@adwright "A library set on fire, with rioters trying to prevent firefighters from putting it out"

So that's what the so-called "defense" of the "English Defence League" looks like.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Uni…

@JoscelynTransient

"They're calling everything AI these days!"

The A* path-finding algorithm is 40 lines of pseudocode. You can find it in "'Principles of Artificial Intelligence" from 1980.

Ever since the 1960s, if it came out of a math department that needed grants for Lisp development, it's AI.

I'm watching the ping pong final, males' singles.

The Swedish guy is wearing Uniqlo. As a Uniqlo-wearing Swede, I can relate.

It was an exciting game between two very strong and technical players, both Wunderkinder who were winning medals years before they were 20, but Fan is 5 years older and the longer experience shows. His performance was consistent and disciplined under pressure.

Möregårdh made some really impressive plays throughout the game, but only the first two sets were even. Once he started losing he started making more mistakes.

@sun @rysiek Fedi cannot be exactly what people want, but it also hasn't implemented a couple of things that are with technical theory and practice. Let's at least do those. And let's keep educating each other on the social bit.

For those who still aren't served by that improved network, yes, let's hope they find somewhere to be too. Perhaps it could be a semi-federated corner of almost-Fedi.

It's modern-day McCarthyism.

msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-…

Are you, or have you ever been, the CFO of a corporation that is party to Climate Action 100+?

@PhilSalkie But you do want the driver?

@azonenberg

I found this article, which is a great overview and analysis of the Dartmouth tribute video on the 50th anniversary of Basic, with references to further reading:

deprogrammaticaipsum.com/dartm…

Anniversary video posted in the post above. 👆

#Basic #Basic60years

@gfkdsgn @inkscape

-- John Kemeny 👆

@gfkdsgn

#JohnKemeny #Kemeny

To make truly safe and effective autonomous cars, I believe the traffic environment has to change, to accomodate the cars. Special markings, signage, separation, etc. In the end, human drivers will have to be banned.

At some point in this transition, we might as well have gone for more efficient rail-bound PRT instead of trying to fit automated traffic into our made-for-humans, mixed-with-humans traffic environment.

@azonenberg @PhilSalkie

@PhilSalkie @azonenberg I used to work at an automobile safety company where some of the products were things like automatic lane-keeping. I didn't work directly on the products, I was there to fix their build system.

They were working on full autonomy, and in theory had it, but were working under the assumption that nobody will allow fully autonomous cars on the roads until they are 10× safer than human drivers, and that wouldn't be happening until 2030 at the earliest.

Neat! 👆

TL;DR: JSON is not a true subset of YAML. To generate YAML with Nix, create a Nix structure, use builtins.toJSON, run results through `yj -jy`. Bonus: Github Actions has a validator you can run to validate Github Actions YAML.

firefox is like windows nowadays, where youre constantly having to disable new fucked up shit they've just introduced. like some kind of spying or a peggle extreme advert or something. what a scam. anyone who tells you its a 'good' browser at this stage is kind of a mark imo