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Why is it that in every thread of a newly released product, there's always some European popping by, just to say, "Oh, but the name doesn't sound appropriate in _my language_"? Suck it up Yurop, or make your own.

And imo, Mythos is a much better name than the kind of shit Mistral seems to come up with.


Generalizing, generations of Europeans have been trained to hunt for these mistakes, in both their own writing and thinking and elsewhere, as they telegraph ignorance and open markets to competition.

It is standard in multilingual regions to consider multiple languages during product naming; to do otherwise is often considered humiliating.

You can bet your nut that "Mistral" was sounded out in more languages than "Cat, I farted" ever was.

Here are a couple of particularly famous fsckups:

- the Rolls Royce Silver Mist didn't sell well in Germany for some reason (coughs)

- the Chevy Nova didn't sell well in Spanish countries, again, seemingly for no reason (cackles)


That list is sorely lacking the Mitsubishi Pajero. Still my favorite of 'em all.

Heehee, I'm still laughing about the Audi e-tron ^^


it's greek you peasants


Yeah I'm confused by the comments here.

"a pattern of beliefs expressing often symbolically the characteristic or prevalent attitudes in a group or culture" (Merriam-Webster)

This doesn't seem obscure to me. It's what a model encodes in its weights. Am I falling into the xkcd 2501 trap?


The English word for it is similar too (Mythomaniac)


I think most English speakers who recognize it will think of it as meaning a collection of myths, as in the "Cthulhu Mythos".


absolutely. Also doesn't help that the slang for Mythomanie is the short form "mytho".


Will we see people being paid to host small single-GPU servers in their home ? I guess that would require redesigning the training system because the data transfer speed would be much slower with a higher latency. Maybe that is not even compatible with LLM training ?


A very powerful feature of FreeCAD is its Python console. It is very useful when debugging software that uses/produces 3D solids. With it I was able to:

- colorise solid faces with random colors

- colorise faces by type (cylinder, plane, etc.)

- add 3D labels in the scene


Also their Fairbud bluetooth headset have a very noticable latency, giving a dubbed-movie effect to videos of people talking.

I really miss the jack.


What are the rules in 1d ?


It only starts out 1-dimensionally, it continues to evolve on a standard GoL grid.


Then, importantly, it collapses itself back down to a 1-dimensional copy of its starting representation, but translated.


Specifically, after 133_076_755_768 steps, the 1-dimensional pattern reoccurs translated by two pixels. On skimming the thread I haven't determined if that shift is parallel or perpendicular to the line.


I think it has to be parallel by symmetry.


Can it leave other bits behind after it moves?


By definition of a pure spaceship / glider, no it can't. If it emits persistent "exhaust" that's a "smoking ship"[0].

[0] https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Types_of_spaceships#Smoking_ship


IIUC, "smoke" is ephemeral by definition. A spaceship/glider that leaves persistent "debris" in its wake is called a "puffer":

https://conwaylife.com/wiki/puffer


Smoke refers to fairly long lived debris that eventually dies out, the term for one that leaves permanent debris is a puffer.


No, if it does it's called a puffer.


The pinephone hardware feels like a prototype due to the old A20 cpu (heat problems, poor battery life).

The lesser-known SHIFT6mq has an actual mobile chip and apparently works correctly as a phone under postmarketOS (only GPS, NFC and Camera missing): https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/SHIFT_SHIFT6mq_(shift-axo.... There are pointers on the wiki to hack on the camera if you want to help the cause.

The Fairphone 5 is another good candidate for hacking: calls and camera are not working: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fairphone_5_(fairphone-fp...


I found this lesser-known case: Sagittarius 8-bay https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1d0z2l3/sagitt... 8 bay while remaining compact with good airflow around disks.


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