SunlitCat

I dunno if that's the feedback you wanted but...

Just today i had to write an email about a certain thing, involving multiple people, multiple topics and leading to a conclusion what we could do / offer to do.

I wrote my email in a very very very very informal way (like "...then you and those other people should come together to talk about...) and asked ChatGPT to make it nicer and more formal. Then i reviewed the text ChatGPT did and told ChatGPT more about the topic at hand, so it can refine that EMail with that additional knowledge about said situation.

This approach works (usually) pretty well, because if you ask ChatGPT to write an EMail about some situation in the first place (without giving it an Text to work with), it will create a very boilerplate sounding text.

Hope that helps already!

Noice!

The cool thing about stuff in modern HTML5/Javascript (especially with all those api available in modern browsers, like the File Access API and the like) is you can replace so many (simple) local apps with pure webapps.

First off! A local, no internet requirement, background removal tool? Cool! Sign me up!

But! Although there might be not much else to tell me about your cool tool, can you show us more about it? How it works, what it does and so on? Maybe a little movie showing it working!

One little nitpick: Your webpage has the charm of a Powerpoint presentation with all that stuff flying in! It isn't that bad, but it really reminds me on one! :D

Awesome! After "The Social Network" we get "Artificial". Both movies featuring the "drama" behind important actors in the tech-scene.

Does anyone know if there is a movie about Bitcoin or Blockchain as well?

Oh! Or how about a movie titled "Elephants" about.....well who can guess which other important site of the late 2000 that one would feature? :D

ejector seats in C car?

goto eject; ...more code we are going to ignore, it could be important but nah, ignore it, what could be happen?...

eject: up_through_the_roof();

:D

Strings! The bane of C programming, and a big reason I prefer C++. :D

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but having to be logged in, is being broken. ;)

It's already in the title. Saying "Windows computers" feels off. For many people, it's not "Windows", it's just the computer.

The real issue began in the 90s, when computers became ubiquitous. It’s hard to tell someone they need to update their operating system, buy a new machine, and replace accompanying hardware (like specialized equipment in businesses), just because the OS is outdated and no longer gets updates.

To many users, the operating system is merely the thing that makes their trusted tools work, whether it's a version of Word from 1997 or some software that’s been running an expensive machine reliably for 30 years.

If you really want people to update their operating systems, you’ll need to make them want to update their hardware too, just like that big fruity company does.

Awesome! I always love to read about such stuff, especially if it includes playing around with AVX512!

Nice find! I really hope so, as AVX512 is something interesting to play around with and i am pretty sure, it will play a bigger role in the future, especially with AI and all that stuff around it!

Well, take me. I joined facebook two years ago after avoiding it for years not (just) because of the reasons you mentioned but also because i was very privacy focused.

The only thing i found out, after connecting with a few people i know around me and scrolling through their history on facebook...the big party is over and i am too late.

Facebook isn't what it was anymore and people don't use it that much to connect with others.

In my experience, what sometimes work, is saying something, even just an "Oh? Really?". Although no deep connections emerged from that one, i've had a few good conversations with strange people going.

There is something off with

> ...and despite supporting it [AVX512] on consumer CPUs for several generations...

I dunno. Before Rocket Lake (11th gen) AVX512 was only available in those enthusiast cpu, xeon cpu or in some mobile processors (which i wouldn't really call consumer cpu).

With the 12th gen (and that performance/efficiency core concept), they disabled it after a few months in those core and it was never seen again.

I am pretty sure tho, after AMD has some kind of success with AVX512 Intel will reintroduce it again.

btw. I am still rocking an Intel i9-11900 cpu in my setup here. ;)

I think it's kind of a German thing.

Even as a German, I sometimes struggle to connect with others for many of the reasons FirmwareBurner mentioned.

I made some good friends through a sports group I attend, which also organizes regular social events outside of training.

But aside from that, many so-called 'low-key social spaces' tend to feel like they're 'only for groups' Not because of any official rules, of course, although some places do advertise things like 'bring your friends', but in practice, you usually see people there in pre-formed groups. These aren’t necessarily close friends either, sometimes it's coworkers or people who already know each other through other contexts.

