Damn, what a difference.
Yeah, I don’t think people understand that your life is extremely radically different when you don’t look like a human dumpster. It probably matters more for women, but it is true for everyone.
I’m treated much better and flirted with 1000x more frequently now that I am extremely fit and my face is more masculine.
Agreed, that might be one of the best predictions of all time. Everyone made fun of him for it at the time; I did.
But he was correct. Human-level AI is here. And beyond. Current frontier models are smarter in most areas than 99.999999% of humans.
I’m burning through tokens. I’m vibecoding like mad. Building stuff for our homestead.
One of my favorite sports photos is of a woman pole vaulter. It’s on one of my many storage locations somewhere, but alas I could not find it. It also would not be allowed by the new sharia broadcast guidelines because in it you can ascertain that the woman in question possesses a body.
All that preamble out of the way, I also really like this pole vault photo. It would also of course be banned under the new liberal sharia.
I don’t know who the vaulter is, but such a cool pic.
It’s nice having a browser that goes back as it should when I click the “back” button.
First time in about 20 years.
I’ve started noticing a change in tattoos on women. It appears they are no longer considered cool or appealing by or on the most attractive women. The most desirable women are always at the vanguard of style so the rest will follow. Thank the fucking gods. What an aesthetic blight omnipresent tattoos have been.
I watch so, so many music videos. And like in the one below, in which you can see most of Belize’s skin, she has no visible tattoos. And the same for Sarah in the Pamela. video below that one.
Both Sarah and Belize are obviously extremely attractive women — easily in the top 0.01% there — and both have no tattoos. (In fact, both of the people in the band Pamela. — Sarah and Josh — are so absurdly good-looking I thought they were hired models and not the actual band the first time I watched one of their vids.) This lack of disfigurement would not have been true even a few years ago.
So as I pointed out at the start, where attractive women lead others will soon follow. I’ve also been seeing more Reddit posts and such where people (usually women) are talking about trying to find the money to get their much-regretted tattoos lasered off.
All good signs. Along with GLP-1s, it’s likely that soon so many people won’t walk around looking like fucking graffitied dumpsters again.
That benny blanco and Bb trickz video starts off kind of slow but the end is a banger (literally). I’m glad I watched the whole thing.
I and the LLM made an extension that will piss off devs, designers, and everyone in that space who wants to control what I can do, but that helps me enormously. And it took a lot of work and research. The LLM did all the heavy lifting, really, but I did the background research to see what was possible.
The extension restores true back button functionality even on sites that don’t allow it and even those that actively attempt to prevent it. I burned a fuckload of tokens doing this, brothers and sisters. But it works pretty well now for something that is not supposed to even be possible. It is possible, of course. Anything is with the will and the tools.
I’d made an earlier version of this extension but it was honestly pretty crap. It broke tons of sites, was slow, and just in general was not worth using. The new one actually functions correctly. Basically, it snapshots the page and stuffs that into local storage and then when you slap that back button, you get the snapshot of the page exactly as it was before, transparently. And, people, it’s so much faster than the worthless fucking redraw that every page insists on doing now.
No, I will not release it generally. It’s just for me. And my partner, if she wants it. I simply refuse to be anyone else’s tech support outside of my actual job.
This extension rules. It is a middle finger to all those who attempt to control my computer against my wishes and intentions.
Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me.
It’s the usual hot July here. We have two large ACs and use them as well as loads of computer equipment. And we’re mid-way through the billing cycle. Here’s our power bill so far.
With taxes and fees, it’ll be about $35. Sans those big-ass solar panels on the roof, that’d set us back $300 or so.
Love solar.
The best part of LLMs is they allow me to undertake projects that were within my capabilities but infeasible time-wise. Nearly everything I’ve worked on with Claude and ChatGPT I already could’ve done and understand how to do without those tools, but each project sans an LLM would’ve consumed 500+ hours. But with an LLM they were able to be wrapped up in 5-30 hours. That’s a huge improvement.
I am sure the idiot control freaks will try to take it all away soon, to be clear. But for now I have tons of tools and utilities I just wouldn’t have had prior. And that’s pretty awesome.
Louise!
She’s my favorite silent-era movie actress. Cool to see a random mention.
Probably the best take about AI and its future iterations in particular I’ve seen.
That’s a good start.
Shit, ya’ll, I built my own NAS (with my partner’s help) to get away from Synology and their shenangians and I just transferred a 12GB file across the network in a few seconds.
I saw 950MB/s (yes, that’s megabytes) transfer speed. My network is so awesome.
Is the Ferrari Luce’s Design Really That Bad? 3 Italian Auto Experts Weigh In.
I like it. It’s unique and pretty sleek looking. I’d drive it, though I don’t want a Ferrari. And especially for that price. If I were going to drop $650K on a car, I’d just buy a plane.
No car is worth that much to me.
Oh, shit, I didn’t realize this fallacy had an actual name. I refer to it all the time.
Social scientists will tell any lie, distort any data, and defame anyone at all to avoid the idea that there might be any racial differences. And of course there are.