Dear diary...

Crazy to think that, despite trump existing, the Democrats still lost two elections to him.

Well they had their chance for "change" with Obama, just like the french PS had their chance for "changement" with Hollande. And both betrayed their electoral base and honest people by empowering multinational corporations against consumers and small businesses. Who could have predicted that noone would want to elect them again?

Please. If you’re an adult and you still believe anything any politician ever says, then you may still have some growing up to do.

Left. Right. Up. Down. Doesn’t matter. A politicians job description nowadays boils down to doing everything in their power benefit themselves and their partners and to hell with you unimportant people if it bothers you any.

If the democrats were serious about winning they would be putting forward candidates that actually have a chance of being popular

Hillary and Kamala were just really bad choices

You're so upset that you have to invent an imaginary hypothesis to make yourself feel better.

Yes, very imaginary to think that the code comes from pretrained data and copy pasting whole blocks. It's not like this is exactly how LLMs work.

Correct, that's not how LLMs work [0].

[0] - https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

Are you a frequent user of LLMs? That "copy pasting whole blocks" mental model doesn't hold up to regular usage, in my opinion.

They probably saw that report years ago of copilot dumping out the fast inverse sqrt function, and assume that's all they can do. From experience most anti-LLM people have either never used them, or used them back in the 3.5-4 era and then never again, though you might have even more experience with those people than I do. :P

they're wrong but they are right that this isn't interesting

So, a firearm?

Why move gun, when gun can move bullet?

You do know that this thing doesn’t require consumables to operate, right?

What are you throwing that isn’t a consumable, boomerangs?

Also pretty sure several parts of the mechanism would need to be considered consumable if operating over a long period.

Seed bombs aren't consumables, they're reproducibles. I could harvest a thousand of them in the time it took you to make a kilo of gunpowder, from local (mountainside) resources ..

>Also pretty sure several parts of the mechanism would need to be considered consumable if operating over a long period.

Well, that remains to be seen after the optimization steps complete. Fine with me if it takes a year before I have to replace a string.

Meanwhile, I'm guessing you are suggesting the "ma' gunpowder" deliveries happen via drone, or helicopter, or methane-powered rocket ship or some such nonsense, lol ..

Something reproducible is still consumables? Bread is reproducible and consumable, they dont mean opposite things

Bullets don't reproduce.

Seeds do.

Bread is consumed - it does not self-multiply.

You know, maybe cameras are good enough, and I don't want a tumor at the top edge of my phone that gets tiresome to hold after 5 minutes.

Meet the Vivo X300

https://www.vivo.com/en/products/x300-ultra

What a terrible website to open on your phone. Text and image is clipped, it jumps up and down, loads for several seconds, refreshes entire page several times... I opened it and have no idea what this hardware supposed tonbe.

There were some nuclear fracking experiments where the nukes cost in the range of a few hundred thousand dollars. It's probably cheaper than you think.

You can't cut steel in half with water. Waterjet cutting requires an abrasive media like garnet to cut through hard materials. Water is simply the power source that accelerates the garnet to Mach Jesus.

Plain water can cut through aluminum and other thin metals at pressure, and human skin probably isn’t harder than that, but that’s a good clarification for those who are unaware of the additives commonly used for harder materials like steel/thick aluminum/etc. and it was my mistake to say steel originally. Thanks for pointing it out.