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My point was that I have an LG TV, I did "turn off the ads", and they still show what I consider to be ads.

Before I plugged it into the network, it would show a grey bar at the bottom of the screen that said "You can use blah blah feature if you plug the TV into the network". It was voice remote control or something.

After I plugged it in, I start getting notices that certain games are playing, or other nonsense that I don't care about.

The ads were already disabled. I went through great lengths to see if they could be disabled otherwise. I did everything possible.

I finally had to leave it connected to the network, but disallow internet access for it in my router.

So no, it doesn't always work, especially with LG.

I think it's slightly different: Without reliability, agentic analytics is useless.

Or: Agentic analytics is gated on sufficient reliabilty.

Or reallllly short and hard to understand: Reliability gates agentic analytics.

You could, but it won't do the job.

I went through a lot of medical stuff a few months ago, and every single doctor asked me if they could use the device for that instead of typing it into the computer themselves. One of them explained that it allowed them to focus their whole attention on me, instead of partially on the computer for the inputting of the data while we talked.

I'm surprised that your doctors weren't asking, and instead were just assuming.

I'm writing a unique MUD, and It was surprising to me when I posted some bug reports I'd made and it identified things I didn't complain about. "User had trouble with X" and then suggested mitigations for those problems. I ended up rejecting a lot of them because I knew I had different mitigations coming eventually, or it was working that way for a reason...

But it was pretty eye-opening to see how good it was at watching a user struggle and identifying possible fixes.

So 'ruining' here means "it's used, and the author has a bias against AI".

For the vast, vast majority of people, this will make either little difference, or improve the experience.

Modern image generation has fixed most of the obvious tell-tales like mangled hands, square pupils, etc. And the few that remain end up looking like spooky things, which are pretty good for scary art anyhow.

I think we should focus on writing the existing software better before being more ambitious. The absolute wave of "ai slop" is from people who are "more ambitious" now. Why do we want more of that?

I'm being more ambitious in that I'm working on projects that I had sidelined for literal decades because I didn't have time for them. But I'm writing the same things, just faster. And probably better, rather than just what I'd have done before.

And I'm being slightly more ambitious in that I'm using languages I haven't used before, like Rust.

But when I hear that a non-programmer wrote a new ai-assisted (vibe or not) thing, I walk away and wait for the it to mature, be surpassed, or find out it's an absolute shitshow. An unsurprising number of them were shitshows and it came out fairly quickly after I decided to wait and see.

Wouldn't it also screw over poor people in gentrified neighborhoods who had no control over the situation? People would be forced to sell early or risk all their savings drying up and then being forced to sell anyhow.

It's a generic insult that a lot of people throw out, but when they're using the term seriously, they mean that the code doesn't get properly reviewed by a human. It probably still gets QA'd by a human, but in the final form, not reading the code.

AI-assisted generally means that a human is reviewing the code, though there's a lot of doubt about how well that can really be done with the amount of code an AI can output. It's generally capable of being as fast or faster than a human can review it.

I agree with the thought, but sometimes things are so bad that it's worth an exception.

This looks like one of those things.

Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe aren't "occasionally on space ships". That's fundamental to their entire plot.

From Wikipedia, though: "Space opera is a subgenre of science fiction[1] and science fantasy[2] that emphasizes epic outer space adventures set in a universe in which faster-than-light travel has become common."

Stargate, even without the 2 series above, absolutely fits that definition. Very little of SG1 takes place on Earth. It's absolutely about aliens and crossing distances faster than light, and the epic adventures and social interactions that result.

Edit: Also, there's pretty heavy discussion that Dr Who is space opera.

The "Stargate" franchise absolutely had both space and space ships.

The parent dropped the "sg1" and is talk about the entire franchise, not just 1 show or movie in it.

Rarest is terrible. I absolutely know that baked ube is a street food, and way less likely to be guessed than Udon, and yet I'm penalized for nobody else guessing it yet?

I didn't even play latest and oldest, because that's just a guessing game.

Are there no accounts? Can I not continue playing on a different PC?

No, it has stars. /s

sigh Yeah, that's really a bad look for them to claim no likes and then have something that is functionally identical.

I've been eyeing this since you posted it yesterday, and I hadn't seen the Pro UI stuff until someone here pointed it out.

I have to say that $2000 UI components is enough for me to look for something else instead, even with the free tier being so generous today. I understand the desire the earn money from hard work, but that's exactly why I would be wary of the free tier getting smaller and smaller over time, or essentially being abandoned.

I'm not saying I'd never adopt it. But that Pro UI situation would make me wait years before even considering it. And with AI the way it is, I expect to see a lot of alternatives that are similar soon, and perhaps they meet my needs better, too.

I was going to wait a while anyhow, but now that wait time will be a lot longer.

