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Comment I have zero reason to use cash (Score 1) 54

There just simply is no reason for me to have any cash, paying by card has been a thing here forever. I don't even want to deal with cash, it's just so much more convenient to whip out a card or a smartwatch and be done with the payment in a matter of seconds. Even for buying second-hand directly from an individual person we nowadays have multiple different options right on our phones.

Comment Where's the news? (Score 1, Informative) 115

Using integer maths instead of floating point maths where you want a similar result, but don't need as high precision has been done for multiple decades already and is a common thing to do in e.g. resource constrained embedded devices. Applying it to AI models doesn't magically make it a new thing and I seem to recall having seen several articles over the years from other groups on doing it to AI models/training before this.

This just smells like an attempt at hyping things up in the hopes of grant money or investors. Or both.

Comment Re:TrueNAS (Score 1) 135

TrueNAS Scale is great. I've got it running on my primary NAS and on my backup NAS (my primary NAS takes backups from my other systems, then it is synced to my backup NAS, so there's multiple copies of everything, plus a week's worth of snapshots) Its UI is nice and clean, it makes it easy to manage disks, run a couple of VMs, with the next major release they're moving to using Docker as well and so on.

I just had an HDD die on me and I simply got an email from my TrueNAS system informing me of this and a couple of days later my pool had been resilvered and everything was all good again. It's really convenient.

Comment Re:So "coders" downloading malware... (Score 1) 22

targeting people mostly working on Javascript-based mobile and web projects

That's just plain wrong. VSCode is used these days for almost anything revolving around programming, including writing code for microcontrollers, working with C, C++, Rust, Python and others, for developing data science tools and applications and so on and so forth. There is absolutely nothing about it that is even remotely targeted at just Javascript projects.

Comment Re:Old and funny subject (Score 2) 243

I'm definitely the first one: I can easily imagine all sorts of apples and when I do, I tend to imagine all sorts of details as well, like specular highlights, depth-of-field, lens effects, dust/rain/snow/something else entirely, I can rotate it all in my mind and e.g. the specular highlight I mentioned react accordingly, as if there was a light source and so on. I've always been good at visualizing geometric objects as well, including multiple ones simultaneously and I can rotate everything in my mind easily -- together or separately.

Alas, it's all stuff I've experienced in some way before. I am as creative as a lead brick: I cannot for the life of me come up with something new, something I haven't seen or heard of before in one form or another. I am hugely envious of all the truly creative people who can just imagine all sorts of wondours things out of thin air and then follow that up by bringing those to life on paper or a computer screen or whatever -- that is truly an impossible task for me.

Comment Re:What high IQ sociopath could genuinely repent? (Score 4, Insightful) 181

Intellect matters little, when you've never learned to deal with your emotions in a mature manner and they take control. How to deal with negative emotions, learning how to open up and talk about things with others, learning to put oneself in another person's shoes and all that are something everyone should learn, but many people never do and they then may end up harming themselves and/or others, since they don't know any better.

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