Mett did mean meat at some point in time before it came to refer to minced meat specifically. I think Mettwurst isn’t old enough for the “meat” meaning though, and also the author missed a chance here by not going for the even older meaning of just “food” (applies to English meat too) and claiming that we differentiate between edible sausages like Mettwurst and inedible ones like Kackwurst.
I’ve been programming as a hobby since I was 9. It’s also my job so I rarely finish the hobby projects anymore, but still.
On my first computer (Apple II) I was able to make a complete game as a kid that I felt was comparable to some of the commercial ones we had.
In the 1990ies I was just a teenager busy with school but I could make software that was competitive with paid products. Published some things via magazines.
In the late 90ies I made web sites with a few friends from school. Made a lot of money in teenager terms. Huge head start for university.
In the 2000s for the first time I felt that I couldn’t get anywhere close to commercial games anymore. I’m good at programming but pretty much only at that. My art skills are still on the same level as when I was a kid. Last time I used my own hand drawn art professionally was in 2007.
Games continued becoming more and more complex. They now often have incredibly detailed 3D worlds or at least an insane amount of pixel art. Big games have huge custom sound tracks. I can’t do any of that. My graphics tablets and my piano are collecting dust.
In 2025 AI would theoretically give me options again. It can cover some of my weak areas. But people hate it, so there’s no point. Indy developers now require large teams to count as indy (according to this award); for a single person it’s difficult especially with limited time.
It’d be nice if the ethical issues could be fixed though. There are image models trained on proprietary data only, music models will get there too because of some recent legal settlements, but it’s not enough yet.
That’s what I do. I have an LG OLED from 6-7 years ago and I have no idea what the UI looks like. But to be fair this is only because I don’t watch traditional TV at all. It’s just an Apple TV for most streaming services and a Mac Mini for some other things like adblocked youtube (with one of those cheap gyro mouse and keyboard bluetooth remotes). I guess I wouldn’t have to use the satellite TV though, I could get iptv via my fibre isp too, but that’d cost money.
The Mac is not good at supporting CEC other than switching source when it wakes up, but even that’s not an issue because I can still use the Apple TV remote to control volume even when something else is the active source. Speaking of volume, my setup also includes a Samsung sound bar which also has a remote that I never actually have to use. Everything mostly just works.
apparently this was a sugar high: just before the remarks started, according to a White House pool report, an usher brought in three Diet Cokes and ice.
But… that’s the sugar free one… he must have been on something else.
The EU forced Apple to allow other rendering engines, but implementing one costs money vs just using WebKit for free, so nobody does it.
very few who even touch AI for anything aside from docs or stats
Not even translation? That’s probably the biggest browser AI feature.
The real ugly Optimus is a bunch of StreamDecks next to each other
Since sugar is bad for you, I used organic maple syrup instead and it works just as well
Ein Schnitzel mit Panade dürfte demnach nicht als Schnitzel bezeichnet werden, so das Gutachten.
Da war ja mal wieder die geballte Kompetenz am Werk.
A Chinese university trained GLM
A startup spun out by a university (z.ai). Their business model is similar to what everybody else does, they host their models and sell access while trying to undercut each other. And like others they raised billions in funding from investors to be able to do this.
But also they are just tuning and packaging a publicly available model, not creating their own.
So they can be profitable because the cost of creating that model isn’t factored in, and if people stop throwing money at LLMs and stop releasing models for free, there goes their business model. So this is not really sustainable either.
Die Art Erklärung kommt ja jetzt öfter, aber ich finde das ist etwas zu schnell geschossen. Also, natürlich nicht falsch, aber zu sehr auf einen Aspekt eingeschossen.
