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  • Why this $10 spectrometer chip could bring real-time chemical sensing to wearables

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  • I was so hyped for this thing ...Then I got it and well, I wasn't impressed

    Thought, this could lead to check chemicals on the go. Like checking if drugs are contaminated and things like that.But it didn't even got the basics to work...

    Well, was a lesson learned at least

  • C++ takes decades to master

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  • Arch is great in my opinion

    I'm not sure, if it was just my young age/experience with Debian, but now with Arch I could always save a system. With apt I sometimes preferred a complete re-install.

    I actually really like Arch(& Arch based systems).

    If that is the public opinion with C++ and Arch, I'll need to re-evaluate my masochistic tendencies, it seems

  • C++ takes decades to master

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  • Hehe, cheers ;⁠-⁠)

  • C++ takes decades to master

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  • And I fucking love it

    I hate java with a passion, C# was fun (but at that time only available through the .Net nightmare) and I grew up with (Turbo ;⁠-⁠)) Pascal and C

    So, I'm feeling rather comfortable and at home with C++

    I'd like to do a bigger project in Rust once at least, but with my current project already the compile times are between 20/25 to 45mins (depends, if you have the build server available or if you need to make up with the IPC).so, I guess, those iterations would become even longer with Rust

    But I'm also having the advantage, that my applications are running very, very isolated. So I don't really need to take care about exposure and attacks.

    Still... Finding a memory leak or some shared memory fuck up is everything but fun...

    Especially as most of the logic runs in kernel space and debugging possibilities are mostly reduced to traces/log files

    Still, I love itMaybe it's because of the thrill ;⁠-⁠)

  • Linux Falls Hard on Steam After Record 5% Milestone

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  • I do remember it as worse, when it was Windows 98 and Win 7 - not even taking about the horror that Win 8 resembled

    And coming back to it from time to time, because I need it for a stubborn program (really, Datalogic, get your shit together) or because I need to help family, it has gotten so much worse since that...

  • Brave is charging $60 to remove features it added in the first place

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  • To be fair, he said something about built-inBut I'm with youThe choice of high quality ad Blockers per addon is nothing that's wrong with Firefox

  • We're currently taking care for a little stray cat that looked for a place to have her kittens

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  • Thank you :⁠-⁠)

  • We're currently taking care for a little stray cat that looked for a place to have her kittens

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  • Well, you should have seen the face and tears in the eyes of my neighbour who picked her up originally.

    Yeah, she lives with us now and she is happy.That's fine

    But they've chosen each other on the street and he made the adult choice to ask us, to care for them, because they currently can't.

    And he is trying his best to change that as fast as possible - as far as I know, they already found a place and want it's now about payment, loyalities and whatever the fuck I don't know about

    The mother cat always happily greets him, when he comes for his daily visit.But I have to admit, that the cat fell in love with my wife...

    So there doesn't matter how this ends, there will be tears

    I'm currently just trying to hold all together and care as good as I can.Mother cat likes me as well and so there is currently no problem

    But yes... There will probably be a problem....

    For now though, I'm focusing on getting everyone healthy and happy

  • We're currently taking care for a little stray cat that looked for a place to have her kittens

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  • And, because it seems people are interested, here a picture of the family from today

    Kittens are getting bigger by the day

    First they were just fuzzy worms and rolled aroundBy now they start to resemble real cats ;⁠-⁠)

    Mother is always happy, when we visit her, so don't worry, that we disturb herShe is really happy to get some love and attentionWe sit there and pet her, while she purrs and cuddles her kittens :⁠-⁠)

  • We're currently taking care for a little stray cat that looked for a place to have her kittens

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  • That's the plan anyway

    But at the moment, that's obviously too soon

    Mother cat brought an abscess from a bite with her and it broke up 1-2 days ago.We pressed it out and cleaned it up, and then flushed it out. And today the vet checked in on it.

    The first thing now is to get everyone healthy.Mother is getting pills against worms once a week and for now some antibiotics against the abscess, that aren't hurtful to the kittens.

    When everything is more settled, we gonna sterilise her - and castrate the kittens (since today we know, that they are probably both male)

    But that's next step thinking.

    Edit: but maybe to add:She is surprisingly healthy for an unchipped stray.No fleas or ticks, got the ears cleaned out today and took care again about the abscess.She is probably just one year old. So the kittens already seemingly start to outgrow her ;⁠-⁠)

  • We're currently taking care for a little stray cat that looked for a place to have her kittens

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  • As she came to my neighbour for help and he had tears in his eyes, when he needed to leave them with us (although we're in the danger same building, just 2 doors away and can visit any time), those two are meant for each other

    The kittens are currently a bit openWe have one person, who would take one - or both if needed

    We aren't sure, if we can really give them all away without being heartbroken and think about keeping one.

