thepreciousboar

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[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 1 points 12 hours ago

Because cubans are considered a poor, third world country (despite the definition being something different) and because USA considered them an example of evil communism. Sure, communism then was far from ideal, but at least now they have healthcare (according to OP)

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 7 points 12 hours ago

It is not, but it's also hard to notice as a tourist. I've learnt that from here

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

(Assuming you mean DVB-T). In some place OTA is just the standard. Where I'm from cable TV is simply unheard of and all terrestrial digital channels are free with varying degree of ads.

Another great example of how things work so different in different parts of the world

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That matches my experience. My great aunt lost her husband 15 years ago, but kept going strong and relatively healthy up until 92, then her last sister died (quite unexpectedly) and her health started visibly deteriorating.

After a long hospitalization she got back home, but couldn't walk anymore. We were prepared to a long recovery, but after some promising days, as you said, she ate and talked less every day that passed, at one point she actively refused to eat and drink and just laid in bad. The last day or two she made noises and laments, but was basically unresponsive, with audible stops in breathing that increased as time got along. The only moments of lucidity were when she needed to go to the bathroom (absolutely physically unable to). We believed it was mostly for pride over wearing diapers and to have a last glimpse on independance.

Then she died and we all agreed at some point she just refused to live on, too old and too alone to handle the world. I wonder how much was a concious decision and how much a simple reduction in self preservation (maybe an automatic response of the body when getting to a real old age? I don't know).

Anyway, our biggest relief was that we could bring her home, so she died in peace surrounded by family.

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Looks like a field that can be cultivated, maybe they wanted to preserve it? Or simply too close to infrastructure or civil areas? Or they removed the charge and detonated it while keeping the rest of the bomb to study it? I don't know, just guessing, would be curious to know as well

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I am an obsessive thinkerer. For me thinkering means tewaking you installation, get plugins, run weird scripts to do weird stuff. Wasting time kf real work to fix your wifi is not thinkering, it's just frustrating

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago

Many languages have it. English for some reason does not use it

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago

Because "ai" ad we colloquially know today are language models: they train on and can produce language, that's what they are designed on. Yes, they can produce images and also videos, but they don't have any form of real knowledge or understanding, they only predict the next word or the next pixel based on their prompt and their vast examples of words and images. You can only talk to them because that's what they are for.

Feeding research papers will make it spit research-sounding words, which probably will contain some correct information, but at best an llm trained on that would be useful to search through existing research, it would not be able to make new one

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee -3 points 3 days ago (15 children)

There are ways to modulate production even with "flat" production. A clever way is to use water as energy accumulator: you pump water into a dam during the night, that you later let flow through turbines during the day.

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 8 points 4 days ago

Single = tagliatella Plural = tagliatelle

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Globally, it'g gone up. The US is not representative of the entire planet

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago

Well, depending on your use case, you might not care. If you want casual power point editing on your laptop, just slap a cheap key and it will work fine, buy another one for your home desktop and you are still <10% of a "genuine" licence. If you change your pc just buy a new one and you might even find a newer version. As for the MS account, I don't know anyone who uses it for office licence sharing, so I can't tell about it

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