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  • Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds

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  • Also, it's useful to know how, when, or why something happens. I can make a useless chatbot that is "right" most times if it only tells people to seek medical help.

  • Discord to Require ID or Face Scan Next Month for Full Access

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  • I hope that discourages open source projects and similar communities from using discord as forum / user support.

  • Brazil shocked to find that 13,000 students about to graduate from medical school lack basic knowledge to practice medicine

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  • Yunohost, the *arr stack and VPN

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  • it just means they'll be a passive node, but still able to seed if they connect to the other node (edited). It's the setup I have and I manage to keep an overall ratio >1, especially if the torrent is popular.

  • Sony Patents System to Generate AI Podcasts in the Voices of Your Favorite PlayStation Characters - IGN

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  • you don’t actually know that you would have continued playing that game

    yes, that's kind of my point. With this feature it'd be more likely that I would. I don't play games for the boss fights, but even story-driven ones have them at times. They're more of a nuisance to me.

  • Sony Patents System to Generate AI Podcasts in the Voices of Your Favorite PlayStation Characters - IGN

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  • Idk, I've left some games behind, which I could have played many more hours, just because I didn't have the patience to get past a level/battle/boss, whatever. Not so much as a teenager, but definitely as an adult.

    Sometimes I come back after weeks or months, sometimes I don't bother.

  • Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App

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  • Isn't it against the law in many places to charge customers without providing a breakdown of what they're being charged with?

  • Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab

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  • maybe he calls his net worth "cognition"

  • Help with understanding memory usage discrepancy

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  • yes, the system will likely use some swap if available even when there's plenty of free RAM left:

    The casual reader1 may think that with a sufficient amount of memory, swap is unnecessary but this brings us to the second reason. A significant number of the pages referenced by a process early in its life may only be used for initialisation and then never used again. It is better to swap out those pages and create more disk buffers than leave them resident and unused.

    Src: https://www.kernel.org/doc/gorman/html/understand/understand014.html

    In my recently booted system with 32GB and half of that free (not even "available"), I can already see 10s of MB of swap used.

    As rule of thumb, it's only a concern or indication that the system is/was starved of memory if a significant share of swap is in use. But even then, it might just be some cached pages hanging around because the kernel decided to keep instead of evicting them.

  • Help with understanding memory usage discrepancy

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  • if my system touches SWAP at all, it's run out of memory

    That's a swap myth. Swap is not an emergency memory, it's about creating a memory reclamation space on disk for anonymous pages (pages that are not file-backed) so that the OS can more efficiently use the main memory.

    The swapping algorithm does take into account the higher cost of putting pages in swap. Touching swap may just mean that a lot of system files are being cached, but that's reclaimable space and it doesn't mean the system is running out of memory.

  • "Software Repositories" are Libraries, and "Libraries" are Books

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  • sshhh 🤫

  • NHS defends cousin marriages because ‘only 15 percent lead to birth defects’

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  • not making illegal and support from the national health service are vastly different things. 15% is a disastrous rate for public health.

  • The productivity paradox of AI coding assistants

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  • I disagree. What I could hack over a weekend starting a project, I can do in a couple hours with AI, because starting a project is where the typing bottleneck is, due to all of the boilerplate. I can't type faster than an LLM.

    Also, because there are hundreds of similar projects out there and I won't get to the parts that make mine unique in a weekend, that's the perfect use case for "vibe coding".

  • "Software Repositories" are Libraries, and "Libraries" are Books

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  • what are sections, chapters, indices? Who's the librarian?

    we don't need to go all the way into a metaphor

  • [Unknown artist] Fake it until always

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  • you haven't seen my frontend code

  • Self-Hosted Document & Budgeting Automation: Paperless-ngx, Firefly III, and n8n – Good Idea?

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  • Trump Isn't the First to Be Gifted a Nobel Prize He Didn't Win—Joseph Goebbels Got One Too

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  • A Nobel Peace Prize can also never be revoked. The decision is final and applies for all time.

    yeah, it'd be hilarious if the committee decided to withdraw her prize, even if just symbolically.

  • wait what...

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  • Python stack traces give you all files involved in the error, with their lines. I don't know what you're talking about

  • wait what...

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  • how's that the same thing as in the picture?