FLOSS virtualization hacker, occasional brewer
So algorithms then?
LLMs have some interesting properties and certainly can do a good job sifting through large amounts of raw data. They are however a very brute force approach compared to say a network routing protocol. Sooner or later people will start to realise (again) that engineering is about trade offs and you need to work out what your constraints are and stop trying to solve every problem with massive amounts of multiplication.
I swear people have rose tinted glasses as to the state of the init system before the current generation of system management daemons.
If you really want to have Debian without systemd there is always Duvean but the Debian architects are free to choose the technologies that solve the very real system orchestration problems that exist.
Mine has two, one which is very vanilla for local events and the like and has a strict no moaning policy. The other one is where the local gossip is and is as unhinged as you would expect.
Every now and again I go back to Facebook to see what my more distant friends are doing. I spend about 10 minutes trying to fiddle with my ublock filters trying to hide all the algorithmic content and then give up.
I have private chat groups for various circles of friends and that’s a lot more useful for sharing stuff. We’ll see if they will be persuaded to Signal when the ads start appearing.
I thought the whole “virgin” thing was an interpretation of the original Greek or Aramaic for “maid”, as in a young women of child rearing age.
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?
Vampire Survivors is still my go-to as I only get a little time here and there and the 30min cap on a run fits nicely.
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.
Sounds like the method QEMU used pre the tiny code generator (TCG).