I'd like to see some comparisons between power consumption for JXL and JPEG. Constant image quality, file sizes will vary, total energy consumed by the download and decoding process.

We have known about this for decades. It's called internalized sexism. Back when women where trying to get the vote, some women opposed them. They made the same arguments against it that men did.

It's understood to be largely a product of systemic sexism in our culture. It's been getting better, but it's still there. An example is how ideals of feminity were portrayed in the 1950s. The housewife, the home maker, the mother. Obedient to her husband. That's why there was so much focus on representation, so that girls didn't grow up only seeing that as the natural and proper order of things.

In the 90s there was Girl Power, and for the last 25 years we have had many, many badass action women in movies. They aren't really what we need now though. Just more competent women doing "normal" jobs, or as normal as it gets in TV shows and movies.

Slightly off topic, but people don't hire on merit. The merit claim is cockypot. Merit gets your foot in the interview door, but social factors are what decides after that. I've been on hiring committees. One of the questions posed to the committee was, "Which candidate would you feel most comfortable working with for 40+ hours a week?" Let that question sink in.

Of course the candidate with a similar socioeconomic profile as your own would be preferred: somebody who likes the same food, watches the same movies and sports, worships the same deity, etc. It's not direct discrimination, but has discrimination as an end result.

Prove the study is flawed or STFU. Gut guesses are a dime a dozen.

None of that happens in a vacuum though, the reason DACA was done via EO was that Republicans refused to pass the DREAM Act which was a bi-partisan bill kicked around since 2001 but Republicans would filibuster it at every oppurtunity.

- Same with the McCain Kennedy bill, bipartisan legislation never got a vote in the Senate
- Same with another bill in 2007, never made it out of the Senate
- Same with the Gang of 8 Bill which did et over 60 votes in the Senate, bipartisan! Then John Boehner , Republican Speaker, let it die on the vine, never got a vote.
- Then we have the Lankford bill, a bipartisan yet very conservative bill that Biden signaled he would sign. Was going to be actual law until Trump told Republicans he needed the issue to campaign on (Ted Cruz admitted to this explicitly) so they let it die.

So at every opportunity to pass actual immigration reform, something we have needed for like 50+ years, the last major legislation being from the Reagan era (where he granted amnesty!) Republicans stand in the way, almost like they don't really care about the issue, I mean, if immigration is this huge crisis why no legislation? Someone answer that question.

Absolutely fucking not, the lawlessness, the destruction of norms, the bending of the alw, the craven grifting, the brutally divisive rhetoric, it's incredibly different and any equivocation is really just copium or ignorance, usually the former, it's a self soothing permission structure, "we can be fucking unhinged because i feel personally slighted"

Even the bitter clingers thing is just nonsense, even the smallest bit of context destroys that whole talking point, there's a reason it's always brought up and never quoted

But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there's not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Um, now these are in some communities, you know. I think what you'll find is, is that people of every background -- there are gonna be a mix of people, you can go in the toughest neighborhoods, you know working-class lunch-pail folks, you'll find Obama enthusiasts. And you can go into places where you think I'd be very strong and people will just be skeptical. The important thing is that you show up and you're doing what you're doing.

What exactly is so offensive about that statement? Who are the snowflakes here?

That is not responsive to anything I said. What statement did I make that is false?

We have a long history of exploiting decoders. Image based malware exists, has for decades. Hell back in 2004 the Windows GDI+ library had a arbitrary code execution attack trigged by simply opening a Office document with a specific embedded JPEG image, or using Office to attempt to insert a specific JPEG image into the document. I don't think IE was affected so it wasn't a remote execution from what I recall. That's just one example. Exploiting of decoders is a thing.

The attacks often exploit standard software bugs, e.g. memory unsafe code, buffer overflows etc. In this case they are talking "safer" because they are using the Rust based library which prevents a subset of the potential bugs creating security issues.

Don't confuse your ignorance with marketing trash.

Sure thing, honky.

More like society changes. At one time people sat and laughed at minstrel shows https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Who has masked secret police snatching people into unmarked vehicles? Also take 15 minutes and read this. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2FAr...

That's cool, I'm currently at an airport on a mobile connection. How long of an ethernet cable does my NAS need to reach the next continent?

Not all use of AI is slop. AI is a tool. There's no reason it can't be sensibly incorporated into a workflow. While no doubt creating a game from a prompt is just slop, the reality is there is a practical place for including tools such as this in a workflow, such as using it to create starting point.

I recently came across this at work during a 1 week workshop we had. All the presenters (including myself) used AI extensively to create our presentations (because powerpoint fucking sucks), but only some of them looked like slop. The ones which looked like slop were the ones where AI did the finishing: i.e. people made presentations and asked AI to make it pretty. The rest of us used AI to structure the presentation and then manually tweaked it afterwards and they looked unique and individual.

There is a place for this. Use an AI prompt to come up with a base game, and then put AI (Actually Intelligent) people in place to turn that base structure into something creative.

That's not how LLMs work. While they are trained on existing data, they are also capable of reasoning. They can produce novel solutions to problems.

Just because they don't work the same way as a the human brain doesn't mean that they are not capable of this sort of thing.

It's not as clear as you think. It's not sufficient to write and tweak prompts. Look to Jason Allen v. US Copyright Office https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.artnews.com%2Fart-ne... Jason Allen attempted to copyright art that he created with Midjourney. Despite going through hundreds of prompts and using photoshop to edit the result *he* (not the computer) was denied copyright by the US Copyright office.

I think the court case is still pending.

The keyboard seems fine. I think I'll be able to type prompts at a sufficient WPM.