It’s like a better iPad in a way, since you could run full-scale desktop programs on it, and use it like a desktop.

I wouldn’t be too surprised if things like surfaces were one of the reasons why Apple seems to be making a push to try and make the iPad functional as a computer on its own.

It’s also an 8 gigaparameter model. That’s pretty tiny, even if they use it heaps.

Nobody would pay to use the private system if they could get their needs met for free in the public system.

They might, if they thought there was an advantage to it. Like being seen more quickly, or getting a discount for something else.

If the entire world had access to free healthcare, chances are research and development would grind to a halt unless they also funded research and development. Taxpayers would need to be willing to pay a company hundreds of millions of dollars if they discovered a useful product.

I don’t see why it would. A company would still invest in research if they thought they had a chance to sell it to the healthcare system, for example. It wouldn’t be the first nor last time something like that happened, and the latter case isn’t too different from how it works already.

Consider insulin, for example. Research into it and drugs for treatment of diabetes doesn’t happen exclusively in the US.

More than a decade on, and it’s still one of the best kindles ever made, in my opinion.

You had physical buttons instead of a fiddly touch-screen, you could have music, have it read to you, and also go on the internet.

Plus it’s old enough it supports a bunch of formats, and registers as a mass storage device to a computer, so anything can use it.

There have been a few over time. It originally started out as a project to test some new Reddit features with fake users, using Markov/GPT-2 bots, and then it became funny enough to let users see.

Them calling themselves bots or coincidentally being unable to tell cats and dogs apart was also quite funny back in the day. (They didn’t do any actual image recognition, it was just making links and a title.)

Human drivers, if they could get LIDAR with their car, would probably also use it.

Why not aim for better than what humans can do?

Should just have it handle voting as well. They could call it Automatic Democracy.

None of that pesky informed voting, you can just instruct an AI company on what your stance is, and it’ll vote in your stead.

According to the article linked in the article, it’s not that the operating system itself is more demanding, but more that the DE, and Browsers/Websites are more demanding now.

It feels like that Canonical basically needs to do the games thing of having a set of minimum specs for Ubuntu to run at all, and a recommend specs for Ubuntu to run well. Canonically basically bumped up the latter, but it’s being taken as the former.

If memory serves, he also claimed to have been driving when he teleported into a ditch 50 miles away.

Which just comes across like he was driving when he really shouldn’t have been (Drunk/Tired and Emotional), and fallen asleep whilst on the road.

It’s odd, since they used to have a rather nice HTML web interface specifically for low-peformance devices, but it’s since gone away.

This doesn’t seem so bad, though. 2 GB more in about 10 years is pretty reasonable in terms of an increase.

It’s not like they doubled it.

Specifically using publicly available information that they could find on search engines.

They didn’t track them down with a PI or anything quite like that.

Poor spider. :c

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50 GB in memory for a visual studio/programming project being a bigger project seems like rather an understatement, unless you’re working on machine learning, simulations, or something of that nature.

Did he read/hear about gut flora somewhere, and get his eggs scrambled?

If they had done a Google and sold GPU-compute cloud services, they could probably have made quite a tidy sum. Everyone wants compute.

I’d honestly agree. It’s fine after you get established and a feed set up, but before then, not having a good way to find stuff to follow in the first place hurts it a bit.

I’d argue that it was more to do with the fediverse setup being confusing/complicated, if you’re not used to it.

People would think you’d need to sign up to all the servers that you wanted to access, rather than using just one account for everything.