The heck is this title?

YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design

Meanwhile, the article itself just cites a few tiny aesthetic changes and like four random Reddit comments. Doesn’t seem like they even tried it themself… That’s justifications for 460 upvotes?

Eh… could be worse.

How’s the view on Brexit in the UK these days?

My thinking is that it’s a way to avoid adding to existing credit card debt, and accumulate more net “interest free debt” so to speak, as it’s a separate pool from a credit card.

Yes, I know. But if one is going to have the debt one way or the other, I kinda see the logic.

It’s a plausible trap. Depending on the architecture, the image decoder (that “sees”) is bolted onto main model as a more discrete part, and the image generator could be a totally different model. So internally, if it’s not ingesting the “response” image, it has no clue they’re the same.

Of course, we have no idea, because OpenAI is super closed :/

The loans… are a popular alternative to credit cards because they often don’t charge interest.

I never considered this. That makes them seem more reasonable TBH, though of course they screw you over more if you pay late or pile them up.

You’re welcome. Check out the ISW report too!

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-june-23-2023

That literally almost happened:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group_rebellion

Backstory: there was this infamous Russian mercenary company called Wagner. They had a ton of support from Russian nationalists. During the Ukraine war, Putin decided its populist leader’s head was a little too big, so he plopped them on the front lines, undersupplied, and ground them down to keep Wagner in their place, and from growing too powerful.

The leader was not stupid.

So, seeing the existential problem, Wagner, out of the blue, rushed out of Ukraine and made a beeline for Moscow with a big military convoy. There was a lot of political noise, but basically it was a coup.

Ultimately, Wagner realized not enough of the Russian military was turning to their side and stopped (and it leader was literally blown up in a plane some months later), but the crazy thing is some Russian military did defect! Others let them pass without any resistance! And like you said, Moscow didn’t have a lot of defense.

But it was so close to working its nuts! Foreign militaries watched it very closely. The Wikipedia article and ISW reports on it are worth reading, and it’s all an interesting window into internal Russian politics/culture, as Wagner is not the only internal faction that’s a potential threat to Putin.

EDIT: Found the ISW post, so you can see how tense things felt in real time.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-june-23-2023

(More generally, those reports are great source for detailed Ukraine war info).

Comment from the source:

Microsoft poisoned their own well with all the changes they have been forcing on users lately. The update nagging, resetting the default browser to edge, the the ads in windows features, and integrating bing into the start menu have all trained users that when Microsoft starts pushing something new, it probably isn’t great and should just be ignored, like ads in phone apps.

That ^

Also, the copilot llm sucks. Local models are neat within their limitations, and they’d be even better if Microsoft made them trainable/customizable, did better RAG, more integrated, or whatever, but they just shoved a dumb thing down user’s throats, and now they’ve poisoned another well.

Good practice is putting anything important on an encrypted USB drive (as that stuff usually isn’t very big), and just treating the machine as “kinda insecure”

If you set up a BIOS password, someone at least needs to unscrew your computer to get stuff. But this is generally not setup because people, well, forget their passwords…

Not the biggest sample size.

The memo says the Defense Department is returning to the Biden-era medical policy for transgender service members due to a court order that struck down Hegseth’s restrictions as unconstitutional. The administration is appealing the move, but a federal appeals court in California denied the department’s effort to halt the policy while its challenge is pending.

So the court ordered them too.

The article is making it out like the DoD is “defying” Hegseth, but that seems like a misrepresentaion, as it seems he has to go along with this.

I guess it’s a “win” because the DoD isn’t openly defying an order…

Yeah, that’s the thing. Even if you buy the idea of Trump’s policies (which TBH have a few grains of truth), the implementations of them are so full of nonsense. Like, ok, get Canada into the US, let’s just roll with that for the sake of argument… It might make Canada and the US stronger, like the openness between the states does. It would consolidate many federal functions. Canda could retain their culture like individual states do. Sounds plausible.

…And your plan is to get them to join as one state, and only if they grovel to you, by harassing them on Twitter, offering zero details? Like, what world is he living in?

Oh yeah, its more than that. Low weight helps acceleration, braking (so safety), handling, range, wear on every component, and most of all, cost. The same sized tires will need less pressure, wear much less, and grip harder. If the car is lighter, you don’t need as stiff a chassis, nor as much braking to lock the wheels, less battery, motor, which means you can take even more weight off the car… You get where I’m going.

Racecars are fast because they are light, not because they have big engines and expensive bodies. Little 1500lb cars can lap a $3 million 1500hp (and quite heavy, because of all the stuff in it) Bugatti around a track.

Heavy cars can handle OK, but the cost is big.

Robinson declined to release her name or age, only confirming that she has been in the U.S. about six years, but has no legal status. Her daughters were born in the U.S. Their father lives in Detroit.

+1

Weight is everything. Removing it makes almost literally every aspect of a car better, and it’s usually a terrible negative for EVs.

I think OP means “the mediocre, least bad intersection between critical mass and topical discussion.”

Like, you can probably find users/subs about universities/fields and actually find people in them to respond. Lemmy is great, but good luck finding a mass of discussion around a niche location/field.

Reddit is horrible and deteriorating, yes, but still.

Vincke says the team finds DLC boring to make, so they don’t really want to make it anymore.

I find this driveby comment rather significant.

It means they are trying to conform to the developers’ strengths, desires, interests. They’re shaping huge business decisions around them. That’s just good for everyone, as opposed to devs inefficiently, dispassionately grinding away at something they don’t like.

That’s huge. I’d also posit “happy devs means happy business.” And Larian has repeatedly expressed similar things.

The source doesn’t matter, it’s more about the example, and idea.

More bluntly, horrible people (like nazis) can go on to do good things in life. That’s okay.

On the other hand, posting the picture without a ton of context seems to reinforce the very thing you are worried about:

someone MIGHT get the impression there was something fishy going on at NATO from the get-go

When that doesn’t seem to be the case. Nazis, tankies, whatever populist group you can name operate on negative quick impressions to sow doubt and anger with institutions.

…So?

Poking through some of their history (Ernst and Karl), looks like they were indeed Nazi commanders. They served lower ranks after the war, got more education/experience and rose again to perform well within NATO.

Maybe I’m naive, but I believe horrible people can go on to do good things, and that’s fine. I think my favorite character archetype for this is General Iroh in Avatar, who was involved in unspeakable genocide, changed, and ultimately toppled his own dynasty. He’s one of the most beloved characters in fiction, but a quick bio of his in an image would get him utterly crucified as a terrible human being.

Hence drive by image posts kinda like this without context/history, on the other hand, largely provoke outrage. It’s exactly the kind of thing that would trend on the Twitter algorithm and obliterate any nuance. That’s not necessarily your intent, but it’s kinda the aggregate effect.