BarneyPiccolo

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Iceland has 400,000 people, and is an island. America has 340 MILLION people, and is 3000 miles wide.

In America, it's a LOT more difficult to gather a large population in one place. We tend to get gatherings in multiple cities, instead. The last big one had 3,300 hundred different protests around the nation, with over 7 million people.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 8 points 1 month ago

Of course the Borg are the good guys, improving their society through technology they've collected from societies all over the galaxy. Everyone should happily assimilate, and be happy drones.

Not the Sociopathic Oligarchs, though, they're too important to be drones.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

Im self-employed, and my employer has no idea what they'd do with AI, so it's not an issue for me.

I thought a token was a credit for an inquiry, but from reading about this, I'm getting the idea that a token is a word or phrase that forms the prompt for the AI to respond to. So a single prompt could cost multiple tokens if there are multiple words or phrases. Further, since the more parameters you give the AI, the more likely you'll get a decent response, so a good prompt may cost a lot of tokens. Is that correct?

If so, then using more tokens to get a better response is likely to be a more efficient use, than multiple inquiries with mediocre results. But now we seem to be entering a era where they are more focused on the costs than the results, which is always stupid.

For a buncha geniuses, this AI stuff all seems pretty fucked up. Nobody seems to know what they're doing, or even what they want out of it, but they're spending literal fortunes on it. A scenario like that will NEVER have a good outcome.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 18 points 1 month ago

All over America, employees are saying "But YOU said..."

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Also my favorite gardening subject: COMPOST!

I love compost. I could write a book on compost.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

If we're talking about post-Armageddon dystopia, a tomato is a tomato. We aren't worried about quality, just quantity. Tomatoes produce a lot of seeds, just grow them. Toss a bunch of hybrids together to cross-pollinate, watch for the best ones, and in a several generations you'll have a super tomato.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

If we're talking about post-Armageddon dystopia, a tomato is a tomato. We aren't worried about quality, just quantity. Tomatoes produce a lot of seeds, just grow them. Toss a bunch of hybrids together to cross-pollinate, watch for the best ones, and in a several generations you'll have a super tomato.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

Which would be great if I was looking cat urine flavored fizzy water.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Waterloo has a natural taste, whatever that means. It tastes real. I've tried others, and they often don't taste right, usually a chemical taste. I haven't tried Spindrift yet.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I've NEVER been on 4Chan, and I remember the original story on Reddit.

You are correct that I misquoted him. It was "ARE YOU FUCKING SORRY?" as a combination of "Are you okay?" and "I'm so fucking sorry!"

But I'm positive it was on Reddit. I was there in the early days, and saw all the original lore posts - the banana for scale, the Jolly Rancher story, the two broken arms, the cum box, etc.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 10 points 2 months ago

They'll pay the government a big fine, but still keep 99% of the profits from their crime. None of it will benefit the consumers who are the victims.

This is always about paying the government its vig. Uncle Sam needs to get his beak wet.

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