It’s sort of like the dual pronunciation of the word ‘a’ in English. While that has more distinct rules, it’s still mostly which one feels nicer.

In case you haven’t seen it, Tom7 created a delightful exploration of using an LLM to manipulate word counts.

Don’t use a mist humidifier. They suck. Use an evaporative one and add bacteriostat to the water.

Mine is a tub of water with a wick in it. It has a fan that blows air across the wick. That’s it.

POS is an English acronym. It stands for Point of Sale. The proper term would usually be POS Terminal, but it’s often shortened to POS.

If you haven’t, check out Combined Arms. It is an OpenRA mod that brings in a lot of units and design from RA2, Generals, and C&C3.

The dev stated that it mostly exists for more performance-limited applications like mobile.

Similarly, VLC names their releases after Discworld characters. It’s a fun way to make major versions feel like more than just a number increment.

It might make me smarter, but it makes me feel dumb.

They have two avenues to make money:

1. Sell commercial services such as customer support bots. They get customers thanks to the massive buzz their free services generated.
2. Milking investors, the real way to make money.

Generative AI doesn’t get any training in use. The explosion in public AI offerings falls into three categories:

1. Saves the company labor by replacing support staff
2. Used to entice users by offering features competitors lack (or as catch-up after competitors have added it for this reason)
3. Because AI is the current hot thing that gets investors excited

To make a good model you need two things:

1. Clean data that is tagged in a way that allows you to grade model performance
2. Lots of it

User data might meet need 2, but it fails at need 1. Running random data through neural networks to make it more exploitable (more accurate interest extraction, etc) makes sense, but training on that data doesn’t.

This is clearly demonstrated by Google’s search AI, which learned lots of useful info from Reddit but also learned absurd lies with the same weight. Not just overtuned-for-confidence lies, straight up glue-the-cheese-on lies.

That’s exactly what it is. Firefox’s advanced tracking protection blocks connections to social media sites from other sites so that social media can’t see your behavior on the rest of the Internet.

Twitter started moving some things to a different domain and FF saw it as a third-party, blocking connections from it to the old Twitter domains.

Yet another reason the rebrand is dumb.

Have you ever heard big cats? They sound like little cats but… deeper. I feel like dinosaurs would sound like birds with similar deepening, depending on the size of the dino.

Not sure about VBA, but Excel formulas are actually saved in English and translated on file load. It doesn’t translate strings though, so EVALUATE only works for users with the same language as the author.