I like the Epomaker Budgerigar switches. They have a pronounced tactile pop right at the top of the travel, then they descend smoothly. There’s nothing squishy or unclear about them. They’re not too expensive either.

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The song and the post are funny, but the thread full of redditors taking it seriously is a bit depressing.

It’s true, but the effect is still much less pronounced on Linux than Windows. Opening a web browser, for instance, is usually a lot faster in Linux than opening the same browser in Windows.

Part of the problem is everyone building on common libraries that themselves build on libraries, leading to layer after layer of abstraction with a little loss of efficiency at each one. Since most software is cross-platform, this affects multiple operating systems. And needing to build for multiple platforms is itself one of the drivers of all this abstraction.

The same with the incredibly powerful CPUs and huge amounts of RAM we all have now. These are little supercomputers, and everything in Windows takes longer than it did 25 years ago on machines with a tiny fraction of the power.

Deleting files and folders in Windows is the one that gets me. It’s so incredibly slow, and if you try to cancel it manages to take even longer “Cancelling…”.

Interestingly they did the same with Word 97: loaded Office at startup so the individual Office applications would seem to launch faster.

Hairdryers are quite loud too. It’s a stretch to describe even the sonic boom as “silent”.

The headline is misleading. It’s quieter, but far from silent.

We need more of this in all countries.

When you do eventually switch, I’d recommend getting your own domain and using an email address at that domain, so that your email address becomes independent of your email provider. It will make it easier to switch again in future should you need to, because you can keep the same email address and use it with a new provider.

You could use any trustworthy sync service with automatic camera uploads, but they will all wait until the video has finished recording before uploading it. Ideally there would be an app that streams live to a remote server that’s recording. There used to be. A sync service might be second best though.

Do any dash cams stream to the cloud or a self-hosted server? If the police spot the dashcam they may just delete the footage.

You need something that streams to a secure server, so the police can’t just delete the video.

There are tarpits like Nepenthes but they use up your CPU resources and I imagine it would be pretty easy to update a scraper to recognize these generated pages, since they’re all structurally similar.

He’s wealthy though.

Is that like the usual blockchains where every computer has to store a complete copy? That would get huge with the Internet Archive.

There are distributed filesystems with redundancy, but the last time I tried something like that, it was extremely slow for both reading and writing. For an offline archive it might be feasible, but you’d have to do a lot of redundancy and error correction to be sure you didn’t lose chunks. Plus, the Internet Archive is so big that even with the data distributed, each participant might have to store a prohibitively large amount.

Ah, but those “intelligent” people cannot be very intelligent if they are not billionaires. After all, the AI companies know exactly how to assess intelligence:

Microsoft and OpenAI have a very specific, internal definition of artificial general intelligence (AGI) based on the startup’s profits, according to a new report from The Information. … The two companies reportedly signed an agreement last year stating OpenAI has only achieved AGI when it develops AI systems that can generate at least $100 billion in profits. That’s far from the rigorous technical and philosophical definition of AGI many expect. (Source)

To do it based on intent would create some difficult grey areas - for example, video game creators would have to try to make their games as compelling as possible without passing a more or less vague threshold and breaking the law. The second approach of working on the ways different types of data can be used sounds more promising.

How would you identify the kinds of algorithms that should be banned, as opposed to all the other kinds of algorithms? I have a feeling that would be tricky.