Heh. Senseless.

Which is kinda unfortunate. I had a solar roof (purchased in 2019) and compared to traditional panels it was comparable cost, slightly lower W/sqft but higher sqft, and much more attractive.

Yeah, I bet at least half of the major models would fall for disinformation and vote for fascists. The Turing test is seeing if the AI will commit hate crime using legal justification, right? Definitely by next year.

Surely, painting a large group of people with one brush can’t hurt anything. 🙄

Israeli leadership is obviously doing evil, but do we really think that 100% of the society is sociopaths?

They tried to do twice a month and got their wires crossed.

Common in Silo. It feels like he wandered in off the street and gets prompted for every line. Modern wardrobe and affect in a post-apocalyptic setting. Completely flat and out of tune with the world. Up against Tim Robbins and Iain Glen, it’s just more glaring.

No, it’s his menacing presidential portrait.

We’ve had text-to-speech for a long time. The new element is that a context aware processing model explicitly can “understand” the story and add emotion to vocalization.

That said, Amazon can fuck all the way off with this. Let people do art and performance. Figure out how to intelligently automate your warehouses and distribution centers and don’t stop paying the people you make redundant.

Fuckin’ Bezos, man.

I doubt there’s a “fix” so much as a “we’re not changing the thing again.” This is a classic symptom of a poor data migration: having something that works be moved/changed and lose state but then work for the future.

I’m sure the persistence layer is much more complex than a flat database table, but it’s still just item IDs and character slots.

But also… do they not know how to do migration scripts? Is their persistence changing so drastically that they can’t even translate “items equipped” to “items in storage”? WTF.

I’m sure there’s a reasonable explanation for skipping a seemingly small step, but I’m worried it’s closer to “that won’t make us money” than “it’s technically difficult.”

We’re not too bad here in California, besides the security theatre in airports.

But yeah, I don’t blame you.

If it’s interesting in your head, no.

If it’s interesting in your pants, yes.

Just enjoy the hyperspace bypass, I expect.

Yeah, the idea isn’t that church and state are matter/antimatter, but that the state shouldn’t be used to direct people towards or away from any religion.

If the government establishes fair criteria for “school eligible for federal funding” then there’s no reason those schools must be secular or of any particular religion.

Wait until some MAGAt groks that their tax dollars might go to a (((school))) or end up helping Muslims in some way.

TBF, this regime doesn’t actually support any form of real education.

A box of rocks would at least have the sense not to vote for a fascist criminal.

Bibbidi… bobbidi… bow!

If someone kidnapped you and illegally transported you to your hometown and kept you in prison a labor camp (or brothel, I suppose) without any proof of wrongdoing, you would also have been trafficked. Origin and destination doesn’t come into it.

It’s by usage via API, but all-you-can-eat via web UI

Yeah, a duty to hundreds of millions of people and the future, that one has to volunteer for and convince a plurality of their fitness for… not just a job that you should be able to neglect, let alone subvert.

Well, they did just establish proof of life yesterday, so he’s probably not in that photo.

Even a toddler would figure out to make orderly stacks of bodies, not just a heap. That’s a terrifying toddler, BTW.