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  • There's zero reason to ever "deflate" a currency. In fact, when it's been tried every single time it's become catastrophic.

    The new numbers are bigger than the old numbers, but as long as wages catch up sooner rather than later, they're just a bigger number without being a detriment.

  • A notebook and crayons? I think you'd just get back stick figure-esque drawings of cybertrucks with notes like "bulletproof" and "anti-gas attack".

    Just like the poor Tesla design team.

  • Yeah I'm with you on this. Even from a pure science fiction perspective there's just no way the experience of consciousness "transfers" by any currently understood science.

    Just like when you move a computer's file across the Internet the result would be a copy, and that wouldn't really be noticable or impactful to the copy or the people who know you and the copy would interact with, but it would make a hell of a lot of difference for the person going in. Great if you're dying and want to do what you can (The Culture book series covers this possibility quite well) but otherwise small comfort.

    Best case scenario is "The Prestige", but with a much quicker and cleaner death.

    And if someone slaps "quantum entanglement" on the table like that is a real answer for anything, imma not even bother.

  • Learn docker on the distro you're most comfortable with.

  • Amazing how many products just don't.

  • Super interesting, thank you for sharing. I've read a significant portion and will saving this for future reference.

    It pairs nicely with this series on a foundational technical documentation framework: https://documentation.divio.com/

  • Yuck. No, it's certainly not our best. It's the bargain bin stuff that manages to push the most volume and marketing. You see it a lot around the holidays, but not too much besides.

    Ghirardelli might be our best of the large brands, though it's now owned by Lindt.

    We of course have a ton of smaller brands with higher quality too.

  • Just chip a couple bucks to your local instance owner! Basically the same thing, without the glitz.

  • The owner is a piece of shit who's convinced he's smarter than everyone else and has been hostile to Linux for decades.

  • Highly recommend using tdarr. Not just because the radarr container won't do it, but because tdarr is so incredibly powerful.

  • A weird crossover between linuxmemes and cremposting

  • Hard disagree on them being the same thing. LLMs are an entirely different beast from traditional machine learning models. The architecture and logic are worlds apart.

    Machine Learning models are "just"statistics. Powerful, yes. And with tons of useful applications, but really just statistics, generally using just 1 to 10 variables in useful models to predict a handful of other variables.

    LLMs are an entirely different thing, built using word vector matrices with hundreds or even thousands of variables, which are then fed into dozens or hundreds of layers of algorithms that each modify the matrix slightly, adding context and nudging the word vectors towards new outcomes.

    Think of it like this: a word is given a massive chain of numbers to represent both the word and the "thoughts" associated with it, like the subject, tense, location, etc. This let's the model do math like: Budapest + Rome = Constantinople.

    The only thing they share in common is that the computer gives you new insights.

  • You're talking about two very different technologies though, but both are confusingly called "AI" by overzealous marketing departments. The basic language recognition and regressive model algorithms they ship today are "Machine Learning", and fairly simple machine learning at that. This is generally the kind of thing we're running on simple CPUs in realtime, so long as the model is optimized and pre-trained. What we're talking about here is a Large Language Model, a form of neural network, the kind of thing that generally brings datacenter GPUs to their knees and generally has hundreds of parameters being processed by tens of thousands of worker neurons in hundreds of sequential layers.

    It sounds like they've managed to simplify the network's complexity and have done some tricks with caching while still keeping fair performance and accuracy. Not earth shaking, but a good trick.

  • You're proving that your hate is founded on word of mouth instead of facts. There was an accepted RFC for secure sharing of desktop resources years ago. It's solved. Many applications have already ported in.

    • actually Nvidia largely does support wayland now
    • it's on those applications to support wayland, not the other way around. X certainly wasn't developed to support upstream.
    • adopted an extensible standard, regardless of how it makes you feel.
    • more secure and resilient to a variety of attacks, including keyloggers. Yes very bad.
    • how about the fact that nearly all X developers founded and are now supporting Wayland, and X hasn't had meaningful development aside from break/fix patching for over a decade?
    • you probably shouldn't.
  • Pocketbook eReaders are very high quality and run Linux out of the box.

  • Git, Mercurial, Subversion, and Fossil are the ones i know. Git is so far in the lead it's hard to even mention the others in the same sentence.

  • A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

    The question here, is what are "arms"? It does not promise unrestricted access to "all arms". Or to "any arms". It also does not define arms here or anywhere else in this document.

    It simply says "arms". In legal texts, especially of the time, this implicitly grants the people interpreting the law (our judicial system) the privilege of deciding what undefined terms mean. This means the courts get to decide what is okay and what isn't. And that's probably a good thing. The founding fathers were intelligent by just about every measure. They realized that for a legal code to last it had to be flexible, to account for changing times. So many words are undefined legally, and there are many mechanisms to change the laws set forth.

    For example, I could take an extremely permissive (and might I add, literal) interpretation of "arms" to be "all weapons" and carry the given example further to interpret this as my right to own a HIMARS artillery rocket system. And it would be necessary, since George over in Shelbyville 10 miles south recently acquired an m777 and hasn't liked me since I rear ended him in the highschool parking lot.

    Now, intuitively, most people accept that military equipment such as medium range artillery shouldn't be owned by civilians. In fact, we have many laws to that effect. Instead we've chosen to interpret "arms" as just guns, which actually bucks the actual English definitions both of today and the time. So it's really about interpretation.

    Perhaps we say "arms meant muskets, or even some rudimentary single shot pistols to our founding fathers" and that's our new legal interpretation of the second amendment. Or perhaps we say "no assault weapons" and try our best to narrowly define that as a legal term that carries real weight.

    Either way, it's just a word in an amendment added after the writing of the Constitution. It can be changed or repealed. Nothing is ironclad.