nottheengineer

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nottheengineer , to Linux in What are your thoughts on potential AI-integration into future Linux distros?

LLMs are big, so you either need a powerful PC to run them or use cloud services. Linux users tend to not be fans of either, so it’ll probably take a while before anything big happens.

Besides, for the things where an LLM actually makes sense (like a copilot-style code generator), there are already implementations.

nottheengineer , to Personal Finance in With the rising prices of Netflix and Disney+, are you considering cutting those subscriptions?

Subscriptions are generally a bad idea if themake you dependent. I’d say these ones aren’t too bad since you can cancel any time and just lose access.

If something you depend on starts to get shitty, jump ship as soon as you can. I’m considering writing a spotify ripper because the app keeps getting worse and worse to a point where it’s almost unusable.

nottheengineer , to xkcd in xkcd #2700: Account Problems

Is that you, bobby?

nottheengineer , to xkcd in xkcd #2806: Anti-Vaxxers

No one wants to admit it of course, but the people I talked to about it fit the pattern very well.

nottheengineer , to xkcd in xkcd #2806: Anti-Vaxxers

Those people usually choose politics over science.

On the political side, governments forced the vaccine on people by taking away freedoms if they didn’t get it and they often did that before there were enough vaccines for everyone.

As someone with Asthma (who should theoretically get some kind of priority), I spent two months illegally meeting with my friends because I couldn’t get a vaccine while the politicians who decided on the rules could have legal meetups because they were the first ones to get the vaccine.

And on the priority? My brother got prioritized as a high-risk patient and got his vaccine before I did. The reason? He’s slightly overweight.

Anyways, my point is that a lot of covid antivaxxers didn’t actually care if the vaccine was any good or bad, they just cared about the politics surrounding it. And I agree with you, picking science over politics always the right call.

nottheengineer , to men in People in the mainstream should stop saying "Toxic Masculinity", "Patriarchy", and yes, even "Feminism"

The issue isn’t that those words hurt anyone’s feelings, the issue is that they skew the discussion because they’re established expressions and therefore give some undeserved credibility to whoever uses them.

nottheengineer , to Ask Science in How is the moon tidally locked?

Try recreating that spin with a fidget spinner and slowly turn it around like the moon turns to face earth. You’ll find that it wants to turn in a way where it spins around the same axis it’s orbiting.

Since the moon has no hand preventing it from doing that, it aligns its spin with the orbit, so the forces described in the article bring that rotation to a halt.

nottheengineer , to Ask Science in How is the moon tidally locked?
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