it’s your choice to live there

I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not because that is an awful argument. The housing market isn’t this perfectly liquid thing where there’s always another house to choose from that fits all your requirements a reasonable distance from your workplace.

If we’re playing “everyone who disagrees with me must be a shill”, how much is your agency billing Google to simp for them on social media?

/s

To me it feels like there’s two Googles. The one that was run by Page and Brin was awesome, pretty much everyone in the industry wanted to work there.

Then they put someone else in charge to maximise shareholder revenue, and it went to shit soon after.

I’m going to throw that accusation of disinformation right back at you. He’s careful not to use the words “open source” verbatim, but it’s very clear what he’s talking about.

Every detail of the article is a fair summary of what he said, and you’re trying to pettifog over a string match.

I’m not clear on what your point is then. Your initial “it will be a struggle to get rid of” pivoted to “abrupt event”.

If you’re trying to make the case that we should all move off MS as soon as possible in order to avoid the damage of an abrupt event then yeah I’m in complete agreement.

I don’t see how that’s true. It’s a little bit of a change to go to open source. Might need a day of training for a small percentage of particularly slow-minded staff members. Definitely nowhere near “organization is no longer viable” territory.

Remember, whenever you see a patently weak argument like this from a trillion dollar corporation, they’re not saying it because they think anyone will believe it. They’re saying it to give the corrupt politicians in their pocket some way to pull a straight face when voting in the corporation’s favour.

Technically yes, but unlike e.g. Facebook it isn’t specifically calibrated to prioritise engagement over anything like truth or sanity. https://www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/machinelearningtimes/five-points-for-anger-one-for-a-like-how-facebooks-formula-fostered-rage-and-misinformation/12344/

Ok but that photo of a building you posted could just as easily have been taken in any British town in the 1980s

The torrent protocol is quite happy for you to only download and seed some files within a torrent, it’s just that the most popular client for it isn’t very good at managing very large archives.

I’m guessing there’s probably an alternative client that is better at this, can anyone tell me what it is? If there isn’t one I’ll make one, but I don’t want to burn a weekend duplicating something that already exists…

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Most of my mp3s from back in the day are 128kbit, so 160 is an upgrade for me.

Where? I checked the torrents JSON mentioned there and there’s no text match on ‘spotify’… did it get removed or am I looking at the wrong JSON?

I can’t tell if you’re missing the point deliberately for humorous effect…

merely asking questions

I believe this is known as “JAQing off”

your favorite online store.

I know it’s cliché to call anonymous commenters shills, but that sentence has major shill energy. Who says “your favourite online store”, honestly.

Also if you look at the technology of his time, there was no reason to think there’d be this huge explosion of information enough that you’d be able to just stitch a hundred million books and petabytes of online forums’ worth of text together into a statistical next token predictor.

In his time there were maybe at most 4 million publications in all of existence (extrapolating from https://www.clrn.org/how-many-books-have-been-published-in-history/ ) which finger-in-the-air estimate would be ~2Tb; a tiny fraction of what’s on the internet now. Even if he’d anticipated the invention of the transistor and microchip technology, the brain he was imagining still would have had to be able to reason in the traditional way; an LLM trained entirely on Project Gutenberg would not come close to passing the Turing Test no matter how many parameters you built it with. To Turing, passing as human would have meant possessing a capacity of reason beyond assigning probability values to a list of potential autocompletes based on what’s in all the other texts.

…that’s not what happened when I clicked it. I guess you have to have your anti-tracking disabled?

(side note: I hate the phrase “gift link”. It’s not a gift, it’s a promo, as evidenced by the number of blatant marketing agency accounts posting them on social media.)

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