HexesofVexes

Counteroffer - spend that $30 on a drink and turn them down. Just keep on using windows 10 and clog up their support tickets ^_

Don’t worry, the scientific community is working on getting it renamed to solve exactly this problem.

It’s going to be called “urectum”.

Hits buzzer

The big windows 10 problem is that it updates to windows 11.

I’m richer than I’ve ever been, and I am far less spontaneous than I’ve ever been.

It’s not linear, it’s some weird polynomial equation!

Might be worth spinning up an external 1080ti on the lappy and see if the magic is finally there!

I’m not entirely sold - a lot of the time when troubleshooting games for my Ubuntu lappy I stumble across Nvidia issue threads.

The question isn’t really “ads or subs” these days, it’s “your data or your dollar”, and in this situation there is no good option (since your dollar is the perfect identifier for your data!).

Academia would like a word.

I need to put a vote in here for owlbears and owlcats, if only because of how excited they make my partner when encountered.

Prays that 2025 is the year for solid NVIDIA support for Linux

So here’s the question - is the scale consistent over time? That is, do we consider the same ideas left/right wing in 202x as we did in 199x?

Let’s assume it is. We’re seeing men lean towards the center/right, and a lot of people are asking why. The trouble is, the answer isn’t one people like to hear - in our headlong pursuit of equity, we’re introducing a lot of inequality. You lift the ladies up, while you let the men climb - all based on the assumption that the women had further to climb so what you’re doing is levelling the field.

Countering this is a sympathetic voice, one offering to bring back equality or offer a different kind of equity. Casting gender equity as a zero sum game, and pushing for equality aimed at the ones not being lifted up.

I often hear the “uneducated men” argument, but that’s just an ugly echo from the past serving those it once oppressed in a bitter irony. The reality is that even educated people can fall for propaganda. Especially when voting in what they see as their own self interest.

Don’t forget Nixon’s head!

So if the average price was $50 in 2000, and is about $70 today, assuming a linear rate of price increases, it would be $1663.33 in 4024.

This is a terrible model: it likely underestimates as inflation is geometric rather than arithmetic.

For a geometric model we have r=1.011329 over this period, thus extrapolating we get a price of…

$208,200,000,000

Which is insane, because it is so low for Nintendo!

You just captured the daily life of a UK academic after the catastrophically low recruitment numbers this year.

I absolutely don’t use notepad++ as my main IDE… Honest.

We won’t have kids because, despite doing everything right, despite working hard, we’re struggling with finances. Kids wouldn’t be affordable without an extra job, and most of work two already!

Spherical geometry - good times…

Yep, it’s a triangle. You can also make one with three right angles on a sphere!

Oh I definitely believe they won’t make a wise decision - these past few years have been devastating when it comes to decisions.

Come visit academia some time… Copyright laws ensure we do all the work and get nothing in return;)

I rather think the point is being missed here. Copyright is already causing huge issues, such as the troubles faced by the internet archive, and the fact academics get nothing from their work.

Surely the argument here is that copyright law needs to change, as it acts as a barrier to education and human expression. Not, however, just for AI, but as a whole.

Copyright law needs to move with the times, as all laws do.