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petra commented on Linux Instal Fest Belgrade dmz.rs/lif2025_en... · Posted by u/ubavic

petra · 18 days ago

On that same note,of reducing the barriers for Linux usage.

Would it be possible to create a Zorin OS USB drive that after inserting it into the USB drive of a laptop:

The user would get a running Linux, with the UX they know(win 10/11), with full speed and full capabilities - without installation ?

petra commented on The Nerd Reich – Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy simonandschuster.com/book... · Posted by u/brunohaid

Treegarden · a month ago

I don’t see how “tech” is limited to software. While your case might be made for software, according to many accounts Musk is a strong driver on the hardware side. For instance, I’ve read the Tesla and SpaceX books by Eric Berger, which are much more focused on technical things compared to the more mainstream books. And while Musk is not in the trenches with a screwdriver, he’s not faking it either.

To be honest, I’m actually interested in this hypothesis: is he legitimately skilled/knowledgeable, or is he indeed faking it? And for either side I would like to see evidence. This question is interesting to me because some of his companies have made substantial contributions to pushing the frontier of technology (reusable landing, high launch cadence, electric cars, energy).

If he is really faking it, that might even be good, because the success of his companies might be replicable and could continue without him. But what if he is not?

petra · a month ago

There was a podcast with Mark Andreesen, the VC, and he said that Elon has deep understanding and involvement in the technical side in his companies.

petra commented on Qualcomm to acquire Arduino qualcomm.com/news/release... · Posted by u/janjongboom

MountDoom · 3 months ago

The problem is that there just isn't a whole lot of money to be made in providing hobby hardware for enthusiasts. Every time a big player gets involved, they think they can change this. A decade ago, Intel tried that back in the day with Galileo / Edison, and tellingly, they came up with the same "ideas": IoT / AI.

If you're doing cheap IoT trinkets, you're never going to pay extra for a brand. You're going to buy the cheapest wifi / BT chipset out there and make do with that.

And if you're doing serious AI, you basically go for a real computer with real computing power, and in that segment, the Arduino brand means nothing.

I suspect there was an internal deck saying how this acquisition is going to give them foothold in the hobby community, but if they wanted that, there's a million better ways. Starting with making documentation, SDKs, and toolchains accessible and easy to use. There's a reason why you see Microchip, STM, RPi, and Espressif chips in every other DIY project.

petra · 3 months ago

I agree. The Arduino brand isn't for professionals.

But let's say tomorrow they come together with bundle/partnerships to create a new, great dev environment, very easy, that a mechanical engineer can prototype a great robot for a niche use case,and continue to use that chip and code, with some changes in V1 production ?

Is there value to the Arduino brand and community than ?

petra commented on 400M PCs cannot upgrade to Windows 11 theregister.com/2025/09/1... · Posted by u/random_username

baobun · 3 months ago

Year of the Linux desktop opportunity!

petra · 3 months ago

Zorin OS is very similar to windows, regular users just use it, without learning anything new.

But still, marketing this must be brutal.

petra commented on Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness yro.slashdot.org/comments... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute

somenameforme · 4 months ago

Tangential, but you don't need anywhere near millions to have a 'world-touring adventure'. The nice thing about the ability to earn money online now a days is that the cost of living in the overwhelming majority of the world is a small fraction of what you pay in the US/EU.

And the ability to speak English natively is already in high demand throughout most the world, meaning if you ever get tired of online work and want some people time, you can have a job in like 5 minutes, particularly if you look decent and have a college degree.

Making that jump is obviously scary, but I think many people could find much greater contentedness (not a fan of seeking "happiness", as it's something that I think should be seen as liminal, not a desired constant state) if they only realized that the world is their oyster.

petra · 4 months ago

//And the ability to speak English natively is already in high demand throughout most the world, meaning if you ever get tired of online work and want some people time, you can have a job in like 5 minutes, particularly if you look decent and have a college degree.

What typed of jobs is this referring to, besides teaching English ?

petra commented on LLM Inevitabilism tomrenner.com/posts/llm-i... · Posted by u/SwoopsFromAbove

mettamage · 5 months ago

> everyone can code!

I work directly with marketers and even if you give them something like n8n, they find it hard to be precise. Programming teaches you a "precise mindset" that one doesn't have when they aren't really thinking about tech professionally.

I wonder if seasoned UX designers can code now. They do think professionally about software. I wonder if it's at a deep enough granularity such that they can simply use natural language to get something to work.

petra · 5 months ago

Can an LLM detect a lack of precision and point it to you ?

petra commented on IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites haaretz.com/israel-news/2... · Posted by u/ahmetcadirci25

StochasticLi · 6 months ago

What do you think is a proper solution? 30% being pro genocide is insane.

petra · 6 months ago

A proper solution ?

I have ideas, but their value is mostly in making me sound smart.

In reality I don't have realistic, implementable ideas on how to get out of this mess. Just wishes.

petra commented on Everything around LLMs is still magical and wishful thinking dmitriid.com/everything-a... · Posted by u/troupo

m4rtink · 6 months ago

Does anyone actually know what the real cost for the customers will be once the free AI money no longer floods those companies?

petra · 6 months ago

There's a potential for 100x+ lower cost of chips/energy for inference with compute-in-memory technology.

So they'll probably find a reasonable cost/value ratio.

petra commented on Schizophrenia is the price we pay for minds poised near the edge of a cliff psychiatrymargins.com/p/s... · Posted by u/Anon84

Throwaway42754 · 6 months ago

I have schizoaffective disorder, induced by a bad trip from marijuana. It was like the 3rd time I had tried weed, and I naively took too much.

For me psychosis feels like pattern matching going on extreme overdrive, while at the same time memory goes to shit. It's truly an awful illness, and what's worse is that the current medical treatments are bad. I've been fortunate enough where I can get by on a low dose olanzapine, but for many people they simply don't work at all.

Even though I'm doing well enough to function normally and hold down a good, well paying job, it's impossible to find a partner. If I were to have kids, I would have to go through one of the embryo prescreening services. I am strongly in support of these screening services - the disease is truly horrible.

There has been little progress on treatments for schizophrenia, the mechanism of action of these drugs has remained the same for decades. The side effects are almost as bad as the disease, which is why so many schizophrenic stop taking them. The only novel medication recently released is Cobenfy, which I have not tried yet.

Personally I am holding out hope that schizophrenia has some basis as an autoimmune disease. There was a cancer patient who had a bone marrow transplant and ended up being cured: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/opinion/sunday/schizophre...

petra · 6 months ago

Interesting link, thank you!.

One other possible immune system link is the relationahip between the parasite toximoplasis gondii to schizophrenia.

If I'm not mistaken that's the paper about that:

https://dbc.wroc.pl/Content/39095/PDF/1031.pdf