FLOSS virtualization hacker, occasional brewer
It’s not surprising. If I were looking for a cheap but capable microcontroller that is well documented and already supported by a bunch of frameworks and rtos implementations I would certainly consider the rp2050. I guess the esp32 is the only thing close and that has WiFi built in.
The amount of drama bait this caused over the last week was something to behold.
I like to think I’m reasonably technical and I do put network and some devices restrictions on their accounts. However stuff still gets through and I don’t really want to play a cat and mouse IT admin game with my kids. If I as the root user could set the field on their PC’s and that would allow them to access age appropriate services without having to hand over personal data to some age verification service then i’d consider that a useful feature.
When they get the keys to root they can set it to whatever they please.
It was worse than that. Our understanding of radiation took awhile. While Uranium glass is probably safe I wouldn’t go using it regularly. A lot of women (“radium girls”) suffered from cancers induced by licking their brushes when painting luminescing instruments. This comic looks like 50s era when post the bomb sci-fi was full of “atomics” as the stuff of the future.
This horse with her fole I saw while walking the dogs yesterday.
Normally you try and cost reduce the BoM and split the difference. RAM seems to be out striping any cost savings you can normally make updating the hardware.
Maybe this year’s Eurovision entry will spark even more interest in synths.
It seems the term AI is now synonymous with hallucinating Large Language Models in the general publics head. There is a whole field of machine learning where you can get statistically useful results with various techniques. Alpha Fold is a good example where real progress has been made on finding protein folding solutions that older brute force algorithms are just too inefficient to explore the state space.
This paper is taking about a new ML model for classifying planetary systems that out performs previous data processing pipelines. It’s called statistical validation because it is inherently a numbers game. The paper goes into lots of details about how they calculate false positive rates and compare it to previous approaches. The point is not to definitely identify individual systems but to classify the distribution of system types in the large amounts of data the modern surveys are generating.
It helps that every police related firearm discharge is automatically referred to the IOPC. About 0.02% of operations involving police firearms involve a discharge.
Who are the community employing? Why do they need consulting before code changes are made?
What a pointless drama article this is. FLOSS software does stuff for legal compliance more often than you’d think. The whole point is people can contribute fly by patches and the maintainers make the decision to merge. It seems like being an optional field but potentially providing useful functionality is enough for systemd. If you don’t like it I’m sure there are forks you could join or even use a different init system. No one’s freedom is being oppressed here.
The western nations had a similar problem with debathification in Iraq. When a system invades and takes over a state how do you keep things running while ripping it’s influence out?
There’s a scene at the end of Band of Brothers where the guy from Easy company is taking to a German who’s recollecting the countries he’s visited while at war. It’s a reminder that not everyone in Germany was a Nazi but it was hard to sit it out in a nation committed to Total War. It might be easy to say you’d never sign up to the party but if the choice was between staying in the civil service or being shipped off into the meat grinder? Where else could you go?
We never really have the luxury of tearing down whole societies and rebuilding from scratch in a more prefect form. Generally the countries that have gone through such radical changes have paid for it with a lot of suffering.
I mean chemistry is mostly fractions right?
I was shown Schrödinger’s equation at the start of my chemistry degree just so we knew what the physicists had to worry about.
If there are no “fast” processors why even bother trying to port a general purpose OS like Fedora to it.
I think a lot of the initial growth of RISCV has been in the embedded space with microcontroller scale chips. Even for Arm it took some time to get to the point they where shipping data center class devices. Arguably personal computing is still lagging for Arm.
Stable package > back port package > flatpak/snap.
Basically I want everything as stable as possible unless I have a particular need for a newer feature.
The main things I run from flatpak/snap are browsers and the Minecraft launcher because they are both regularly updated.
I expect because it wasn’t a user - just a random passer by throwing stones on their own personal crusade. The project only has two major contributors who are now being harassed in the issues for the choices they make about how to run their project.
Someone might fork it and continue with pure artisanal human crafted code but such forks tend to die off in the long run.
Glad it applies worldwide /s
Slop can’t be copyrighted, great. We don’t want slop.
There is no settled legal status on the output of AI systems and it’s certainly something that does need clarification going forward. The law may treat asking an LLM to regurgitate it’s training data vs following instructions in a local context differently. Human engineers are allowed to use “retained knowledge” from their experiences even if they can’t bring their notebooks from previous careers. LLMs are just better at it.
Is that really the case? I work for a multi national FLOSS organisation but every additional country you want to hire from requires additional compliance overhead so in practice we generally hire from countries where we already have the legal setup to employee people.
How big an org is Signal?