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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨where the magic happens owo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Could honestly try a virtual machine or an emulator at that point. Would be worth a shot.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nahh⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Can someone explain what is going on here?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's coming! :(⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Yes, blink is the engine Chromium uses. Since KHTML was an open source project any project based on it will have to be open source, unless of course it’s just used as a library. Even in that case though blink the engine is forced to be open source even if the browser as a whole isn’t. GNU licenses are considered infectious because anything containing any GNU code automatically and legally becomes open source.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let me at 'em!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Oppenheimer is a mainstream movie though. It’s not that geeky.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's coming! :(⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
If I remember correctly it’s under a copy left license which makes sense given it’s ultimately a derivative of KHTML.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's coming! :(⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah so I also use CachyOS on a couple things and one of them also uses Cachy Browser.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's coming! :(⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Don’t Firefox and Chromium already have that?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I’ve seen teachers use this stuff and get actually decent results. I’ve also seen papers where people use LLMs to hack into a computer, which is a damn sophisticated task. So you are either badly informed or just lying. While LLMs aren’t perfect and aren’t a replacement for humans, they are still very much useful. To believe otherwise is folly and shows your personal bias.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I am not talking about things like ChatGPT that rely more on raw compute and scaling than some other approaches and are hosted at massive data centers. I actually find their approach wasteful as well. I am talking about some of the open weights models that use a fraction of the resources for similar quality of output. According to some industry experts that will be the way forward anyway as purely making models bigger has limits and is hella expensive.

Another thing to bear in mind is that training a model is more resource intensive than using it, though that’s also been worked on.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Bruh you have no idea about the costs. Doubt you have even tried running AI models on your own hardware. There are literally some models that will run on a decent smartphone. Not every LLM is ChatGPT that’s enormous in size and resource consumption, and hidden behind a vail of closed source technology.

Also that trick isn’t going to work just looking at a comment. Lemmy compresses whitespace because it uses Markdown. It only shows the extra lines when replying.

Can I ask you something? What did Machine Learning do to you? Did a robot kill your wife?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Even if it didn’t improve further there are still uses for LLMs we have today. That’s only one kind of AI as well, the kind that makes all the images and videos is completely separate. That has come on a long way too.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I am from the UK. This idea of states having an influence over their education system seems weird to me, though I guess we might allow something similar with Scotland, Wales, or Northern Island.

As I said we really don’t teach handwriting that well. They give kids either ball points or these triangle grip things that are actually designed to increase the force it takes to write. Why? No idea but someone thought that was a good idea to stop people who write too quickly and mess it up. Weirdly that actually helped some people. Even though it makes no sense to me.

It’s interesting though that you say cursive is more legible for dyslexic people. I think for everyone else print handwriting beats cursive. Not that that’s the issue as it’s still perfectly readable when done right. I am talking about people with typical doctors handwriting who can’t actually write it properly. I am also talking about the difficulty of the technique needed and how that could be a problem for some students. You say teachers adapt but my experience is that they don’t. If making students use cursive improves grades though it might be worth it. I am wondering why that’s the case that it improves grades.

Either way I think typing should be much more of a focus in modern education. People type more often than they write by hand, yet there is almost no education on how to use a keyboard. Heck lots of modern school students apparently don’t know how to use a computer. I’ve heard of people going to University and not understanding how files and folders work, because it’s just presumed that new generations actually know this stuff without being taught.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Feathers are the things birds have that are part of their wing and help them fly. Pens were made from feathers at sorme points in history. I think the term you are looking for is nib, if you mean the metal part of a pen that touches the paper.

You have pens like the platinum Preppy and platinum plasir which have double seals around the nib. I left my preppy for an entire year and it still didn’t dry out. They aren’t the only brand to use tricks like this, my TWSBI Eco was also left for a year and was a-okay. It’s always good before buying a pen to check the reviews and see what their cap seals are like. Rollerballs do require less maintenance though you are correct. If you do leave a fountain pen and it gets clogged there are ways to fix it, as I had to do with two more of my pens that did clog when they were left with the others.

I’ve used cheap mechanical pencils before but not expensive ones. How much better are more expensive mechanical pencils?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Maybe I haven’t explained this but with regards things like handwriting and special education my country isn’t that well put together. They hand kids ballpoint pens for the most part unless you are in private school. Some schools force kids to use pencil even.

Cursive is fundamentally less legible and harder work for most students to learn. It should be taught yes, but not as the only way. Schools often force people to use cursive even when that person doesn’t have that skill, and the school isn’t willing to give them proper lessons on it or the lessons they give aren’t of good quality. It was a whole thing in my primary school.

I have actual clinical issues in several different areas of development, not just coordination. You can’t remove all issues before primary school starts, I am entitled to some help even now as a 23 year old PhD student and still have issues. I wouldn’t even have been accepted into primary school if my parents hadn’t gone out of their way to get me tested by psychologists as I had issues the school weren’t willing to get me tested for that were picked up on in preschool.

I can write pretty well now including cursive. It’s not clear to me how much of the problems I had were because I was younger and at a lesser stage of brain development or how much was bad teaching. Maybe if you know more developmental psychology than I do you could answer that question, but I suspect that answer will be different on a case by case basis.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I too think ball point pens are horrible. Fountain pens are not that expensive, last a lot longer as they are refillable, and just write better. There are some rather bad fountain pens out there though lol. Platinum Preppy is pretty much the gold standard for cheap pens under £10 or $10. Platinum plasir is a little more expensive but has a more durable body and cap made of metal using the same nib and feed as the preppy. You can also get disposable fountain pens now that aren’t half bad.

