The Internet was already a very different place back then. These days, most people are on a few very large platforms. Back then it was a lot of smaller sites and forums, whose individual vibes depended a lot on its own moderation policies.
I spent much of that day with other players of the MUD-style game I played at the time, figuratively huddling together, sharing updates about our people in NYC as we heard from them.
For a time, I think, people were kind of stunned. The US had thought itself invulnerable, you understand.
But it wasn't very long before the raging islamophobia began, and a hard turn toward the direction of fascism. But also the reaction to that. The split was stark.
And is still going on to this day, I suppose.
So no, people didn't quite stop being dicks. If anything they only started dicking harder.
Interesting point... In this case, I have a hunch that the requirements in terms of training data and hardware to run the training on would remain prohibitive, but I do wonder how much could be actually achieved using a distributed scheme of sorts.
I'd take a model whose training data is open source and legitimately obtained. The only ones I know about are Apertus and OLMo, and they aren't really competitive.
Yeah, I don't actually know what's up for the Gulf of Mexico but it does seem they implemented a mechanism to show two names in certain contexts. I'll theorize it triggers when a polygon overlaps international jurisdictions with conflicting data, but that's just a guess and therefore likely wrong.
At any rate there are probably intense internal meetings going on right now...
Unless the Maps backend changed since I last heard about it, they didn't. They use official sources in each country -- for the US that would be the USGS I suppose -- and if those sources publish an update, Maps shows the update, as a passive mechanism. It's preserving the normal name against the USGS change that would take an active action.
Mind you I still think they should actively preserve the normal name, and be held accountable for not doing so. They won't. But they should.
Thanks for the link! I didn't know about this study. Interesting. And not so surprising, maybe, if you followed the technical discussions that surrounded the design of MV3 at the time.
Wow, that's incredible. I feel pretty much the exact opposite (and don't get me started on Silksong, I'll rave for days) but that must mean there's a game I missed that's your Hollow Knight? Please tell me about it!
Depends on your RAM (main + GPU), but assuming 32GB total: Qwen 3.6 35B A3B for coding support, Gemma 4 26B for general stuff. The LM Studio app curates a list of recommended models that will run well in it and makes it easy to run them.
Mind you, what I like most about local models is their limitations, because it turns out closed models have limitations of the same nature, just with quite a bit more runway; and becoming aware of those limitations is valuable.
That's a very, very short time for such a major change. Makes me wonder what currently green ecosystems we take for granted a bit too easily.
But it also makes me wonder whether a reversal is within human reach. To start with, cheap solar potentially enables desalinization and irrigation at unprecedented scales... What a nice thing to feel optimistic about, if nothing else.
When it used to happen, there were a couple of issues involved.
It used to be that Linux identified partitions ("slices" of hard drive) by number, and when Windows changed its own layout in a way that caused that number to change, Linux could fail to boot. But these days partitions have a unique identifier that doesn't change even when the layout of the hard drive does, and Linux uses these identifiers to keep track of its partitions. So this issue is gone.
It used to be that installing a boot loader involved taking over the first sector of the hard drive and OSes would fight over that sector on install and during updates. But these days there is a mechanism where OSes can put their individual loaders side by side in a special partition and the PC BIOS lets you choose which loader to use. At worst Windows can only update the default choice. It's been known to do that, but it's easy enough to change back. There are tools that let you do so right from inside Windows.
So yes, dual-booting Linux and Windows is safe and easy these days. Keeping them on separate drives isn't even necessary anymore.
NO! This is not just false, it's dangerously false.
If a country takes measures to emit 500M less tons of CO2 per year, the result is... 500M less tons of CO2 in the air per year than otherwise. That helps!
There isn't a single fucked/not fucked threshold. There are a lot of nuances of fucked and each one we dodge puts us in an incrementally less awful place. Who knows how many more lives saved for each Mton CO2 not produced. Who knows how many species get to live, how many fewer days of heatwave per year, how many more glaciers survive.
I STG, "we're already fucked anyway" is oil shill talk. Fuck that noise, let's make oil obsolete, let's avoid entire shades of fucked, we've already made insane progress with renewables and electric cars, let's just keep going! Let's pressure our individual politicians because you know the fuckers love it when you give up! You on board?
The Internet was already a very different place back then. These days, most people are on a few very large platforms. Back then it was a lot of smaller sites and forums, whose individual vibes depended a lot on its own moderation policies.
I spent much of that day with other players of the MUD-style game I played at the time, figuratively huddling together, sharing updates about our people in NYC as we heard from them.
For a time, I think, people were kind of stunned. The US had thought itself invulnerable, you understand.
