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[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 49 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Isn't that like a short holiday?

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This seems to be mostly about the T in LGBT which has become such a toxic political football the politicians are running away and deferring to anyone else to avoid enacting policy themselves.

The supreme court judgement is only an interpretation of existing law, anything can be overturned with new legislation. Instead they sat back and let the EHCR commission issue unworkable guidance on who can use what loos.

I know the Cass review was controversial but it called for puberty blockers too be issued as part of medical trials with appropriate long term follow up. Somehow we got from that to indefinite bans of their use.

Meanwhile the widening gulf between the louder parts of the two sides of the debate have left a large chunk of the population fearful of even engaging in the discourse lest they be accused of wrong-think.

The whole thing is a mess.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What do the inputs and configuration drop down menus say?

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 days ago

So back in the days of the Atari ST we had compact disks (sic).

Most games shipped on a single floppy disk (so 720k or 1.4Mb) and rarely used compression given the base system only has 512k of RAM. The crackers would strip the protection, repack the data and patch the loading routines to handle that. Depending on the games they could fit 3 or 4 games on a single disk.

Nowadays the dynamics are different - games on consoles do use compression but they have to favour speed because they are streaming assets just in time. The PS5 even had dedicated decompression hardware to keep up with the data rate on it's fast SSD.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago

Why would you? Effectively you are storing the address of the address at the address. It would get more complicated if there where post/pre increments or index offsets involved.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I thought CoPilot was just a rebagged ChatGPT anyway?

It's a silly experiment anyway, there are very good AI chess grandmasters but they were actually trained to play chess, not predict the next word in a text.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

I remember the old ADSL modems where effectively winmodems. I had to keep a Windows ME machine as my household router until the point the community had reversed engineered them enough to get them working on Linux.

At least they where usb based rather than some random card. I think the whole driver could work in user space.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Seems fair enough, these things cost money and the #BBC is in a race to diversify it's income in preparation for the license fee going away. The dynamic description sounds like they want to preserve the casual visitors experience of an open site.

I get ads on my BBC podcasts when I'm abroad. I assume that's all part of it.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My eldest understands the need for good diet and exercise. They exercise at home doing various aerobic exercises and crunches to keep in shape. They hate sports at school and there doesn't seem to be any effort to find the a sport they might enjoy or even just focus on improving their personal exercise regime.

I get teaching time is limited but the impression I get is the kids that want to be in the school teams get the most out of sport and the rest just go through the motions because it's a compulsory subject.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You don't think having a full genome and medical history of everyone who'd been in contact with the NHS would be useful to researchers?

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 weeks ago

One of the things we did during the pandemic was significantly scale up or ability to sequence genomes. We were literally watching the virus evolve near real-time because a large chunk of samples could be sequenced and processed.

While they're are obviously data privacy concerns, for which the UK has a fairly long history of legislating for, having a full sequence for every newborn could allow for all sorts of cheaper early interventions. I'm sure the dataset would also be very useful for researchers as well.

 

Perhaps the biggest libvirt related piece of work here has been to reworking of the QMP API docs to make them easier to navigate. QMP is how libvirt probes for functionality as well as handling things like introspection of the machines and dealing with things like hotplug.

 

Post Office paid £600m to continue using Horizon despite its broken state. Hopefully this should be a wake up call to government about how it goes about large software projects.

In my opinion anything written for government should come with a full license for the source code (preferably open source) so they have the ability to change suppliers if there are any issues.

 

For virtualization there are improvements for VirtIO, vfio and Loongarch CPU hotplug. On the emulation side additions for Arm, RiscV and even some speed ups for x86 string ops. On the documentation side a whole bunch of work has been done on QMP API to make it clearer and more navigable.

 

I was trying to add a Matter device from my phone but it kept saying I needed to install the companion app from the Play store even though I was in the companion app (from f-droid). I've installed the Bluetooth proxy app as well but it made note difference.

Does anyone know what's going on?

 

It always seemed to me that QAnon was some sort of online LARP on 4chan that got out of control and metastasized. It's left a trail of broken families and swept into the mainstream with branding and everything. After the predictions of Trump's return to power after Jan 6th it seems to have fizzled out. Did QAnon stop posting? Did their adherents just glom onto the next crazy theory? How many followers now disavow the theories of QAnon?

 

This is an interesting article of the fish shells journey of covering to rust which I found quite interesting. I'm especially interested because of projects I work with that are currently experimenting with rust.

 

The long awaited Cass report has been published looking at gender affirming care in the NHS.

 
 

Are there any good recommendations for water control valves? I want to control a automatic watering system and need something to attach to the garden tap. Open firmware would be a bonus.

 

I found this post interesting for my layman's understanding of LLMs and some of the underlying architecture choices that are made.

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