In Gulliver's Travels, the Laputans had a machine called The Engine that put words together randomly, with scribes writing down any meaningful phrases that happened to be formed.
"Every one knew how laborious the usual method is of attaining to arts and sciences; whereas, by his contrivance, the most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.”
The Wikipedia page for The Engine currently says "See also Large Language Model".
The panel was moderated by @nicholas gates ( @OpenForumEurope ) with excellent insights from : David Cuartielles ( Malmo University), @Amandine ( @matrix ), Sachiko Muto (RISE, OpenForum Europe), Walid Mathlouthi ( International Telecommunication Union), Joshua Tan (Metagov).
The article doesn't mention XWayland at all, but KiCad works perfectly under XWayland as far as I can tell, and that is the default on at least Fedora! wxwidgets (the toolkit KiCad uses) is still flaky under native Wayland apparently, but it is perfectly okay to keep using XWayland for now, and you should! Apps and toolkits should not switch the default backend to Wayland until all major regressions are fixed, that's kind the whole reason why XWayland exists!
If you are on a distro that enables KiCad Wayland support by default and you experience the issues in that blog post, you don't need to (and probably should not) switch to an X11 session. Just launch KiCad as GDK_BACKEND=x11 kicad and it should run under XWayland just as well as it does under X11 sessions.
Some distros are dropping support for the legacy Xorg server and X11-native sessions, but nobody is dropping support for X11 apps and XWayland, and nobody should be concerned about running apps in X11 mode for as long as it's needed!
Edit: If you're on GNOME with fractional scaling and XWayland apps are blurry, apparently there's a secret toggle to fix that these days.
The KiCad development team frequently receives questions about our support for Wayland. Given that Fedora and Ubuntu are both planning to drop X11 support from their main desktop environments in the near future, we want to provide clear, transparent …
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U juniora i Codexu mam za sebou dost ukolu na normalizaci. 1 normo-ukol je priblizne 4h casu => 1068 Kc.
Codex me stoji ve VC cenach 5219 Kc mesicne.
S Codexem jsem odbavil 175 produkcnich normo-ukolu => 1 ukol ~ 30 Kc.
Kdybych mel stejnou mesicni davku odbavit juniory stali by me 186900 Kc.
Jedina vyhoda juniornich vyvojaru je preciznost. Vsechno ostatni bere Codex. Coz je dost smutne a jestli AI vyrazne nezdrazi, tak to bude budouci trh dost bolet.
Neni. Je to presne naopak, Codex je v tomhle smyslu "investice".
Ja platim fixne aktualni MDM (striktne). Pokud bych mel juniora brat jako investici, tak by se za fixni plat musel v case zlepsovat a zaroven byt s tou MDM dlouhodobe spokojeny. A dlouhodobe je v horizontu let => musel byt pro me pracovat 2-3 roky vyrazne pod trzni cenou. To se nestane.
Naopak cenova valka AI a jeho postupne zlepsovani de opacnym smerem (AI mi zustane a bude lepsi).
@zoul Já se v těch nástrojích moc nevyznám, ale je už nějaký, který by svým vlastníkům generoval zisk nebo se tomu alespoň nevzdaloval? Zatím mám pocit, že do AI jen bohatí lijou peníze a doufají / věří, že se jim to jednou vrátí. Ale pokud ztráta časem exponenciálně roste (jak jsem někde četl ohledně Open AI) a prodává se za dumpingové ceny, tak bych asi úplně cenovou válku neočekával, spíš “konsolidaci” a výhledově zdražení.
@marekzprahy @zoul Na urovni organizace ne, ale na urovni produktu uz to tak byt muze.
OpenAI ma pro nejnovejsi modely drahe API, ale zaroven je prodava vyrazne pod cenou v ChatGPT produktu.
Claude Code je asi prvni, kde verim, ze ops celeho toho ekosystemu je v plusu.
AI Studio od Googlu, jeho casti, kde se plati per-1m tokenu taky.
Pro ne je to spis testovani, jak vysoko s cenou muzou jit a taky tim davaji "prilezitost" jinym startupum (a jejich VCs) ziskat uzivatele dumpnutim ceny API.
@zoul Presne tak. Co vacsina ludi ignoruje ze ak toto zacnu robit vsetci, o par rokov nebudu ziadni seniori, a tie tvoje TODO commenty tam nebude mat kto davat.
A co sa tyka ceny, tie LLM tooly pojdu nevyhnutne cenovo hore. Momentalne je v USA obrovska "AI" bublina ktora zerie miliony dolarov denne od investorov, a "AI" firmy sa zufalo snazia najst nejaky udrzatelny revenue stream predtym nez investori stratia trpezlivost. Zatial bezvysledne.
