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> GPUs are only needed if you can not wait 5 minutes for an answer

Yeah, but that's generally true (or at least, “5 minutes for an answer is very suboptimal”, even if “can’t” isn’t quite true) for interactive use cases, which are... a lot of LLM use cases.
I mean, I doubt you are in any position to judge the writing of PS:T just based on descriptions of it.

The writing of PS:T is vastly better than an “Adventures of Drizzt Do’urden, part 153” YA fantasy novel or what have you. Perhaps it wouldn’t win a Pulitzer if it were a book, but for a computer game the writing is incredibly good.

But what’s really shocking about the writing is

1. How much of it there is

2. How well it showcases the utter weirdness of Planescape compared to your standard D&D settings like Forgotten Realms

3. How it subverts, inverts, lampshades or in any other way plays with every major high fantasy and D&D trope that you can think of. Whatever you have heard of the writing, there’s nothing generically “D&D” about it.
> Queen's Wish is a big game! Five nations and biomes! A surface and underworld! Multiple sets of furniture, all kinds of environments. The game currently has, to make the different regions look distinct and give enough visual variety, well over 1000 terrain icons. (An icon here is defined to be a 48x48 tile. Some terrains require multiple icons. Each wall type, for example, is assembled from 60 icons.)

Is this a high number for terrain graphics compared to similar games?
So that's why they are making the other platform more like the firdt one?
>Some say Egypt, Jordan, and Israel equally sabotaged the elections: https://carnegieendowment.org/sada/84509

The entire article is about how nobody buys Abbas' excuses (the other link is similarly not relevant to the discussion).
Did you ever think about adding a camera close to the beam so that you could track cuts as registration marks and have a smaller cutting area while still being able to reposition to precisely cut out a larger whole?
What? People do talk of "cultural Islam". There's literally a Wikipedia page on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Muslims

Cultural Muslims would be people who grew up in a predominantly Muslim society and culture, and who have deeply embedded Muslim cultural values and experiences, but who are not religious Muslims.

I'm a "cultural Christian". I know the lyrics to dozens of Christmas carols by heart, I can recite the Lord's Prayer, the Nicene creed, a surprising amount of Genesis, and I know quite a lot about the history of the Church, the Reformation, and both modern Anglican and Catholic rites. Of course, I am an atheist who has never been baptized. But that's what growing up in a society where 90% of the population is Christian will do - produce a cultural Christian.
I only care about imessage in that there is no easy way for my child to use an iPad (without a SIM card) to use the messages app to message me on my phone.

Luckily, I own a MacBook that's almost always on, so I can at least use AirMessage.
Oh, right. Feeling no force feedback when you stop. Yikes. Must feel like trying to walk on ice.
Maybe I need the app but don't trust the altstore its developer is forcing me to use instead of App Store.
Maybe it's a homage to the naming scheme of another NES emulator:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NESticle
rsync.net also offers slightly cheaper plans if you don't need all the features/support, just Borg archives: https://www.rsync.net/products/borg.html
Tiling manager when there’s no competing (keyword: competing, so librem and the likes don’t count) linux phone is pretty useless.
As an aside, emoticons work just fine. ;)
It's very cool, but the guy answer sounds so corporaty that the only thing I hear is: patent, proprietary platforms, restricted use cases, we'll make lots of money and sue anybody even drawing it. Have fun! We mandate it!
This is funny. Just this week, I've been thinking about simulating a Dreamachine[1] in software.

Isn't the obvious solution to your timing problem to distribute it as a video file instead? To be played on 120Hz-capable hardware, obviously.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamachine
Unfortunately Terrence McKenna (or fortunately depending on how you look at things) doesn't seem to have retained the same popularity.

