I know you meant that sarcastically, but isn’t that exactly what’s happening here?

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The last I read, de minimis still applied. I didn’t know until now that was done with.

As an avid collector of vinyl records: FUCK! I’ve got no problem sending $50 to a European artist who’s selling a limited run of records out of their living room. Hell, if it’s an artist I really like, I’ll spend $70. I’m not about to spend $70 and the artist get half of it.

Spending ludicrous amounts of cash of 12-inch pieces of plastic is totally fine with me, but I want my money going to the artist who’s making the music I love, not a government I voted against.

Do you have any programming experience?

Whisper.cpp is fairly easy to use, there are plenty of open source libraries for audio input, and sending text as keystrokes in Windows is quite easy.

There may very well be an existing solution, but if you want to put something together yourself, all the major building blocks already exist. You’d just have to write the code to tie it all together.

Do any serious developers actually use Copilot? I tried it, and my experience was that it’s great at generating simple code that I could easily write myself. Complex problems, 3rd party APIs, anything performance critical: It falls on its face. Finding and correcting methods that were deprecated 5 years ago or never existed in the first place took me longer than had I just read the docs and did it myself.

Giving a child unrestricted access to the internet is a terrible idea. I’m not trying to downplay the AI issues they brought up, but the parents are largely to blame, too. Parental controls, monitoring software, etc all exist for a reason.

Improve your what and do what? I have no idea what that means.

Canada seems like a nice place to visit in a few months.

No, not really. I just can’t stand musicals. It doesn’t matter how good an episode or movie is otherwise, I just can’t enjoy musicals.

I also didn’t want to completely skip the episode and miss any plot points, so mute with subtitles worked nicely.

That was the only episode of any Trek series where I had to watch the majority of it on mute.

I know what one of the three words in the title actually mean. If you want to know what a word means, you consult a dictionary. If people are actually using these words, it kind of makes sense to add their definitions.

I think you’re missing the point. The vast majority of gun owners will never have to use their firearms in self-defense, that much is true. Most responsible gun owners also hope they never have to. It’s also true that the vast majority of people with homeowners insurance will never have their house burn down, yet they still pay their insurance company every month.

Wouldn’t you at least like to give yourself a fighting chance in the event that the worst happens?

Are you suggesting that for the war to stop, a sovereign nation should cede territory to the country that’s been brutally attacking them for several years?

Because if so, that’s fucked up.

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Do you happen to use an ISP that implements CGNAT? I’ve seen this error, too, and I’ve read that it’s flagging CGNAT IPs as a VPN?

I think age of code plays a big part. 2 years ago: Yeah, I could do better, but it’s workable. 15 years ago: Delete everything and just start from scratch.

Would something like this hold up in court, I wonder? Could a prosecutor argue that “the algorithm said so” is enough probable cause?

I have to wonder if NPUs are just going to eventually become a normal part of the instruction set.

When SIMD was first becoming a thing, it was advertised as accelerating “multimedia,” as that was the hot buzzword of the 1990s. Now, SIMD instructions are used everywhere, any place there is a benefit from processing an array of values in parallel.

I could see NPUs becoming the same. Developers start using NPU instructions, and the compiler can “NPU-ify” scalar code when it thinks it’s appropriate.

NPUs are advertised for “AI,” but they’re really just a specialized math coprocessor. I don’t really see this as a bad thing to have. Surely there are plenty of other uses.

I disagree. YouTube has a huge amount of educational content, tutorials, and quality entertainment. Sure, a huge percentage is brainrot trash, but there’s plenty of value to be found.

So many people completely miss the mark when it comes to AI and coding. It’s great for code reviews on code you wrote yourself, and it can be handy when you’re developing code for a domain you don’t have much experience in.

What it is not good for is writing code on its own. Not if you want your code to be efficient, or performant, work correctly, or even compile.