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by dTal 9mo ago
Thanks for the reassurance, the first ray of sunshine in this otherwise rather alarming thread. Your words ring true. It would be a lot more reassuring if we knew what the business model actually was, or indeed anything else at all about th
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by dTal 9mo ago
systemd comes close, and can be viewed as an attempt to create such a stick...
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by dTal 9mo ago
I'm sorry, you're "happy to answer questions" and this is your reply to such a softball? What kind of questions will you answer? Favorite color?
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by dTal 9mo ago
Verifiable to who? Some remote third party that isn't me? The hell would I want that?
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by dTal 9mo ago
I don't think this argument is logically sound. The assertion that this (and every other!!) technological innovation is a "net positive" merely because of our monotonic population growth is both weakly defined and unsubstanti
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by dTal 9mo ago
4GB still seems excessive, by at least one and probably several orders of magnitude, for what vanilla KDE actually does: browse files, manage windows, and edit text. And KDE is one of the best modern options.
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by dTal 9mo ago
I remember, in 2007, running FreeBSD on a desktop with 512MB RAM and only using 64MB of it running full GNOME 2 and a running instance of Firefox with a couple tabs. A totally standard desktop experience. Even better, my laptop at the time
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by dTal 9mo ago
Well then! I guess now we all know whose bread is buttered on which side.
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by dTal 9mo ago
Nailed it. A notable behavior of people with weak morals / no principles is to loudly proclaim that other people with principles are "performative" or "virtue signaling".
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by dTal 9mo ago
It doesn't go "back in the ground" though, does it? It gets scattered all over the ecology. When you take something that was buried deep and scatter it all over the surface - especially when that something is oil - that&#x2
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by dTal 9mo ago
As a threat model, it's a little outmoded. With the browser being an application platform, you do this every time you click a link. There's something sinister about considering a local open source application as dangerous but a cl
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by dTal 9mo ago
I don't know that Red Hat is a positive force. They seem to be on a crusade to make the Linux desktop incomprehensible to the casual user, which I suppose makes sense when their bread and butter depends on people paying them to fix stu
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by dTal 9mo ago
Yeah, it's kinda sad how much applause this is garnering when publishing API specs should be bare minimum for any smart device, never mind EoL concerns.
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by dTal 9mo ago
Time-weight predictions so that they're "worth" more the further in advance they are, converging to "worthless" as they approach the due date? Perhaps there is a way of making this result emerge "organically&qu
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by dTal 9mo ago
That's understating it. There's no amount of skill that will render that setup stable - it's baked into the way those projects are managed.
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by dTal 9mo ago
Nah, your install is broken somehow. That's not in any way normal. Diagnostics: Ubuntu/Arch? So you're triple booting? With I assume automatic updates enabled in Ubuntu and Windows, and manual in Arch? Spread over a plethora
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by dTal 9mo ago
That's such an excessively naive, childlike take that it's hard to know where to start. You don't become a billionaire by "making and selling things". That doesn't scale beyond the low millions. You become a bi
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by dTal 9mo ago
You can't even save games without an internet connection? sheesh...
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by dTal 10mo ago
Doubt it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
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by dTal 10mo ago
No, the decline of Firefox market share happened in the early 2010s, on desktop, when everyone switched to Chrome because it felt way faster. I say "everyone" - this is the subset of "everyone" who were switched on enoug
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by dTal 10mo ago
We also constantly move our heads and refocus our eyes. We can get a rough idea of depth from only a static stereo pair, but in reality we ingest vastly more information than that and constantly update our internal representation in real ti
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by dTal 10mo ago
> Our legal systems are based around being concise and succinct That's a good one. Got any more?
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by dTal 10mo ago
The output tokens are the only information that is carried forward through each inference pass, so "more room to think" is incompatible with "basically meaningless". Perhaps one could imagine it somehow stenographically
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by dTal 11mo ago
A great many can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dither (also a very nice explanation of why dithering is a fundamental signal processing step applicable to many fields, not just an "aesthetic".)
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by dTal 11mo ago
Just update one then rsync the package cache across? Or mount it over NFS for a hands-off solution. Or hack something up with inotify.
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by dTal 11mo ago
Yeah, the article is wrong about that.
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by dTal 11mo ago
SyncThing. It's set-and-forget. All you need is two networked computers. Grandma and Grandpa can back up to each other's phones.
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by dTal 11mo ago
>if you’re able to differentiate between that and lossless even on state of the art equipment under perfect conditions, for the vast majority of songs, you’re an extreme outlier Misconception: perfect conditions are what lossy codecs are
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by dTal 11mo ago
This is art.
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by dTal 11mo ago
"Thinking mode" only provides the illusion of debuggability. It improves performance by generating more tokens which hopefully steer the context towards one more likely to produce the desired response, but the tokens it generates

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