UnityDevice

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[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 2 points 9 months ago

That's a very arbitrary delineation that just seems to be something you worked out backwards to support your claim. I'm an EE and software developer and I sometimes do projects involving both fields (which would be computer engineering, I guess), and there's really not that much difference. I certainly don't see why I would label half of it engineering and the other half not.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 14 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I love how the complaint makes even less sense when you look at the KDE mega announcement from yesterday. The third thing listed is a new wallpaper.
Love KDE, but they have some really annoying users.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

It actually seems common for less developed countries to have better internet than the more developed ones. Germans always complain about their internet, for example. I believe the reason is simply that your country laid down lines relatively recently, so they're compatible with high speed internet, while Germany laid down their lines 30 years ago, so they're fairly shitty in comparison. It tends to be a lot harder to convince governments or bosses to replace something that seems to work fine, and it can be costlier too.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 13 points 9 months ago

You already have AI in Firefox - local translations for example. Developing local AI aligns perfectly well with Mozilla's goals, but it seems people panic as soon as they see the two letters together.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 2 points 9 months ago

Xfreerdp and gnome work really well together for me. Extremely reliable and very quick. My only complaint is lack of multi monitor support.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I made pesto with it once, and I used nice home pressed oil too. Ended up extremely bitter, but luckily the bitterness subsided after a day in the fridge. Still didn't taste amazing though, so I think it still ended up being thrown away anyway.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Did it end up bitter?

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Microsoft didn't get nearly enough flak for the amount of environmental damage they will cause with that decision. A literal mountain of computers being unnecessarily replaced worldwide.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 3 points 9 months ago

Didn't realise I opened twitter instead of Lemmy today...

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

These arguments are so overly tired and so cyclic that AI researchers coined a name for them decades ago - the AI effect. Or succinctly just: "AI is whatever hasn't been done yet."

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

so OPs original question remains: why is it called "AI", when it plainly is not?

Because a bunch of professors defined it like that 70 years ago, before the AI winter set in. Why is that so hard to grasp? Not everything is a conspiracy.

I had a class at uni called AI, and no one thought we were gonna be learning how to make thinking machines. In fact, compared to most of the stuff we did learn to make then, modern AI looks godlike.

Honestly you all sound like the people that snidely complain how it's called "global warming" when it's freezing outside.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 8 points 10 months ago

Yeah OpenCASCADE is amazing because it's the only real geometry kernel that's open source. There's a few smaller ones like solvespace, but they're really more like toys. It's like the Linux of the CAD world.

Writing a geometry kernel is a monumental task, not unlike writing a real os kernel or a modern web engine. I've seen people just lay the basic foundations of a kernel as their PhD thesis. Most of the commercial ones were written decades ago and are still being worked on - the big ones are Parasolid ACIS, ShapeManager, CGM. The last one would maybe be considered a newcomer cause it's only 15-20 years old.

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