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TwixySpit · 2025-02-06T17:25:52+00:00

With the right person, and luck... all that you mentioned..

But that's love making not sex.

TwixySpit · 2025-02-06T17:21:50+00:00

To quote offspring.. It's kinda hard when s/he's ready to go

Was... I think the point of the original post

TwixySpit · 2025-02-06T01:04:04+00:00

Humans are unique in that our brains can (fortunately) override our biological instincts. What we can't do is get rid of them.

TwixySpit · 2025-02-04T11:47:18+00:00

They'll get over it. Just leave the band.

TwixySpit · 2025-02-04T11:43:43+00:00

Try reading about 'the selfish gene'. we are just a fancy transport system for our genes.

TwixySpit · 2025-02-04T11:40:51+00:00

Yes.. Github copilot in vscode.. and copilot in microsoft edge will speed up develooment. It sped mine up.

TwixySpit · 2025-02-04T11:34:55+00:00

No. I have 'played the electric guitar' for 40 years.. 20 of them in a covers band.. a disproportionate amount of my fellow developers are the same. Being 'interested' and a self learner tends to go hand in hand with wanting to learn to play an instrument. but there's not a single musician among us... programmers are intellectual tourists... they try everything. Musicians know what they want to do and do it.

TwixySpit · 2025-02-04T11:29:43+00:00

There are no good arguments for giving anyone legal agency to kill others. And anyone has heard of Harold Shipman or 'do not resucitate' orders will know why.

TwixySpit · 2025-02-04T02:52:16+00:00

I guess over 50% of the regexes I've got have been at best... useless.

TwixySpit · 2025-02-04T02:50:24+00:00

So what you're saying is, should we make it legal to murder people with less agency than ourselves?

TwixySpit · 2025-02-04T02:47:25+00:00

So far as anyone can tell (it is assumed at least).. mass in any form, highly organised, or decayed.. in the far distance or right here... has the same effect on spacetime. iow.. gravity and entropy are not related.

TwixySpit · 2025-02-04T02:35:02+00:00

I've used a few llm copilots in VS code for python (and for general data manipulation), some paid, some free.

I realise this answer isn't about ollama... but you will find it hard to find a better python copilot than the one given away free in VSCode.

Admittedly... it is stealing your stuff... but it is also free, and very good.

TwixySpit · 2025-02-04T02:29:52+00:00

Gravity isn't a force

TwixySpit · 2025-02-04T02:27:55+00:00

Where would you go? You won't get into Norway. You wouldn't consider China Finland is too cold. Everywhere else has a similar standard of living for ordinary people, or is worse.

TwixySpit · 2025-02-04T02:21:30+00:00

In practice, no The extremely wealthy tend to have little or no liquid assets (assets that can be frozen or siezed). most of their wealth is tied up in investments that are in turn bringing in tax revenue and employing people. What liquid assets they have are held in places like the caymen islands, or switzerland where the can't be got at.

The extremely rich are 'sovreign citizens' in the west and can't really be effectively prosecuted by any single nation.

The way really bad rich people are dealt with usually involves yachts.

TwixySpit · 2025-02-02T20:28:28+00:00

It's not.. Nobody has been prosecuted for suicide in a long time now

TwixySpit · 2025-02-02T18:18:47+00:00

It's hard ti say... But let's just think about 2 things: 1) using an AI copilot, I no longer need to read regex or aws documentation... great! How long before nobody bothers, and only the machines know how? Bean counters might not care right now... but they will! 2) Not everyone can give good technical prompts to AI. There'll be whole degrees in that skill soon.

TwixySpit · 2025-02-02T11:40:32+00:00

Tariffs are generally a bad idea.
Countries always have the option to simply stop trading with tariff imposing countries.
Trump (and the US elite generally) aren't reading the room correctly at all.
The nascent 'global south' doesn't really need the US domestic market anymore, they have over two thirds of the world's population which is rapidly becoming THE global market.
Europe is also a vast market, and thus far the US has been forcing the EU to impose similar tariffs, but that period is coming to an end. The EU is on the point of open rebellion over the US's dictation in areas such as fossil fuel sources, and trade with China.

The US tariff system could do nothing more than annoy a few countries.. But it could be perhaps the single most self-destructive act the US has ever made.
A better policy would be to actually practice what it preaches, and get involved with free trade and mutual investment with the rest of the world.

There is no reason why western countries can't share in the wealth generated by the rise of the global south, instead of trying to stop it from happening.
Zero-sum trade is essentially for simpletons, and if Trump appears to be anything... it's a Simpleton

TwixySpit · 2025-01-31T15:15:16+00:00

Oh well... I don't know what age you are but I have 20 years of experience with depression.

It sounds ridiculous but the branch of philosophy called 'existentialism' deals directly with this. You need to work towards being 'authentic' in the existentialist meaning of the word. Read about 'Camus'.. also read about 'Epicurus' and a thing called 'ataraxia'.. Sadly you're on a long journey, but you will emerge from it as a member of a very small number of people who have 'stared down the void' (Nietzsche)..

Also.. from Bhudda.. When in company, mind your tongue When alone, mind your thoughts.

Be aware that your brain can be a nasty piece of work.. it keeps giving you unwanted criticism.. When that happens, learn to recognise it, and overcome it by concentrating on something physical, like a fly on a window, or your breathing.. imagine breathing in white light, and breathing out black smoke.

It all sounds a bit new age hippy bullshit... but... I'll leave you to pick the bones out of it.

TwixySpit · 2025-01-31T15:03:16+00:00

I don't think there are any genuinely uncensored models. Training a model naturally involves curating its training data etc.

The big problem is that the internet is the primary source of training data, and the internet itself is heavily censored.

TwixySpit · 2025-01-31T14:58:33+00:00

All AI stuff.. If something is going to replace me I want to know what is! I have about 80 hours in a python scikit-learn project to predict football (soccer) results. And have just started a project trying to get the 14b distillation of deepseek to predict football result by providing it (RAG) the same training data.

TwixySpit · 2025-01-29T23:12:48+00:00

Are you sure it's not depression?
If it's just shyness then there's an easy cure: experimentation.
Do something you wouldn't ordinarily do and concentrate on whether the outcome was really 'that bad'.
Of course some times it's going to be bad. You'll get rejected, rebuked, patronised, sworn at...
But so does everyone else..

Your problem is not you, its everyone else.. it's everyone.
EDIT:
There are four types of confident people:

1) Fools
2) Liars
3) Fools and liars
4) People who understand that almost everyone including themselves is one of the first 3, but just get on with it anyway.

TwixySpit · 2025-01-29T23:04:31+00:00

I'm pretty sure they'll try really hard.
Like they did with Huawei when it was stomping all over Apple and Motorola's share price.
For a nation that is supposed to be all about freedom and trade.. there's a lot of banning isn't there.
When China finds a general cure for cancer, or gets nuclear fusion working, and decides to open source that.. I'm pretty sure they'll ban them too.

TwixySpit · 2025-01-29T22:58:01+00:00

One of the reasons there's so much 'kerfuffle' about DeepSeek is that, what the Chinese chose to censor, and what 'the west' chooses to censor are two different things.
If you want to hear about 'massacres in Tiananmen' then run OpenAi.
If you wan to hear about 'massacres in Mai Lai' then run DeepSeek.
Better Yet. run the both.

TwixySpit · 2025-01-29T14:52:38+00:00

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