What are they going to do when they kill the rest of the olds that contributed and built that site?

My local subreddit replaced the mod during the APIpocalypse and it has turned to next door style whining and bickering. Then there are the also-whining counter whiners, and the shills.

For you or the shareholders?

She’s so pretty, I like the white furs that stick out

The whole point of going after kids is:

• hook them young so they never form other habits
• make them weaker (stupider, poorer, less healthy) so they can’t defend themselves and have to buy your shit

Facebook bought Instagram because it was more popular with young people over grandma got on Facebook.

Most companies don’t have the skill for that.

Meta yes, but most other companies no.

I dumped my phone company over their AI answering system.

It was totally broken:

• you can’t know when the AI is lying or will do something it says it will for you
• it’s not designed to be helpful, it’s designed to keep you away from humans
• this particular system required you to say a correct and available time you want a callback, and if you were incorrect it would hang up on you.

I’ll bet the cost metrics looked great, 100% of calls being handled without a callback! Oh, the customers leaving is unrelated, talk to the retention department.

Just utter fucking stupidity. No, not stupidity, complete disregard for the customer to serve some department heads self interests. There needs to be a word stronger than greed…

I do not want to work with such people, and rite incompetence is something any organization should try to combat.

But forcing period to use AI tools will only mask this problem.

Teach him ctrl+r, life changing when you plug out into fzf

I cannot for the life of me understand AI mandates.

Who doesn’t want to be able to get their work done easier? Nobody.

Then it follows you shouldn’t have to tell your employees to use a tool if it makes them however much as productive as CEOs think that tech demo should make them.

I think it’s pretty obvious that at the exec level AI is the ultimate hoodwinking machine. It’s made 90% of them look like the out of touch morons they are. The 10% or whatever that aren’t trying to force this down their staff’s throats in the hopes they can replace said staff are coming out smelling like roses.

Don’t fit a square peg in a round hole.

My idempotent claim was too broad and wrong, up to aliasing that is reversible.

I think I’ve been talking about this differently than you, when you get 8bit into, 255 in/out is correct.

When generating data I do it in the natural [0,1] space, then map to whatever domain I’m quantizing for.

In that case, for N bins you divide by N+1 (and round however you want via correction) so 256. I was probably wrong earlier around this, 256 is correct for quantizing that way.

Hi, Reginald

I would love to be a weirdo with a home studio

That sounds fucking awesome

I did two eggs for breakfast and a fried egg sandwich for 3 days, then just the sandwich, then omelettes, but it wasn’t enough.

I’ve never made devils eggs, I guess I should have tried. Ended up giving them to family.

It is doable, but I also wasn’t that committed after a few days.

I gave them to a family member instead

I was trying to finish a 18 eggs in a week because I needed to travel

The level of sulfur in my farts was comparable to visiting a sulfur mine. It was absolutely brutal.

I did not finish all 18. 18 is a lot of eggs. I am not Gaston or Cool Hand Luke.

If you’re generating random numbers you apply the correction to your random numbers: [0, 1) is a bin for zero, and [255,256) maps to 255. If you are sampling as such, you are responsible for applying the correction as part of your quantization.

256 never comes up, because it cannot in the 8bit quantization.

The correct way to scale a number from one range to another is ((value - min) / (max - min)) * output_range + output_min and in this way the standard colour normalization should be (value - 0)/(255 - 0) * 1 + 0 = value / 255

Now the question becomes whether an 8bit pixel value is a correct representation of a colour, or should it quantize to a half value. To answer this, I aggressively point to the above equation. It is fine. There are 256 well considered values, and any system with higher resolutions/precision should also map from 0 to 1 per channel.

It should be obvious to the reader that 0.5/256 is not zero, and therefore not black. The 256 method is also not idempotent, applying it once destructively alters the data.

And the argument that 256 has higher resolution: so would 354256, but there’s no sensible place that matters.

To train their AI on and now that they’ve got the goods they’ve kicked Reddit to the curb

Are you talking about NixOS?

You can install post user nix home manager distributions which are separate from the shared nix environment (not sure if that’s the right term)

I suspect getting the dates wrong is because websites ump their publish date when nothing has changed, which keeps them showing up in results for extended/indefinite periods.

Obviously Google should police that, but Google doesn’t use Google news I don’t think.