I don’t really see the point to be fair. It’s unlikely a union will force workers of a factory to modify the contractual situation if they’re happy. However workers who are being well treated can push for better conditions for people working in other companies.

There should could be a subscription payment, where I’m form it is something quite negligible to the salary of one worker. If it is well administered, that money can be used to pay workers if they ever decide to go on strike.

When the company starts screwing workers, it is already quite late to be in a union, at that point you don’t have a support net which has already been prepared. In general it’s better to be in a union before you need it than to scramble for one.

Why not unionize anyway? Are unions on a factory level over there?

It’s most likely not the same people, as AI destroyed quantum computing. A person strongly invested into quantum computing would be crazy to push for AI.

Quantum computing has already been destroyed by AlphaFold.

I work in the computational chemistry field and I’d really love a working quantum computing solution to that kind of problems, but since the ML solutions came up most research in that direction stopped and it does not seem like there is any nearing solution in the world of quantum computing.

I’m not talking about qubits numbers or amount of errors themselves in the system but about the complete lack of algorithms that can handle the problem. Most of what I’ve seen is handling childlike problems that a single core CPU will do better and quicker anyway. It really does not feel like all the promises that have been done are anywhere near to coming true.

When I speak with people working in the field they’re like: sure in a few years if we can get better computers we’ll be able to handle a few hundred atoms at a time (all without any actual working methodology and assuming that will be developed), however we are more commonly talking about hundreds of thousands of atoms… There’s little hope on my part that anything useful will come out of there soon. However, I do really hope it does: quantum computing would be a huge revolution for chemistry if it works as advertised.

I had this impression as well, until I had to troubleshoot some problems I was having with the screen. Did not give it root access, but it run a bunch of analysis on the system and within a few minutes it was spitting out configuration files that I just had to copy in the correct directories.

Doing the same myself would have taken me a day on the arch wiki. I’ve been using Linux for years, when I was on X I was editing the Xorg.conf without looking up the documentation. If you know exactly what the problem is, you’ll fix it faster that way. However, if you don’t troubleshoot many systems often it is unlikely that you have a structured approach to identifying the problem. LLMs can be quite organised in doing that.

Never seen small spherical walnuts.

The article discussed in depth how bad technical decisions made Microsoft product bad quality and unreliable. They they propose that this is the reason why Microsoft lost potential contracts with openai.

The Linux foundation, home to some of the best software engineers, and known not to pick up any trend just because it’s new - let’s say they still work with patches sent in a mailing list - reckon that a new tool is being very useful to them to the point that they’re integrating it into their workflow.

People still criticise them because they should know better such tool is useless.

To be fair: take this methodology that was developed years ago but apply these specific cutting edge methodologies to improve it gives you much better code in a day or two than any scientific code I’ve ever seen published by affirmed researchers in the field. You get the code, documentation and tests. Is the code easy to maintain? Most certainly not. Is code published by scientists maintainable? You’re lucky if it even runs. You take that and you have a partially working solution, you spend a week rewriting it and you have a working better methodology that would likely have taken you a year to develop.

The fact that the material is resistant itself does not mean that a layer of atoms of a few nanometers of thickness is scratch resistant itself. I guess you’d have to store it in a protected area and handle it with gloves, which doesn’t feel much more appealing than magnetic tape.

In a drill bit you don’t really care if a few atoms on the external surface fly off, in this case you would.

2 terabytes of data could fit within the area of a single A4 sheet of paper

Unless it can be paper thin this does not look better than magnetic tape. Moreover, would the handling of the material be safe from handling? I reckon you could scratch it pretty easily.

Sure, but I doubt RAM plays a big role in this.

I consider price and technical specifications. I don’t have 200€ to spend on a phone. Most phones I bought were less than 100€ new. What I care about a phone is that it supports two SIM cards.

With such constraints, choice is quite limited unfortunately.

Is it worth having a free device? Indeed. Is it worth spending 4 times the price just for that? Not to me.

As long as your phone model is supported by any custom mod. I have checked compatibility for almost all smartphones I owned, some 7 or 8 through the years.

Not a single one of them was ever supported by a custom mod.

I like to have a separate partition for /home Whatever happens I can wipe root safely and install something else.

Vista is the reason I started using Linux.

Food is very cheap and available everywhere. Clothing is basically free, and clothes are now easily high quality.

his and 90% of people’s material conditions are shit

Other people is richer than you does not mean your conditions are bad.

Thank you for the article, it really was a great read.

I work in the field of drug development, and I am very impressed by what this one guy was able to do. There’s people who worked in the field their whole life and don’t know even half the things he was able to do using chatgpt to plan out a project.

You should indeed read the article, it is quite a nice read and may show how chatgpt used in a proper manner can be a very useful tool.

Didn’t read the article yet.

I have a good friend who is homeless and begs for money. He says his life is much better than the life of the richest people of just a few centuries ago.