But it wasn't very long before the raging islamophobia began, and a hard turn toward the direction of fascism. But also the reaction to that. The split was stark.
And is still going on to this day, I suppose.
So no, people didn't quite stop being dicks. If anything they only started dicking harder.
Interesting point... In this case, I have a hunch that the requirements in terms of training data and hardware to run the training on would remain prohibitive, but I do wonder how much could be actually achieved using a distributed scheme of sorts.
I'd take a model whose training data is open source and legitimately obtained. The only ones I know about are Apertus and OLMo, and they aren't really competitive.
Yeah, I don't actually know what's up for the Gulf of Mexico but it does seem they implemented a mechanism to show two names in certain contexts. I'll theorize it triggers when a polygon overlaps international jurisdictions with conflicting data, but that's just a guess and therefore likely wrong.
At any rate there are probably intense internal meetings going on right now...
Unless the Maps backend changed since I last heard about it, they didn't. They use official sources in each country -- for the US that would be the USGS I suppose -- and if those sources publish an update, Maps shows the update, as a passive mechanism. It's preserving the normal name against the USGS change that would take an active action.
Mind you I still think they should actively preserve the normal name, and be held accountable for not doing so. They won't. But they should.
Write the most florid, lurid, joyfully outrageous pornography you can dream up.
Worst case, future slop gets some interesting failure modes...
I am sooooo jelly. I would absolutely 100% cry but I don't care, I want to bottle feed a kangaroo too!
Pern, no question. The people who mentioned the Culture are definitely on to something, and yet, all the same... Give me Pern.
Oh wow, great thinking!
Thanks for the link! I didn't know about this study. Interesting. And not so surprising, maybe, if you followed the technical discussions that surrounded the design of MV3 at the time.
Been very tired and without energy lately, so, basically only comfort games. Which apparently means Silksong right now.
Well damn, that's a super thorough answer! Thank you so much! ❤️
Those of that list I've played, I definitely enjoyed. Celeste in particular is special.
I haven't played Shovel Knight but I'm really intrigued by Mina the Hollower from the same studio, and will likely grab it sometime!
Wow, that's incredible. I feel pretty much the exact opposite (and don't get me started on Silksong, I'll rave for days) but that must mean there's a game I missed that's your Hollow Knight? Please tell me about it!
Depends on your RAM (main + GPU), but assuming 32GB total: Qwen 3.6 35B A3B for coding support, Gemma 4 26B for general stuff. The LM Studio app curates a list of recommended models that will run well in it and makes it easy to run them.
Mind you, what I like most about local models is their limitations, because it turns out closed models have limitations of the same nature, just with quite a bit more runway; and becoming aware of those limitations is valuable.
That's a very, very short time for such a major change. Makes me wonder what currently green ecosystems we take for granted a bit too easily.
But it also makes me wonder whether a reversal is within human reach. To start with, cheap solar potentially enables desalinization and irrigation at unprecedented scales... What a nice thing to feel optimistic about, if nothing else.
That's not been quite true in a long time.
When it used to happen, there were a couple of issues involved.
It used to be that Linux identified partitions ("slices" of hard drive) by number, and when Windows changed its own layout in a way that caused that number to change, Linux could fail to boot. But these days partitions have a unique identifier that doesn't change even when the layout of the hard drive does, and Linux uses these identifiers to keep track of its partitions. So this issue is gone.
It used to be that installing a boot loader involved taking over the first sector of the hard drive and OSes would fight over that sector on install and during updates. But these days there is a mechanism where OSes can put their individual loaders side by side in a special partition and the PC BIOS lets you choose which loader to use. At worst Windows can only update the default choice. It's been known to do that, but it's easy enough to change back. There are tools that let you do so right from inside Windows.
So yes, dual-booting Linux and Windows is safe and easy these days. Keeping them on separate drives isn't even necessary anymore.
The AI tabs in the screenshot are a bit of a giveaway.
This, too, shall pass.
NO! This is not just false, it's dangerously false.
If a country takes measures to emit 500M less tons of CO2 per year, the result is... 500M less tons of CO2 in the air per year than otherwise. That helps!
There isn't a single fucked/not fucked threshold. There are a lot of nuances of fucked and each one we dodge puts us in an incrementally less awful place. Who knows how many more lives saved for each Mton CO2 not produced. Who knows how many species get to live, how many fewer days of heatwave per year, how many more glaciers survive.
I STG, "we're already fucked anyway" is oil shill talk. Fuck that noise, let's make oil obsolete, let's avoid entire shades of fucked, we've already made insane progress with renewables and electric cars, let's just keep going! Let's pressure our individual politicians because you know the fuckers love it when you give up! You on board?
OH. 😂