The DVD menu for Requiem for a Dream will always be imprinted in my mind. I remember being young and setting it up for some friends and I kept flipping sources past what I thought was just an infomercial only to realize it was a brilliant little DVD menu.

Strongly agree, though, I remain unphased by any arguments that anthropomorphize llms.

There is a lot of your time involved in hiring someone else even if not active labor. And potentially stress in finding a contractor who will do a good job and the right job.

Doing it yourself can be rewarding and potentially much quicker. Why not do it yourself if you're able ( and assuming its not one of those things a pro could do in 1/10th the time).

A bit much describing our tech leadership as smartest people we've ever seen.

Greediest, perhaps?

I would call the founders of DeepMind (Demis Hassabis, Mustafa Suleyman, Shane Legg) very smart people. Im pretty sure with the amount of funding everyone of these companies have, they have a long list of very smart researchers in their companies.

I do not mean Suckerberg or Eric Schmidt.

Its not hard to imagine this is a serious risk in some cases. For example: A youtuber essentially working as a journalist made a big story recently about some illegal actions of a lying and litigious company (Bricks and Minifigs story). The youtuber has a 3rd video ready for when his gag order drops, if that were to be released early he could find himself in jail.

Related to the bricks and minifigs story checkout the coffeezilla episode on it

What do you mean by this tower of power effect? Was it just that the 747 had a more powerful take-off or something due to 4 engines?

On a normal takeoff, a 4 engine aircraft has less excess power available than a 2 engine aircraft. Aircraft engines are sized to provide a minimum climb gradient with a single engine inoperative. A twin engine aircraft with an with an engine failure had lost 50% of its power. A quad with an engine failure is only down 25%. So the twin’s engines are oversized to compensate.

There was quite a kick when the engines spooled up. I flew mainly SFO/LAX to SYD and the few minutes of full thrust you just kind of sat back in your seat and didn't try to do anything.

More or less. I remember the first time I flew in a tri-jet (after a 747), I was a bit worried on take-off about how we were still on the ground as the end of the runway approached.

To clarify slightly, I first heard "tower of power" used to describe the Saturn V. So two icons of the late 60s.

I'm worried many companies no longer care much if they make a mess or a way to hold them accountable.

Thats the entire history of companies right there though? They have always socialised costs, privatised profits.

I can't imagine concentrating on a complicated project like that on the go, but I went back to stare in awe at said picture and I think its a train or bus. Still a flex.

Still looks like a plane to me, with rows of 2-3-2 seats.

There are definitely no buses that wide.

My Wii has been on many planes and trains - and yes, there is a photo of each in my post.

There are buses that wide, for example those used in airports.

The picture with the black seats in on a train and the one with the green seats is on a plane.

It seems a bus to me, just look at the size of the windows. Airplanes don't have windows like that..

because of the mix of boredom, very shoddy internet that drops constantly and ANC earbuds removing distractions, I often find myself getting in the zone while riding the train back home from the office. As the kids say, I lock in

I think the author addresses this in saying that since AI output is statistically plausible by design its unlikely to improve in this area. Why do you think AI will get better in this way?

Its a shame there isn't more goodwill for some companies to bankroll a project like asahi linux. Keeping up with reverse engineering apple silicon seems like a very large task.

My hope is they can extend support for the A chips as Asahi Fedora has been splendid for my M1 Pro

asahi is great and i hope they keep going but i can't help but wonder why apple appears to be fully singular in their arm dominance

> i can't help but wonder why apple appears to be fully singular in their arm dominance

I have to imagine that a big part of it is the company can plan and act as a single unit. The teams building the CPU, the computers which house that CPU, and the operating system and software that'll run on those computers are all working together, and can plan new features which cut across those boundaries. Other ARM CPU/system manufacturers don't have that advantage.