This edition of PC Zone Magazine cost £4 back in 1995. The cover CD had 1,000 Doom levels and IIRC a bunch of modding tools. I probably got 1,000 hours of entertainment out of it and often think back marveling at the value for money!

Of course all this stuff is available for free online nowadays!

I quite like this one of the baby pulling the pensioners up hill.

Haha yeah it's great. It's fast, portable, and has keyboard shortcuts from this century!

I have to say when I saw this headline I was bracing myself for AI "features"...

Indeed! I'd move it nearer a window and see if that helps

You also need to check whether the soil underneath is waterlogged as that will rot the roots even if the surface layer is dry. Once the roots turn to mush it won't draw water and will begin to droop as it's thirsty. I over-watered a lot of plants before realising this!

That sounds about right to me! Trying to go full steam ahead for 8 hours a day isn't sustainable or even desirable.

I found Cal Newport's book Slow Productivity really helped me get some perspective on work. It has three main lessons: Do Fewer Things, Work at a Natural Pace and Obsess over Quality.

I'm inclined to agree that OS-level age verification declaration is pointless and invasive but I'm sympathetic with distros looking to comply with the law. I can also see why governments want to pursue identity verification to enforce laws online even if this is obviously not the right way to achieve that.

I want to see Linux become the mainstream choice and accept that it will need to be compatible with laws like this to do so. Were Linux more widely used then organisations like the KDE e.V. might even be consulted by lawmakers which might help avoid this sort of legislation being passed in the first place!

I'm also hoping that this can be solved for those in California with some sort of optional service rather than something that gets too closely integrated with the distros or desktop environments.

Maybe they really couldn't be bothered with writing an Impressum!

Life in the era of the Business Idiot!

Yeah the intelligence is still in the model. The promise of symbolic AI is about logic programming/ formal semantics not recursive loops.

To a large extent the idea has failed because it proved too hard to get non-experts to represent systems formally.

I still think there's potential value in a hybrid approach - e.g. get language models to do the representation then let them use formal reasoners/ verification instead of hallucinating.

I think the title is an exaggeration. The problem is that Rust's regex module doesn't support "look around" patterns. It seems like the fancy_regex create extends support for this.

Submerge them in brine for a few weeks. This creates an environment favouring lactic acid bacteria which will create pickling acid from the veggies that prevents mould.

You need to keep them submerged which you can do by putting a freezer bag full of brine on top.

It'll release CO2 so if you don't have airlocks you'll need to seal the jars only loosely or burb them occasionally.

There's a mapgen section on ContentDB.

Do you mean like decent seeds or worlds you're building?

230B parameters is "reasonably small" now?!

I presume they're gathering this as training data and hope to later get rid of OP.

That's why cursor went for $60bn. Anyone can make a harness. The real value is that it gathers data on which changes are accepted/ integrated.

Yeah if you have a look they're probably hollow inside. If you prune the outer branches back you'll reveal holes into the brown, dry interior.

Vibe coding is accepting changes from the model without reviewing them fully (or trusting models to do the verification).

She/he is presumably discussing ideas with Claude then reviewing any suggestions before integrating them.

This may still not be to your taste but it's not the same as vibe coding. Whether or not they are actually reviewing everything is also a separate question!

I gather this is because AI assistants are inundating GitHub with requests. Their infrastructure must be drowning in slop.

Any tips for growing them? I've been trying for years without success.

This is the first time I've made it this far into the summer after being pretty thorough with the aphids/ ants! have a few leaves but no signs of flowering yet...

You can get a cola cordial from a supermarket near me and I tried putting this in a few brews.

Once the sugar has gone it ends up tasting unpleasantly tart and chemically.

If I wanted to try this again I think I'd try getting the kola nuts directly and maybe adding the citrus flavour with peel instead of juice.

Haha same. I just hope all my yeast survives until my poopy one reaches daycare and we can start to reclaim some free time again.

I hope your poopy season has an end in sight...