I’ve heard it being a bit snobbish and outdated, despite having newer editions, but I will look into it. Thanks for the tip.

Thanks. I think it is quite well made, and I would love authors read this before they hand in their manuscripts…

A question from a non-native speaker: Is there a definitve guide on American punctuation somewhere? I always wonder about American use of punctuation inside single quotes when quoting a term instead of a sentence, and some other cases where I see different intepretations of punctuation.

So this is how he tries to escape problems with his banks. Lets see how xAI is rated as collateral for his credits.

I did such a thing, but I had a big advantage: the codebase had been done by people who had never really learned to code, and I was a seasoned programmer with 20 years of experience.

Having worked in the field and having seen my fair share of supposedly “true” random numbers, I would really like to see how they would proof this bold claim.

You are either naive or new to this planet. If you tell industry that this or that thing is voluntary, it will definitely not happen. There must be thousands of examples out there. “Voluntary” regulation never worked on this planet.

If you want industry to do something, there is the stupid way of bribing them into it, and the smart way of simply forcing them to comply. If you do the latter, they will still squirm, complain, and demand money (loads of money!) to follow the law. If you forgot to define fines for non-compliance or made them too small, they won’t follow the law, either, of course, so the fines have to be painful enough so they can’t just file them away as “costs of doing business”.

And Erdogans own degree is supposed to be questionable, too.

I looked up what a “shape tool” is supposed to do. How about using better tools for this, like Inkscape, export as pixel file (png or whatever), and import it into GIMP?

Well, it is their money they are burning. Good luck with that.

I use GIMP only for the simple pixel stuff, and I hope they did not make basic operations even more complicated. I always struggle to get some basic things done just because there are myriads of for me useless and arcane settings.

If I was insuring Tesla or their showrooms in any way, I would see to get rid of this contract as fast as possible.

Like the one tested by Mark Rober?

Those Dell fans were never built to be quiet. And they are also not built to be replaced by any quiet fans.

Then stop reporting useless baby steps for a change, and come back if they have something real to show?

While yes, there is a reason why I have retired the Dell server I had for a normal desktop PC. The server was so loud, I could hear it two stairs and two closed doors away.

My largest file transfer I have done via USB disk. You simply don’t transfer multiple terabytes over the net.

I wonder how much of the load problems I observe with lemmy.world are due to AI crawlers.

I use my former PC as the home server. It is probably 10+ years old, has no M2 slot or something, but an SSD for the OS. More than big and fast enough for all my needs: File service (Samba), Web service (apache2), Wiki service (mediawiki), Database (MySQL), Calendar service (Radicale), Project service (Subversion), and probably some others I forgot. All of it running on Ubuntu Server, aministrated by WebMin.

The only investment I did when I turned this into a server was that I put 2x8TB in it as a RAID for bulk storage - I dump the family PCs backups on that machine, too.

That is the future of AI written code: Broken beyond comprehension.