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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • What the actual fuck… and that too from apnews?

    Now only if those “researchers” looked even further back, they would have found that ultimate building blocks of any coffee, like electrons and up & down quarks came into existence around 13.8 billion year ago (or may be ~28 billion year ago as claimed by some new research), and our universe may be a part of infinite multiverse that may have existed forever.

    So wouldn’t it be even bigger headline that coffee has existed forever :)


  • As others have mentioned, it’s simple things takes alot time finding/figuring out.

    I use GIMP within Ubuntu MATE few times a week to edit pictures. Simple edits nothing major.

    One of the thing I need regularly is to highlight certain part of the picture.

    Now in Microsoft Paint I can draw a rectangle, choose its border thickness, and color in 2 seconds.

    I have learned how to do the same in GIMP few times but it took alot of time and I still forgets after few weeks.

    So now I just reboot the PC and log into Windows or use Windows virtual machine and draw rectangle in 2 seconds in Microsoft Paint.

    Mine is extremely simple use case, so I can only guess how difficult or how time consuming it would be for actual professional to create artistic work in GIMP vs Photoshop (or in similar commercial software).

    Just my 2 cents.


  • Now obviously, mere mention of word AI sparks outrage online.

    But I have a different take, and not for this particular instance but AI and military in general.

    Even if the US shuts down any and all AI research and AI applications, do you think China, Russia, Iran, and others gonna do the same?

    I don’t think so. Nvidia is super happy to supply expensive AI processors to China… officially or not.

    It’s better to prepare preemptively than fall behind all eternity.

    Look at North Korea, once they got the nukes, they became untouchable with unhinged loonies at the helm. And now South Korea and may be the US must keep throwing millions to them. They keep hacking anything and everything (except in China & Russia) they can get their hands on… without any consequences at all.

    I have not seen any hacker being successfully prosecuted anywhere in the world from the “state sponsored hacking teams” of China, Russia, Iran or North Korea.

    IMO all of these nations are never gonna be at peace with rest of the world, so why don’t stay (or at least try to be) in the lead while you can?