Yea, just like… do shit.

Yea - RVs end up costing an insane amount of money. The depreciation is extremely fast and the maintenance is really steep.

Additionally, the fuel costs are absolutely insane.

Dunno. I’ve been pretty selective about who I keep in contact with.

I hope their life is going well, though. I generally hope everyone’s life is going well.

I have never met someone raised outside of Asia that has ordered a glass of hot water to drink as-is. I have no idea why this habit is so wide spread among people raised in Asia and it baffles me.

As a Vancouverite might I say…

Huh, that seems like a very reasonably priced way to afford a home these days.

If the puppets are more afraid of the citizenry than the billionaires then that’d go a long way towards solving some of our big problems.

You’re not personally responsible or able to prevent climate change. This is a societal issue that requires societal changes. Don’t feel obligated to put yourself in financial trouble since the impact to your life is potentially devastating and your impact to solving climate change would be negligible. It fucking sucks but we live in a brutal capitalist system and you need to make sure you can care for yourself.

I might suggest seeing if there are local advocacy groups where you can contribute your time and, if you truly have excess wealth, help with direct financial support as needed, small contributions to things like mailing campaigns or buying a booth at a faire will help much more than blanket contributions - but, IMO, the bigger need is in effort and time.

LLM generations of that length tend to go off the rails - I think generating it in chunks where you can try and guide the model back onto the rails it probably a more sane technique.

There are several open source llms to lean on - but for long generations you’ll need a lot of memory if you’re running it locally.

Not certain if it’s still active but koboldai seems to be a community sourced tool that doesn’t have built-in limitations because it’s a non-commercial site.

Of course it’s possible… it’s highly unlikely though.

There might be some grandparent with a video card they have no idea what to do with or some bitcoin miner having a firesale.

How many times is it worth getting scammed to you?

Ah, I guess I’ll need to tell my teenage friend who never made it to adulthood after feeling trapped and ruined when an older man started an online relationship that isolated her from her family to… fucking grow a pair or something?

Healthy mature people can exist online in a positive manner. Not everyone is an adult and not every adult is mature. The internet can be a dangerous place and it’s unhelpful to try and dismiss that.

Hedy Lamarr is absolutely awesome, enjoy the Wikipedia rabbit hole.

Hedy Lamarr is a more interesting person than you could ever imagine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr

Definitely Kieran Culkin.

Everything we imagine looks like humans. God looks like a human in nearly all portrayals - our consciences look like humans. Even death is an ᴀɴᴛʜʀᴏᴘᴏᴍᴏʀᴘʜɪᴄ ᴘᴇʀꜱᴏɴɪꜰɪᴄᴀᴛɪᴏɴ.

Aliens are just a projection of our fear of the unknown.

ADHD. I’m an excellent developer… I’d probably murder someone if I had to do retail or do any other “always on” job.

Mao is probably a lot more impactful than Hitler - I’m just uncertain if it’d successfully abort the damage.

Definitely, Jesus.

A bunch of people Naruto running.

In two of your cases this operator is pretty shit because at some point you’ll probably want to offset the access (this isn’t a knock at you but at the feature).

This operator would only really be relevant to the last case which rarely comes up outside of infrastructure/library work (building a tool building tool) and usually those code bases are cautious to adopt new features too quickly anyways for portability.

I’ve done serious C++ work (not much in the past decade though) - while references are absolutely amazing and you essentially want to pass by const ref by default I think well written maintainable C++ should maybe have a dozen heap objects tops. C++ is a better language if you generally forget that pointers and bare arrays exist.

Just again - I think you’re right and the fact that your list is only three things long (and arguably two of them would be misuses) is a pretty clear sign that this is an incredibly niche feature.