He does still have some decent "pithy one liners" but if I remember right, he didn't stay in a philosophical lane and was known to indulge in pop culture conspiracies and his own pet theories (based on excruciatingly little but conjecture and didn't really respond to criticism of it)

I've honestly started to consider it a little bit unbecoming to compare people to McKenna. He's a major contributor to a romantic and oversimplified/inaccurate understanding of things like shamanhood and the roles drugs played in ancient societies, so it's probably a good thing people don't talk about him like they used to.

Almost kind of the antithesis to Watts in my mind, but seemingly from the same side of the fence: McKenna was all about what he thought, and Watts never gave me the impression he even had an agenda for me to believe in, rather wanting to help people explore the world he'd discovered, he labored to find the words to depict, not to convince.
Watts: A Google Drive link found on a Reddit post? https://old.reddit.com/r/AlanWatts/comments/tb2k3s/where_to_...

McKenna, possibly a YouTube downloader and a playlist like https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL83BE388A2A15A7E1 - some are short, but many are hour or two long full lectures. and https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyhHqyVEk0F-k42F1nAh6...

(I didn't realise how many lectures he did; many of those I haven't heard, and many of the ones I have heard aren't mentioned in those playlists).

(For the unwary, "Alan Watt", Scottish conspiracy theorist https://archive.org/details/The_Alan_Watt_Collection is somebody else).
I'm working in the laser marking/engraving field, we actually discussed G-code internally but in the end decided against it as it was not suitable for our product. (Too many laser parameter and "dynamic" stuff like QR codes)
this begs the question - what was it useful for to begin with? I am not a coder, so CoPilot has never been for me (so I cannot speak for that use case)... but for creative/writing/content-generation... feel like good content needed to be heavily edited and selected in any case... I wouldn't say that has gotten worse, but it was never quite good to begin with unless your bar was quite low.
I don't believe FreeBSD has the money, resources, or (sufficient) interest as a project to do so for the foreseeable future.
frustrating, because on the one hand, the explanation that all the "UFO whistleblowing" is all just a self-cycling money generator scheme by cranks with government jobs is the most obvious explanation. On the other, if you were a government desperately trying to hide the aliens, this is exactly the kind of spokesperson / story you would come up with to throw everyone off the trail.

Nevertheless, reality prevails, ill go with choice A.
A simple features list and a short "how it works" on the site would be nice, the homepage is not great in my opinion: zooming breaks it, some parts of the text just having a different harder to read font, a bunch of videos overlayed on top of eachother, for some reason only a part of the site has a custom cursor

Product and extension look pretty decent, haven't tried it though but I have seen similar ones which integrate with Jira, Trello, etc. to automatically create tickets, unsure if this one does it, might be worth looking into it if not
youtube channel w&m levsha seems to show success cutting some metals with a cheap laser engraver by first oxidizing the surface black, then somehow lasering it off, and repeating the process a mind-boggling number of times to cut all the way through a thin sheet. is that a thing you have tried? what obstacles did you hit?

for example in https://youtu.be/PAFBkgawH3w?t=2m10s he says he cut through a razor blade in 600 passes
That was the first thing that came to my mind as well.

Given that those things already exist for some time, I wonder if Disney actually used them as a base and then made their own version of them or something.
RSGI Specification
Pretty much the only data I care about from my watch (that only it can gather) is my sleep, so I just stick it on the charger in the day, eg when having a meal, when showering, or an hour before bed, when I also don't have to worry about urgent notifications.
I loathe Apple. We have this absolutely incredibly powerful, world changing invention in all of our pockets now, and Apple is doing everything they possibly can to suck every single penny out of it, at huge economic burden, just to become wealthier. Apple has always been bad, but this is just a next level of evil. I will never buy an Apple product, and I will make sure no one close to me does either.
Facebook community groups and things like Nextdoor do seem to help reunite pet owners with their pets.
Would you say it’s an at-will business relationship?
I do think repeatability is very important. If you try to cut a circle and it ends up not even close to because you can't circle around a point twice without it being close to the same circle, ....

