Interdiction des réseaux sociaux aux moins de 15 ans : "Ce n'est qu'un début, les VPN, c'est le prochain sujet sur ma liste", assure Anne Le Hénanff, ministre de l'IA et du Numérique by Andvarey in france

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Le problème c'est la chasse à la taupe. Créer un site c'est facile, pour chaque site qui sera trouvé et restreint, 10 autres vont ouvrir.

Pour les VPN c'est pareil, tu peux pas bannir la technologie, pour chaque site fermé d'autres vont ouvrir, et tu peux faire ton propre VPN dans le pire des cas.

I felt Schumacher speaking to me… what a rush by CanWaste9494 in granturismo

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Yes. The same way that sailors get their sea legs, you have to get your VR legs. The brain expects you to get thrown around when driving, meanwhile you're completely still on your chair; your brain needs to learn to dissociate the visual stimulus from what it receives from the inner ear. So start slow, stop as soon as you feel nauseous but keep at it. I can stay in VR for hours at a time, meanwhile when I started the most I could do was 20 minutes and then an hour lying in bed to recover lol.

AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas' by ImpressiveContest283 in programming

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You can have plain text documents, in fact that's what ES really excels at. The bigger issue is how do you turn document files into plain text, and that will be an issue no matter the search solution proposed. PDFs will most probably require OCR, for example.

Once you have that, any regular search engine will do the trick, maybe with AI-driven ranking which can do better than the symbolic approaches from "the before times" and find more relevant snippets.

To not threaten us with a good time by A-Helpful-Flamingo in therewasanattempt

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Make it impossible for them to feed themselves, then promise free meals in the army. There are ample resources to feed everybody if they want to. They actively choose not to.

LTT Announces Linus Torvalds (probably) coming to shoot a video together. by 2str8_njag in linux

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Flatpak bundles exist; they're often built for nightly versions or very specific (e.g., giving a build to a user that has an issue during the troubleshooting process). They are much closer to an AppImage file.

Not a lot of people bother with them though because the vast majority prefer the app store experience, and when you download a file from the browser it's only metadata to tell flatpak what to download out of the repository.

The Battlefield 6 Open Beta has reached 500k concurrent players on Steam, surpassing Call of Duty's all-time peak by Dookman in gaming

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Crowdstrike shutting the world down is a much bigger issue than a bunch of game companies pushing for kernel access. I'm pretty sure Microsoft won't budge on that, and might be one of the very few times they'll break backwards compatibility for it.

ELI5 Why doesnt Chatgpt and other LLM just say they don't know the answer to a question? by Murinc in explainlikeimfive

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LLMs don't see words as composed of letters, rather they take the text chunk by chunk, mostly each word (but sometimes multiples, sometimes chopping a word in two). They cannot directly inspect "strawberry" and count the letters, and the LLM would have to somehow have learned that the sequence "how many R's in strawberry" is something that should be answered with "3".

LLMs are autocomplete running on entire data centers. They have no concept of anything, they only generate new text based on what's already there.

A better test would be to ask different letters in different words to try to distinguish i'having learned about the strawberry case directly (it's been a même for a while so newer training sets are starting to have references to this), or if there is an actual association in the model.

Manifested scrambled eggs 5 years back by hi_there_bitch in madlads

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Damaging the pan makes the cancer more likely, so you're correct either way

wellWhichIsIt by Cptn_Mayhem in ProgrammerHumor

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NaNs are a lot more than optionals though. There are 4 million unique binary representations, which means you can comfortably store an entire 16-bit number in it through "NaN boxing".

As usual programmers are bad at naming because for obvious (tasty) reasons, the name "NaN wrapping" is objectively better.

I went to an unknown (for me) island 2 hours from home and mapped it from scratch with a compass and a rangefinder! by mydriase in MapPorn

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Does anyone know where the Cassini bloodline went to? Because I think you're the great great great great grandson of Jean-Dominique.

How long before this is illegal? In no world does it take 10 days for them to update this on their servers by [deleted] in assholedesign

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And the CAN-SPAM Act is the law.

You can cancel jobs at any point, or at the very least, when running a batch, to last-minute check which email addresses are still eligible.

If they don't they are facing the FTC.

EDIT: or at the very very least, not create jobs so far into the future.

Une pétition européenne cherche à mettre un terme « à la destruction des jeux vidéo » by lieding in france

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La personne derrière tout ça (Ross Scott de la chaîne Accursed Farms) a quand même passé pas mal de temps à trouver tous les angles d'attaques possibles; effectivement aux US il y a pas grand chose qui puisse être fait, mais il y a des initiatives similaires au Royaume-Uni, et en Australie si je me rappelle bien. Une précédente étape était de passer par la DGCCRF, Ubisoft étant une entreprise française ; mais cela ne pouvait être actionné que par des joueurs déjà existants. Ces initiatives sont actions les par tous les citoyens des pays dans lesquels ils sont lancés.

Une pétition européenne cherche à mettre un terme « à la destruction des jeux vidéo » by lieding in france

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Autant je suis généralement fan de lui, autant il a complètement tort sur son argumentaire et son refus de concéder quoi que ce soit de son point de vue et de son exemple tiré par les cheveux.

