I haven’t been able to get a pilot’s license because of a med I take, but now I’m told there’s a loophole - become a furry, and the democrats will put you in the cockpit of a passenger jet
I volunteer
no one should trust us for a long time
So, I have a lovely new iPad mini. Not so lovely: migrating my account has been really slow, everything's sluggish, apps not loading … after hours of this I *FINALLY* noticed that iOS has prioritised downloading my ENTIRE photo library—all 19 years of it—rather than, say, my VPN, adblockers, password manager, or LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE I ACTUALLY USE ALL THE TIME.
@cstross Slava Ukraine! So I'd try one.
We actually have the weirdest beers here:
The oyster one is actually made with oysters. The Saturday Morning is made with marshmallows. Moody tongue costs 120 dollars a bottle and really is made with truffles. Barf.
@cstross
That's why you shouldn't call it AI but "AI" OR LLMs.
There's little inteligence, it's mostly archived knowledge (or knowledge-like data) and behavioral patterns.
If there's any inteligence, it's in the training process which determines which training data gets reproduced more.
Apart from that, it's compression like any other and once people understand that, they'll also understand why copyright should apply to it.
If you are a writer, artist, illustrator, etc. in any field (that includes you comics folks) (and you UX writers) you should take this survey about AI: https://s.surveyplanet.com/b5o4yctg
The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry by C. M. Waggoner is currently only $1.99 everywhere. Fun, cozy(ish), queer fantasy about a small-time crook becoming a bodyguard.
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-ruthless-lady-s-guide-to-wizardry
@cstross We all remember what happened when that one Korean elevator accidentally violated Soviet air space.
When I was young, before all lifts had GPS, you had to show your passport before boarding in case the lift went too far off-course.
That's a good pitch actually. I have one friend who reads a great deal of nonsense, particularly about the Middle East, just to keep up with the points of view expressed, and I suppose he would devour this with interest. But I've never felt that's the best use of his time.
Someone gave me a book by Thomas Friedman, which I then read. I asked him why he did that, and he apologized; apparently he was confused. As to why I read it, that's a known weakness I have when given a book.
The prosecution rests, M'Lud.
What, and I say again, The Fuck?!?
@Uilebheist @cstross INTERCAL is why I implemented a BASIC with computed COME FROM.
@Uilebheist @cstross
If this is true, it become a global imperative to implement ALL AI in INTERCAL.
Obfuscated INTERCAL. For sanity-checking. COME FROM WOMBAT
All user interface text output to be in Antique Sanskrit, for uniform intelligibility.
@cstross They forgot about elevators having nurses to treat various effects from the speed and change of altitude, people getting nose bleeds, fainting, altitude sickness….
Why you can’t trust any AI that hoovers up text from Reddit for training! Here’s a thread on /r/aviation asking why 1950s airliners had so many bodies on the flight deck: it goes sideways fast …
![I-] pattern_altitude 1409 points 8 hours ago
Airliners used to have way less automation. Crews would include a captain, first officer, flight engineer, radio operator and a navigator. Eventually the radio operator and navigator positions got phased out and the crews became a CA, FO, and FE -- but then the flight engineer got phased out too as automation improved and two pilots could handle the workload.
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[-] Birdhawk 527 points 8 hours ago
Yeah its kinda like elevators. Now we just walk on and press a button but back in the day there used to be an elevator operator and a navigator.
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[-] Desperate-Tomatillo7 196 points 8 hours ago
Why do you need to navigate an elevator?
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• I-] Birdhawk 565 points 8 hours ago
Same reason you look at the display showing the floor number when you ride an elevator. Kids these days man, take this modern day tech for granted. Back then they had a guy checking barometric pressure and taking readings to figure out what floor they were on and how to get to the floor the passengers needed to get to. Without a navigator a routine trip to the 5th floor could wind up with the doors opening and you see cinderblocks or you're in the basement. Elevators could get lost sometimes. Especially on foggy days.
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[-] BassSlappah 326 points 7 hours ago
I remember an old elevator navigator telling me about how he rode an
elevator right up into a thunderstorm one night by mistake. Elevators
weren't equipped with radar in those days. He wasn't able to land for
hours because of the updrafts and the elevator nearly ran out of fuel.
Thankfully they had an elevator engineer on board to keep the engines
going until the storm cleared and they were able to make it back down to the lobby.
(and so on …)](https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/117/569/606/309/021/856/original/7601698ccb0dda1b.png)
In fact, I saw this in my Immich library this morning while looking for something else. I saved it because I wanted to occasionally read it and remind myself that success doesn't need to be forever. Success can be simply enjoying yourself in the moment before moving on to the next thing.
By that metric, Mastodon is a success to me.
OMG: “Of all the books I have ever reviewed that purported to offer a serious thesis, this is without question the most deranged. If you are seeking a Christmas present for someone you really don’t like, give them a copy.”
— The Daily Telegraph reviews "Bank Job" by Liz Truss (zero stars!)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fiction/liz-truss-bank-job-simon-heffer-review/