The rest i mostly agree with except maybe the 400x number. Seems high to get to a better level.
When you stream a song, it’s Spotify who controls both the revenue and the revenue share. Spotify gives you 70% of some amount of revenue, and Spotify determines how much that revenue is, in the first place.

If you put an app in the App Store, at least you get to determine the price point—you get to determine whether you want to charge up-front, make an ad-supported app, or rely on IAPs. Spotify doesn’t let you set the price of your song.
My thoughts exactly. They should look to my designer earthquake brand, Fashkism, for inspiration.
This is the thing I see mentioned more than anything else, but wouldn't this require Firefox organizationally to completely rebuild the Quantum engine on native iOS code for you to actually see any benefit?
Awesome I just rewatch Chris Rock's 1999 comedy special filmed there, last night.
In case you missed it: America just effectively got much bigger
Satellite Tech Opens New Window on Antarctic
This tool doesn't let you run SQL queries or create tables. SchemaSpy describes and visualizes an already-created database.

To work directly with SQL, I recommend https://www.beekeeperstudio.io/ or https://dbgate.org/
Do take care of yourself. Give the contractors as much heads up as you can, no need to blindside them. Maybe one of them would like to take over or buy you out?

I f you don't take care of yourself, you have a high chance you will eventually lose the ability to take care of others, and in a much more tragic way.
The Cyrillic variant is almost a different set of characters! And the flowing into each other takes such an extreme there, that my last name is a nigh-illegible series of wavelets.

I have no idea how Russian, Ukrainian, etc., historians manage to read old Cyrillic documents.
I don't think FreeBSD has the resources (money/hardware/volunteer hours) or interest in providing that level of support.
Tilted cylinders that rotate around the main cylinder axis to push you along the tangent of the outer lip of the raised portion, and rotate along global up axis to change where the raised portion is, changing direction.

It acts like a roller on its side that can be rotated to change direction, but probably has advantages mechanically or with not crushing your toes or sucking in your shoelaces or something, or just less friction from the direction rotation change.
Everything You Need to Know to Start Writing Tests in Go with TDD [video]
Even by your cringey explanation, GP's "concept" (as you call it) is stupid.

We honor the people who first develop something, because, by definition, they're out there without much, if any support. Improving something once it's there is much easier and safer. If you fail, hey -- the original thing is still there.

On the other hand, if you're the type to whom everything is obvious once you see it, then I can understand how it might all seem equal to you.
The alternative isn’t amazing either
I would typically use “crosswalk” in preference to “pedestrian crossing”. The two terms are slightly different, but functionally equivalent. Is there something similar in German?
If you have used gpt4 and then use mistral, it’s like looking at a Retina display and then have to go back to a low res screen. You are always thinking “but GPT4 could do this though”
Running headless chrome and scraping the photos via dev tools sounds like good way to get your account banned by some automation with no human support to help you :/

It's really stupid that the API doesn't support this. For now I'll stick to regular takeout archives. Syncthing directly from the phone might be a better option for regular backups.
Seen on HN first!
If you loathe Apple, you’ve never met Google…
So, a typical Disney product then?
> If Apple abuses its power, there are plenty of alternatives that customers can switch to

This is just not how the 3 party markets work. For there to be mobility, both the users and developers have to move. Good luck convincing users to move of their $1000+ purchase. Maybe developers should start a union and boycott the app stores
They have to make a profit. If I recall correctly, Apple Music pays artists more and is cheaper, which is only possible because they take a loss. That's anticompetitive behavior, especially considering they charge their competitor Spotify an additional 30%.

Apple Music is available on the Google Play store. It does not pay Google their 30%, because they have a link in their app allowing users to pay Apple directly.
https://archive.is/B4BPk
Since 1995 (HTML 2.0)

https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_8.html#SEC8.1....
Yes, he wrote it near the end of his life. It's one of his few non sci-fi books. It actually hits on a lot of the same themes as VALIS (PKD's most bizarre, personal, and "rambling" book), but in a somewhat more "grounded" way? I highly recommend it.
Basically a fitness band with 3 weeks of battery life that does 90% of typical smartwatch usage. IMO this is where huawei watches got it right, they're glorified smartbands with good hardware with a hardware button that adds extra utility (too bad non programmable).

