Maybe letting cats out is one of the many ways we destroy habitat, and calling it out is valid?

Are you under the impression that being against urban sprawl is an unpopular opinion on Lemmy?

Thinking isn’t your strong suit.

It’s hardly just cars. They have similar lifespans in areas that aren’t so car-centric.

They get parasites. They get into fights with animals in their weight class (like racoons). They get trapped by animals outside their weight class (like wolves). Tons of issues in the wild.

My uncle has a farm with a bunch of feral cats around. I learned at a young age to never get too attached to outdoor farm cats.

And if you subvert that, you’re subverting IT security policy. Doesn’t matter if you think it’s a good idea or not.

But fuck Florida on principle.

How about a sandwich shop where you can order a Big Italian?

DejaVu Sans Mono. Open source, good Unicode support, clear distinctions between characters (“iI1oO0”).

That it’s all cloud based. None of it is stored locally.

Remember what I said about security around documents? Part of that is that docs are never on local machines. Yes, there are other issues with cloud storage, but nobody gets fired for doing it.

But I do not see how those would keep the knowledgeable people from working in LibreOffice and saving their documents in OOXML

Because they’re not strictly “your” documents. You have to share them with co-workers.

Uhh, no. There are collaborative tools in Office that are used by the sorts of people who don’t know what LibreOffice is. There’s also certain internal policies that tend to classify information in ways that work with Office.

Or if you use your own machine, you still have to collaborate in ways that require Office for one reason or another.

Best I can do is make the blade rusty and blunt.

Let me jump in until the mobs show up. “Noooooo, it’s just what you’re used to lalala. When is dividing by thirds ever useful, anyway?”.

I’ve also found that if you make this point without any reference to metric vs imperial, people tend to accept it.

Yes, it did. Most of the basic research came from there. The first section of the book “Hackers” by Steven Levy is a good intro.

That’s where I was a few years ago, and then I switched back to proper Linux. I was only keeping Windows at all for games, but then most of the games I played started working fine on Linux (thank you, Valve).

Plus, I tried doing some TensorFlow stuff with CUDA (Nvidia) GPU acceleration. In theory, you can do it in pure Windows, but nobody has bothered trying to do that. You’re on your own if you try it. The usual way is to do GPU passthrough to WSL. There have been three different ways to do that over the years, only one of which currently works. If you happen to Google a page that tells you one of the wrong ways, there’s a good chance you’ll need to reinstall to get it working the right way.

Using pure Linux for this stuff is no problem. Just use Nvidia’s server drivers instead of gaming drivers. All the AI datacenters are using Nvidia GPUs on Linux, so Nvidia is highly motivated to make this work. Someday, Windows might be as easy to use as Linux.

Russia has a unique problem, and it is war. Just not the war in Ukraine by itself.

WWII was absolutely devastating to the Soviet Union’s population. Tons of “excess females”, which means there were so many men killed that women could not find a husband. The baby boom did not happen there; kinda the opposite. This affects both modern Russia and Ukraine.

Every 20 years or so, there is an “echo” of that loss in their population pyramid. It’s a drop in birth rates new births from a relative lack of young adults starting families for part of the cycle. The echo reduces with each cycle, of course, but one of them is hitting right now. Putin is now amplifying that echo by having another war with such high losses.

Edit: clarified some wording.

The major thing that killed 1960s/70s AI was the Vietnam War. MIT’s CSAIL was funded heavily by DARPA. When public opinion turned against Vietnam and Congress started shutting off funding, DARPA wasn’t putting money into CSAIL anymore. Congress didn’t create an alternative funding path, so the whole thing dried up.

That lab basically created computing as we know it today. It bore fruit, and many companies owe their success to it. There were plenty of promising lines of research still going on.

The issue this time around is infrastructure. The current AI Summer depends on massive datacenters with equally massive electrical needs. If companies can’t monetize that enough, they’ll pull the plug and none of this will be available to general public anymore.

This system can go backwards. Yes, the R&D will still be there after the AI Winter cycle hits, but none of the infrastructure.