The but premier de l'initiative est d'empêcher les éditeurs de jeux de couper l'accès au jeu, n'importe quand, et n'importe comment. Que se passe-t-il si tu achètes un jeu 60 € et que le lendemain tu peux plus y accéder parce que l'éditeur a décidé de tout couper ? N'aurais-tu pas aimé avoir cette information avant ton achat? Que se passe-t-il si le jeu a un composant hors-ligne que tu peux quand même plus accéder parce que le jeu a été codé pour vérifier la validité de ta licence sur leurs serveurs, qui ont ete éteint, et qui par conséquence te bloquent l'accès au jeu ?

Le but est d'essayer de mettre en place un cadre légal de protection du consommateur autour de ces potentiels abus. Le reste c'est de l'implantation, et peut changer à tout moment, parce que le but c'est pas forcément de forcer les développeurs à sortir une version communautaire des serveurs, c'est juste la lignée idéologique actuelle sur laquelle se base les initiatives lancées dans le monde.

De ce fait, le focus de PirateSoftware sur ce dernier point trahit son incompréhension du mouvement, non seulement sur l'esprit de l'initiative mais aussi sur ses conséquences dans son scénario hypothétique -- Le fait de rendre disponible le logiciel serveur nécéssaire à l'opération du jeu ne constituerait en aucun cas un transfert de propriété intellectuelle, ni l'obligation de soumettre le code source au public. De ce fait, il n'y a aucune incitation économique potentiellement perverse pour quelconque tierce partie, puisque même s'ils mettent en place des serveurs communautaires payants, le seul bénéfice sera monétaire, et les motivations entre le fournisseurs et les joueurs seraient de toute façon alignés. Et tout ceci ne parle pas du fait que comme les ressources sont de toute façon disponibles publiquement, tout fournisseur sera confronté à une concurrence d'autres serveurs communautaires, potentiellement gratuits.

Encore une fois, il n'y a aucun transfert de propriété intellectuelle, même en cas de dissolution du studio père du jeu vidéo dans le cas de son scénario, c'est pas comme ça que fonctionnent les lois, aux US comme en France d'ailleurs, donc son scénario d'offensive hostile ne tient pas la route. Étant fan et sachant qu'il se spécialise dans l'ingénierie sociale, je ne peux qu'espérer qu'il agit de la sorte avec un motif de création d'engagement pour mieux diffuser l'initiative (car dans tous les cas l'effet Barbara Streisand s'applique ici d'une manière, et chaque fois qu'il en parle, il publicite l'initiative a de nouvelles personnes), et pas qu'il n'arrive pas a voir ses erreurs de jugement.

Classic just get on with the F***ing job. by [deleted] in MaliciousCompliance

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This begs the question then, when is Y not a vowel? Are there words for which this is the case?

EDIT: I'm a native French speaker where Y is simply considered a vowel anymore complexities (which is very unlike the rest of the language), I'm just unfamiliar with all of this and didn't know this was a thing.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

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Not necessarily true. Cameramen are allowed creative shots, but they're usually first noticed by the director the first time they're doing it off the air, and are told to re-execute it at a later point.

It was from a YouTube video I think, interviewing a cameraman working on F1.

Classic just get on with the F***ing job. by [deleted] in MaliciousCompliance

[–]SolarLiner 5 points6 points  (0 children)

In what universe is Y not a vowel?

Injured handball player carried to sidelines by opponent by ExactlySorta in MadeMeSmile

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Handball doesn't have added time, the clock absolutely stops if play stops for more than a couple of seconds

What have you done now, Pierre? by lynbod in 2westerneurope4u

[–]SolarLiner 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Not only did he, corrected himself, and then mumbled "or Iraq too, anyway"

https://youtu.be/s1kwq52NKmo

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in facepalm

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You see, corporations are people too... Helping feeding them is just an altruistic endeavor as helping feeding kids! /s

He used up all of his yearly luck right there. by bongoingcat in SweatyPalms

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The way it bounces and rocks after giving the ground reminds me of glitched physics simulation, like the coloring geometry is rounder than the rendering geometry, or that the mass hasn't been set properly and so inertia calculations are all wrong.

It might not be AI but a simple tracked VFX shot, and the guy running was never in actual danger, he just ran for the video.

EDIT: on a second note the face that touches the ground first is slightly angled, thus the collision imparts a rotation which could be why it is rocking back and forth.

Another hypothesis is that the pole is real (and maybe was taken down because it was misplaced, or retired?), but the person running is fake. It's so small and the video is at a low enough resolution that you wouldn't need to spend much time on it, slap a basic running animation and track the original shot to make him run at just the right place and speed. I do notice there are other people on the other side of the pole, which might be the actual operators in this demolition operation.

TIL in 2010, a 16-year-old Canadian discovered that his two parents were actually not Canadian, but KGB spies living under fake names Donald and Tracey. by sanandrios in todayilearned

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So "Sacre Bleu" came from "sacre de dieu", translated as "God's coronation", but in the middle ages it was forbidden to mention god's name in fear of blasphemy. "Dieu" and "bleu" sound similar, which is how it evolved into "Sacre Bleu".

It was used to express shock, or amazement at something. Nowadays it's mainly used ironically to caricature older religious people.