Rhaedas

Another alternate timeline. They had the potential, but life got in the way. And murder.

What?

A great episode. The greenwashing that’s been done by all these companies is amazing.

Started with Netscape core, won’t deviate.

Things I’m not surprised about:

• that someone remembering would mention it

• that the home site for it looks like it’s from 1997

Things I’m surprised about:

• Lynx is still supported (the oldest browser that is)

• that the latest version number is so low

• that someone mentioning it wouldn’t also say they use Arch btw

Some early episodes have to be taken with some leniency as the show was just starting to work out the characters and ideas. Much like a TOS fan would watch the pilot episode and see Spock very animated and even smiling at one point and just shrug it off knowing that’s not how he ends up.

I’ve only found success in LLM code (local) with smaller, more direct sections. Probably because it’s pulling from its training data the most repeated solutions to such queries. So for that it’s like a much better Google lookup filter that usually gets to the point faster. But for longer code (and it always wants to give you full code) it will start to drift and pull things out of the void, much like in creative text hallucination but in code it’s obvious.

Because it doesn’t understand what it’s telling you. Again, it’s a great way to mass filter Stack Overflow and Reddit answers, but remember in the past when searching through those, that can work well or be a nightmare. Just like then, don’t take any answer and just plug it in, understand why that might or might be a working solution.

It’s funny, I’ve learned a lot of my programming knowledge through the decades by piecing things together and in the debugging of my own or other’s coding, figured out what works. Not the greatest way to do it, but I learn best through necessity than without a purpose. But with LLM coding that goes wild, debugging has its limits, and there have been minor things that I’ve just thrown out and started over because the garbage I was handed was total BS wrapped up in colorful paper.

Meanwhile that little block at the bottom is still doing its best to keep it all together. For now.

As a Mbin user, appreciate him being in the right place at the right time, even if his coding wasn’t fully “ready” for the sudden task and he couldn’t continue the work himself. That he made it open source for others to take and run with made a huge difference. Glad he’s doing okay.

Some songs work better for this than others. My first realization of this was the scene from Night Shift, where he has The Rolling Stones’ “Jumping Jack Flash” on a looped cassette in his car.

Probably can count on one hand any tech or other thing from Black Mirror that’s a good thing overall.

This is why I diversify into all types of scifi and fantasy.

Wow, that’s one of those words/phrases that you can feel when you read it. SHIT

Feeding an input into an LLM is exactly the opposite of the rule of thumb of sanitizing your inputs. Might as well light the gasoline as you throw it.

A keeper for sure. Just be sure to respond in kind.

Life, uh, finds a way. The thing is, which life adapts to the new conditions is probably limited, and there’s only so many more billions of years to try another attempt to get off the rock. (Some will say 5 billion, but it’s much less than that since the Sun will start expanding slowly first before it reaches the red giant stage).

I do think life is possible all over the place, but the window of time it gets for each place can be very narrow. A close of false starts or resets and the opportunity to be more than simple life forms is lost.

Or the Elysium beds used to regularly cure anything, but only available to the ultra-wealthy. Oh, wait, we already have a large part of that now, at least the restrictions part.

Thanks. I’ve browsed the instructions on how people typically do it, but I was hoping that there might be a way to basically transfer the WIndows copy and all its stuff into a virtual version. That seems to be not that simple. Perhaps the procedure is to establish a new WIndows in VM and then move/install what you have on the old. Which is why I’ve avoided it, that’s a lot of work.

Qa’Pla’!