A few years ago I ported some legacy device firmware from its ancient Sun-based development environment to gcc (68k cross-compiler) and Linux. Most of the code compiled reasonably as-is. Some of it required a bit of hand-holding, like telling gcc that I really did need to store four characters one at a time rather than a single long when talking to a dual-port RAM interface.

Some of the low-level OS code did in fact require assembly. So be it.

...laura

Model M, or go home!

... as if it were my first attempt at using a cheap-ass plastic filament printer to print a brittle comb for my hairclipper.

I'm pretty sure my local hackerspace can come up with a better version of this within a few hours simply by measuring/scanning the clipper and/or other combs and using a better printer.

I accept that no matter what I do at airport security it will be wrong. This is, according to some sources, by design. Keeps the bad guys on their toes. Something like that.

As a Canadian the only biometric ID I have is my passport. Despite the pressure to do so, I do not use it for domestic flights. International flights only. For U.S. domestic flights I use my drivers license. For Canadian domestic flights, my pilots license.

...laura

... to get some work done without being distracted by an internet uplink.

That phrase is little more than semantic trickery. I will likely lose notable parts of my job to AI. So much so that it won't be much of a job at all. That goes for many more people than myself.

I will have something remotely resembling a "job" (read: "useful/regarded social position") _not_ by using AI but focusing on skills that AI _can't_ provide that easily. Like meaning- and mindful human interaction, a healthy human body and real functional social skills that go along with it.

Using a bot won't make my future life. Focusing on those things a bot most certainly can _not_ provide (anytime soon) however will.

Now please tell the young ladies in your vicinity that the only job very most likely _not_ to be done by a bot anytime soon is the job of a mother. Unlike the job of our wisecrack Mr. Nvidia here. ... I hope they catch that before society is done and over.

... products and services on you in every moment of the conversation. It's going to suck big time. I'm getting sick just imagining it.

... and very easy to customize to your liking. That's one of the key features of MD. So this isn't really a problem, more of a feature.

So they updated some widgets and added a few more button-bar variants, alignment options and atomic components. This has been done before, with customizing of material design. Giving this a major release number is more of a marketing-shtick than anything else IMHO.

AFAICT ARIA adresses this problem, so it isn't really that much of an issue. Or am I missing something here?

... should be its own form of cherished FOSS work. That's the beauty of FOSS. That's why projects like the Mate Desktop environment should get as much ongoing attention as all the newfangled stuff. I still miss some features from the old KDE Konqueror file manager for instance.

Using AI/ML as a hyper-fast and specialized targeted ads expert and having it train itself on the heuristic click-through and desired behavior feedback is just about as much of a no-brainer you can get. Especially if you have north of a billion active users. I'd be surprised if the big player all didn't already have such bots in place for quite some time now.

The parent of this post reveals this amazing information! :)

>Citation needed.

every appellate court ever in the 700 years of the Common Law?

Have any of these people ever been to England?

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