

Flip-flopping in general happens when people are more rooted in politics than principles. That might be what’s going on here.
Flip-flopping in general happens when people are more rooted in politics than principles. That might be what’s going on here.
No, the joke was funny. I’m just a grump!
Except Transjordan isn’t biblical. It’s the region of Palestine that became The Kingdom of Jordan. As opposed to Cisjordan, which is the region that became Israel and the present Palestine.
But I don’t think we’re allowed to say cis anymore. /s
Human memory is not like computer memory. It’s more akin to a workout. Your muscles get strong by repeated stress of a long period of time. Your brain remembers through repeated learning over a long period of time.
Cramming for an exam is a little like cramming for a marathon. Not a good idea.
Study in smaller time segments spread out as much as possible. Vary your study patterns and environment. Use different techniques. Connect details with concepts and narratives.
You might be interested in Magic Earth it is also built on OpenStreetMap but includes crowdsourced traffic data. If you are in a big city then it’s likely they have good data for your area.
Also a great choice. I prefer organic maps for a variety of reasons (like ability to contribute to the maps), but a lot of people prefer OsmAnd. They are both very good.
Don’t forget who took that from you.
Had to check.
Slowly working towards a viable OpenStreetMap in my area. If you want to help, you can make a free account and begin editing: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/new
You can also contribute on mobile by using Street Complete or any number of great mobile apps that allow limited editing and full map features like Organic Maps
Edit: I didn’t know about Vespucci, which is a full-featured OSM editor for Android. Thanks, @[email protected]
Also be sure to check out [email protected]
The most approachable distros are Ubuntu based IMHO. That means Ubuntu (full featured, great interface, but can be slightly more demanding on old hardware), Lubuntu, Xubuntu (Ubuntu based, but with more basic desktop environment. They may be snappier on old hardware but not as fully featured), Mint (already mentioned here, generally considered the best of both worlds).
If you want to use very limited hardware, you might also consider a distro like Puppy Linux.
If you are new to Linux, the most overlooked consideration is the community support. You will have things come up that require help to do/fix. A strong, active community means you will have a much easier time.
“Well, you have to let us do a little harm.” ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I think you misunderstand the phrase as I’m using it.
Time is always on someone’s side. It’s the nimble, the patient, the determined who win. MAGA is more nimble than the institutions that oppose it. It’s been more patient and focused than the opposition which has been constantly chasing after the latest shiny object of the week/month/year rather than anticipating the need for focus and unity. The bad guys are winning and they are not slowing down; we are falling further behind.
There are all sorts of mechanisms in the USA to stop this from happening as well. However, Trump spent the first term embedding loyalists in the courts and congress, so there really is not much left to stop him. If the people who are there to act as a check on presidential power are in on the game, then who is left to enforce the law?
Prosecution takes a very long time and authoritarians move very quickly. Time is not on our side.
Censorship and bias are two different issues.
Censorship is a deliberate choice by the deployment. It comes from a realistic and demonstrated need to limit the misuse of the tool. Consider all the examples of people using early LLMs to generate plans for bombs, Nazi propaganda, revenge p*rn etc. Of course, once you begin to draw that line, you have to debate where the line is, and that falls to the lawyers and publicity departments.
Bias is trickier to deal with because it comes from the bias in the training data. I remember on example where a writer found that it was impossible to get the model to generate a black doctor treating a white patient. Imagine the racist chaos that ensued when they applied an LLM to criminal sentencing.
I am curious about how bias might be deliberately introduced into a model. We have seen the brute force method (eg “answer as though Donald Trump is the greatest American,” or whatever). However, if you could really control and fine tune the values directly, then even an “open source” model could be steered. As far as I know, the values are completely dependent on the training data. But it should be theoretically possible to “nudge” those values if you could develop a way to tune it.
I’m not sure we are having the same conversation. You are talking about how Mastodon was not a good fit for you personally, maybe because of a bad server.
I’m saying that lots of people use it for all sorts of great things, and it’s an excellent option for a public health agency.
What are you talking about? It has a million active users. With an advertising budget of zero.
Too Bad it wasn’t Mastodon. They just chose a different corporate master
Sounds like good news to me
Yep, in classical biblical literature it’s understood that the “sin of Sodom” was lack of social justice.
It’s the Christian interpretation that made it primarily a sex thing.