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Reminds me of a TV ad, older than this comic, for a frosted cereal (probably not the first one that comes to mind) and the adult about to consume them has the inner dialogue “What about fat?!” “Wimp!”

(I always heard it as “Wamp!”, so to this day I’m not completely sure if it was an early example of a spoken sad trombone, but “Wimp!” is more likely.)

They don’t make ads like that any more.

Important: The article mentions that they are being replaced not that the SAC is being done away with completely.

On the other hand:

Twitch declined to comment on whether the [new council members] would be paid.

The replaced text there is “ambassadors”, that is, Twitch ambassadors, people given a title that means nothing outside of Twitch, but is the only payment these people will be getting, outside, perhaps, a sense of pride and accomplishment.

Set one up when I used a different handle but literally never used it. Thought I had a short ID number but, for reasons I’m not sure of, the piddly scrap of paper I wrote the number down on has always been in a particular place (and has been there for well over a decade), and it was 9 digits.

Must have been thinking of that handle’s Slashdot ID. That was 6 digits.

… and technically still is. Wow. The account is apparently still there. Not sure I’m going back there any time soon, but took this opportunity to reset the password just in case.

Ay, there’s the rub. Almost no-one’s going to pay for the top-notch system, and will instead go for the lowest bidder.

This hen laid a cannon?! That might be worth more than a goose that lays golden eggs to a warring king.

Surprised they haven’t tried to train a neural network to find a compression algorithm specifically for their sort of data.

There’s a ridiculous irony in the fact they haven’t, and it’s still ironic even if they have and have thrown the idea out as a failure. Or a dystopian nightmare.

But if it is the latter, they might help save time and effort by telling “the public” what avenues have already failed, or that they don’t want purely AI-generated solutions. Someone’s bound to try it otherwise.

Compilers were much less complex back then and didn’t do a great deal of optimisation. Also hardware was slow, so your compiled code, which wasn’t necessarily optimal either before or after the compilation phase, was at least half as fast as you wanted it to be.

If you wanted speed, you hand-rolled assembly.

It’s not yawn, but not because it’s great. It’s because it’ll be around for just long enough that it will create reliance on it, ruin many things, and then those people who have become reliant will find themselves in the position of having to unruin the many ruined things without the crutch to help them.

Or maybe I’m being the next iteration of the schoolteacher or parent who said that you won’t have a calculator in your pocket all the time.

But then, a calculator doesn’t need a terabyte of RAM. We’re a ways off that being consumer-affordable as yet. If past consumer RAM size trends are anything (and the only thing) to go by, a portable LLM would be a 2040s or 2050s expectation.

Assuming that you’d be allowed to have the terabyte of data for nothing, anyway. Exorbitant subscription models are likely to be the norm by then.

Ridiculous.

I think I like it.

… which is probably what my mother thought when she first set eyes on me, tbh.

It worked… or it will work? for Jeffrey Sinclair and Delenn. Just don’t think too hard about which one of them did it / has done it / will do it first.

And the closest thing to a moth wasn’t either of those.

Where does Yandex’s money go these days?

Oddly enough, Spock solves the problem (because of course he does, and it’s a comic that has to be done in 30 panels or so) by discovering that the city construction materials can be chemically dissolved into goo. Thankfully not the sort that overtakes a planet.

… at least assuming there wasn’t a sequel.

Somewhere around here I have a 1960s or '70s Star Trek annual with a story where machines like this end up converting an entire planet into one enormous city, and the people that live there can’t stop it.

The story is basically a warning about turning everything over to AI, not that they call it that specifically.

If my hasty checking is valid, there’s nothing in the Bible about holy water. There’s holding a baptism, but nothing about holy men blessing water to imbue it with the Holy Spirit.

As such, I assume that any liquid blessed by a priest might be considered holy.

Something something Godly Gatorade, Blessed Baja Blast etc.

The only place this will be active is on the computers of home users who don’t know how or don’t care to deactivate it. The computers of the common clay of IT usage. You know. Morons.

And to tie that meme in with an older one: A fool and his money are soon parted.

It’s hard to not care what others say when you’re forced into a pressure pot with them for hours at a time with no escape.

And the old advice of “just ignore them” does not work for all people. Sweet if it works for you, advice giver.

And it’s worse yet if the teachers don’t care… or partake in it.

Just gonna leave this here

No numbers in the article, so I’m going to assume that a modern smartphone would chew through several hundred of these per day and an EV would need a battery the size of a house.

Quora was supposed to be the high-brow answer to Yahoo Answers, but then Yahoo Answers was killed off.

Eventually the muppets found their way to Quora. Probably by accident at first, but the Quora moderation didn’t stop enough of the muppetry and now it’s just Yahoo Answers pretending not to be.

Someone in the article’s own comments section makes the same assertion as me, so my guess is that they’ve corrected the image on the article and the Fediverse’s various caches still have the original.