llothar

joined 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Remember, for every paid SaaS, there is a free open-source self-hosted alternative

CAD. Free solutions compared to commercial ones (SolidWorks, Inventor, Fusion360, Onshape) are like comparing Photoshop to an open source Paint clone.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think they dont care on purpose. Dual boot is a gateway drug, so the more problems with it the better for Microsoft.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I think you may like Expeditionary Force series, there is quite a bit of what you are looking for.

I guess Asimov Foundation series would also be a good candidate for world building.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Is this the Lemmy that is said to be less toxic than Reddit? Maybe it wasn't Subway, maybe it was something different. It was 10years ago, I may be misremembering the details.

Did I remember everything correctly? Dunno. Are you being a dick? That's 100%.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Damn it! Last year I upgraded to blockchain PC since my original Cloud-Native one was a disappointment.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Crypto as currency = good.

Crypto as investment = bad.

First one is technological progress, the other is a Ponzi scheme.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (6 children)

The architecture can easily be open source - as long as repo is missing just the training data. Just like there are Doom engines that are open source, even though they do not provide WAD files, which are still copyrighted. The code is there, but it is somewhat useless without the data. Analogy is not perfect, but let's assume it compiles to a single binary containing everything, maps included.

If ID Software gives you a compiled Doom with maps free to use it is freeware. If they open source the engine (they actually did), but do not release the WAD files as open source, the compiled game is not open source - it is still freeware.

It is not complicated really.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Yesterday I've spent an hour to figure out how to make Cities Skylines use my RTX 2070 instead of the integrated one on PopOS. For me this is the main issue I face with games. Is having a dedicated AMD card instead better?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

As a mechanical engineer - there is no serviceable free CAD. The only thing you can hope for is Linux compatibility - and you have 100% of that with Onshape only (cloud based).

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago (19 children)

I remember that in pre-school in around 1990 we made clay ashtrays for father's day. My father did not smoke but they told me to make one anyway...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I skimmed the paper. As you said, they made a ML model that takes images and traditional risk factors (TCv8).

I would love to see comparison against risk factors + human image evaluation.

Nevertheless, this is the AI that will really help humanity.

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