lukan

"Lawns that require almost no maintenance using native plants have always been possible, but they don't reflect the class and status dynamics that neighborhoods want to show off."

In wild nature, there tend to be spikey things. I still run barefoot there. I don't care about status dynamics, but I do also like a soft grassy ground to jump and run around with my kids,

But I do let patches on the side grow complete, only mowing once a year - and especially before the fireflies come - I let the whole lawn grow extra high (with only some ways cut low) for the fireflies and insects. In spring the flowers are also nice. Still, some patches of nice lawn I always have and use with joy. It all is a compromise (still it greatly triggers me, if family members mow too early and too much).

"Lawns aren’t native to your area."

Aside to what the other commentor has said, nature doea not mean static preservation, but it always changed all the time (and we are part of it).

"One almost forgets how easy it is to read a wall of text when it was written by a human. "

Erm, this really depends on the human I think.

Well, what is natural and where is the line?

We domisticated grazing animals since a while in large numbers, the smaller ones do produce something like a lawn. And soft grass is just really nice to play around with the kids. So I also simply keep bushes and tree spots for the leaves and insects.

Slight OT Survival tip, if you are starving don't go for mushrooms in the first place (unless you really, really know) - even if you get the right one, they don't contain much energy for you to burn anyway. The larves you often found in them, probably contain more. So mushrooms are a nice addition (and in rare cases good medicine), but for survival you should focus on something else.

"nor asking themselves if there's prior art tackling the same problem"

Asking AI is asking for prior art to not invent the wheel yet again.

Of course it is self serving. I am optimistic for progress in medicine with the help of AI in general as well, not optimistic for antrophic.

Yeah, I want that too, including the weights and training material. But I am still exited by what one could potentially do with it, by looking at the prompts and generated videos, even if it is cherry picked.

No, mostly not, but that does not mean they engage with locking customers in.

"How am I supposed to keep up with the changes every few months?"

No worries, you can always ask a AI.

The engineering seems impressive, but how useful is the result? What can you detect exactly with it in real time?

Detecting corners, but to what resolution/detail, a picture with a result would have been helpful to understand the capability.

edit: missed this link, this is what this is about

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_from_accelerated_segm...

"Which way do we want things to go?"

Well ideally we want companies and governments to be trustworthy and that only works with trustworthy individuals, but here in this case I can only see Meta dissolving as a solution.

Remember how it started? Zuckerberg literally said about his users: ‘They “trust me.” Dumb f--ks’.

This is the base the company has been operating since the beginning, just got better at hiding it, but now some masks are slipping again.

In some ways they do, but actually going out into nature, smell different air, get aun on your skin, wind through your hair, see all around and not just a flickering screen and interface with reality with your whole body, not just eyes staring to a square and hands moving mouse and keyboard .. seems even more beneficial in activating the neurological system in the body.

I started out printing complex claude plans to go through them in a different setting, make notes, think about it, modify, then tell it to execute.

But website printing in general, I see less of a need.

"They even extended voting time, a move that directly benefiting him"

Both candidates supported that decision.

Same answer would apply?

German courts can also learn to only block things in germany (also I don't recall them to have this absolutistic approach to assume world authority).

No, we had way more. I enjoyed being member of a local social media webiste (a elaborate forum) in my teens.

And StudiVZ, which I never liked, made that slowly die out. Facebook came later.

I would very much prefer to still be part of local social media (where you could resolve issues with the admin directly), but federated to other networks.

"The safest code is that which never runs. The most elegant feature is that which is not necessary."

I assume you run GNU Hurd as your OS? ...

In general I very much agree to the quote of the Little Prince's creator, but I am not sure if we mean the same by it, because you seem to value code elegance more than adding useful features?

Now "useful" does the heavy lifting here, but my point is a useful feature is useful, even if it is achieved by the most ugly unmaintainable code. And what counts as a useful feature will depend on who you ask, but in general you should ask some users. (They don't care how the code looks)

And sure, they do not enjoy a pile of garbage of new features that only work sometimes, but managed to destroy their existing flow. But "Nobody is teaching this generation of LLM restraint" this is hyperbole and up to each developer. There is no need to let the AI run on auto for hours, this is only one way how to use that tool. The other way is, you make the design yourself - and let the AI implement it.

"algorythm"

Spelling errors are so far still a good sign of human written output.

Ok I bite, for what concrete tasks do you get better results with Opus than with Fable?

Because if true, I see no reason to spend that extra money, but for me Fable clearly outperformed Opus on complex tasks. (Including giving the same task and compare results)

I believe a lot of negativity comes from people who believed the OSS preachers "come come, you don't need that proprietary crap, we have everything free and better"

And then most people are in for a surprise, that usually the above is only true in theory. But in reality there are driver issues, missing firmware, outdated repositories, broken updates ... critical missing features and in general a need to understand technical details with no polished UI.

And speaking of, with OBS I really liked the UI to just get started, but performance/quality of produced video was way worse for me, then simple screencapture with ffmpeg.

It does not work for building trust for me into the shepherd. (This metapher is used for this in the christian context a lot).

I actually said nothing specifically about Trump, but spoke about "large parts of the world". The USA holds 4.2% of the world population btw.

Well, that is how the police gets informants into a scene. The more radical the action, the more respect and trust they get - if the scene likes radical violence in the first place.

If they don't - they are also immune to agent provocateurs - if that is rather what happened here.

Well, last time I checked the number was 0 and I am still lurking in some pine chat groups, so I doubt that changed. So the free market does not deliver something working here.

Yeah, but who is using a pinephone as their daily driver?

"Is it possible to make a broadly-accurate generalization about work ethic in a given country? "

It is, but those generalisations are usually debatable and will then lead to nationalistic debates that are allmost always flame war style, with people shouting over each other who is from the worst nation. Which is why many flag anything, that smells like leading towards this.

They don't have a unlimited energy supply, that prevents scaling somewhat.

"Putin got Schroeder in Germany to shut down nuclear."

Merkel did after Fukoshima and with broad public support.