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Sabem porque é que eu vos digo para usarem ferramentas AI em grande volume desde que não paguem nem um chavo às empresas de AI?
Porque a AI é uma bolha. Como qualquer bolha, quando rebentar vai ter efeitos na economia real. Mas quando mais depressa rebentar, menos efeitos terá. Se rebentar antes dos idiotas meterem AI em tudo será muito menos destrutiva do que rebentando depois.
Portanto, façamo-la rebentar depressa. Usem AI todos os dias. Não lhes deem um tostão furado.
was just chatting with a former student about how much interesting compiler work never gets written up, and of course other work is written up and then forgotten.
on that topic, was there ever a good overview or retrospective for Microsoft's Phoenix compiler? and does anyone have an educated guess as to how many engineer-years they put into it?
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The R1000 is deeply interesting for more reasons than you can imagine, but what impresses most people is this:
Imagine you maintain a library in some corner of $ReallyBigAndImportantProject and one of your exported functions has a parameter which defaults to 3.
Now you want to change the default to 4.
Who do you call ?
On the R1000, you change the 3 to 4 and when you try to commit that change, it will tell you /precisely/ which other code modules would be /semantically/ affected by that change, and ask you what to do about that.
Only calls which do not explicitly specify that parameter will be on the list.
When we demo that for modern developers, some of them get upset that was possible in 1980 but they can't do it today.
idk what to say other than these dudes look exactly how I expected
Eloquence synthesizer NVDA add-on compatible with 64-bit versions of NVDA - fastfinge/eloquence_64GitHub
I suppose I initially asked because of it defaulting to a Python helper process written in Python, using sockets as the IPC mechanism. Which is very AI, based on what will have been most common in the training data.
But for this sort of thing, I wonder about performance gains from shared memory, COM, or whatever with something other than Python on the other end.
> and AI can't help because we don't have the development headers for ECI.dll to feed it.
Ohhh I bet you could get it decompiled with something like IDA Pro and feed it to an AI model and get somewhere
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SAPI5 interface for the IBM TTS engine. Contribute to datajake1999/SAPI5IBMTTS development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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@jscholes The UK and US are the only two countries with "ID allergy."
In the rest of Europe (and the rest of the world)., it is obvious that every citizen has an ID card, (which is distinct from any other document which could potentially be used for identification, like a passport or driver's license).
Even Germany, which is famously stubborn about things like these (they don't have a single citizen identification number for example) has ID cards.
@FreakyFwoof @jscholes Not having an ID doesn't mean your data is safer, in fact, it's just the opposite.
Without an ID, it's much harder to prove who you are, so organizations that need to do so have to collect more data about you.
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One advantage of using #AdGuardHome is that it provides statistics on the responsiveness of public DNS providers.
For me, #DNS4EU is by far the fastest (10 ms). Perhaps it's because of their geographical proximity, as they're also based in Czechia. The slowest has been #quad9 at 500 ms. I have no idea why.
I'm also glad to learn that DoH doesn't have a significant speed penalty. It's 12 ms versus 10 ms for DNS4EU. So you don't have to trade privacy for responsiveness.
What has been your experience with #DNS providers based in Europe? Do you have any recommendations? I'm interested in unfiltered DNS because I do the filtering in AdGuard Home.
I24: Qatari media reports that Hamas to hand over additional bodies of deceased Israeli hostages tonight.
(Me: We will see if “additional” is all 24, I guess.)
My company has recently stopped using GitLab and I think it's worth a quick discussion why, because I think these are largely addressible.
Firstly, their paid product for teams is very pricey. Where Github costs ~$4 per seat per month, GitLab charges $29 per month. Even if we assume some portion of that is due to Microsoft's economy of scale and exploitation of user code for things like AI training, that's 7.5x more expensive!
GitLab charges for things like API address, and even more (full price) if you want to do things like store secrets via API.
While the direct cost wasn't a lot, I didn't feel like being nickle and dimed, and the product was just not worth it.
I enjoyed the product, but the pricing wasn't 2x, or even 3x, but >7.x! I felt like I was being taken advantage of, so we left altogether!
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OK Linux folks. With #KDE hitting 29 years old, I'm curious about switching my gaming PC from Windows 11 to KDE. The games I play are listed on ProtonDB as being gold or platinum, so I think I'm good as far as gaming goes, but I have some other software concerns.
What do y'all use for cloud file storage/syncing?
What do you use for image editing/creation?
Where can I find out if my Razer Leviathan and HyperX mic will work on KDE?
Nextcloud isn't just a storage any more. It's a platform for integrated apps. I cover a lot of things with it: files, calendars, contacts, tasks, document editing, photo albums, password manager, RSS reader, notes taking... If you don't prefer selfhosting, Hetzner provides it for ~€5/TB/month.
GIMP has improved, but its UI isn't radically different from what it was 20 years ago. There are other editors. Just "I need exactly Photoshop and Light room" doesn't work.
@tk here have some cheese
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Microplastics have now made their way into one of the most unexpected places: dairy. Scientists in Italy found plastic fragments in milk, fresh cheese, and aged cheese — which they believe are introduced during production and processing.Stacey Leasca (Food & Wine)
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Next year in November, the Voyager 1 spacecraft will be ONE full light day away from the Earth!
Launched in 1977, it took almost 50 Earth years to reach "just" distance of 1 light day
Space is so big and we are so tiny 
French PM (right): we need to find money for the budget.
Biggest group in the assembly (left): how about we tax the rich properly?
French PM (right): no not like that.
They manufacture the crisis to protect the hoard of billionaires. And the media still try to pretend Macron is a centrist.
Around 200,000 Linux computer systems from American computer maker Framework were shipped with signed UEFI shell components that could be exploited to bypass Secure Boot protections.
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