Quitting Reddit was hard in several ways.

Quitting D&D (because of WotC being assholes) sucked because I was an Eberron/Keith Baker fan and have a lot of money sunk into D&D.

But I don’t know if I could quit YouTube. If that happened, I’d try to find ways to hack my way around it. I might ask my favorite creators to migrate to other platforms. But if I had no options to get their content but to give YouTube my ID, I might honestly have to do it.

“My graphics programs.” Printmaster in particular. That was a long time ago and now she’s more open to Linux. We’ll see what happens next time Windows does some bullshit.

Based.

Star Trek: Voyager. I was raised on that shit. Not objectively the “best” Star Trek. (Far from the worst, though.) But it’s the one that’s most nostalgic and, indeed, “cozy” for me.

Not exactly the densest material out there, but pennies are cheap and easily procured. May not be quite what you’re looking for for your use case. (You asked about “cost/weight ratio” and “weight to space” which makes it sound like you’re looking to add a lot of weight.)

I’ve been known to make a fully-enclosed cylindrical cavity and set my slicer to pause at exactly the right layer to where I can drop a few stacks of pennies into the print before upper layers seal the cavity closed.

God that article is depressing. Where I work, it’s bad but not as bad as any of those stories.

You sound very upset

I am.

about a tool

No, about a massive scam.

I skimmed it to find the parts where it talked about why LLMs aren’t useless. Basically the only place it talks about why they aren’t useless is the section “…, and sophists are useful”:

If I use a LLM to help me find a certain page in a document, or sanity check this post while writing it, I don’t care “why” the LLM did it. I just care that it found that page or caught obvious mistakes in my writing faster than I could have.

So, I’m supposed to wade through the BS and hallucinations to find these nuggets of helpful feedback rather than just proofreading it myself? That’s a pretty weak use case.

I don’t think I need to list the large number of tasks where LLMs can save humans time, if used well.

So he’s basically admitting he can’t come up with any actually good uses. “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.”

By all means, use LLMs where they are useful tools: tasks where you can verify the output, where speed matters more than perfection, where the stakes of being wrong are low.

There’s no universe where such a use case exists in a way that isn’t actively harmful or at least “brain rot”-y to anyone consuming the content created by the LLM user. This is why AI slop exists.

In short, “yes it does.”

Yes it does.

They had me at the title.

They lost me at:

[AI] is a truly transformative technology after all.

Crocheting gloves for rancors.

You can learn a lot figuring out how to circumvent blocks like that. It’s educational.

Guy in the front row: “hey, walk forward the same number of steps as there are R’s in ‘resurrection’.”

5-MTHF.

Waiting for government intervention before acting is the same mistake we made with lead, asbestos, and PFAS. Let’s not do that again.

So… what do they propose we do, then?

Oooh! Oooh! This is an easy one.

No.

I’m so nervous for the Zelda movie.

That sounds like exactly the sort of thing therapy is for. I’m no kind of expert, but it’s very likely there’s a lot of deeper things keeping you from developing achieving the kind of skills you’re wanting. And it sounds very much like it’s a problem in your life that’s causing you a lot of anxiety and pain. I think if there’s any way you can do talk therapy, that’s the place to start.

Watching Amazon and Perplexity argue about AI agents making purchases on Amazon is like watching two discount birthday party clowns angrily honk bicycle horns at each other.

Crap. I was thinking I might skip the Switch 2. But this might be my reason to get one.

I really want to see a homebrew exploit before I get one, though.