Unfortunately, simply reading the constitution without any knowledge of how to parse legal language or any background knowledge about major Supreme Court decisions will leave the average person more confused than informed.

So I don’t doubt that people read it, but there is a reason that law school isn’t simply reciting the constitution.

While the average voter may be ignorant… JD Vance absolutely knows better, he doesn’t get to hide behind claims of ignorance or confusion.

I know this one, from Middle School civics: The Judicial Branch!

Maybe they don’t teach that in law school (???)

Yes, even then.

You don’t have morals if they’re conditioned on the identity of the person they’re being applied to. That just makes you a different flavor of bigot.

Nobody deserves to be sexually assaulted, even the people you don’t like.

I love these threads, free karma:

Man bad.

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Person A: Vague, sexist generalizations deserve rude answers.

Person B: WHAT ABOUT WOMEN IN AFGHANISTAN?!

So, what about women’s treatment in Afghanistan disproves the claim “Vague, sexist generalizations deserve rude answers”?

Do vague, sexist generalizations not deserve rude answers because of the treatment of women in Afghanistan?

Maybe if women were treated better in Afghanistan then vague sexist answers would be more deserving of rude answers?.. Or would they be less deserving?

Are you a bot? Because nothing that you typed makes any sense, at all, in this context.

Or DEI people

Translated to right-wing populist

There are thousands of different diffusion models, not all of them are trained on copyright protected work.

In addition, substantially transformative works are allowed to use content that is otherwise copy protected under the fair use doctrine.

It’s hard to argue that a model, a file containing the trained weight matrices, is in any way substantially similar to any existing copyrighted work. TL;DR: There are no pictures of Mickey Mouse in a GGUF file.

Fair use has already been upheld in the courts concerning machine learning models trained using books.

For instance, under the precedent established in Authors Guild v. HathiTrust and upheld in Authors Guild v. Google, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that mass digitization of a large volume of in-copyright books in order to distill and reveal new information about the books was a fair use.

And, perhaps more pragmatically, the genie is already out of the bottle. The software and weights are already available and you can train and fine-tune your own models on consumer graphics cards. No court ruling or regulation will restrain every country on the globe and every country is rapidly researching and producing generative models.

The battle is already over, the ship has sailed.

I left a flat spot on my door so people can knock

Companies that are incompetently led will fail and companies that integrate new AI tools in a productive and useful manner will succeed.

Worrying about AI replacing coders is pointless. Anyone who writes code for a living understands the limitations that these models have. It isn’t going to replace humans for quite a long time.

Language models are hitting some hard limitations and were unlikely to see improvements continue at the same pace.

Transformers, Mixture of Experts and some training efficiency breakthroughs all happened around the same time which gave the impression of an AI explosion but the current models are essentially taking advantage of everything and we’re seeing pretty strong diminishing returns on larger training sets.

So language models, absent a new revolutionary breakthrough, are largely as good as they’re going to get for the foreseeable future.

They’re not replacing software engineers, at best they’re slightly more advanced syntax checkers/LSPs. They may help with junior developer level tasks like refactoring or debugging… but they’re not designing applications.

I know that it’s a meme to hate on generated images people need to understand just how much that ship has sailed.

Getting upset at generative AI is about as absurd as getting upset at CGI special effects or digital images. Both of these things were the subject of derision when they started being widely used. CGI was seen as a second rate knockoff of “real” special effects and digital images were seen as the tool of amateur photographers with their Photoshop tools acting as a crutch in place of real photography talent.

No amount of arguments film purist or nostalgia for the old days of puppets and models in movies was going to stop computer graphics and digital images capture and manipulation. Today those arguments seem so quaint and ignorant that most people are not even aware that there was even a controversy.

Digital images and computer graphics have nearly completely displaced film photography and physical model-based special effects.

Much like those technologies, generative AI isn’t going away and it’s only going to improve and become more ubiquitous.

This isn’t the hill to die on no matter how many upvotes you get.

Damn near

Exactly.

All of my services are ‘local’ to the VPN. Nothing happens on the LAN except for DHCP and WireGuard traffic.

Remote access is as simple as pressing the WireGuard button.

Key based authentication is so hot right now

No, this is Patrick

As soon as they became a publicly tradable company they are obligated, by the Dodge v Ford ruling, to only maximize shareholder value. Being not evil isn’t an option.

Where it actually breaks is unknowable, but the structure is:

Judges determine the interpretation of the law. The executive branch enforces the law.

Both of those branches derive their power from the constitution.

The military protects the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. The President is the Command in Chief of the military, however service members from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to a Private fresh out of boot camp are instilled with the obligation to refuse illegal orders.

If the Supreme Court rules on an issue and the President tries to use the military in contravention of that ruling, the military is supposed to follow the constitution, not the President.

But also fuck this type of partisan rage bait article. This type of writing is what divides us, even if it’s saying things you wanna hear.

Hear, hear.

This kind of ‘information’ is like doing drugs, it feels good but it destroys your ability to function as a normal human being. Getting addicted to outrage and ‘owning the <other side>’ is playing into the divisive politics that allows the powers that be to divide us. Nobody is going to want to work with you if you’re calling them a MAGAT and you’re not going to want to work with anyone who’s attacking you.

Your enemy isn’t the other middle class and poor people who’ve been convinced to wear a different color hat than you. If you can’t see that and adjust your behavior appropriately then you still have a lot to learn and I hope we have enough time for you to catch up.

That’s pretty close, the Permissive Action Link code was 00000000 for about 20 years.

This hamster is clearly in the know…

It’s not the eggs that you should worry about, salmonella is largely controlled by the egg processing company. The wheat used to make flour can be contaminated by rat feces, which is then ground into the batch.

If you want to eliminate the risk, and still eat the raw cookie dough, you can brown flour in the oven before making the cookie dough. It won’t work well if you try to bake it, but if you want to use raw cookie dough (like, in a batch of ice cream) but don’t want to contract e.Coli then brown flour is the way to go.

I mean, I still taste the raw cookie dough before I bake… but just in case someone needed to know, there’s a safe way to do it.