@ai6yr almost as if they thought their work with CBP was about to become public or something and they wanted to get ahead of it…

https://infosec.exchange/@micahflee/116155634519577811

@ai6yr someone gave Grok the laser.

It sounds ridiculous... but this is Whiskey Pete's military - the guy who's actively threatening to nationalize a private company because they won't take ethical safeguards off of their model.

@ai6yr I'm polite because it's habit.

WTF is wrong with people who don't just automatically say 'please' when asking for something? It is more effort for me to NOT be polite.

... Also, those extra tokens apparently add up and cost the AI companies lots of money. I vaguely remember an article where one of the AI CEOs was asking people to stop being polite because it costs a ton of money.

Win/win, I say.

@frichetten This is true... but if the AI is replacing something a human would be doing anyway, human in the loop wouldn't give you *worse* performance. At least not if we're strictly speaking about error rates.

There's a whole host of social science experiments that have probably yet to be conducted about complacency and such when the human in the loop is just giving approval vs doing the full analysis.

@FaithinBones @VisualStuart @ai6yr Not a bad idea. Really, though, I just need to thin the fruit. The time it would take me to cut some 2x4s to size is probably less than what it'd take to cut a couple dozen fruits off the tree and re-establish balance.

@ai6yr @VisualStuart The irony here is that we use tons of limes for mojitos all summer, but my lime tree shares soil with the neighbor's juniper trees, and those junipers just suck *all* the nutrition out of the soil. Even giving it away for free I can't get rid of all the citrus we produce, but we still need to buy limes. :facepalm:

@msbellows @flyingsaceur @ai6yr this thread took a turn quickly....

@FaithinBones @VisualStuart @ai6yr My mandarins and tangelos are currently so laden right now that I'm worried the branches are going to break. My plan is to get out there and pick a bunch and just stick them in a box near the sidewalk with a sign that says they're free.

As soon as I have free time.

@FaithinBones @VisualStuart @ai6yr It's a good idea if you use a lot of lemon juice, but that requires taking time to juice the fruits. Unfortunately, free time is something I really don't have much of.

I have a calamansi that also produces tons and tons of fruit... any free time I have for juicing I spend juicing those. Calamansi juice (simple lemonade recipe, but sub lemon juice with calamansi juice) is a special kind of amazing, and tastes way better than any lemonade has ever been. When I do have time to pick, juice, and freeze fruit juice, I do that one.

@msbellows I wear them when I visit customer sites in the summer in the fly over states (St. Louis area, among others). You want your long sleeve dress shirt to breathe, but you also don’t want to show your nips to the whole office, and most dress shirts are fairly translucent.

Short of pasties (which could work, but I’ve got hair around my nips so they probably suck to remove), this covers the necessary bits but still leaves room for airflow to your arms and pits.

… as for pit stains, if you’re in St Louis in the summer and you dont’t have them, you’re probably suffering from heat stroke. Wearing a t-shirt won’t save you… it just makes your natural cooling features less effective.

@ai6yr @flyingsaceur @msbellows TBF, I really like A-shirts because many of my dress shirts are slightly translucent, and seeing the outline of an A-shirt is better than see in my nipples, while still being more comfortable than a v-neck t-shirt undershirt, especially in the types of situations that require men to wear a dress shirt.

However, every name must come from somewhere, and I’ve watched enough episodes of COPS to admit I cant refute this one.

@mrundkvist @unlambda @ai6yr it gets worse. They publish a “newspaper” that is a really strange mix of anti-CCP content and also pro-US-authoritarianism. Like they can’t see the hypocrisy in opposing one dictator but supporting another.

But then again, embracing hypocrisy seems to be the latest right-wing fad.

@VisualStuart @ai6yr you’d be *shocked* at how much lemon a single tree can produce. We don’t use much, but I have a sign in front of my tree inviting anyone to take what they want… and still we have more than we can use. 2/3 of the tree is picked clean (the remaining grows over a wall into our fenced-in back yard, where neighbors are unlikely to go even with that invitation) and we still have more lemons than my family, extended family, and any friends who come visit can seem to eat. I eventually have to go through and clean the tree because I’ve got lemons rotting on the branch.

Meyer lemon trees are like a monkey’s paw wish for a tree with more lemons.

@uccawx @ai6yr Thanks. I'm certain I will be happy when it's done, and also full of regret. Probably in equal amounts.

@uccawx @ai6yr Sometimes you build on the land you've got.

I'm literally talking with civil about building an 11' retaining wall to hold back a mountain so I can put a 900sqft house on my property.

Sometimes you do what you've gotta do.

@Viss I just installed a 5080 to replace my 3070, and put that 3070 into another machine that previously had a 1080 and a 660TI.

The difference between a 5080 and a 660TI is *astounding*

@inarticulatequilter First I've heard of it. If it's nation-wide, it's not very well advertised.

@adamshostack True. But there are plenty of big rocks, and I'm sure it would pretty quickly find one.

NASA: We discovered an issue where the rover's calculated position was off by 1mm because of 25 corrupted bits in memory.

Meta: Well, sometimes it just goes and deletes your inbox! throws up hands

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-perseverance-now-autonomously-pinpoints-its-location-on-mars/

@adamshostack NASA: We can autonomously drive virtually unlimited distances over unpaved, rugged terrain and our only limitation is a lack of awareness of our position on the planet.

Tesla: Our "full self driving" cars have full access to GPS and drive on well marked, well-maintained, paved roads, but will randomly accelerate into trees, parked cars, or buildings. *throws up hands*