dustyData

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[–] dustyData 22 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Percentages can hide the impact of tendencies. Steam has 132MM monthly active users, assuming the poll is a representative sample. Then, 2% is a bit over 2.6MM people using a linux device. This doesn't include steamOS. That's at least equivalent to an entire small country's population using Linux.

[–] dustyData 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The only money to be made in the LLM craze is data scraping, collection, filtering, collation and data set selling. When in a gold rush, don't dig, sell shovels. And AI needs a shit ton of shovels.

The only people making money are Nvidia, the third party data center operators and data brokers. Everyone else running and using the models are losing money. Even OpenAI, the biggest AI vendor, is running at a loss. Eventually the bubble will burst and data brokers will still have something to sell. In the mean time, the fastest way to increase model performance is by increasing the size, that means more data is needed to train them.

[–] dustyData 20 points 2 weeks ago

Because Chrono Trigger's story is more like three bibles stacked. Not a flimsy novella.

[–] dustyData 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They are both the same entities.

[–] dustyData 1 points 3 weeks ago

Indeed he would've. By all accounts it makes no sense.

[–] dustyData 8 points 3 weeks ago

Sepsis, Batman's ultimate archenemy.

[–] dustyData 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

Oh there are these things I call Hollywood wounds. All these wounds that are supposed to be survivable in action movie land but would be very real life threats. Stabbings are nasty, specially in the abdomen. You just got signed to play craps with loaded dice and the casino is abdominal cavity infections. You might survive the bleeding, but the fever can still take you out several days later.

There are others like being shot in the leg or the shoulder. Technically survivable, but will destroy your mobility forever. Another one is vertebral spine fractures (which this batman also miraculously survives). If you can walk again after that it would be after years of rehab, and even then you'd still be in pain the whole time until the day you die. Superhero movies are very unrealistic on their handling of human anatomy.

[–] dustyData 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I got this exact same cookie and turtle image prompt for a captcha, except the options were a techno rainbow background with random disfigured raccoon faces. I think someone poisoned that particular model and no one in the team has noticed.

[–] dustyData 112 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The public learning that efficiency is billionaire's dog whistle for mass layoffs.

[–] dustyData 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

You can pay with bells that you earn doing regular activities…or… you can exchange a bell package that's only 5000 diamonds for 300k bells. You can buy diamonds for only 5.99$ per 1000 diamonds or our flash sale for 39.99 for 10k diamonds.

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[–] dustyData 13 points 3 weeks ago

Except, she is not a child. She is a grown person who votes and supports opinions that will get vulnerable people killed. This are both very childish ways of handling conflict.

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[–] dustyData 6 points 3 weeks ago

The problem of a minimalism based image is that there isn't any personality left to project. Apple got into streaming without a clue of what to do with it. It's not their field. Media requires expression and spectacle. Apple's minimalism, although it does express some things, it is not suited for high energy entertainment. So most of Apple's original shows are very low energy and dozy.

They also have drilled the walled garden, the golden cage, the expensive exclusivity for almost three decades of alienating marketing as well. It means that people assume they aren't allowed to even see what's available on Apple streaming unless they are already part of the ecosystem. That and the whole Apple TV, Apple TV+ brand confusion. Then people assume, correctly, that they will have to buy an Apple device and then also pay for a subscription.

Coupled with the low energy of their brand image, it makes people uninterested in what they have to offer. They see it as not worth the expensive cost of entry. This puts Apple at an impasse. Where they have to sell minimalist, exclusivity and alienation in a business that only thrives financially with colorful, inclusive and creative expression.

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