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  • We've been productively using AI for decades now – just not the AI you think of when you hear the term. Fuzzy logic, expert systems, basic automatic translation... Those are all things that were researched as artificial intelligence. We've been using neural nets (aka the current hotness) to recognize hand-written zip codes since the 90s.

    Of course that's an expert definition of artificial intelligence. You might expect something different. But saying that AI isn't AI unless it's sentient is like saying that space travel doesn't count if it doesn't go faster than light. It'd be cool if we had that but the steps we're actually taking are significant.

    Even if the current wave of AI is massively overhyped, as usual.

  • Presumably, they're trying to build for Windows and according to llama.cpp's documentation this might require the MSVC toolchain. Honestly, a lot of applications use the MSVC toolchain so it's not that special. Besides, CUDA (but not HIP) is available in WSL2 so depending on GPU they could just use that.

    Also, apparently they can't log into GitHub without the Microsoft Authenticator app. Now, I haven't logged into GitHub in a long time but I do deal with Microsoft's SSO for my job and a generic TOTP app works just fine there. (And when I checked GitHub's documentation on the issue it said "download a TOTP app of your choice" so I don't see how Microsoft's app is supposed to be required.)

  • Of course you wouldn't use an existing database engine as the foundation of a new database engine. But you would use an existing database engine as the foundation of an ERP software, which is a vastly different use case even if the software does spend a lot of time dealing with data.

    If I want to build an application I don't want to reimplement everything. That's what middleware is for. The use case of my application is most likely not to speak a certain protocol; the protocol is just the means to what I actually want to do. There's no reason for me to roll my own implementation from scratch and keep up with current developments except if I'm unhappy with all current implementations of that protocol.

    Of course one can overdo it with middleware (the JS world is rife with this) but implementing a communication protocol is one of the classic cases where it makes sense.

  • I'd argue that accurate color perception isn't necessary if one makes an assumption about the average age of the riders. Given that bright hair in humans is either blond or whitened by age (excepting albinos, which are rare), all of the riders having bright hair means that they're either blond or old. Assuming that there are few large groups of senior riders, Legolas could come to his conclusion based on brightness alone.

    Unfortunately I don't know enough about optics to say whether this makes any difference.

  • Yeah. It's one thing when people leave some extra money for good service or tell the server to keep the change, all while knowing that none of this is necessary.

    It's another when a 15%+ surcharge is added to the total so that the server can afford to live.

  • Now the big question is how many patents are relevant and who owns them. And even if it turns out to have cheap licensing, beating HDMI won't be easy, as DisplayPort demonstrates. Technological superiority doesn't mean shit if you can't overcome HDMI's network effect.

  • These protests don't really affect Trump directly but they do signal to the local governments that this is something people feel strongly about – and thus something that might cost them votes if they mishandle it. And that might affect how the EU deals with him.

  • Just stagger the classes not just by size and/or weight but also by motor type. For instance, a tax class for ultracompact cars could look like this:

    • Length ≤ 3400 mm
    • Width ≤ 1480 mm
    • Height ≤ 2000 mm
    • Curb weight ≤ 1000 kg (ICE), 1200 kg (hybrid, BEV)

    (I basically went with Japan's current definition of kei cars and replaced the displacement restriction with a weight restriction.)

  • Remember that each woman has a different experience. Some women have such a light period that they only notice it because they find spots in their underwear. On the other hand, a woman with endometriosis will probably start being in excruciating pain the day before the period starts and will know exactly how long it lasts.

    Source: I know someone with endo. She also has a resistance to at least one OTC painkiller because she used to pop those things like candy. And a female coworker of hers (with a very light period) thinks that most women are exaggerating and that periods aren't much of a problem...

  • Usually, when people talk about bees dying, they mean wild bees. Unlike honey bees they aren't cultivated by us. They also tend to be better pollinators than honey bees, adapted to local plants that honey bees can't handle well.

  • It depends. "Donald Trump wants to annex Wisconsin as the 51st state" wouldn't be funny. Pocketpair launching a Steam store page for the Palworld dating sim (which was last year's April Fools joke) was.

    But yeah, this isn't the time for political humor.