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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not necessarily. If they're low on cash then cutting unnecessary costs is not unreasonable. What is Mozilla's core goal? Perhaps the "advocacy" and "global programs" divisions weren't all that relevant to it, and so their funding is better put elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 days ago

Entertainment.

If you think it's supposed to be predictive you're perhaps confusing it with futureology, which is a more scientific field.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

This is very important, I've seen people try this and it just makes things worse. In another comment I suggested my favourite solution to getting stuck like this; have a one-handed garden pick or similar tool in the car so you can dig the tires out of the ice.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I've got a spray bottle filled with windshield wiper fluid I sometimes use to "pre-treat" an icy windshield before I get to scraping it, it's often able to loosen the ice's grip on the glass so the scraper can just lift it off. Simpler and more controllable than relying on the built-in windshield sprayers.

A one-handed garden pick is a nice tool to have handy if you find your car's wheels stuck in some hard-packed snow or ice. Don't spin your wheels fruitlessly, the friction is just making the ice slicker and harder. Use the garden pick to dig the wheels out instead, creating a rough surface to get some initial traction on. There are also traction plates or mats that you can stick in there to help get moving, though you need to be able to move the car far enough to get them caught under the wheels for them to work.

Make sure your car battery is in good condition. Cold weather will reduce its power output, so if your car's going to fail to start it'll be in the dead of winter when that happens. For peace of mind I bought one of those battery booster packs that you can use to jump-start a car with and I really like it, it's got a built-in air pump, USB charger, and light source as well and I've used it for all of those things now and then. Wasn't very expensive.

Stash a warm hat and a pair of warm mittens in the car somewhere. If you end up stranded on a roadside you won't have known ahead of time that you were going to be stranded so you might not have brought adequate clothing with you. A flashlight, too. In northern latitudes there's a lot of darkness during winter time.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Fearing AI because of what you saw in "The Terminator" is like fearing sleeping pills because of what you saw in "Nightmare on Elm Street."

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are people who want AI, crypto, and IoT things. If there weren't then there'd be no money to be made in selling it.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

AI models don't actually contain the text they were trained on, except in very rare circumstances when they've been overfit on a particular text (this is considered an error in training and much work has been put into coming up with ways to prevent it. It usually happens when a great many identical copies of the same data appears in the training set). An AI model is far too small for it, there's no way that data can be compressed that much.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Udio. There aren't yet any locally-runnable music generation tools like it, and even if they were they'd have to be pretty darned good to rival Udio's quality. I make a lot of use of it for tabletop roleplaying games, but also "just for fun." It's only $10 a month.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I never left, I just started using both.

Probably the "final straw" would be shutting down old.Reddit. Unless they do something else unexpectedly awful that I haven't thought of.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

In my experience the vast majority of posts about Elon Musk are from people who hate him and are tired of hearing about him.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

There is a certain amount of irony when people respond to a comment that mentions AI with a reflexive "AI is just a fancy autocomplete!" Without any relevance to the larger context.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah. A lot of people loudly declaring that they're switching to Linux, followed by them staying with Windows anyway.

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