Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.
Spent many years on Reddit before joining the Threadiverse as well.
Rare to see an AI-positive article getting so many upvotes on @technology@beehaw.org.
According to the chart in the article every AI is seeing stronger growth than Copilot, on a percentage gain basis. Gemini’s just the one that looks like it’s about to surpass Copilot in total market share.
So not only are people not reading the articles any more, they’re not even finishing reading the headlines all the way through?
I guess this accused witch was innocent after all.
Oh well, the price of purity. Throw the next one in the pond to see if they sink too!
Yeah. And in Empire Strikes Back the Rebels got rolled over as soon as the Imperial ground forces reached their base, the whole strategy of the battle of Hoth was to delay them for as long as possible so that everything and everyone possible could be evacuated. They’d started evacuating the moment they knew they’d been spotted. Same with Bespin, the strategy was always “run the fuck away” when Imperial forces showed up.
The only real loss we saw for Stormtroopers was Endor, and that was a bit of a special case. They were up against Ewoks, on their native ground, after the Ewoks had been radicalized by their god’s direct divine instruction and coordinated by an elite Rebel strike team. Doesn’t matter if you’re the Emperor’s best troops, you’re going to struggle against something like that. Endor is a hellworld and Ewoks are murder-bears.
This changes the scenario significantly, though.
Your original version had original series Stormtroopers, who are known to be crack shots and elites among the Empire’s forces. There’s a common misconception that they’re bad aims, because in the first movie they were ordered to let Leia escape. They were showing tremendous marksmanship and discipline to miss all those shots while looking like they were trying to hit and allowing many of them to get killed in the process.
Your new version has a First Order trooper. The First Order is some kind of weird fever dream that never really existed and whose capabilities varied wildly from movie to movie as the different writers and directors made up contradictory shit without any plan or consistency. So who knows.
In both versions, the Starfleet security officer’s famous flimsiness should be noted in the context we see it in - constantly encountering unique and/or wildly advanced threats. Little wonder so many of them died, they had no idea what they were up against.
I would recommend continuing to use Firefox until you actually don’t like it, rather than switch because of yet another social media post raging about AI. 90% of the time I’ve seen people complaining about AI being “shoved in their faces” it’s something that I had no idea existed and had to actively seek out and enable to see it in action.
Just don’t use features that you don’t want to use.
Sorry, you think that they’re suddenly going to be paying artists 50 times more as well?
You’ve already established that it’s okay to switch to AI to save money, we’re now just dickering about the specific price. You were the one who introduced the 50-times threshold, I’m not concerned about being so specific.
I guess that also depends on how much time and effort it takes artists to create a font, and how much they charge. Depending on the price, that may also be difficult to do for a smaller studio.
Indeed, AI tends to be more economically beneficial for smaller studios. It’s one of the things I like about it.
Right, it’s okay if you’re saving a lot of money in the process.
So the bar has shifted from “it’s okay to replace dish-washers and others such staff with robots, as long as artist jobs are protected” to “well, okay, you can replace certain kinds of artist with robots.”
Which kind of artist is next in line?
Just pipe the electroplasma directly into the workstations. Sure, sometimes this results in dangerous overloads during adverse conditions, but that’s what the Cordry rocks are for.
“If we knew what we were doing it wouldn’t be an experiment, would it?”
And also just generally a matter of practicality. If every time you raised an issue of medical or scientific ethics you had to simultaneously mention every single other instance where that issue came into play it’d be impossible to discuss them.
The way I’ve reconciled the Paradox of Tolerance for myself is to view tolerance as part of a social contract. The social contract demands that tolerance be extended to everyone who in turn accepts that social contract themselves. “Being tolerant” doesn’t necessarily require that tolerance to be given out indiscriminately. Like how I wouldn’t consider a vegan any less a vegan if they ended up having to kill something in self-defense, even if they had to kill it by biting chunks out of it.
Yeah, it’s really hard for the human brain to intuitively grasp exponential growth. Anyone who says a galaxy is “too big” hasn’t actually run the numbers on that.
FTL is impossible so each species is stuck in their own solar system.
FTL is in no way necessary to allow for interstellar colonization to proceed.
He also had a recurring role on Night Court, but I think that show’s cancelled now so I dunno.
And for years people have insisted to me that there’s no use to be had from fully decentralized DNS alternatives like ENS.
These things are like backups. You need to start using them before you discover that you need them.
Never noticed one’s a temperature gauge. It falls pretty quickly when the patient dies.
Sadly, the Heart Mountain Relocation Center has little to do with this.
So why aren’t Microsoft’s numbers going up? Everyone’s faking it except them?