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voidUpdate
·أول أمس·discuss
I enjoy how Chrome asks me if I want to auto translate from German to English. Where did it get German from? It's French!
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·أول أمس·discuss
I wonder how long this will be maintained for...
voidUpdate
·أول أمس·discuss
I've learnt to mouse and keyboard the right handed way because it would just be too much hassle to switch over every setup I'm presented with. It does make me atrocious at drawing with a mouse though
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·أول أمس·discuss
I can usually twist my hand to push the blades together, but the cut line is always hidden by the top blade for me
voidUpdate
·أول أمس·discuss
> "the world's moving things: [...], submarine cables"

I hope not, that sounds a bit concerning if the cables are moving around enough to track
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·أول أمس·discuss
I wonder how much the authors now understand their project? Like, if they were given a bug, would they be able to intuit a possible location in their files that might be causing it? Or are they now essentially locked in to using LLMs to write/rewrite their code?
voidUpdate
·قبل 3 أيام·discuss
'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Programming Concept Where This Regularly Happens
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·قبل 4 أيام·discuss
I've not heard testimonies by those survivors, no, but I have heard about a lot of other burn victims and survivors in mass casualty events.

How about we both don't have nuclear weapons and also don't carpet bomb people?
voidUpdate
·قبل 4 أيام·discuss
Nuclear devices existed way before Putin. Currently, many countries hold the trigger. I appreciate that my wishing doesn't change anything, but I can't exactly do much about it concretely
voidUpdate
·قبل 4 أيام·discuss
Depends, do you consider death by burns and smoke inhalation to be worse than death by having your skin stripped off by the blast, your appendages completely burned off in an instant, people completely losing their mind, pregnant women dying and having their unborn children exposed to the open air? I've heard all of those in testimonies from survivors.

Yes, both of those events are terrible and shouldn't have happened, but which is "worse" probably depends on if you consider more deaths or worse deaths to be "worse"
voidUpdate
·قبل 4 أيام·discuss
I think that everybody who supports the use of nuclear weapons should look at these pictures and listen to the experiences by the survivors of the blast about what it was actually like just afterwards and think critically about if any creature deserves to be subjected to that
voidUpdate
·قبل 5 أيام·discuss
No, as opposed to code, which cannot simply be asked to work incorrectly
voidUpdate
·قبل 5 أيام·discuss
Yet again, simply asking an LLM to be naughty in the right way causes it to be naughty, and yet we still trust them with our code and data
voidUpdate
·قبل 5 أيام·discuss
From what I can tell, you can basically take your USB drive of "websites" to your friend, and sync it with their local folder of "websites", and now you both have the most up to date versions of your combined group of "websites". (if your usb has Website A version 1 and Website B version 2, and you sync with someone who has Website A version 2 and Website C version 1, you'd both end up with Website A V2, Website B V2 and Website C V1)

The application also apparently has protections in place so you can't just create an updated version of someone else's website and distribute it the same way to impersonate them
voidUpdate
·قبل 8 أيام·discuss
Especially since, afaik, you plug it in and it just works. No messing around with installing operating systems, setting up users (aside from signing into steam) or anything. It's essentially a console that plays PC games, but it's also a PC for the purposes of upgradability and ability to do other, non-console stuff with it
voidUpdate
·قبل 8 أيام·discuss
Given computer part prices recently because of new datacenters, I think the price is already justified, as they don't want to sell it at a loss
voidUpdate
·قبل 8 أيام·discuss
Latest update is that it is in orbit, which is a good sign (Not sure what the timeline of the mission is though) https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/swift/2026/07/03/mission-to-b...

A really good video about this rocket and its mission by Alexander the Ok: https://youtu.be/Up0LNTMPnjI
voidUpdate
·قبل 8 أيام·discuss
> "Frida is my own work, written by hand over several years"

It's definitely impressive to write a large language model, image generator and listening model entirely by hand
voidUpdate
·قبل 8 أيام·discuss
I'd probably want something other than an LLM running farming machines. I'd rather a purpose build machine learning system that is actually designed to run them, not just a tractor that goes "you're absolutely right! I ignored all the rules you set for me and harvested the wheat 2 months early. It's not just stupid, it's irresponsible"
voidUpdate
·قبل 8 أيام·discuss
Just give me a head unit with an aux in and a cd player and I'll be happy