Funny enough, I actually have tried with chatgpt. The problem is the same one with all these LLM based tools: Training data.

And if you actually google this yourself, the vast majority of what you find are people not understanding what is being asked or referencing a REALLY REALLY old UI (possibly dating to the open or even star days). And the LLMs are effectively scraping that so you get the equivalent of “This was already answered HERE. Closing duplicate question” response.

(I usually DO end up figuring it out after a bit of deep diving when I really care but I go through so much FUD in the process that I inevitably forget a month or two later).

Its worth understanding that microsoft, like most companies, is rapidly rebranding most of their existing stuff as “AI”. A couple weeks (months?) back at work we managed to convince the boss that maybe it wasn’t a good idea to put all of our sensitive internal data into Teams and convinced him to turn off copilot. Literally minutes later he lost his shit because auto-transcripts no longer worked and IT turned it back on.

But that is what we are seeing with a LOT of companies. ANYTHING that can be sold as “AI” is getting re-branded as it. So it makes perfect sense that MS will rebrand it as “installing copilot AI” rather than “not removing clippy”.

That said: MS have also been ahead of the curve on adding even more bullshit and spyware to everything they do so… have you heard the good word about Linux? Libre Office gets personal users most of the way there (and if they worked on their documentation, all the way there. I STILL don’t fucking know how to get row/column headings to work in Calc…). And for business/power use, the browser/cloud based solutions are probably what you want anyway since none of that data should live on your laptop/desktop and should instead live in the company approved data store.

I didn’t read this comment because it’s a bunch of gaslighting bullshit.

Got it, pointing out common phenomena and referencing a very well established and (mostly) respected consumer information group (Consumer Reports. Would link to the data but I always forget what is and isn’t paywalled with them) is “gaslighting”

And everyone who points out an alternative to your conclusions is mentally ill.

(Actually this is more of a worldwide phenomenon but Donald Glover is just too good to not post. And… it was shockingly hard to find an easy to grab image from that song that is not gun violence or way more intentionally minstrel-y than anyone would get without an even longer explanation of the joke than this).

And I am trying to explain to you why your “experience” is very limited insight on a heavily biased sample.

If you sell 500 widgets, some percentage of those customers are going to have problems. If 450 of those widgets are from Innertrode, a majority of that percentage are going to be with Innertrode widgets. That doesn’t mean Innertrode makes worse widgets. That just means you, like most people, could do with a primer on statistics.

I haven’t seen fans of Apple act this irrationally…

Yes. Pointing out that (mostly) independent consumer information groups have drawn opposite conclusions to you and pointing out this is a very common phenomena in sales is “irrational”. Who needs facts when we have feelings, amirite?

And people wonder why there are so many complaints online about hating sales people.

I am not going to say people should buy a Samsung appliance especially with this nonsense.

But you’re falling for, and propagating, a pretty common fallacy. it isn’t that Samsung appliances are significantly worse (Consumer Reports puts them in the bottom half of the ranking but they are very much “fine”). It is that people buy them a lot.

You see this with all kinds of brands. “Never buy Shark. Everyone who buys a Shark comes back and return it or buy a new vacuum in a few years”. It isn’t that Sharks are failing more than others (they are actually #1 or #2 according to CR, depending on the metrics). It is that they are what sell the most.

… did you watch Gattaca? Also it was kind of a flop so… you are in large company.

Spoilers for a movie that is almost 30 years old I guess

For the kinds of class based gene editing we are likely to see, it kinda isn’t. More attractive, bigger boobs, better predisposition to fitness, etc. That is all surmountable.

Where it falls apart are “goofy” looking people likely Michael Phelps who are straight up genetic freaks. But those aren’t the kinds of genes the rich want… For themselves.

No no no. It is Freedom! The Freedom to celebrate guns’ rights and to sacrifice your loved ones in the name of making sure Ted down the street can have five assault rifles in his living room.

At best they are being negligent.

Everything I have read (and experienced) with kittens is that you want to get them out of this reaction as fast as possible. That means reducing whatever stimuli is causing this and then switching to soothing as you gradually reintroduce said stimuli. That way they know it is okay and don’t develop lifelong aversions to it or decide that threatening to murder some fools is the right thing to do.

Possible this is a feral cat (at which point things change… but not all that much) but if you have a feral cat out in the open in a room… you got other problems.

Don’t get me wrong. Some of my favorite memories of my little booger are her trying to act tough and angry. But there are other things to be doing when they are in that state.

I mean… fuckface got got during a school shooting. LOTS of people get murdered during school shootings every fucking day in this country because we worship assault rifles.

It actually makes a lot of sense to indicate if this was a targeted assassination or if someone missed while aiming at kindergarten nap time.

1. You assume republicans are smart enough to even realize there is a dissonance there
2. You assume republicans care enough to feel anything about hypocrisy
3. I mean… indiscriminate murder is much more in keeping with the Nobel family legacy.

I can understand the cold hard logic of opposing highly progressive candidates (in favor of people like Biden and Kamala who were progressive but are also very much in the DNC’s preferred overton window). The US is a fundamentally conservative country. Going too Left as a party opens the Democrats up to “bunch of fucking socialists” rhetoric and can potentially lose a LOT of purple states.

