Pennomi

I don’t pay Tesla for the vehicle (I don’t even supercharge), so it doesn’t actually affect their bottom line if I sell it. Buying a new car does affect my bottom line though.

Boycotts are only effective when they change purchasing behaviors, and this purchase is long done. I do encourage everyone who asks if I like my car to look into specific alternatives instead however.

And that’s really the only reason I have one - it was the only long range electric car available when I bought it. Now I would choose any of the many other options first.

That’s still faster than me though…

If you’re feeling out of breath, drink a thorium potion!

Karlach x Shadowheart is a good pairing honestly. They’d keep each other in just enough trouble to have fun, but not enough to go evil.

Check out Ollama, it’s probably the easiest way to get started these days. It provides tooling and an api that different chat frontends can connect to.

Locally run AI: 0

That’s increasingly untrue as we build tools to inspect and modify those weights. Nearly every open model has homegrown LoRA support, and most of them have abliteration code that lets you erase undesirable behaviors.

Should be illegal, but they are doing it legally by exploiting a loophole. Disgusting.

This one projects the image onto a bunch of vibrating rubber bands. I don’t think there’s a long term market for this. It’s a clever idea though that fixes the hazards of a solid diffuser (like those godawful fan-based volumetric displays).

Agreed. I use it in my daily workflow but you as the senior developer have to understand what can and cannot be delegated, and how to stop it from doing stupid things.

For instance when I work in computer vision or other math-heavy code, it’s basically useless.

Code written by AI is really poorly written. A couple smells I’ve noticed:

• Instead of fixing error cases, it overly relies on try:catch structures, making critical bugs invisible but still present. Dangerous shit.
• It doesn’t reuse code that already exists in the project. You have to do a lot of extra work letting it know that your helper functions or CSS utility classes exist.
• It writes things in a very “brute force” way. If it finds any solution, it charges forward with the implementation even if there is a much simpler way. It never thinks “but is there a better way?”
• Likewise, it rarely uses the actual documentation for your library. It goes entirely off of gut instincts. Half the time if you paste in a documentation page, it finally shapes up and builds the code right. That should be default behavior.
• It has a string tendency to undo manual changes I have made, because it doesn’t know the reasons why I did them.

On the other hand, if you’re in a green field project and need to throw up some simple, dirty CSS/HTML for a quick marketing page, sure, let the AI bang it out. Some projects don’t need to be done well, they just need to be done fast.

And the autocomplete features can be a time saver in some cases regardless.

If I recall correctly, lemmy.doesnotexist.club also has some Nicole problems.

Ah perfect, that makes a lot more sense to me

Yeah it was a quick google search. Do you have better numbers available?

Even an 80” tv only uses around 150W, if my research is correct. Surely this must be thinking about massive displays.

As long as open source AI keeps up (it has so far) it’ll enable technocommunism as much as it enables rampant capitalism.

Agreed, this will anger young people, who need to be shaken awake to let them know that politics isn’t a fucking game. Conservatism and authoritarianism is poison, they just didn’t understand that yet.