There’s an actual prayer at the end of that article.

Edit: nm, it was quoting a prayer from one of the farmers at the meeting

Too bad they ended funding for suicide hotlines.

I forgot about that. IIRC, Canada had setup some new hotline to help Americans or something along those lines.

they’re cheap fucks.

This is also the issue with most tech job postings. I got this one job offer, entirely unsolicited from my end, to move across the country to Manitoba to a small town. They were going to offer up to $5000 moving costs. And the job was for a full stack developer. The salary? $42k Canadian.

I emailed them back telling them in blunt terms that their offer is insulting and far too low for any developer role.

so it’s not like a stopped clock being almost right makes up for his bullshit.

Nice try, Jessica

Where did I show any hatred for China? Are you confusing criticism of the “Dear Leader” with hatred towards the country and its people? Maybe that implication was deliberate on your part.

Xi doesn’t hold a monopoly on corruption

Oh really? I have Bazzite on my TV laptop. Perfect way to try it. Thanks!

How did you get it running? I’ve tried compiling it on a fresh Arch and fresh Ubuntu 22.04 install and the compiler breaks halfway through.

I only spent about 10 or so minutes each time trying to fix it and moved on.

Tell him he can open his own canned food now! He has no right being so cool.

to avoid the state from falling into corrupt hands

That’s decades too late

I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad idea.

No, this is a bad idea. It’s a terrible idea.

What you said is like saying “well, I need surgery, having the monkey from the forest come at me with a knife is better than nothing.”

Microsoft has proven themselves over and over to be the last company you should trust with your data. Even recently they’ve been responsible for losing a life’s worth of data because of OneDrive

They’re already uploading people’s data off of their computers to OneDrive without consent, then deleting the local copies.

Plus their tech work culture is lacking. When they screwed something up with Office 365 and Outlook wasn’t available for over 18 hours (for basically the whole world), their response was a tweet that it’s fixed.

Whereas CloudFlare messed up something for only an hour, they released a comprehensive breakdown on their blog of what happened, what the root cause was, and what they’re going to do to prevent it from happening again.

Which company seems reliable to you?

I’m familiar with fish shell, but what specifically makes you like it?

Why not just make the alias command cat the file instead?

Edit: I wrote grep instead of cat

My simple rule is that if it uses a neural network model of some kind, then it can be accurately called AI.

Ya, I knew there were analogue “upscalers”, but I’m not familiar enough with them to confidently call them an upscaler vs a signal converter.

Well, the algorithms that make up many neural networks have existed for over 60 years. It’s only recently that hardware has been able to make it happen.

AI gives it bit of marketing sprinkle to something that has been a solved problem for years.

Not true and I did say “any upscaler that’s worth anything”. Upscaling tech has existed at least since digital video was a thing. Pixel interpolation is the simplest and computationally easiest method. But it tends to give a slight hazy appearance.

It’s actually far from a solved problem. There’s a constant trade-off beyond processing power and quality. And quality can still be improved by a lot.

I like this better:

If you have nothing to hide, give me all your passwords.

without their explicit consent.

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They don’t require AI neural networks.

Sharpening and denoising don’t. But upscalers worth anything do require neural nets.

Anything that uses a neural network is the definition of AI.

You’re putting words in my mouth. I was speaking in generalities about physical connections, not specifically about fibre.