Profile pic is from Jason Box, depicting a projection of Arctic warming to the year 2100 based on current trends.
The real annoying part of CDs was the failure rate. It could be the medium, the burner, or the software, but it always seemed you’d spend time waiting for the data to be saved to a more “permanent” source, and it would finally pop up with an error and the whole disk is now trash. Kind of glad that tech is now obsolete. I think you could redo a read/write a few times, but they had similar issues and it was a pain.
That makes sense, from why some things were captured more than others and from the pov of starting an archive service - using what’s already been done and going from there. So things that weren’t part of such a network and didn’t rank high in existing search engines really didn’t have a chance.
They started in 2001 archiving pages back to 1995. I guess it was luck of the draw what got saved then.
I recently was searching for evidence of web existence of a site, and of course Wayback was my first thought. So I put in the address, and couldn’t find anything relevant (a redirection error was the best hit I got). Then I realized, duh… What I was looking for was in the late 90s, maybe 2000, and the notion of preserving the web hadn’t become a thing yet. So this is what happens without such efforts, things are really lost to memory and maybe snippets of references here and there if lucky.
There’s different levels of computerized control though. Would fuel injection and other modern efficiency and safety systems be possible without a main computer? I wouldn’t trade my days with simple mechanical cars and carburetors from the learning experience, but I also wouldn’t go back if I had a choice.
The line crossed was being connected to work, not computers themselves. I agree that the modern car market is a minefield in whether or not there’s anything you could get that isn’t dependent in some way on being online. Buy used, there’s still stuff out there that will give long life, has been tested by the first owners, and doesn’t have the manufacturer’s grip on it.
Damn Edward Bernays and his consumerism. Maybe it would have happened anyway, but he pushed the idea of throwaway, buying the latest, trashing what works or could be repaired. So much waste for the sake of the economy.
There’s a Mac version labeled (horrific). So many levels to unpack there.
You’re too late. The rebellion has flown away.
Yes, and no. It’s not all fake, there’s stuff going on, it’s just not what they’re selling it to be, and highly pushed into places it needs to stay away from, for safety and for inability. My takeaway on him being surprised as how people aren’t impressed isn’t the LLM factor of what it can do (well or not), it’s that HE isn’t aware that other LLMs are doing better than Microsoft’s version. He really is deep if he doesn’t know what the competition has. That’s why there’s a lackluster interest (as well as burnout of AI “solutions” for every damn thing, often worse than just doing it like before).
My coworkers use Co-Pilot. When they have downtime, just for amusement, just to see how badly it mangles things it ought to be good at doing. Never mind the fringes where an LLM isn’t suited at all.
At least there’s redundancy! Good luck trying to request recovery of the files though.
If systems that run Linux were to power down, that’s it for almost all of the internet.
WIndows is bloated, especially if there are updates involved. However, how old is the hard drive it’s on? Not only tech age, but perhaps there are some read errors occurring to cause rereading that you aren’t seeing because it finally works. Also, if it is a hard drive upgrading to SSD is huge as well.
Thanks. I’ve browsed the instructions on how people typically do it, but I was hoping that there might be a way to basically transfer the WIndows copy and all its stuff into a virtual version. That seems to be not that simple. Perhaps the procedure is to establish a new WIndows in VM and then move/install what you have on the old. Which is why I’ve avoided it, that’s a lot of work.
I think it depends on how your Windows setup sees it. I’ve never had a huge issue in the various Linux versions over the years, but I have had to tweak things now and then, especially after a Windows update which gets really upset at not being the only OS. My Windows/Ubuntu now works fine, was simple to install (it’s on a separate drive which helps), and the Windows issues are minor things I don’t worry about because if I use it now it’s only briefly and I’m back to Linux. Still don’t know enough to convert Windows to a VM, and I’m not sure that would be better than just keeping it this way.
The best way to find out what works for you is to dual boot. That way you can either use WIndows for things that won’t work or are trouble to fix, but you can start getting used to Linux. Plus you can try out different flavors and see what feels like you. You don’t have to decide to go Linux and throw out what you know. Ideally you can do one drive for Windows, one for Linux, but you can also share the single drive with two partitions as long as there is space.
Depends on the product. From an original AI research point of view this is what you want, a model that can realize it is missing information and deviates from giving a result. But once profit became involved, marketing requires a fully confident output to get everyone to buy in. So we get what we get and not something that’s more reliable.
Got to keep the illusion that there is a healthy job market otherwise the statistics will crash and show reality.
Another Mandrake user off and on user back then. Was my first Linux, mainly because the install was very easy to do. Since it was based on Red Hat, I guess I started at the right end of the curve and worked my way back to Ubuntu.
Mint is one of the more “Windows-like” versions of Linux. The deal breaker for Linux usually isn’t the OS, but what software you’ll run on the OS, and often a crucial one will be MS Office and compatibility with the proprietary junk that comes with it. If you need just a spreadsheet and word processor and they don’t have to be 100% MS compatible, then LibreOffice will work fine (even ON WIndows). If it’s other types of software, then see if they have a Linux option, or if there’s success in using Wine or Lutris to run it on Linux.
Linux won’t be without some learning curve, but it’s not nearly as steep as it used to be. I spent years occasionally playing with dual boots of different distros but not really using them, but last year found some things that would run better on Linux (I started by using WSL on Windows but it’s so slow because of what it is). Now I’ve all but completely remove my Windows partition, everything important is now moved over to my Ubuntu and I do not want to go back now.