slicktux

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Comment · 3 days ago
Agreed, being a n00b in the open source & hacker community I recall asking half assed question on forums and IRC and would get the infamous RTFM.

I detested it but quickly realized that I needed to put in work and learn and only when I understand can I ask valid questions to real problems…not just asking for someone to spoon feed me an answer.

I really appreciate that experience…

Comment · 6 days ago
What a thorough breakdown! Must be fun working at IFixIt!
Comment · 21 days ago
Prion disease is one of the scariest things I’ve learned about. I’m always careful not to eat meats from shady establishments.
Comment · 26 days ago
Well, the soldering is more for benefiting unified memory. The high speeds require soldered RAM unfortunately.
Comment · 1 month ago
Was this status indicator simple vertical bars that were black and white and displayed on an old CRT Monitor? Almost looks like black and white terminal vertical bars (like Alsamixer)?
Comment · 1 month ago
That looks like a completely new car with the sub model being Corolla… it looks nothing like the Corolla of today and past..
Comment · 1 month ago
There are chemical reactions that LLMs lack because they do NOT have a biology. They are just mathematical weights. Now, let’s say we can truly make sentient AI in the future but it does not have the biology that we do. Then it would just be a totally literal, emotion lacking, sentient machine. But then what is sentience? Dogs are sentient to a certain extent and so are dolphins…
Comment · 1 month ago
When I use a urinal I do not aim directly on front but instead to the curved lower part. That helps guide my urine down; virtually eliminating all splash back!
Comment · 1 month ago
Why are we putting so much weight (no pun intended) on AI companies. At the end of the day the scaled up LLM transformers lack emotion and will… They do as they are told; or more correctly put. They do as they are programmed to do so.
Comment · 2 months ago
We do have regulation on food and safety and the recall is because of those parameters.
Comment · 2 months ago
I believe a similar thing happened with fast food and food delivery fees. It costs money to be listed on the food delivery app so fast food chains started charging everyone the same price to offset the cost of being listed on the apps.
Comment · 2 months ago
There’s many theories but one that I learned was that women and children provides the bulk of the calories for Early Humans. While the men went out and hunted for meat they also relied on the fruit harvested by the women and children. That would give them the energy necessary for trekking and hunting.
Comment · 2 months ago
I recall back in 2016 when the debt was $19 trillion dollars. Here we are 10 years later at double that. “we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt… place economy among the first and most important republican virtues” -Thomas Jefferson
Comment · 2 months ago
That’s a rather splenetic response. On paper their contractor requires them to run an Amazon route and wear Amazon logo. Therefore, it’s not Amazon. I’m asking honest question that any court law will ask; cynicism is not part of the scales in court but rather objectivity.
Comment · 2 months ago
Honest question; it’s not Amazon that requires them to wear an Amazon vest but rather their contractor. Amazon may set the route but they don’t pay them to run the route. This should be interesting from a legal perspective.

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