Incineration is a terrible idea indoors. At best, you’ve now got the smell of cooking and pyrolised human juices filling the place, and worst, is the house being filled with carbon monoxide from the combustion.

Fair, though in my experience, Debian and Ubuntu weren’t that much better in that regard.

I just went with Arch, because some of the stuff I wanted to use was much newer on it.

I’ve had similar issues with Arch Linux for years. The front panel outright refuses to work on Linux, even after modifying a whole bunch of things.

Your average person is more likely to get frustrated that stuff is broken/doesn’t work, and switch back rather than having to alter module configuration files and things like that to fix it.

I can’t imagine self hosting an LLM-based search engine would be too viable. The hardware demands, even for a relatively small quantised model, are considerable. Doubly so if you don’t have a GPU to accelerate with.

He’s going have the biggest, the greatest, the best tariffs.

What if he does a Harold Holt and mysteriously vanishes, never to be seen again?

Or a Netflix for children/video editing app for primary schoolers in the early 2000s/late 1900s.

You do get sick, and I would be most surprised if they didnt allow people to look away and take breaks/get support as needed.

Most emergency line operators and similar kinds of inspectors get them, so it would be odd if they did not.

It’s basically the same motivation as people who have a gun and are itching for the apocalypse so they can loose the safeties.

Even saying that it’s righteous violence is ascribing positive motivations that may not exist. They’re just looking for someone to attack, and an alleged paedophile is a socially acceptable target to unleash that violence on.

That’s why we should abolish mental health care for soldiers. They’re not physically disabled. Shell shock is just mental weakness, compared to their disabled comrades (!)

No, they are. There was a spam wave some time ago that had people upload gore and other things onto instances.

Things that someone who isn’t the police would also say.

I was most disappointed when I read that he left the group chat. Missed opportunity for some top-class trolling:

Although that may have had him arrested/raided for accessing most secret information he lacks clearance for, so leaving upon finding out it was the real thing and not a joke group was the better move.

I would love to know how much is spent trying to catch people trying to game the system, compared to lost compensation because of sick leave.

Past a point, they must surely be spending more hiring this whole team of detectives than they would be just letting the workers take Friday off.

FFmpeg and handbrake do the latter two quite handily. The latter even has a nice program interface, rather than needing commands.

ImageMagick is capable of the first. I’ve had it go the other way before, and I should be most surprised if it couldn’t convert a PDF to a jpg.

Because it takes work to obey the rules, and you get less data for it. The theoretical competitor could get more ignoring those and get some vague advantage for it.

I’d not be surprised if the crawlers they used were bare-basic utilities set up to just grab everything without worrying about rules and the like.

You can always trust Microsoft to make two version of the same application and to have really bad naming.

And to make bad naming worse naming, since they switched Office’s name to 365 Copilot, not to be confused with 365 (office premium), Copilot (ChatGPT interface), or Copilot (Office text assistant). Office was a perfectly serviceable name they’d used for decades. It’s like Twitter rebranding themselves to a single latter like Y. Why would they throw away branding like that?

People are liable to look for office, not find it, and go "oh, Microsoft doesn’t sell Word any more ☹️’

Rober seems to think so, since he says in the video that it’s likely disengaging because the parking sensors detect that it’s parked because of the object in front, and it shuts off the cruise control.

They already have trouble enough with trucks carrying traffic lights, or with speed limit stickers on them.

Instinctively, human brains generally don’t like large objects coming to them unbidden at high speed. That isn’t going to help things, even if you’re consciously aware that the wall is relatively harmless.