Good:

1. I have high hopes that Nepal’s new government will bring positive change
2. Crispr science combined with some new good results with protein models may help us develop some incredible new health technology
3. In the financial world, less reliance on the US, and a shift away from usd in general would be a huge boon to the international community

Bad:

1. Massive economic instability worldwide, inflation everywhere, people will have an even worse time affording things once the worlds petrol distribution eases up
2. taiwan’s troubles are likely to pick up the pace with more international events to smokescreen their bully to the west
3. The transition to ai will likely push more of our society to crime, and lower the payment bar for many professions

Definitely not against real, so I guess if you’re asking “are you for or against real” I am for real

The ai can visually impersonate so much interesting physics but loses track of a wee flower

That was my experience a few months ago as well, but recently I’ve actually been using it almost exclusively with rust, the extra type safety and language safety features have helped a lot with the end code quality.

Claude in particular has been really impressive with compiled languages, it does take a bit more hand holding to get something workable out than with javascript or python though.

Ohh people are aren’t going to like this

AI coding, “vibe coding”

Clone hero works well though the wammy bar done work for me through the ps2 usb adapter

Nah our ideals are very different

The biggest issue with accepting free housing and other perks is the unspoken cost. What are the expectations in return?

I’ve spent time in taiwan and mainland china, as well as many other asian countries, china has its citizenry riled up in rampant nationalism thanks to the isolation of the people and propaganda. The propaganda of taiwan (and hong kong) being part of china is deeply rooted in the state sponsored group-think and is not going away any time soon. I will say the people I met, while angry when speaking about taiwan, did not seem to wish the people there any ill will, rather they seemed upset about the very idea of taiwan being separate.

That’s all to say, the political situation is complex. However the real question here is multifold. 1) is it against your chosen moral framework to capitulate and live in china and 2) if it is, what are your morals worth to you, what specific monetary amount would get you to renounce your views.

Parts of china are beautiful, the culture is lovely especially in rural areas, and living there could genuinely be nice. However your country is currently presenting the world’s largest bullseye and while your presence won’t swing the final result, if you feel you have a moral responsibility to stay and speak up, then do so!

The ice watch apps

Is this not just a legal way to move funds around while appearing independent after the recent dominion lawsuit?

Lemmy is exactly that for a lot of people, the developers are quite controversial.

Obviously most users are not installing the software from those developers on their personal machines, but serving a federated instance certainly involves doing so.

I’ve deleted a few, usually if I accidentally doxx someone or literally post the wrong place (like I intended to reply to one person but somehow the message was posted as a response to another)

Unfortunately correct, I’ve seen this strategy work already. I wonder if it will end up being a veritable race to the wage floor for workers.

I’ve seen others go the “grass fed, free range, human made, artisan software” route as well, utterly opposing ai assistance.

At some point there must have somebody out there making sweaters and swearing up and down that machines could never do their job as well, but at the end of the day the employee who makes the shirt doesn’t decide if their job will be automated. The boss cares about the economics and even if the product is inferior they will choose the cheaper option.

You can opt out, but it opts in by default now

So do economists!

Why Cruise Ships Ban Camouflage

The camouflage ban is not a matter of dress code, where the nautical sea-dogs in their pristine ship’s whites turn their noses up at certain sartorial choices. It’s actually much more practical.

In a lot of countries, particularly in some cruise-friendly areas like the Caribbean, wearing camouflage is illegal as a civilian because it’s part of a military uniform. Think of it as being akin to impersonating a police officer; it’s really not the kind of confusion—or trouble—you want to get into on vacation. Even camo patterns with non-traditional colors beyond the usual brown and green are not allowed.

Holes from bullets

I don’t really understand news pieces using ai generated images instead of just showing something from the actual site, I get that not every investigator can go to every location to take photos but communication with the location should provide some opportunity for image gathering

I use it extensively daily.

It cannot step through code right now, so true debugging is not something you use it for. Most of the time the llm will take the junior engineer approach of “guess and check” unless you explicitly give it better guidance.

My process is generally to start with unit tests and type definitions, then a large multipage prompt for every segment of the app the llm will be tasked with. Then I’ll make a snapshot of the code, give the tool access to the markdown prompt, and validate its work. When there are failures and the project has extensive unit tests it generally follows the same pattern of “I see that this failure should be added to the unit tests” which it does and then re-executes them during iterative development.

If tests are not available or if it is not something directly accessible to the tool then it will generally rely on logs either directly generated or provided by the user.

My role these days is to provide long well thought out prompts, verify the integrity of the code after every commit, and generally just kind of treat the llm as a reckless junior dev. Sometimes junior devs can surprise you, like yesterday I was very surprised by a one shot result: asking for a mobile rn app for taking my rambling voice recordings and summarize them into prompts, it was immediately remarkably successful and now I’ve been walking around mic’d up to generate prompts.

Processing (cpu) doesn’t really matter as much as gpu, and generally the constraint is gpu memory on consumer grade machines. Processing via nvidia chips has become the standard, which is a huge part of why they have become the single most valuable company on the planet, though you can use cpu you’ll find the performance almost unbearably slow.

Ollama is the easiest option, but you can also use option and pytorch (executorch), vllm, etc

You can download your model through huggingface or sometimes directly from the lab’s website

It’s worth learning the technical side but ollama genuinely does an excellent job and takes a ton off your plate