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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Most of their quotes come from this Ono guy...

Ono, who is also a freelance mathematical consultant for Epoch AI.

Ahhh, there it is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think the article said CVLR would be battery powered to eliminate the need for overhead cables. I'm not saying I believe it is worse than e.g. and electric bus. But even the company producing it seems to struggle to articulate its advantages.

The reason I care is because I really want more trams in English towns/cities. But not if it's a pared down version that gives the entire concept a bad image

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That's kind of my concern. I'm worried they're cutting so many corners that the competitive edge over busses all but vanishes and, best case scenario, this ends up being a bizarre PR campaign for public transit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Whilst this is very cool, I'm a little concerned about how the pros for "very light rail" basically amount to having better vibes than busses. Not that I even disagree with that premise, but I'd want something more concrete...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Witcher 1 really has old-school difficulty syndrome. Getting past act 1 was a nightmare for me, then somewhere around late act 2 the combat became trivial and I could just stunlock everything.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

There's something chilling about an expert being asked if a statement represents their opinion, them saying "no", then the statement appearing regardless but attributed to "some experts"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

If you're able to easily migrate issues etc to a new instance, then you don't need to worry about a particular service providers getting shitty. At which point your main concern is temporary outages.

Perhaps this is more of a concern for some projects (e.g. anything that angers Nintendo's lawyers). But for most, I imagine that the added complexity of distributed p2p hosting would outweigh the upsides.

Not saying it's a bad idea, in fact I like it a lot, but I can see why it's not a high priority for most OSS devs

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The project's official repo should probably exist in a single location so that there is an authoritative version. At that point p2p is only necessary if traffic for the source code is getting too expensive for the project.

Personally I think the source hut model is closest to the ideal set up for OSS projects. Though I use Codeberg for my personal stuff because I'm cheap and lazy

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Its actually GNU image manipulation program, so pretty much.

Or "Green Is My Pepper" if you ask RMS...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Just to lob a controversial thought in there: There may be some challenges the game industry faces that aren't solely "capitalism bad". The most compelling one I've heard is that, as games as a medium they have to increasingly compete with a growing back catalogue of classics.

Between that and the rise of indie games, it gets increasingly risky to invest in large projects.

(To try and preempt some comments: I am not saying that investors are "right" to pull out of the games industry. I just want people to consider whether the problem, and hence the solution, is more complicated than they first thought)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Whether or not he represents Americans, as head of state, he represents America

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think it means client-server basically. You can host a server in "the cloud" then access a frontend to it via your browser.

Might also mean it has features relevant to debugging/deploying cloud services.

Cloud is often a BS marketing word, but I'm sure there's ways to make it justifiable in this case. (Not that any of us has to like these features. I for once can't stand the idea of having my editor run inside a browser...)

 

Was trying to install guix on top of fedora silverblue. It's kinda working, but not exactly stable...

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