I live close to the central area of an ~80,000 population city.
Looking at Google maps I’ve got about 10 general stores within 300 meters, probably thrice that within 500m, plus plenty of smaller specialised stores.
300 to 600m seems like a reasonable distance to walk to and back with four to six bags of groceries.
For smaller more specialised shopping trips one or two kilometres would be fine too.
Three might be a bit much, though I’ve often walked that to go to the cinema.
Of course it’s limiting your options!
Screwing up the customer should not be an option you’re allowed to take!
Which one?
Pym, I’d assume. I mean, the guy beat his wife, created Ultron, and is generally even more of an asshole than Stark…
I did warn you.
Krokodil, probably.
(Seriously, don’t look up images of its effects, it’s extremely NSFL shit.)
Only thing I can think of is Aquarela do Brasil, but that’s only because of Terry Gilliam…
Anything else would be in flagrant violation of the GDPR (and this too, probably, though not as flagrantly).
Pagers. Kids under 21 can only get pagers.
They get within two meters of a smartphone, both kid, parents, and whoever owns the smartphone go straight to jail.
LLMs ain’t gonna replace programmers any time soon (they might get us laid off, but they’re not going to do our jobs no matter how much executives want them to), but they seem to have already replaced executives, though sadly without the laying off part.
It’s becoming more and more evident that these extremely harmful idiots (including CEOs and whatnot) have completely outsourced all their decision making and what little thinking they used to do onto LLMs.
We’re being ruled by vegetables parroting hallucinating autocomplete engines.
YouTube (and Google in general) has been horrible for multilingual users (and users who want to see content in a different language than the default for whatever country they’re browsing from) for quite some time, but lately it’s getting downright unusable without untranslator browser extensions.
Like this?
🏴 English
🇺🇸 English (simplified)
The USB-A connector has spin ½.
You have to rotate it 360⁰ before it’ll fit (and 360⁰ more to get it back to the original orientation).
Not sure if adulthood or chronic depression.
Not sure there’s a difference.
The index is there (the NTFS file system maintains it automatically) and is fast (as programs like Everything Search demonstrate)… Windows Search is simply not using it anymore, probably so it can shove sponsored shit in the results, or maybe due to lost knowledge due to lay-offs.
Frankly, with the garbage Microsoft is producing these days, and the rate at which the quality, for lack of a better word, is degenerating, I’m starting to consider if LLM slop might actually be less worse…
Yes, but no.
The NTFS file system does maintain an index, and software like Everything Search or WizTree can use it to produce almost instantaneous results (probably faster than back in the XP days, even with larger discs).
The problem is that Windows Search stopped using the damn index for some reason (probably to provide sponsored web results and whatnot instead of whatever you were looking for).
Just get Everything Search and you’ll be able to search just as fast as you could in XP, and with no Bing spam messing up the results.
Funny¹ thing is that Everything (and similar programs like WizTree) can be that be that fast because Microsoft’s own NTFS file system has a built in file index, which is what Windows Search used back in XP; the search programs practically don’t have to do any work, NTFS has already done it for them.
Of course, though, that’ll give you the results you want, not the results Microsoft wants, which explains the change in later further enshittified versions of Windows.
1.– And by funny I mean not funny at all. Sad, in fact. Tragic, even, maybe.
in the unable-to-reason-effectively sense
That’s all LLMs by definition.
They’re probabilistic text generators, not AI. They’re fundamentally incapable of reasoning in any way, shape or form.
They just take a text and produce the most probable word to follow it according to their training model, that’s all.
What Musk’s plan (using an LLM to regurgitate as much of its model as it can, expunging all references to Musk being a pedophile and whatnot from the resulting garbage, adding some racism and disinformation for good measure, and training a new model exclusively on that slop) will produce is a significantly more limited and prone to hallucinations model that occasionally spews racism and disinformation.
I still have a fondness for TARGA (.TGA) from back in the day…