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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Nostr, another federated social media protocol, kind of like ActivityPub (which we're using right now), but different.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, but not all clients expose dependent tasks (which is sadly a common issue with open standards: they aren't always properly implemented). I'm using Tasks.org on my phone (which supports dependent tasks), synchronizing to a Nextcloud server with the Tasks app (which supports dependent tasks now, ~~but didn't for a long time~~), which also syncs to Thunderbird (which does not appear to show dependent tasks as dependents).

Edit: remembered that the Nextcloud Tasks app has long supported dependent tasks. I was thinking of recurring tasks, which it does not support. Again, open standards aren't always fully implemented.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I think CalDAV (which uses the iCalendar format) may be the closest thing. It covers calendar items, obviously, but also task and journal items.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (8 children)

It sure feels like we're at the peak of the Gartner hype cycle. If so, the bubble will pop, and we'll end up with AI used where it actually works, not shoved into everything. In the long run, that pop could be a small blip in overall development, like the dot-com bust was to the growth of the internet, but it's difficult to predict that while still in the middle of the hype cycle.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

The original blog post (linked in the article) refers to this as a DynaRec, i.e. a dynamic recompiler. So it's not exactly emulating, but nor is it the ahead-of-time recompilation that Rosetta 2 can do.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Relevant XKCD. Humans have always been able to lie. Having a single form of irrefutable proof is the historical exception, not the rule.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

Days before the 2016 election, 538 (which Nate Silver founded and was leading at the time) ran an article titled "Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton". Nate Silver and 538 did some of the best forecasting of that election. Don't conflate him with others' screwups.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've never worked in a grocery store, but you're welcome I guess?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots#Assassination_attempts_and_plots

You're correct. You'll notice every president in recent history has multiple assassination attempts listed. The bulk of them don't go very far.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Technologically, I2P handles large data transfers much more efficiently than TOR. That makes I2P useful for torrenting large files like Linux ISOs.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why not? Toddlers do things like point out clocks all the time. The "passive agressive" part is the parent's interpretation. The actual action that is described is so very normal.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And yeah, it did used to be a lot more common. And before that, it was a medical term.

It's the euphemism treadmill in action.

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