It’s my wife’s 50th birthday Saturday and we’re having a big party. Hired a band, lots of alcohol. Should be a good time.

Wow. I read that as ozone laser and was super confused.

I don’t know if I can put my finger on a reason besides cost, but I just don’t want to see movies in theaters any more. When my kids do, I’ll take them, but I have no problem waiting 2 months for them to show up on streaming when I can buy them for $20, 1/5 or less than the cost of a movie date with my wife or taking all four of us and getting drinks, candy, and popcorn.

Cheaper tickets, a decent lounge and bar with bar food instead of theater food would help, but there just aren’t as many must-see movies any more. I feel like blockbusters used to be maybe 3 or 4 a year, but now everything is epic and so nothing is.

I want to see Furiosa 100%, but it’s nothing I can’t wait a couple of months to see. Which kinda makes me sad because I used to absolutely love going to the movies.

My point is I don’t think it’s the trailers. I think audiences are more fickle.

I assume anything coming out of a Musk company is a lie unless I see it with my own eyes. And then I see an optometrist.

ChatGPT says 1-5%, but I told it to give me nothing but a percentage and it gave me a couple of paragraphs like a kid trying to distract from the answer by surrounding it with bullshit. I think it’s onto us…

(I kid. I attribute no sentience or intelligence to ChatGPT.)

even to the point of some phones not even turning off Wi-Fi when airplane mode is turned on

I didn’t know that part (the rest yes). So much for using airplane mode to conserve battery. I suppose it’s the tower handshake that is most energy hungry in my experience.

both wireless protocols can be activated and deactivated independently

100% although my comment was in the context of people who don’t really understand Bluetooth at all.

+1 for the rest, thanks.

Cheap Bluetooth might have connection hitches and, to my knowledge, Bluetooth doesn’t work with airplane mode although I think most airplanes these days aren’t actually affected or we’d have planes dropping out if the sky daily.

Also, does Bluetooth get saturated the way WiFi does? That, I don’t know, but an airplane full of 100 people all on Bluetooth might create some noise issues that would hurt the performance.

Apple sort of shot themselves in the foot here with removing the headphone jack if they had any interest in this issue.

I feel like corporations are inherently evil. The owners have no actual liability for the harm they do, and their highest calling is profits. I don’t know how to encourage investment without the stock market, but I do know if you play a little game called “what is the end result,” you’ll quickly see a dystopian future where everyone is slaves except in name.

We’d better look into the French solution long before it gets to that point.

I have a Samsung fridge I’m happy with but I specifically avoided the in-door water/ice dispenser because I’ve heard awful things about them.

I hate consolidation. Except I want only a single streaming service. But other than that, I hate it.

I’m a very private person. I barely use any social media where I’m not anonymous, and I wouldn’t want my wife to be famous either. So take this with a grain of salt, but I think it’s about winning the trophy. A million people like this person well enough to watch their content all the time, but they are with you? I can imagine that would be flattering to a certain kind of personality.

Being popular sounds wretched to me, but people chase it all the time.

I didn’t have any links at hand so I googled and found this academic paper. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.20151.pdf

Here’s a video summarizing that paper by the authors if that’s more digestible for you: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OU2L7MEqNK0

I don’t know who is doing it or if it’s even on any publicly available systems, so I can’t speak to that or easily find that information.

There are already bots that use something like 5 specialist bots and have them sort of vote on the response to generate a single, better output.

The excessive prompting is a necessity to override the strong bias towards certain kinds of results. I wrote a dungeon master AI for Discord (currently private and in development with no immediate plans to change that) and we use prompts very much like this one because OpenAI really doesn’t want to describe the actions of evil characters, nor does it want to describe violence.

It’s prohibitively expensive to create a custom AI, but these prompts can be written and refined by a single person over a few hours.

Agreed, although I wonder how much further ahead state actors are compared to common knowledge. Standard encryption will be broken before most of us are aware, I think.

I read it but I didn’t see anything about local quantum encryption. Originally my comment talked about that until I realized they are just talking about accessing cloud-based quantum encryption. So I immediately edited it not to look like an idiot. If I’m still missing something, let me know, but I am not seeing it.

So regular cryptography is threatened by quantum computing, for sure. I imagine you’d wind up with some kind of quantum coprocessor like we used to have for math back in the day because quantum computing isn’t a replacement for current computers.

That said, cloud-based quantum cryptography has a big hole in it: the connection to the cloud.

It sounds really good, but I’m protesting commercials on a service that promised to be commercial free. I will watch it vicariously through online discussions.

Viewed in portrait mode, that looks like a man giving a toast holding a Champaign flute. Also ironically appropriate.

You work for a crazy company, my friend.

I read the same thing in Nevvsweeek.