Those groups tend to stick together, and it's rare for outsiders to be included unless you already know someone who can introduce you.

You mean, GPT-4 being so overenthusiastic with using emojis isn't peak AI chat? :D

And even more worse with the Vive Pro 2 by HTC which needs a special Windows tool to use all it capabilities...

I would have switched over to Linux if it wouldn't be because of that one.

Maybe the CEO was playing Cyberpunk 2077 and found out about the Delamain corporation. :D

Like someone already said somewhere, it will come in steps.

Windows S Mode was already a test.

The nagging, warning and outright "blocking" (while hiding the "run anyway" button under "more info") is the first step. This already is a warning to software vendors that something will come.

The next step will be blocking unsigned exes on Home Editions (not on Pro or Enterprise), so that software vendors and most of places depending on unsigned old software can move on to signed software.

Then Home and Pro Editions of windows wont be able to run unsigned software anymore and if you need unsigned software to run you'll have to use an Enterprise Edition.

The last step would be no windows can run unsigned software anymore and if you need unsigned software running, you'll need to run that one on an Azure instance of Windows which can still run unsigned software or (if you can't / don't want to run your software in the cloud) you will have to contact Microsoft for a special Windows version, costing lots of money. But if your business depends on that one single unsigned exe file, you might be ready to pay for that one.

> Linux doesn’t need to be like Windows

Oh got it! That's why Wine is so popular!

But at least, in the real life, parents don't send their kids off into the woods to gonna get them all and don't expect them to come back! :D

Well my Linux journey was even more adventurous then this.

First time I tried Linux was around late 90s. The included driver for my ati on board gpu did create some artifacts and it was suggested to use the default svga one.

The second time was in the early 2000s. There I was playing around with wine until it crashed one day and wiped my whole hard drive (sadly this was before I had a cd writing device, so lots of data gone :().

The third time, I can't really remember, but I wasn't really amazed (must be late 2000s).

The fourth time (must be around 2010-ish, I dunno), I finally made it for a few years after getting a 64 bit computer with more then 4 GB of RAM. Was using Windows XP (32 bit) and decided that instead of using Windows 7, I might try Ubuntu. Worked well, until it didn't. For some reason, Linux was having problems with the chipset on my mainboard (a nvidia one) and the dvd drive wasn't working. There were regular patches for the kernel (which didn't get included in the kernel for some reason, so I had to compile my own kernel). When that stopped working, I put my dvd drive into a Windows machine and it started working again (even on the linux machine) until it stopped working again.

That was when I switched to Windows 7 (64 bit) and I am now on Windows 10, sadly with a HTC Vive Pro 2 headset which seems to be unsupported on Linux. :(

On the other hand, do you really want to become part of such an obscure and exclusive club no one really knows?

Being old enough to remember the nipple gate scandal (even as a non us person) I was like "Why is everyone complaining this time". But, oh wow, after watching half of it on youtube I stopped it.

Not that I dislike rap / hip hop music, but I can see why people complained about this kind of content being the halftime show for a huge media event.

After skimming through the article and a few of the comments, you could say that institute wasn't turing complete! :D

I mean, it's awesome, kinda, I think. Dunno.

Honest question, but why is it that important on which rank an AI is? Why an ranking at all. How to measure it? With coding questions, common sense questions? Why?

Personally, I enjoy if I can talk with AI, have it help me code here and there, nudge me in the right direction or having it writing me some good story I ask it about (which is also the reason I like ChatGPT).

No, I haven't, CyberDildonics!

Nah. It's a problem many creative tools have (and an interesting one!). You can't squeeze one creative workflow (suitable for everyone) into a general UI.

And people bash c/c++ for not having some kind of central package management system. Hah!

Nah! Then we would need to add some blockchain and maybe sprinkle some other Buzzwords here and there for good measurement!

Well, personally I started out with gemini (when it still was called bard or something like that) but switched over to a paid ChatGPT subscription.