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by wazoox 3y ago
Because Windows is made with poor attention to details and in a tasteless manner. For instance, when Windows XP came out, I remember clearly how some stock icons weren't properly aligned on the same baseline (it was corrected in some l
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by wazoox 3y ago
Yep. The fact that 100% of the code I've written in Perl since the beginning of this century still works just fine year after year with each new release is an immense bonus. I have deployment scripts written on Debian 3 still running i
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by wazoox 3y ago
A sane diet includes exactly zero ultra processed food, I think the data is pretty clear now.
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Also I know that my medication plays a role in my tinnitus -- I switched for a while, and my tinnitus went down notably; unfortunately with the other medication I had tachycardia, which is worse than tinnitus...
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by wazoox 3y ago
I've got a strong tinnitus, but I still hear up to about 14Khz (I'm 53). In fact the tinnitus is all those frequencies up to 21Khz I used to hear and don't anymore, ringing in full in my ears...
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by wazoox 3y ago
Oh yeah it was a great computer. I used it to make my band's first album art using Photoshop 2.0 (using the DuoDock and a colour screen, of course). Networked with the studio's Mac IIx (running Studio Vision and Sound Tools II) us
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by wazoox 3y ago
Llama2 7b and Mistral 7b run at about 8 tk/s on my Mac Pro, which is usable if you're not in a hurry.
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by wazoox 3y ago
case in point : my 2020 Lenovo Ideapad keyboard looks like this: https://demo.intellique.org/nextcloud/index.php/s/6jJ3r4brrj...
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by wazoox 3y ago
Netflix and Prime work fine on Linux, directly in the browser. I simply use Firefox, it just works.
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by wazoox 3y ago
I'm using KDE Connect on my phone, tablet and PCs. It works great to transfer files across devices, and adds some other benefits (clipboard sharing, using the phone as a trackpad or a presentation remote, reading SMS on the PC, etc).
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by wazoox 3y ago
LeCun seems to believe that only "human-level AI" could create huge, possibly catastrophic unintended consequences. That's not the case. Perfectly stupid social network algorithms have already huge detrimental effects on the
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Those are good.
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by wazoox 3y ago
Spicediver's version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJykw3H4PDw
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by wazoox 3y ago
“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” Mark Twain
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by wazoox 3y ago
In France many trademarks became generic names: Frigidaire and its abbreviated form frigo is the standard name for a refrigerator (nobody ever says "réfrigérateur"). Kleenex is the standard word meaning "paper handkerchief&qu
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by wazoox 3y ago
Weird, I'm using Firefox across 6 different devices, different OSes (Android, MacOS, various Linux distros) and different versions (current or LTS) and it just works .
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Actually it has been revealed that Gazprom supported financially anti-nuclear and pro-renewable NGOs in Germany for many, many years. That's not conspirational, just a fact.
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Yes but it's still absolutely dwarfed by the staggering amounts of fossil fuels we're extracting (and the absolute environmental catastrophe that goes with them): https://edconway.substack.com/p/the-hump
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by wazoox 3y ago
Petrol fire is much more common than battery fires, which are vanishingly rare. The oil infrastructure must be dismantled as fast as possible. Recycling of batteries is a chicken-egg problem : it's ramping up, but is necessarily laggin
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by wazoox 3y ago
"Child slavery" is a known problem with cobalt mining, not lithium mining.
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Oil is burnt into CO2 that will remain for centuries in the atmosphere, heating it up (and I'm not mentioning countless toxic oil spills, methane leaking, etc). It's less immediately visible and acutely dangerous than toxic pools,
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by wazoox 3y ago
Yes, people afraid of rare earth and lithium mining should get some numbers right first: We extract 4 BILLION TONS of oil from the ground every year. In comparison, we extract a few million tons of lithium (and it's reusable / rec
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Petrol fire is undoubtedly easier to come by and more dangerous in case of a crash. Touch interfaces aren't specifically tied to electric vehicles; it's a common disease on all modern vehicles, fortunately on the decline. Environ
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> So what a civilised country that values human life (especially of its own citizens) should do? Not bombing people (killing some of the hostages doing so). Make a serious offer for peace. Nothing serious has been done since Rabin's
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There is a general human bias to do something , without considering if doing nothing could be better. Israeli people must jail Netanyahu and his gang and negociate seriously for a two-states solution. There is no other way out. Military
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You're taking it backward. You must not kill children. Everything else flows from this point. If your "solution" implies to kill children, it's not a solution, it's not defensible, it's not to be debated. Perio
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Chateaubriand is a master of egotism :) Even his tomb is a spectacularly romantic: a lone tomb on a rocky island, facing the tempestuous Ocean :)
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Even when dug out at some point, following a long and painful agony people crushed under collapsed buildings almost always die. Particularly in Gaza where medical supplies are now non-existent. Lots of innocents are dying; there is IMO abso
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It's really decent without any GPU. Image analysis is somewhat long, but text prompts are fine. My Ryzen laptop does 2.5 to 4 tokens per second, my Mac pro more like 8.
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I highly recommend Yiotro games: https://yiotro.com/games/ They're open-source, simple, quick games.

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