Ich glaube, das Problem ist einfach, dass die Teile schlauer wirken, wenn sie das bestätigen, was man sagt. Ähnlich zum Confirmation Bias interpretiert man sehr gerne weitere Infos in die hohlen Phrasen hinein, wenn es eben zu dem passt, was man selbst glaubt. Wenn das LLM widersprechen würde, dann müsste man sehr viel genauer darüber nachdenken, wie die Argumentation schlüssig ist, und würde dann eben auch recht schnell entdecken, dass keine logische Überlegung hinter der Aussage steht.

Aber ja, ich glaube auch, dass das langfristig eher die Beliebtheit der LLMs schmälern wird. Bei Menschen hört man ja auch früher oder später auf, die Ja-Sager zu fragen, weil die einem einfach nichts neues sagen.

I certainly think that it has many eccentric design choices. It’s not going to be for everyone. Some parts of it, I also think just look bad, which I had to customize. Well, and openSUSE’s theming made a big difference, too: https://simotek.net/tech/projects/opensuse-e/enlightenment-on-opensuse-13-2/nggallery/thumbnails

“Retro” is also definitely a word I would use, though more positively connoted. It has *different* eye candy to the usual desktop designs, which is a big part of the charm. In a sea of flat designs and tiling window managers, it stands out as its own thing.

Muss bei sowas immer daran denken, wie bei uns in der Schule der Mythos umging, dass Haare nicht nachwachsen würden, wenn man sie ausreißt.

Gibt mehr als genug Menschen, die sich alle paar Wochen mit 'nem Epiliergerät oder Wachsstreifen so ca. den halben Körper ausreißen, und das dann ein paar Wochen später nochmal machen, weil Haare offensichtlich nachwachsen.

Aber logisch denken ist da für viele wirklich einfach nicht drin. Es könnte ja theoretisch doch vielleicht etwas dran sein. Und selbst wenn es sich strikt ausschließen lässt, will man es ja nicht ‘riskieren’. Da sorgt dann die Angst dafür, dass man gar nicht mehr logisch denken will.

I tried it a few years ago. I was really impressed by how lightweight and gorgeous it is. In particular, I found it really cool and actually useful that you got a live view of your other workspaces on your panel. You could even fullscreen a video on your other workspace and then watch (a very small version of) it in your panel.

But yeah, even though I came back to it multiple times, I never ended up sticking around. It would crash regularly (not the worst thing, since recovery was generally seamless, but still meh), but in particular, it had some peculiar design decisions.

For example, if you double-click a window titlebar in virtually any window manager, it will maximize. In Enlightenment, I believe it got shaded (i.e. the contents of the window got hidden and only the titlebar was still visible).

Another prominent one was that its applet for connecting to WiFi and such didn’t support NetworkManager, but rather only ConnMan. If you’ve never heard of ConnMan, yeah, I only know it from Enlightenment, too. Similarly, my distro (openSUSE) didn’t package it either (and openSUSE was said to offer a relatively good Enlightenment experience). That’s something which should just work, because you can’t expect people to look up how they can connect to WiFi while they can’t reach the internet.

And yeah, these are just the big ones that stuck in my head. There were lots of smaller usability issues, too. Many things you could fix by changing the configuration, but we’re talking many in an absolute sense, too, i.e. you might spend an hour or more just tweaking things so that they behaved like you might expect.

I mean, to my knowledge, it’s still Rasterman keeping most of the development together. You don’t need a ton of adoption when one guy tirelessly works on it.

Although I’m guessing Samsung probably sponsors him, so that’s probably quite crucial for him to be able to put that much time into it.

Bei den Zivilkriegszuständen der letzten Tage, muss man ja lebensmüde sein, um bei einer Militärparade aufzutauchen.

Sure, but that doesn’t actually happen in reality, that things just stop changing. Occasionally, you get rather isolated ecosystems where the changes go back and forth in a mostly self-contained manner and then adaptation might plateau for a bit, but at some point, a lightning or an earthquake or something will strike and then it’s back to adaptation.
Well, and those species which were the most adapted to this isolated ecosystem are also likely to die out then, rendering this temporary endpoint not exactly “ideal” either.

