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by Maken 4mo ago
The bar is just too low.
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by Maken 4mo ago
Just in time for fusion energy?
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by Maken 4mo ago
Whatsapp used to be a paid app.
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by Maken 5mo ago
It's not like they had much of an option, when everybody was hoarding every GPU they could. For the second Colossus they could book future production, but the first one had to be built ASAP so xAI looked as a serious competitor in the
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by Maken 5mo ago
The problem is that only works at the advanced courses. However people need to learn the basics before they reach that level, specially when they are starting and are in many regards below the LLM's baseline.
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by Maken 5mo ago
The real genius was whoever decided to add fake typing sounds to virtual keyboards on touch screens.
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by Maken 6mo ago
Was open source any more secure before LLMs became so cheap? For those same 100$ you could have a North Korean hacking your code for a whole month.
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by Maken 6mo ago
The digital Yellow Pages were replaced by streaming teleshopping.
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by Maken 6mo ago
Now that's a bleak picture of the future.
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by Maken 6mo ago
Let's just be glad somebody talked him out of using nukes. For now.
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by Maken 6mo ago
That documentary is a must-watch for any Miyazaki fan. They recorded the entire creation of Ponyo, from Miyazaki's watercolors to the final released movie. It also shows why the movie ends as abruptly as it does and why Ghibli was even
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by Maken 6mo ago
The only countries going to war with Iran are Israel and USA. The other countries are negotiating with Iran and reportedly paying the toll. Also, the strait has been open to Spanish tankers since two weeks ago.
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by Maken 6mo ago
Steam offers an distro-independent runtime for native Linux games' distribution, which is based on Flatpak [1] [1] https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steam-runtime-tools/-/b...
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by Maken 6mo ago
eIDAS is about making the electronic IDs emitted by the different EU governments intercompatible, so you can use a Slovenian certificate to authenticate into the German tax system, if you want to.
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by Maken 7mo ago
I specially like the graph-looking picture with no axis, no data and no context.
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by Maken 7mo ago
No matter how consumer friendly they were, nobody trusted them in the long term. Buying games on EA Origin meant giving them control over games' sales, and a EA monopoly in digital distribution was a nightmare scenario. Their bad PR at
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by Maken 7mo ago
What is "financially viable"? Just hoarding copyrighted materials and not distributing them in order to create artificial scarcity could meet that criteria.
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by Maken 7mo ago
Copyright is an artificial monopoly set in place to guarantee that artists get a piece of the cake from distributors. The duration of this monopoly is completely arbitrary, and ideally it should be "long enough to make art creation a v
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by Maken 7mo ago
The main problem with EA Origin was EA itself. They have burnt every single bit of costumer trust EA as a company could have.
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by Maken 7mo ago
What the USA learned from Ukraine is that the Shaheds are amazing and they want them too [1], apparently. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-cost_Uncrewed_Combat_Attac...
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by Maken 7mo ago
ICBM means the missile is able to be launched into other continent (more than 5K kilometers in range), not about its effective warhead. Iranian missiles are fast and efficient, but their effective range is essentially being able to target I
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by Maken 7mo ago
How is Iran anyone but Israel and USA's problem?
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by Maken 7mo ago
More like distracting us.
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by Maken 7mo ago
LibreOffice is like Office a collection of intercompatible apps. Microsoft Works was a single application offering Word/Excel/Outlook-like functionality.
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by Maken 7mo ago
You can make 100% AI content by just adding a short summary at the and of any text.
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by Maken 7mo ago
And they dropped this for that unfinished mess that was Windows Phone. I still don't understand what they were thinking at Nokia.
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by Maken 7mo ago
The user is the end-user of the product. If the relicensing means that someone down the line receives a close-down binary application that he cannot modify, that's a violation of the user's rights.
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by Maken 7mo ago
The toolbar has a "Customize toolbar" GUI screen that lets you add, remove and reorder elements. Maybe something similar could be done for context menus, including new entries added by extensions.
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by Maken 7mo ago
It's still more useful than the "Set as desktop background" entry.
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by Maken 7mo ago
Why would anyone use Teams?

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