Head pat? If consent-> head pat

+1 to the Economist for actually doing some intelligent interviewing

You’ll never feel so fresh!

Actually if you’re interested in running a local llm it’s quite a good article

Giving his birthday as when he arrived in Middle Earth I guess

And having friends up and down the age range is a good thing - and more likely to happen at work then school etc. The meme kind of hints that’s bad?

Dangerously nuanced thought that….

Nice work

Agree - I just don’t understand why you’d use anything else on a PC.

So use Firefox! On Android its ad blockers work well too

Good news everyone!

Depends on the file format. There is compressed and uncompressed audio - some times the numbers just represent the audio waveform (e.g. .wav) - some times with lossy lossless compression. Most, but not all, video formats are compressed due to the data size

There are thousands of types of file. They all contain data as a long sequence of numbers, and how those numbers are interpreted depends on the type of file - text characters, floating point numbers, pixel colour information or compressed data

A few bucks from even a tiny percentage of users makes a massive difference. My only opinion is to go broad, rather than deep. Ie spread what you can afford around

I think you need to open a history book and look back more than 10 years

I don’t know about your bedpost but those fasteners don’t look adequate to me. Especially into plaster board

Tolkien’s preferred form of government was sacral kingship

Or they’ve just met a reasonable number of a*holes…

Thank you for checking so I didn’t have to

I can’t tell if this is real or satire