There's no Anmeldung system in America. Actually voter registration is the closest thing you have to an official current address, and it's a lot easier to do (no appointment required).
Yes I know, which is strange, and I know many Americans are proud of it (no snooping state etc.) but overall I think there are more downsides to it. I feel this is an artifact from times without phone lines and computers with many small towns hundreds of miles apart (also see electorial college) and was a necessity but is now kept b/c of identity and tradition.
RedLetterMedia Phantom Menace review. A remarkably unique mix of comedy and genuine insight.
I feel like the Star Wars prequels were largely ignored culturally for years, but after the Plinkett review they keep coming up. There are even weirdos who insist they're good now.
It's basically a whole parallel tax collection system, which is truly nuts. Like the administrative overhead alone surely outweighs any abstract concerns about independence from government, which doesn't really exist in the UK anyway.
This gets raised every charter renewal and they always find the administrative overhead of e.g. collecting Netflix subscriptions, etc. is pro rata higher than the overhead for the licence fee.
I interpreted the parent as suggesting "just pay for it out of general tax revenue", which makes a lot of sense to me. No additional administration and enforcement required.
> A Licensing officer may call at your property not to collect the letters but to check that you are not watching a TV.
and
>...Cas Scott has said that the letters are not sought by TVL/BBC agents who make street visits.
Like, they show up at your home and ask to physically view your TV to make sure you aren't watching TV! It's so incredibly bonkers to me, I'm laughing out loud at work at the mental image!
We all pay to receive propaganda, be it governmental or not. A private TV channel will spread the ideology of their owners, and it is usually an ideology that is useful to them.
The purpose is psychological to attach a monetary value to the government TV channels, which makes the viewer consider them valuable and therefore trustable.
Basically the behavior is hardware-dependent, and nobody wants to mandate that C++ compilers generate a ton of extra instructions on hardware which does not behave a particular way.
Of course you can define your own checked integer types, using inline assembly to check the overflow flag where available.
Just so we're clear, yes, it's "hardware-dependent", but literally every single architecture and CPU model does the same reasonable thing, which is to wrap into the negative.
Any architecture that doesn't use 2s complement is so esoteric by now that it does not make any sense for a general-purpose C compiler to pretend they exist.
None of this is going to exist in a month. It's nonsensical to make a fork not because you disagree with technical decisions, but because you don't like the community management.
>not because you disagree with technical decisions, but because you don't like the community management.
Isn't this description every fork ever?
Popular reasons are a disagreement about a license change, or unreasonable barriers on getting things done.
When the community manager (first assumed rogue, but later found to be aligned with Godot's founder) threw a fit and made it clear that anybody who doesn't toil very narrow ideological and political lines is not welcome in the project, there's not much left to do but fork.
I have yet to see an LLM produce even a competent short story, an extremely popular and manageable genre. The best I've seen still has the structure and sophistication of a children's story.
I used to come up with a bedtime story for my kids every night. They were interesting enough that my kids could recall previous stories and request I tell it again. I've since started using ChatGPT to come up with bedtime stories. They're boring and formulaic but good for putting the kids to sleep.
It feels dystopian to have AI reading my kids bedtime stories now that I think about it.
Just retell stories you know from books you've read or movies or whatever. They haven't read any books they'll never know. I mean until eventually they will know but that's also funny.
Or those repulsive AT&T ads for the iPhone 16, where someone smugly fakes social interactions and fobs people off with AI summaries. It's not only not genuine, but it's manipulative behavior.
I’m mind blown you were willing to come up with random stories for your own blood and decided reading out ai drivel to them would somehow produce a better experience for any party involved.
The children's-story pattern, complete with convenient moral lessons at the end, is so aggressive with both ChatGPT and Claude that I suspect both companies have RLHFed it that way to try and keep people from easily using it to produce either porn or Kindle Unlimited slop.
For a contrast, look at NovelAI. They only use (increasingly custom) Llama-derived models, but their service outputs much more narratively interesting (if not necessarily long-term coherent) text and will generally try and hit the beats of whatever genre or style you tell it. Extrapolate that out to the compute power of the big players and I think you'd get something much more like the Star Trek holodeck method of producing a serviceable (though not at all original) story.
The holodeck method still requires lots of detail from the creator, it just extrapolates the sensory details from its database like ChatGpt does with language and fills out the story.
For example, when someone wanted a holonovel with Kiera Nerys, Quark had to scan her to create it so when using specific people they have to get concrete data as opposed to historical characters that were generated. Likewise, Tom Paris gave the computer lots of “parameters” as they called them to create the stories like the Adventures of Captain Proton and based on dialog he knew how the stories were supposed to play out on all his creations, if not how they ended each run through.
The creative details and turns of the story still need to come from the human.
In a made up story about a utopian future, and for now in our current reality, that is. There was also that episode where the holodeck created sentience and they put it in a box to explore a generated universe because it was too dangerous to let out into the real world. There's plenty of scifi predictions about the future of humanity, Star Trek's utopian future where humans are unique and necessary is not the only one, there are plenty of dystopian ones too.
Constructing short stories properly is an art form in and of itself, and is very hard to do well. But an LLM can help you somewhat, at least good enough to amuse yourself at least. But it does depend on your input.
There's a big difference between:
"Write me a story"
and things like
* "As the last star in the sky died, the shadows began to coalesce into a presence that wore the face of my own mother."
* "The red trees whispered quietly in the wind, their mana flowing around them in twisted strands. I reached out, pulled, twisted..."
* or even just: "write 10 dark fantasy prompts" (to give you a start. )
And it also depends on if you have the LLM write the whole story by itself, or if you're helping (or vice versa: have the LLM help you). And Claude, Llama and ChatGPT each give very different results! )
I mean, if you've convinced yourself that these tools can never lead to creativity, then I can't change your mind. But if you're a person who wants to see how one's creativity can be supported: Maybe you can get some ideas, perhaps just enough to break out of writer's block some time.
8-bit computers are fully comprehensible, they're something you can build on a breadboard from components with straightforward datasheets. They're a perfect learning tool.
I don't think future generations are going to be very interested in tinkering with a C64 or an Apple II, but the 6502 will live on for a very long time.
> I don't think future generations are going to be very interested in tinkering with a C64 or an Apple II
There's a decent bunch of Gen Z'ers absolutely fascinated by the DOS 3.11 / Windows 95 era, and almost certainly also C64 / Apple II. Both the hardware and software from that time period was still novel, innovative, and plain weird. On the other hand, it is very clearly just a computer: you can hook it up to a network or play games on it.
It brought us Microsoft Bob, who wouldn't want to poke around with that?
>I don't think future generations are going to be very interested in tinkering with a C64 or an Apple II, but the 6502 will live on for a very long time.
There's no Anmeldung system in America. Actually voter registration is the closest thing you have to an official current address, and it's a lot easier to do (no appointment required).