Pope Francis has died
I feel like anyone who still believes that crap that age necessarily brings wisdom needs to be prevented from making any political decisions at any cost.
That sounds more like diplomacy speak for "These tariffs are a giant insult but since we had good relationships with the US in the past we will not immediately react in the way we obviously should but will make a token effort to negotiate with the madman in charge there now".
The problem with current autonomous driving is the car can only infer what other cars are doing and what is around it
With a flying car that is directed by an AI that knows where every other flying object is, what every flying object is going to do
Spoken like someone from a culture where drivers are the only thing around because they have gotten so used to ignoring pedestrians, bicyclists, animals (wild or otherwise),.... that might be found on the road and hasn't considered what else might be in the air at all.
The problem with a flying car for the general population is that people are already bad at navigating in 2D and that any technical failure in the air means a vehicle drops onto something and the average person is not going to do a proper checklist and rigid maintenance schedule on their private vehicle.
That is not really what that phrase means though. That phrase refers to people whose neutral facial expression makes them look like someone unfriendly when the person behind it is not. In Vance's case this is not true, his inside is just as ugly as his outside.
I am not talking about degrees of intelligence at all. Measuring LLMs in IQ makes no sense because they literally have no model of the world, all they do is reproduce language by statistically analyzing how those same words appeared in the input data. That is the reason for all those inconsistencies in their output, they literally have no understanding at all of what they are saying.
An LLM e.g. can't tell that it is inconsistent to talk about someone losing their right arm in one paragraph and then talking about them performing an activity that requires both hands in the next.
it is plausible that, stumbles aside, AI achieves superintelligence in the very near future.
No, it absolutely isn't. AI hasn't even hit the slightest sign of actual intelligence so far so there is no reason to assume that it will get super-intelligent any time soon without some major revolutionary break-through (those are by definition unpredictable and can not be extrapolated from prior developments).
AI has all signs of having hit some major walls where it won't improve anymore unless someone discovers something new that is at least as revolutionary as the original discovery that lead to ChatGPT.
Meanwhile the results of current LLMs are pretty much unusable without manual review for 99% of tasks where we would want AI, pretty much for all tasks other than "laugh at what the AI said" kind of use cases.
Is she going for the record for shortest-lived social media platform too now?
That is especially true since the US is at the ass end of nowhere so actual threats to its national security are incredibly rare.
Guess what else used to be normal in societies where large families lived in one building.
It is all fine if that is what you really want. It can cause depression though in people who didn't really want it but tried to get it anyway because that is what society told them they should do.
It is probably unhealthy in a very similar way to parasocial relationships with celebrities are if people take those too far.
Russia has the remains of what used to 5k nukes 35 years ago. All with an annual military budget that is less than what the US spends on maintaining their nuclear arsenal and a culture of corruption that is likely the most prevalent in areas like the nuclear arsenal where nobody corrupt ever expected missing maintenance to be noticed.
Pretty sure we even have plenty of depressed and lonely people who have actual sex. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if some of them aren't depressed and lonely precisely because they are surrounded by so many people who supposedly care about them but really don't.
Programmers can now use large language models (LLMs) to generate computer code more quickly. However, this only makes programmers’ lives easier if that code follows the rules of the programming language and doesn’t cause a computer to crash.
If that is their level of understanding of what constitutes code quality I am not surprised they think LLMs can actually produce usable code.
In reality Windows isn't the most widely used platform, not where it counts, among the developers of those libraries. And finding competent Windows developers to contribute also isn't easy while finding Windows users demanding support is quite easy since the factor of developers per user is so much worse on that platform.
DOOM choose your own adventure style e-book?
That might be related to the sleep phase you are in when waking up. Try adjusting the time you go to sleep or wake up by small increments and see if that makes a difference to how you feel (even if just to understand your own body better).
I would say the US is the one with the most restrictive residential zoning.
Automatic checking of information in error logs/error return types?
After adding some lines today to log some information I had missed that was vital for debugging I was wondering if there were any automated tools like linters or similar static analysis tools that help you identity the information to log and or return in error cases.
I am specifically talking about the information that should be identifiable automatically because it contributes to the control flow arriving in the current scope such as values of variables in the condition for the scope or parameters of functions that calculate those values (e.g. the file name in a permission error, the value of a variable that failed an if let or let else pattern match,...
Is there a spec somewhere on how Lemmy, Kbin and the rest of the threadiverse use ActivityPub?
