Anakin as a good father and Jedi would have wanted Luke to build his own saber, as that’s part of the rite of passage. Not some hand-me-down. Obi-Wan is so full of it in so many ways, all because he was afraid of Anakin/Vader and Palpatine figuring things out. Fear leads to some things, Obi-Wan, thought you knew this stuff.

Lots of families are dysfunctional.

The amount of panels has been. Unfortunately as always our demand also keep increasing.

France should ask for it back.

I don’t know, it’s 30 years in the past. Maybe something as simple as lazy handoff of info to the next shift, the staff not noticing how long she’d been there or her lack of progress.

I’ll take the blame, I shortened the statements maybe a bit too much, assuming the references would work. But they were explained well by the other replies.

I was learning in the 90s from lessons on AOL how to sanitize inputs and salt passwords along with HTML 1.0. It baffles me how corporations let stupid things happen now.

Well timed. Got to the end text, had a half second of “wait…”

The poor mother. Hopefully it wasn’t lengthy and just a quick reaction to being stuck. My wife failed at her first and only after 36 hours of labor did they decide to go in. Probably should have followed up with what bad decisions led to that, but we were young kids and didn’t know better then.

Sanitizing user input for the Moon landings.

Meanwhile in 2026, ask AI to change an authentication phone number and it says, “Sure thing!” And is ABLE to do it.

I remember seeing a presentation by no other than Bill Gates on such an idea. A long time ago. It had merit, it was the feasibility, safety, and cost that kept it from being a thing.

A related side note - I returned a gift once that was a ceiling star projector. Was pretty cool, but I quickly realized that to get the proper spread on the ceiling it had to be low, which meant anyone looking at it in passing would get hit by the LED light. I questioned if that on a regular basis was safe, since the same type tech in scanner has warnings not to look at the emitter. In the return I left a comment on that point, especially such a device would be attractive to get for kids. The connection - friendly fire from a laser that’s strong enough to fry a mosquito at distance is probably not a great thing to have in the house if you’re home.

This is brought up in the article with the programming detecting other things around and stopping the firing if seeing something. But knowing how well vision can and can’t work, and the creep of AI to such things, I’d rather not try it out.

Probably a power trip, one of the few he gets away with. “Smart men don’t pay taxes or bills!”

Jesus is just a name to them. Any chance of them actually following things taught is long gone. Jesus, like Trump, is a tool they use. Nothing more.

Most models are going to require CUDA. There are some AMD ones out there, but it’s a totally different math and setup. As for the one I mentioned, it’s a pretty new idea so there are only a few out there, maybe just one (Qwen based). But I did get a 31B model to work on my 12GB, I just had to move from Ollama to llama.cpp to gain the control needed to set the parameters, and fine tune what it put on the CUDA to the max it would take. I had Claude help me along the way.

It’s new enough that there aren’t any good abliterated/uncensored models yet.

16GB is plenty for even older model setups. Now they’ve got a few models designed so you load just parts of the model onto the GPU (Mixture of Experts) and use the CPU for less referenced sections, so you get both reasonable speed and a much more complex model.

You’re just one of the ones who understands things more, and is confused that other people don’t. It’s okay though, as we can always invoke another well known XKCD and treat someone who doesn’t get it as one of the ten thousand. Don’t make fun of them, educate them.

The average person probably can’t tell you which way is west without looking at their phone, or point to where the Sun probably is during the day if it’s cloudy.

Either I have some inside knowledge of that exact thing happening and I know the company (not saying who) or this is probably a common things that happened to a lot of major companies (more likely). To be fair, I do not have privy on how far it went and how much it cost before they realize the problem, and it may not have been this much. Which further suggests it’s a thing everywhere.

Font size and possibly face is different too. They’re given lots of hints.

I don’t think Youtube’s history on false positives for things is all that stellar. Maybe if they get AI to help it will… oh, no, it will make it far worse than even Youtube can do alone.

I jumped on the bandwagon when it first came out, found some stuff interesting, but yeah, the ground aspect didn’t work for me. Probably didn’t help that everyone was doing the same stuff, so there were lines to scan and collect and whatever. Didn’t feel like a real away mission. Might be better with age, since much fewer would be in one place.

I think for the ships I was expecting more like Starfleet Command, which was not realistic for an online version.