inetknght

Why does a ScrewdriverFactoryFactoryProvider need PHP? I imagine it's a typo'd Phillips-head screwdriver factory that got lost in the conversion to producing star-spangled torx screws.

You're trying to tell me that borrowing against securities solves the problem. But it only moves the problem.

If I borrow against the securities, I get cash. I use that cash. I now have zero cash (again). Then I die a horribly quiet death with megabucks owed for loans against the securities. The estate does not have cash to pay back those loans. You're saying those securities would be sold... for more profit than what I borrowed against? Then it sounds like I didn't borrow against their full value. And if I did borrow against their full value, then the loan cannot be paid back because the cash is spent.

If a website requires so few characters that I have to create custom rule in my password manager for it... then it's a website I'm strongly inclined not to use.

Sadly, a lot of these websites deal with finances or employment.

Borrow against the value of the securities, obviously

Yeah, borrow against the value of the securities!

Who will pay the debt when I die? My children via the estate? My children via the bank's increasingly higher fees? My children via taxpayer-funded loan "forgiveness"? Sounds like a Bernie Madoff scheme to me. Best keep my money under the mattress.

I was so stunned when I left college and realized how much I have to limit my vocabulary around most people. It made me feel distant from many of my peers.

To be fair, there are a lot of things that you learn in college that are supposed to be specialized for your field of study.

I was told that I was being condescending when I use words that nobody else understands. To put it in the words of one boss: @inetknght, you're smart and you do good work. But, @inetknght, you can't handle stupid. So I have to move you to another team.

It was kind've eye-opening to realize that stupid people don't just exist. They're all around us. Always have been. Being moved to my own team of one just so people wouldn't feel dumb around me definitely made me feel distant too.

Windows

It never was free.

MacOS

It's not free any more.

TempleOS

I'm not religious.

So, I guess I get to stay on Linux for longer. Well, damn!

Retirees should be living off of dividends, 401ks and IRAs, not volatile stock sell offs.

If you're only going to live another 10 or 20 years but you have $1M stashed... do you take the $1M now and buy a fancy house? Or do you keep that $1M going for the... checks math ... few tens of thousands of dollars it'll earn in yearly dividends? Meanwhile your daughter needs a new hair-do, your son is living in your basement again, and your wife... well she's your wife. And she wants that new car that you promised you'd get her when you retire.

I guess it's back to the grind instead.

Give it time. Cell phones are getting more powerful every day.

As for misinformed... sure it's possible. But I doubt it. Llama isn't chat gpt but it runs pretty well on my machine. Is it perfect? No, of course not. Neither is ChatGPT. But it's "good enough" for what I need it for, and it certainly could be "good enough" for many other users.

What's the gain of a LLM for a virus? Well that... is a little more esoteric. It's about as esoteric as encrypting hard drives. Crypto malware isn't always a virus either. Imagine a LLM in a virus used to determine if a given file's content is worth extracting from the device. I haven't yet figured out all of the side ventures but I can see a use for it.

How could an intelligence that requires massive amounts of CPU, RAM, and database storage even concievably

What you define as "massive" amounts might still be large amounts for most consumers. But even then it's not... really. Developers frequently fit these models in their own laptops. Some of the ML models fit on an iPhone or Android phone. It can generate ten, or hundreds of words (tokens) per second.

So the fact that they don't need massive amounts of CPU, RAM, and database storage is rather the point. Imagine if it could escape and multiply. It could conceivably do so quite quickly given current technology.

Cinnamon is, straight up, the best. The only annoying part is that damn debugger thing that shows up that damn and useless LookingGlass thing which defaults to Super+L. Super+L definitely should be Lock Screen instead.

Yes, schools are businesses these days. Businesses don't want to actually do effort to get consent.

...that's assuming that apps actually respect that environment variable. The problem is that if the app is writing to ${HOME} then they're already not following XDG spec.