Seminar2250

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[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 1 points 18 seconds ago

fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

i have been using Fedora (or something downstream) exclusively for the last decade

FUCK

i guess the options now are a mac (ugh) or like, grapheneos in desktop mode when QPR1 arrives? qubesos is also an option but i know nothing about it.

[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 4 points 4 hours ago

The number one and number two most cited living scientists across all fields think scenarios like this are not only possible but likely to happen. And the average AI researcher thinks there is a 16% chance of AI causing human extinction.

assigning a number to it makes it scientific

aside/ranti wonder to what extent this bullshit works because of people's fear of math

i wish i could convince people that STEM skills are no different than a law degree, in essence


you'll meet dipshits that are excellent mathematicians and you'll meet smart people that are mediocre mathematicians. i suspect it's because people view mathematical notation as impenetrable (when that just depends on the same shit any technical writing depends on, like the writer's skill at communicating, the reader's familiarity and strength with the prerequisite material, etc.)

it's frustrating, given the number of stupid mathematicians i've met

[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 2 points 5 hours ago

i had a feeling about FUTO because of rossmann's involvement. became leery of him after this youtube bullshit from 2018:

Let's discuss why journalists are afraid of Elon Musk right now(and why they deserve to be)

matrix.to/#/#rossmannrepair:matrix.org
Let's get Right to Repair passed! gofund.me/1cba2545
We repair Macbook logic boards: rossmanngroup.com/macbook-logic-board-repair
Elon Musk wants to come up with a way to rate the credibility and accuracy of media organizations & individual journalists. This blatant misrepresentation of his words, given in the middle of this conversation, is a PERFECT example of WHY this is so badly needed in modern society.

I'm not a fan of Tesla for being, in many ways, the "Apple of cars." That being said, whether or not I like Tesla when it comes to a repair standpoint has nothing to do with the hate being thrown at Elon for something he never meant in the words he said, and is entirely separate from my agreement with him on the idea of a media credibility rating platform.

[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 5 points 6 hours ago

i don't think it's fair to assume that a billionaire who dresses up like a bat to extra-legally fight crime necessarily engages in shenanigans when donating a satellite to his vigilante friends

[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 5 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

this reminds me of that episode of justice league unlimited where the superheroes are all on a satellite and batman says getting it built was just

a line item in the Wayne Industries R&D budget

though, to be fair, that explanation is more plausible than starcloud working

[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 4 points 19 hours ago

the poster is referring to the function f(z) = z^2 + 1

[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 7 points 23 hours ago

Watched a debate between Emily M. Bender and Sébastien Bubeck


an OpenAI researcher


from March. As usual, Dr. Bender fucking rules. Bubeck struck me as an idiot and kind of an ass.

[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's worth noting that, unlike a real function, a complex function that is differentiable in a neighborhood is infinitely differentiable in that neighborhood. An informal intuition behind this: in the reals, for a limit to exist, the left and right limit must agree. In C, the limit from every direction must agree. Thus, a limit existing in C is "stronger" than it existing in R.

Edit: wikipedia pages on holomorphism and analyticity (did I spell this right) are good

[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 2 points 2 days ago

I use Mullvad Leta, which is basically a front-end for the Google (and Brave) API. It used to be exclusive to Mullvad customers but I believe it's available to everyone now.

It doesn't support image search, but so far this has been consistently good enough for me.

[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago

Appreciate both responses. Thank you.

Before today I didn't know the difference between a compositor and desktop environment and I thought Wayland was fine. Now Abra and I are very close.

[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I guess there’s sway? none of these options entice me to be honest

I used to use Sway. I found it tedious to configure several different things via config files. Kanshi in case you plug in a monitor, Waybar, Swaylock^[Also there was a bug that allowed people to bypass your lockscreen by mashing keys. Sort of made me hesitant to try anything Sway again, although I believe the problem has been fixed.], etc. And, I may be misremembering, but you had to edit the Sway config to launch these programs at startup. There was just friction everywhere.

I have been daily-driving COSMIC for about six months and it works pretty well, although there are infrequent crashes (less so since the beta release, I think). I like it as my tiling WM, but also occasional crashes don't affect my workflow too badly.

Wayland protocols are an almost ideal way to create intentional incompatibilities and network effects.

Would you be willing to elaborate or follow up on this? I checked out the core protocol but think I'm way too out of my depth to relate it to what you wrote.

[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

What's unintuitive about creating text files config.yaml and input.toml in $DESKTOP_STANDARD_INCONSISTENTLY_FOLLOWED which hopefully resolves to /home/username/.config/ but probably resolves to /usr/bin/go_fuck_yourself_with_1s_and_0s and then editing the text files according to confusingly documented syntax?

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