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I think that because you made your name through the quality of your writing and the excellence of your web design, an unrefined output like this jeopardizes your brand. Perhaps there should be a link saying, "I didn't have the time to do a full writeup of this, but click this link to show some Claudeslop explaining it in further detail."

Hard caps are rare because companies find it more profitable to forgive sympathetic individuals' bills while raking in profits from corporations whose services have gone awry

I don't know about smartphone sensors, but the DXOMARK sensor ratings for full-frame digital cameras largely mirror my own experience with them, so at least there they seem to be a fair judge.

There definitely is. Everything runs on WhatsApp

"GPT-8 Galaxia - figure out where our iOS and Android apps show different doohickeys and fix them"

This detects cameras that are off, which a thermal camera would not.

They can't do anything, everything is in China's hands and the EU does not have the hard or soft power to make China do or not do anything.

"Social engineering attacks that targeted its customers" is not being hacked.

Kosovo and Cyprus... what was the third?

Salesforce hasn't ever been hacked to the best of my knowledge.

The LLM is, in many ways, smarter than you and I: it can perform feats of advanced mathematics that have eluded mathematicians for decades. It's not at all unreasonable to think that an LLM could produce an idea better than you could have, but that reading it and typing it in gives you some better understanding of how it works.

> Not to mention that if I, human overseer, don't course correct it many times a day, it goes off into Neverland.

Doesn't that happen to a human engineering team if you don't course correct it many times a month (which in code output is similar to an LLM in a day)?

I'm guessing that if you just uploaded a few pages of handwritten text to ChatGPT and asked it to make a font of your handwriting it would do a passably decent job. That might be the way that this business model ends.

Because a Macbook M1 is fast enough to do anything and most people aren't running local LLMs

What is the purpose of ASCII diagramming today? Seems like graphics are supported by every document and communications medium that I use. Is it for including directly in code?

The core of Apple's success has always been to capture the cultural leaders. Artists, musicians, journalists, etc. have used Apple at much higher percentages than the general public.

Now that the iPhone made Apple much more of mainstream company, it's harder to do -- what does it mean to focus on cultural leaders when 90% of American teens have an iPhone? But in the 15 years since Steve Jobs' death they have still been doing a decent job of it.

The company

The "Wall Street tech sell-off" is QQQM being down 1.7% over the last five days and up 17.4% over the last six months

This is how jealousy and regular ol' misanthropy manifests itself in the suburban biome

ROFL. The neighbors are not "regular people" for any reasonable definition of that term.

Facebook built a poker bot called Pluribus that consistently beat professional poker players including some of the most famous ones. What techniques did they use?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluribus_(poker_bot)

Very cool - I would like to contact you about this. Do you mind emailing me? My email address is in my profile.

I find that checking Facebook is almost always an emotional experience. I see so many more new babies than I ever did before Facebook.

But working hard isn't ever enough to reach the pinnacle of achievement. I could have worked my ass off at basketball, from age 3, and I would have never been an NBA player. Someone with more natural gifts than me, but fewer than Michael Jordan, might work hard his whole life and only brush the minor league/NBA border.

A lot of reasons can sound totally justified in retrospect. "The Colts will win the Super Bowl because they have superior talent." "The Saints will win the Super Bowl because the Colts' ego will go to their head." A lot of people take actions and have reasons for them -- when those actions turn out to be right, the reasons are often given undue credibility.

Failure can be great even if it never leads to success. Several people I've known have started a business with their own money, failed horribly, and never started another. But it gave them perspectives they never had before, and most importantly they worked the rest of their careers knowing that they had tried their best, and just weren't the right person at the right place at the right time to succeed.

You should make it more tailored (but not explicitly mention that) it's for dog owners to meet each other. For example, meeting other "friendly dogs and dog owners" or something like that.

Everyone knows it's not for doggie breeding, most pets are spayed or neutered.

O, Thor? :)

How many people have the ability to actually improve something? Should those people not demand quality?

I can't engineer a car - does that mean I shouldn't get mad when my airbags fail to deploy? I can't cook well - does that mean I shouldn't be disappointed by a substandard meal at a restaurant?

The copycat buglers would play reveille as they made their escape :)

Pedantry: a gigawatt is a unit of power, not energy. Perhaps you meant a gigawatt-hour? :)