But yes to epaper screen and programmable buttons would be nice. Pebble was 10 years ago, I thought we'd be at commodity F91W smartwatch hardware by now. And TBF $50 fitness trackers are close.
I have a feeling I am going to dislike a lot of the changes coming down the pipe. I like things as they are.
I'm really confused by this story. It is super vague about what is the current state of things vs what is the change.

If Apple is going to allow sideloading, how exactly are they able to charge all these fees? Doesn't this make staying with the App Store even less appealing? Are they trying to force users to sideload or something?
From TFA:

> In Perl, eval can be used with a block to trap exceptions which is why it was being used everywhere.

...which your search doesn't seem to exclude (I'm not signing up to Github to find out so I'm just guessing from your URL that you didn't exclude "eval {" or "eval q{")

It does still use eval on occasion and they seem happy with it.

* for their own controlled expressions to customise base parsing behaviour (which could be refactored to use function references instead, but it's not a case of evaluating external data)

* to test if modules can be imported (which you've excluded from your search)

and in one case in CanonRaw.pm, using eval on an expression that matches [0-9./]+ , I'm not sure it looks at external data but it might, and at best you could cause a divide-by-zero error (e.g. 1/0) or syntax error (e.g. ///) if you mess with the data it parses.

So overall, not much dangerous eval going on.
> There's no reason for eSIM to not be easily transferrable between devices like pSIMs are.

Indeed there is none:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212780

> Use eSIM Quick Transfer on iPhone

> Some carriers support SIM transfers from your previous iPhone to your new iPhone without needing to contact them. You can also convert your current physical SIM card to an eSIM.

The whole page is full of what eSIM can do, but it seems carriers are not too happy about that as many block things that should be outright possible.

There are tons of weird things that are impossible just because carriers, e.g I have a phone that can do eSIM or pSIM, I have a tablet that can do mobile, eSIM or pSIM. I have a nice data plan for the phone, and it is eligible to share it with a watch and/or a tablet. Such a hypothetical watch that I don't own would be eSIM, and be able to share the data plan but somehow the exact same case for the tablet can only be done via pSIM, neither can I convert its pSIM to an eSIM, which is allowed for the phone. It makes no sense.
Maybe not the answer you're looking for, but I use VOIP numbers because I need a US number but I usually don't live in the US and don't have a US SIM card. Google Voice and Hushed are two options, you can find other services.

I have found banks, credit card companies, and government agencies accept the VOIP number. I can't remember the last time I got called by any government agency, or the last time I had occasion to call one.

A couple of services have refused to accept a VOIP number. Square Cash comes to mind, I just stopped using that.

When traveling or living abroad I may get a local phone number, but since everyone I need to communicate with, including businesses, seem to use messaging apps like WhatsApp and Line I generally use those with wifi or a data-only SIM.
Your local government is staffed by people accountable to you, and it is easy enough to call them, and to get everyone you know to call them, and tell them if they do this they will be out of a job next election.
I wonder how that interacts with being visually immersed in a VR environment. The walker will have no momentum, but still go through the motions of walking -- the visual feedback won't align with that of the inner ear.

Maybe the next step is to put the rolly floor on a platform that can be dynamically angled away from horizontal, effectively creating a pitch that makes the person feel like they're leaning (well, they would be leaning) and that might be enough to fool the inner ear? Gravity and acceleration are pretty interchangeable after all.
But you can run the bridge locally, so the "MitM" is the user themselves, and not actually a threat.
The YouTube channel, 'The Quantified Scientist', does a great job of comparing sleep tracking wearables to a reference EEG. He collects a lot of data and presents it very well.
It's better than the alternatives (Google). Does Android still have mandatory locaton services enabled?
i think technically it's hydrogen chloride, not chlorine, that makes cutting pvc hazardous
When developers distribute their app via non-Apple appstores, they do not use any services of Apple, right?

