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I noticed her preference because if I lie on my left-hand side, she is a very happy little spoon and uses my arm as a pillow.
If I lie on my right-hand side, kitty is confused. She will take extra preparatory rotations hoping that one more turn will be enough for the problematic situation to resolve. After some hard stares, maybe an annoyed huff, she will reluctantly curl-up as a face-to-face non-spoon.
For so long it was one of those "and now you have two problems" technologies and now it looks like it's the slow blade that could actually kill Windows.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250611035305/https://one.googl...
I wonder what it will be next week.
I am 100% team Linux but cross-platform benchmarking is rife with problems. Differences are often from not testing the exactly same thing or different defaults that trade-off safety/quality/perf and can in theory be changed. No point measuring only one side of a triangle whose ratios are a matter of taste.
A responsible benchmark would try and prove fidelity.
It's not in Basic, Standard or Premium.
It's in a new tier called "Google AI Pro" which I think is worth inclusion in your catalogue of product confusion.
Oh wait, there's even more tiers that for some reason can't be paid for annually. Weird... why not? "Google AI Ultra" and some others just called Premium again but now include AI. 9 tiers, 5 called Premium, 2 with AI in the name but 6 that include Gemini. What a mess.
Just as duplicating a fragment can be legal, duplicating any fragment on demand is not. Rephrasing a passage might be legal, but rephrasing any passage on demand might not.
Such imperfect measures offer a compromise between "big tech can steal everything" and "LLMs trained on unpurchased books are illegal".
It's not just books but any tragedy-of-the-commons situation where a "feeder industry" for training can be fatally undermined by the very LLM that desires future training data from that industry.
Cassette Tapes and Private Copying Levy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy
Governments didn't ban tapes but taxed them and fed the proceeds back into the royalty system. An equivalent for books might be an LLM tax funding a negative tax rate for sold books e.g. earn $5 and the gov tops it up. Can't imagine how to ensure it was fair though.
Alternatively, might be an interesting math problem to calculate royalties for the training data used in each user request!
I managed to save a few by arguing how ineffective as weapons they would be and then watch as two security staff try their best to pinch each other with wire strippers.
You'll probably prefer your choice because you can cater to your taste e.g. dual pane or whatever. I think I use one called File Manager from fdroid but there is more than one with that name. I probably use termux more. No app can beat a terminal and scripts! I don't touch wallpapers/ringtones.
I do boil with fury at ads in Google Pay though. Anyone know a fix?
It may be worse for a rural kid. All that countryside that surrounds you is private farmland. Of course, now and again, you trespass and earn stories of being chased off by dogs and puce-faced-shotgun-wielding arses but it's not your daily hang-out.
Truly public land (not just a public pathway) will be concentrated in nature-reserves and odds are it will be out of reach except for special adventures.
The village-kid hang-out is typically "The Village Rec" (recreation ground) but if you live in something less than a village, i.e. random splats of houses between villages, you end up living half your life at a bus stop waiting for the mercurial 2-hourly bus service before you can even see another human face.
The Federation of American Scientists reported their torture methods included:
"electric shock, whipping, beating, inserting broken glass and pouring boiling water into the rectum, tying weights to the testicles, and the extraction of teeth and nails".
That doesn't sound likely. I would expect seconds unless something very odd is happing.
Is the example symbolicator?
I can't build the optional "symbolicator-crash" crate because it's not rust but 300k of C++/C pulled from a git submodule that requires dependencies I am not going to install. Your complaint might literally be about C++!
For the rest of the workspace, 60k of rust builds in 60 seconds
- clean debug build on a 6 year old 3900X (which is under load because I am working)
- time includes fetching 650 deps over a poor network and building them (the real line count of the build is likely 100s of thousands or millions of lines of code)
- subsequent release build took 100s
- I use the mold linker which is advised for faster builds
- modern cpus are so much faster than my machine they might not even take 10s
You can however solder on double-capacity memory chips to get 22GB:
https://forums.overclockers.com.au/threads/double-your-gpu-m...
I hoped the article would be more along these lines than calling an unremarkable second-hand last-gen gaming pc an "AI Server".
"mechanised winding system, ending the requirement for somebody to climb the narrow, winding staircase each day to the clock room to do the job by hand"
It feels like something has been lost even if I don't know what. It's not that I want the job but we might be modernising and automating away human purpose in the world. There is something about someone visiting the mechanism daily that feels like it gives it life. An act of observation. There may be some practical sense to it e.g. spotting problems and what you "feel" in the mechanism as you manually wind it.
The article doesn't claim that so it seems your Christian sensitivities have skewed your reading comprehension.
It's referencing a Forbes article using the term to distinguish between thoughtless arbitrary giving vs. giving with purpose:
"Even the most generous Christian philanthropists often don't see the purpose of their giving," says Dr. Mark Rutland, the new ORU president and founder of the Global Servants evangelical ministry. "There are impulse givers, people who give to their alma mater or their church or some particular ministry with which they become familiar—but the Greens are Kingdom givers. ... They consider it an honor; they consider it a mission."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2023/02/13/this-bil...
