Again, reducing the usefulness of a general purpose agent that can do anything for you. Plus if OpenAI starts a whitelist of allowed domains Codex can access, y’all will be up in arms too and immediately there will be a fork to remove the whitelist.

Apparently if you terraform the Sahara, it’s bye-bye rainforest in South America. The Amazon rainforest needs the dust that lands over there from the Sahara.

If Signal had zero value to the three letter agencies, they probably wouldn’t be allowed to exist. Sucks, but I wouldn’t trust them much more than anything else American.

Honestly, for super secret communications, leave your phones at home and meet up irl.

How the hell is that useful? These tools have Internet access for retrieval-augmented generation and to be able to interface with external APIs. It’s what makes them useful compared to a dumb chatbot.

I got a 2007 A6 Allroad Quattro for 1.8k. Let me know when I can get an EV for that price, with highway cruising range (I get about 1000 km on a tank but I’d find 400-500 acceptable on an EV).

So far the closest and most tempting are old Tesla Model S, which I could get for 15k, but I’m not a fan of touchscreens, I prefer a proper interior. And not sure I should give money to someone who bought a car off Elon Musk and will likely do it again. Runner up is Jaguar I Pace which is super cheap because… Jaguar decided to pretend its old lineup doesn’t exist and is discontinuing parts production.

Even then, being able to charge at home is incredibly privileged. Not everyone lives in a single-family home. I do, but if I didn’t, charging would cost as much as fuel before the Iran war.

1 star the animals at the national park didn’t come out to greet us please tell them to be nicer to visitors

Wish I could get a tank in full of fuel in my wagon for anywhere near 100 dollars. It’s more like 140 euros and not a very big tank. I think that’s about 160 dollarbucks American.

You’re still paying less than many of us were paying before, man the fuck up and stop complaining. Literally living in one of the most privileged countries in the world.

How do you sandbox a tool with Internet access?

How do you propose someone “sandboxes an instance” of a tool with Internet access (without which it wouldn’t be particularly useful)?

It’s usually written that way as a joke in non-serious contexts

Community being 97th is heresy

Edit: And no Bluey at all? That show does absolute magic in just 7 minutes an episode

Do construction workers not smoke where you come from? Basically all of them do here. It’s free breaks.

Marlboro is just the most famous brand

Everyone in this thread: I avoid self checkout like the plague, I don’t want to replace employees

My mom: works for a grocery store, never uses the regular checkout if possible

There will always be employees at grocery stores and the scan while walking type of self checkout is more convenient than any other type of checkout.

It only needs infinite growth everywhere because everyone wants to retire and retirement is a massive drain on an aging society. If you want people to retire at an age where they’re still capable of enjoying life, in a society with increasingly few workers compared to non-workers, no economic system works without continued growth.

You absolutely can have a small business that doesn’t grow exponentially under capitalism. It just won’t let you retire early on your own little yacht.

LLMs can be multimodal now. You can chuck a screenshot into claude code or whatever you use and the image generation process can also be done by the LLM itself rather than an external tool call as far as I know

Mostly because people buy them. Because they’re convenient.

Air bags already have explosives tbf

Do you create a new Google account every time you change phones? They’re already tying everything to you

Is that legal in the US? Here you have to stop if you see that another car has