I can tell you that that’s also what I got. The way confessions work, the priest gives you… “penance” is what it might be called? What you need to do to repent for your sins and be absolved of them. Usually that’s some prayer, but they can tell you that you have to turn yourself in and admit to your crimes to the police.
I have no idea if priests actually do that, and I imagine with the secrecy it’d be hard to get any information.
I think the main pain would be manually aligning the frames on every line with every change, occasionally having to extend the width and updating every line of code to match it
I got the impression that the PolyMC situation was quite different, with that developer masking it and doing a minority of the work, but after one change made by the rest of the developers they snapped, used their control over the repository to remove the rest of the maintainers and take sole control over the repository.
I was aware of some shenanigans and hostility from PolyMC and never used it, but I got the impression there were no major outward signs before that happened?
Do you have confirmation if you put in your card number? If yes, that’s good, but I also don’t think that’s a EU-wide thing.
If you want media where you might actually use past tense, consider lost media (like old episodes of Doctor Who), live streams (especially where the person stopped streaming), long-term ongoing series that keep up to date with current events (vlogs, blogs, maybe reality TV?)
Outer Wilds. The game isn’t very text-heavy, but what there is feels important and personal. With the way the story is told, it is quite possibly my favorite story overall. I don’t want to say too much, since knowledge is key in that game, but I would highly recommend it.
Somewhat stale pizza can also be quickly improved by throwing a slice into an air fryer for a couple minutes, even crisping up the crust a bit
Probably people eating crappy or stale pizza, a good fresh pizza has delicious crust, but let it sit and it turns tough, dry and chewy
Git exposes a lot of internals through odd commands, so I suspect you could manage synchronization by sending changes over email or something.
Bonus fun fact: there’s a git bundle command that “dumps” the repository into a single file, that can be interacted with as a remote. So if you’re ever working with a local repository and want to put it on a server over ssh or something like that, you can just create a bundle, scp it over, and clone from that on the server.
Fundamentally, the repository you have on GitHub is the same thing as the repository you have on your computer when you clone it. Pulling and pushing are shorthands for synchronizing commits between the two repositories, but you could also synchronize them directly with somebody else who cloned the repository. As somebody mentioned, you can also just host the same repository on two servers, and push to both of them.
The issue is that git doesn’t include convenient features like issues, pull requests, CI, wikis, etc., and by extensions, those aren’t included in your local repository, so if GitHub takes them down, you don’t have a copy.
An extra fun fact is that git can be considered a blockchain. It’s a distributed ledger of immutable commits, each one representing a change in state relative to the previous one. Everybody who clones a repository gets a copy of its entire history and fast forwards through the changes to calculate the current state.
I have a suspicion most networking hardware would be affected by that
Not if you don’t use windows, or if you want a more modern looking and less busy interface, or integration with what I consider the best git GUI. I used to use N++ long ago, but after trying ST I realized it just feels clunky.
Eh, I’ve previously fucked up my bootloader, all you need to do to fix it is boot up a live image, mount your root partition, arch-chroot into it, then follow normal steps to set the bootloader back up - it’s not scary if you know what you’re doing, just time-consuming
I’m tempted, though I use rEFInd not grub, but fixing any damage should be easy with a live image handy…
Also, why would you want such a machine anyways?
People seem to be assuming that… But no, it’s not that I want it, it’s that, as far as I can tell, there’s no going back. The first iterations of the technology are here, and it’s only going to progress from here. The whole thing might flop, our models might turn out useless in the long run, but people will continue developing things and improving it. It doesn’t matter what I want, somebody is gonna do that.
I know neurons in neural networks aren’t like real neurons, don’t worry, though it’s also not literally just “holds a number from 0 to 1”, that’s oversimplifying a bit - it is inspired by actual neurons, in the way that they have a lot of connections that are tweaked bit by bit to match patterns. No idea if we might need a more advanced fundamental model to build on soon, but so far they’re already doing incredible things.
That is the reason why I hate the term “AI”.
I don’t quite share the hatred, but I agree. The meaning stretches all the way to NPC behavior in games. Not long ago things like neural network face and text recognition were exciting “AI”, but now that’s been dropped and the word has new meanings.
Yeah… you know not every problem is compute-able right?
Yup, but that applies to our brains same as it does for computers. We can’t know if a program will halt any more than a computer can - we just have good heuristics based on understanding of code. This isn’t a problem of computer design or fuzzy logic or something, it’s a universal mathematical incomputability, so I don’t think it matters here.
In this sense, anything that a human can think up could be reproduced by a computer, since if we can compute it, so could a program.
At that point we might as well be talking about Unicorns
Sure, we absolutely could talk about unicorns, and could make unicorns, if we ignore the whole whimsical magical side they tend to have in stories 😛
I don’t think anything I’m saying is far off in the realm of science fiction, I feel like we don’t need anything unrealistic, like new superconductors or amazing power supplies, just time to refine the hardware and software on par with current technology. It’s scary, but I do hope either the law catches up before things progress too far or, frankly, a major breakthrough doesn’t happen in my lifetime.
Edit: Right, I also didn’t fit that in my reply - thanks for being civil, some people seem to go straight to mocking me for believing things they made up because I’m not sitting in the bandwagon of “it’ll never happen”, it’s pretty depressing how the discourse is divided into complete extremes
Tell me you don’t understand how generative AI works.
Current generation generative AI is mapping patterns in images to tokens in text description, creating a model that reproduces those patterns given different combinations of input tokens. I don’t know the finer details of how the actual models are structured… But it doesn’t really matter, because if human brains can create something, there’s nothing stopping a sufficiently advanced computer and program from recreating the same process.
We’re not there, not by a long shot, but if we continue developing more computational power, it seems inevitable that we will reach that point one day.
I might be wrong, but I think that actually wouldn’t do anything, because grub is installed by the tooling from the package, not the package itself?
I do want to clarify: it’s not Linux itself, but specific distributions (or rather their package managers). As far as I know, Arch’s pacman would do nothing to stop me 🥰
The tech you speak of, that will surpass humans, does not exist. You are making up a Sci-Fi fantasy and acting like it is real.
The difference is, this isn’t a warp drive or a hologram, relying on physical principles that straight up don’t exist. This is a matter of coding a good enough neuron simulation, running it on a powerful enough computer, with a brain scan we would somehow have to get - and I feel like the brain scan is the part that is farthest off from reality.
You are advocating for the creation of synthetic slaves…
That’s an unnecessary insult - I’m not advocating for that, I’m stating it’s theoretically possible according to our knowledge, and would be an example of a computer surpassing a human in art creation. Whether the simulation is a person with rights or not would be a hell of a discussion indeed.
I do also want to clarify that I’m not claiming the current model architectures will scale to that, or that it will happen within my lifetime. It just seems ridiculous for people to claim that “AI will never be better than a human”, because that’s a ridiculous claim to have about what is, to our current understanding, just a computation problem.
And if humans, with our evolved fleshy brains that do all kinds of other things can make art, it’s ridiculous to claim that a specially designed powerful computation unit cannot surpass that.
The steam version of trackmania is quite weird - I looked for a way to pay for it through steam for a while before resignedly going into the Ubisoft payment in the overlay… Only to be directed to steam for payment. I’m not sure if it’s even possible to pay through Ubisoft when launching it from steam.