Good advice in general; even contractual fuckery aside, you can’t guarantee a company will even still exist this time next year.

“Species concepts are human classification systems, and everybody can disagree and everyone can be right,” she says. “You can use the phylogenetic [evolutionary relationships] species concept to determine what you’re going to call a species, which is what you are implying… We are using the morphological species concept and saying, if they look like this animal, then they are the animal.”

“If they look like this animal then they are the animal” really doesn’t sound like a particularly useful (or scientifically rigorous) position.

Not least because there are lots of animals that look alike but aren’t the same species.

In my limited experience experience, Gemini responds better with flat, emotionless prompts without any courteous language. Using polite phrasing seems more likely to prompt “I can’t answer that sorry” responses, even to questions that it absolutely can answer (and will to a more terse prompt).

So I think my point is “it depends”. LLMs aren’t intelligent, they just produce strings based on their training data. What works better and what doesn’t will be entirely dependent on the specific model.

You don’t know that. The people of Kepler-452b might well be suffering under a truly awful automobile industry.

Fair point.

Redirect it to Blue Sky instead.

I’m not sure I really understand the point of this. Even if you hate Mozilla, the Gecko engine is excellent and it would make far more sense to fork it than to start a new one from scratch.

Building and maintaining a browser engine is hard. FOSS means that everyone is of course free to pursue the projects that interest them, but this doesn’t seem like a great use of effort to me.

Technically not really e-waste, as it’s just the same cycling computer you were buying anyway, and presumably would have a similar lifespan.

The waste part is the non-electronic bits, i.e. when the computer needs replacing you need to bin off the attached bits of aluminium and rubber that make up the rest of the handlebars.

A plastic nob is cheaper than a touchscreen, yes. But if you’ve already got a touchscreen as part of the design anyway (for things like satnav or car maintenance data), it’s cheaper to not include any other buttons or inputs and to bundle them all up into one interface.

I looked at Dino and another one mentioned here and they look dated. Windows 95 feel with better anti-aliasing, rounder corners, but same colors? Gtk 2 or something?

Looks like a standard GTK4 app to me. Whether or not that is to someone’s tastes is obviously subjective, but it uses the same design language as every other GTK app under the sun.

GTK apps always look out of place on Windows though. Looks far more sensible in its native environment (i.e. *nix running GNOME).

Having data means nothing if you can’t monetize it.

As you say, AI can already access it all completely for free with nothing more complicated than a web crawler. Long term, charging AI firms for access is not a viable strategy unless the law changes.

And they’ve been trying for years to monetize visitors through advertising and other schemes, and so far come up consistently short.

To be fair, there are (or were) lots of distros downstream of RHEL marketing themselves as drop-in replacements, not just Oracle. And this move isn’t likely to stop Oracle (and the rest), only make the transition experience less smooth for clients (ultimately all the downstream distros can just rebase off of CentOS Stream instead; they lose “bug for bug” compatibility, but will still largely be drop-in replacements).

I also find it hard to muster any sympathy for IBM of all people, even when their opponent is Oracle (who are the lowest of the low).

We can’t immediately convert all cars to EV, we don’t have the grid capacity or enough charging stations, yet.

Well sure, but there’s no suggestion of converting “all cars” to EVs “immediately”. Even if ICE cars were banned for new sales tomorrow, it’d still take a decade and more for the existing rolling stock to gradually be replaced by new vehicles.

A 10 year period for utility companies to gradually upgrade their infrastructure doesn’t sound desperately unrealistic.

They started selling them in the UK this year, and I’ve already started to see them on the road. They claim to be on track for around 30,000 sales per year in the country, which would put them at about half of the number of Teslas sold (about 60,000).

Why are people buying them? Well, the same reason people buy any car. They’re sold with a relatively high trim for a relatively affordable price, and they’re reviewing well with the auto press. It’s not like there’s any magic to it. China’s a cheap manufacturing country, and they’re undoubtedly willing to throw profit margins to the wolves to boost market share.

Slaps ocean; this baby practically desalinates itself!

“Rock star developer” was originally coined to mean literally the anti-pattern of what you want from a Dev team.

It’s someone who undeniably has plenty of skill, but who also:

• Has an unbearable ego.
• Doesn’t work well with others.
• Doesn’t document or comment their work properly.
• Refuses to work to other people’s designs.
• Becomes an enormous key man dependency.

(Or some combination of similar traits).

The fact that recruiters heard the term and thought “hey, rock stars are cool, let’s get as many of those as possible” is hilariously tragic.

You can, yep. You can skidaddle over to kbin.social and give it a go.

The important thing to remember is that all of the stuff that you do with your account (subscribing, posting, commenting etc.) is actually done by the server your account is on. The way you “interact” with users/content on other servers is that once you’ve “done something” on your server, it then let’s other servers know about it (via federation).

So if you’re a Lemmy user and say “I want to subscribe to tech@kbin.social”, your Lemmy server will go away and pull down all the info for that community from kbin.social and start displaying it in your feed. If you create a post on that community, your Lemmy server will send a message to kbin.social containing all the info it needs to create the post.

Lemmy and kbin fully federate together, so all this works just the same as kbin-to-kbin or Lemmy-to-Lemmy. As also mentioned, kbin also has “microblogging” (Twitter-like posting) as well as Reddit-like thread posting, and fully federates with Mastodon in the same way.

From an end user point of view, there’s not much difference other than the UI (and because of differing APIs, different third party apps too). It’s fully interoperable with Lemmy (and Mastodon).

Behind the scenes on the server, though, it’s a completely different piece of software.