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Does Claude control the VPS via SSH from your machine or does it install a worker there?
The internet was/is inter-machine communication for the military (and/or business), then a way to beat our ignorance, then a user-generated content machine. It was most certainly not invented by someone who thought reality is too boring.
I find this wider reactionary "touch grass" movement boring and interesting simultaneously. It is boring, because nobody interested in internet-as-community health asked for many of the abuses that have happened to it and obviously you'd want to flee those. It is interesting because... I never would have expected that 20 years ago.
This is sort of an allegory of Sonic itself. As long as you have a single coin you get to try again.
So what was the point of stucco anyway?
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/changes-to-micr..."Will I receive any additional storage during the transition to shared storage?
Existing Microsoft 365 Family and Premium customers who meet eligibility requirements in supported markets might receive bonus storage when their subscription renews after shared storage rolls out.
[...]
What happens if my family uses more than the storage quota?
You don't immediately lose access to your files. If your subscription approaches the 2 TB limit, you'll receive notifications so that you can plan ahead. You can free up space, purchase additional storage, upgrade your subscription, or take other steps to avoid disruption. If your subscription exceeds the limit, you can continue to access your files for up to one year while you manage your storage."
Wonder what those supported markets are. Also note the hilarious framing instead of plainly saying that storage media has become more expensive:
"Why is Microsoft making this change?
The goal is to provide a more flexible experience. Shared storage helps ensure that one person doesn't run out of space while other members have unused storage available."
Claude, think for me. Make no mistakes.
"His experiments have never been successfully replicated by other researchers, and wild colonies of rats don't seem to display any of the personality types he so vividly described. He rarely published in mainstream scientific journals, saying that his concerns were so pressing that he didn't have time to wait for peer review. It seems plausible that Calhoun was responsible for creating the conditions for population collapse. He only cleaned out Universe 25 every six to eight weeks; disease and parasitism could account for many of the phenomena he thought were due to mere proximity" -
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n13/jon-day/the-beautifu... (from the Wikipedia page)
Yeah we're rapidly transgressing to "AI, think for me" territory. At this point I just try to enjoy this somehow. The economic pressure is way too strong.
Just one more innovation and humanity will heal. Just one more!
Then it's a game about collecting enough capital that you'll be the last one standing.
"This is not the end of the world, but you can see it from here."
This has already been the case with classical software. AI only stretches it further.
When everyone suddenly started calling themselves engineers instead of programmers I cringed (yes, that's a lot of cringe over the past decade+), precisely because no formal guarantees were ever given (and still largely aren't).
It's like eyeballing the dimensions of a building and saying it should hold. That said, I see the discipline excused. The stakes weren't that high and it was all very new... And e.g. mechanical engineering went through this as well, except a lot of people actually died.
Time to shine, theoretical CS, time to shine.
Appreciate the load-bearing info.
Sure you can torture your children with ever harsher "education", almost none of which matters in non-research positions. Then don't be surprised when they run out.
I don't interpret it to that extreme. I think it's more about shutting out noise and acting along a thread that keeps you pleased without interference from e.g. brainrot media or an over-demanding job.
Arguably a reason most everyone found the early internet/web so awesome: it wasn't as commoditized into feeds and platforms. You were an adventurer on an undiscovered planet, a secret life beside the boring real one and just did your thing. It's how most of us ended up here, anyhow.
In Germany there is a "Vorabpauschale" where you pay a certain part of the capital gains tax on ETFs, certain funds even with unrealised gains. These are later accounted for when you sell. Though AFAIK if you sell at a loss you can't get the Vorabpauschale back directly, but it would increase the losses you can potentially apply against other gains.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorabpauschale
That insight was then. The current insight is that robot girls' task schedulers are configurable.
Ruined how? Hard to imagine a consumer handheld water jet can erode enamel.
That said this looks like a ridiculously overengineered product. Electric toothbrushes have come a long way, at a fraction of the price.
Edit: Ah a gum problem, yeah I've been warned about that (by a dentist no less). I just use interdental brushes.
Yeah, I feel DIY is definitely on an upswing. There's surprisingly decent info, tools and parts for cheap to be found. And materials are getting simpler to work with.
There are still things that will remain difficult (or illegal) in domestic settings for DIY, of course, but that's no model for full employment.
I haven't got any experience with them but there's even vendors for house assembly kits that cost a fraction of a finished one. Imagine you idiot-proof house planning and building: just do exactly what the app says.
I wonder just how far we have to push this until we finally get the 10h work week.
A prompt is not malicious software, it's an input. It's similar to SQL injection (query evaluation from unsanitised input), unless that injection also leads to arbitrary code execution, which could involve actual malware as payload. Of course a malicious prompt could lead the LLM to generate and run said malware for the attacker, or it could act itself as malware.
Then again, if the permanent underclass hypothesis turns out to be true, baking the old way may become the only choice.
Someone better figure out how to make computing devices at home from everyday parts because the only way I see this (shockingly rapid) arms race end is legally mandated, cryptographically locked down hardware and software (or even thin clients) everywhere.
RMS must be having daily nightmares at this point.
P.S.: Fantastic talk you linked there.
Given you have some experience with this sort of medication would you say it could help with restoring any motivation? It's killing me slowly, but surely...
I read the lack of real-life consequences as a sign that gains through digital technology as a whole become ever more marginal.
What would produce huge "gains" (depends on who you ask) again is the automation of the myriad non-digital roles/companies, but good luck with that...
There's more than enough energy and resources to go around for humans to peacefully coexist "forever", albeit in lesser numbers than today. The civilization meta game is what ruins it, despite our best attempts to regulate that. And a global self destruct button helps massively... until it does not.