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Pantoffel ,

Let’s see how well this quote ages as subscription services become ubiquitous.

Pantoffel ,

It’s a management decision. Even if the responsible developer left, the next in line would take up the job. We work for a living and there is little choice in ethical companies you can join for adequate pay.

Pantoffel ,

It does matter in terms of ease of use. Some have apps, some don’t. A non-linux-native might have difficulties with the latter.

Pantoffel ,

Sir, what are you looking at? Are you even listening?

Pantoffel ,

Be it as it may, it’s kinda sad that it is how you say. “Go out and fight against other humans to get yourself out of poverty”.

Pantoffel ,

Oh, it is if they are using a dump integration of LLM in their Chatbot that is given more or less free reign. Lots of companies do that, unfortunately.

Pantoffel ,

This is awesome, thanks!

Pantoffel ,

We could just install some heat pumps in hell and transport the energy via flux pipeline to the overworld.

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All

Pantoffel ,

B bu but wh what are you n now?

Pantoffel ,

I would go this route as well. As a developer this sounds easy enough. It you don’t get vertical sequences of images, but instead a grid of images, then I would apply traditional image stitching techniques. There are tons of libraries for that on github.

Pantoffel ,

Arr, me heart be green with envy, it be!

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says empathy isn't a soft skill — it's actually 'the hardest skill we learn' (www.businessinsider.com)

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says empathy isn’t a soft skill — it’s actually ‘the hardest skill we learn’::Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talked about the importance of empathy as a skill in the business world while accepting the Axel Springer Award in Berlin.

Pantoffel ,

All of them at once while saying the words.

Pantoffel ,

Tbh, I’m always ending up having issues using poetry and conda. I prefer using penv and pip.

Pantoffel ,

I like the pyproject.yaml, but checking dependencies with poetry takes 5 to 10 minutes for my projects.

Pantoffel ,

It actually is almost as instant as you would expect

Pantoffel ,

Yup. A container i slow to rebuild, but at least the most robust. This is my preferred way to share python code when there are system dependencies involved.

Pantoffel ,

There are really only two search engines. Its either Google or Bing. The others exist, but they use Google’s and/or Bing’s search results.

Pantoffel ,

Thanks, I didn’t know!

Pantoffel ,

As a German, I think I would. Given that it is good and just.

Pantoffel ,

I would argue that Germany is not a socialist country. Politics are targeted at the already wealthy and cooperations.

I’m not versed enough in politics and history to give detailed examples. I’m just a normal guy. However, I’m currently listening to the Jung & Naiv podcast on Spotify.

In episode 661 they discuss the development of the housing sector since the 1950s and very little in the 18th century. The important information is that the housing sector grew from being socialist to being a housing market.

I think they mention that in the 50s there existed a “Kostenmiete” (Cost-rent). That would only be allowed by law to be as high as it needed to be to cover the costs for building the house/flat. The owners were not allowed to make profit exceeding 3.5%. Any profit had to be put into housing again to keep the housing sector growing. Around that time the state was heavily supporting housing unions and other groups (not cooperations) to build housing. The state itself built 500.000 !!! appartments a year. Last year the interview says they built 6 appartments. Six, in case you thought you read a typo.

¯_(ツ)_/¯ At least in the housing market we are not socialist anymore and it becomes worse every year. Education becomes worse every year. The medical sector becomes worse every year. Public transport becomes worse every year. Loans do not keep up with inflation. Everything becomes more expensive.

Yes, we are better off than many. But are we not just richer slaves with more benefits than others? The interview says that there exist studies that estimate 11 million households to qualify for social housing. In some cities that is 60% of their population. 60% quality for social housing. Are we alright?

Pantoffel ,

I don’t understand the math behind the UPS raises. I can’t believe it is as much as my math tells me.

$30 bln / 340.000 workers ≈ $88.000 per worker per year.

Am I missing something or is this actually correct?

Pantoffel ,

Thanks

Pantoffel ,

I used to like going out in summer mid-day. Now I usually prefer to stay indoors. It’s only the few morning hours when I can stand the temperature. But 30°C at 65% air moisture und no shade or water to bathe to be found… No thank you.

Pantoffel ,

For the last example: Here

Rendering dreams from fMRI is also already reality. Please, google that yourself if you’d like to see the sources. However, the image quality is not yet very good, but nevertheless it is possible. It is just a question of when the quality will be better.

Now think about smart glasses or whatever display you like, controlling it with your mind. You’d need Jedi concentration :D But I sure do think I will live long enough to see this technology.

Pantoffel ,

Following up on the other comment.

The issue is that widely available speech models are not yet offering the quality that is technically possible. That is probably why you think we’re not there yet. But we are.

Oh, I’m looking forward to just translate a whole audiobook into my native language and any speaking style I like.

Okay, perhaps we would still have difficulties with made up fantasy words or words from foreign languages with little training data.

Mind, this is already possible. It’s just that I don’t have access to this technology. I sincerely hope that there will be no gatekeeping to the training data, such that we can train such models ourselves.

The Man Amazon Erased (www.tabletmag.com)

Jackson soon discovered that Amazon suspended his account because a Black delivery driver who’d come to his house the previous day had reported hearing racist remarks from his video doorbell. In a brief email sent to Jackson at 3 a.m., the company explained how it unilaterally placed all of his linked devices and services on...

