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Food is a very subjective thing, online reviews generally are often intentionally or unintentionally distorted, and quality/staff at those places changes too over time. Considering all these factors, that does not make this specific scenario a great more general example
And for just over an hour, the world was a better place.
I know, my smart plug reports around 60€ a month of costs. Most of it comes from the massive amount of hard drives, I try to pay most of it myself with money from side projects. Anyway, I couldn't find rentable dedicated servers with this much storage for less than 50€ a month, the upfront costs of new, energy efficient and powerful hardware is too much, and I truly enjoy running these servers myself.

About the noise, my room has a small mechanical room and that's where the servers are located, the noise can't be heard from the rest of the room.
What I'm looking for is:

-Allow to choose theme for the window decorations (titlebar etc...) and the desktop itself in its settings and have this applied consistently in the desktop (all applications use same window decorations on the outer part of their windows, ...).

-Let application have their own icons inside of the window (I have nothing against applications reusing icons, but let the developer choose them, not desktop-dependent since that's clearly not working out). Like say the "save file" icon in a text editor: I'd rather have a well-chosen one by the developer of this text editor, than one that either doesn't work or look completely out of place but was enforced by some desktop standard.

What I don't like is:

-applications changing / removing the outer window borders. They have no business changing that, only the inside content of their windows. E.g. a browser removing the title bar of its window can make some menus the desktop provides there inaccessible, make it invisible which window is focused, etc...

-application using external theme (e.g. based on some desktop standard) icons for its internal contents and then not working properly because the creator of the application could not know what the external theme would look like. This does not work out for various reasons: having 1 desktop setting makes it impossible to fix individual programs since changing theme to fix 1 may break another, e.g. say you have themes "adwaita" and "greybird" in your desktop setting, theme adwaita breaks program A (e.g. it shows black text on black background; just arbitrary example, not saying adwaita actually does this but I know at least one epub reader that showed black text on black background for some desktop settings in real life) but works in program B, and theme greybord works in program A but breaks program B (e.g. its icons will be invisible or whatever): If program A and program B just had their own inner contents, this problem would not exist.

Also, different applications having to be consistent across each other for their inner contents is something I couldn't care less about, so it's not worth all the problems it causes.
You may remember how the Dutch, French, and Irish rejected the EU Constitution just for the EU to repack the same as the Lisbon Treaty and run with it anyway.

Immigration is a highly sensitive subject, and both in the UK and the EU governments have decided that 'more' is correct and anyone complaining is wrong and an extremist.

So I am not sure that changes are necessarily agreed by the people (not the same as "by people", which is the whole point).

> There is always someone resisting change

Again, you paint "change" as inevitable when most of what we're seeing is conscious decision by some people, not inevitable change (which is only mostly technology as in your examples).
This is fun until one person says "well, they are kinda right". Happened in that group I'm thinking of, now some of them are unironically saying the pope has UFOs hidden in a garage.

This reminds me of how me and my friends once upon a time started browsing 4chan and jbzd (Polish nsfw meme site) for "spicy memes". We found some gems, but I couldn't stand negativity of these places. Few years later some folks developed genuine strong dislike for women and people of color. They are decent people otherwise.

Hence I cannot stand "silly"/conspiracy stuff like this, even if people say it's just for fun. Sadly, it sells well, so this is what you get exposed to when you start watching TV or online memes. And since it is simplistic, it is easier to have a discussion in a group about "why Muslims are bad" or "do you also believe that Vatican is hiding UFO incidents" than about e.g. politics of The North in Game of Thrones.
I believe the house was built based on an AD&D dungeon map.
Tesco pioneered some of the most hilariously sharp practices that mean
you really need to have your wits (or enough money to not care) with
you.

"30p each or only 3 for £1" isn't a joke. I saw this in a London store
when they tried making multi-pack offers near the checkout actually
more expensive than picking up separate items.

"Meal Deals" are a fantastic scam that charge you more for eating
less. If you don't take the crisps or drink it doesn't "count" as the
meal-deal, and the individual items cost more. I end up buying an
extra bag of crisps I don't want and giving it to the homeless person
outside.

Like many British supermarkets they operate a three tier pricing
structure, normal, discounted (with yellow labels) and "Clubcard"
prices. These are applied to similar items on proximate shelves, so
you're never quite sure which ones the offers apply to. Sometimes
those little yellow stickers don't scan, and surprise.. you pay the
original price.

And don't get me started on automatic checkouts, which are basically
"mugging robots" designed to rob humans.

