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by fao_ 8mo ago
GNU GRUB is a GNU project, yes. No idea what OP is talking about https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
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by fao_ 8mo ago
Honestly it continually surprises me how people forget about TSV It's the perfect format, more or less! CSV, but no difficulty around commas, and the only major risk being an editor that converts tabs to spaces
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by fao_ 8mo ago
> Saying that (like people) they can never be trained and deployed such that the mistakes are tolerable is an awfully tall order. It is, though. We have numerous studies on why hallucinations are central to the architecture, and numerous
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by fao_ 8mo ago
Eh, I had to do that with pulseaudio too, but constantly, across all distros and headphones. Pipewire is shonky, I have to restart now and then on my steam deck (I'm using it as a desktop), but it's still much better than pulseaud
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by fao_ 9mo ago
This perspective is astonishingly historically ignorant, and ignores how "Open Source Software" was a deliberate political movement to simultaneously neuter the non-company-friendly goals of FOSS while simultaneously providing a c
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by fao_ 9mo ago
I read it as sarcastic and bitter, personally! I believe you are both agreeing :)
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by fao_ 9mo ago
I remember ALSA. Sure, it was finnicky to use `alsamixer` to unmute the master channels now and then, but I personally never had any trouble with it.
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by fao_ 9mo ago
It's interesting how quickly the OSS movement went from "No, no, we just want to include companies in the Free Software Movement" to "Oh, don't worry, it's ok if companies with shareholders that are not account
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by fao_ 9mo ago
Why are you asking here, versus going to Google and reading the original article from The Guardian? Or the numerous Wikipedia links that are on this page?
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by fao_ 9mo ago
At the time I was walking about 4 miles every day for years both uphill and downhill. Around the same time as me waking up exhausted, the walks became harder and harder for no apparent reason until I eventually just couldn't do it anym
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by fao_ 9mo ago
> One day – probably somewhere between 28 and 38 – you'll wake up and just feel 'off'. A bit sore. A bit tired. That feeling will never leave you. Be grateful for your youth while you have it. This happened when I was 20.
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by fao_ 9mo ago
imagine if there was a global distribution of local buildings you could go to to look at and obtain copies of books... hmmmmm...
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by fao_ 9mo ago
> Scott had well reasoned opinions and was consistently aware of both sides of issues and news. [citation needed] Here are my own citations: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scott_Adams "In a 2006 blog post (which
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by fao_ 9mo ago
Have you heard of the Horizon IT Post Office Scandal[0]? > Between 1999 and 2015, more than 900 subpostmasters were wrongfully convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting based on faulty Horizon data, with about 700 of these prosecuti
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by fao_ 9mo ago
> Try using it on something you just want to exist, not something you want to build or are interested in understanding. I don't get any enjoyment from "building something without understanding" — what would I learn from s
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by fao_ 9mo ago
> Sorry but no, the parent commenters looked for a global menu within an application (File -> Open, File -> Save, etc.) KDE has such a feature, and yes "Global Menu" is the term for the application menu being pulled into
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by fao_ 9mo ago
KDE supports this! It's called the "global menu", and has search built in. GTK app support is iffy, though
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by fao_ 9mo ago
I'm not sure why this is downvoted because this is very literally the motivating reasoning, see: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Neoreactionary_movement
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by fao_ 9mo ago
https://scitechdaily.com/covid-19-leaves-lasting-changes-in-... or https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266635462...
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by fao_ 9mo ago
> I would also recommend Bitwarden for those who want a better UI experience. The newest release of bitwarden absolutely sucks. The images that they're using look AI-generated (specifically, there's some weird stuff around line
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by fao_ 9mo ago
> it's just good writing, that's also possible these days. As someone reskilling into being a writer, I really do not think that is "good writing".
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by fao_ 9mo ago
I also use Em-Dashes, this is about how weird the thing is tonally
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by fao_ 9mo ago
It feels like a LLM doing it's usual "gushing out appreciations"
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by fao_ 9mo ago
> Best game in the world, but I'm not subjecting myself, or my kid, to Windows and the Epic store just to get at it. Quite right! I really don't blame you, given the direction that Windows has taken in the last decade, and espe
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by fao_ 9mo ago
The problem demonstrably still persists — run the tests yourself :)
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by fao_ 10mo ago
> the pandemic has been over for a while The pandemic isn't actually over, at least, not for disabled people.
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by fao_ 10mo ago
> It's already easy enough to just throw the test material into the LLM and get a bunch of flash cards on relevant content and memorize that LLM summarisation is broken, so I wouldn't expect them to get very far with this (see
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by fao_ 10mo ago
> And somehow above doesn't prevent games being released that can scale according to the hardware and aren't tied to a specific hardware generation target. Until the Steam Deck came out, I had no hope of playing a game like Sek
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by fao_ 10mo ago
Part of the point and usefulness is having a stable target for developers to aim at, that they can test performance on. Also, most phones these days are roughly equivalent from the end-user perspective to ones from 2 or 3 years ago, the onl
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by fao_ 10mo ago
In this specific instance the code he built used a non-human lactase-enzyme producing gene, which he states in the retrospective is very likely the reason why his immune cells started attacking. There was also the matter of some of the othe

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