    But we had a really tragic year with the final death of our loved cat last year and...we're not really over it

    We will see how it develops and I tend to give the cats the choice.As usually cats have chosen me and not the other way round.So we just give them time and until then care for them as best as we can

    Edit: fuck me, my keyboard is stupid since the last update, or maybe it's just the lack of sleep...

  • We're currently taking care for a little stray cat that looked for a place to have her kittens

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  • A rather sweet bonus picture, from where we picked them up at our neighbours

  • Researchers Put AI Models in Charge of a Simulated Society. Grok Oversaw a Crime Spree

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  • I'm not sure, if I understand the environment completely

    Those agents were the virtual incarnations of the AI in the sim city and the respective government - correct?And the AI needed to take care, that those agents didn't died, like of hunger or what?That's not really what those LLMs are trained for.

    Not sure, what they expected

    Currently searching the article for the original source, maybe this gives more insight

    Edit: ah, just in the first paragraphs it ishttps://www.emergence.ai/blog/emergence-world-a-laboratory-for-evaluating-long-horizon-agent-autonomyCompletely missed it on the first read.Let's see if this makes more sense...

    Edit 2: ok, if I get this right, those agents really were specific virtual individualsNot sure what they expected. First, LLMs are not really build to "live" as an individual as they aren't real intelligence and can only role play individuals based on their training data.Second, why should they be super moral or "better"?Again, they just role play depending on their training data and built-in prompt bias (not sure what the prompt injection of the company is called)

    If you train an AI on governing such a world, it probably start gaming the system, depending on what values are important to "win"As we have already seen with machine learning in the last decade(s?)

    Funny experiment nevertheless, but not really useful in my eyes - and I'm everything but a defender of the current use of LLMs

  • Today’s kids don’t have to worry about turning off your PC before you can unplug your mouse or keyboard

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  • I'm having some cheap devices with USB C plugs to charge, that stubbornly refuse to get charged with "better" cables. Only the real cheap ones work.Probably because some pins must not be used or something, but it really sucks needing a separate cable around just for those devices

    I get, that not every cable or device can support fast charging, but the other way round should at least work

  • Why Trump isn’t bothering to hide his corruption

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  • I also believe, that he tries to normalise it.

    Like in many other corrupt countries, corruption isn't that big of a deal.Pay a bit to get your documents faster? No problem.Pay to get out of a speeding ticket? No problem.

    But this needs to get normalised first, and I think he is doing exactly that.Give people with money even more power, so they're even more above the law, than they're now.

    Countries need years or decades to reverse established corruption systems.He is speed running the other direction.

    Edit: Just saw KindnessIsPunk making a very similar statement, but probably put it better, than I didhttps://sopuli.xyz/comment/23741774

  • The biggest mystery known to mankind

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  • Yep, a clean build often got rid of the weirdest bugs I had, because some shared memory was misaligned, because, as you said, because of compile optimization, some parts didn't know about the changes

  • Tool to check Linux services configuration files compliance

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  • Is it just me or is the results output kinda spammy?

    I mean, I'm all for information and stuff, but do I really need to know the regex?I'd love to have this as an option, when I think, that the tool provided a false positive, but for routine checks, I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed

    More interesting it would be, to just show me the parts, that are seemingly an issue and some description, why it is an issue.

    With that output, I'll probably have an easier time just checking the config file myself

    But maybe, that's just me...

  • Damn straight I tell you h'what

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  • I liked Gnome2, but never got the feeling for the current generationEspecially on a laptop I love tiling window managers, like i3Not needing the mouse for basic things is really nice

  • Damn straight I tell you h'what

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  • I've pretty much stopped using windows 20 years ago - besides needing to boot it up to have some weird configuration program (looking at you Datalogic!)I'm still "the computer guy" in my family and everyone comes to me with their Windows boxes or iOS phones/tablets, but I have absolutely no clue what I'm doing there...I'm always astonished how much more shit Windows got in those years.Even assigning a drive letter (which is already a stupid way to extend storage, compared with just mount points) isn't that easily set anymore.At least it took me 20-30mins to find the option.Changing IP addresses also seems to be highly technical and must be hidden.

    Don't know what they are going for. You can make stuff easily useable, but still give options to change the defaults.