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[Cian @cianlus]

@OHanlonEilis because it's our money they're spending

[Cian @cianlus]

@reset_by_peer Needs to be treated similar to civil/mechanical engineering and a trade. Both require practitioners to take pride in their work and an understanding of objective ground truths and fundamentals.

[Cian @cianlus]

@JuliusBrummack @dmitriid a good approach that's great for many problems is writing code that works off of look up tables and get AI to generate the lookup tables. This way you can put a hard constraint on what the LLM does and remove potential for error/slop by giving it a small well defined surface

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.

[Cian @cianlus]

@PartyPrat more worrying this time around, I don't think there's yet been a measurable productivity gain, at least not one significant enough given the amount of capital bucketed into AI

[Mark Coughlan @mjc0ughl4n]

I remember when Ireland was a poor country, our trains used to have full dining cars with cooked breakfasts, hot dinners, and dedicated bar areas. Paradoxically, now that we're a rich country, we can't afford these services.

[Cian @cianlus]

@hamchester44 @joncoupland they're easier to keep reliable than most ice cars.

[Ryan Fleury @rfleury]

@ankkala Crazy how this happened after, and not a second before, a Linux graphical debugger codebase was MIT’d

And no, he didn’t “make” anything

[Cian @cianlus]

@eckischeffer @rfleury @ankkala Ryan is the main dev of said MIT codebase...

[Axio 🔶 @axiochrono]

We need a national initiative to explain to the British public how pensions work. So many old people seem to believe that all their National Insurance contributions over the years went into a little personalised money pot in the bank with their name on it.

[Nick, 30 @an0n_Nic]

Aristotle predicted this about 3000 years ago, seems like the inevitable end state of all mature democracies. There is no world where any society can sustain this, it will end in ruin.

[Cian @cianlus]

@cairoasmith I understand your intention, but the alternative is a future where we allow companies to brick your older car when they want to force you to upgrade and charge obscene subscriptions for basic features. An easier way to ensure safety is to just make drivers responsible for mishaps

[Cian @cianlus]

@icpolicy @karl_zylinski That's not the point, things should just work, and until they do, linux will never get a market share of any relevance. Current rise in marlet share is mainly down to Valves devices which generally just work because they target one machine and one userland

[Cian @cianlus]

@ChShersh 100%, the sooner you realize that the point of school is getting as many students as possible to base level proficiency and not mastery, the better

[Cian @cianlus]

@The_Davos_Man I guess the hundred thousand or so people working for these companies in Ireland do don't do anything....

[Cian @cianlus]

@BobbyKi07237912 @JordanEVGuy electricity generation via gas is more efficient (60% efficiency)than internal combustion engines (30-40% thermal efficiency) and EV drivetrains are 90% efficient

[Cian @cianlus]

@SebAaltonen They still ruin cities imo, far too big, usually driven by people who don't know how to manage that size of vehicle. Also, while the above examples have good Cd numbers, a lot of other popular models are still insanely inefficient

[Cian @cianlus]

@jimloveswhisky @de_havas it's not the only EV in existence, plenty of more compelling ones around

[Cian @cianlus]

@1865dsunny @de_havas if you already own a reliable and relatively efficient ICE car then yes, doesn't make sense. For those like myself who have a car reaching it's end of life with terrible economy then an EV makes plenty of sense as the next car to keep for 10-15 years.

[Cian @cianlus]

@de_havas I think we're at the point where an EV daily and a fun ICE weekend car is the winning combo if you can afford to have two cars