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Downvote all you want, but a fact is a fact: The article doesn't define the abbreviation before using it.

Thanks!

I never thought that, and I know very little about the space. In attempting to learn about the available options as fast as possible (along with TS and JS), I learned that the same guy launched a total re-do to address the shortcomings he realized through years of experience with his original product. I didn't imagine he could do that without breaking compatibility.

Makes sense.

Yep, it's hard to say what the right move was.

I'd appreciate an explanation of what "open weight model" means. Is it a "weight model" that is open, or a model with open weights (so should be "open-weight model"), or is it weights that can be applied to a model?

Are weights separable from a model? And if not, what is the point of saying "open-weight model" instead of just "open model?"

To the newcomer, it's hard to determine what the components of an AI system are from the throwing-around of these terms.

Well if Node compatibility is your big deal then yeah, why not just use it?

I started a new project on Deno to avoid the NPM mess. Node compatibility was a distraction for the product.

I'm tired of everything depending on Node. Assuming that everybody uses it is lazy.

Paywalled.

The article neglects to define "DHT" before using it.

The "code" version:

  Capital "i" has crossbars? CHECK

  Zero is distinguishable from O? CHECK

"Text" version:

  Capital "i" has crossbars? NOPE, so no dice.

I hate fonts that don't have a properly-formed capital "i".

I didn't see that statement in the (door-shaped) video, so I'll take your word for it.

> How popular do you think the tall-ass trucks are in Portugal?

Not very, which is why I was mystified by your question. Why would we NEED special sanctions for non-Americans?

Not addressed (as far as I saw) are the penalties for texting & driving in different countries. In the USA, they're basically nonexistent.

But let's say there's no difference, and no difference in the prevalance of this behavior. Texting is still going to be far more deadly behind the wheel of a giant barge. In fact, the vehicle difference serves as a multiplier for the deadly outcomes of it.

Indeed, it seems like the honorable approach.

Yeah, I went to the page and wasted time looking for any reference to this.

Doubly douchey after not defining "AWDL."

Not only does that not have anything to do with texting, but it has nothing to do with the roads. That's about giant vehicles hitting people above the waistline. If you hit someone with a tall-ass truck in Portugal, I'm pretty sure he's going to fall over just like he would in the USA.

I didn't say otherwise...

Thanks. I'm familiar with the (cool) CinePi project, but haven't participated there.

Why non-Americans?

Is what?

Yep, and replete with inaccuracies.

"Before it, using a computer was synonymous with staring at the black MS-DOS screen. Want to play a game? You had to type annoying commands like cd C:\games\doom and pray the system wouldn't throw a conventional memory error."

Wrong, obviously, since Windows already existed. But then comes this odd statement:

"Windows 3.1, which came before, was just a shell on top of DOS. It was a messy pile of floating windows that easily got lost behind one another."

Also wrong. There wasn't anything fundamentally different about window management in 95. And Program Manager was a much better way to organize and access applications than the Start menu, which violated Microsoft's own guidelines for nested-menu depth.

The Start menu created a problem that has only gotten worse. Installers would create entire sub-menus by vendor name; so instead of looking for "TurboCAD," for example, you'd somehow be expected to look under "Imsi." Obnoxious.

For a while you could still put your applications into groups in the Start menu, if you knew where to go in the filesystem. So, get this, you could put your audio apps into one group, your dev tools in another, your graphics applications in another... INCREDIBLE, right? And some installers did the right thing and asked you where in the Start menu you wanted to app shortcut to be.

But today, organizing your apps is essentially impossible. Yeah, you can "pin" a limited number of them here and there, but still not in groups. The sad thing is that Apple has regressed on this too, with the deletion of Launchpad. Now you're wading through hundreds of applications.

I agree that Microsoft advanced the GUI more than anyone else in the '90s, but it has undone all of that and more by now. What a disaster the Windows UI is today.

Huh, thanks. I've traveled a decent amount and have never seen this. "We're all using" is a huge overstatement.

Thanks. Mainly I mean low-noise, so whatever sensor can provide that is what I'm after.

I really meant using the Pi's camera connector. I'll take "only" HD resolution over something higher any day if the payoff is better image quality.

Thanks. I should have specified "using the Pi's camera interface."

I find any conclusion that doesn't focus on TEXTING to be suspect.

By focusing on the wrong things (especially the endless caterwauling about "speeding"), people are letting legislators off the hook for abetting murder. Texting while driving should be a DUI-level offense, with the same penalties. But year after year, they refuse to do anything about it.

Is what?

Vizio was caught taking screen grabs and sending them to a server a few years ago.

No disrespect to the project here, of course, but I'm wondering why there's no truly high-quality camera for Pis. I have the so-called "high-quality camera" and it still blows. I use it to monitor my 3-D printer with OctoPi, and that's about what it's good for.

Is what?

So... it has a menu bar where it belongs: on the application's main frame. But yes, that'll be jarring for Mac users, who have suffered a single menu with split-personality disorder for far too long.

As for the common dialogs, I agree with you. There's no better example of why you should stick with common dialogs than the shitshow that is Microsoft Office. The file-save... thing is mind-bogglingly bad. It looks like a hastily-thrown-together debug screen. You have no idea what you're looking at. The fields are primitive, unnecessarily-huge box outlines. There's no treeview to show you where you're working in the filesystem. There's a big list of what, history? Why?

Garbage.

Nobody said it would be as cheap as solar. But "renewables" can't fulfill ALL power needs ALL the time.

When you actually need to generate electricity rather than gather it, what's better than nuclear?

I have been "permanently" banned for embarrassing some abusive moderators; now it has become a vendetta. I'm not sure how many user-identifying methods they attempt, but it overcomes VPN usage. I obfuscate my Web traffic now and it seems to have foiled these losers.