From the article:

Van Valen named the hypothesis "Red Queen" because under his hypothesis, species have to "run" or evolve in order to stay in the same place, or else go extinct. As the Red Queen said to Alice in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass in her explanation of the nature of Looking-Glass Land:

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.

I quite like this one of the baby pulling the pensioners up hill.

Haha yeah it's great. It's fast, portable, and has keyboard shortcuts from this century!

I have to say when I saw this headline I was bracing myself for AI "features"...

I think the title is an exaggeration. The problem is that Rust's regex module doesn't support "look around" patterns. It seems like the fancy_regex create extends support for this.

I'm inclined to agree that OS-level age verification declaration is pointless and invasive but I'm sympathetic with distros looking to comply with the law. I can also see why governments want to pursue identity verification to enforce laws online even if this is obviously not the right way to achieve that.

I want to see Linux become the mainstream choice and accept that it will need to be compatible with laws like this to do so. Were Linux more widely used then organisations like the KDE e.V. might even be consulted by lawmakers which might help avoid this sort of legislation being passed in the first place!

I'm also hoping that this can be solved for those in California with some sort of optional service rather than something that gets too closely integrated with the distros or desktop environments.

Submerge them in brine for a few weeks. This creates an environment favouring lactic acid bacteria which will create pickling acid from the veggies that prevents mould.

You need to keep them submerged which you can do by putting a freezer bag full of brine on top.

It'll release CO2 so if you don't have airlocks you'll need to seal the jars only loosely or burb them occasionally.

Maybe they really couldn't be bothered with writing an Impressum!

230B parameters is "reasonably small" now?!

I gather this is because AI assistants are inundating GitHub with requests. Their infrastructure must be drowning in slop.

Haha same. I just hope all my yeast survives until my poopy one reaches daycare and we can start to reclaim some free time again.

I hope your poopy season has an end in sight...

You can get a cola cordial from a supermarket near me and I tried putting this in a few brews.

Once the sugar has gone it ends up tasting unpleasantly tart and chemically.

If I wanted to try this again I think I'd try getting the kola nuts directly and maybe adding the citrus flavour with peel instead of juice.

I meant it as a joke but I could imagine them getting one email from Germany about GDPR and then deciding to geoblock the whole country instead of complying (and ignoring the fact it applies elsewhere in Europe too).

You can still leverage knowledge from a foundation model in a smaller fine-tuned one.

So the model might have learned general OOP principles from Java but it then drops redundant parameters about specific conventions like AbstractFactoryBuilders when it specialises on a language like Python which has no notion of Interfaces.

Likewise real world knowledge might help distinguish between accounting and database transactions when writing a banking application but you don't necessarily need your coding assistant to have memorised all the world cup winners since 1966.

These models are unwieldy so I think it makes a lot of sense to try and find ones that are tuned efficiently.

Looking at the 100's of lines of comments, I presume they're doing so too!

I think it's useful to point to docs for unusual features but this is so verbose it makes it hard to see what the system is doing.

That would be true in a free market but the EU's Common Agricultural Policy actually incentivises over-production (it's supposed to protect rural lifestyles). Dumping food abroad (i.e. at below market prices) then disincentivises domestic production there. It's long overdue reform.

It might just be that they dried up in the hot weather. If so they'll uncurl now it's rained.

You might also want to check for ants breeding black fly on the underside. They suck the moisture from the leaves causing them to curl over. You can usually just scrape them off with a wet finger.

Brilliant. This looks great. Thanks for taking the time for a thorough write up!

Yeah I learned this fermenting lemons. With the sugar gone it tastes like kitchen cleaner!

It looks like a Windows XP activation key!

This is basically lucid dreaming.

If you make notes of what you remember of your dreams when you first wake up then after a few days you'll become conscious while dreaming. Then you can basically decide what to dream.

It's kind of fun flying around but I stopped doing it as I didn't find it particularly restful.