Supermarkets are playgrounds for screwing people over with little mind
games. What a desolation of human life for those who waste their days
thinking up this shit.
I do! I just haven't had the time to measure everything and find the right screws and table.
Yes, Functionary: https://github.com/MeetKai/functionary/
MIT Licensed

Its actively maintained as open-source. You can even run it with llama.cpp
I’m disappointed they went with React as well. There are definitely more innovative frameworks (my favorites: Vue and Svelte).
But I do understand the Tailwind team - it is an economic decision. React (still) dominates.

Going framework-agnostic is (currently) not a good approach imo. The developer experience would suffer too much. I hope in the future agnostic UI kits become a thing, but the tooling around this approach needs to change first.
You're over thinking it.

The statement is just specific. "Causes" versus "triggered" is not a distinction. "Concluded" would be the same as "an extremely strong link".

A more accurate analysis would be - "no studies, conducted at a rigor to make a definitive claim, have found paraquat causes Parkinson's".

The literature is full of "links" based on shaky analysis using retrospective data while attempting to adjusted for confounding factors. But no serious scientist would say that rises to the level of "proof that X causes Y".
It's easier to just mine huge blocks of ice from Halley's Comet and use that to cool the Earth.
I wouldn’t bother with any car that doesn’t have CarPlay or Android Auto. Most car companies are just bad at building user interfaces, and my phone is already an excellent infotainment system. Why duplicate the work?
- When viewing a post by a user on a different instance than yours, Agora automatically loads your instance's version of the post so that you can like/boost/comment on it without having to manually switch it over to that version.

- You can log in to a Mastodon, Bluesky, or Nostr account on Agora and it'll pull in your following/followers list from that account, while still allowing you to view/interact with posts from the other 2 protocols using bridges behind the scenes.

- I've integrated those bridges into the search, so that if you search for a Bluesky handle like aoc.bsky.social or a nostr users hex code, it'll automatically know to use the bridges for those protocols and search for the bridged profile.

- When you follow a hashtag like #linux, it'll automatically follow the corresponding Lemmy community for that topic, so that you see posts from linux@lemmy.ml in your feed.

- This one's still a work in progress: when you first log in, Agora will show you suggested profiles for a variety of topics, and allow you to bulk or individually follow accounts per topic, to help with content discovery.
This has gotten so crazy that there was a segment on Conan with B.J. Novak where the entire interview was around how Novak thinks Cadbury eggs have gotten smaller.

And it's weird because when he brought this up with people, they were obviously passive about it, not knowing for sure since who actually remembers the old price of a single cadbury egg?

He even went on the website, and they said that "the eggs haven't gotten smaller, you've just gotten bigger". Not only do they know, they're trying to actively gaslight the population.

He then brings out an old egg he found and compares it to a newer one and it's definitely smaller.

link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlXLCrzpToo
If you're looking for open-source function calling: Checkout Functionary: https://github.com/MeetKai/functionary/

It's MIT licensed. Supports both CPU and GPU
There is a nice new law in Poland which require online stores to publish prices together with minimum price for the last 30 days.

Good thing to not be hooked by fake discounts.
> Everything works including Google Pay.

Wait, what? What did I miss here -> https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/1986 ?
It's a US-centric view written by a Bulgarian who is already engulfed in that culture. Bulgarian society is driven by a different set of cultural values and you cannot understand it through the lens of these grand-explanatory mechanisms offered by US think-tanks.

Even during communism, ideology in Bulgaria was something few people cared about or believed in. It was about empty slogans in schools and public places, empty-speech by public officials and nothing much more. Private life was a different affair. It was always centered around the family and providing safety for the kids. It is a deeply-embedded instinct for self-preservation since Ottoman times. New forms of social organisation emerged under the official iron fist of the ruling party. People were doing mutual favours within a close relationship.

Even now, this is the primary form of organisation in Bulgarian society. Knowing the right people, nurturing close relationships with them, calling them for favours in difficult times, expecting to be called by them at any time.
> These are used by "agencies"

Oh my word, the horror! What's wrong with agencies?
> I think I'll go to Morrisons today and be mugged differently

This is a beautiful sentence, i think.

Same sh*t, different day I suppose.
Keto/carnivore helps A LOT (YMMV). It eliminated cravings for me and also cut spending significantly as it removed any impulsive shopping/eating.

If you think about it most ultra processed food is packed with salt and/or sugar to hijack your brain and keep you hooked.

Big food is not joking around when it comes to addiction.
well, because an average asteroid in the solar system is nothing at all like a balloon. Or maybe you're confusing comets and asteroids, though it doesn't matter anyhow because your notion doesn't apply in either case and I can't at all see why it should.
> I think the only reason people can't read between the lines anymore is because they're too quick to get hung up on words that can be used as criticism. This destroys mutual understanding immensely.

