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flibbityflob··on Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings
How will a machine ever replace his famous warmth or empathy?
flibbityflob··on Great at gaming? US air traffic control wants you to apply
Have they tried paying them consistently?
flibbityflob··on Is OpenSUSE at Crossroads?
“Linux distros are dying!!!”

“The young people are <slur>!!!”

Literally in the same thought. It’s almost impressive.

flibbityflob··on Americans Are Skipping Doctor Visits Due to Costs
Water gets wetter.
flibbityflob··on I fixed a parasitic drain on my car in 408 days
As an example, my 2017 Corolla runs the fuel pump for a while 5 hours after shutdown to test fuel system pressurization. I didn’t even know until I recently started parking it inside and I finally heard it running.
flibbityflob··on Surveillance Footage of Tesla Crash on SF’s Bay Bridge
I think if the Tesla had been avoiding a hazard, there would be a lot more gray area for FSD to hide in. It’s true that sudden braking and swerving is sometimes the least-bad thing for a driver to do, but if a human driver showed a pattern of repeatedly performing that maneuver for no reason, at some point a reasonable person would have to conclude that that driver is at least partly at fault for the inevitable crash that happens.
flibbityflob··on Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup
Microsoft has a(t least one) Linux Distro: CBL-Mariner [1]. Not a desktop offering, obviously, but I felt like it was worth pointing out.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner

flibbityflob··on ONiO.zero offers a RISC-V Microcontroller that runs without battery
The article is probably describing RISC-V as growing in popularity, not number of instructions.

The distinction between "reduced" (RISC) and "complex" (CISC) is more philosophical than "number of instructions."

Even as the RISC-V specification gains new instructions, the modular design of the architecture is specifically designed to allow implementations to pare down to just the subset they need.