The regular swimming events will be done in a pool. The issues are the weird ones:

• the open-water marathon (10 km) swimming event, which can’t be done in a pool by definition of “open-water,” and
• the triathlon, which would require a pool big enough to handle a mass start of 55 competitors all at once, with space next to it for the swim-bike transition zone.

Doesn’t matter; I still get triggered by it every time anyway.

Even if Liz is dead now, using the meme format this way just isn’t right.

Why the fuck does a survey need a loading screen with a progress bar?

Holy shit, people, some HTML with input fields and a submit button does not need to be this over engineered!

That’s still not the full story. The full story is that Helena Bonham Carter is English and didn’t know what grades “grade school” referred to in the US, so she didn’t realize just how beyond the pale the line she was saying actually was until afterwards.

LOL, that comment:

It sounds silly but I think this should probably be fixed for 0.19.4 so that people are updated before all the cake days in June start, there will be many first cake days

Meanwhile, lemmy.world is still on 0.19.3 as I type this. sad trombone noises

That sounds plausible to be one problem, but it’s also weird that it’s different in two different places. There’s some duplicate code that probably ought to be consolidated.

Remind me again why a Democrat-controlled House didn’t choose to hold any of Trump’s AGs in contempt of Congress when they actually deserved it?

MS-DOS on a Tandy

Same, but mine was running Tandy DeskMate on top of MS-DOS.

Actually, that’s a feature that was common going all the way back to the very earliest image file formats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indexed_color

It’d be easy enough to make the chart a plain old GIF or indexed PNG; the only non-trivial part is that you’d need add some code to the page it’s embedded in to swap out the color palette. (You could also make it an SVG and manipulate it even more easily using the DOM.)

False dichotomy: I’ll still happily grab a paper map to this day if given the option, but I’ve never paid for one.

Every paper map I’ve ever used has been either a state highway map given for free at the state welcome center on the side of the freeway, or a state/national park hiking trail map given for free at the visitor center or ranger station.

No, you’re thinking of an orgy. Trains and gangbangs are both many-to-one, with the difference between them being that the former is sequential while the latter is simultaneous.

Quit scapegoating the southeast. This is a nationwide problem.

Not “infinitely.” Even “don’t do crimes” still entails the risk of a wrongful conviction.

I’m not talking about interacting with it. I’m talking about how it’s implemented, from my perspective as a computer scientist.

Let me say it more concretely: if even shitty expert systems, which are literally just flowcharts implemented in procedural code, are considered “AI” – and historically speaking, they are – then the bar is really fucking low. LLMs, which at least make an effort to kinda resemble the structure of biological intelligence, are certainly way, way above it.

I think it’s important to note that Linux can be a way to avoid AI, but doesn’t have to be. If you flip the headline around it almost implies that people who do want AI would be missing out by using Linux, but that’s not true at all: instead, the reality is that Linux is still better for them, too, because you could install all the same kind of functionality if you wanted, but it would be wholly under your control, not Microsoft’s.

This is why (as per usual) Stallman was right: the “GNU/” part matters. Linux is already all over the desktop (or at least, the laptop) in schools, in the form of Chromebooks. That means the entire next generation is going to grow up using Linux.

The only trouble is, it’s locked-down Google/Linux that they’re using, not GNU/Linux. All the freedom and user empowerment has been neatly excised from it such that it only facilitates consumption, not creativity.

I think the bigger joke is calling LLMs AI

I have to disagree.

Frankly, LLMs (which are based on neural networks) seem a Hell of a lot closer to how actual brains work than “classical AI” (which basically boils down to a gigantic pile of if statements) does.

I guess I could agree that LLMs are undeserving of the term “AI”, but only in the sense that nothing we’ve made so far is deserving of it.

Yeah, and that’s a terrible, misguided thing to do.

The article perpetuates another myth:

And of course, you have dedicated software stores in many Linux distributions.

Repositories are not “stores!” Repositories maximize convenience of discovering and installing Free Software, while “stores” exist to extract money from chumps for enshittified, proprietary crap. There’s a huge fucking difference.