…But I sure DO miss storage media that makes a satisfying “Kachunk” when loaded, and could be forcefully ejected like a spent artillery casing.

Older computers just have a nice mechanical ambiance that newer machines don’t replicate quite as well.

I don’t miss having the time to go make a cup of tea whilst waiting for the computer to turn on, or having the monitor scream the entire time it’s on, but I do miss hearing the hard drive spin-up, and all the POST beeps and drive stepper noises when the computer’s booting up.

All he made was some dinky algorithm. Google Bard could do that in three minutes flat smh.

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They were also presented as being cheaper and more ethical. You didn’t risk being roped into paying a higher price because the cabbie deliberately took a long route, or be surprised by the price being different in person. You could order an Uber, and you’d pay only what was in the app.

On a related note, I personally hate the AI partner/friend ones as well, where it’s clearly preying on the lonely, insecure, or desperate. It’s dastardly, dystopian, and frankly, quite sad. How many children’s media show rich children as being quite miserable sods whose parents think that not having friendship can be resolved by buying their kids a friend?

You could easily see that being in a cyberpunk story, where you can rent a friend or partner from a megacorporation, but if you don’t pay the rent, they’ll be repossessed and deleted/destroyed. The data would be collected and used regardless.

It’s the same process. Mpv uses yt-dl or yt-dlp on the back end when loading YouTube videos from the URL.

Which is quite a shame, really. I had a BTX Dell, which had amazing potential to be upgraded, since nearly everything was just spring latches, and could be slid open quite easily. You could install and swap most parts without a screwdriver.

The potential to upgrade it was there, and then it just never materialised, so the entire thing ended up basically being useless.

They’ve existed for quite a long time at this point.

That’s how virtual puppetry/V-Tubing works. The camera tracks your face, and then moves part of a corresponding model, and unlike face posing inside of Garry’s Mod, or something like that, since it’s bound to a real face, it would move more or less like a human face.

eventually passing the test will be a fail because the actions requested are either too difficult for humans to understand or too difficult for humans to perform, at which point AIs will be trained on knowing the physical limitations of humans.

This also exists for some forms of captcha, which track how you complete a puzzle, or something along those lines. A bot would either be completely stumped, complete it far more quickly than a human would, or do it by snapping their cursor to the relevant parts, instead of moving it.

Pink is, after all, not a colour of light. In which case, it is entirely reasonable for a pink unicorn to also be invisible.

The squidgy gel look Vista/7 had was pretty nice, too.

They’d arguably stopped some time ago. I have a Thinkpad T490s, and a fair chunk of that isn’t upgradeable without swapping a fair bit of the body.

The keyboard, for example, is a permanent part of the chassis. Replacing out requires you to swap the entire shell out.

The Ethernet port is some proprietary gubbins, because Lenovo wanted to be funny, and use the same protocols and pinouts as regular Ethernet, but used a special physical connector.

Half the RAM is also permanently soldered into the motherboard as well, so you can’t properly upgrade that either.

I have no idea who thought it would be a good idea to give an error code to a user in Hexadecimal form, with no other information.

An error occurred: 0x 80070003

is hardly helpful at all.

It is, as is the native powershell terminal, thankfully.

I don’t think it was. It was them putting the triage tag on themselves that seems to have put it into a loop, at least going by the progression of events.

The user put on the tag, the bot removes the tag, because only maintainers can put that on, and then puts on the tag, after which it removes it because someone who wasn’t a maintainer put the tag on.

I could see exit being an issue if you’re doing something in the CLI that might cause you to type that without passing it as a command (“What do you want the program to do after the task is complete?” “Exit”), but I’m not familiar enough with the program to say one way or the other.

In fairness, it is off-topic, since a lot of it is more commentary about AI, rather than talking about the repo, or the issue. The only comment that could arguably be relevant is the person saying that the user could also use CTRL-D to exit the program.

The repo might be for an AI tool, but I’m fairly sure that the bot isn’t itself LLM-powered. It’s just your basic generic bot.

From what I can tell, they want the program to close when you write exit instead of /exit. Guessing it currently does the latter, and does a “did you mean /exit” sort of thing.

In fairness, this isn’t an LLM issue, but a poorly made bot issue. An old fashioned bot would be equally vulnerable to doing it, assuming it isn’t one.

Burger. Especially if it’s not too tall, and thus a perfect height for eating with.

Sometimes, you just need a flat food structure.

Though the check isn’t very sophisticated, if memory serves. It more or less checks whether / is passed to rm -r.

If you did something like rm -r $VAR/*, but didn’t check to make sure that $VAR was set and not empty, it could still fire, since rm wouldn’t see that root got passed, only a bunch of directories in root.

The personal project is a matter of personal pride, whereas for work, any old thing will do, as long as it meets the requirements.