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48m ago

I told Radar that we're going to get a lot of snow and he had a crisis.
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jqubed @lemmy.world 48m ago
No work if we lose electricity! My area’s looking like we’re going to be mostly ice. Hoping that’s more sleet than freezing rain!

51m ago

Greenland has rare earths, but they’re really hard to mine

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jqubed @lemmy.world 51m ago

10h ago

You can now use Debian without Linux

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jqubed @lemmy.world 10h ago

From the article:

Debian GNU/kFreeBSD used the Debian userland on top of the FreeBSD kernel, although sadly, due to lack of manpower the project ended in 2023. There was a similar effort using the kernel from the slightly older BSD, Debian GNU/NetBSD. Multiple others have been suggested, including ports to the kernels of OpenBSD, OpenSolaris, IBM's OS/2 kernel and others.

11h ago

Crispy

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jqubed @lemmy.world 11h ago

Looks like a piece of rawhide my dog’s been chewing on

11h ago

Endangered tigers celebrate first birthday with pile of boxes

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jqubed @lemmy.world 11h ago

I was at a wildlife preserve/zoo in Quebec and in the nursery they sometimes have interactions with the animals. That time they had a baby Siberian tiger. She was basically a kitten the size of a housecat. My wife kept giving her belly rubs. I asked the keeper if people with cat allergies have the same reaction to tigers and she said yes; she actually dealt with that herself and would take allergy medicine when working with the tigers.

2d ago

Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI

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jqubed @lemmy.world 2d ago

Exactly

2d ago

xkcd #3196: Aurora Coolness

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jqubed @lemmy.world 2d ago

Unfortunately I’m about 13° latitude farther south, so it’s much harder to see them normally

2d ago

This person lost their internship afterwards

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jqubed @lemmy.world 2d ago

I’m unsure if his response is more on the policing language side or more on the advisory, watch out, if you’re going to work for a government agency that is funded by politicians there’s a certain expectation for public decorum that has to be maintained so some congressman looking to score points doesn’t use you as a reason to cut funding. My guess, given he tried to help reinstate the internship, is that it was the latter.

2d ago

Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI

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jqubed @lemmy.world 2d ago

If that was their concern they’d be advising less AI investment, but reading the article they’re pushing for industry to do more investment, that only major investment and adoption shows benefits.

2d ago

Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge

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jqubed @lemmy.world 2d ago

Despite the CEOs' repsonses, PwC concludes more investment is required. It claims that "isolated, tactical AI projects" often don't deliver measurable value, and that tangible returns instead come from enterprise-wide deployments consistent with business strategy.
However, pilot projects are by their very nature typically small scale and isolated in order to demonstrate the viability of a concept before risking an enterprise-wide rollout. Is PwC advising clients not to worry if an AI pilot project fails, and push ahead with a large-scale deployment anyway?
The report then goes on to explain that scaling up demands "strong AI foundations," including a technology environment that enables AI integration; a clearly defined roadmap for AI initiatives; formalized risk processes; and "an organizational culture that enables AI adoption." So if your AI projects fail, you clearly just don't believe enough.

3d ago

This person lost their internship afterwards

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jqubed @lemmy.world 3d ago

It’s THE Homer Hickam?

3d ago

xkcd #3196: Aurora Coolness

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jqubed @lemmy.world 3d ago

I really hope to see them sometime. Whenever we’re in Quebec and there’s a good geomagnetic storm the weather is cloudy.

3d ago

"The reviews got lower and lower": Dev says his puzzle game is suffering on Steam because young people "don't know how to write emails anymore"

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jqubed @lemmy.world 3d ago

For physical letters I only put a subject on business correspondence, but that’s not something I expect kids to be familiar with

3d ago

This is one of the most retro-futuristic pieces of tech that I've ever seen. So cool.

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jqubed @lemmy.world 3d ago

I would assume just as needed before a mission. I don’t think it changed much during most of the Cold War.

3d ago

Permanently Deleted

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jqubed @lemmy.world 3d ago

A joke also used on Futurama

3d ago

Should I post this in "Eat AI"?

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jqubed @lemmy.world 3d ago

The new giant windmills that generate electricity. Mostly they’re protested by people who don’t want to see them, or possibly hear them (I’m not sure that they are actually loud enough to be louder than whatever wind is blowing them unless you’re right next to them), or people upset about the number of birds they kill (although most of the people I’ve seen complaining about the bird deaths seem to be supporters of fossil fuels so their sincerity seems a bit dubious).

3d ago

Recommend some games for PCem

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jqubed @lemmy.world 3d ago

I have never heard of this project and it might suck up a lot of my time. How does this differ from making a virtual machine from old versions of Windows?

I believe I first played RollerCoaster Tycoon on Windows 98. I also got SimCity 2000 from GoG but it’s the DOS version and I feel like the Windows version looked better.

For things that actually used the 3D card, I used to enjoy Midtown Madness 2, Motocross Madness, and Need for Speed III, but that all might’ve been in my Windows 2000 days.

3d ago

Lake [OC]

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jqubed @lemmy.world 3d ago

What’s the name of this lake?

3d ago

This is one of the most retro-futuristic pieces of tech that I've ever seen. So cool.

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jqubed @lemmy.world 3d ago

I read an article about someone restoring one that was a fascinating exploration of the technology. I believe it could also be used to predict a landing point, and the globe had an outline showing friendly nations for a preferred landing zone in case of emergency.