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When I was in school it was just when all this was starting and people were starting to get used to the internet. There are a lot of websites they thought were inappropriate for children to look at (mostly they were harmless). Anyway if you didn’t enter www. in front of the web address, it bypassed all of the site block filters.

When I was in school it was just when all this was starting and people were starting to get used to the internet. There are a lot of websites they thought were inappropriate for children to look at (mostly they were harmless). Anyway if you didn’t enter www. in front of the web address, it bypassed all of the site block filters.

Closing the gate after the wolves have got in eaten all the sheep, had a nice rest, and then left. And then about 30 years past.

Sure maybe small trees are now growing in the now ungrazed pasture, but I guess late is better than never.

Well sort of, you’re right that they’ve introduced a search bar but that’s all they’ve done. It’s all still broken down into fairly arbitrarily arrived at categories it’s not in alphabet order, or in fact any real order.

Sound settings are under peripherals for god’s sake. I mean sure okay speakers are a peripheral I guess but when you say peripheral you think things like webcams, not basic I/O.

Regardless of the reason the problem remains that there is no consistent design distro to distro and that’s a problem for the end user. If we’re ever going to have “year of Linux” then the developers are going to have to get over themselves and stop with the idea that everyone who is going to use their platform is technologically inclined.

Otherwise it’s always outgoing to just be for the techies. Can you imagine your grandparents trying to use Linux and then looking stuff up on their own and then doing something wrong because they don’t know what distro they’re on? Nightmare.

Of course this is a solved problem and has been a solved problem for at least 15 years now. It’s called a flat wide hierarchy. Rather than trying to put everything into categories you just put everything into alphabetical order and then have a search box. Want to change the background, it’s under B for Background, rather than having to go to Display Settings > Customisation > Desktop Background > Custom Background > Select Image

My biggest complaint about Linux is how literally everything requires you to do some arcane magic in the terminal.

Just make it a button damn it. As it is I just copy and paste what I’m told into the terminal so you could have just added a button into the operating system that just did that behind the scenes.

The library near me has a bunch of 3D printers people can rent time on, or maybe it’s based on filament used I’m not sure I’ve never actually used them.

At one point they had some surface tablets connected up to them so people could review their 3D prints or something, (again not my area of expertise), but apparently it was enough of an issue they eventually got rid of them and just replaced them with some desktops. It seems that the 3D design software just isn’t built for touch screen primary interfaces. They’ll work up to a point but then you’ll come up against something that you have to use a mouse and keyboard for and be stuck, so then you have to go get a mouse and keyboard.

I had one of those but the tiny keyboard used to drive me nuts it was literally unusable.

Right but all it’s testing is the hardware. The hardware would be the same if it was running Windows.

That or they have worked out that even if AGI is achievable with the current architecture the existence of R1 and other Chinese models essentially means they will never make a profit at it.

If they achieve their goal, within 48 hours the open source community will have replicated it.

What he gets really irritated about is the fact that you have to file a flight plan and that flight plan has to be public, because obviously otherwise it wouldn’t work.

So anyone at any time can track his plane, and no matter how rich he is, there is fuck all he can do about it

These days you don’t need to be committing a crime to get arrested. You just need to be annoying the wrong people.

I’m sure it wasn’t intentional and I’m sure it was just the Scriptwriters being terrible at their job but Edison was a dick, possibly not Elon level but maybe that was just a lack of internet access.

Constantly stole credit for other people’s inventions and even when they were his inventions he had a whole team behind him, but always tried to imply that he was the only one involved.

What’s hidden mean? In a cupboard, because that isn’t hidden it’s just put away.

It is weird given the context

Then why don’t I just get the AI to write my legal filings and skip the lawyer fees?

The whole reason that I would retain professional help rather than just use an AI system is because the AI system makes stuff up, if the professional is just going to use the AI then what’s the point?

The problem with all of these types is they always say “oh well as long as you check its work it’s okay”, aka vibe<insert previously intellectually demanding task here>. The problem with that is firstly if you have to check its work then you’re basically just replacing one boring task with a different boring task, but you haven’t actually saved any time, and the second problem is a lot of the time people don’t actually check its work thoroughly, so mistakes still get through. Which is why using AI in a professional sense is a problem.

It’s fine to use it for summarising the minutes of a meeting, but it just isn’t good enough and reliable enough yet to be used in high-stakes situations. It is utterly irresponsible therefore to attempt to use it like that.

Pretty soon they’re going to pencil in a meeting about possibly arranging a committee to discuss preliminary plans to do a feasibility study.

A duopoly doesn’t require a 50/50 market share. It simply requires them to be the only real options and to both engage in similar anti-consumer practises.

Microsoft bans Xbox users from downloading unlicensed software.

I’m curious what that would even look like. The only thing you can install on an Xbox is Xbox games, where are you getting the Xbox games from if not the official publisher?