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  • You don't want your editor screaming fast like /bin/ed on an RTX 5090?

  • Thanks to government subsidies it's much easier to boot into the corn kernel within the United States. But if you enable your VPN within your BIOdieSel, you can still take advantage of them abroad

    1. Windows as a whole is less useful than prior versions in significant ways. They presumably know this, but think they can make it better in the long run than it was before, without AI. But given that a lot of what they've done is tear out well-suited technologies for the problems people face on desktop OSes, and replace them with LLMs that aren't as well-suited to the task, I'm not sure how they can justify that to themselves. I can't imagine the justification is particularly good.
  • Yes, but if Rudy Giuliani's disbarment is evidence of anything, brazenly defrauding the legal system for political purposes can have that effect. Much like Comey's claim being one that rarely succeeds, I think we're in the realm of possibility where rare things may well happen

  • If the goal is to serve people with larger distances to groceries today, and unmet needs, it's probably not as helpful in wealthier areas like Staten Island. Though surely some people there will benefit.

    I can't find easy data on grocery store density, but I'm guessing if the program is as successful as it seems like it should be, dozens of stores across NYC seems like a place they could get quickly. Probably not evenly distributed across boroughs though.

  • As an experienced Linux user, I just migrated my last windows machine to Debian sid, my gaming PC. And it's great. But I started on stable, and moved to sid after a few weeks, and it really wasn't an issue for gaming or general use. My partner's gaming computer is still on stable.

    But yeah for someone less familiar, Bazzite and Mint are great choices. Pop! OS if you like the look of it, or Zorin OS if you like its look. You can always try something new if you're interested in its features.

  • There's a very easy way to prevent that; add a rule that any claim made against an officer without a working body cam is presumed to be true, and the officer's contracting testimony isn't relevant. If they don't want people lying about their conduct, they're given the equipment to protect themselves, and responsible for ensuring it's functioning.

  • In what way? There's this, and the punching down / anti-trans rhetoric thing, but it feels like you're talking about something else entirely.

  • Dick/Nixon

  • I just upgraded from Win10 to Debian on my primary/gaming desktop; every game I've played in the last 4 years in my Steam library is listed as compatible, most things I do on my computer are either a website, a game, or an application with a native Linux version or good wine compatibility.

    As a personal user who does a wide variety of things on my computer, I don't really need Windows anymore. I'm dual booting for the time being as I configure things, but I'm quickly running out of reasons to use the old Win10 partition. And all the weird slowdowns it was exhibiting? Totally absent in Linux. I expected performance to be a wash, but it's noticeably improved.

  • A launch that affects some measurable user behavior? I bet a tenth person got promoted for this

  • I mean, it's in western Asia, next to Azerbaijan and Georgia. "Complicated definitions of Europe" are part of the point here, but it's pretty clearly not Europe in my mind, but given the Turkish border, it's not far from Europe like Australia is

  • Australia, Armenia, and Morocco are all outside of Europe, and have completed too. Basically all European countries are eligible, plus those whose public broadcasters are part of the European Broadcasting Union.

  • Why not both?

  • at least ransomware is upfront about its intentions?

  • I think they don't have a deep understanding of AI, ML, AGI, or GPTs, but are basically thinking rationally within what they know.

    AGI isn't exactly universally agreed on, but imo it's a pretty big deal. Computers actually performing cognitive tasks at the level of an adult human would be incredible. But with how GPTs actually work, mimicking their input data with a bit of statistics thrown in to spit out new token orderings.. I don't think the idea that a GPT could ever possibly achieve AGI makes any sense.

    If you distilled all of human knowledge down into a compact representation and write an efficient algorithm to make it search its dataset and respond to new input, is that algorithm doing cognition? I guess it's more of a philosophical question than a technical one, but "yes" seems like a really unserious answer to me.

  • Basically since the Wikia rebrand to fandom, they've been owned by venture capital vultures, and have unsurprisingly dropped off. Stupid little nonsense like this doesn't surprise me

  • This is one of many examples of a class of problem where the technology is the easy part. There's room to improve the tech certainly, but the technology sufficient to solve the problem is already well understood.

    The hard part is how to get people to actually do the necessary changes. To consume less, get fewer gas cars on the road, increase the amount of nuclear, hydro, solar, geothermal, and wind in the grid, and minimize coal and gas use. To reduce land use by cows, and increase land use by trees and native plants.

    But maybe AI is the secret here. We have tools that are in the hype moment whose training data already contains several reasonable solutions to climate change. Maybe if AI "finds" the solution to climate change, people will finally listen

  • What's really wild is that not only are games good enough on Windows, but tests lately are showing a consistent trend where the two are often indistinguishable in performance, and where they're not, Windows isn't consistently winning.

    If you're not into the genre of competitive multiplayer games that have kernel anticheat, Windows isn't really better for gaming anymore, outside of being more familiar for many people. Today we've reached the point where it's a few fps either way, and people should use whatever they want, but if Microsoft keeps bloating Windows, it might soon be that the "Windows tax" also refers to the performance penalty you pay for using the familiar OS instead of learning something new.