JohnEdwa

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[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Us sharing a 1000+ km long border with russia might have something to do with that.

And even then, military service isn't actually required, you can do a siviilipalvelus (lit. "Civilian service") instead.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

Ah, but there's the third option, just outlaw contraception and abortions. Capitalism is only incompatible with kids if you give your slaves the ability to choose if and when to have them.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 9 points 4 days ago

Annoyingly many artists still use it, and for some it's their only platform they post at any regularity, except for paid posts on patreon. I haven't used Twitter as a social media site for almost a decade now, but my "twitter only" art list still has 18 people on it.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 days ago

Major version numbers are used when stuff changes, and especially when shit breaks. Can the latest OS X 10 run the same software and on the same hardware as the first OS X 10? If not, increase the major number.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

That jump at least had a reason, as a bunch of older software checked if they were running on windows 95 or 98 by checking for "windows 9".
And what it actually feels like is the jump from windows 3.1 to 95. Because it's literally the same one.

Win 10 and 11 do also use something like this, though it's more hidden as it's the update numbers - they were yearmonth (1507, 1709) and are now yearhalfofyear - 20H1, 21H2.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Making up answers is kinda their entire purpose. LMMs are fundamentally just a text generation algorithm, they are designed to produce text that looks like it could have been written by a human. Which they are amazing at, especially when you start taking into account how many paragraphs of instructions you can give them, and they tend to rather successfully follow.

The one thing they can't do is verify if what they are talking about is true as it's all just slapping words together using probabilities. If they could, they would stop being LLMs and start being AGIs.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 18 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

That figure is entirely irrelevant when you need to target users who are willing to try a new unknown third party browser in the first place.
And you'll find orders of magnitude more of those among Linux users than you do on Mac, which is where Arc launched on.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

It is. And has always been. "Artificial Intelligence" doesn't mean a feeling thinking robot person (that would fall under AGI or artificial conciousness), it's a vast field of research in computer science with many, many things under it.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (27 children)

"It's part of the history of the field of artificial intelligence that every time somebody figured out how to make a computer do something—play good checkers, solve simple but relatively informal problems—there was a chorus of critics to say, 'that's not thinking'." -Pamela McCorduck´.
It's called the AI Effect.

As Larry Tesler puts it, "AI is whatever hasn't been done yet.".

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago

adding a query parameter udm=14 to the url of your Google searches

It's also the same as selecting "Web" from the bar that has images, video, maps etc.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

The current ad-supported basic Kindle is $109 USD, which is just $12 more expensive than it was back in 2012, adjusted for inflation (it was $70 in 2012, which would be $97 today).
It could be cheaper today, but Amazon has clearly pulled back from selling them at a loss hoping to get the costs back from ebook sales.

 

I completely understand why Valve decided that the touchpad haptics were good enough, the deck is heavy as it is already. I'd still love to have the option of adding some proper rumble on the deck for the games that deserve it.

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