Ad for an ad-blocker. Genius 🤣

What are the “other reasons”? Thought about trying it.

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The last line says 2 pets max. So two small Snow Leopards maybe?

Feel free to use floppy disks. Btw if you are online, you use WebP and PNG all the time 🤣

Would completely defeat the purpose of making a new smaller file format if we prefix if with the old format.

Only in the US 🤣

I probably would miss it because I look for stuff sometimes (with everything search for example) and am shocked to still find interesting stuff there I forgot to sort in.

I thought about updating my script to look up the hashes of files on virus total and if it’s some well know file (many uploads/checks) it’s probably something I could re-download easily and can be safely nuked.

I have a script that sorts old downloads into folders by year and month. I’m afraid to open the folders but also don’t want to delete them 🤣

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That’s intended. Look at the second hand for a minute. It goes 1, 2, 3, etc. like on a real clock but the numbers are distributed differently. That’s also why the hands sometimes have to move faster to reach their target in time. It goes (backwards) if it’s closer.

Here you are: https://jsfiddle.net/2o97k6vz/6/

Because an image is a bit to lazy IMHO for “prgrammer” humor. I programmed a clock that actually works. Have fun 🤣

https://jsfiddle.net/gjpwf5oq/2/

Btw: you can change the order of the clock-face if you want.

Update: Supports arbitrary text now (example roman numerals): https://jsfiddle.net/2o97k6vz/6/

Update: And with Months because why not 🤣 https://jsfiddle.net/2o97k6vz/7/

It still can panic/abort and deadlock/wait infinitely long on most fp languages because that’s typically implied. And there isn’t actually a way around that because computation almost always can fail or block indefinitely - and if you have a total language you can implement waits for billions of years, which for all practical purposes is “infinitely” long on human time scales.

I think the most hilarious thing was their public Copilot demonstration working on the .NET source code. They basically showed the world that copilot isn’t ready for serious work.

No that’s impossible with your voice even for those slow speeds back then. But one could implement a similar system that converts sound to data/images if you invent you own modulation depending on how precise you can make sounds. If you are totally ungifted with your voice like me, the simplest would probably be something like morse. If you have perfect pitch you could use many different frequencies and amplitudes and combine those (a bit like QAM but without phase modulation, because humans can’t control the phase with their vocal cords). The more different frequency-amplitude combinations you can make and the faster you can switch between them the faster you “manual” data transmission could be.

Sounds actually pretty fun to play around with 🤣

PS: I personally would drop amplitude modulation and only use different frequencies (FM) and only pick a few different values (maybe four? or eight - one octave cdefgabc’) with variable speed (decoding based on short pauses between notes) to be most reliable.

PPS: what did you (and adhd) do to me 😅. Now I want to make something like that and have no time on my hands anyway.

The screaming was not only during handshake. The acoustic coupler you see in the image was making that “scream” all the time (that’s how the data was transmitted), so no noise, no communication/data.

People got so used to the noise that some of them could even diagnose connection issues based on the sound the coupler made.

When modems were updated they internally converted the data directly to electrical signals to be sent over the telephone via, without the audio indirection, but most modems had a built in speaker anyway that still played back the audio during handshake (on default settings) to allow users to hear/debug connection issues.

Practically all modems from that time allowed you to turn off that noise - even during handshake.

Over the years the need to “hear” the data went away.

I didn’t say they have no knowledge, quite the opposite. Here a quote from the comment you answered:

LLMs are extremely knowledgeable (as in they “know” a lot) but are completely dumb.

There is a subtle difference between intelligent and knowledgeable. LLM know a lot in that sense that they can remember a lot of things, but they are dumb in that sense that they are completely unable to draw conclusions and put that knowledge into action in any other means besides spitting out again what they once learned.

That’s why LLMs can tell you a lot about about all different kinds of game theory about tic tac toe but can’t draw/win that game consistently.

So knowing a lot and still being dumb is not a contradiction.

But wouldn’t you point still be true today that the best AI video models today would be the onces that are not available for consumers?

Probably won’t happen under capitalism. It’s way too expensive (time consuming) to write good software/make good products.