@ticho @zoul Ano, tohle je obrovske riziko a duvod, proc jsem psal, ze to bude pro budouci trh tragedie.
Ale je strasne odvazne predikovat, ze ta bublina praskne. Signaly jsou na obe strany:
Pro prasknuti: - Realna cena Claude Code (za podobnou praci ~$2k) => jenom 4x levnejsi.
Proti prasknuti: - Demokratizace LLM za nulovou marzi => provider bude vlastnit elektrarnu a prodavat elektrinu v podobe AI. - Zlepseni efektivity (viz treba Bottlecap AI).
I have to spend several hours each week dealing with security issues reported by third parties. Most of these issues aren't critical but it's still a lot of...
We've come a long, long way... (Top screenshot is StarOffice from the mid-'90s, and bottom is LibreOffice today.) Learn more about the software's roots, with Stefan Soyka: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware
Ich muss gestehen, ich mag die alte Optik! 🤓 😊 Sie ist klar und eindeutig - das ist beim heutigen "flat design" leider allzu oft nicht gegeben. Funktional ist es ja auch egal, da LO "themes" nutzen kann. Jeder kann sich also seine Lieblings-Optik installieren! 😊 Nur bitte LO-Team, macht nicht den gleichen Fehler wie andere Software-Hersteller und doktert ständig an der UI rum: Interfaces haben stabil zu sein und das gilt genauso für das Nutzer-'Interface'!!! 🧐
@mingu Hi! It's a bit hard to say, without any details about your setup (LibreOffice version, operating system etc.) Try asking on ask.libreoffice.org with details and someone should be able to help you!
30 years apart is indeed a lot of time and change is truly visible. However, to me, the suite looks just like 15 years ago. Any major update coming up?
My dad and I used to use StarWriter for DOS in the 80s and early 90s. I remember learning about its formatting commands, like `.pa` at the beginning of a line starting a new page. Imagine my surprise when years later, I learned about roff :)
gotta love that 90s design though! I wish UI designs were still this classy with 3D buttons and clear hierarchy (not just LibreOffice but any desktop software)
I'll be honest. I did not like StarOffice at all back in the day. Back then I was doing Desktop Publishing with Ventura DTP and generating commercial Bitstream fonts overnight etc. But since 2010 I will use nothing but LibreOffice.
You're Watching The Official Video Of Praise You by Fatboy Slim The signature hit by Fatboy Slim which chart topped at no.1 in the UK charts and 36 in the U...
You're Watching The Official Video Of Praise You by Fatboy Slim The signature hit by Fatboy Slim which chart topped at no.1 in the UK charts and 36 in the U...
Lobenswert übrigens, wie einfach auch #barrierefreiePDF mit #Writer erstellt werden können. Vorausgesetzt, ihr nutzt konsequent Absatzformate etc, müssen die PDF nur noch minimal in Acrobat nachbearbeitet werden. Was dagegen zB bei Apple #Pages zum Teil rauskommt, ist verheerend.
yes, I know. The first naming was also not right. With namings like that it suggests the average "just read the headline/non-tech"-user that Signal is a problem. Which is not the case. The average person only remember that there was something bad with Signal and never switches from WhatsAd. I've already seen people argumenting in that way. That's why naming is important.
@sturmsucht I partially agree. On the other hand, it's a prime example of bad security: Taking a secure app, adding an unencrypted archive, being surprised hackers get in. Signalgate just sums this up nicely, but, yes, we have to make clear - and I hope we do in the post - that's it's absolutely not an issue with Signal itself.
Haha, yeah the front one sounded a bit better. But it's like, there's still processing on them even if off, no idea how it would be turned off, but, yeah, Apple is weird. Cool music! 🎵 😆
This is a silly sequence thing I did in the early morning hours of October 11, 2015, using an Arturia Microbrute and a Korg ARP Odyssey, both analog sequencers, in combination with a Digitech Studio Quad IV processor. I made a very basic sequence using the Microbrute's onboard step sequencer, connected the CV pitch and gate outputs from the Microbrute to the Odyssey, turned on the sequencer, then just played with a bunch of sliders and knobs, including filters, envelopes, effects sends, panning and tempo, all while this simple sequence that really seems to enjoy moving around in fourths continues.
It's nothing that was ever meant to be anything real. Just me messing around on a boring Sunday morning.
For the past five days, we've had to go to the bomb shelter several times a day to protect ourselves from Iranian missiles. This morning, they sent 20 missiles closer to our apartment than any of the previous attacks. One of the Missiles landed in the next town and created a great big hole.
This is what it sounded like from our kitchen window.
The recording Starts with the air raid sirens, and then just before they finish at about 90 seconds, you start to hear the interceptions.
