A long time ago, people were selling books to tell you how to win national lotteries. I wonder how many they actually sold, and how many of the buyers thought about the fact that someone selling this kind of book while not being super rich was weird.

Roughly. It’s slightly offset later than that because I start late, though. Official work week here is 35h, which is usually more like 38h (with extra time provided as extra leave days).

No, not really. The closest I’d have gotten to that is waiting in line for a movie, for which I had a reservation already. Anything you might want to camp out for will likely be available like, a week or a month later.

Man in a gimp suit holding his leash: “woof”

And even if you know them, once you reach a certain amount of money you won’t care anymore about the serfs.

Advising people to have safe backup of their work is not being a shill for anyone, it’s basic common sense.

It’s not an idol, it’s just a gold-looking representation of something a large group of people fervently honor and pray to, and according to their own chit-chat, hold in higher respect than jesus or god. And nothing more.

Lot’s of circlejerking online. I have no doubt that some people have issues while having an nvidia card, and I also have no doubt that in some cases the driver might be to blame.

But unless you fiddle things, go out of your way to “optimize things” by following some random posts or something like that, most common distros handles nvidia drivers properly. The same usual disclaimers applies though; being “bleeding edge” means you’ll cut yourself, and all that.

For people that just install a system (and I mean something well known to work, not “the latest craze you absolutely have to replace everything with”, it’s fine. They (nvidia) even ironed out most of wayland issues for a while now. There are still some minor lingering issues, but nothing most average users will notice.

Sure, just let me put that fully operational graphic card that can run games fine in the trashcan, shell out another thousand dollar or so on a new card for absolutely no other reason than to appease the internet crowd. It’s so easy, why isn’t everyone doing it.

Yeah, it’s illegal, but the premises where a bit murky too, so it cancels out.

If there’s a company policy against, who knows, sending any company’s IP to a random third party known for shitting on both license terms and their own ToS, having your work marked like this is a big red flag. And since it “accidentally” happened to everyone, either you dismiss all the suspected bogus entries and let the rats in, or you have to carefully review everything.

It’s big trouble either way.

Meanwhile, there’s strong evidence… well, facts, at this point, that taxpayers’ money is fueling a silly war for ego, possibly funding a gigantic ballroom, personal enrichment of high-profile in the administration. I wonder why they’re not complaining about that.

no one is jumping to Vim

I’m seriously thinking about going back to VIM. At this point the only thing holding me back is that I like the file tree view of GUI tools. It’s not much.

I looked into “lightweight” alternative, but their PR and “features” make them seems almost worst than vscode. Zed in particular; people praise it for being “simple”, but the biggest upside seems to be “GPU accelerated” and “not as sluggish as vscode” which, ok, I guess, but I don’t think an IDE needs to be GPU accelerated and vscode don’t feel sluggish at all even on my modest first gen NUC so…

While I understand the sentiment, this have nothing to do with vscode, which you can perfectly use on Linux and with whatever cvs you want.

Article talk about pushing a large model on people’s computer. You minimize this by going about McDonalds, Shell, BP. Do you even know what “whataboutism” mean? Your first sentence is “what about McDonald, Shell, BP”.

Oh, some whataboutism. Great.

Also great to know you don’t have to pay to get storage in your devices, otherwise you’d be quite unhappy to see it taken out of your control for no feature (Chrome still relies on cloud services for most AI features).

The AI model we’re talking about here is not used for most of the AI features, which instead relies on cloud services. Those 4GB are there only for a fringe feature most people don’t know/don’t care about, hidden behind hoops you’ll have to jump through to get.

You had to rewind VHS. Then VHS got replaced by DVD, but unfortunately most early DVD players did not have a rewind function, thus this device.

I had an appendicitis go undiagnosed for a few days (partly because of bad emergency care, partly because I keep waiting forever before seeing a doctor). Turned into peritonitis, as it does. Decision to operate was instantaneous; I didn’t even go back to the emergency “landing area” after the radiography, but straight to showering before the operating room. Then, had to spent a week in the hospital, including four days of full-blown crazyness-inducing fever, three different kinds of painkillers (btw I’m allergic to three derivatives of morphine… found out the fun way).

It all cost me something around 8€ in the end. That would have been around… $8 at the time. Not to mention, I had no issue at my job back then because we have sick leave too.

At no point in any of this have I considered “but can I avoid going to the doctor” or “I should leave the hospital as soon as possible”, or “I have to work during this week of madness”. I just got better, and got back on track.

That was France, btw.

If they start looking into your stuff for any reason, and suspect that a user connected to your site through a VPN, you’re in.

It doesn’t have to be true to begin with. And it doesn’t have to be enforced at scale, only when needed.