ONLY if it’s an open standard anyone can make readers and tape for.

Especially not a fan of getting fucked over when the company randomly decides to discontinue the product line when the whole point of the product is long term data archival.

Exiting unions, as British as spotted dick.

You mean to tell me raining death and cruelty upon civilians of a country because you think they’re extremists/terrorists ends up being the reason those ideologies expand and concentrate?

Strange. That never happened with the Palestinians, why is it happening here? 🤔

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And until we move past this (and many other animalistic traits) we cannot in good faith say we’re superior to animals.

I don’t hate AI, I hate the overuse of AI in places where it’s not suited for. I hate the as-a-service model every Western AI vendor enforces. I hate the people seeing AI as a get rich quick scheme and not as a technology to be leveraged intelligently and meaningfully.

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Instead of history | grep whatever

Fireworks are explosives by definition so yes

How are you getting a local LLM to read files for you?

Chinese characters are all square. You know that lined paper for helping kids learn to write? For Chinese it’s a series of square cells with star shaped internal markings for aligning the characters. Having them be square means whether you write them vertically or horizontally it takes up the same amount of space overall.

Latin characters are mostly tall and narrow. You can write them vertically but then they will take up way more space than if you wrote them horizontally, so it’s annoying and difficult to read. The few times I’ve seen it in the wild I always have to pause and properly look at it instead of being able to read it as a glance, but that might also be due to me being used to reading English horizontally.

Also, some Latin characters like g or h are taller than the rest, but they extend in opposite directions, which makes it even more difficult to align the characters vertically. Capital and lowercase make this worse. In Chinese, there’s no character cases, and characters like 一 are defined as being centred in the square, so having that empty space when written vertically helps with alignment when reading.

Don’t know enough about Japanese or Korean to say but I’d assume they’re similar.

Also I’d imagine precedence has a lot to do with it too. If it’s been written both vertically and horizontally for thousands of years, people grow up used to reading it both ways. Latin languages expect horizontal only so we just don’t have experience at parsing it vertically so it takes longer.

A guy went to adobe.com and told the truth. This is what happened to his organs.

Probably because it’s prioritising what it thinks you’re more likely to click on more than the actual search term. AI recommendations basically.

I’d declare even more war if they tried shoving him on me.

Animals run on instinct and are not capable of anything close to this kind of stuff. This level of cruelty is only possible with humans and any attempt to equate the perpetrators with animals in Western discourse is an attempt by humans not doing shit about the horrors our fellow humans are committing to feel better about themselves by insinuating that the people committing atrocities are somehow “not” human like us.

Don’t get me wrong, animals are fucking brutal to each other, but they are not cruel for the sake of being cruel. Unduely cruel animals are selected out of the gene pool. A predator that constantly hunts for sport will wipe out their prey and go extinct. Individuals that waste energy torturing their prey for their own enjoyment will be out competed by members of their own species that simply do what they need to survive. Animals actually have mechanisms to prevent excessive cruelty in an overwhelmingly cruel existence, meanwhile we actively encourage and send resources to support cruelty and allow it to expand. This is a choice, not nature. We have the unique ability to build a safe, thrivable world for every member of our species through our technology. We choose not to.

It would be like giving credence to the concept of “anti-aryanism” in the context of the holocaust.

Which, should be noted, was absolutely a Nazi talking point. Literally “the Jews want Aryans dead so we have to kill them first.”

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People say quantum computing is a grift?

The other two are are only “grifts” because capitalism has shoved them into things that have no business involving them and breeds opportunistic get rich quick mindsets around the technologies. So any time you hear them mentioned it’s more than likely to be a grift. They are fine in certain niches and very stupid everywhere else, like every other technology.

China: “Wow they’re a lot less tough than we thought”

Wine would still be better though, especially if they have the source code. Can be used like a dependency to produce a “native” Linux compatible application like how Java applications either bundle or depend on a JVM in the package manager.

Maybe a horse stable