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They probably are, but it’s not really about cost, it’s about fear. I fear that while it costs $x to switch to Unreal Enigne now, it’ll cost $x+10 after a few weeks when they do their next decision, and $x+20 a month or so after that.

That’s fair. nixOS can be savage. But I think it’s also helpful for a beginner since you can’t break it. A beginner is much more likely to break their system than an expert.

nixOS , because it’s a completely atomic distribution, like a docker container OS style. You define the state of the system in a configuration file, which can even control the kernel, and you can switch to an older configuration file in any reboot. It’s more of a pain than the others, but it works ok out of the box and when you fix something it stays fixed so you’ll never end up in a situation where something breaks and you can’t fix it.

Also, all the packages bring their own versions of their own libraries and directly link to them so they’ll never break during upgrades, but conversely a lot of Linux installers that try to link to system libraries won’t work.

It gets me how every single comment is the same three tired old jokes about AI. Between “It’s only good for imagining up stuff that has no right answer”, “And so the downward spiral begins as LLM’s are trained on the output of previous LLM’s.” and "But somehow it still can’t remember what I said one minute ago " we’ve covered every single anti-LLM talking point.

For one, it looks like the actual training data hasn’t changed, even if the model has changed and it’s been able to access the internet for a while, this is non-news. For another, a lot of people haven’t tried GPT v4 and are just complaining about the free version sucking, well, things you get for free often suck.

And so the downward spiral begins as LLM’s are trained on the output of previous LLM’s

I think we can be fairly confident that the people in charge of training the LLMs have heard this too and are probably on top of it.

This is what I got.

Step 1: The Setting
An old farmhouse, slightly dilapidated but filled with charm and history, stands surrounded by fields and woods. The farmhouse, located in a rural area, has been in the old woman’s family for generations. However, the closest college town is just a 20-minute drive away, making it a feasible place for college students to stay.

Step 2: The Characters

Lillian (Lilly): An 88-year-old woman, sharp as a tack, with a mischievous sense of humor. Widowed, with stories of her late husband and her adventures. She's fiercely independent but realizes she could use some help around the place.
Mike: A 20-year-old college student studying agriculture. He's grounded, serious about his studies, and is always looking for practical experience. However, he's a bit socially awkward.
Jasper: A 21-year-old college student majoring in digital media and film. He's spontaneous, energetic, and often comes up with wild ideas. He's in college more for the experience than the education.

Step 3: The Premise
Mike finds an advertisement where Lilly offers affordable rent at her farmhouse in exchange for help with chores. Seeing it as a great opportunity to gain hands-on farming experience, he jumps on the offer. Jasper, looking for cheaper rent and a break from the monotony of dorm life, decides to join Mike despite having no interest in farming. Lilly is initially hesitant about having two young men living with her but warms up to the idea, thinking it could be fun and helpful.

Step 4: Recurring Themes/Scenarios

Cultural Clashes: Lilly's old-school ways often clash with the boys' modern college lifestyle, leading to comedic misunderstandings.
Teachable Moments: Lilly imparts wisdom from her long life, while the boys teach her about modern technology and current college life.
Odd-couple Dynamics: Mike and Jasper have contrasting personalities, which often lead to humorous conflicts and reconciliations.
Farm Misadventures: Jasper's lack of farming knowledge causes regular chaos, like accidentally releasing all the chickens or trying to turn a part of the farm into a film set.
College Intrusions: College friends and events spill over into the farmhouse, like surprise parties or study groups, much to Lilly's amusement or chagrin.

Step 5: Sample Plotlines

The Drone Debacle: Jasper tries to film the farmhouse using a drone for a class project. However, the drone scares the livestock, leading to chaos. Lilly, Mike, and Jasper then have to work together to restore order.
Secrets of the Attic: Mike discovers old photographs and artifacts in the attic, sparking a trip down memory lane for Lilly and history lessons for the boys.
The Farmhand Competition: After another one of Jasper's mishaps, Mike challenges him to handle the farm chores for a day. Lilly becomes the judge, and comedic challenges ensue.
Digital Farming: The boys try to modernize the farm operations using apps and digital tools, leading to humorous consequences.
Lilly Goes to College: Jasper thinks it would be fun to bring Lilly to one of his classes. Her old-world wisdom ends up stealing the show.

Step 6: Underlying Message
Despite the age and cultural gap, the trio forms an unbreakable bond. The sitcom highlights the beauty of intergenerational friendships, the blending of old-world wisdom with modern innovation, and the comedic adventures that ensue when worlds collide.

In the end, the show would be a heartwarming comedy that celebrates the unlikely friendships that form when people from different walks of life come together.

EDIT: The point of posting this is to demonstrate that even if two outputs are similar, they’re very sensitive to the user’s built in pre-prompts and the version of ChatGPT being used. So two people can get very different outputs for the same prompt.

I already donate to my Mastodon instance, if my instance needs or wants money for any reason, they should set up a donation button and I’ll subscribe. Which will give them a lot more money than they would ever make from showing me ads. We should normalize removing all ads from the internet, forever.

I use a physical sim. I’m not sure it even supports eSIM, but I’d be hesitant to ditch the physical sim for precisely the reasons you mentioned. I’ve swapped sims around between phones and even borrowed them from people when I was in a new area, something that’s much harder with eSIMs.

It’s better because Bing may still have selling ads as a priority when building the indexer. If you’re not the one paying, you’re the product.

Because last time I checked they just used Bing anwyay, while Kagi runs their own indexer.

Google’s becoming pretty terrible anyway, it only seems to return pages that are selling things. I’ve switched to Kagi at this point and it seems to work better, it’s subscription only, but you know you’re the one paying for it and that means that you’re the end customer.

Oh wow, 100% improvements in some cases, that’s no joke.

EDIT: In Nginx, there’s one benchmark where they get tripled performance on the EPYC9754.

Bcachefs sounds incredible.

Yes, and every package specifically defines the exact version of its libraries that it needs and the system symlinks everything together package by package, so there’s no chance than an update will break something further upstream. The configuration file also controls things like MySQL configuration and user permissions so you can get literally the exact same system. I think even docker doesn’t control for library versions with its regular configuration.

EDIT: And it keeps older versions of the configuration file and its symlink arrangement around, so if something goes wrong, you can reboot the machine and select an older version from the bootloader.

More nixOS development. It’s the reproducible builds on the OS scale, one configuration file that will always generate exactly the same system when run, and you can update and rebuild from that file without restarting the system in most cases. This should make triangulating and fixing distro issues much easier, as well as making a distro easier to maintain from the user side.

I donate to all the services I use. Including my Mastodon instance, Wikipedia, Habitica, etc…

EDIT: And I mean monthly. Except for Wikipedia where it’s just yearly.

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If I were running a Unity project, I’d be tempted to just jump to Unreal. No matter what promises Unity makes you don’t have any actual guarantee that they’ll keep them while Unreal has the “non-retroactive” clause directly in their contract. However painful the switch is, you’ll only have to do it once.

I’ve seen owncloud merge files together. Like, you open one file and see data from another file inside it. That to me was a dealbreaker.

That was my first thought too. Wasn’t there like a checklist for “Why this spam detection scheme will fail” that was floating around since the late 1990s?

I don’t get it, third party users can’t consent to your stupid license agreement anyway. You’re still stealing their data.