Unfortunately yes, this has become much more common now. "I'm offended by your words, therefore you have no right to say them" is a thing that is very widespread. Yes, free speech does mean that you allow poisonous ideologies to spread, but a lack of free speech means that you allow them to ossify and persist because nothing can be challenged any more.
Its a beautifully simple measure that helps me every day.
Absolutely. I think that's the practical solution I'll do when I move out. Until then, it's definitely not nearly as fun though!!
There is an intersting wrinkle here, I haven't seen it mentioned so far.

In the UK a patent is invalid if you put an inventor on it who didn't make a significant and definable contribution to the invention.

If a patent is AI generated, and then labelled with a human inventor it may be argued that it is invalidated by the humans lack of inventive input.
It only really needs the first sentence.

"Popular website down for an hour", film at 11
The dark themed combo-boxes are broken in terms of the item visibility. Only the active/selected item is readable, the rest are using a font color matching the background of the item box.
It's not a case of "falling" for it. It's a case of being effectively forced to sign up for these schemes to pay a reasonable price for shopping.

I hope the CMA comes down hard. It's disgusting.
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60€ a month (tplink smart plug, calculated on the cost per kwh and other taxes). I try to pay most of it myself with money from side projects
I'm in the graduating class of 2025, which is closer than it appears.
In-flight entertainment is one thing that I wouldn't mind being unbundled because at this point it really is just a crappier version of what you can bring yourself - both the content and the usually outdated and overloaded tech.
Sad to hear.
It feels like the EU could fund some entity to manage, develop and distribute such a degoogled android with only a very small fraction of its other spendings, and that would help a lot with reducing google/apple's hold on the european market… A cheap deal.
Definitely playing with fire. Inflation works in practice because people are intrinsically happier when they have more money. And we discovered in 1971 that “the printing press is inexhaustible.” Maybe shifting attention to producers is the goal? Feels like a short-term fix.
The unit issue is in the EU. You can't sell everything by 100 g or 100 mL, so it is ultimately up to the seller. Another example of it is toilet paper, sometimes given in money/square, sometimes given in money/length.
I'm just saying, if the street is going to be worthless anyway the public could at least get some value out of it. But progressives care more about the homeless than the handicapped so instead we get trash on the streets and useful things going bankrupt.
Yeah a trivial bypass, anybody in say eastern Europe or Russia would immediately think about this path, that's one of million ways communism destroyed morality of whole region for generations to come. Change things a bit without affecting meaning and voila.

I see some dark path in patent world, corporations are amoral by principle so they will try to milk this even if just to defend themselves from everybody else doing it.
Indeed, because packing a browser with the application makes up for the missing pieces across all bazillion of desktop configurations, for everyone that isn't running either GNOME or KDE.

Oh do I remember, Red-Hat, Mandrake, IBM, Intel, Oracle, Google, Linaro,....

Slackware 2.0 was my first distribution.
Wasn’t that a plot point in an episode of the office?
Programmers: Skip the damned meetings!

Also programmers: Who and why decided that we should be doing this thing this way?!

Or: Why is the other team doing things this way?!
your close family member would need to be exposed to tubs of paraquat for at the very least months at a time for this to be even remotely probable. unless he had to go to hospital due to acute exposure and paraquat toxicity that day, and even then
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I like it too.
I like that the Bulgarians play very strange bars: 15/17 or something similar :)
I like this playfulness with the soul
> If it gets worse, chances are I won't buy it

Most people, most times, can’t tell
> Microsoft nears glass storage breakthrough; could make ransomware attacks harder

Microsoft made ransomware attacks easier. Now they are redefining "easier" to harder. /s

indestructible, glass, pick one.
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> very unlikely

Actually, what are the chances of this system – if it existed – is used to move an asteroid into the path of the Earth and killing everybody within the next 100 years? (This would include scenarios like "the US president or industrialist who builds it randomly goes insane"). 1%? 0.1%? If the risk of an asteroid hitting the earth is lower than that we should clearly not build such capability.
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I love the way you composed your opinion.

But why are the two things mutually exclusive? America is not manhattan either, I'd reckon non-cosmopolitan america is larger than all of europe.

In the end, shouldn't the quality of life for the people who live there be a priority?
the problem with using anecdotes like these to evaluate causation is that the people who handled herbicides and pesticides all their life and did not get Parkinson's will not be posting about it
Surely anyone on earth who has the technical ability to deflect an asteroid precisely to hit one part of the planet, would also have the technical ability to just bomb that part of the planet directly - with much lower risk of accidentally hitting the wrong part?
Makes me wonder if LBRY went with Lightning instead of creating a shitcoin token they would probably still be around today and maybe even integrating with Nostr.
Haha I don't know what your poison is, but the same goes for:
- using the syntax of Python 3.11 for asynchronous tasks;
- using Promises vs. Observables in Javascript

Was the demo example confusing, or not challenging enough perhaps? If you have tough coding guidelines you've been enforcing manually in code reviews up until now, please do share
> In May 2022, I finalized the crazy decision to get a real rack-mounted server - I got a great deal on used drives (3x3TB), RAM (128GB of DDR3), and relatively powerful (read: power-hungry) CPUs (2xE5-2690) in a Dell PowerEdge R720XD, which I paid for with some bug bounty money I saved up.

