon. Complete quest. Numbers go up. Dungeon dive. Cool loot. Numbers go up.
I love them. I’ve read four this week.
The Alldocube iPlay 50 Pro is the best tablet I could find for under $250CAD with 8GB ram, 128GB storage, microSD, and a good processor.
Edit: For software updates to the latest Android version, you can install LineageOS or any other GSI ROM.
I need an old Kindle. It’s the only way to strip DRM from books so I can use a good TTS app instead of the Kindle app.
Except that it is, categorically, different. AI doesn’t “learn”, it builds associations between data it samples. Incorporating data from the source itself is how these algorithms work, then they reproduce these pieces with permutations applied.
LLMs are easier to explain, so I’ll use one as an example. The idea is that if you use particular words in order, that exact ordering of words is given higher weight in the model by a linear association between those words following each other in sequence. When you ask an LLM to “write like Author X”, it can do so (partially) by pulling the weights it generated from that authors’ works.
This is fundamentally different from how our brains learn and function. We can’t hold databases of billions of pieces of information in our heads and compare them all in real time. It’s not really comparable at all except as an inaccurate metaphor.
Edit: Too many replies to respond to them all, but our brains don’t do linear algebra on matrices with billions of elements. Our brains work in fundamentally different ways. Conflating the two is a gross oversimplification and is incorrect. That was my entire point.
Yeah, fair. I backup my videos by syncing to my old Pixel 3a. It’s low res, but I don’t really care about video quality on old videos. If I’m recording something to upload or share, then I’ll work with the original file.
Unlimited full-resolution photo storage is the main reason I subscribe to Prime.
Prime Video I could easily do without, Prime Music I haven’t even tried, Twitch Prime throws my friend a couple bucks a month, free shipping doesn’t matter since I could just wait to hit the minimum spend for free shipping. All nice to have, I guess, but I wouldn’t pay for.
But the unlimited full-resolution photo storage alone is worth the full subscription price. I don’t even know how many 100s of GB of photos my wife and I have taken over the last decade, especially since having kids. Maybe another 5GB/mo?
Windows 11.
The big difference I noticed with the extra memory is that my browser tabs don’t get cached, and programs I haven’t used in a long time are still responsive instantly (i.e. they also weren’t cached.)
Even then, 8GB isn’t really enough. Get a few browser tabs going (with full apps integrated) in a Zoom meeting and you’ll run out of memory right quick.
Hell, I regularly use all of my 32GB of memory. Granted, with my job and ADHD, I often have 20+ tabs open in each of several browser windows at the same time with multiple documents and spreadsheets and other apps all running.
But, still. 16GB+ is non-negotiable for me in an entry-level laptop today. And there are decent options available for under $500 CAD rn.
Misleading headline. What’s actually happening is that the ChatGPT app will have the option of setting it as the default digital assistant app. It’s not replacing Android Assistant.