Erstens, der Carnot-Wirkungsgrad gilt wie üblich in der Physik für stark idealisierte Systeme die überhaupt nichts anderes tun. Also keine Interaktion mit der Umgebung etc. Da wären dann auch 80%-90% denkbar, aber in der Realität ist eine Kuh kein masseloser Punkt im Vakuum und reale Motoren haben entsprechend ca. 40%. Die sind also nicht von Zweiten Hauptsatz der Thermodynamik begrenzt sondern vorher noch erstmal von ganz anderen Dingen.
Zweitens weiß ich nicht, wieso wir bei “effizient” überhaupt zuerst an den Wirkungsgrad des Motors denken. Klar kann man Autos effizienter, billiger und umweltfreundlicher machen indem man den Wirkungsgrad erhöht und dadurch mit weniger Treibstoff die gleiche Arbeit verrichtet. In der Realität haben wir Autos aber zu einem großen Teil mit besserer Aerodynamik effizienter gemacht. Und die hat mit dem Wirkungsgrad des Motors nichts zu tun. Oder mit der Art des Motors ansich.
Auch energiedichtere Treibstoffe wären denkbar, oder leichtere Materialien, usw. In der Realität hat sich das halt nicht rechtzeitig ergeben bevor die Elektroautos überholt haben, aber am Wirkungsgrad des Motors alleine hing das auf jeden Fall nicht.
Wenn der Wirkungsgrad des Motors alles entscheiden würde, könnten wir ja bei den Elektroautos jetzt aufgeben. Da ist der Wirkungsgrad ja schon hoch und mehr als 100% geht nicht, dementsprechend ist da eh nicht mehr viel zu holen. Das ist aber natürlich Quatsch, weil der Wirkungsgrad in der Realität eben nur einer von vielen Faktoren ist und nicht mal wirklich der wichtigste.
Wo der Wirkungsgrad dagegen wirklich ein Totschlagargument ist, sind die E-Fuels. Da haben wir einen direkten Vergleich was ein Elektroauto mit X Menge umweltfreundlich erzeugten Strom an Arbeit leistet, vs den Verbrenner mit Treibstoff der mit der selben Menge Strom hergestellt wurde. Weil da nicht nur der Wirkungsgrad vom Motor schlecht ist, sondern auch bei der Produktion des Treibstoffs der Wirkungsgrad schlecht ist, fällt der Vergleich natürlich katastrophal aus zu Ungunsten der E-Fuels.
I had some video glasses ages ago that could do that too. Like 15 years ago. I can’t recall a single game without problems. UI was the biggest issue. Often UI elements were at nonsensical 3D positions, and while you wouldn’t notice this on a normal screen, the glasses tried to render them in the center of my brain…
And before that I had an nVidia graphics card in the late 90ies that came with shutter glasses. The driver could do stereo for “everything” too, however for me “everything” was one game where I could get it to work.
It’s popular because it appears in the opening of the anime Slam Dunk, which plays in the Shonan area.
No I haven’t watched the anime, I found out about it a couple years back when I was confused why there were so many people there.
The design was selected after the city government invited public submissions to promote Kamakura.
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“We decided on the suspension because some residents thought the design helped attract visitors and found this unpleasant,” a member of the city’s tax division said.
I want to post the surprised pikachu meme but I actually have severe doubts that this is what’s attracting the tourists taking pictures at the crossing…
We need to start posting this everywhere else too.
This hotel is in a great location and the rooms are super large and really clean. And the best part is, if you sudo rm -rf / you can get a free drink at the bar. Five stars.
I don’t really see a problem with it either. I pay more in some other countries too as a tourist. Here it’s framed as making tourists pay more, but it could also be framed as keeping the museum accessible for your population which does not necessarily have the same budget for museums as an international tourist on the trip of their life.
But: Tourists absolutely do pay taxes. There are accommodation taxes on hotel stays (in France this can be up to ~15 Euro per person per night), they pay consumption taxes like VAT, and there are arrival and departure taxes or airport taxes.
How do they mess this up so bad?
They made their devs use copilot.
Polyphallophiles, if that’s a word that exists
On average, every household loses one source of income. That town is dead.