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1 day agoWhat do you want him to do that he’s not doing here?
Off-and-on trying out an account over at @[email protected] due to scraping bots bogging down lemmy.today to the point of near-unusability.
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9·2 days agoSorry to hear that you’re feeling under the weather. I enjoy all your Sandy posts.
The visit to Bangkok was one of many trips Andrew took at British taxpayers’ expense when he was serving as an official trade envoy for the UK in the early 2000s.
I feel like maybe the British public should rely on the British civil service to negotiate their trade arrangements, rather than the royal family.
Assuming that the instance is still up, probably somewhere in:
5·3 days agoThough to be fair, Amazon’s scale is very large, so it’s worth it to spend a lot on automation. They’ve done a lot with robots before. 14k isn’t as many as it might sound, at their scale.
kagis
Amazon’s U.S. work force has more than tripled since 2018 to almost 1.2 million. But Amazon’s automation team expects the company can avoid hiring more than 160,000 people in the United States it would otherwise need by 2027. That would save about 30 cents on each item that Amazon picks, packs and delivers to customers.
Executives told Amazon’s board last year that they hoped robotic automation would allow the company to continue to avoid adding to its U.S. work force in the coming years, even though they expect to sell twice as many products by 2033. That would translate to more than 600,000 people whom Amazon didn’t need to hire.
Why is so much coverage of “AI” devoted to this belief that we’ve never had automation before (and that management even really wants it)?
I’m going to set aside the question of whether any given company or a given timeframe or a given AI-related technology in particular is effective. I don’t really think that that’s what you’re aiming to address.
If it just comes down to “Why is AI special as a form of automation? Automation isn’t new!”, I think I’d give two reasons:
It’s a generalized form of automation
Automating a lot of farm labor via mechanization of agriculture was a big deal, but it mostly contributed to, well, farming. It didn’t directly result in automating a lot of manufacturing or something like that.
That isn’t to say that we’ve never had technologies that offered efficiency improvements across a wide range of industries. Electric lighting, I think, might be a pretty good example of one. But technologies that do that are not that common.
kagis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity-improving_technologies
This has some examples. Most of those aren’t all that generalized. They do list electric lighting in there. The integrated circuit is in there. Improved transportation. But other things, like mining machines, are not generally applicable to many industries.
So it’s “broad”. Can touch a lot of industries.
It has a lot of potential
If one can go produce increasingly-sophisticated AIs — and let’s assume, for the sake of discussion, that we don’t run into any fundamental limitations — there’s a pathway to, over time, automating darn near everything that humans do today using that technology. Electrical lighting could clearly help productivity, but it clearly could only take things so far.
So it’s “deep”. Can automate a lot within a given industry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_appearance_of_Jesus
The race and appearance of Jesus, widely accepted by researchers to be a Jew from Galilee,[1] has been a topic of discussion since the days of early Christianity.
Thus, in terms of physical appearance, the average Judean of the time would have likely had brown or black hair, honey/olive-brown skin, and brown eyes.
Unfortunately, Christ was the “wrong sort” of Christian.
So, I agree that it’s not the best presentation, but they’re trying to put the summary of findings up top. The actual “title” of the chart is the subtitle beneath.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/09/16/how-religious-is-your-state/
Religious profile of Mississippi
1st most religious state overall
61% (1st) say religion is very important in their lives
54% (1st) say they attend religious services at least monthly
62% (1st) say they pray daily
74% (1st) say they believe in God or a universal spirit with absolute certainty
50% in Mississippi are highly religious, based on an overall scale of religiousness
There was a much easier and better choice than Russia if they wanted to up their “more Christian environment” game.
The couple yearned to live in a place that shared their “Christian values” and where they “weren’t going to be discriminated against” as white, politically-conservative Christians.
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/e6f791bf-9311-421e-b2c4-6856c7922b77.webp
Religion very important to them
US: 53%
Russia: 16%
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/5914b607-bdf5-4238-883e-46fd51f4c52a.webp
Weekly worship attendance
US: 36%
Russia: 7%
Aside from Poland, where 42% of respondents attend weekly, every other European country in this analysis has rates of attendance at or below 25%.
Clearly Poland needs to start advertising, because Russia probably isn’t where you want to go if you’re on the hunt for a particularly religious environment, especially if your starting point is the US. Now, Poland’s gonna have a more-specifically-Catholic environment, which I bet isn’t what they are, but I bet that they aren’t Russian Orthodox either, so…
9·5 days agoWell, if it’s not doing anything, I’d probably reboot. Then re-run whatever the command is that triggered the update.
