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anachronist

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  • What is Firefox supposed to do?

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  • My experience is that Firefox often has problems on Google-owned properties. Either performance/responsiveness or functionality just not working. Why this would be is left as an exercise for the reader.

  • elon is a lame poser

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  • I love the idea that not only is he all-hat-no-cattle, he also faked the hat.

  • elon is a lame poser

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  • Texas gov't under Abbot is sucking his c***.

  • Police Really Want a Cybertruck, Email Shows

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  • Municipal police mostly came from the great railroad strike of 1871.

  • AR15's are not Hunting Rifles.

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  • The storm troops on Endor were not ambushed. They knew the attack was coming. They were fighting from prepared defenses on a fire base. The fact that they were drawn out of the base to fight in the jungle was a lack of judgement on their part. Their whole mission was to protect the shield generator.

  • AR15's are not Hunting Rifles.

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  • When faced with opposition without plot armour and reasons to keep them alive, Stormtroopers are fucking brutal, as seen in The Empire Strikes Back - Hoth was somewhere between a decisive Imperial victory and an Imperial Curb Stomp

    Their shooting was also terrible on Endor. Maybe those were the flunky storm troopers that got put on the imperial guard due to nepotism or corruption?

  • Do or do not, there is no try

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  • Yeah but he also donated to ActBlue so it sounds like he was a RINO Libtard. Probably a Marco Rubio supporter.

  • AR15's are not Hunting Rifles.

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  • In the arctic standard bear protection is a five shot bolt action 30.06. You'd load them with three FMJs to scare the bear away and two hollow points in case that didn't work.

    The truth about predators is they aren't interested in dying for their meals. Prove to them that approaching will be deadly to them and they won't approach. You don't have to kill the entire pack, you just have to kill or wound one, or even just blast some rocks in their path.

  • Do or do not, there is no try

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  • There was a time when America could reliably produce assassins who could kill both presidential candidates and even sitting presidents. What the he'll happened? Deindustralization? Too much porn and video games?

  • AR15's are not Hunting Rifles.

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  • Everyone's saying the guy used an AR but given the relatively small number of shots and the fact that the bullets went everywhere except where the guy was presumably aiming my bet is he was a Socialist Rifle Club guy with an SKS.

  • AR15's are not Hunting Rifles.

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  • You'd really want something bigger for hogs and deer. Never known anyone who hunts deer with .223. You really want one of options in thirty caliber.

    While I'm sure someone hunts rabbits with a rifle you'd really use a shotgun or a really small rifle for them.

    .223 is a good coyote round though. There are better coyote rounds available and there are better coyote rifles in .223.

  • AR15's are not Hunting Rifles.

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  • Ar-15s are potentially ok hunting rifles for large birds and small mammals although there are better options out there.

    The main argument I've heard for an AR besides the larp thing is that it's easy to find compatible accessories because it's a popular "open source" common platform.

    But honestly any hunter who is serious about hunting with .223 probably has a better gun that they hunt with.

  • Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable

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  • Funny you should mention that McKinsey published a paper a few months back concluding that GenAI will take over most of the jobs in America because it was good at doing what McKinsey Associates do. Missed by the authors is that the job of a McKinsey associate is to confidently spout nonsense all day long and that's actually exactly what chatgpt is programmed to do.

  • Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable

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  • American Psycho (Sam Altman) and his chorus have been hyping AI and the rest of the world's reaction has ranged from "these guys seem smart and chatgpt is impressive so what do I know?" to "isn't this guy a bitcoin bro?"

  • Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable

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  • I feel like customer support is one place where AI may actually be used going forward because companies don't really care if their customers get support. The only wrinkle is that if companies get held to promises the AI makes (there's that Canada Air incident from last year where the AI offered a refund and the company tried to walk it back).

  • Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable

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  • Naw if they're publicly bashing it they've already dumped on all the downside risk onto their customers and now they're net short.

  • Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable

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  • Game of Life has cool emergent properties that are a lot more interesting and fun to play with than LLMs. LLMs also have emergent properties like, for instance, failing classification due to the manipulation of individual image pixels.

  • Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable

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  • I suspect Intuit fired those workers for other reasons (free file) and are using AI as an excuse because to admit that free-file is an existential threat to their business is to admit that their company has no long term business prospects.

  • Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable

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  • This is the same middlebrow dismissal that AI advocates have been using for years.

    "It's just a stochastic parrot." "How do you know that you aren't just a stochastic parrot?"

    Well we do know. There are experts on human cognition. They have been studying it for decades. We may not know enough about it to know how to make a computer do it. But we certainly know enough about it to know when a computer chatbot is not doing it.