Do votes affect conversation at all in here? I just tend to ignore them.

That is how meta trained llama

Quantum computing would be revolutionary in certain fields. It could completely change certain calculations we do. I do run stuff that takes weeks while using several GPUs, that could plausibly be done much much faster with quantum computers. Accurate and complete quantum algorithms for such calculations are not yet available, but I know there is people working on it and making progress.

What we’re missing is the computers. Kinda difficult to do all this quantum computing when you have no quantum computer. Or when your quantum computer has like 8 qbits and after 100 operations all you get is noise.

Regarding the latest article by that guy on this subject, it seems like this is the last article.

https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0960982224000307

The ‘after you’ gesture in a bird

Wow, this guy loves tits!

Looking at the last author, this seems to be the last article on this subject. OpenAlex is a decent tool in my opinion to check this kind of things and it is freely accessible. Web of Science allows for more complex queries, but in most cases those are not really necessary.

https://ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/10600/

Unsung Songbirds: Advances in the Study of Corvid Communication

I travelled a lot and met people from a lot of countries. Plenty of them were stupid. The country from where I met most stupid people is the USA, both in quantity of people and in how stupid they can be. They win over any other country by a very large margin.

I mean, it’s your house and not a product you’re selling. After a couple weeks you likely know which switch does what. Whenever a host comes you can show them the switches.

Seems very cool!

Now that I’ve seen this I’d really like something like this but to manage HPC queue managers like slurm and the such remotely.

Not Valve, they were busy working on HL3.

Ed is the standard editor

I’d be very nervous: Did I place enough try/catch blocks in my lol.py?

Are all the passwords correct before I run it on stage?

Is this endpoint to delete an email correctly spelled out?

Does the WiFi of the conference allow connecting to these domains?

So many things could go wrong.

Not where I live, no. And wouldn’t I rather take them to an actual restaurant? I mean, if we leave the house to go eat somewhere I’d rather take the family to a nice place and eat something good.

Dining in and cooking tends to take thirty min to an hour.

Don’t know how much faster the fast food is, when I’ve been to that burger king I tell you I have been fighting with that automatic ordering machine for 10 good minutes before I actually succeeded.

If I have to go to the shop, order, get the food and take it back home I’m better off cooking at home.

I never used them, but I guess at this point if you really don’t want to cook nor to go out you’re better off with those applications which allow you to order food at your place from any restaurant.

I can understand eating out when you have no time to get back home, but then I have much better options where to eat at the same price or even cheaper.

I use CC quite a lot. People in the CC are supposed to read the email because it is in their interest, even though they don’t need to reply.

E.g.

To: Graphic Designer Cc: Programmer, Middle Manager We considered the three options that you gave us. We decided to go with option 2 because option 1 was too technically complicated to implement and the big boss didn’t like the color of option 3. Please, send the assets to Programmer and forward your invoice to Middle Manager.

I still use RSS quite a lot, both for articles and for podcasts.

I don’t get the point of fast food chains anymore. Never really ate there, but I always had the idea it was a cheap place where to eat.

This past year I’ve been once in burger king, where I spent about 10€, and I tried KFC for the first time, where I spent some 15€. I did not eat enough even at such a high price.

With 15€ i can go to an actual restaurant, why would I go to a fast food place?

Fedora is not an atomic distribution. I use fedora and I have Steam, it works.

Then why is it a flatpak?

I don’t know, I imagine there is some use case. The fact that a flatpak for a software exists does not mean that flatpak is the best installation option.

Installing steam through flatpak seems like a terrible idea to me.

Wow, this is astounding. I don’t love windows, but last time I used it it was at least reliable enough that you could work on it with little problems. If they lose that, then there’s little more value that windows still brings to the table, except software which is only developed for windows.

Indeed, I imagine controller support is not one of the top priorities of plasma. It is likely most developers do not even have a controller to test whether changes affect its usability.

However, just so it is clear, no it is not only volunteers. There is people paid to maintain KDE and plasma. That is why it is a good idea to give some money to the project if you use it: it actually improves the thing.