If the data is present but difficult to restore, it’s annoying. You might need to spend a few days fixing stuff.

If the data is gone, it’s devastating and can bankrupt a company. On a personal level it’s the same as having all your photos destroyed in a fire. And backups not containing the right data are very common.

Noise cancelling only really works on constant background noises like an engine. It doesn’t work on bells and just kind of muddies speech, but you can still here the noise.

I’m not being funny but it can be both.

Square root is an operator that maps a number to the positive number that when squared returns the original number, but there is also a square root symbol.

Similarly, % can be an operator that maps a number x to x/100, but there’s also a percent symbol.

It just depends if you’re talking about functions or fonts.

Congrats, the game is now non-finite (you can just keep drawing forever).

The main differentiator of fish over everything else is it prioritizes intuitive behavior over backwards compatibility.

Zsh is to bash as c++ is to c. Most bash scripts and habits will work in zsh, but zsh is just more convenient and has more options. Fish is intentionally different.

Do I wish fish had existed instead of bash so we had a nicer terminal experience? On the whole, yes. But I also couldn’t be bothered to learn another shell where most of the instructions online won’t be able to help you, and I ended up sticking with zsh.

It’s also the font on the pop-ups, and the AI logo.

There’s a very generic style of Facebook cartoon that these things absolutely nail.

No, you just use a standard technique like word2vec.

Basically words are considered similar (and embedded to nearby locations in a high dimensional space) if they are likely to be used in the same context.

And because slurs are used to indicate that you don’t like someone, they tend to occur in the same kind of context.

So they’re all very similar. This is actual natural language processing being used, but it’s a shit post and the graphics aren’t very clear.

Bragging rights and improved sleeping ability from the knowledge that the devs are being supported.

The serious answer is it’s often easier for people in a company to buy a license key than it is for them to arrange a donation to the devs. So this is an easy way to make small donations.

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You can get a very good idea of what works by just looking for AMD GPU cloud compute.

If it was usable and cheaper everyone would be offering it. As far as I can see, it’s still experimental and only the smaller players, e.g. IBM and Oracle are pushing it.

so I confuse the number of ounces in a pound quite often, amongst other things

When do you need to use either of these?

I know the number of pounds in a kilo so I can understand the Americans when they talk about weightlifting and how much people weigh. I don’t think I’ve ever used an ounce in my life.

Right. That’s why they overreact to everything, and bring old military equipment on swat raids.

They’re much more likely to panic and drive an APC through the crowd or return fire on a mostly unarmed crowd using automatic weapons.

Just ask yourself, “what has Israel done recently?” and remember that US police train with them.

Bottom has infinite density and will collapse into a black hole killing everyone, and destroying the tram and lever.

I live in a walkable European city.

My nearest library is 5 minutes away, there’s a bigger library maybe 20 minutes away, and for anything further I’d take public transport.

I’m amazed a reviewer read the code.

It’s interesting. There’s a lot of talk about how chatgpt makes people lazy, but honestly I think Google killed the “read the manual” ethos.

Back in the day when you couldn’t just search for everything, you needed enough understanding of the manual to find anything in the index.

So a key part of figuring anything out was reading at least the start of the manual.

Now, fuck it, you just type into Google and try to guess enough context to understand what’s going on.

Hexbear is already flooded with beanis posts.

Looking forward to seeing beanis everywhere in the next version of Facebook’s LLM.

Garmin sends all your health data to the cloud and the app won’t work without an Internet connection.

On the plus side, they’re not part of the Google/Apple/Samsung data ecosystems, and I don’t think actually they do anything with the data, beyond computing statistics for you.

Depends how much you’re prepared to trust them I guess.

Depends.

You can argue that it’s basically art/political speech. You’ve done it to draw attention to flaws in the approach and to highlight how ineffectual the current system is, and that if you actually wanted to do make fake IDs you’d take a much less high-profile approach. As such, there’s no actual criminal intent required.

Don’t know if a judge would buy it though.

Ok, but one of the most important use cases is non-local access.

If I’m at home I can just go to the door.