• depth first search
• breadth first search

Or more accurately, randomly swap between those strategies based on a coin, a d20, and a cat chasing a laser pointer

Sick, this will make shifting to bazzite nicer

Uh. Where in France did you go? If you only saw Paris: there’s a lot more to France than Paris.

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It’s really wild the amount of shit that most providers DON’T tell or make clear to people

For instance, this is the first time I’ve seen the term “Concerta Crash”; I’m in my late 30s; I took concerta from about 10 until about a month ago (though I was off meds completely for over a decade until the Rona times), and started Vyvanse last month.

As an American, I fully and enthusiastically agree. Hell, if you let me, I’ll move there and lend my expertise to the effort.

Tbh if that’s the only value-add that windows can come up with compared to linux gaming in the long run… that’s a great argument for boycotting the games that insist on using that shit - or at least, insist on using insecure / shitty anticheat that’s incompatible with Linux, and/or requires comically and inappropriately broad permissions

Tbh that’s one of the most consistent frustrations - that fucking rollercoaster every damn day. And I try to time things so my long-acting stretches into the evening, so I can have some productive time for myself instead of just my job getting it, but that’s actually harder than it sounds. And also I try not to give myself horrible insomnia, because popping even a short-acting too late in the day just makes me wired.

But I’m completely insensitive to coffee in terms of wakefulness, so idk maybe I just need to pound more coffee and give myself arrhythmia or something?

You find it hard to remember things and focus on doing things? You should do meth about it.

Unless they’ve come up with some truly novel new architecture that makes training and/or inference MUCH more efficient… why? The generational creep is obviously unsustainable, and using current-style GPUs for ML applications is a recipe for obsolescence for a hardware manufacturer these days.

And if anyone is on iOS and wants to give their beta app a spin:

https://testflight.apple.com/join/d7aPfftU

Spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch

• just don’t use it
• become extremely knowledgeable on how it works, so that you can have coherent and pointed arguments with people on the pitfalls that the systems have. You don’t need to use it to understand the technical foundations.
• understand the infrastructural shortfalls - that is, investment cycle/ROI impossibility given the generational cycles that have become apparent in ML infra, the power requirements and impact (both direct and second order), as well as the broader ecological impact (beyond just power, but also exacerbated by the makeup of most energy grids outside of China)
• understands the copyright and licensing implications and hypocrisy that the vast majority of LLM and generative platforms have made an implicit yet pervasive part of their training sets, and how it is currently understood to be algorithmically impossible to excise one particular element from a training set post-training (thus implicitly violating GDPR’s “right to forget”)
• check out the studies that indicate over reliance on generative platforms can meaningfully negatively affect cognitive aptitude and reasoning ability.

There’s a lot more you can dig into, and that is by no means an exhaustive list. The more you learn about the nuance of how this shit works, the more you’ll be able to poke huge fucking holes in pretty much any argument anyone makes.

if only there were some alternatives

Hahaha this is fine, I am fine with this, what could possibly go wrong

That is an honestly great way to put it, and it’s 100% true for me as well

It’s also crucial to point out that the chain of custody of “his backpack” was utterly fucked - the cop in question apparently started searching the bag at the McD’s, then just chucked it in her car, drove back to the station, and “continued the search there”. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Combine this with how DESPERATELY they tried to portray him as a super dangerous criminal, as well as how some of the surveillance footage of him is like… kinda obviously not him, and I’m extremely suspicious that he was just a guy who fit the description and they pinned it on him.

But also, even if he actually did it, if I were on the jury, I’d vote to acquit.

It is genuinely embarrassing how much more I am motivated to vacuum my apartment after finding a Dyson V11 battery powered vacuum on a smokin’ deal about 6 months ago. “Plugging the vacuum in” should not be such a hurdle to keeping my house clean… and yet here we are.

It’s easy - ISPs just bribed the people running the FCC now (because that’s become an ok thing to do), and the FCC turns around and says “yep sounds good”