Plus electricity/internet costs, replacing broken drives, etc etc. You can get a lot of rental time out of that.
Medium lets you make passive income from posts and even pyramid schemes subscriptions which joined for your article, so you get a payment for every month they remain subscribed. It is very hard to just quit using medium.
Yes, when you aggregate the group's values, you can have non-deterministic behaviors. Operations like "calculate an even number" can be non-deterministic, but other operations like "give me the group average" (which is what the post proposes) are deterministic.

Anecdote time: some weeks ago I had a bug for this reason. I was doing a groupby + select the first element, and since the first element is not always the same I was getting some weird results. I solved it by sorting the group elements before selecting the first element.
Since water is specifically cheap (at least in my part of the world), maybe you should have price per dry mass (would work for food and cleaning agents) but that would probably mean they'd add sawdust or starch or sugar.

So we could also add those to the "cheap ingredient list" but of course it's a never-ending battle and likely not to the benefit of the consumer.

I suppose we're actually dealing with a price distribution so maybe a possible solution is:

a graph where X is the procurement price per ingredient and Y is the percentage of the product that is composed of things with ingredient price <= X.

You'd want to have as small as possible an area under that curve but then the question is the procurement price and we've gone full circle.
This is scary and weird.
It’s amazing on its own but not so much when combined with other libs.
if someone has to build this locally to fetch discussion where x topic was discussed or find a person who had shown interest in certain x thing, how does one go about it?

One way of doing it is to embed messages with the added context of previous messages until the topic changes, otherwise, a simple similarity search of user prompt embedding would output messages of irrelevant topics since the context was included from the start.

Then embed the user prompt and perform a similarity search of either the user's query or create a hypothetical statement based on the prompt, also called HyDe approach. You ask an LLM to generate a hypothetical response given the query and then use its vector along with the query vector to enhance search quality.

For example, if the user query is - "find me who is interested in playing Minecraft on Tuesday", the llm will generate a response "I play Minecraft on Tuesdays" and we can search the vector of the llm output in the vector db which is all the messages along with their context.

However, I am not sure how this will work in scenarios where the user has sent a message asking "Will you play Minecraft on Tuesday", and person A has responded with "Yes". how can we have the model find person A? Shall we make a summary of each person based on the conversation with the user?

Also, the whole process might be computationally slow. how do we enhance the speed and performance?

(a noob here who wanted to build a similar solution)
The authors viewpoint seem to be very much influenced by being somewhat well-off and therefor being able to chooses which changes to participate in. Now they increasingly find themselves being like everyone else and conclude that things have changed, while this was what was happening all along.

So it is more a personal frontier than anything else. A frontier is usually where little exists and by building something from the ground up you have more to say about things. While most people may not have had much of a say in the first place what happened in Eastern Europe and also more slowly in the rest of Europe was still mostly the opposite. It has been more of a frontier for others, like the French bank mentioned, than the local population.
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> He Stole Hundreds of iPhones and Looted People's Life Savings. He Told Us How

How come "People's Life Savings" were on the phone ?
Do they ever read "Terms of service" ? /s
Same, except without Netflix. I'm constantly surprised people use these streaming services.
I don't know why your reply is being hidden. it is completely fair to say most people drawing such links are likely mistaken.
As long as it's possible, the insane ones might do it. We cannot allow an asteroid gap!
The only public information I can find is this, which is from 2013 in London:

Visa credit 0.65%, debit 1 pence. Mastercard credit 0.80%, debit 1 pence + 0.5%.

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/costs_to_tfl_for_cont...
Well, but the basic assumption is, the more surface of the asteroid is exposed, the more will burn up in the sky. And that is pretty solid physic and should be valid.

Also most of the surface on earth is water. And one big impact would create a mega tsunami. And that is magnitudes worse, than many small impacts, where the waves will then even partly cancel each other out.

So obviously deflecting is the prefered solution - but breaking up as much as possible will always result in way less damage overall to the planet - but the more impacts you have, the more likely it is, that they will also hit densly populated areas. So this decision will be highly political, as if something goes wrong and for example china gets mainly hit - the final outcome might be worse.
Predicting the actions of humans is easier than determining chemical interactions of a given compound?
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