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I've been doing a bit of research, and mailbox.org looks like a winner. It's in Europe and it supports IMAP. Those are pretty much my main requirements, I think.

I can imagine people are quickly looking for an alternative now. I wouldn't want to hear this from any company I'm a customer of.

I am astonished how someone could write something so despicable. Well, not entirely astonished; I've seen the works of many internet trolls and usenet flamewars, and this fits right in. But for an official organisation like the FBI to stoop to this, well, J Edgar Hoover, I guess.

Is it? I've heard of people getting good results with PLA and a 0.2mm nozzle. I don't doubt resin is better, but PLA seems to be acceptable to a lot of people. And it's far safer and cheaper.

It's weird to standardise on summer time instead of standard time. It moves you one timezone to the east. And in western Europe, a lot of countries are already on central European time. Permanent summertime would put them on eastern European time, same as Kyiv. In winter the sun wouldn't come up until 9:30.

I've had a Thinkpad with a touch screen and I loved it. Sometimes touching something on the screen is a lot faster than grabbing the mouse, moving the cursor, and then clicking.

Although it's a lot more useful on laptops that can fold into a tablet, which neither MacBooks nor my Thinkpad can do.

I've been doing a lot with graphs over the past couple of years. Basically since I started using neo4j, although not everything involves neo4j directly. I've developed a number of really interesting graph algorithms, but I'm always a bit disappointed by how little use I get out of my graph theory knowledge. I've never needed a Hamilton path or do something with the degrees of my vertices. It's all just logic and intuition.

But maybe I should read this to see if there's anything that applies to my current work.

It's not that the Luddites didn't understand the technology, they objected to people getting fired to replace them with technology. Technology being used to create more unemployment.

So in a way, AI is the perfect tool for them.

Are transformers better at all use cases? Or only a specific subset? This sounds like a classification problem to me, which neural networks have always been pretty good at.

Hardly surprising that models specialised at language aren't as good at a highly specialist task as a model trained specifically at that task, isn't it?

I know some people want to believe that LLMs are good at everything, but they're not. They're good at language.

They're selling the shovels to the gold miners.

Wasn't a train line in California cancelled because Musk's Hyperloop was going to do it? What ever happened to that?

My impression so far is that hyperloop is simply a scam.