TP Link's support is the worst, too.

I bought an Omada, thinking I was getting a quality product. It died in the first 2 weeks.

Support accused me of not using a surge protector (it was plugged into a UPS) and grudgingly sent me a replacement.

Even at home, I can't risk having to replace my router every 2 weeks, so I just stuffed it in a box. I did use it again later, but wasn't happy with it, and ended up with a Ubiquiti Unifi UCG-Ultra. It's better than the TP-Link Deco and Omada, Eero Pro, Google Wifi, and Asus routers I've had, though I'll admit some of the Asus were pretty decent.

Well it had to copy someone's style. I guess it was you! :D

Seriously, though, there's nothing Claude does that isn't fairly common in some circle. It's just that so much of it is uncommon in daily speech patterns. We asked it to be an expert at things, and so it acts like experts do. It doesn't surprise me that it doesn't talk in the way people do for every day speech.

I think it's more generous to say it's not the only hard part. It's certainly very, very hard for a lot of people.

FreeCad had problems for years with certain functions when changing parameters. Does this avoid those problems from the start?

IIRC, FreeCad has at least partially addressed the remaining problems with that recently.

The "Worth" at the end clues it in for me. The rest seems a little clipped, but that "Worth" at the start of a sentence is painful. Most people would say "It's worth" instead.

Of course, I've now helped Anthropic fix that and make it harder to detect, but oh well.

No, I think it's that we've been repeatedly told of the dangers of plugging a generator into a socket of the house and the problems that will occur if the power comes back on if it's still running.

When we had our solar installed, we had to make sure we had a newer power meter that could handle power both ways, so it probably is a problem for some situations, but the power flow for a single solar panel into a plug isn't enough to trip this, or maybe newer power meters are better?

We definitely think of it as somewhere a power comes out of, but I don't think it's the name, just that it's only ever been that way.

Clearly some people think of it differently if they're plugging generators into wall sockets to power the whole house, dumb as that may be.

It amazes me that you can tell people "I get better results with AI than the people I was paying" and their response is "no you aren't, you can't tell the difference". It's mind boggling.

I agree that it's not completely a fair comparison. But here's why I think that:

With AI, you can offload almost everything. With the saw, all I'm offloading is the cutting.

I don't actually have to make any decisions when doing woodworking. I can just buy some plans and follow them. The only time I need to make decisions is when I make something unique.

TBF, that's almost all the time for me.

But also TBF, it's the same with AI.

Sure, I can let it make all the decisions, but then I'm not going to end up with something uniquely mine. It's going to keep pulling back towards its training. To get what I want, I need to keep course-correcting the AI while building.

Some people are going to be fine with that, and will let is just make whatever it wants, and call it good enough. That's just like buying the plans and following them blindly.

The difference between tablesaws and AI is, like I said above, the range of things it can do. It's like having all the saws I listed above, plus electric screw drivers, drills, laser levels, and the whole rest of the toolkit, all in 1 box. You even get a chatbot that will tell all those things what to do to follow the plans.

Making good plans has always been one of the hardest parts of both woodworking and software development.

When you have half-arsed plans (in either discipline) you need to fix things up as you go, and that hasn't changed with AI.

AI removed a lot of the other hard things, but left the hard planning step, and the hard "hide the screwups" steps.

Using a table saw for just 10 minutes eroded my ability to persist at hand sawing lumber.

The time difference was measured in hours, not minutes, and and effort required to hand-saw is enormous. Also, the accuracy difference is ridiculous, even with a lot of practice, and maintaining that accuracy continues to be a struggle with hand-sawing.

I now own 6 different electric saws for different specific purposes. Table saw, chop saw, circular saw, track saw, jig saw, scroll saw... I actually probably have more. I got rid of my chainsaw because it lost its chain in a way that really scared me one day. I might get another some day, but not that one again. Does a Dremel count? I'm going to say 'no' so I don't have to count 2 of those.

And yet, I still own a 2 Japanese pull saws and a normal American hand saw. I don't use them as much, but some times they're still worth the effort.

No, I don't think it was a microphone problem. It was only like 1 in 20 calls. Really rare, and that meant it was always a surprise that made you sound like an idiot. And back then, almost nobody used a headset on personal phones. Cellphones weren't even that common.

No, but it will do the opposite You can choose Sonnet and set "/advisor opus" and it will reach up when it thinks it needs to.

I wondered why it didn't work. Chrome here, same experience. British is fine.

You know what's worse? Talking, and then hearing yourself half a second later.

I worked at a callcenter that had a problem that sometimes that would happen. The pet theory was that meant they were recording the call to audit it.

You end up stuttering because you think the caller is talking and you want to listen to them, but it's just your own voice back.

You do eventually learn to deal with it, but it was always terrible.

Or you get laid off and go do something else. :/