You don’t think the creators should get paid? Do you know how much effort goes into making quality videos?

Ironically it’s probably because so many of the slop videos try and copy their style. However I would have thought YouTube would be more proactive with a channel with 25M subs.

Oh totally. I’m fortunate I have off road parking and a beefy solar grid so my normal runabout and commute is functionally free.

The UK has recently made the process of getting charging gullys for house hold street charging easier to get approved and installed. The remaining challenge is HMO’s and hi rises. We could either mandate lower rates for locals using public charging infrastructure or more ubiquitous low power charging available at hi-rise car parks given most cars will be parked for at least 8 hours “overnight”.

We took the electric car for our families European road trip last week which saw us land in Spain, loop through southern France before returning via Caen. While we were using an app too plan stops with high speed CCS chargers we certainly didn’t need to go out of our way. Unsurprisingly the major trunk routes are well appointed with fast chargers - generally cheaper than the UK fast chargers as well.

Range anxiety isn’t really a thing I feel these days and having regular breaks helps with the quality of the driving.

We also have the very catch all of “disturbing the peace”. Some friends of mine got done with that because the police had been called despite no actual crime being committed. They were eventually “bound over” for a year which is basically a deferred fine to encourage you not to do anything that attracts the police’s attention.

I don’t begrudge peoples difficulties with English. It has some positives like not needing gendered conjugation for objects and a fairly wide cultural exposure. However it freely steals words from other languages making it a bit of a mongrel. Also the spelling and pronunciation is entirely non-regular so the usual answer to people looking for rules to work these things out is “just know”.

Thanks. Are they related? I don’t understand any Asian languages myself but I do recognise difference in for example the Korean symbols and Japanese ones. But Japanese and Chinese ideograms look very similar to my ignorant eyes.

It’s super common if it’s any sort of open source project because the collaborators can be anywhere and English is a good baseline.

IIRC one of the big tasks when Star Office became Open Office (later Libre Office) was translating a bunch of the German comments to make the code more accessible.

I’m sure I’ve seen some majority french code bases as well. There are certainly academic hypervisors out of China which have comments in Chinese kanji.

Debian for the stable base flatpak/snap/src for the bleeding edge apps.

I think the two principle arguements he’s making are open weights allow for misaligned models and these models are using distillation to more efficiently train.

I don’t really care about the distillation point - it seems it’s just hoovering up the internet with extra steps. It’s really up to Anthropic to deal with by enforcing their ToS. Sauce for the goose etc…

I can see the argument about alignment but it’s not a new problem. In the FLOSS world we generally don’t put restrictions on use on the code we release even if it might get used for bad stuff. It certainly wouldn’t hurt for the authorities to test open models to find out where the guardrails are but ultimately rather than banning the tech you need to enforce the law against the people that use the tech to do bad stuff.

What do you need/use that you find in modern editors that you can’t get in something like Emacs? While there are AI integrations for Emacs they are all optional.

You mean salt right? At least according to the picture they should have ready access to it.

I was slightly exaggerating for comic effect. I do have an extractor fan on a timer which stops build ups. It’s definitely not rated for human habitation but the servers are quite happy there 😉

With the recent heat waves we’ve been having it’s nice to visit the cellar for a few minutes of cooling down. Of course I can’t stay too long because of the radon.

I’ve long been off the critical path because as a tech lead I have a lot more random stuff (and meetings) to deal with. I’ve been able to vibe code some non-production stuff like scripts to unify feature lists across JIRA, specs and the upstream docs which has helped free up time to hand craft more code on production.

I don’t care too much about the quality or maintainability of those scripts as long as they make my life a bit easier. I do care about the maintainability of the production code base.

Quite, I think her long career in genre films was one of the reasons Tarantino was so keen to work with her.

The last big update to my git workflow was when I discovered --update-refs as it makes maintaining a stack of feature branches much easier. So far I really only have one “main” dev branch and then peel off the sub-branches at they need merging upstream.

However I shall have to investigate how the history commands are exposed in magit. I can see it being useful if you have long held branches that take a while to upstream but are useful to have in your trees.

Could anyone explain what a “hypervisor crack” is in this context? I’m very familiar with hypervisors but less so in relation to gaming.

Is this just using a hypervisor to virtualise system services the DRM uses to assure it it’s not being monitored or interfered with at the OS/kernel level? Do you have to intercept networking as well?

Just an early example of AI psychosis

In QEMU all of our CI environments are replicable locally as docker/podman images. However usually flaky CI is due to races exposed on overloaded runners so I often also run make -j(nproc) at the same time to simulate that. A retry script is also useful to get an idea of how stable a test is. Having sanitizer builds can also help.