Back when I was at school, we had a teacher who noticed everyone drew penises on the walls/tables/whatever. So she started telling people to draw pussies instead, to balance it out. That was a fun teacher.

(Yes, a bunch of pussies started appearing around, but they never surpassed the penises, sadly)

It’s not quite that either. The spanish word for “appropriate” is “apropiar”, and the meaning is the same. Aprovechar has a different meaning.

I work in tech and I don’t use LLMs. From my experience, they’re catastrophic especially in those positions where they review code/actions. Reviews are the last line of defense against bad code, bugs, vulnerabilities or destructive actions. Giving that role to an RNG parrot that is often confidently wrong is almost suicidal.

Cloudflare tunnels need logins, depend on cloudflare, and allow cloudflare to sniff all your traffic.

They’re easy, but we should stop recommending them. They’re a terrible solution, both for the internet as a whole and for your personal privacy.

Still has charge on the battery

Same thing happened to me, with the same mod. It keeps happening. I would understand banning users from AI related comms (it’s not like we’re gonna visit them if we don’t like AI). But banning from !europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com is a bit too far.

Message Grainne, the only other active mod in that community, and you can get unbanned. That’s what I did.

Not actually, it depends on the projection.

The most noticeable visual distortion of a map projection at street level isn’t actually size and area, but angle. While Mercator and Web Mercator distort both size and area, angle remains the same. But projections like Equal Earth distort angle to keep area and size the same.

In practice, what this means is that with Web Mercator, you will see an intersection as 2 perpendicular lines crossing each other, leaving four 90° angles. But with Equal Earth, depending on the location, all those angles will be different, and the lines won’t be perfectly perpendicular.

(of course, Web Mercator also has this issue, because it uses a perfect sphere instead of a spheroid for the projection, but the very slight difference isn’t really noticeable, and using a spheroid is more compute-heavy)

Map navigation and satellite imagery are very specific cases where a Mercator or Mercator style projection are better suited, mainly because of the preservation of the angles. However, for any other case, Equal Earth is a very good projection, and I agree it should be used over Mercator. Especially in education.

Web Mercator is a special kind of abomination, even down to the way the map is cropped to be exactly square. But it is probably the most suitable for navigation, as Mercator itself was designed specifically for it.

Buildings, streets and map features would be more distorted under Equal Earth projection than they already are with Web Mercator. Web Mercator also has the benefit that the cardinal directions are always straight respective to the XY grid, even though the Y direction is non linear.

There is no perfect way of flattening a 3D spheroid into a 2D map, sadly.

I’m actually surprised they answered. I thought they’d just ignore you. But repeating the same nazi defending excuses just makes them even worse.

Great Again?

I used Kagi a bit before reading that article, and it was definitely better than Google (tho, at this point, it’s a low bar).

I have found Qwant to be equally good. But beware, it also has AI stuff. I really wish there was a real no-nonsense search engine without any AI in it, that just worked.

Their leadership, business model and finances are sketchy, and the AI stuff being opt-in is a byproduct of their marketing. They are an AI company, and their product is an AI. Kagi Search was just a stepping stone to reach their goal.

This is a nice read on Kagi: https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html

The irony of Kagi, a for profit AI company, doing this

Thanks

What causes accidents are not the cars and conditions you see, but the ones you don’t.

Humans aren’t machines, they make mistakes. And cars have a lot more blind spots than we realize.

That’s why we have rules. If we are predictable and follow the rules, even when we don’t see anything that could stop us from taking a shortcut, then we’re being considerably safer.

Keep in mind that, on the road, it’s not just your own safety you need to ensure. An accident can also harm other people, so the more reason to prevent them.

I never had an issue with a GTX 1660 Ti on Arch. It’s been 5 years.

Older cards (in my case, the 970 M iirc) are slightly more annoying because Nvidia doesn’t support them anymore. So you can’t just install the generic, up to date, Nvidia driver package. You have to use Nvidia’s website to find the latest driver that supported them, and then install that one through your distro’s package manager.

Afaik, Nvidia supports all cards from the 16xx series upwards in their driver, as of right now.

Idk, it costs me 3€ to get a 250g pack of ground coffee. 5€ to get a 250g pack of sustainable zapatista coffee. I can make many cups with a single pack. And yet, the price for a single espresso is usually 3€ or more in my area.

Of course the beans are always getting more expensive, but it’s still nowhere close to that price.

Actually, I think the main issue is the getting rid of them part. There’s billions of them, they’re small and they reproduce fast.

There are lots of species of mosquito, and yes, they are essential to the ecosystem. But very few species actually bite humans. Some studies have argued that not a lot would happen if you eliminated just those species.

Imagine all the RAM production they can buy with that money

If that doesn’t work, insulting it and telling it you’re gonna kill yourself because of its bad answers triggers a lot of warnings and filters that usually get you to a human way faster.

It’s sad we’ve reached this point.