I personally don’t agree that attacking Mamdani et al is the right answer and I very much point at people like AOC who started as a firebrand and will still fight “when it matters” but has also learned that she needs additional support in Congress to do anything.

But yeah. The Democrats as they stand? trump could broadcast himself raping a toddler from the oval office and the best we can hope for is a bunch of old white guys awkwardly nodding their head to the Hamilton soundtrack while shouting down anyone who dares to try to capitalize on things.

At the end of the day: Politics is compromise. And, at the national level, a lot of those compromises are inherently increasing the suffering of others. While I will never say that throwing someone under the bus is “worth it”, it is hard not to awkwardly talk around it when it leads to a win and an overall net good. But we don’t have that. We consistently see the Democrats pivot to the right while not actually getting anything for it other than demoralizing the base more and more every day.

As an AAPI kid, I am more than used to liberals and leftists abandoning and shitting on us at the drop of a hat. In a just world? That wouldn’t fucking happen. In the world we live in? I’ll settle for not being actively attacked. Let us fight the slow burn fight just don’t actively harm. Just so long as it wins elections and does overall harm mitigation.

But that isn’t the case. Democrats increasingly try to be “republican lite” and it just doesn’t fucking work. Because the DNC seems to believe the bullshit that the republicans are full of “bush era republicans” and “mavericks” who all hate what the party has become and are just looking for an opportunity to do the right thing. And they completely ignore that all those “mavericks” still vote lockstep with the magats (barring one or two personal issues) because they actually also want the hate and suffering but don’t like that it isn’t them who are leading the charge.

But when one candidate is running on the gas chamber for all trans people and the other candidate just wants to rough them up a bit? The hateful shitheads aren’t going to settle for less. But to everyone else? “Both sides suck”.

Hardened criminals have access to firearms but they tend to be expensive and difficult enough to get a hold of that you don’t waste them on holding up a 7-11.

But angry children and adults who just want to hurt people generally don’t.

It is why gun control works. It isn’t about getting rid of ALL guns. It is about reducing their number so that people don’t realize a year later that five of their ar-15s are missing

Its all cute and fun until the booger freaks out and knocks over the glass and now you have cat poison staining everyone.

FreeCAD is a spectacular second CAD tool to learn. Once you understand the concepts and workflows for one of the industry standard tools, you will know how to translate that to FreeCAD speak as it were.

As a first CAD tool it is atrocious. It crashes while you are exploring new tools and you just don’t have the vocabulary (or muscle memory) to actually ask questions or search for answers.

If someone really wants to get into hobbyist CAD (for 3d printing), probably the best flow is to start with TinkerCAD, switch to Fusion 360 (assuming you aren’t running linux. Onshape if you are), and once you are comfortable and can build basically whatever you want change to FreeCAD if you want more control over your toolchain.

And if someone wants to do this professionally? Fusion 360 is the endstate. Maybe you’ll end up at a firm that uses the other family (which I think Onshape is part of?) but you will basically never find a company that wants FreeCAD formats.

… Almost like it would be more viable to film in higher resolution if more consumers had higher resolution displays?

Which, for all intents and purposes, means there is no point. Because no news network is going to respond to “Hey boss, I want us to buy a bunch of really expensive cameras that our audience will never notice because it will make our tape library more valuable. Oh, not to sell, but to donate to museums.” with anything other than laughter and MAYBE firing your ass.

Not familiar with NHK specifically (or, to be clear, I think I am but not with enough certainty), but it really makes a lot of sense for news networks to push for 8k or even 16k at this point.

Because it is a chicken and egg thing. Nobody is going to buy an 8k TV if all the things they watch are 1440p. But, similarly, there aren’t going to be widespread 8k releases if everyone is watching on 1440p screens and so forth.

But what that ALSO means is that there is no reason to justify using 8k cameras if the best you can hope for is a premium 4k stream of a sporting event. And news outlets are fairly regularly the only source of video evidence of literally historic events.

From a much more banal perspective, it is why there is a gap in TV/film where you go from 1080p or even 4k re-releases to increasingly shady upscaling of 720 or even 480 content back to everything being natively 4k. Over simplifying, it is because we were using MUCH higher quality cameras than we really should have been for so long before switching to cheaper film and outright digital sensors because “there is no point”. Obviously this ALSO is dependent on saving the high resolution originals but… yeah.

That’s the tragedy of government: rulers and lawmakers need to be old enough to be wise,

No, they don’t. Under a representative democracy (what most of The West is at this point) your “rulers” are not meant to be kings who duck into their study to decide what is most Just.

Their responsibility is to surround themselves with experts and to listen to them. Your representative should not need to study economics and computer science to understand what Google is. They just need to be able to understand a wikipedia level overview so that they can communicate with the scientists and economists on staff.

Similarly, your representative should not be sitting and deliberating on what is Right. They should instead be communicating with their constituents to do what is right by them. Which works better when they aren’t lugging around a canister of oxygen everywhere they go.

Which is why we tend to not use the word “rulers” anymore and instead focus on “civil servants”.

There IS an argument that the President/Prime Minister needs “wisdom” because they may need to make very quick decisions. But even that is mostly about listening to the domain experts who just happen to be generals in that case.