Notices by Simon Green (salty@mastodon.nz)

@lightweight @jdmcg As much as I personally use Gimp & Inkscape myself I think being a teenager is hard enough without also being the kid who hasn't got Adobe like everyone else. Not to mention the teacher who has to try to teach with two different software packages.

I simply grit my teeth and paid for the license for our daughter ... Next year when she's at Uni, she can figure that out for herself.

OMG... (Male) ACT MP tells woman giving submission how to handle her period without unduly burdening the taxpayer. #nzpol

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360582255/act-mp-simon-court-asks-woman-if-shes-aware-menstrual-cup-during-hearing-benefit-sanctions

@glynmoody @rayres @cstross When the AGI can coherently explain their own work in the same way a human artist does. Otherwise, it’s just random noise.

@glynmoody @rayres @cstross You could fairly accuse me of hypocrisy but I see a human making fair use of an artist's content to produce new art quite differently from an LLM using it to produce garbage. If I were an artist and my art inspired new art, I would be honoured. The garbage an LLM vomits out... not so much.

I don't think LLMs should be able to claim fair use. What they do is not what the point of fair use is all about.

@JorgeStolfi Only if you define "result" as "a bunch of things they have explicitly not attempted to do yet". If I define "result" as "land on the moon" then the SLS is $10B/0.

The ONLY thing the SLS has achieved out of your list of Starship not-achieveds is a moon flyby and it is not designed to EVER achieve many of them. Everyone said SpaceX would never be able to reuse a booster. They've now done it over 400 times. Starship will eventually do all those things, and cheaper than SLS.

@JorgeStolfi OK, in that case, the last per-launch figure I can find puts SLS at $4.1B *per launch* and we know they kept escalating from there. So, SpaceX is still ahead.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/03/nasa-inspector-general-says-sls-costs-are-unsustainable/

@JorgeStolfi I also think Elon Musk is a raging dickhead who isn't half as smart as he thinks he is, but the reason it's had all those 0s is because they weren't trying to do those things. Not because Musk is an arrogant ass and they failed.

If you did want to score NG & SLS - NG has 0 first stage recoveries, and SLS costs about as much for its one mission as SpaceX has dumped into the Indian Ocean on tests.

@patrickcmiller I assume a16z will have all their disclaimers in place ready for the first time the AI recommends boiling the baby in acetone or feeding it razor blades and some numbnuts goes ahead and does it.

@cstross @aka_quant_noir And look where that got Ukraine... There may have been a case for them to have kept them and cracked the codes over a year or two to gain full control. OTOH it may not have made any difference and Russia might have still invaded anyway, or even invaded earlier specifically *because* Ukraine was keeping the nukes.

#nerd

You have FOUR DAYS in which to make a submission against the reopening of new exploration and extraction for oil and gas.

FOUR DAYS.

Get to it.

https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/make-a-submission/document/54SCEDSI_SCF_81DBD590-6E68-48D1-8BE4-08DCDC4C6A57/crown-minerals-amendment-bill

#nzpol

@liztai They're not wrong when they describe it as "aromatic" though

@thomasfuchs @gsuberland @srtcd424 Yep. Of course I can’t too much on my high horse about it given my country just voted out out the govt that banned smoking in favour of a bunch of right wing clown show f***wits who, amongst other things, are repealing it. The new Health ‘Minister’ is a doctor FFS. I hope the licensing council does find a way to deregister him over it.

@thomasfuchs @gsuberland @srtcd424 Me? 48, I definitely remember the days of ubiquitous tobacco smoking.

@gsuberland @srtcd424 @thomasfuchs I think I’d take stale tobacco smoke over vape stench. Smells like someone jizzed on a box of donuts.

@KimSJ @srtcd424 @thomasfuchs Which one is that?

@passenger @KimSJ @srtcd424 @thomasfuchs OIC… I don’t get it…

@passenger @KimSJ @srtcd424 @thomasfuchs Ah. Have you ever watched Fight Club?

@passenger @KimSJ @srtcd424 @thomasfuchs Then you remember that the unnamed narrator turns out to BE Tyler Durden. He had a psychotic break because his job was to decide whether it was cheaper to let his company’s cars kill people and pay out on lawsuits or recall & fix them to save lives.

About 20 years before Tesla built their first car. Or VW diesel engines, or Jeeps that squash you against your garage, or Toyotas with self-removing wheels, etc.

I get it, Musk is a born-rich prick with

@iamkale @mmasnick "I can agree that concept like “de-growth” are generally ridiculous and ignorant..."

What part of the concept that it is physically impossible to have eternal infinite growth on a finite planet is ridiculous and ignorant, Mike?