Good luck using it to get from Jupiter to Haumea.

My bold prediction for the near future: I will soon have my second cup of tea for the day.

Like many, back when it was fashionable I was open to the possibility of that idea being correct and I guess it’s still best to keep an open mind, but the results thus far suggest otherwise. Using Hurd is somewhat difficult for most purposes. Using cron rather than systemd timers on the other hand is much more pleasant and easy.

Lemmings have always been well-known for running in herds.

In that case there are alternatives for each component, most often more than one, though they may lack here and there some feature you believe to be indispensable.

There isn’t “an alternative” to systemd because nobody who hasn’t drunk the kool-aid believes that anything like it should exist. The syslog, the cron daemon, the dns config, the log rotation, the ntp server, and even the init system should not all be part of one giant tangled mess of a project.

That’s a fine illustration of the problem, whatever it’s properly called.

Having paused to search the web I find that “ablation” according to wikipedia is a term used in AI since 1974. Arxiv.org has a recent paper talking specifically about “semantic ablation” which phrase it uses to describe an operation deliberately removing semantic information from an LLM’s representation of a sentence in an attempt to see what purely syntactical information is left over afterwards, or something like that.

I’m not sure if that writer gets all the details right when it comes to how it works, but I do like “semantic ablation.” It’s good to finally have a name for that after we’ve already seen so much of it.

I like how the “FAQ” answers questions nobody was asking and accuses opponents of truth, freedom, and systemd of “decontextualising comments on merge requests” without mentioning what was actually said by whom in those merge requests so we could judge for ourselves. As a PR move to put out the flame war (which itself does seem really pointless) it seems counterproductive. But it looks like it’s just another reddit post, not an official KDE policy statement or anything.

Have you thought of trying MCTS? It’s a pretty easy algorithm to understand and was good enough to get computers playing Go up to the level where they could offer beginner to intermediate human players a satisfying game.

It’s possible to imagine people having good questions about US politics, e.g. something like “I’m considering running for this public office in this state, what do I need to know about x?” but good luck crafting a rule that allows that and not the worthless noise.

Doubtful, even if it’s not from far enough in the future that it’s after the Butlerian Jihad.

The Principia Discordia. Just kidding, I bring it up like every five minutes.

I think the temperature of your shower might need adjusting.

I kinda picture it more like this: https://media.gettyimages.com/id/200550933-001/photo/young-woman-lying-in-bed-hiding-under-pillow-smiling-portrait.jpg?s=612x612&w=gi&k=20&c=0JIF0lpDQnUeSor0EpWfNOzXpw94KFBj1KaPZaslltE%3D

Damn it lemmy I ain’t tellin’ you that, but let’s just say it includes jumping off a moving railway car.

Actually, if you’re planning to murder someone with a car it’s probably better not to exceed the speed limit while you do it.

Perhaps the contemporary high school student knows fewer things that are untrue, and certainly they have a few vague ideas about principles that were entirely unknown in the 19th century, but even so I’ll bet they know much less overall.

France is still quite dependent on nuclear power and I’d be surprised if getting rid of it wouldn’t be very expensive and difficult for them despite the relative attractiveness of solar power when starting from scratch.

That’s one more excuse for collecting all the data about you they can get and running it through the analytics — not that they needed another excuse for such a fair and reasonable business practice.