Worst case, if you can’t boot up to a graphical environment, I expect that you can probably boot it into a non-graphical “rescue mode” or similar from GRUB. I dunno if Fedora shows it by default, but IIRC holding shift should stop boot at GRUB, or tapping an arrow key when it’s up. It’ll let you log in as root. When you do, just repeat whatever command was used to trigger the update.
No problem. Yeah, it’s an invaluable off-site resource that new users don’t get informed about. Indexes all of the Threadiverse instances, whereas any given instance can only search the communities that are local or at least one local user has subscribed to.
The world was full of flat surfaces that did not yet have an Android-platform device driving a screen displaying advertisements on them.
My understanding is that America doesn’t actually have 5G telco equipment manufacturers — it’s a weak point in the US tech lineup — which is one reason that there was such a major kerfuffle several years back over it. The US does not want China in its sensitive telco infrastructure. There was some point I remember where some US senator said that if Europe wasn’t going to support Nokia or Ericsson — Europe does have some entrants – and just let Huawei take the 5G market, that the US would need to buy one of them. There was some real concern from the US that Europe might just accept ceding the 5G provider market, which would make the US dependent on China.
kagis
This is probably what I remember. I could have sworn that it was a senator, but maybe there were multiple statements or it was actually AG Barr.
White House dismisses idea of U.S. buying Nokia, Ericsson to challenge Huawei
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Friday and the top White House economic adviser dismissed an unusual suggestion from U.S. Attorney General William Barr that the United States consider taking control of two major foreign rivals of China-based Huawei Technologies Co Ltd.
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow added later on Friday that the United States was working closely with Nokia and Ericsson, saying the companies’ equipment was essential to the buildout of 5G infrastructure. But he said the “U.S. government is not in the business of buying companies, whether they’re domestic or foreign,” adding that “there’s nothing to prohibit American tech companies from acquiring” them.
“That’s the plan the president has endorsed and will be carrying forward,” Pence said, adding that the United States can expand 5G “by using the power of the free market and American companies.”
In a remarkable statement underscoring how far the United States may be willing to go to counter Huawei, Barr on Thursday disclosed proposals “by the United States aligning itself with Nokia and/or Ericsson.”
EDIT: IIRC, Cisco or some other US company that I can’t remember made some 5G hardware, but they weren’t on par with Nokia and Ericsson.
You jest, but there was the “5G causes COVID-19” people.
If you’re being rigorous, a “CLI” app is a program that one interacts with entirely from a shell command line. One types the command and any options in (normally) a single line in bash or similar. One hits enter, the program runs, and then terminates.
On a Linux system, a common example would be
ls.Some terminal programs, often those that use the
curses/ncurseslibrary, are run, but then one can also interact with them in other ways. This broader class of programs is often called something like “terminal-based” “console-based”, or "text-based`, and called “TUI” programs. One might press keys to interact with them while they run, but it wouldn’t necessarily be at a command line. They might have menu-based interfaces, or use various other interfaces.On a Linux system, some common examples might be
nano,mc,nmtuiortop.nmtuiandnmcliare actually a good example of the split.nmcliis a client for Network Manager that takes some parameters, runs, prints some output, and terminates.nmtuiruns in a terminal as well, but one uses it theough a series of menus.
If by “CLI”", you just mean “terminal”, I’ve used ellama in emacs as a frontend to ollama and llama.cpp. Emacs, can run on a terminal, and that’s how I use it.
If you specifically want “CLI”, I’m sure that there are CLI clients out there. Be almost zero functionality, though.
Usually a local LLM server, what does the actual computation, is a faceless daemon, has clients talk to it over HTTP.
EDIT:
llama-clican run on the commandline for a single command and does the computation itself. It’ll probably have a lot of overhead, though, if you’re running a bunch of queries in a row — the time to load a model is significant.
I would not be incredibly surprised if someone in Europe could get brass knuckles from here in the US, where they’re no big deal.
kagis
https://www.brassknucklescompany.com/
Let’s see. Brass knuckles. Vintage design replica brass knuckles. Stealth knuckles to bypass metal detectors. WW1 combination brass knuckles/trench knives. Oversized brass knuckles weighing over a pound. Electrified brass knuckles stun gun.