Tuesday, April 18
Daily News Stuff 18 April 2023
Cheep And Chearful Edition
Cheep And Chearful Edition
Top Story
- Bluesky wants to reinvent Usenet only worse and more expensive and with ads. (The Verge)
And censorship. They don't say that, but you can bet on it.
Tech News
- Heroku did in fact just do that. (Open Folder)
The developer here has a Heroku setup using their queueing service to make sure emails are send out to users. Each event place in the queue is guaranteed to be delivered exactly once, so each user gets one email.
So Heroku gave them a second ghost queue, which they can't turn off but which magically duplicates every single email.
- Llamas in pajamas are coming down the stairs. (Together.xyz)
RedPajama replicates the entire 1.2 trillion token training set of Meta's LLaMA as open source.
LLaMA is a competitor to OpenAI's GPT.
GPT is an artificial radical leftist college sophomore with a meth habit.
- UPC barcodes are going to be completely replaced by QR codes everywhere in the world by 2027 except that obviously isn't going to happen how fucking stupid are you wait it's Axios the answer is all. You are all the stupid. (Axios)
Possibly more than all the stupid.
Disclaimer: If we could burn stupid for heat we could melt the glaciers tomorrow with the power of a single tech journalist.
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Me: Maybe we could replace tech journos's food, water, and oxygen with AI, smart phones, and macbooks.
Tech Journo: Wow, that would be a lot of cheap AI!
Tech Journo: Wow, that would be a lot of cheap AI!
Posted by: normal at Tuesday, April 18 2023 09:35 PM (obo9H)
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If dumbass lefty 'futurists' payed any attention to actual switching costs, and to estimates of personal and institutional reluctance to change on demand, their whole mental house of cards would collapse.
By June 9th, 2023, we will have replaced all of the asphalt in all the roads and parking lots with a mixture of diamond and gold.
My ass.
Okay, okay, barring a particular configuration of the New Jerusalem, but that is fairly explicitly not something that is supposed to be forecastable by secular means.
In theory, these futurists are purporting not to be pushing their religious beliefs on everyone.
In practice, their 'and then everyone will do what we think they can' makes them a facist cult.
By June 9th, 2023, we will have replaced all of the asphalt in all the roads and parking lots with a mixture of diamond and gold.
My ass.
Okay, okay, barring a particular configuration of the New Jerusalem, but that is fairly explicitly not something that is supposed to be forecastable by secular means.
In theory, these futurists are purporting not to be pushing their religious beliefs on everyone.
In practice, their 'and then everyone will do what we think they can' makes them a facist cult.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Tuesday, April 18 2023 10:10 PM (r9O5h)
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When I read "the 2D upgrades will "take you on an experience that the brand wants you to have,"" I reach for the safety on my revolver.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, April 19 2023 01:02 AM (2Mei2)
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