Pantoffel ,

Imagine a car company disabling your car.

Pantoffel ,

I don’t think the issue is corps feeding the internet into AI systems. The real issue is gatekeeping to information and only giving access to this information while milking the individual for data by trackers, money by subscriptions, and more money by ads (that we pay for with subscriptions).

Another larger issue that I fear is often ignored is the amount of control large corporations and in theory the government can have over us just by looking at our trace we leave in the internet. Just have a look at Russia and China for real world examples of this.

Pantoffel ,

A factor I didn’t consider. Thanks. And there I thought given hardware requirements it would be relatively easy to build such LLMs or similar foss-like.

Pantoffel ,

Exhausting is a good description. I don’t mind people seeing me from time to time when i feel like it. But man I am so much more tired when having the camera on after and during a meeting.

Looking for the wheel of time audiobook series in German [Das Rad der Zeit]

I already bought and listened to all 14 books on Audible in English, but my wife wants to listen to them in German. They are purchasable on Audible, but they have been split into three parts per book at 25€/part. I hate it. And I do not want support this practice. We would’ve bought them had they kept one part per book....

Pantoffel OP ,

So I think it’s time for me to try join private trackers. What is MAM, if I may ask?

Pantoffel OP ,

Thanks!

Another country has called Xi a 'dictator' and China is not happy with that description (edition.cnn.com)

China has lashed out at Germany after its foreign minister called Xi Jinping a “dictator” and summoned Berlin’s ambassador for a dressing down, in the latest flaring of tensions with a western democratic power over how the Chinese leader is described overseas.

Pantoffel ,

Scholz is really just like Merkel. It’s the green party that brings the fresh air and most importantly content

Pantoffel ,

I can totally relate. Paying 30-100€ per game is something for rich people or something I’d do once or max twice a year on very carefully selected games, hoping these games are worth it. With Game Pass I spend 120€ a year to access a wide range of games.

Once I played through or once version 2 of a game comes out, I’m not likely to play it ever again.

Also I have phases where I play a lot and phases where I do not play at all. I can simply discontinue Game Pass in these cases.

Pantoffel ,

Yes, I totally agree with what you said.

They currently try to buy out the digital gaming space of the internet, sell it for cheap and later on up the price. That’s what big corporations usually do nowadays. Same with X, Google, Amazon, Netflix, etc. It’s a big issues that we as consumers and later on citizens of our planet face.

However, currently it is a sweet deal for me. And the argument that I’d own the game otherwise doesn’t count for me as I would most probably never replay it. So what’s the use of owning it if it’s just collecting dust in the shelf?

The argument of whose property the item is is different for me for movies, series, and audiobooks. I’m surprised that this scheme was not yet applied for books / e-books. Or am I wrong?

Why does everyone make such a fuss about privacy?

In the context of VPNs for example. Some VPNs store and provide information about what sites you go to third parties. Third parties analyze it and figure out what adds to show you. Hmm… then let them show me those adds they want to show me. I do hate adds as a whole and use an add blocker, thus. But I couldn’t care less what...

Pantoffel ,

Literally. The moment someone wants to have a look at my anus, I’d already have shown them. What’s the deal with everyone? We need to be more transparent with these kind of topics. Nobody wants to share anymore. We are all walled off behind our smartphones and doors and houses.

Pantoffel ,

cough freedom of choice cough. I choose not to allow freedom of choice.

Pantoffel ,

Why not move to Afghanistan and listen to modern music for a little adventure?

DeepMind’s cofounder: Generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI. (www.technologyreview.com)

DeepMind’s cofounder: Generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI.::DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman wants to build a chatbot that does a whole lot more than chat. In a recent conversation I had with him, he told me that generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI: bots that can carry...

Pantoffel ,

That’s just a toolbox and in my experience a pretty limited one as well. What OP means is that Gen AI doesn’t connect to your Emails, Photoshop, your IDE, your browser, and what not with text or speech.

Imagine not using your keyboard and mouse anymore, but only using your speech and natural language for everything (not commands, but natural language).

Confidently interfacing with smart glasses would be a game changer for so many things.

Pantoffel ,

Think further. Don’t own a phone anymore but only smart glasses.

Pantoffel ,

In time they will become better

Pantoffel ,

Some things you also shouldn’t parameterize for the sake of overview and intuitiveness in understand.

Any good tech sites without the fluff?

I am looking for some good tech sites that have longer articles and indepth reviews. Preferably without an obvious biased towards a particular company or brand. edit: I should have clarified what to was looking for. I would like to compile a list of lesser-known but useful websites so that I can stay current on tech news without...

Pantoffel ,

Great article on Google Adsense :) I accidentally clicked on one of the ads. Enjoy the extra penny.

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Crazy. And their algorithm for that is probably also not transparent.

Pantoffel ,

Yes, exactly. I don’t understand their need for content on a site. Shouldn’t it be enough from their point of view to have a as most sites as possible integrating their ads? Why bother about the content?

Pantoffel OP ,

Omg

Pantoffel ,

You could then simply zip off some more from your belly fabric and append-zip it on your arms. Or if you’re even colder, zip it on your neck to get a polo neck. Hell, ideas are coming in!

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