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I like how playful behavior seems te be present in a lot of animals. Evolutionary it doesn't necessarily seem advantageous, and yet a lot of animals just do stuff because it's fun. Maybe the advantage is training or something.

The issue is that I miss features when using Epic. Additionally, games from Epic are not visible in my steam library which leads to me forgetting that they even exist. And also nobody uses it, so there's no community feeling like I have with all my Steam friends.

I don't mind it for free games though. If they give me a game for free, they deserve me using their launcher for that game haha.

Manjaro. I had previously already used Antergos and Ubuntu, but after Antergos stopped I needed something like it. So I installed Manjaro in my secondary PC (with old components). I constantly got into trouble with the manual kernel version selection thingy. I was used to kernel updates being part of the normal update process, and suddenly I had to manually pick the new one. I constantly ran into incompatibility issues with older or newer kernels, vague update deadlocks where I couldn't update things because they depended in each other, and I absolutely hated having to use a separate program for updating the kernel. Now the PC runs Fedora and I'm liking that a lot more so far...

Personally my main gripe is their aggressive strategies to force people into their garbage-tier launcher. Compared to Steam it's just miles behind, and it's yet another app to run on your PC. All my friends are also on Steam, and Steam had Linux support. However, if all you want to do is launch singleplayer games, you don't mind the Epic launcher, and you get a good deal, then do whatever you want to.

For tasks that I know, I'm faster in the terminal. For tasks where I'm less familiar or that are very important (like disk partitioning) I prefer a GUI because with a GUI I can usually see a bit better what I'm doing.

Terminal tasks for me include copying stuff, setting folder permissions, uncompressing or compressing folders, quick edits in vim, etc.

I was already wondering that. Whether they're Americans or British, they seem to have the same fear of using logical measuring systems like metric

21 stone?! I swear you guys will use anything instead of metric

If you'd blow with a leaf blower or something to the front of the boat, the boat might actually go backwards of there's enough force. The leaf blower is basically pushing the air forwards, therefore it's also pushing itself backwards. Some go this will probably be cancelled by blowing against the sail, but some air will also pass around it.

This seems totally intentional. It didn't really flap with force once. Instead it just kinda vibed around on the wind for a while without really expending too much energy. I think the bird could totally go against the wind if it wanted to, but it just wanted to do whatever it was doing here. Maybe just playing or training a bit, or maybe getting a slightly different vantage point.

Generating meaningful text in an image is very complex. Most of these models like Dall-E and simple diffusion are essentially guided denoising algorithms. They get images of pure noise, and are being told that it's actually just a very noisy image of whatever the description is. So all they do is remove some noise for many steps in a row until a clear image emerges. You can kinda imagine it as the "AI" staring into the noise to see the image that you described.

Most real-world objects are of course quite complex. If it sees a tree branch in the noise, it also need to make sure that the rest of the tree fits. And a car headlight only makes sense if the rest of the car is also there. But for text these kind of correlations are even way way harder. In order to generate meaningful text it not only needs to understand how text is usually spaced, and that letters usually are written in a consistent font, it also needs to learn the entire English language. All that just to generate something that is probably overall of less influence to it's "score" on images form the dataaset than learning how to draw a realistic car.

So in order to generate meaningful text, the model requires a lot of capacity. Otherwise, since it's not specifically motivated to learn to write meaningful text, it'll do whatever it's doing now. Honestly I'm sometimes quite impressed with how well these models do generate text, given all these considerations.

EDIT: Another few things came to mind:

• Relating images and text (and thus guiding the image generator) was in the past done using a different (AI) model. Not sure if that's still the case. So 2 models need to understand the English language to generate meaningful text: generator and the image to text translation model.
• So why can AI like ChatGPT generate meaningful text? Well in short, they are fully dedicated to outputting language. They output the text as text and thus can be easily scored on it. The neural network architecture is also way more suited to it and they see way more text

I mean, insulting staff is disgusting behaviour, but 3 months of prison is absolutely insane. These countries are still hellholes stuck in the past, and I'll make sure never to visit them.

"It is what it is" works until it doesn't. Then, after you've swept all your problems under the rug for 10+ years, it'll all come crumbling down. The idea that men should not show emotions and should always stay "strong" is one of the most toxic and destructive ideas out there. If you're a guy going through some shit, please know that it's okay to cry, it's okay to feel weak, it's okay to ask for help. Shit often won't go away by ignoring it, it'll come back later to bite you.

Mac & Cheese doesn't really fit that bill right? It's carbs, salt and fat. A desert in terms of nutritional value. Barely any vitamins or fibres. Though I do agree with the "anything you can stomach". I'm also ill and a few days ago I barely ate anything. I just wasn't hungry and couldn't really get any food inside. But I did have a huge craving for sweet stuff, so I ate absolutely abysmally but it was better than nothing.

KeePass2Android also has those luckily

Why are flags needed to denote where you live? Humans like to bond with people who have similar experiences. Whether it is the flag of your country, your Football team, your favorite band, etc. Being asexual always felt like being broken and alone in a world full of different people, the flag represents a community where I can finally find others like me. It doesn't hurt anyone, yet it provides me and other aces a lot of happiness.

Yeppers :3 (though it's probably better to ask first)

Finally one of these I can relate to :3

As someone who's continuously tired after tanking mono and COVID, I'll take the mask. Heck, I'd even take it if it gave me 8 hours of restful sleep. Just anything to wake up and feel rested for a while

Haha yeah exactly. I'm currently hoping that the PVV voters will get annoyed that the solutions aren't as simple as Wilders always pretends, and then the next election we might return to some slight normalcy again. Or shit will get even weirder, who knows...

He has existed and looked like this long before Trump was a politician. His party was founded in 2006 after he left the VVD, and back then he was already at it.