That was a big change I made when I started taking care of my teeth too was reducing my sugar intake. I now pretty consistently stay below the “recommended daily value” listed on the back of every package every day

That’s honestly so much more cursed than I thought! I seriously thought that in French it was just pure base20 but nope!

You mean to tell me that the language where one says 3x20+7 to say sixty seven makes 6-7 mean something?!

When I started actually taking care of me teeth there was a night and day difference between dental appointments where I’d not flossed much or at all since the last appointment and just flossing maybe weekly. Upgrading to daily further improved the experience. Flossing really makes the entire dental process suck so much less and is totally worth it. Also setting a timer to make sure you actually brush for 2 minutes can also be helpful, since you might not realize you’ve been under-brushing

If that’s how you feel then I won’t be sharing any casserole with you, thank you very much!

Always remember to remove the bloated French language pack folks!

rm -fr

Maybe this is being a bit too optimistic here, but if such a break happens where MAGA swears off the Republican party and the entire party crumbles it’s a good opportunity for a new party to form to the left of Democrats

I honestly can’t remember. There’s a chance I made it up, but it’s a little too perfect so I probably read it somewhere like on a reddit thread a long time ago or something

Around where I live of the homes and businesses that have perpetually had trump stuff up since 2015 no longer have any trump stuff up. I think he might be losing his base…

I live in a pretty rural area and my anecdata is I keep seeing fewer and fewer trump signs and trump merch around. Actually I’m not certain if there’s any houses I can think of that still have their Trump stuff up at all, and some of these houses have perpetually had trump signs up since the primaries in 2015. There were certainly fewer signs during the election in '24 than there were in '16, and they came down far quicker. Most of the trump signs were down within a couple of weeks just leaving folks trump flags and merch which have slowly been coming down over the last several months

There’s definitely benefit in going further up market (the $600 range tends to be where diminishing returns really kick in, where the differences between a $300 phone and a $600 phone are pretty obvious, the $600 and the $1000 phone are much harder to spot the differences) and if you buy a used generation or two old device you can really save some cash. My wife and I both got Pixel 7s last year for about $250 a pop, and they’ve still got several years of updates left on them

That’s potentially useful then at least!

The big challenge with AI generated summaries is that LLMs are so prone to innaccuracy that a summary that’s never checked for accuracy by a human who has read the source material that’s being summarized, it just exists in a weird limbo state of maybe-false maybe-perfectly-fine and the onus is still on the reader to read the source material to make their own decision just as it is without posting an AI summary

LLMs are brilliant first draft machines. Unless there’s a major breakthrough that improves accuracy they will need to stay that way

That and the way companies have been building AI they have been doing so little to optimize compute to instead try to get the research out faster because that’s what is expected in this bubble. I’m absolutely fully expecting to see future research finding plenty of ways to optimize these major models.

But also R&D has been entirely focused on digital chips I would not be at all surprised if there were performance and/or efficiency gains to be had in certain workloads by shifting to analog circuits

The article is like 5 paragraphs, not even a single sheet of paper if printed (with the unneeded images and ads excluded of course). Why does it need a summary‽

Probably by getting hired in a companies marketing department. Realistically these astroturfing campaigns are either farms of accounts managed by ad agencies to push whatever they’re getting paid to push at the moment, or smaller campaigns run by individual companies marketing departments, and not just random people getting paid to mention specific products on their personal accounts

Basically its the application of an airbag upon a human body positioned in a way no vehicle was ever designed to accommodate forcing the body to bend in half in ways it shouldn’t. Basically, never put your legs over the airbags while in a moving car and you’ll probably never suffer injuries like this

Complete with microtransactions and a horrible lack of customizability! Seriously I just wanted to play some Minecraft in RTX but you literally can’t use the nVidia RTX stuff outside of the demo maps, otherwise you have to purchase a different texture pack with real money. And basically everything in the Bedrock Marketplace costs real money, and very little is free.

Meanwhile Java edition doesn’t have any paid content in part because the original Minecraft license specified anyone was free to make mods and custom content but were explicitly restricted from charging money for it

1.7.10 (or 1.6.4, or 1.5.2 for that matter)

1.3 was another nasty one. That was the one where multiplayer and singleplayer were merged and LAN play was introduced. Before that mods were released specifically for either single or multiplayer and authors would have to specifically build 2 versions of every mod if they wanted to enable use in multiplayer. This shift killed a ton of mods and version 1.2.5 was a peak for mods like Red Power for example

If you use an alternate launcher like Prism Launcher it is trivial to install tons of modpacks for any version of Minecraft and manage many different mod loadouts (with handy search and auto-download of both modpacks and individual mods, plus it makes it super easy to modify a modpack you downloaded and add/remove mods) Its really the best way to play modded Minecraft (and has been since the fork from MultiMC) plus unlike most launchers which are super-simplified to not scare newbies, Prism Launcher also exposes tons of handy technical stuff if you want to dive deeper, such as optionally displaying full logs, java version and argument management, world edit and other tool integrations and more.

It goes so bad that when I recently loaded a newer version, I was like “what the hell is going on here” :D

Duude. I was super big into reading all of the changelogs and learning all of the undocumented changes from the wikis for every version and preview from when I first started playing back in Beta 1.7.3 until around version 1.6.4 or so. Booting up modern… 1.20something? I can’t even remember whats currentish anymore…anyways I’m so lost and then I try to play like a Beta 1.7.3 player and everyone else just goes “the fuck are you doing?”

I’d say its more like going to a fancy ice cream shop with amazing ice cream and ordering vanilla (hehe see what I did there?) or a fancy pizza place known for their amazing topping combinations and just getting a slice of cheese pizza. Its perfectly fine and probably better than some other places you’ve had vanilla ice cream or cheese pizza, but holy crap are you missing out!

Fuschia did get used on some of their smart home stuff that they’ve shifted focus away from. I suspect they were just building a dedicated embedded OS to standardize on for non-phone gadgets that don’t need full fat android