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Have you tried Bazzite or Aurora? A well-made and full-featured atomic distro is basically as easy to use and as reliable as ChromeOS, but with most of the flexibility that Linux o…

Do readability and maintainability not matter when AI "reads" and maintains the code? I'm pretty sure they do.

When Nadella took over from Ballmer, he steered Microsoft in a better direction for a while. But by now he's become a lot worse. The biggest software company can no longer produce …

"I'm going to go with Fedora on my tower and Bazzite (or SteamOS) on my handhelds." Why not Bazzite on both? Bazzite is a fantastic desktop OS! Easier to use than naked Fedora and …

Seriously, one random website getting less traffic means "Google is dead"? I imagine if you hit your toe, you call it "end of the world"? This sort of posts should be illegal. Flag…

FWIW, I once complained about this and they told me it's a "hard problem".

Linux has made an insane amount of progress in recent years. Atomic distros like Bazzite and Aurora are so polished, modern, easy to use, and virtually unbreakable. Even most Windo…

Bazzite is an insanely awesome distro! I used Ubuntu for 8 years constantly fixing issues, from the day I installed it (because it didn't support basic Ryzen), after every distro u…

"I'm leaving you for a new context window."

Yes, exactly. AI has its uses and can sometimes be extremely useful. But at this point it's not nearly as ubiquitously useful as various companies would want us to believe, based o…

"Hop on a call" is also tone-deaf.

You know you can sell and replace your phone if you don't like it. Recent Pixels have 7 years of support and they don't die. That's what I'd recommend you get instead. You can even…

Because human work is designed for humans. If you want a drop-in replacement for human workers, humanoid robots are your best bet.

Wow, I don't understand what anything means in those memes. And I'm so glad I don't! It seems to me that the people/committees who built C++ just spent decades inventing new and cr…

Being able to cut 90% of code sounds like someone was getting paid by LoC (which is also a practice from a time when C++ was considered a "modern" language).

Dude, that is so weird!

Linus is not your boss in the sense that he pays you and can tell you what you do day o day, but he is your "boss" in the sense that he's the one who ultimately approves your work …

I was there. They had no idea. The purpose and expectation of the transformer architecture was to enable better translation at scale and without recurrence. This in itself would ha…

Illusion doesn't imply it's unnecessary. Humans (and animals) had a much higher probability of survival as individuals and as species if their experiences felt more "real and perso…

Introspection is just a debugger (and not a very good one).

As a physics layman I sometimes watched Sabine's show and found it interesting. The one where she defended Weinstein was the one where she lost all credibility to me and I stopped …

You should tell them.

Firefox has been my browser since its first beta 20-something years ago, and I don't see anything replacing it. It has by far the best addons and tab management. Chrome, after all …

That seems fair and accurate. I guess disagreement about this question often stems from what we mean by "human", even more than what we mean by "intelligence". There are at least 3…

There's a lot of moving the goal posts here. What would it mean for an AI to be considered "intelligent"? At various points it meant different things (chess, jeopardy, go, human la…