I’ve seen recipes, which are basically just cocoa butter and cocoa powder, and they seem pretty simple, though I’ve never tried them.

Most chocolate “making” just starts with chocolate callets. Melt them, temper it, put it in moulds, and add filling. I’ve done this, and it’s not that difficult. Of course, the quality here depends on the quality of the callets, so if you start with Hershey’s (not sure if they even make callets), it’ll still taste like vomit.

Look, AI is dumb, and probably not a good thing to integrate into a browser. But if it turns out to be an important thing in the future, then not integrating it right now would be worse than having it.

There’s a measurable fixed cost to adding AI features. There’s room for potentially infinite losses (i.e. entire loss of market share) if they don’t have AI features and need them. The calculus on this decision is pretty lopsided towards integrating AI, even if everyone thinks it’s likely to be unnecessary.

“Da ba up up upppp! Mik wa mik. Wah du ree yahhhh! Wush.”

At least, that’s what my toddler just said.

Yeah, that actually changes things. Not a lot, but very slightly. Like, whatever unit is smaller than a Planck length.

Edit: it’s an “annual” prize, but Trump got the first one. I would be surprised if there was another, but maybe he’ll win that one too.

Presumably the politicians accounted for this in their negotiations. They may have some high level engineers from China, but I can’t imagine they’ll be allowed to bring in a whole migrant workforce, especially with the current climate around immigration in Canada.

And then they may elect Mr Beast

I can’t wait for welfare to be replaced by “Survive 30 days in Guantanamo, win $500,000”, and “100 people in Alligator Alcatraz. Last one standing wins $1,000,000”.

The Cartel le of the uhhhh cartel.

From China’s perspective (and in theory, Taiwan’s perspective), invading Taiwan isn’t the same, because they both officially recognize One China, they just disagree about who’s in charge.

It would more akin to USA invading Puerto Rico, if the governor of PR asserted that they were in fact the proper leaders of the USA.

Should cars have been outlawed because it put farriers and stables out of business? Were shipping containers a bad idea because they required fewer longshoremen?

Technology comes and makes jobs obsolete. It happens all the time. It just happens that this technology has come in a big, visible way, and many of the ways its used and marketed are useless and/or awful. That doesn’t mean it’s entirely bad, and there’s certainly no way to stop it now.

AI will replace jobs. We can’t get around that fact. Companies that fail to adapt will fall behind. Whether I use it at my job or not has no bearing on the industry, and I’m not in a position to push for industry-wide change (nor is the company I work for). So we can either use it, or also fall behind.

I work for a mid-sized company. We still hire junior developers. I don’t think we have any plans to get rid of them entirely, but I’m not involved in that process. But after a couple decades of huge growth in the industry, developers (especially junior ones) are going to have a rough few years as the industry realigns with the new normal. There will be job losses, there will be companies that disappear entirely because they either depended too much upon AI, or didn’t adapt fast enough. But pretending that AI isn’t a useful tool when used in specific ways is just sticking your head in the sand.

20 bucks a month is basically nothing for a developer who’s making $100 an hour.

My employer pays for copilot, and yeah, it makes mistakes, but if you pretend it’s a junior developer and double check its code, it can easily save time on a lot of tedious work, and will turn hours of typing into fewer hours of reading.

Ukraine wants EU membership. Trump doesn’t want to feel like the US is being left out, so Ukraine will pretend to negotiate to spare his feelings.

If you have a Lemmy account, you’re significantly more online than most people.

Getting some skin in the game. Can’t you read?

I think he’s asking for dick pics.

It doesn’t have to mean pulling away from the global community. It just means that the global community needs to build itself up to be more than three US corporations in a trenchcoat.

Do any of them implement blocking for piracy websites in the way that Japan wants?

What if we just say that they’re smuggling drugs?

To be clear, I’m not doubting that therapy helps. Therapy is a great idea for everyone.

But I’m still dubious about the claim that access to artificial children, including AI porn, will cause pedophiles to offend (more than baseline), rather than provide an outlet for their urges. What makes this different than simulated violence in video games?

And finally, please take note of how unhelpful and condescending “do your own research” is, especially after starting your comment off with “this research is unavailable, but trust me, it exists”.

This feels a lot like the “violent video games cause violence” argument, but because it’s about child abuse, people don’t want to defend it.

Are there actually any studies supporting your comment? I briefly looked and couldn’t find anything.

I don’t disagree with your overall point, but 40% of Americans are obese, which is the category worse than overweight. A full 73.6% are overweight or obese (2018): https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/obesity-overweight.htm

If violent dictators can’t trust that you’re making a deal for peaceful resolution in good faith, then a lot of people are going to die to achieve that transition. If the only way out is death, they’re going to take as many people with them as possible. Is that worth it, just to kill one rich guy?

Peaceful transitions of power always involve compromises. Here, they agreed to spare his life in exchange for the future lives of countless citizens. If they didn’t want to agree to those conditions, they shouldn’t have made the deal. It just makes it harder for this situation to play out peacefully in the future.