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Especially since if you’re choosing that, you usually have the device handy. At which point a direct transfer is easy to do, and that’s been a feature for a while.

It’s also good advertising. “We’ve powered this data centre with our solar panels, think of what it could power for you”.

Odd to think that the Windows Vista days are coming around again.

Wasn’t that one of the reasons that people didn’t like it? A lot of manufacturers basically just crammed it onto XP-spec machines, so it ran horrendously, and was generally awful to use.

Especially from Anthropic, who has long maintained the position that their AI is dangerous, and is currently in a cock counting competition with OpenAI about who can hack the most companies first, and thus has the most dangerous model.

The whole thing has just started turning into a farce of “oh, well actually, my AI hacked companies before yours and did it to more companies than your AI”.

Especially since when you ask it those questions, it’s still massively limited.

I once tried Apple’s replacement AI Siri thing, and asked it what the date would be next Tuesday. I got “I can’t help with that”.

Regular old Siri handled that just fine.

Even then, neither worked with “When’s the last occurrence of this event on my calendar?”. They’d either go “I’m sorry, I don’t understand”, or happily tell me when the next event was.

Neither of them seem like very difficult questions.

Aye. I was being a little facetious, and making a reference to the video game Helldovers in the process, but it does make me wonder what the legal line is when it comes to determining pay by computer.

If a company implements an AI powered monitoring system that reduces your pay because you spent less time at your computer writing code or more time in the bathroom compared to your coworkers, at what point does it start crossing into illegal/discrimination boundaries? A company usually cannot reduce someone’s pay if they disclose a disability and require accommodation, for example, but it is unclear whether that would let them wash their hands of the issue, since the pay was set by computer.

Like do I want to read the Lord of the Rings as imperialist propaganda against orcs and Southrons and wildlings, who actually have valid political objections to the axis of Human-Elf-Dwarf hegemony? Hell yeah I do because I’m a leftist freak, but I recognize that I am fundamentally misreading the moral context the story is presented in–it’s about archetypes, about human values, about that nature of evil, not as an independent entity in itself, but how it can manifests in each one of us.

Funnily enough, I think Tolkein might have also enjoyed that. He was long-conflicted about the nature of orcs, being that his religious beliefs maintained that evil could not create from nothing, but only twist, and even then, it could not corrupt someone past possibility of redemption.

So orcs were stuck between being elves corrupted past redemption, or something sauron created.

Probably the WORST thing a story can do is mix and match “people are only evil because of we misunderstand them” and "people are purely evil.¨ I don´t see it often, but I think How to Train Your Dragon does it.

Or change it on the fly for the same character.

Cruella de Ville going from someone so single-mindedly obsessed with the idea of the perfect coat, that she didn’t care for how she got there, even if she had to skin a hundred puppies, to someone who developed a lifelong phobia and hatred of Dalmatians after they scared her mother off a cliff, weakened her character a bit, I feel.

If she had been one of the other from the get-go, that would have been fine, but it was switching between that wasn’t.

Or conversely, racism will be eliminated once the head racist is defeated.

The original Frozen was a nice twist on that, where it wasn’t romantic love that saved the day, but familial love.

Almost as bad is if they get treated worse for saving the town, with the townspeople blaming them for any collateral damage.

Anyone can achieve great things, even if they come from nothing… As long as they secretly have a great background and heritage out the wazoo. Or it is pre-ordained and has to be them; all other attempts doomed to failure.

The initial message might be fine, but it then undermines itself.

Because yeah, let me negotiate my salary with an LLM, please

Tremendous idea. You give a LLM your salary preferences, and it negotiates on your behalf. We can call it something like “Managed Salary Negotiations”.

Don’t worry about minutiae like your employer running the model you’re using for that task. That’s not very Super Earth of you.

Merino.

It also usually self-cleans quite nicely through the flushing mechanism. Hence the noise, since it pushes water down the sides to clean it.

Is it actually doing it in-device? Given that it’s attached to OneDrive, I was rather under the impression that it was just offloading the processing to their servers.

If opening inspect element and looking at a website’s served HTML is hacking…

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“Loud noise” should be “Bad noise”, surely?

You can have bad noises, even if they aren’t loud, and a loud noise can itself be a bad noise.

Interesting. I would have expected cameras to be more resilient between both their internal filters and the sensor material being tougher than human eyeballs, so anything that could overwhelm that and burn out a camera sensor would be able to ruin someone’s vision almost instantly.