

For sure. If you put enough layers, cardboard can be a very strong material. I think that this would be a cool idea for a YouTube PeerTube channel, where someone would show how to build furniture, etc., from recycled materials.
For sure. If you put enough layers, cardboard can be a very strong material. I think that this would be a cool idea for a YouTube PeerTube channel, where someone would show how to build furniture, etc., from recycled materials.
Cool! You’re welcome! :)
A legendary example from the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FedEx_furniture
Edit: the archive has some of the photos!
Yikes, good point! I do have the original Dirt Rally and don’t want to miss out on 2.0.
Will do, thanks!
Yikes! Good to know, thanks! I’m doubly glad I didn’t buy it now. I still have to buy DR2 anyway.
Interesting about the stages and mechanics. I love long/realistic stages, but that’s not enough to overcome the other issues.
Cool, no worries. I keep meaning to buy DR2 on sale too. I will, eventually.
Bleargh, I’m glad I didn’t buy it. I’m making preparations to move to Linux.
How was the EA/Codemasters WRC title compared to the Dirt Rally titles? I didn’t buy it because it has Denuvo DRM, even on Steam.
I linked his account in my original post at worldnews@lemmy.ml.
Jeepers creepers, this is so disheartening. I’m sorry that you had to experience that!
One of the major factors to consider here is that public schools in the US are not equally funded by number of students. Instead, most of the funding is provided by state and local property taxes, meaning that richer areas where houses are worth a lot more, get much better funding for their schools. So while those rich areas’ school funding is probably much higher than the global median, the poorer areas’ school funding is likely much lower, in a very high cost of living country in general.
The other factor to also consider is that public schools in the US have fairly extensive athletic programs, meaning that they spend a lot of the funds to build and maintain things like American Football stadiums fields, swimming pools, etc., as opposed to only funding actual academic education.
Edit, I’ve retracted the link about teacher vs coach salaries because it’s about College sports, not primary and secondary schools. I still haven’t found a good source for this info regarding those.
PS: Aside from fundraisers, it’s fairly common to hear teachers telling stories of having to spend their own money to buy supplies for their classes.
PPS: It’s also common to hear stories of poor families doing everything they can to move to richer areas just so their kids can benefit from the much better-funded schools. I’ve even heard of situations where they will register their kids with the address of a relative who lives in a better-funded area, for the same reason.
Thank you for attempting to link a theory to explain it! The video you linked doesn’t look too different from what I saw, except that the whole coil seemed to levitate rather than just one end of it like the paperclip did. Still seems like a plausible potential explanation. Thanks again.
A long time ago I was riding in a subway train. The subway car was mostly or very likely completely empty because it was late at night, likely the last one of the day. There was a paper clip laying on the floor between my feet and then I noticed that it had started to stand up on its own. One of the ends of the paperclip was still touching the floor inside the train, but the other end was pointed up and it wobbled around softly for a while.
A day or two later I mentioned this to my electricity teacher at the time, an electrical engineer who just happened to work for the subway agency. I expected him to say that it was some kind of magnetic effect due to the proximity of the high-voltage supply lines used to power the subway, but he instead said that it was impossible and I must have been hallucinating. I’ve never hallucinated in my life. I still wonder what could have caused that phenomenon. I’m sure that there’s a scientific explanation for it, but I haven’t found it yet.
Edit: Hmmm, I just realized… maybe I was witnessing the real clippy coming to life?
I don’t have much technical knowledge of AI since I avoid it as much as I can, but I imagined that it would make sense to store the training data. It seems that it is beneficial to do so after all, so I presume that it’s done frequently: https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/7739/what-happens-to-the-training-data-after-your-machine-learning-model-has-been-tra
My understanding is also that generative AI often produces plagiarized material. Here’s one academic study demonstrating this: https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/beyond-memorization-text-generators-may-plagiarize-beyond-copy-and-paste
Finally, I think that whether putting massive restrictions on AI model creation would benefit wealthy corporations is very debatable. Generative AI is causing untold damage to many aspects of life, so it certainly deserves to be tightly controlled. However, I realize that it won’t happen. Just like climate change, it’s a collective action problem, meaning that nothing that would cause significant impact will be done until it’s way too late.
Public Domain does not mean being able to see something without a barrier in the way. The vast majority of text and media you can consume for free on the Internet is not in the Public Domain.
Instead, “Public Domain” means that 1) the creator has explicitly released it into the Public Domain, or 2) the work’s copyright has expired, which in turn then means that anyone is from that point on entitled to use that work for any purpose.
All the major AI models scarfed up works without concern for copyrights, licenses, permissions, etc. For great profit. In some cases, like at least Meta, they knowingly used known collections of pirated works to do so.
I personally like the Buddhist version, the 5 precepts. There’s quite a bit of overlap, but one interesting difference is that as far as I know they’re not framed as commandments, but rather as guidelines to be voluntarily undertaken if you wish to reduce suffering in the world.
Or kick Canonical to the curb and use Incus instead: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/how-similar-is-incus-to-lxd/21430
I think I’ve seen people using this on Lemmy, but I’m not sure if it works: https://fedi.tips/is-there-a-reminder-bot-for-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/
Oh, I hear you. I still use YouTube like 99% of the time. I’ve been meaning to take some time to explore PeerTube more. So far I’ve only seen the ones that get posted here, usually Linux or other open source-related content.