Based. This makes me want to install it, and I’m not even German

These advertising companies have gone too far

Not sure why you included “on the phone” in that list?

My guess the issue is that phones don’t just show up as simple drives, they rely on MTP support

Gentoo Linux user here. Sometimes when I open my laptop’s lid, the hard drive disconnects

It’s not just English. Afrikaans: Ah, 'ere, ee, <the diphthong in “whip”>, <not present in any English words>

I have never even looked at the Docker docs

Trapezoid

Konqi is KDE’s mascot

That little lake can serve around 500 households

Not really a clone if the neurons suddenly are in different states

When AI Overview was in beta in May 2023, it was really bad. Infamous example:

People milked it for memes. But at some point, Google fixed it, so to keep farming engagement, people had to start making fake screenshots and pretended that they were real.

And it’s really easy to fake:

Have you interacted with AI in the past two years?

Of course LLMs are capable of generating factual information. An LLM wouldn’t lie if you asked “is the earth round?”. But an LLM won’t generate factual information every time, because as much as the technology is getting hyped up, it’s still quite limited and probably will be for the foreseeable future.

But when the answer is obvious and well-known, they are good enough. Just pop OP’s question into any chatbot. They all, including Google’s AI overview, give “no” here.

A state-of-the-art glorified autocorrect will not send “Absolutely!” as the first few tokens after “can cockroaches live in your penis”. That’s GPT-2 level stuff.

I agree with your last point about Google Search’s decline.

The point is not just to make typing easy, it’s also to lower the skill barrier

So its length will become less than zero?

Next steps:

1. Database queries become irrelevant. The backend just sends an English sentence to the database engine, which interprets the string with an LLM and returns the data
2. The backend becomes irrelevant. It’s replaced with an LLM whose initial prompt tells it what to do with the incoming English API requests

The difference is that microwaves instantly penetrate about an inch deep while heat from an oven takes time to flow there from the outer shell. With an oven, the heating power is concentrated on the outer skin, and some of it is wasted through convection

Was this survey taken among alive people? If so, it might be subject to survivorship bias. Left-handed people might die earlier on average.

Cape Town is not representative of the rest of the country (it’s the wealthy city) and only has about 8% of the population. The visualization doesn’t have data for the more representative cities, i.e. Johannesburg, Durban (eThekwini), Germiston (Ekhruleni) and Pretoria (Tshwane), which collectively have 3-4 times the population and I believe are the most likely contributors to the high walking figures found from the National Household Travel Survey (2013).

There’s no way only 8% of people in South Africa walk. There’s something wrong with how they’re collecting the data.

Walking is the most common mode of transport used in the country, with about 17.4 million South Africans walking to their various destinations, followed by 10.7 million individuals who made use of taxis and 6.2 million who used car/truck as a driver.

Source: sanews.gov.za

Anyone who actually lives here can confirm walking is the primary mode of transport. Not because the infrastructure facilitates it, because it doesn’t, but rather out of financial necessity.