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Oh yeah for scooters it's better. But for bikes it's only better if it leads to someone using a bike where they otherwise could not. Otherwise it makes stuff more dangerous and expensive and less healthy.

Well the counterpoint is that NVIDIA's Linux drivers are famously garbage, which also pisses off professionals. From what I see from AMD now with ROCm, it seems like they've gone the right way. Maybe they can convince me next time I'm on the lookout for a GPU.

But overall you're right yeah. My feeling is that AMD is competitive with NVIDIA regarding price/performance, but NVIDIA has broader feature support. This is both in games and in professional use cases. I do feel like AMD is steadily improving in the past years though. In the gaming world FSR seems almost as ubiquitous (or maybe even more ) as DLSS, and ROCm support seems to have grown rapidly as well. Hopefully they keep going, so I'll have a choice for my next GPU.

This article is obviously from an American perspective, in which case e-bikes are probably a necessary evil to give kids more freedom. But from the Dutch perspective I'm certainly a bit scared about them. I see more and more kids racing through the streets on those things. These kids often used to go by bike anyway, but their speed was still limited by their physical ability. Now they have to put in less energy, meaning they'll gain weight, and they're also going way too fast with a heavier bike that they don't fuly control. It's led to plenty of dangerous situations already. People obviously aren't forced to buy an e-bike, but the kids without one often have a bit of a problem when they have to cycle 10km every day with friends who do have one. So it becomes a domino effect where we end up in a worse situation than before.

Additionally I think it's also just nostalgia and getting older. When I played rollercoaster tycoon when I was younger, the park guests felt alive, I didn't know everything that could be researched yet, and I didn't play to maximize the score. Now I know too much. The guests are just a simple algorithm, everything feels known, and I'm way more focused on actually playing for the objective. I still like RCT, but the magic from those days is gone. As we learn more about the world and get more responsibilities we seem to lose this sense of wonder about everything. Even new games often seem like something you already know, instead of something completely new, just because you've seen so many games already.

That being said, I can personally still get back to that feeling of wonder with the right games. It's not totally as it used to be, but there's still plenty of fun to be had. If I'm in a phase where I keep closing every game I start, I know I'm just not in the right place mentally and it's not because of the games.

They were left-handed and used the same hands as I did for the fork and the knife. It might simply be caused by the "normal" placement of the fork and knife next to the plate.

My problem when buying my last GPU is that AMD's answer to CUDA, ROCm, was just miles behind and not really supported on their consumer GPUs. From what I se now that has changed for the better, but it's still hard to trust when CUDA is so dominant and mature. I don't want to reward NVIDIA, but I want to use my GPU for some deep learning projects too and don't really have a choice at the moment.

I think that's normal. I'm right-handed, but I have my phone in my left pocket and tend to use it in my left hand when using it with one hand. Last week I also had someone ask me whether I was left handed because I used my fork in my left hand to hold the food still and my knife in my right hand to cut the food. I honestly never think about these things, they just kinda happened over time because it worked for me. In my experience my dominant hand is obviously better for most things, but in the end it's also a matter of training. If, for whatever reason, I use my non-dominant hand for something repeatedly instead of my dominant hand then my non-dominant hand will get better. It's just that the dominant hand improves faster and has a higher "skill ceiling" in my experience.

18.5 celsius, which probably translates to 17.5 in some corners of the house. I used to put it on 20.5 C, but the insane gas prices and the limited gas supply motivated me to put it at the minimum I can live with. Although when working from home I usually put it lower (like 17 degrees Celsius) and use an electric heater instead in my working room. And obviously when I'm away from home it goes to like 15 degrees.

This is all caused by the insane energy prices here in Europe last year. I think my energy bill increased like doubled or tripled. While I can pay it, it feels like an absolute waste of money (and gas) to do that. We had to work together to keep the supply high after Russian gas stopped being an option.

Edit: this is for the Fall/Winter/Spring. Currently it's at 16 or something and hasn't turned on in months.

