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Re:Household Size and the Housing Stock on Saturday April 20, 2024 @07:16AM (#40096458)
You are utterly delusional.
Thucydides Trap is just the nonsense of historicism.

What rising power went to war with the hegem with a currency peg?

What rising power went to war with a hegem with a currency peg and its largest trading partner? A coalition that would include several of the top trading partners.

Like all points in history, the current moment is unique and pretending you can predict the future from the past is stupid.

Re:Meta Llama 3 on Friday April 19, 2024 @10:46AM (#40087506)
Nope, I don't even see what the excitement is for.

We seem to be in denial of the scaling problems we face in that we can't even beat out the 1 year model.

I subscribed and unsubscribed to Claude 3 in about an hour. It is just not better than chatGPT4.

It is incredible to me that with all the motivation and resources of Meta, the best they can do is to produce a language model that isn't worth the time to even bother trying if a chatGPT4 subscriber.

Re:Everything We Can't Describe in Music on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @06:04PM (#40070541)
Very cool. I will have to join "mod wiggler" lol.

I have been out of it so long muff wiggler is now mod wiggler. Come on, that is absurd. Muff Wiggler was the best name ever.

Re:Everything We Can't Describe in Music on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @06:00PM (#40070514)
I am both a classical guitar player and long time synth head.

"Everything is possible" is a bug and not a feature in many ways.

It certainly is possible to synthesize an expressive instrument to the level you describe but what usually happens is you move on to something else.

"What does this knob do??" Wahahahaha

That kind of thing is just so much fun compared the guitar that you have to actually learn to play.

Re:Stable Diffusion 3 API Now Available on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @05:56PM (#40070478)
Those are shockingly bad.

I am sure someone will tell me there is a reason why I am wrong and these aren't that bad.

Midjourney has never needed an explanation though with words. The proof is in the output. Everything else is nonsense.

I use to listen to NPR for 6-7 hours a day at work, 20 years ago.

In 2024, they are simply a reflection of what modern liberalism has become.

The 2005 version of David Sedaris would practically be considered "right wing" in 2024.

Critical theory and intersectionality have come to dominate all liberal discourse to the level of farce. NPR is just a mirror.