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Congrats Adobe, you lost? (guess it depends on the pov, although I do think overall it's primarily a loss when a product is such a pain in the arse that ppl can't even be arsed to pirate it)

Can vouch for Audacious, clean straight-forward UI and neat plugin functionality if needed (along with equaliser functionality which is what originally got me on board). Bit of a heavy feel from QT backend though so I might try out DeaDBeeF..!

I'm aboard for sure!

I am in the exact opposite boat - AI is significantly improving my programming flow and having to use VSCode (well, VSCodium in my case) rather than something lightweight like Sublime is suboptimal - I would love a good plugin for LLM integration ala Cody and frankly that's the only way I could see myself as a paying customer.

Could you elaborate on these tendrils (?) - I haven't looked at the Romanian situation from that vantage point.

Eloquent truth pointer right there! ;)

It always amazes me that this is possible (to some extend anyway, I mean, the base layer is binary so obviously simpler higher-end CPU instructions are possible!)

Is there any potential performance win in this? What I mean is; since this general direction could, in principle if not in practise, enable the targeting of say, the 5-10 most efficient CPU instructions rather than attempting to use the whole surface area... would this potentially be a win?

> I love the EU but it certainly has its idiosyncrasies.

That is an acceptable position and you will likely nor require further investigation as long as the criticism remains vague and is offset by positive sentiment. I too love the EU.

Agree with this take. Additionally it brings geopolitical stability by not putting the onus on just one-to-two countries (Taiwan, US) to produce the majority of the worlds info-tech infrastructure. A 16nm process is still very very modern in the grander scope of things.

Be interesting to see if there's integration with research environments within the EU.. otherwise it could fizzle in terms of it's true potential positive impact.

Indeed, Apple* seem to be one of the only companies with the long term vision to integrate vertically and improve industry as a result. The short term pennies-on-the-dollar of outsourcing is just brain-dead and non-innovative.

*this is an observation from someone who has never bought a new apple product due to their increasingly closed eco-system

Super neat re Willison article.. would something like this work under powershell though?!

Any indication of what frequencies are at play here? A regular ultrasound baby monitor is set at either 3Mhz or 2Mhz scan frequency and those have already been shown to induce stimulating effect when used on the head/brain afaicr.

Are there any Godot FAQs or documentation with "blessed" paths for the various mainstay gamedev needs?!

"In Christianity life is about suffering. You're basically earning heaven points." I think you're conflating WoW with other people's faith somehow. YMMV

Boarded according to: https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1859132263746744367

This story sure has done the rounds. I like it both in the particular and thematically speaking so perhaps there's a good non-tragic variation* on it out there to be found..?

"and I fear more wall building." - more wall building was instigated under Biden, this is practical reality rearing it's head not the political left/right.

*https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67015137

Yes, exactly this. Shutting down faith based by replacing it with another faith does not even satisfy basic "rational-lens" observation.

We are dealing with something that needs our attention (i.e. the origin and meaning of existence) not something that needs to be shut down by what is essentially even more religious (than religion itself!) behaviour. We have come a long way since Galileo and few, if any, of the major religions are themselves "anti-science" at this point so it's almost humorous that now is the time that science starts becoming faith based when it should by all means stick to Karl Poppers fundamental falsification thesis.

Thanks for sharing your experience.. I do find that it's a lot of negativity expressed against Christians supposed lack of intellectual curiosity though. Especially given that this is off the back of a fairly* well written article concerning the origin of the gospels.

My own experience is completely opposite in that I grew up in a completely secular atheist environment and found it direly lacking in spiritual and philosophical enquiry and have later in life found faith. The type of Christianity I'm exposed to (ranging all the way from the Jesuit Teilhard de Chardin to modern day Baptism) is, and has been, a fresh breath of life for me and has lend me far more zest for science and life in general than atheism ever did. The caveat here is of course that I never attended a faith based university - I may well have ended up writing a very different comment!

*actually feel it's got a touch of GPT here and there..!

Been following this via proxy, i.e. Sabine Hossenfelder, for a few years. The charges are very solid afaict.

OK, so since I've never actually bothered to look at what LINQ actually is.. there may be others in the same boat: "LINQ allows you to query any enumerable collections such as List<T>, Array, or Dictionary<TKey,TValue>.". Got to admit I still find the LINQ to DB passtru rather opaque even after reading up on it: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30716776/passing-a-query...

Basically allowing for a uniform way to query data which is reminiscent of a more modern version of SQL (in my optics anyway). Does anything library wise come close to this within the Golang ecosystem?

Genuinely find XFCE the only pragmatic option when it comes to "no-fiddling-just-working-and-lightweight" WMs in Linux/BSD land - it's basically like a better Windows 2000 UI with sane defaults throughout. Thanks so much to the devs involved in keeping XFCE up to date. This is major good news.

Welcome to the sqlite project being on top of things as always: https://sqlite.org/cksumvfs.html

Good catch, I think there are many applications that would enjoy a "error-correction-enabled" flag. It would never be the default due to the slowdown likely incurred but depending on the criticality of the data (vs speed consideration) it may well be massive win in a number of scenarios.

Absolutely. Thanks for the highlighting! Edit: It's a two-in-one good news afaiac: China withdrawing funding(/influence) and some sort of accountability applied to mega projects rather than just throwing (and eventually devaluing) more and more money at things.

Very good to hear about upskilling taking place but also immensely sobering numbers (i.e. 1300 apprentices is seen a big uplift) for a country the size of the UK.

Does any of the model-runners support this? Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp?

LibreWolf is my only installed edition of Firefox, similar to Brave in place of Chrome.

I tend to agree here, judiciously used json (these days often running under zstd compression) is seldomly the bottleneck on anything and allows immediate human debugging if need be.

Thanks for the clarification. Still a rather horrifying effect for me given that I was trying to take in the content of the article and not the latency-ridden odd movements of other people's cursors, am I missing something (more!) here in terms of the why?