But it’s also not one singular endpoint either. Diversity is itself a strength, which helps species survive. This is particularly important where there is change, because external influences will affect different members of this species more or less strongly.
But even without change, splitting the work is beneficial. This can be as mundane as not everyone carrying around the equipment for bringing out the babies. But in particular with societal structures, it can also mean that the big muscle folks might do the muscly tasks and the big brain folks do the brainy tasks and those with claws for hands open up all the tin cans.
Evolution will not push past that to arrive at some hypothetical “ideal endpoint”, because that society with work splitting is fitter for survival than a monoculture would be.

Yeah, I hate that so much. Often times, it’s clearly just easier/cheaper to put makeup on a human actor, or at least for the aliens to be able to use the same equipment. But it’s so boring. If I want to see a humanoid with different skin color, I’ll visit my neighbor.

“Ideal endpoint of evolution” is itself a funny joke to those who participate in knowing things…

Ich glaube, der Wikipedia-Link wurde erst später zum Post hinzugefügt, aber da wird es im Abschnitt Auswirkungen auf Mensch und Umwelt so grob beschrieben.

Braucht definitiv noch mehr Forschungsergebnisse, und dass Graphen in rauen Mengen eingesetzt wird, müsste sich theoretisch auch erst noch zeigen, aber klingt schon gar nicht mal so gut…

Damn, quite a different drawing style from the usual. I guess, it helps make the animals actually look taxidermied, which I imagine is not easy.

Listing examples where it works without enforcement is not an argument against enforcing it where it does not work without. There’s also no reason why uutils couldn’t be less corporate while also having a corporate-unfriendly license. And good luck leading this discussion with anyone, if you’re going to ad hominem right away.

The concern is that if lots of softwares get rewritten and some of those softwares switch from a copyleft license to a permissive license, then things might stop being open-source sooner or later, because companies are not anymore forced to open-source.

Yes, in the case of sudo-rs, this concern is silly. But for example, the uutils coreutils are under MIT license, when the GNU coreutils were under GPL-3.0.

Why not both?

Green Is My Pepper

Y u go Slavia?

Can that actually happen like this? If Windows killed the bootloader wouldn’t that mean that you couldn’t boot into Kubuntu either? Or can it somehow kill the bootloader when the PC is turned off?

For optimal performance, you should rewrite it in Rust:

inline_python::python! {
    print(js2py.eval_js("(number) => number % 2 ? 'odd' : 'even'")(number))
};

It’s just the normal “Pager” widget, configured to show application icons.

I find “minimap” more descriptive for what I’m doing, because I don’t minimize, nor stack windows, so if a window exists, it has a location.
Which is also ultimately how I use this thing. Imagine a large desk where you need to jump between topics every so often. You’d put related sheets of paper next to each other and leave a bit of space between the groups. Sheets of paper are just application windows in my case (I will open one or more windows per task, I don’t mix tasks together based on application like people usually do). Well, and my desk also happens to be very long, so I can comfortably fit a minimap for it in my panel.

And because I really like multitasking, I’ve actually got multiple desks, in different colors:

For these, I use Plasma’s Activities. The different colors are done by having a transparent panel and then setting the wallpaper to different colors + telling Plasma to use the wallpaper for determining the accent color.

In this screenshot, you can also beautifully see a workspace with 5 Kate windows, which is genuinely where I shoved a bunch of notes, for me to sort through them later. 🙃

I think something like this pretty much cannot exist without pushback. There’s a reason why the high-level definitions at the start of articles are so jargon-laden, namely that experts want to get the definitions precise. Those same experts will almost necessarily puke, if you just take the jargon out.

And while it is typically possible to write a explanation without jargon, this takes a super expert to have it still be precise.
Maybe they could give the “Simple English” more of a spotlight instead, so those super experts write more of those.