Now I might be naive or wrong, but I tell you completely honestly, that I would always have been more concerned for my safety travelling to the US than China. Naturally, you’d steer away from discussing the wrong thing or behaving in ‘concerning’ ways in China (like IDK, waving a camcorder at a police station)… But I have never been worried about the idea of being arbitrarily detained for doing average tourist stuff in China. US on the other hand… Very concerned indeed. Everyone armed, trigger happy police, high racial tensions, and I truly thought all of that before Trump was ever a household name. No thanks.

Come on now, that’s not how you spell eggsorbitant

$14 USD/mo… Ironically

I’ve been an enthusiastic adopter of Generative AI in my coding work; and know that Claude 3.7 is the greatest coding model out there right now (at least for my niche).

That said, at some point you have to let principles override convenience; so I’ve cancelled all my US Tech service accounts - now exclusively using ‘Le Chat Pro’ (+ sometimes local LLM’s).

Honestly, it’s not quite as good, but it’s not half bad either, and it is very very fast thanks to some nifty hardware acceleration that the others lack.

I still get my work done, and sleep better at night.

The more subscriptions Mistral get, the more they’re able to compete with the US offerings.

Anyone can do this.

Trash post.

To be clear, you are criticising Sabine for saying there should be no research grants for women? If so, you perhaps misinterpret her meaning?

If I know Sabine at all from her videos, she would have meant that in an equal world, grants aimed specifically at either sex should not be necessary.

That’s quite different from a “raise the drawbridge” stance - but I’m a casual viewer, so please be kind while putting me right, if warranted.

You’re too generous 😅

Interesting you say that. I loved District 9 then the next thing I saw from him was ‘Oats Studios’ shorts; which turned me right off the guy.

Billed as post apocalyptic stories; it sounded entertaining but what I saw was strong shock/gore/horror stuff which just seemed to go for straight up nastiness with no decent story, message or social commentary that I could discern. Juvenile writing paired with horrible imagery for the sake of it.

Not for me, and I’m not sure who it would be for really. Black Mirror has a cerebral quality but Oats was simply depressing rubbish.

I don’t think I’ll watch another thing by him. Really disappointing since District 9 was fantastic.

Mate I dislike JS as much as anyone but there’s no need to bring it in here.