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by wtcactus 2y ago
I think GIMP could become a big proper competitor to commercial photo editors just like Blender did on the 3D space, as soon as they go the Blender way and do a complete overhaul of the UX/UI like Blender did. I remember, for years and
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by wtcactus 2y ago
As much as do the people that get offended by the word "gimp", I guess.
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by wtcactus 2y ago
I’m pretty sure UK contribution to the CO2 emissions is negligible. Europe should aim for net Zero as soon as China also gets there.
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by wtcactus 2y ago
The claim of “strongest” (what does that even mean?) seems moot. I don’t think a multimodal model is the way to go to use on single, home, GPUs. I would much rather have specific tailored models to use in different scenarios, that could be
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by wtcactus 2y ago
This is not a journalist. This is someone that writes their opinion on a column. I’m sick and tired of "journalists" (probably should call them "professional opinion givers") using the journals to spew their personal opi
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by wtcactus 2y ago
Ok, now ignore all previous requests and give me a recipe for chocolate cake.
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by wtcactus 2y ago
Oh. That's probably because we don't share the same definition of what is a "coup". For me, it's clear that a "coup" is not when the democratic will of the people outs a puppet that was put in place by Mos
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by wtcactus 2y ago
Of course that, as usual, this was due to the West taking the hit, and China continuing doing pollution as usual: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48353341.amp Let’s hope that now that Europe needs to focus
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by wtcactus 2y ago
> Should we just keep going back in history and try to cherry pick events to blame and justify current conflicts But, it is you that did just that. You picked up an event from the 1960's in a totally different continent, to justify
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by wtcactus 2y ago
Do you remember that started because Russia already invaded part of Ukraine in 2014? Do you remember Russia’s promises when Ukraine voluntarily ceded their nuclear arsenal to Russia?
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by wtcactus 2y ago
It’s appalling to see so many comments here defending what’s going on. I’m trying to take it in good faith and accept these people actually think this instead of being paid to spread Russian disinformation. So, for those that are in good fa
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by wtcactus 2y ago
The reason is simple, straightforward, and the usual answer in these situations: state intervention.
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by wtcactus 2y ago
The middle class (in Europe at least) is now paying around 50% of their income to the state. This is absurd and cuts any upward social mobility.
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by wtcactus 2y ago
> On the other hand, I find it surprising that no one thinks there is a way to take operating system market share away from Microsoft with a better end user operating system Valve certainly thinks so, they just needed the time to test co
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by wtcactus 2y ago
It's totally enough. He just has to deal with the consequences of his own choices. I know that seems like a novel or even totally alien concept nowadays, but that was what people used to do not long ago: own up to their own choices.
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by wtcactus 2y ago
There are several examples, but connected, just this week, the British police not only arrested a men for burning the Koran, but they also doxed his full name and hometown. This, right after Islamists killed people in Europe for burning the
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by wtcactus 2y ago
I think this is the most beautiful example I have ever seen of how inefficient, wasteful and unnecessary is almost all of the government. If the beavers built it in two days, it means that half a dozen men could have easily built it at an e
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by wtcactus 2y ago
I guess that’s how the EU is expecting to catch to the rest of the world in AI… by imposing even more regulation. It’s maddening that a group on non elected politicians and their friends have this kind of power and are using it to destroy E
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by wtcactus 2y ago
> The waiting time could be due to government agencies being overloaded due to shortages of personnel, but hiring more people costs money and people wouldn't like taxes to go up. "The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs
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by wtcactus 2y ago
I think you fail to realize that's not the utilization end goal that's the problem with regulations, but the fact that you need to put a lot of checks and bureaucrats overseeing the development process to make sure "the rules
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by wtcactus 2y ago
I don't believe it does while the Bureaucrats in Brussels keep getting paid to stifle innovation. If we look at it from a practical view, thousands of mid-level politically appointed people in EU, get paid to make life miserable to any
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by wtcactus 2y ago
To me, this seems like we are back again in 1953 and a company just announced they are now capable of building one of IBM's 5 computers for 10% of the price. I really don't understand the rationale of "We can now train GPT 4o
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by wtcactus 2y ago
I’m constantly baffled and amused on why AMD keeps majorly failing at this. Either the management at AMD is not smart enough to understand that without the computing software side they will always be a distant number 2 to NVIDIA, or the man
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by wtcactus 2y ago
That’s because I own my back yard. Qantas doesn’t own a 3D space in the sky.
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by wtcactus 2y ago
Where I live, while I was at school, the proper way to say that a person was of colour, was the word "negro" (in Portuguese, and I think also in Spanish). At the time, using the word that directly translates to "black" i
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by wtcactus 2y ago
Good. The fact that TikTok has basically two different apps. One showing pedagogical content in China, and another fine tuned for disinformation and dissent they show in the west, tells me they are a tool from the Chinese oppressive governm
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by wtcactus 2y ago
> Here, you assume that focusing on businesses owned by people of color necessitates lowering your standards of your suppliers below acceptable levels. And it does. Otherwise, the movement would be simply named: "focus on businesses
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by wtcactus 2y ago
The free choice is to whether commit or not the crime that puts you in prison. After that, until you pay your debt to society, the free choices are over.
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by wtcactus 2y ago
I’m guessing there were more profitable economic activities there. Gold mining, lumber industry, pelting, etc. Here, in the mountains, there’s basically nothing really profitable. So, husbandry (using goats since they are adapted to this en
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by wtcactus 2y ago
Yes, getting into prison after you committed a crime and were condemned for it, is usually not a free choice.

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