Only a casual user of Linux desktop computing but my experience with ui stability seems to have gotten much worse after switching to Wayland.
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viknesh commented on Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/rbanffy
I went and enjoyed it a lot. The variety of the exhibitions was great (personally I loved the watercolor pen plotter) and the age of the exhibitors - both very young and old, was delightful.
viknesh commented on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges tomshardware.com/peripher... · Posted by u/m463
I had a brother for 12 years. It finally died.
It took about 5 minutes to see that I would not be replacing it with another.
Canon for now.
Just replaced a 17 year old Brother with a new one. Seems to work just as well, although I've always been using first party cartridges.
> [...] when it was released did not exist in the same data hellscape we do today [...]
That was fairly obvious at the time. And people used more or less exactly the same language to describe the world back then, too.
> These kinds of comments are extraordinarily disingenuous sounding, particularly when anyone can spend 3 seconds and figure out their primary market is literal children.
Poke Mongo was popular with people of all age groups, and (most) children have parents or other guardians to help them with these decisions.
I believe Google explicitly stated that they used data collected from Ingress (arguably a predecessor to Pokemon Go) at the time. It's the reason Niantic was founded. It's hard to take these complaints seriously.
Complying is easy, doing it economically is another thing.
Sounds like a great opportunity for a startup to fix!
In the country I live, there is a standard AML/KYC service that allows customers (banks, utilities) to easily perform ID verification in a few minutes.
viknesh commented on Google Gemini tried to kill me old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/... · Posted by u/MBCook
I am extremely skeptical of this Gemini response, and it might be just some redditor farming upvotes.
First, literally 100% of the blog posts, reddit replies, recipe books, and so on, will always list botulism as a potential danger of canning just about anything, but especially the common "garlic infused oil" (just do a Google search). It's unlikely that the model decided to trim/ignore this dangerous caveat (again, found in basically every corpus mentioning garlic infused oil). Maybe the LLM would've mangled the (very important) step of roasting the garlic to dehydrate it, but I very much doubt the health disclaimer would've been omitted.
Second, note that there's no actual conversation link, just a screenshot, adding to my skepticism. Is the screenshot doctored? Who knows. Sure got a lot of attention.
Third, in my experience, LLMs tend to be overly cautious, and not the opposite. I remember a few months ago where getting ChatGPT to teach you "unsafe rust" had a disclaimer if you told the language model you were under 18. Maybe if it was something more obscure, I'd believe the poster, but botulism and long-term storage/canning go hand-in-hand. Like raw eggs and salmonella[1].
It's possible it's fake, but you can type in the exact same prompt into Gemini and get very similar results.
2/3 generated drafts include a "safety" disclaimer about botulism, but 1 doesn't.
What's interesting is thinking about what (if any) parallels of "PFOS" exist in the tech industry - collective delusions of products that aren't harmful. I would vote for most social media apps, maybe?
The article does a good job of addressing the nuance, but the headline and most attention grabbing parts of it don't.
Most of the new housing built may have been illegal under previous parking rules, but it doesn't logically follow that similar housing couldn't have been built without the parking rules change, just that it's cheaper to build without it.
The article/quotes acknowledge this,
> “It’s impossible, really, to tie a specific code change to changes in the market,” explained Brennan Staley, a strategic advisor for Seattle’s Office of Planning and Community Development. Other local regulations, housing prices, and international finance markets all play a part in the real estate market. Michael Hubner, who works on long range planning in Seattle, agreed: “It’s very difficult to point to a causal relationship.”
and also note that off street parking is still present in the majority of new housing
> In both cities, the majority of new buildings still included off-street parking voluntarily
viknesh commented on Japan's Space One rocket explodes seconds after liftoff twitter.com/BNONews/statu... · Posted by u/anigbrowl
Given that the rocket blew up more or less at launch, it should be full of unspent fuel. How does one put out that fire? I'm guessing there's a lot of energy stored there, so letting it burn through doesn't seem wise.
viknesh commented on The two cultures of mathematics and biology (2014) liorpachter.wordpress.com... · Posted by u/xingyzt
Also I do wonder sometimes whether mathematicians don't actually understand some of the maths they work on
We don’t. One of the first steps to mathematical maturity is learning to let go of the need to understand, the need to visualize. Much of mathematics is a formal affair of making arguments to satisfy necessary and sufficient conditions. Trying to understand infinite-dimensional spaces or highly abstract sets and objects is too much, and unnecessary.
”Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.”
— John von Neumann
I would disagree. Mathematicians certainly don't need to visualize everything but "intuition" is a commonly used phrase which is a notion of understanding.
Although math merely requires proving some statement, often having an intuition / understanding of how concepts interact with each other helps figure out which things are likely to be true.