> It can only match patterns and training data. It can't conjure novel thoughts.

You haven't made an argument that humans are more than just pattern matching from training data. We have simulated some very basic animal brains and they behavior very similar to their real-life animal. At no point between them and us is there a distinct "pattern matching stops here, novel thinking begins" point or brain structure.

But I'll agree with you that current AIs are soul-less, emotion-less, instinct-less tools. There's nothing in them that gives a desire or a reason to avoid something. We have different systems for that. We're more than just a thinking brain.

I read it and found it interesting. But then again I don't know much on that subject and thus can't pick out fact from fiction. But then again if someone had typed that in their own words I still wouldn't be able to pick out fact from fiction.

In terms of a waste of resources, yes it is. However it's something someone looked up on their own and then decided to share it here. That means other people don't also need to look it up.

In summary, I'm fine with that type of post so long as it identifies itself as mainly AI generated and it was generated originally for the poster rather than for the wider audience. Someone did some research and posted their results to save other people some time.

So instead of only people who look at online PDFs having to wait for the module to load, now every Firefox user has to waste CPU and memory loading a module they may or may not use. Do people really think this is an improvement? How do I teleport to a saner parallel dimension?

I skimmed the bug report to see if the preload was on browser startup or just earlier in the processes of loading a PDF. I couldn't tell, so maybe my comment above is wrong. But I did see this very ugly bit of code: !hash.toLowerCase().includes("disablerange=true") Converting a string to lower case then searching the entire string to find a setting with a specific value? Repeating that every time you need to check a setting? Eww. Glad that got replaced. Not glad that such code existed in the first place. No wonder FF has so many issues.

The replacement code looks like it has better performance but it's still using magic strings (risks typos) instead of constants: searchParams.get("disablerange") !== "true")

And yet your taste develops a tolerance to it so the more you use the less awesome it is for you. Drop all sugar for a few months to recalibrate and the single grams you add back in will taste better than the 10s of grams you were having previously. Eating a lot of sugar is counter-productive in every way.

You must not be using Ubuntu then. They push unwanted features and advertising. As an example some of their updates swap some of your software to snaps. That process, without warning, copies the profile/config folders to snap's dirs and leaves the original folders untouched. Then you wonder why changes to those config files aren't showing up in the software and you discover your backups are no longer backing up those profiles.

For advertising they've pushed their own ads during the update process, added Amazon search results for PC-local searches, and had adds in their motd (message of the day) service.

The advantage to OnStar is your phone will go flying during a crash. Mine ended up in the footwell. If you're injured or the car is mangled, you might be unable to reach or find your phone. Of course if the car is heavily damaged OnStar might not work either.

I have a 2023 Chevy Bolt. None of the infotainment displays show the % battery charge as a number. There's one super stupid info graphic of a x-ray picture of the car a bunch of thin green bars where the battery is. There's another control in the charging display which is a vertical bar of the battery charge. That bar has tick marks so you can count what % the battery is at. But in no screen is that battery level ever given a number. You always have to count the tick marks to determine the charge. Super annoying and super stupid. There's plenty of room for the number on that display.

I don't know what UX/UI people do anymore, but they clearly don't think about how people want use their products.

Another extremely annoying thing is there's a physical Climate button but no Climate button on the infotainment display. Every other button has a virtual version except Climate and the Climate button is in the middle of a row of other buttons. I always have to take my eyes off the road longer to press the Climate button than I have to to operate any other control.

As long as killing/crashing a screensaver process unlocks the desktop, X is a no-go for anyone who cares about security. I recently upgraded from a DVI monitor to a Display Port monitor. If I turn the screen off or it goes to sleep, the desktop resets itself to a tiny resolution and its panels crash. That moves and resizes all the windows that were open. Turning the monitor back on, you can see all the desktop windows while the desktop switches to the 'new' monitor's resolution even when the screen is locked. That's simply unacceptable. Looking for fixes, apparently it's a well know bug that simply connecting a 2nd modern display lets you crash a lock screen and gain access. I require better security than that.

I don't think Wayland does that. I'll be looking into switching to it this week if I can't find another solution. Basic failures like that sometimes makes me want to go back to Windows.

I'm just laughing at all the people who said they didn't need to care about the memory profile of their software because RAM is cheap and everyone has tons of it and can easily buy more. Remember those posts? I'm not seeing them anymore.

At least Knockoff mentions that in their readme:

When most people nearly-blindly choose one of the first search results, you can blame the company deciding which entries are listed first.

Coming next month, that LED now strobes in a unique pattern used as an identifier so all videos can be tracker to their creator.

Is that a good feature or not? I don't know. I just know it's going to happen. Then I'm guessing every other camera will adopt similar tech. It will be mandated by law to protect our kids (meaning Facebook will push it hard so every camera sold will have to pay Facebook patient royalties on the tech).

It is different in the US. Commercial customers can often get cheaper electrical rates because they're buying "in bulk" with a more consistent load. Though electric power is controlled locally so there's differences everywhere.

It's not the drug itself, it's what you do when on it. Specifically you significantly reduce what you eat. You get all those same benefits simply by fasting.

You mean if I got COVID a few times I could have turned my life into a video game? Dang, I missed out.