Generally it’s fine, but right now, with my laptop, I’m having to use run an older kernel version because the Nvidia drivers haven’t been updated in the Ubuntu repositories. Installing drivers for Nvidia isn’t hard, but it is something you have to elect to do, and it is something that can break. Meanwhile, with AMD GPUs, it generally ‘just works’.
IMO, given two laptops of equal value, I would pick the AMD, but I wouldn’t pick a worse laptop in order to have an AMD card.
I found it interesting that education is increasingly shifting from simply asking “Who wrote this?” to asking “Does the student understand this?”
I don’t think this framing is quite accurate. Before AI, the final paper’s quality was the metric for “did the student understand this”. With AI tools, that metric disappeared, and educators are now looking for a replacement heuristic.
Hey Claude, why are my agents faster on Linux? Oh I/O? That makes sense!
I’m really glad this isn’t just the image, that it includes a guy telling us it’s funny. I’m not sure I could’ve worked that out myself.
Oh yeah, you’re right, there is a swear in it! I do still feel it’s extremely tame for being an “angry” voice though. For comparison, this is what a human sounds like when ranting about a topic they care about.
What really seals it is the ‘angry’ version, which is just the same message again but with different formatting. No human would label that as “the angry version” without the inclusion of at least one “fucking”.
Yes, but this shit is wrong. Imagine if I went to a shit restaurant, and I ordered shit, and instead they served me chocolate mouse. I think I would be quite rightly upset about this.
I don’t see how this is Pythagorean, since there none of the corners are right-angle ones.
You’ll have to ask them. Maybe you should, and maybe they’ll consider it. If you don’t ask, it’s much less likely they’ll think of it themselves.
Because properly packaging/distributing your game is hard. Maintaining a build environment, running tests, having unique deliverables, it all adds effort. With Proton specifically, it’s a much lower effort to report. If there is a linux specific bug, it’s fine, because Linux isn’t officially supported, it’s just known to work with Proton. You also only need to ship one binary file (the Windows build), so you don’t have to adjust or alter any processes.
This may not be the reason they do it, but there are real reasons.
It still suffers from not having access to the DOM and other APIs the browser supplies. That’s being worked on, I believe.
Without that, you still need a JavaScript layer in-between at the very least. At that point, you’re not gaining much from running in WASM.
What slogan would you like instead? I think “Defund the police” is probably the most succinct and truthful slogan you could come up with. No matter what political goal you have, summing it up in 3 or so words is never going to give the full picture.
Yes, I agree that communicating clearly is important. But there’s only so much you can do realistically.
They’re famously mountainous countries. Not that I agree with using animal fur for warmth, but it’s not like you can’t be cold in Italy.
So, both Linux and Windows comes with a component called the “Kernel” (technically, Linux is the kernel, and the OS is something like Ubuntu, Fedora, etc…). This Kernel sits between the actual hardware and the rest of the operating system. It is responsible for things taking your app and loading it into memory, then handing the starting point to the CPU, things like this.
Since both of these kernels are developed independently, and basically from scratch, they work quite differently. When a program (app) is launched, the operating system needs to know a lot of small details in order to actually run it. What it needs to know and how to find it is quite different between Linux and Windows. Windows “Portable Executable” files (.exe files), and linux uses Executable and Linkable Format files. Your idea would be to simply re-arrange and augment the data in this header so it executes on the other platform, right?
There is a major wrinkle with this though, and that is the system libraries. Both the OSes have functionality to make it easier to write applications, provided by the OS. Things like sound libraries to write sound to the speakers, or graphics APIs so the application can draw to the screen. For Linux running on Windows, you can just look at what Linux provides and emulate that, or grab the source code and port that to Windows. However, the reverse is not so easy, because Windows is closed-source. Rebuilding every windows API from scratch is quite difficult, and made harder because the architecture is different, and solutions that are easy to provide in Windows might be quite hard in Linux.
It’s this library gap where the value of Wine comes from, and how it works.
You might ask, then, if it’s possible to run both kernels, and provide both options. Yes. In fact, this is how WSL on Windows works. It runs a customised version of the Linux kernel as a Windows application. Likewise, docker allows you to run a Windows nanosever, which is somewhat similar. However, running a container has more overhead than running the system API translations.
Running them ‘natively’ doesn’t really make sense, in the same way I cannot connect K’nex pieces to my Lego model directly. The two operating systems simply have different shapes, and cannot be directly connected.
Note, he’s not just ‘a YouTuber’, he is currently the most popular one by quite a margin.
Note that this doesn’t mean his content is good or worthwhile.
As someone not in the USA, I cannot tell you how absolutely annoying and terrible it is when the website automatically selects a language/region for you. It happens so often.
“Oh, you have a Polish IP? Here is the whole website in Polish. Also, the address field will now only accept Polish addresses!”. Nah bro, I just live near the border. I wish I could select language by adjusting the path, that would be so much better than what some sites do.
You’re thinking, as someone else said, of P = NP. This is technically an unsolved problem. We don’t know if P = NP is true, there is no proof that guarantees it. However, it’s looking pretty unlikely.
This problem would have huge consequences for a wide range of fields, and it would break most cryptography and encryption algorithms we have (assuming it is proven true).
Anyway, this is what Anubis is already doing. That’s why OP complained about being stuck for 3 minutes with the CPU at full blast. Anubis gave the PC some problem that was difficult to compute. The problem itself was not important, it’s just to keep the computer busy for a bit. (The idea is that this significantly slows down spam bots and other automated access, I believe).
Of course Anubis has to verify the answer is correct, and that the client didn’t just send garbage. So the problem Anubis already uses is one that is easier to verify than to compute.
Btw, it is possible to verify solutions where checking is as expensive as solving. You provide each client with at least 2 problems. One where you already know the answer, and one where you don’t. You have the client solve both. If the known one is good, you let them through, and add the unknown one to the known set. You can even verify it by sending it to two other clients, see if they all get the same answer. But I believe that this solution wouldn’t be required, because protein folding ‘violates’ the P=NP problem.
The idea is to pick some task that is very difficult to calculate, but easy to verify. E.g., confirming a crossword is correct is much faster than filling one in.
Protein folding is one such example, and it’s useful to boot. The results can be used in medical research, for example.
Donating compute via Folding@Home was quite popular for a while for this exact reason.
I remember reading about this. The dog is feeling quite vulnerable while doing it’s business, and so it’s looking at you, the pack leader for assurances. It’s seeing if you’re standing watch properly, and looking at you to see if you’re stressed or alerted.
*Proceeds to shade a dude who struggles with hair loss*