Liquid ink roller balls are a good product too and are a nice middle ground between ball point and fountain pen. Although to be fair I wouldn’t be against a return to good old fashioned dip pens as these are the best for calligraphy and honestly look cool as heck in my opinion.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Forcing children to do cursive was not really the point I am trying to make. Yes it’s technically more efficient to write that way, but it’s also considerably more complicated. Forcing children with disabilities to do it leads to all kinds of problems, and makes their writing less legible. I am more talking about techniques that avoid issues like RSI. If we are making children do things we should be teaching them the correct way to do it, not half assing it. While I think we should still teach cursive, I don’t think it should be mandatory. In fact I actually want to see more keyboard use with proper ten finger technique, as that is useful for the real world. Typing technique is also something schools love to neglect. It’s also better to give kids that option as even with better handwriting instruction some just do not have the required motor skills through no fault of their own. People like me were forced to do handwriting practice despite having significant coordination issues, and never being taught the right technique. Eventually I had to dog through obscure corners of the Internet to find out the right way. Situations like that should never be allowed to continue for as long as it did in my case. Either by actually teaching the right technique in the first place, or in cases where that doesn’t work by switching to typing instead.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Key chording has always been faster than conventional single letter typing, and that tech has been around for a long time now in the form of stenography machines. Yet most people learn on a conventional keyboard because it’s simpler and more ubiquitous. This is true even now that chording has been adapted to programming and similar tasks.

You have to remember we live in a world where most people don’t even know how to write properly, even those who do it as part of their job like doctors. If you draw letters by moving your fingers, you’re doing it wrong by the way. The actual proper technique involves using your shoulder, elbow, and wrist to do most of the work. We’ve known about this for centuries, and these techniques were designed with dip pens, quils, brush, and fountain pens in mind. The cheap ballpoint pen along with rather bad instructions from teachers has led to proper handwriting technique being forgotten, and causes problems like RSI in people who handwrite regularly.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Student dorm does not allow wifi routers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
If this is UK major local ISPs would be: O2, EE, Three

T-mobile did exist for a while but is not defunct and where replaced by Orange and then EE.

Three are the cheapest generally if they have coverage there.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Student dorm does not allow wifi routers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I’ve never seen this happen. The reality is unless it’s a dorm full of CS students most don’t know fuck all about WiFi, networks, or want to pay for their own routers. It’s better to talk to the few who would attempt something like this.

No what this actually is is the ISP trying to make money charging for more devices.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Student dorm does not allow wifi routers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The difference here is that the ISP is up charging for multiple devices, meaning this isn’t all being done for benevolent reasons.

The way many apartments work for non-students is each has its own WiFi. Honestly compared to how bad some Hall’s WiFi is this is a better option, but it’s not without problems. A lot of ISP routers either don’t support or don’t turn on by default DFS channels, 5.8GHz channels, 6 GHz band, or have WiFi 6 for BSS colouring. This means there will be loads of interference between adjacent WiFi networks.

It’s really frustrating especially when you have ISPs like Virgin whose kit has DFS support, but despite touting smart wifi they just never enable it, and most people don’t know to enable it either.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨16GB of RAM Could Be the New Minimum in Apple's Upcoming M4 Macs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
What even are those?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨16GB of RAM Could Be the New Minimum in Apple's Upcoming M4 Macs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Outside of storage servers and ZFS no one is buying RAM specifically to use it as disk cache. You will also find that Windows laptops are also designed to be left in sleep rather than hibernate.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨16GB of RAM Could Be the New Minimum in Apple's Upcoming M4 Macs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
While that might have some impact, it’s not really the main problem with Windows. For the most part it’s how it’s actually engineered. For a start look at their compiler.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨16GB of RAM Could Be the New Minimum in Apple's Upcoming M4 Macs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Apple helped spread that misinformation. So why would I hold some of their stock if I am trying to counter it?

No, I want companies to stop spreading this bullshit and for people to stop falling for it. I don’t hold any stocks at all. In fact that kind of bullshit I am fairly against.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨16GB of RAM Could Be the New Minimum in Apple's Upcoming M4 Macs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah it is easier to do it on a desktop or over a network. That’s what I was trying to imply. Although having an NPU can help. Regardless I would rather be using my own server than something like ChatGPT.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨16GB of RAM Could Be the New Minimum in Apple's Upcoming M4 Macs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The problem is they will then keep spreading misinformation.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨16GB of RAM Could Be the New Minimum in Apple's Upcoming M4 Macs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
We are talking about PC vs Mac. Both have the same problem when it comes to chromium based things.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨16GB of RAM Could Be the New Minimum in Apple's Upcoming M4 Macs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I use Virtual Machines and run local LLMs. LLMs need VRAM rather than CPU RAM. You shouldn’t be doing it on a laptop without a serious NPU or GPU, if at all. I don’t know if I will be using VMs heavily on this machine or not, but that would be a good reason to have more RAM. Even so 32 GiB should be enough for a few VMs running concurrently.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨16GB of RAM Could Be the New Minimum in Apple's Upcoming M4 Macs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Maybe this is true if you use Windows. If you use Linux on your PC versus macOS on a MacBook you will probably find the PC performs comparably if not better.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨16GB of RAM Could Be the New Minimum in Apple's Upcoming M4 Macs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The annoying thing is I have had people claim that 8GB and 16GB is fine on Apple and works better than on PC laptops. To the point one redditor point blank refused to believe I owned an Apple laptop. I literally had to take a photograph of said laptop and show it to them before they would believe me about the RAM capacity.