If it works around paywalls, it could actually be a useful feature.

I told them to actually solve the equations and think about the results.

At university, I faked a paper on economics (not actually my branch of study, but easily to fake) and put it on the shelf in their library. It was filled with nonsense formulas that, if one took the time and actually solved the equations properly, would all produce the same number as a result: 19920401 (year of publication, April Fools Day). I actually got two requests from people who wanted to use my paper as a basis for their thesis.

Seriously depends on your local water source. Our tap water has more than enough mg, ca, and other mineral ingredients to start making it a pain in the ass (hard water). But it is (of course) drinkable, and tastes quite good.

There are places where they have trees all around their houses. Like in California, where they just had been more fuel to the fires.

Definitely. We lived in an old house without central heating, and I know what hunger is. My father died when I was a kid, after a long sickness, and taking care of him and us kids took a lot out of mum.

Now I can support my family from my income, with both kids at unversity without debts.

Yes, we are better off. But the way to here and now was hard.

I wonder when I can set default options for importing images. I’m using Open/LibreOffice since nearly the beginnings as StarOffice (I think I still have the CD somewhere), and one thing really irks me: Whenever I import an image (which I do rather regularly), it always imports the image as “Anchor->To Character”. For me, this is the wrong default, I always need “Anchor->As Character”. For thousands of images, I have to set this manually.

Of course they do. Depopulating Gaza to make it available to Israeli settlers was the plan from the word go in that war.

Well, that is where the problems started.

Looks like it is not any smarter than the other junk on the market. The confusion that people consider AI as “intelligence” may be rooted in their own deficits in that area.

And now people exchange one American Junk-spitting Spyware for a Chinese junk-spitting spyware. Hurray! Progress!

Block them. If they have something interesting or important to say, just quote it. Don’t send them even more traffic and attention.

Last time it was off was during the summer holidays.

What I have seen about RISC-V is not exactly promising performance-wise. At least not for a laptop or desktop PC.

I can see ARM-based laptops, or products like the RPi 500 (once it supports M.2 sticks and 8GB RAM, hopefully more one day), but RISC-V is not there yet.

There are rechargeables with integrated buck converters that can provide 1.5V, but they have their own issues.

My countries Christmas dish is Frankfurters and potato salad. Yep. Really sad. My favourite part is that I cook something entirely different for my family. Real food.

Well, the source code is available. Fix it if you need it that bad.

The Heisenbug. Once you try to observe this kind of software bug with your technical means, it simply goes away.

This tore my heart apart.

The scary thing is that this managed to get published in the first place.

And it is sad that they had it withdrawn. I would love to see that real science rips this idea to shreds.

When the government is out to kill the citizens, they are no longer citizens but subjects.