NSO Artistic Advisor Ben Folds composes a piece live with the National Symphony Orchestra and conductor Edwin Outwater during Sound Health in Concert: Music ...
Krásné dobré ráno mastodonní děckapecka! 🙋♀️🐶🐈 Mně dneska začíná volno! S Otcem rodu vyrážíme na Šumavu. Potomci zůstávají doma. Archibaldík taky. Zkouška pro nás oba. 😂 Lednice je plná k prasknutí. Špajz taky. Navařeno jest. Nádrž u náhradního vozidla plná. Tousty na cestu v procesu. Bez těch by to Otec rodu nedal. 😁 Nebojte, mě se nezbavíte. Pokud bude signál, já přijdu! 😁😁😁 Vy zůstaňte na svých přijímačích a nezlobte tady! 😊 #dobre_rano #dobréRáno
Pilot compiling with #poudriere for #FreeBSD #ports went well! It did seem a bit complicated to configure at first but sing ports made easy with #poudriere and #jail. It was so simple and straightforward to actually run #poudriere that I secretly thought it took out all the fun of seeing scrolling screens of compling! #BSD #Unix #UseBSD #RunBSD #FOSS
I have followed this guy on YouTube who reviews restaurants and public transit in LA for the past year or so and today he uploaded food reviews at the LA protests and it's fantastic. You can see quiet, chill citizens marching for better treatment then masked marines looking like stormtroopers deployed for no good reason. youtube.com/watch?v=lpeG4S6a7k…
LA's autonomy and safety are being threatened with violence from local and federal sources. But that only draws the community more closely together in solida...
On this day in 1973, Dolly Parton recorded I Will Always Love You, a heartfelt tribute to her mentor, Porter Wagoner. When Elvis Presley wanted to cover it, Dolly smartly turned down the offer, refusing to give up 50% of her publishing. That's Dolly—awesome and savvy!
a friend of mine who was already having a hard time just had a hit and run that is making things even harder for her, and may finally break her financially without some help.
please consider donating if you are able, any little bit helps:
Well, the time is almost upon us, well me and my captain anyway. The big bike ride is on Saturday... 4 more sleeps as they say. Just 4 more days of fundraising and then it's 130 KM of hopefully not too hot cycling. For everyone who have donated, thank you so much, it meanhs a lot for not only me, but for the organizations that will receive the funds. And thank you so much for cheering me on virtually on Saturday. I'll see if I can do a few live audio or videos on here. Have to figure out how: raceroster.com/events/2025/916…
I'm stoked, (see what I did there?), to get back on the tandem and helping in this fundraiser. It will be a blast and I'll be helping a bunch of organizations.
@NVAccess The download page at nvaccess.org/download/ appears to be broken, namely the heading at the top still says NVDA version 2024.4.2 and that's the one being downloaded, rather than 2025.1.1.
That's rather interesting and odd. I've tried a private browsing window and it was still showing 2024.4.2, then I tried a regular window, and only after CTRL+F5 the issue was resolved, though multiple people are noticing the same thing. Originally it was reported by a few users on the audiogames forum and I wanted to check if you can do something on your end, something seems to be cached that shouldn't be.
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Trump’s EPA to “reconsider” ban on cancer-causing asbestos
Trump has supported use of asbestos and blamed the mob for its bad reputation.
https://arstechnica.
> In his 1997 book The Art of the Comeback, Trump wrote that asbestos is "100% safe, once applied," and blamed the mob for its reputation as a carcinogen, writing: "I believe that the movement against asbestos was led by the mob, because it was often mob-related companies that would do the asbestos removal."
this dude is fucking nuts
Yeah, the mob single-handedly got asbestos banned because members of the mob were getting mesothelioma?????
@sun well Russia was our primary supplier of asbestos, sooooo
but also like mob companies doing asbestos removal? why? why would they get federally certified for that? just opens them up to more risk for their money laundering operations
Link to issue number:
Fixes #15159.
Summary of the issue:
In focus mode in web browsers, when a control specifies a label using aria-label or aria-labelledby, it is impossible to review or spell th...
Sorry I didn't have time to test it back when you posted the diff, although I almost certainly wouldn't have caught that anyway. Thanks for your efforts. @amir @NVAccess
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in reply to iNecas • • •In Gulliver's Travels, the Laputans had a machine called The Engine that put words together randomly, with scribes writing down any meaningful phrases that happened to be formed.
"Every one knew how laborious the usual method is of attaining to arts and sciences; whereas, by his contrivance, the most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.”
The Wikipedia page for The Engine currently says "See also Large Language Model".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Engi…
Fictional computational machine in Gulliver's Travels
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