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You should believe it as much as you want. I don't have any inside knowledge myself, I just remembered an HN comment that was relevant to this post and linked it.

Linus wrote git before anything like github existed, and the best way to do it was email. They just haven't switched away from using email

Early Ring of Wealth? I've seen some impressive runs here just based on getting one early and farming good drops

Stable as in the UI doesn't get changed often, or stable as in unlikely to crash?

Apparently there's an effort underway. I don't have any more context than this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38020117

I will say that I actually like the flat namespace, but don't have a strong opinion

Dunno what permissions issues you're hitting, but I organize everything with beets on my desktop and then sync everything using syncthing to the main Music folder on my phone and it all works nicely. I use an old app that I think isn't even available on the app store anymore named MortPlayer that uses the synced folder structure to organize things.

I don't use m3u files, but I imagine you could just sync them to the main Music directory next to the music files and have it work out, I guess depending on which app you use

Can't promise anything, but a few years has made a pretty huge difference here. If the game you want to play is on Steam and doesn't have weird anticheat, it'll likely just work. If it's not on Steam, try Lutris.

If the game you want to play still doesn't work, post here and say "LINUX BLOWS BECAUSE IT CAN'T PLAY THIS GAME" and then you'll get a dozen different ways to make it run

You could try wget's recursive mode:

https://superuser.com/questions/1415717/how-to-download-an-entire-site-with-wget-including-its-images/1415765#1415765

Along those lines, this language might have some loan words that don't really fit in. What would've caused that to happen? Did some king get an arrow through the eye like Harold II and the language got loan words from the conquerors? Taking inspiration from historical events worked pretty well for GRRM.

They would just say that they have a different definition of E2EE, or quietly opt you out of it and bury something in their terms of service that says you agree to that. You might even win in court, but that will be a wrist slap years later if at all.

Can you boot into an old generation and see if that fixes the issue? If it doesn't maybe check if you've updated firmware recently

🤷 I don't use it, but I acknowledge that it looks slick, having seen other people use it.

I've heard both "a scissors" and "a pliers", but never "a pants" or "a glasses". If pressed, I don't think anybody would object to the proper term being "a pair of". Since you mention Peanuts, maybe it's a Midwest thing, since Charles Schulz grew up in Minnesota.

Copilot's integration with VSCode is slick. But so were ActiveX plugins back in the day, and any number of other technologies from them. Microsoft isn't doing this out of the goodness of what passes for a heart. There will be an inevitable enshittification process, one that you can avoid by not getting into their ecosystem in the first place.

On the plus side, I just ask chatgpt to generate code and I copy/paste it and fix it up in emacs. It's not as slick but it works fine. It's honestly probably better than being able to just hit enter and accept whatever is generated. I've been on a screenshare and seen people hit enter or whatever to accept copilot's suggestion, and then spend a bunch of time debugging the subtly wrong code because making it that easy meant they didn't think about it.

Also, it's only a matter of time before it becomes practical to run your own good-enough model locally and have an Emacs package that integrates with that. The hardware and models are already ready for it, there just needs to be integration work.

I understand you're upset, but my sources have been quite clear and straightforward. You should actually read them, they're quite nicely written.

So you admit that you were wrong?

Well, is it wrong here?

What research have you done?

Your concept of a chair is an abstract thought representation of a chair. An LLM has vectors that combine or decompose in some way to turn into the word “chair,” but are not a concept of a chair or an abstract representation of a chair. It is simply vectors and weights, unrelated to anything that actually exists.

Just so incredibly wrong. Fortunately, I'll have save myself time arguing with such a misunderstanding. GPT-4 is here to help:

This reads like a misunderstanding of how LLMs (like GPT) work. Saying an LLM's understanding is "simply vectors and weights" is like saying our brain's understanding is just "neurons and synapses". Both systems are trying to capture patterns in data. The LLM does have a representation of a chair, but it's in its own encoded form, much like our neurons have encoded representations of concepts. Oversimplifying and saying it's unrelated to anything that actually exists misses the point of how pattern recognition and information encoding works in both machines and humans.

You really, truly don't understand what you're talking about.

The vectors do not represent concepts. The vectors are math

If this community values good discussion, it should probably just ban statements that manage to be this wrong. It's like when creationists say things like "if we came from monkeys why are they still around???". The person has just demonstrated such a fundamental lack of understanding that it's better to not engage.