After a quick search, Eclipse “Theia” has a whole load of AI marketing and is the alternative to “GitHub CoPilot, Cursor, etc”. No thanks.

It’s what I’m used to and it’s got a good selection of extensions that are useful to me.

I’ll tty that then, and see how it goes.

That kind of looks like an action movie poster. In a good way. You’ve got that tornado looking thing at the back, a superhero riding a snow cloud looking super awesome, and a really good spot to put the title, credits, etc

One thing Rust has is a CRAB! Gopher takes second place in my opinion.

Will you though?

Like hollow out a light bulb casing and put your storebought LED and controller inside

Do you think it is possible/a good idea to DIY you own LED bulbs with off-the-shelf components?

Ah right, forgot about that one

Interestingly enough, there’s already CAD software called Argon, Cobalt, and Antimony (there could be more, but I didn’t dig too deep). Cadmium would be a fourth element with CAD software named after it. Maybe someone will fork FreeCAD and call it Cadmium…

I’ve got Asperger’s (pronounced “asburgers”, not “aspurrgers”), not ADHD!

huh, who knew. I really ran out of steam after technetium

fixed the title. Making the list was no fun at all, half of the stuff I saw were weird crypto and AI companies.

I have a program called “country guess” that I made a year ago where it’s like the Sporcle quiz but with a) the proper UN recognized countries (with options for some of the partially recognized ones), b) completely offline since it’s made with half-baked Python and c) it’s text-based (ASCII art maps and all). It times how long you took to complete it, but there is no time limit. It also accepts alternative names, just like the Sporcle quiz (e.g. “uk” or “usa”)

The way I did it was incredibly time consuming though, as it relied on a whole load of string formatting to show the ASCII map with countries highlighted (each country is a list of either whitespace or hashes #), meaning I had to manually copy and past the white space of the ASCII maps I found for each and every country. No wonder why I never finished it. It also had the flaw of not showing the country names in the big countries, with all of them shoved to the bottom of the map, meaning when you are close to finishing, you can’t see both the map and the countries you got right.

As of right now, I think it has the continents of Africa, Europe, and the Americas, as well as Oceania. Not Asia though (there are simply too many countries there!) and the world, since I never bothered to finish it. If I recall correctly, the partially recognized territories I included that actually worked were Western Sahara, Somaliland, and Kosovo. I also had the optional UN observer states of the Vatican and Palestine.

Do note that the python program requires the modules “colorama” for colourful text and “art” for ASCII text headings I think.

If you want some good videos, “LearnLinuxTV” has some super helpful ones on setting up all sorts of things (I found his video on Nextcloud w/ Ubuntu really useful when setting mine up on Debian).

You also have the wikis of the X programs/services that you use on Linux that can sometimes be helpful. And, of course, you have all the forums to you can hunt around where you can find solutions to all your (software) problems. Wouldn’t go down there for any medical/professional/legal help though, that’s a bad idea.

If the world was some simulation, if you feel that you are a real bag of flesh and are able to feel conscuous, free will, etc. then it doesn’t really matter if the universe is a simulation in my opinion It would explain a lot though. Sometimes I completely forget what I was going to do/find in a room right after I entered it, which could easily be explained by someone high above pulling a funny prank on the flesh bags.

we need more open-source software named after the elements!

If you have seen any videos of people visiting these data centers, you can hear the incredibly loud fans that make it difficult to hear the presenter speaking.

It kind of looks like a less padded GNOME…interesting…

Running LLMs do take a lot of power. Trying to run a very small model on my old laptop makes the fans go crazy and power draw must be high given that it gets very hot. Then when you get models with billions upon billions of parameters, you can see how it all adds up. Then you multiply these humongous models with millions of users, as well as consider all the energy required to cool all those servers (fans, pumps, etc).

The biggest power draw in the AI industry is probably training the models, given that it’s quite literally going through the entire internet for every crumb of data and mixing it all together into coherent text and images. Then you see how power grids can be taken down by these power hungry data centers.