In person groups depend on where you are. But if there isn’t a group where you live, you can start one yourself! That’s the case in me city. We are starting a group ourselves for the city.

Ello Ello.

Before anything else, I want to make it clear that choice of distro is much personal. Like choice of editor, desktop environment, color and so on.

I am a software developer, a game developer, and also an AI researcher. And I do need low level access to the machine. Not just because I would need to but also because I want to learn.

For me Debian Testing didn’t work out very well. I had it for Desktop usage. And most of the time, I wanted a newer version of the kernel or the software. On Debian the packages were either too new and unstable or too old. I then moved to Arch Linux which didn’t work out either. The changes were way fast there. So now I’m on Alpine.

There are other reasons I have chosen Alpine over Debian and Arch. One thing is systemd. Tho many people are fine with systemd, it didn’t work out well for me. And as I want to learn about low level stuff on the OS, down to the kernel, Alpine is simpler.

Would you still say that when you are in game and enemy team members crowdfund 1200 points on you while average kill score is 10? xD

I always have said. Open Source shouldn’t mean free labor. I personally develop open source software and get paid. And I am really against advocating that because the project is open source, the maintainer is not supposed to get paid and do it in their free time, voluntarily, and as a hobby.

Meanwhile players discuss this…

I’m not sure if by “materials” they also meant shotguns…

Even without vibe coding, writing an app from scratch has always been the easier/easiest part. The hard part is maintaining the app and keeping it alive over the years.

Here’s a chance I’ve got to rethink about copyleft.

In the case I’m wrong on this, we’ll know in future :)

oh I thought this “one generation of suffering” only happens in me country! It happens in here for non technical stuff. When some new stuff gets widespread in me country for the first time, a lot of people misuse or abuse it. An example is telephone. Another is Internet itself. And lately, coffee has become widespread in here(Iran) and people don’t know when to have an espresso and how many espressos per day is fine. There was a guy “I take 5-6 espressos per day and I’m fine”.

In a similar way, many people spend too much time on social media rather than doing something productive.

Currently I’m not using any LLM. I want to have it locally and haven’t found a time to launch it yet. But I am not interested about their current state, but also their future state. Surrounded by a big hype “LLMs will replace human programmers”, I want to emphasize what an LLM is fundamentally not capable of, no matter how much advanced and how many billion billion of parameters.

Friendly reminder that many drugs like heroin and morphin can be life savers if used correctly. Either directly or by changing some of its chemicals. For instance, when people have heavy surgeries, morphin is a life saver to evade the insane pain. Needless to say that many of such these or a production of them are used as meds for mental illnesses.

Thank you so much for sharing this. I always wondered about Zig :)

Of course I can do me research in any language. But what will be the ratio of the effort put on the algorithm itself and its testing? vs the time you have to implement and change the algorithm in that language?

Generating a working assembly code is not a big deal. People were doing it before LLMs see slightest light of the day using various other heuristics including Genetic Programming. The challenge is writing an Assembly code which you can prove works well and will continue to do so :)

That’s why Genetic Programming is very rarely used to directly generate a software.

Edit: But you can use GP for Machine Learning tasks. Tell it to generate a program, like an assembly code which plays chess well. Or can do a binary classification given a photo or other media.

Have you guys got a list of Linux phones. Either pre-installed or DIY. If you want to install Linux on most Android phones, you have to spend 3-5 years mainlining it and then the hardware is outdated. And phone is not produced anymore…

Rust indeed has good features I enjoy having them. But the joy I can have in Lisp, I cannot have in other traditional(or ordinary?) languages. I’ve developed an ML backend with Rust over 3 years to learn that for algorithm research and testing, Lisp ecosystem is much better than Rust. But I haven’t done the research yet to see if there is a Lisp other than CL which is performant enough. Because CL is quite obscure and has self contradicting features, thus not mature.

IRC is the best (jk)

I don’t have to prove anything to anyone. Nor I’ve got the time for this. It’s up to you to do your research. I have done mine and shared the results. You can take it or leave it.

And BTW, I edited the post. JMA servers are strictly family friendly. So you can join with your kids. Actually, there are few father-daugher or father-son who play together. I think there were also husband-wife couples but dunno if they still are around.

Me little cousins call all these games “Minecrafts” and then call Luanti “A minecraft”. Like “I have installed a good minecraft” xD