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GSMArena | Sony Xperia 10 VI review (www.gsmarena.com)

Got to agree with the conclusion of the review, while this seems like a decent offering (and I personally like the “retro” look), for Є400, you might as well get a A55 with a much better screen and probably longer security support (Android OS updates aren’t that important these days).

huginn,

It’s tragic the 1 VI Is a Europe only release. I was looking forward to picking it up in the US.

huginn,

On the One hand I live in a major metro. On the other hand I have family out in bumblefuck middle of nowhere. So I’ve gotta have the US only bands.

huginn,

Amigo - the corpos already know. They also know that anyone who hates ads enough to install and maintain ad blockers is also not going to click on ads. They’re wasted impressions. The amount an advertiser pays to put an ad in front of you is a rounding error compared to the amount they pay when you click.

When I worked at G I had a Linux laptop. It came pre-installed with Firefox and uBlock origin in addition to Chrome.

If Google is distributing Firefox with uBlock internally to employees they know about ad blockers.

It’s similar to how scam emails always have egregious spelling errors: they’re trying to select out the people that won’t fall for the scam.

huginn,

Which he’s still working on.

People can do 2 things.

huginn,

Don’t forget closing the mental asylums so they can use the ill as slaves in prison.

huginn,

It helps that it’s being called “southern chiv” which I presume is either southern chivalry or southern knight.

Harper’s also noted that this was published weeks before a presidential election.

huginn,

There are plenty of good arguments against SMRs: none of them include terrorism.

The theory was always that you could get economies of scale if you were building the same reactor every time in a factory and transporting it to install somewhere else. In practice those economies never materialized (did they even exist?)

Meanwhile solar, wind, and batteries have plummeted in cost. There is no need for base load power generation if we have sufficient battery storage and an oversupply of generators - which is entirely feasible for wind and solar.

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No need for power generation dedicated to the base load.

Nuclear power generation is base load only: it does not full the role of a peaker.

Battery + renewable technology is already the primary source of power on many grids and the trend continues accelerating in that direction.

huginn,

Grids*

Ducking autocorrect

What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say?

I have many conversations with people about Large Language Models like ChatGPT and Copilot. The idea that “it makes convincing sentences, but it doesn’t know what it’s talking about” is a difficult concept to convey or wrap your head around. Because the sentences are so convincing....

huginn,

I’m not positive I’m understanding your term naturalistic but no neuroscientist would say “we are just neurons”. Similarly no neuroscientist would deny that neurons are a fundamental part of consciousness and thought.

You have plenty of complex chemical processes interacting with your brain constantly - the neurons there aren’t all of who you are.

But without the neurons there: you aren’t anyone anymore. You cease to live. Destroying some of those neurons will change you fundamentally.

There’s no disputing this.

huginn,

Pedophile upset that raping children got her cut off from easy access to a pool of children to rape.

huginn,

It’s legal to be topless in New York. She didn’t commit a crime or anything.

huginn,

And some have 0 boobs and 0 testicles. Gender affirming care probably evens out

huginn,

bruh. 🤦‍♂️ “solar🌞punk” ☀️ is the most unrealistic and 🙄 blank ◻️ genre. its almost like an AI generated 🤖. no realism at all, a lack of style 💃💃. im not even diving into the fact that its most-used visual representation is freaking YOGURT AD🍦🍦🍦. i think that solar🌞punk 🌱 even less realistic than steam💨punk. like imagine 🧠 just adding several solar panels ☀️ and maybe a wind turbine 🌬️ to a factory or any building 🏬 that consumes electricity⚡⚡. the authors🤓 of this “punk” just don’t know how the real world 🌎 works (what are you going to do when there’s night 🌚 and no wind💨💨💨💨🤣🤣🙂‍↔️?)"

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A significant number of homeless in CA and WA have at least 1 job as far as I know.

Fast food workers make up 6% of the CA homeless population, for example.

huginn,

It sorta did. There was a “galactic campaign” but it didn’t have a Game Master the way that HD2 does.

huginn,

they

They being the publisher, Sony, who also was the one who removed it from many countries. Sony did the same thing with Ghosts.

huginn,

There devs have done an excellent job stabilizing the game to be fair. That launch was rouuuugh

huginn,

You can both engage in immediate harm reduction while also working towards solutions to poverty and deprivation.

Providing for people’s needs will be the most effective way to reduce the violent crime rate… But it won’t go away entirely. Ever. Some people have their heads screwed on backwards. Some people have fringe religious ideologies that encourage violence. Some people are raging alcoholics even with money and security - they’ll commit domestic violence no matter how wealthy they are.

None of them should own guns.

huginn,

Approximately the same number of people die from gun homicides as homelessness in the USA.

I don’t want to solve either/or - I want to solve both.

And while deprivation is a common root they have other uncommon causes that need addressing. The gun craze of America needs to be clamped down on and regulated.

We have the ability to do both. Why would you argue against one?

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Or speech that hurts his feelings

huginn,

I’m loving my zigbee2mqtt setup. Took a couple tries to get the mosquitto broker working right but worth it in the long run.

huginn,

Work gave me a 16gb laptop for Android development.

It took up to 20 minutes to incrementally compile.

They eventually bumped me up to 32gb when I complained enough that my swap file was 20gb.

Suddenly incremental compiles are <2 min

huginn,

Who gives a fuck about a tiny patch of forest when compared to reducing climate emissions?

I fucking hate Cars. I want them out of our cities and out of our lives. They’re shackles and chains around our social fabric.

But they’re never going entirely away and every gas car we replace with an electric car is a categorical success. We should make building massive battery plants cheaper.

Because you can’t drink water if you’re dead and no forest will compare in carbon impact per square foot when weighed against the reductions that electric vehicles bring us.

We can replant forests once this catastrophe is handled but we’re in red fucking alert and any progress against gas cars is good progress. Damn the short term consequences.

huginn,

but it isn’t so clear cut

It’s demonstrably several orders of magnitude less complex. That’s mathematically clear cut.

Where is the cutoff on complexity required?

Philosophical question without an answer - We do know that it’s nowhere near the complexity of the brain.

both our brains and most complex AI are pretty much black boxes.

There are many things we cannot directly interrogate which we can still describe.

It’s impossible to say this system we know vanishingly little about is/isn’t dundamentally the same as this system we know vanishingly little about, just on a differentscale

It’s entirely possible to say that because we know the fundamental structures of each, even if we don’t map the entirety of eithers complexity. We know they’re fundamentally different - Their basic behaviors are fundamentally different. That’s what fundamentals are.

The first AGI will likely still have most people saying the same things about it, “it isn’t complex enough to approach a human brain.”

Speculation but entirely possible. We’re nowhere near that though. There’s nothing even approaching intelligence in LLMs. We’ve never seen emergent behavior or evidence of an id or ego. There’s no ongoing thought processes, no rationality - because that’s not what an LLM is. An LLM is a static model of raw text inputs and the statistical association thereof. Any “knowledge” encoded in an LLM exists entirely in the encoding - It cannot and will not ever generate anything that wasn’t programmed into it.

It’s possible that an LLM might represent a single, tiny, module of AGI in the future. But that module will be no more the AGI itself than you are your cerebellum.

But it doesn’t need to equal a brain to still be intelligent.

First thing I think we agree on.

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