In principle, great, but the trick is that the signage is such an inscrutable combination of badly placed adhoc signs and road-markings that a huge number of visitors with zero intent to breach a rule get fined.
There is a common sense principle such things should meet: if the revenue from a traffic measure is high and consistent then not only has it failed in it's purpose to change behaviour but there is something bogus about it's setup.
A judge first ruled the signage was fine but after seeing so many appeals, he admitted he had been definitively proven wrong and it needed to be improved.
Do you recall Karl is sent to Theresienstadt where the art studio secretly paints the holocaust?
That is the "paradise ghetto", the potemkin village concentration camp the Nazis created to give tours to international observers to fool them about conditions. Sometimes called a retirement village or the gift of the Fuhrer to the Jewish people but of course, just a temporary pause for transports going further east to the death camps.
You quote someone famously deposed by rebellion and died in prison as an example of uniquely British repression preventing revolution?
It's absurd and toxic to claim the sentiments of Richard II are uniquely British. European monarchies are better understood as an interconnected transnational class. Richard II aka Richard of Bordeaux, born in the presence of the kings of Castile, Navarre and Portugal, married the sister of the Holy Roman Emperor and then the daughter of King of France...
> Here in Sweden though, when we have attacked the government we have generally been successful
Oh? Möre uprising, Västbo peasant uprising, Värmland rebellion, Böda Uprising, Morning Star rebellion... etc. all suppressed and leaders executed.
Licensing should come with enhanced consumer rights e.g. an explicit license duration and allow the consumer to return the license for pro-rata refund within that duration. The license should be for the IP and honoured for all formats and platforms that meet some regularity threshold. The absurdity of having to rebuy things you "own" because you switch device or format has to end.
Along similar lines, hardware should be called "hire" not "sell" when the manufacturer maintains control over the device e.g. locked bootloaders, encryption keys, online service dependencies, forced updates with no downgrade, remote-access privileges, telemetry, not meeting "right-to-repair", hardware locking preventing component replacement or choice of consumable (e.g. ink) etc.
Similar return rights should apply if hardware is leased. Seller would need to be insured/escrow to meet consumer refunds if they break their side of the lease (e.g. going bust and shutting down required online services).
Imagine what it would cost Google's bottom line if Apple was truly user-focused and enabled ad-blocking on desktop, mobile and embedded safari views by default. Someone do the napkin math please!
What's preventing adding a driver compatibility layer over the unstable API? I would accept a some performance cost and NOPs for new features using a shim for existing legacy binary drivers compared to being forced to junk functioning hardware.
Besides, the environmental cost of AWS is not the power-draw of your VPS, it's the externalities of monopolistic-capitalism. You are not just funding private jets but a fascist oligarchy and handing them control. It's not even scifi doomerism any more. We are watching in real-time as American oligarchs dismantle environmental laws and I expect there will be glowing editorials in the AWS owner's newspaper.
In a similar vein, I presume that providing AWS as a publicly owned utility (socialism) would also not achieve their goals of individual self-sufficiency. I presume it's more prepper-ish than utopian and considers state centralisation too vulnerable to capture by negative regimes.
"rules to create films based on the traditional values of story, acting, and theme, while excluding the use of elaborate special effects or technology. It was supposedly created as an attempt to "take back power for the directors as artists" as opposed to the movie studio."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogme_95
I had a negative initial reaction to the animation style but it hooked me in and blew me away. It had virtues far more vital than render quality. In contrast, I bailed on "Inside Out 2" and have no interest retrying. I hope more people are encouraged to create lofi meaningful movies instead of thinking it's the preserve of billion dollar studios and sweat-shop animation factories.
I can see it as a choice from the "plain text first" philosophy i.e. the things you typically write in plain text should not need escaping. My intuition pump is that you can copy-paste an email into .md without edits or surprising rendering.
As such, it's doomed to never satisfy everyone. Personally I never use intraword emphasis and I typically only have underscores in non-code names i.e. `this_is_normally_code`.
This is probably to support potential ambiguities and intraword emphasis e.g. underscore is a common pseudo-space so doesn't support intraword use but * does e.g.
is_not_italic
this*is*italic.
It's way harder than I expected because of the combination of the ambiguity of * and ** in multi-symbol runs which support infinite nesting even of the same type of emphasis. A given delimiter run could be many different permutations of plain text `*`, `em` and `strong` depending on context of other delimiter runs that might open and close sections along side other context like punctuation, intraword-ness, flanking and whether sums of runs can be be factored by three!
https://spec.commonmark.org/0.31.2/#emphasis-and-strong-emph...
I never expected "**" could be nested emphasis instead of bold so interpretation requires multiple passes to break down delimiter runs and match them up e.g.
***this* and that* -> *<em><em>this</em> and that </em>Funny how I didn't even think to look for appearance settings.