I knew it! He’s must be using vim. Mystery solved.

I’m pretty sure that’s a myth, but the analogy is still useful to get the concept across. It simultaneously amuses me and disappoints me that so many humans can be aware of this effect and still not recognise it happening to them, whilst the frogs aren’t actually that stupid and jump out of the water.

Yes, you’re absolutely correct! More AI would help keep Lemmy fun – and informative – and increase engagement. Would you like me to show you how to integrate your current service with Lemmy? Just type “Yes” and I’ll give you simple and easy to follow instructions.

For technical issues I’ve come to the conclusion that if there are no other people asking the same question, then I need to re-think my approach, because I’m probably doing something silly.

That’s even more infuriating than when you used Google to find a thread where someone asks the exact question you have, and there is only one response and it’s someone saying “use Google”.

If you tried to design something to intentionally hook cables it would still fail more than that happens. Infuriating.

That was part of its charm for me. Red Dwarf was the same; the lack of budget somehow made it funnier.

Especially in ML too. It’s currently easier to integrate multiple small specialised models than to train a big model for every use case. If I understand correctly, that was one of the main motivations for Anthropic developing the Model Context Protocol, including interacting with LLMs from front-end clients.

It makes sense to me that, since evolution is all about survival of the fittest, we have selfishness built-in. There are species that benefit from a collective collaboration, but if a few individuals in a colony abuse the colony’s nature they can win big.

I often wonder if the great filter is about a species shrugging off the selfish side of their survival instincts, and learning to trust in the strength of a colony.

The existence of billionaires suggests that we are not there yet. The good willed among us need to learn intolerance for the selfish to prosper long enough to break through the filter.

Hangovers never seem to last beyond a sip of coffee, or hearing important news.

Mythbusters covered this. They shot carcasses with .50 cals and they barely moved, despite being damaged.

People seem to be more attached to ideas they had themselves, rather than ones others tell them. I suspect it’s more successful to lead them to a conclusion they feel they came to on their own.

Surely all plants adapted to be on the outside, unless the dinosaurs had greenhouses.

I use NixOS and play games on it

I won’t use Ubuntu Desktop now, but I used it for 6 years: 16 to 22, and loved it for many reasons. I left it for two reasons:

1. Snaps
2. Trying to get bridged networking going for VMs in Boxes ended up wrecking my network settings and I couldn’t get them back to normal. With more expertise I could have probably fixed it, but I realised it’s too easy to do things that I can’t fix.

So, I went to NixOS for the declarative setup. It’s not always easy especially for niche cases , but at least I always have a working backup. Yes, there are other options, but I like NixOS so I plan to stick with it for now.

My kids use Bazzite and I like that too.

Totally works. When I started referring to things as “skibidi” it was suddenly dropped from my kids’ lexicon.

I like how you didn’t use a single word more than necessary to communicate the question.

Yeah, that’s true. Humans are born knowing nothing, learn from other humans, and are then capable of making something new. Like standing on the shoulders of giants. I wonder if ML/AI is capable of that yet, or does it purely regurgitate others’ work.

The most recent info I can find (2020) is that he’s using a Threadripper. I daresay he might have upgraded it by now, but it should give an idea what he goes after. There are a few links from reputable sources around that time, here’s one.

https://www.theregister.com/2020/05/24/linus_torvalds_adopts_amd_threadripper/