The different wavelengths don't travel through the atmosphere equally though, that's why you see red light on the horizon in the morning and evening

But you're really clever, from your snarky comments, so I guess you already knew that

I mean its all still just the same thing as "light" tho, its just not the kind thats visible to the human eye. Its all electromagnetic radiation in the end.

Here's an article with a few more details https://avherald.com/h?article=52f1ffc3

There's other radiation in solar radiation than just light. The most harmful stuff doesn't really reach the earth's surface, but you're exposed to higher radiation amounts when flying, same applies to any electronics on board an aircraft. That's why you will usually find multiple flight control computers that have to agree on their calculations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight-time_equivalent_dose

Not sure about a specific article for planes, but some forms of solar radiation can cause random bits to flip to the opposite when it crosses through computer hardware like memory.

These randomly occur already just by us existing in the solar system, and error correction algorithms, hardware like ECC memory, and shielding helps to prevent and correct these issues when they do happen. The intense radiation recently, the same that caused the extended auroras, caused more and stronger occurrences though.

One flight we know was affected despite systems that help prevent issues like that, so they're having the software reloaded on every plane that might have been affected.

Cavemen discovering that water flows downhill.

...private Docker registry called “Artifactory”. I wonder if they're talking about JFrog Artifactory because Atlassian tools and Artifactory are the two largest continuous pain points in my DevOps role currently, would love to replace them.

And no one who deals with Jira is at all surprised.

Not everyone of all ages and viewing distances can accurately read text on a screen in a particular language with enough speed.

Maybe it’s for hearing people who don’t know sign language?

Mentioned in the article: this supports many african languages, including african sign languages. (There were plenty of apps that already did this for, say, ASL.)

Relatedly: it's possible to be deaf and illiterate. Similar to being able to speak but not read, these folks are much better served by sign language translation over text. (I can't find data on rates quickly, but see here for discussion of the general phenomena. It's harder to teach the deaf to read, so easier for them to fall between the cracks.)

Sign language can be faster to interpret. Just how listening is faster than reading.

Huh? If a deaf person needs to look at a screen to see the signs then they could just as easily look at a screen to see the live speech to text of what's being said

Why not just do speech-to-text and display the text???

Nice. What would you recommend for the deep search feature that chatgpt has?

claude.ai for text, krea.ai for media, and huggingface.co for everything else. Until the tides change again, anyway. The wave of enshittification is ever swelling.

when? its like smartphones and have never been that great.

I think people are letting their "Fuck AI" mindset (which I agree with) interfere with the meaning of your post.

AI (all of them) are currently in the "growth at any cost" phase. This is where they burn mountains (and apparently oceans) of cash to get their product in use everywhere they possibly can, and get people hooked on it. Most people around here think that it will never get beyond this point, but let's play it out anyway.

At some point, everyone selling it needs to start showing a profit. It's not a cheap venture, and it sure as fuck isn't being done as some service to humanity. It needs to pay massive dividends to recoup the massive investments.

You're thinking advertising and the like. I don't think that's big enough.

AI, collectively, is a multi-trillion dollar investment. This is built entirely on the promise of eliminating payroll for a fuck-ton of people, more than the trillions it's costing. Adopters (users) are also expecting to keep that "profit".

Doctorow's process of enshittification is that the current phase would be to get businesses hooked at the low price, and fire all of the people that currently do it. Of course, many will, since that is in their short-term interest.

The next phase is to then extract that value as well. I would expect AI to develop complex and expensive licensing models. If it's saving your company the salary of an $80k/year graphics artist, OpenAI/Anthropic/Microsoft/etc is going to want, and feel entitled, to charge $40k/year for it. And those same businesses will pay, because it's still cheaper than the real person.

TL;DR: The future of AI is AutoCAD.

I would be seriously surprised if it wasn’t happening already because it’s the only way I can imagine them making money. Say, Disney pays OpenAI so that overall output is 3% more positive which scales quickly with the number of ChatGPT users that mistake it for a search engine. That kind of marketing benefits from not being blatant.

I wouldn’t mind paying a small subscription to cover compute costs and retain neutrality.

If Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc. are anything to go by, big tech has found it much more profitable to serve you ads (and sell your data) than take a pittance from you to avoid them. Don't hold out hope for anything like what you're describing.

I just run local and ignore the subscription tools.

I had a subscription for 3 months or so.
I haven't found ChatGPT to be all that useful. My primary use is in TTRPGs. Story hooks and very generic things sure. But if I ask for anything specific to the rules for one specific TTRPG, even giving it the text to reference, it still comes up with absolutely unreliable nonsense. A mashup of things from several different TTRPGs. Even when asked a direct question "what's the stat-block for a zombie in the PDF I just gave you?" And it responds with something completely made up.

I have both Proton and Kagi. Kagi offers access to most of the major LLMs. Proton has their own. They all work more less the same. ChatGPT is nothing special realy.

I found it fascinating how much Meta is spending on AI, 72 B a year, more than the GDP of Alaska!

Also feel like it was a good summary of Zucks and Meta's whole past failures.

You also have to control a bit portion of the shares of the company or voting rights, which he does, so share holders can't boot you out.