It seems to me the basic ActivityPub specification is written from the perspective of Mastodon and Twitter-like fediverse instances.
I assume Lemmy and kbin did extend this with some more objects or at least agreed how to use the existing objects and activities there to model a link aggregator with comments on top of that.
Is there some sort of specification or design document about this somewhere? All I found when googling were some old links that resulted in a 404 and the current Lemmy documentation seems more focussed on users, admins and developers and less on the protocol side of things.
Navigation in Second Life
Since a lot of people here don't seem to know about Second Life I figure some introductory materials can't hurt in case anyone decides to try it.
Second Life is made up of so called regions, each of them is a square 256m to a side and 4096m high as far as building is concerned. In theory the water level can be set to different values in each region but the most common is 20m, especially for the connected mainland regions where it has to match for the water to look connected between adjacent regions.
Inside a region there are coordinates x (low=west, high=east), y (low=south, high=north) and z (low=down, high=up).
Each region runs on a separate simulator (modern servers might host more than one simulator but it is separate processes) so crossing or teleporting into another region requires a handover. If regions are crossed in quick succession, especially with high latency connections, this can lead to crashes or falling off a vehicle.
The regions themselves are placed on a grid with
Summer Sailstice in SL from Saturday the 24th of June to the 7th of July
This year's Summer Sailstice event is coming up this Saturday with lots of events. This link contains an event calendar among other things.
Second Life Activities - Sailing Cruises
Since some people here do not seem to be very familiar with the many activities we use to fill our time on SL I am going to start a new series of posts, introducing some of them.
There are many different vehicles on SL, bicyles, motorbikes, cars, trucks, mechs and many other land vehicles of course, planes, helicopters, paramotors, blimps and others up in the air and of course sail- and motorboats of many different types.
Of course it is possible to just take some friends and make your own fun with these but there are also some organized group activities. Some are races and others are cruises where people just sail together on a route provided by some cruise director in the group. For some groups it is the same person every time, for others the role is shared by a couple of people.
These cruise groups are a great place to learn sailing since there are a lot of people to ask for help and there is always someone who has a moment to answer your questions.
If you don't have a boat of y
SL20B Lab Gab Live Events - Submit your Questions!
If you have any questions for the Lindens at the SL20B (Second Life's 20th birthday) Lab Gab events you have two more days to submit those.
SL20B Music Fest Lineup & Calendar of Events
With Second Life's 20th birthday event coming up on the 22nd (next Thursday) the artists for the music fest might be something to have a look at
What are your favourite annual Second Life events?
For me Fantasy Faire is definitely the one I am looking forward to most. They just have the best mix of stunning regions and avatars, great stories and music on the radio, amazing events for the whole faire and they somehow even manage to integrate the Relay for Life donations and remembrance of those we lost into the event without spoiling the mood of either the sad or the happy parts of the event.
In the past I was also looking forward to Mario2 Helstein's seasonal light shows but sadly he stopped doing those.
Since Linden Labs is notoriously bad about letting us know what is going on, what are your favourite events that others might not even know about?
Second Life Community
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This community is meant to be about any content and discussions related to the Second Life virtual world / metaverse. It is both for current SL residents and people curious about Second Life who have questions or need help getting started.
What are your favourite Second Life activities?
Personally, apart from spending time with friends I do enjoy sailing and motorboats, dancing, live concerts, flying my planes, blimp, paramotor/trike, Shergood Aviation helicopters.
In the past I have also roleplayed in various medieval fantasy, urban fantasy and sci-fi regions but that activity, while fun, always took up a bit too much of my time to leave much for other things I enjoyed.
For sailing and motorboat use, apart from doing so on my own, I like to go on cruises with groups that design routes in advance. It is a good way to get to know the grid better and see how it all fits together and it is a fun way to get to know people in the group over a shared activity.
I don't like land vehicles as much because the roads often cross through sim corners or go close to banlines and security orbs I would like to avoid.
Which viewer do you use?
Personally I have been using the Firestorm Viewer for about as long as it existed and it offers a nice set of additional features over the default viewer but I regularly hear that others use a different third party viewer. What do you use and why?
Which Second Life Blogs do you read?
Personally I sometimes read the ones below.
Inara Pey: Living in a Modemworld
Owl is a good friend on Second Life who is always busy organizing live concerts and music and art events.
Welcome to the SL community on the threadiverse
In this post you can introduce yourself, mention your avatar name(s) and favourite activities in Second Life if you want to, remaining anonymous as far as your SL identity is concerned is perfectly fine too.