I see. Guess it’s just a me thing.
If I much them continuously, then on top of feeling spicy, I get that other feeling, so I tend to take little bites, while eating other stuff.

Your comment is non-inclusive to trans personalities.
For anyone that identifies as a black hole, all mass is calories.

I’m happy with the result.

Yeah, without cooking, if you eat too many pieces, they give a weird pain in the chest, which can be stronger than onions, if you have a good quality radish.

Yeah, that claim is pretty dubious.
If it has almost no calories, then it has almost no mass.
To get the approximate amount of calories in a piece, just measure its weight to get the mass (M in kg) and use the formula M * c * c * 0.2390057, where c is the speed of light in m/s.

We also have very little in the way of error correction, since it’s mostly not human readable

This is the main point.
Most well working OCR systems have a dictionary-check pass, which goes a long way into fixing the errors.

On the other hand, if all those files are the same font and size, it should be possible to tune the OCR to better match the requirements. Also reduce the possibilities to the character set used by the encoding.

I was recently using OCR for an unrelated project and it was totally unusable as is, because unlike what it expected (plain text documents), it got text on top of pictures. So now I have to find ways to preprocess and single out the text, removing the graphic lines that might be behind it, to make it readable.

So either way, it make it better to support Linux over MS Windows.

But also Linux, where it’s typical to upstream hardware support and rely on existing ecosystems rather than release addon drivers or niche supporting apps.

Still possible though, right?
It does afterall support out of tree device drivers now.

Yes, because the checkout page gets revenue ⇒ the bottom line.

The points you say are the things Valve is doing extra to provide value to the customer.
The point I am saying, is the first thing that anyone working for money needs to care about.

steampowered checkout page:

• loads in a reasonable time
• has the same colour theme as the rest of the website

Epic checkout page:

• even the in-app checkout page is slower than the Steam web checkout page
  • is slow not only before loading but also after clicking the ‘place order’ button
• White colour on dark theme website/app

While EGS increases its minimum Windows # requirements, Steam client is already available on Linux.
Although I would prefer being able to build it myself rather than keeping it in Firejail

Epic would charge Steam’s fees if they had Steam’s marketshare.

while at the same time providing worse service.
Ever noticed the difference between Epic checkout vs Steam checkout? And that is the part one would want to make the best, because that’s what gets the money in.

I get I am not the average gamer, but even if I find a game on Steam, I tend to check their website too.
Specially for games I like, I try getting the GoG version despite Steam providing regional pricing, which tends to be 0.2x

Now if any of Steam’s contracts is preventing GoG or others from providing regional pricing, that’s a point worth considering.
But Steam is providing a much better game finding experience than Epic and others (although GoG seems to be doing well too, recently), so despite me not being affected by the network effect, I do see some value in Steam.

From what I see, Steam does give value to gamers. Whether it’s worth 30% of the game’s price or lesser, depends upon information that I don’t know. But if someone provides greater value than the competitors, should they not get more money in return?

There’s an easier way to put this:
“Question everything.”

recycling the heat from AI data centers

I’d say the govts should make it mandatory for anyone making a large enough data centre, to create a heat transfer infrastructure to nearby localities. The locals can then buy hot water (metered) via pipelines from the local govt and that can go towards paying for the power extension tax that the data centre has to pay.
Oh yes, there needs to be a power extension tax first, which is levied on anyone setting up data centres to use for wasteful stuff like AI, Crypto-mining etc. Of course, that only matters if they are taking power from the grid and/or building near populated areas (any amount of population).

All heat transfer is radiative if you zoom in enough.

Price of NAS HDD I am monitoring, went up 1% in past week in ongoing trend (over 20% over the past ~4 months).
I’d say BIG AI is still steaming.

No idea about OpenAI, specifically.

I see ‘******’ though.
Maybe it’s just a different interface.

In better times, this would at least get a class action.

I am considering using ???.
Will get to it someday.

Yeah.
Although I usually tend to send a link directly to the post (which is relevant to what is being discussed), the things around that might change their impression. And considering that their is more political stuff than plain tech stuff, almost everywhere on the internet rn, that kind of a result is expected.