Im on some uselessly large distribution list at work for some eternally failing project that I don’t work on.

They most recently announced a new framework of extra meetings to try to turn things around …

I didn’t feel that bad, but certainly when my kid could talk and understand things got a lot nicer. You could understand specifically what the kid wants and the kid can learn some patience and half more fun in a way that’s vaguely fun for the parents too.

You might want to talk to a mental health professional as well, but I’d not be too worried about not enjoying being around a 3 week old.

For cyberpunk 2077 I figured out the good ending. Just never take that job. You can’t leave that one part of the city or see credits roll, but hey.

They will require the requester to prove they control the standard http(s) ports, which isn’t possible with any nat.

It won’t work for such users, but also wouldn’t enable any sort of false claims over a shared IP.

If you can get their servers to connect to that IP under your control, you’ve earned it

Wow, that article is really trying to make vacations “special” and trying to indicate most people want this “new” thing as a benefit, unpaid.

Ironically this might have been more interesting back in the GPT2 days, when it would generate accidentally hilarious text in response to many prompts.

Nowadays the output is “better” and utterly boring and soulless, less chaotically off topic, without a hint of creativity or personal relevance, and delivered with a grating fake “jovial” tone. This is besides the awkward break in flow to pause a conversation to interact with an app.

I mean, it’s one banana. What could it cost? 10 dollars?

Yeah but their violence in Ukraine dilutes NATO military attention, even if they aren’t that powerful a direct military ally.

I suspect the concern is that no one, including China itself knows how strong they would be in a military conflict, since they haven’t been in an at scale conflict in living memory, using economic power instead to great effect.

If they are really wanting to violently assert their view on Taiwan, they want global attention divided.

So your take is that because the US has misbehaved, then Russia should misbehave harder? Not that the nations should behave better in general…

And/or later entry into the workforce and earlier retirement

If they marketed on the actual capability, customer executives won’t be as eager to open their wallet. Get them thinking they can reduce headcount and they’ll fall over themselves. You tell them your staff will remain about the same but some facets of their job will be easier, and they are less likely to recognize the value.

Also codecs… even with the right repositories enabled, you’ll tend to install a media application that manages to be utterly incapable of actually processing most media.

They’ve made strides on this front but it’s still messed up.

Also sometimes they are too aggressive on one front. Some of the applications you can install from their repository that have some python based features are broken because they can’t handle python 3.13. There’s some ability to install python 3.12 but without much beyond the core making it less useful.

Partly it’s survivorship bias.

20 years back my family got a new house.

The wisdom then was same as now, they don’t build em like they used to. Within 5 years the stove stopped working and a year later the air conditioning went out. However the rest of the original stuff is still going and the replacements have lasted fine too and now are the prime examples of what people will point to to say things lasted longer back then.

The research I saw mentioning LLMs as being fairly good at chess had the caveat that they allowed up to 20 attempts to cover for it just making up invalid moves that merely sounded like legit moves.

I remember seeing that, and early on it seemed fairly reasonable then it started materializing pieces out of nowhere and convincing each other that they had already lost.

Because the business leaders are famously diligent about putting aside the marketing push and reading into the nuance of the research instead.

To reinforce this, just had a meeting with a software executive who has no coding experience but is nearly certain he’s going to lay off nearly all his employees because the value is all in the requirements he manages and he can feed those to a prompt just as well as any human can.

He does tutorial fodder introductory applications and assumes all the work is that way. So he is confident that he will save the company a lot of money by laying off these obsolete computer guys and focus on his “irreplaceable” insight. He’s convinced that all the negative feedback is just people trying to protect their jobs or people stubbornly not with new technology.