I have never heard a convincing argument that any piracy is ethically or morally wrong: no one is being deprived of anything. You have to manually construct a scenario where someone is about to pay an independent artist for their work and then decides to use a copy instead, and even then I think it’s hard to argue any actual harms.

This isn’t why, but it’s worth noting that the calls for regulation (from the big companies) are coming now. This is them pulling the ladder up because they’re scared of other Western firms taking advantage of the rapid improvement of open source and cheaper models to build competitors at a fraction of the investment. I guarantee you that at least the US will not significantly bind any of the big players, not under this administration and likely not under any.

It’s both. Saying that LLMs are AI and that they’re so powerful that they might become gods is doomspeak that also inflates their valuations, because our society doesn’t value things by their contribution, but by their potential for exploitation and disruption.

Yeah let’s all go back to X it was so much better 🫠

Oh no, don’t let the children… dilute their illegally acquired alcohol…

I’ve seen dozens of different light cluster designs, I don’t think you can visually tell unless you’re familiar with the car in question and they haven’t gotten aftermarket lights.

Likely just the increasing brightness of the bulbs. Lots of times I will assume someone has high beams on only to see them flick even brighter once I go past them.

Nano/micro are great for people who need a terminal text editor but don’t want to learn anything to use it.

If you do want to put some time into learning, it really doesn’t take long to get to a point of base competency in emacs or vim – less than an hour for sure to just be able to move around in the document and have a basic understanding of the editing controls.

Both are hugely deep systems that you can keep learning for years, but only at the pace that you need; most tasks can be accomplished pretty easily with a bunch of inputs, but there’s usually a much faster way if you know the shortcuts.

As for the difference, vim is more modal – you switch to editing mode, do some editing, then switch to typing mode and type. Most commands are one to three sequential button presses. For some more exotic functionality you use the command line to type a command, which has auto-complete.

On the other hand emacs is chorded, meaning you use multiple simultaneous keys to do functions, usually a modifier key like ctrl + something else. This gives you more direct power while actually typing, but IMO has a bit steeper of a learning curve, and I just personally don’t love the chorded inputs, I think they’re more work to input than the sequences in vim. But either editor will give you unprecedented power over text with minimal fuss.

I personally use Helix, which is basically just a slightly different take on Vim, as well as taking inspiration from Kakoune which is another competitor. It’s got really nice modern defaults and I like the way that Kakoune treats selections in contrast to Vim.

Except they’re not surviving, are they? They’re being harvested for semantic associations and then destroyed.

Anthropic could easily offset the PR blow by offering a free digital library of all the works they’re destroying, but of course that would require them to actually pay a fair price to the owners.

Okay, in this case the action in question is not writing, it’s researching.

If you try to research a topic for three hours and then ask AI… where do you think it’s getting the information? From the Ipswich Jailhouse basement? No, it’s making them up out of whole cloth and now the book that you wanted to give a historical grounding is at best pure fiction and at worst active misinformation.

Are you just providing a text description for accessibility purposes? Thanks!

Make sure it has at least a few inches of clearance at the back. Also many cases/PSUs have fans on the bottom, if yours does then raising it up on some feet can really help.

Try multiplying or raising to a power. Addition works too but is slower.

Limited models trained on good datasets have limited applications in analysis of similar data.

LLMs are a gigantic soul-sucking scam with no practical usage.

Team vim, but I’ve been using Helix instead for a year or two – it’s like if Neovim and Kakoune had a baby.

But why can’t you just remove it? It being mounted into the studs isn’t any different than any other spot, it’s just more secure.

No thanks, I don’t want all of the descriptions and dialogues to be low-quality semi-plagiarized nonsense blabber just to fill space. I don’t want modders spending their precious time massaging slop to be fairly relevant when they could just make bespoke content instead.

If a part of a game isn’t worthy of human attention, let it be boring or non-existent or an afterthought.

Any games that you can just run on Steam without issue will work fine, it’s when you have to start passing launch commands etc that things become more complicated. Most things are still possible but harder because you have to deal with the very unusual way Nixos stores its files. The specific thing that made me give up and go to CachyOS was trying to get gamescope working under wayland for Steam games – every way I tried, I was having to compromise on what I actually wanted. Also VR has been easier to play with, though it’s still far from Windows parity.

I mix, my server and laptop are nixos but I use an arch variant on my desktop. Mostly I do this because of various pain points with nixos and gaming.

I’m using Helix for some months now – I haven’t checked the repo for slop, but if it’s still good then I do recommend it as an alternative.