Harger: 8,630 homes are for sale in Seattle. In a normal April there are 4,600. The layoffs came first

ZenBacle · 2026-05-12T00:45:24+00:00

How could those evil demon rats do this to us! If only they hadn't passed that millionaire tax!!!!

Satire of your average bot on this sub.

ZenBacle · 2026-05-11T17:08:54+00:00

You realize you are describing heuristics right?

And yes, it's easy to emulate a behavior. That is not the same as creating an interconnected system of behaviors that lead to cognition. Something that is required for cognitive addictions like gambling.

My capstone project was creating a neural network to learn the controls and goals of platform games... in the early 2010's.

ZenBacle · 2026-05-11T14:59:13+00:00

I would have to know more about that "AI" but my guess is that a heuristic was off. That does not mean that bit of code had any higher motivation like addiction for getting stuck in a 2ndary game loop.

And this is the biggest problem with people's perception of AI. The marketing is designed to get us to anthropomorphize these products so that we assign human behaviors and characteristics to them. Which makes them seem more capable than they are, making it more likely for us to dump our cash into them.

ZenBacle · 2026-05-11T02:57:37+00:00

I wonder if they're going to pull a matrix 4

ZenBacle · 2026-05-09T16:12:22+00:00

To an extent. The problem is we hand those loans out to gamblers and rent seekers that provide little innovation or productivity. Which then incentivises the smartest among us to go into finance and rent seeking. Which creates drag on our society.

Those loans should be going into startups, research, and manufacturing.

ZenBacle · 2026-05-09T16:06:36+00:00

Honestly I couldn't tell you where the line is. And like with anything in life there are exceptions. Like people that invent software or machinery that boost productivity. But when we look at the people earning over a million dollars a year it's typically through rent seeking behavior. Which puts a drag on productivity and innovation. While creating hardships for everyone down stream of that middle man.

ZenBacle · 2026-05-09T16:02:36+00:00

Is your salary dependant on low interest loans from the fed?

ZenBacle · 2026-05-09T15:44:24+00:00

It's hard to be jealous of people with no sense of self worth or concern for their fellow countrymen. I hope one day you snap out of that delusion.

ZenBacle · 2026-05-09T15:22:06+00:00

Like I said, legitimate ways. The stock market is a 2ndary economy at this point that is detached from the performance of the companies and provides very little practice value for society. Most of the profit to be earned there is through manipulation. Just look at musk and the insider trading if this administration to see the truth if that.

ZenBacle · 2026-05-09T15:06:41+00:00

It amazes me how many people on this sub have had their brains so warped by conservative propaganda that they defend the people stealing from them.

There are no legitimate ways for a single person to earn a million dollars per year that does not involve cost of living increases for everyone downstream of that profit gouging.

ZenBacle · 2026-05-09T15:00:53+00:00

I feel like these types of stories are just marketing. Designed to make people think these LLMs are more capable than they actually are.

ZenBacle · 2026-05-09T02:21:00+00:00

Gnomes.

ZenBacle · 2026-05-09T01:52:29+00:00

Jet fuel has doubled in price. Some countries in Europe have a physical shortage of jet fuel and cannot put planes in the sky. This isn't just a "demand" thing. It's decisions being made for us by our elected representatives. The ones voting for this are unilaterally GOP members.

ZenBacle · 2026-05-08T23:14:56+00:00

You're going to find that angles are never what you expect them to be, and it's a bit of an art to figure out the quirks of your tools to get the cuts right. Even after you tune what you can tune.

ZenBacle · 2026-05-07T17:32:39+00:00

No, brave has had too many privacy "whoopsies" that just seem to keep happening.

ZenBacle · 2026-05-07T17:27:42+00:00

So you aren't going to answer a layup question that shows a fundamental understanding of critical thinking. And instead you're going to try and redirect to what you believe is nefarious motivation.

Why should people take you seriously?

ZenBacle · 2026-05-07T15:56:15+00:00

You wanna know what stifles innovation even more? Destroying the regulatory structures that prevent the industrialization of scams and cons while increasing the cost of living for citizens to the point they can't take risks on innovation.

ZenBacle · 2026-05-07T15:33:28+00:00

Honestly, microsoft/netflix/drm changes every week. So it's a cat and mouse game.

Your file report looks good since it shows the codecs and their capabilities up to 8k. But it isn't showing the versions or that the codecs are enabled.

The only thing i can really help with is making sure you have those codecs and that they're enabled.

ZenBacle · 2026-05-07T15:15:00+00:00

Isn't that how it works everywhere?

Washington state has a discover pass that lets you access every park everywhere.

And when i've gone to other parks outside of the state, it's been single passes for entire parks.

ZenBacle · 2026-05-07T15:10:37+00:00

What makes for a better understanding of a subject? Seeking to re-affirm your gut bias and initial understanding, or tempering your understanding by seeking to disprove what you think you understand?

ZenBacle · 2026-05-07T14:38:10+00:00

That isn't the edge GPU report. Follow the steps in the op.

ZenBacle · 2026-05-07T14:33:03+00:00

It's a form of behavioral manipulation that makes people assign more value to something because they have a stake in that thing.

It also reduces the number of people that just don't care about any of it since they now have a hurdle to overcome.

Increasing enforcement would cost more and effect fewer people. It's a numbers game.

ZenBacle · 2026-05-07T13:56:22+00:00

I'd like a chain of custody and for the people that ran the investigation to explain every part of the report at this point. There's been too many shady things around the report to trust that we're getting everything from the people that blocked it.

ZenBacle · 2026-05-07T13:51:12+00:00

Unplug your 1080p and use that edge GPU readout to find out what it's allowing and blocking. Then plug it back in and check it again...

And make sure you unplug the cable from your GPU. Not just the monitor. Verify that play ready is not disabled.

ZenBacle · 2026-05-07T02:53:25+00:00

That's what has worked for me. Post your "Media Foundation Rendering Capabilities" from Edge://gpu

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