But the fact that it can do so much is an awesome (and maybe scary) result in and of itself. These LLMs can write working code examples, write convincing stories, give advice, solve simple problems quite reliably, etc all from just learning to predict the next word. I feel like people are moving the goalpost way too quickly, focussing so much on the mistakes it makes instead of the impressive feats that have been achieved. Having AI doing all this was simply unthinkable a few years ago. And yes, OpenAI is currently using a lot of hardware, and ChatGPT might indeed have gotten worse. But none of that changes what has been achieved and how impressive it is.

Maybe it's because of all these overhyping clickbait articles that make reality seem disappointing. As someone in the field who's always been cynical about what would be possible, I just can't be anything else then impressed with the rate of progress. I was wrong with my predictions 5 years ago, and who knows where we'll go next.

Yeah also indeed. Back then I was actually working with image generation and GANs and it was just starting to take off. A year later or something StyleGAN would absolutely blow my mind. Generating realistic 1024x1024 images while I was still bumbling about with a measly 64x64 pixels. But I didn't foresee where this was going even then

Who says it ends here? We've made tremendous progress in a short time. 10 years ago it was absolutely unthinkable that we'd be at a stage right now where we can generate these amazing images from text on consumer hardware and that AI can write text in a way that could totally fool humans. Even as someone working in the field I was fairly sceptical 5-6 years ago that we'd get here this fast

Aston was the big surprise this year, going from a mediocre team at the back of the midfield to getting multiple podiums in a row. Their car really made a jump, and they got Alonso who is still a racing god after all those years. They did drop back quite a bit in later races, but seem to be getting back now. Alpine kinda feels like a middle of the pack team, although this time around they seemed to be doing quite well. Gasly managed to keep pace with the people around him. Definitely a surprise given their earlier performance.

Mercedes is still in the mix, and is currently second behind red bull overall afaik. But the field (apart from Max) is so close now that every race seems to have different teams being competitive

Oh this is simply lovely. I like how friendly they are with each other, and how genuine the reactions seemed. With the media they probably put on their "media face", but because Max was filming they seemed way more chill. I also wasn't aware about Hulkenberg's Dutch being that good. Usually when people speak another language it's quite formal, but this was definitely quite informal word use haha

Bottom, phones got too big and I want to be able to reach it with one hand.

This guy deserves everything he's getting. I just saw his speech where he kept saying that he wouldn't step down. It really felt like he just felt invincible. And all these men clapping for him as well.

I obviously don't know the all the details, and I really don't want to defend behavior like this, but I feel like he might even have gotten away with it if he had strongly apologized immediately after finding out that the kiss really wasn't appreciated. Instead he dug in and went full on the defensive.

You can code in binary, but the only thing you'd be doing is frustrating yourself. We did it in the first week of computer science at the university. Assembly is basically just a human readable form of those instructions. Instead of some opcode in binary you can at least write "add", which makes it easier to see what's going on. The binary machine code is not some totally other language than what is written in the assembly code, so writing in binary doesn't really provide any more control or benefit as far as I'm aware.

Liam has had 1 free practice to get up to speed and immediately has to deal with very sketchy conditions. Multiple big names made mistakes today, I totally get that he didn't want to push it too hard. I don't think we should expect more from him than P20 this weekend. This result really doesn't tell us anything.

Damn, really puts the Perez woes into perspective. That's quite painful.

Maybe something to note by the way: this link doesn't directly open the image for me, but rather opens lemmit.online in a WebView with the whole Lemmy UI around it. Might be a Connect app issue, but I've never seen it before

Idk, there never really was a plan tbh. When I was a kid I obviously wanted all that stuff because society describes it as the normal objective to aim for.

Some of the things I don't have because I don't want them. I'm aro/ace and not really looking for a partner or kids. I don't have a car because it's not worth the money to me, my bike and the train manage to bring me nearly everywhere.

I managed to finish university and I have a nice job. So really I have not much to complain about. After getting mono and COVID I did become perpetually tired, but luckily not enough to stop life from being fun.

I guess it's going to plan, just not the plan that society made up for me but rather the one I made up along the way.

Your landlord is allowed to raise it by that much? I'm Dutch and we have limits on how much rent can increase, which was a maximum of 4.1% in 2023.