I get annoyed by a lot of the discourse about LLMs, such debates about how much they are going to revolutionize industry, or whether they are truly intelligent. There are things that we know for sure about their limitations, and things that are not going to change: in particular, they …
Dang, kde-open5 is slow sometimes. What’s going on?
Suppose we have a string like this:
For obnoxious reasons, I need to install Google Chrome on Linux instead of just using chromium.
Lately, the update-mime-database step of installing Debian packages has been taking way too long (on the order of three or four minutes).
OpenSCAD is a wrapper around OpenCSG, a constructive solid geometry library. It works reasonably well for producing STL files from geometric primitives.
I almost made this change to my about:config:
Despite hitting its funding goal of $500,000 last year, development on the game is grinding to a halt, with Stephenson writing on the game’s Kickstarter page that CLANG is now an “evenings and weekends” project because the money has run out, and many developers have sought contract work …
Gnuplot script file extensions are not standard, as several people have observed.