This is why I like playing games through proton on Linux and the steam deck. Being able to “pause” an unpausable game by hitting the power button is great.

Reminder that all these Chat-formatted LLMs are just text-completion engines trained on text formatted like a chat. You’re not having a conversation with it, it’s “completing” the chat history you’re providing it. By randomly(!) choosing the next text tokens that seems like they best fit the text provided.

If you don’t directly provide, in the chat history and/or the text completion prompt, the information you’re trying to retrieve, you’re essentially fishing for text in a sea of random text tokens that seems like it fits the question.

It will always complete the text, even if the tokens it chooses minimally fit the context, it chooses the best text it can but it will always complete the text.

This is how they work, and anything else is usually the company putting in a bunch of guide bumpers to reformat prompts into coaxing the models to respond in a “smarter” way (see GPT-4o and “chain of reasoning”)

All LLMs are text completion engines, no matter what fancy bells they tack on.

If your task is some kind of text completion or repetition of text provided in the prompt context LLMs perform wonderfully.

For everything else you are wading through territory you could probably do easier using other methods.

Zelensky was elected in 2019 specifically on an anti-corruption platform and in the past 4 years even with the war going on he’s made (somewhat) steady progress towards that end.

Admittedly the pressure from the US to clean up the administration in exchange for weapons has given Zelensky a lot more political leeway to oust corrupted officials.

Also Statista is notorious for cherry-picking data and not presenting the whole story. If you dig deeper into The actual report you’ll see that Ukraine has been making steady gains against corruption since 2013. The organization even Specifically commends the country for making inroads into corruption:

Although it still scores low, war-torn Ukraine (33) is one of few significant improvers on the CPI, having gained eight points since 2013. The country has long struggled with systemic abuse of power, but has taken important steps to improve oversight and accountability.

Unfortunately as long as the US remains the global financial hegemon through the dollar, it’ll continue to be the most lucrative place to obtain assets globally.

Double Unfortunately the dollar is probably going to reach 1985 plaza accords levels of strength vs other currencies, but without the global economy working together to help the US like it did before.

An overly strong dollar will likely destroy the US’s ability to export goods.

Do you have any sources about this?

I had suspected stuff like this happened at the end of WW2 but I’ve never heard any concrete stories

USB-C is pin-compatible with every single other USB plug, so you should be able to get away with all USBC cables and some adapters for whatever plug type you’re trying to plug in.

There are only 3 types of pin sets, USB-C(USB 3.0 pins + 3 extra pins), USB-3.0(USB 1.0 + 5 extra pins) and USB-2.0 and lower. Everything else version wise is the controller on the actual board, not the cable.

Cable-wise you only need one to get the benefit of every other plug on the market.

The falcon rockets are fine but SpaceX has been raising prices on their launches since they won the majority of the contracts.

It used to cost 20 million a seat on the Soyuz until Russia became the sole provider of crewed launches, then they raised the price to about 80 million a seat.

Along comes musk and promises 20 million a seat and low and behold after the contracts are fulfilled they raise the price to 80 million as well.

SpaceX is falling into the same rut every company that becomes a monopoly enters into, and Starship is Musk’s personal meme rocket the taxpayer has already shelled out 4 billion for, and there’s not even a launch with a working payload.

SpaceX looks cool flashy as shit but they over-promise and under-deliver at the same rate Tesla does. Early success giving way to overconfidence and an inability to deliver on their lofty promises.

I don’t see this as a bad thing, maybe china landing people on the moon before us will light a fire on both sides of the aisle to stop fucking around with commercial space contracts.

Over-reliance on SpaceX is causing the same problems to Artemis that over-reliance on Boeing caused the SLS program. A year and a half behind schedule, blown their entire budget on a meme rocket that only potentially lifts half the tonnage promised.

The thesis also elicited that elite overproduction tends to favor political change in the dispossessed elite’s favor

It posits most revolutions, including communist revolutions, were pushed by elites who weren’t given the station they were promised.

Do they make wooden thin spatulas?

It’s your queries + your IP combined with the rest of the data the net collects from you that identifies you.

Ah yes the “skip the realities of building orbital megastructures” phase of capitalism.

Can we get like, uh, a space elevator first?

Nationalizing SpaceX would probably be financially disasteous (seeing as how Musk has to keep pulling money from his businesses to fund twitter, and to buy out Gwynne Shotwell, who was approached by Boeing to be their new CEO in late 2022)

Most people assume Musk’s businesses are all on incredibly shaky ground financially and are propped up entirely though hype and speculative credit.

It’s good that nobody knows how to use a sextant or a fax machine.

Modern Naval officers are taught to do navigation by starlight for backup purposes. Cause GPS ain’t that infallible.

And then right after he posts this fucking video of himself playing Diablo 2 while in a SpaceX launch review meeting:

https://x.com/joroulette/status/1849917452202934572

The faith people have that shotwell is insulating SpaceX from Musk’s incompetency feels more hopeful than factual.

Guix users looking around shiftily and sweating

Yea one of the big ironies of history was that Abraham Lincoln was that he wanted to ship all of the newly freed slaves out of the US and back to Africa or South America: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linconia

I used to sweat trying to explain nitter to people (RIP).