Then how can Apple still charge them?

For what?

And how could Apple force them to pay?
Looks like someone might have been trying to prepare the ground for a hijack of 127.0.0.0/8...
We’ve come a long way from breaking IE off of Windows because it was monopolistic.
> Grusch last year about intact alien vehicles and non-human “biologics”, or biological matter, stored at a remote facility.

I have heard from military friends that they have seen and interacted with non-human creatures on US military bases.

These creatures even have a star associated with them.

They are referred to by scientists as Canis familiaris
To whom is it offensive if I describe myself as "culturally Christian"? Christians? Why?

Which term would you prefer I use, to describe the effect I mentioned?
Beeper was always about more than iMessage. It just turned out to be the most desired/special integration, despite supporting so many other networks. A good example is one of the employees posted an image from 2020 in the community server. It was of back when it was called "NovaChat" and the purpose then was still just to aggregate all your chat apps, no specific mention of Apple or iMessage even.
Besides a handful popular artists not making as much as they used to during the golden age of MTV and CDs, have things really changed that much for the rest? Music business was always extremely hit driven.
Huh? WiFi and an iCloud account works fine.
Many of these are just scanners, that never bite even when you dangle them some tasty appropriate response.
For a long time I thought we were on a solid track to full VR, which would be indiscernible from reality. Recently I’ve realised that I was very wrong, and this is why. The visual element of VR is pretty much solved. Audio no problem. But the movement in space is intractable I now believe, and it is an absolutely critical issue that scuppers the whole idea.

Tricks like this can give you a better approximation but I don’t think it’ll ever be good enough. You want to jump, spin, crouch, crawl, lie down. And interact with others.

I think AR is going to be massive and Apple Vision Pro will be a big hit by gen 3 or 4, but VR is something likely to be “Human-Brain-Interface complete”.

Given HBI success will likely arrive on or after the time we reach AGI, I don’t really know how that’s going to work out. I think headsets will be really fun for a while, but we’re not going to get the full experience.

Unless we can suspend people in some kind of viscous fluid with respirators, and ummm people think that’s acceptable… suspend them on cables and blow compressed air at them? Google glass no longer looks so embarrassing…
The iPhone sold at a huge profit margin before there even was a store so this is obviously false.
I am bothered each and every time I see a lost pet poster that does not include either the date when the pet went missing or when the poster was put up. My internal voice shouts "Help us to help YOU!"
Then we'll deal with that "at some point" I guess? Again, Israel is a bad guy too. It's all bad guys. All options suck. So pick the one with less death and just shuffle along until some unknown event in the far future acts to break the stalemate and produce a peaceful region (or, more realistically, acts to break the equilibrium and we get a genuine demographic disaster that returns the area to a "single ethnicity" state, which sucks even more, but may be unavoidable).

Tough love: Israel can't expect to continue to act as it has in the decades since the fall of the PA. It ultimately depends on international support and that support will eventually run out, c.f. the linked article. It won't happen soon, or all at once, but it will happen and there needs to be a plan for regional coexistence, and as you'd surely agree there really isn't one beyond an imagined (and largely impossible) total military victory.
This is exactly how a committee would design it if none of the participants had actually used an internal domain.

For example, in Google, https://go/foo had "go" as technically a TLD, and the memorable suffix that followed was already part of the path and not the domain name. It made it easy to type or include anywhere, including chats, posters, presentation slides, etc.

If they were to follow this proposal instead, you'd be typing or including https://go.internal/foo , which while more explicit largely defeats the point of the short URL.
There are tons of phones supported by postmarketos, you can use sxmo with any of those as well. But I have a pinephone, I'm "one of those people"
Why does change in magnetic flux induce current?