For sure, taking control away from the users is terrible and scummy, but I think it’s an entirely different issue, covered by “right to repair”. A very small amount of people had the know how and the confidence to perform the repairs themselves even before this anti consumer practices became so widespread, so I don’t think it’s a huge factor in decrease of skill. I would say a much bigger factor is the fact that technology has become exponentially more complex. You can’t just open up a radio and replace a vacuum tube, everything is a microchip now, and the soldering iron isn’t gonna help much there. I guess eventually we will reach technology complexity and abstraction of such a level that no single person can hold the knowledge to “fix” it on their own.

This is kind of like blaming car manufacturers for people not knowing how to drive manual and how cars work under the hood, because they made cars reliable and simple to use.

There’s always an incentive to make things more accessible. Skills always become outdated because of that. How many of us know how to skin game and cook it on naked fire? Not many, I presume.

Chromebook for all its flaws and limitations still let children, who would not have otherwise used any computing device, at least use one.

Take into account that I have my linear algebra exam in a week and I merely hope to get a passing grade, but apparently, in the very least they are useful for solving systems of equations using very simple algorithm-based operations.

It’s a running joke in the cartoon that people/animals keep calling Pumba a pig, he gets mad and insists he’s “Mr. Pig”.

Did you just call their mom a pig? It’s Mr. Pig!

I’m under 35 and I was playing Prince of Persia on DOS first (in 93-94). Being born in a second world country has its… benefits(?)

I know that avatar cause that user works on Analogue Pocket FPGA cores.

Where’s their dad’s friend — Pumba?

Electromagnets engage when you release the mouse.

Could any duck/goose experts please clarify whether that’s a goose or not?

I mean, they listen sometimes. But the point is, they, as any other company, were doing it to pretend that they are cool and progressive. As the result they got mostly negative reactions. So why bother with the effort if you’re only gonna reduce your already dwindling player base. IIRC, they were very small symbolic events anyway.

I’m pretty sure this happened because sooo many players complained about the event the last times. I remember boycotts and stuff.

I’m not saying Jagex isn’t bad, but this time it’s on players.

I don’t remember Rimi. Is it new or was it just small back then? The two main ones were Maxima and iki.

Happy cake day, btw.

In my experience, when using reasoning models, it can count, but not very consistently. I’ve tried random assortments of letters and it can count them correctly sometimes. It seems to have much harder time when the same letter repeats many times, perhaps because those are tokenized irregularly.

I don’t know what part of what I said prompted all those downvotes, but of course all the reasonable people understood, that the “AGI in 2 years” was a stock price pump.

I get the meme aspect of this. But just to be clear, it was never fair to judge LLMs for specifically this. The LLM doesn’t even see the letters in the words, as every word is broken down into tokens, which are numbers. I suppose with a big enough corpus of data it might eventually extrapolate which words have which letter from texts describing these words, but normally it shouldn’t be expected.

I was participating in the comment section of that post, and I was actually defending the criticism of* using AI for memes, but I agree that mods over there are… a little too proactive. Like, I was debating with a person and their comments were getting removed. Sure, I disagreed with that person, but their comments weren’t particularly outrageous as to be removed.

On the other hand, it seems that both communities have a couple “outspoken vegan” kind of members whose intent is to be the guy from “stop having fun!” meme. Which causes mod overreaction.

Ok, thanks! Good to know there’s a backup plan. For now Arc still works fine, just no updates anymore.

Does any other browser let me open 2 windows with the same synced tabs? Also, permanent per-space tabs, please.

This IS human expression. Human had a concept and realized it using a tool. Human expression comes in many shapes and forms. How is this any less effort than adding caption to a template image, which is 80% of regular memes? IMO, you’re just biased and don’t treat it fairly.