With Wayland there was time to work on a lot of the kinks before everyone started seriously switching.

Not if you were using Ubuntu in 2017 when they switched to Weston as the default display server for 17.10 and lots of people suffered a great deal from how half-baked the project was at the time. For me personally, the 17.10 upgrade failed to start the display server and I ended up reinstalling completely, then in 18.04 they set the default back to XOrg and that upgrade also failed for me, resulting in another reinstall.

I have no doubt that this single decision was responsible for a large amount of the Wayland scepticism that followed.

You would need an equal and opposite angular momentum at the back of the chainsaw otherwise it will just rotate upwards and loop around in circles.

Do you have another news source that’s not a tabloid shitrag? Thanks.

I had never heard of this company. Apparently they make the Arc Browser.

I wouldn’t trust a browser company that forces you to create an account to use the browser.

macOS Security page: https://support.apple.com/en-us/121753

iOS Security page: https://support.apple.com/en-us/121752

TLDR: update to macOS 15.1.1 and to iOS 18.1.1 (or iOS 17.7.2)

They studied 52 doctors responses to standardized (read publicly available online) cases written in front of them.
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Then they ran 3 trials solely with LLM and find that these were significantly better.

How do they know that the answers to the “standardized” publically available case studies were not in the training data of the LLM? Isn’t it extremely likely that they were?

Yes, I use a uBlock Origin filter that looks like this:

lemmy.ml##div.mt-2.post-listing:has(.d-sm-block.d-none>.post-container.row>.flex-grow-1.col>.row>.flex-grow-1.col>.post-title:has-text(/trump|elon|musk|biden|kamala/i))

You’ll need to modify the domain at the start (replace lemmy.ml with your instance hostname) and then change the keywords at the end with whatever keywords you want to exclude.

To use it:

• click the uBO icon and then the gear (settings) icon
• click on the My Filters tab
• make sure that “Enable My Custom Filters” is checked
• paste the filter into the text area below
• press the “Apply Changes” button

Love this one

You know that there are at least several people in the world who are not Americans, right?

• https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/11/i-prefer-to-meet-people-where-they-are-says-reasonable-sounding-white-dude-holding-court-at-a-table-in-the-back-of-a-nazi-bar/

bluesky is bad and mastodon is the only way forward

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This is so much better than a remake or remaster.

id Software led the way, decades ago, making Doom and then Quake engines open source. I wish more studios would donate their old software to the public domain.

Fingers crossed one day we will get Unreal source code. I wonder if it even still exists.

In-memory computing is a new way of computing that aims to solve the memory latency problem. As the name suggests, in-memory computing enables the system memory to do some calculations the CPU would do otherwise, cutting down the amount of data that must be transferred between the CPU and DRAM.

Samsung and TSMC are actively working on memory capable of doing this, featuring MRAM memory cells. In-memory computing is still in the prototype phase, but progress is being made on the hardware side to make it a viable technology. With the help of conversion layers like PyPIM, software should be developed to support this computing method.

https://deflock.me/

I was imagining that they were going to acquire a large dataset of DNA sequences paired with photos of the patient and then train a neural network to predict one from the other. I don’t think that would be particularly successful either (you would need a tremendous amount of data and DNA sequencing is expensive), but it would be interesting to see the results.

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Thanks for the clarification. The point remains that it’s not true to say that LLMs have “provided Level 4 self-driving and … general-purpose robots.”

Current LLMs can still do a lot. They’ve provided Level 4 self-driving, and seem to be leading to general-purpose robots capable of much useful work.

Really? I don’t think this has anything to do with LLMs. They are likely using reinforcement learning combined with traditional AI techniques, an approach which has been the foundation of these kinds of robotics and automation for decades at this point.

If other areas of AI and automation have seen a boost at the same time as LLMs came on the scene, it’s because the underlying hardware has become so much faster, cheaper and easily available, along with the massively increased interest in and funding for these types of research, and computer scientists re-skilling into a discipline that’s in the midst of a bubble.

the lawsuit accuses Keighin of streaming leaked Switch games, including this month’s Mario & Luigi: Brothership, ahead of release using emulation software as many as 50 times in the last two years. Nintendo is seeking $150,000 in damages for each instance of alleged copyright infringement.

Hilarious that the screenshot Kotaku use in the article is his social media post with his recommendations of what sites to download the games from.