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[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

There are things you can't just "engineer around" in any meaningful sense. Unless we make a major fundamental discovery, the issues the article brings up are unsolvable.

I always wondered how anyone could just dismiss the fact that Mars would simply loose any artificially created atmosphere like it has before. What "invention" or "technology" could prevent that?

The planet is inhospitable for reasons that humans won't be able to change, at least not in the next millennium.

It might be as simple as a conflict-of-interest check. If a firm has a contract with the government, it can usually not take cases that would pit it against it. That is actually quite normal, these firms obviously didn't think that part through.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 4 days ago (2 children)

AGI = A guy instead

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Bazzite did it for me, never looked back.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 5 days ago

Thanks I hate it.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 5 days ago

Where some see psychosis, others see "engagement".

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 5 days ago (1 children)

When the memes are as devastating as the attack.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ich kann viele Dinge verstehen, auch wenn ich sie nicht gutheiße. Aber SPD-Wähler bleiben mir ein Rätsel.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The only realistic answer to the win11 situation. I chose bazzite because I like to game. It's a dream, I never looked back.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 42 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If regular school shootings were no reason to actually do something, why would regular deadly accidents with self driving systems be one? I'm always amazed by what Americans are willing to tolerate.

This works well as a joke about LLMs.

 

I did a very simple search for this year's holidays in my German state and whoo boy did it get a lot wrong! Left it's the ai slop, right are the correct answers. Obviously I've since disabled it completely to save the screen real estate.

 

If Valve really wanted to make a splash, they could release a desktop version of SteamOS in October, right when support for Windows 10 ends. For additional damage, they could bundle in Half-Life 3. Just imagine the coverage this would get.

 
 

It's a looong read, but very interesting if you are into input device choices.

 

Babe, wake up! Kensington has shown a new trackball design concept.

 

I stumbled across this man laying out the current situation with such clarity, I just had to share it.

 

I just canceled my Amazon Prime membership, something I was almost afraid of. Phew, it's nice to have that off my back.

I've been shopping less and less at Amazon anyway and barely used prime video, so I'll probably won't even notice the difference.

 
 

Some of the cupboard doors in our kitchen started to ever so slightly skew over the years. It's been bugging me for weeks, so today I finally took the time to realign them neatly. Took me about two minutes and now everything looks tidy again.

 

Results were favorable. The trackball provided a 60.1% increase in throughput over the standard controller for novice participants. More impressively, it was shown to provide a 58.7% increase in throughput for participants already adept with the use of a standard controller.

 

I've been rocking the Kensington Orbit wired for years now and I've yet to find a better trackball.

Reasons:

  • works for both hands
  • scroll ring
  • big ball
  • wired
  • works reliably

I use the trackball with my left hand and a mouse with my right.

It seems like such a cheaply made product, but it just works so very, very well.

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