rebelsimile

@rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Entire Mac Lineup Now Finally Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do have a 64gb m1 MacBook Pro and man that thing screams at doing LLM AI. I use it to serve models locally throughout my house, while it otherwise still works as a fantastic computer (usually using about half the ram for llm usage). I still prefer a 4080 for image generation though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When can we expect 500TB drives to be available?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah taken as a guideline and observation that computer speeds/storage/etc continue to improve, I think it’s fair. It may not always be double, but it is still significantly different than other physical processes which have “stagnated” by a similar metric (like top speed on an average vehicle or miles per gallon).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨reDUcTIon iS gAIn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What, and live with negativity at the heart of every atom?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phonebooks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it felt like the Bible and the white/yellow pages used the thinnest paper I’d ever seen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  gosh who would want an uncommon character that obviously most average people aren’t thinking about in their passwords, that sounds like it might even be somewhat secure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy 25th Anniversary, Sega Dreamcast!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  oh shit it is 9.9.99+25

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ford Patents In-Car System That Eavesdrops So It Can Play You Ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I also understood what you clearly meant but this is a good exercise in not blowing up at a pedant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Turns out it was just someone who didn’t know how to change the setting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2972: Helium Synthesis⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are now 14 competing universes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gemini Live, Google's answer to ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode, launches⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Googles response no one wanted to a product no one asked for. I hope Google buys plots in the graveyard in bulk at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you ever realized just how broken you are?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  FWIW, that father may have grown up with a father just like you. He just made different choices. Just like you can see that those are different choices. You could and probably will make different choices too, it’s the only way we ever change. It’s not by retroactively having perfect circumstances. It’s by choosing to be better each day moving forward.

  Also, as a 40+ year old myself it’s always important to take a clear stock of the ways you’re similar to your parents (I find more every day) and also the myriad ways you are your own individual.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I spent ~$35 on new cables and my LAN speed increased 6x⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah I did this almost 30 years ago and could recite it from scratch, haven’t made a cable since hs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’ve gamed out the next step the right way, what that means is that older subs and their content just get locked away behind the paywall. Eventually all of reddit is on the slack free account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google and Brave The Only Search Engines Able To Index Reddit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yes. Also, !r is reddit also.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When people say two things "cannot be compared", they had to compare them to come to this conclusion. Are 'dissimilar' or 'unequal' better words?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What they actually mean is rather “these two things are very dissimilar”, or “these two things are unequal”.

  I think what they mean is “This is an invalid comparison”. For instance, the idea that two concepts are “apples and oranges” invokes the idea that apples and orange can’t be compared. But of course they could be compared as fruits (which would you prefer to get in line at the cafeteria? Aren’t you inherently inviting a comparison? I’m with you on that).

  However, if one were asking whether golden delicious apples are better than honeycrisp apples and someone butts in that navel oranges are the best, they’d get the same “navel oranges and golden delicious/honeycrisp apples can’t be compared” response because they’ve brought up an invalid comparison in the context of the comparison. Apples and oranges.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI and Anthropic are ignoring an established rule that prevents bots scraping online content⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All they’re going to do is teach the AI that sometimes people end posts with useless disclaimers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally playing with POWER.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  had one as a kid, it was terrible even by kid standards. I used to pretend to be a cyborg cop with it and my gray light gun though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weight⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Joke’s on you, I’d die before weighing myself on Earth too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's latest Windows update breaks VPNs, and there's no fix⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a 32 bit machine that is still in service for this task and some others, but I’d rather run it on a modern machine (m1 mac)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's latest Windows update breaks VPNs, and there's no fix⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can Wine run 32bit Windows adobe software?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Great. That covers what, 1 month of his administration? Keep going, unless you’re cherrypicking this incredibly active recent two weeks. This list should be enormous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh man, don’t stop, what about two weeks prior to that? And two weeks before that? I bet we must be living in a consumer utopia with the pace of the last two weeks, surely applied to the last 3 years, right? right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think our parent’s generation (or maybe their parents’?) would have said something like “There ought to be a law!” but we don’t say that because we don’t expect anyone in office will ever help us. Hm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Come on, science!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  they used to talk about ‘the $100 computer’, but I think they were envisioning a laptop or a netbook, no one thought it would be a mobile phone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am honestly guessing but as long there’s mac compatibility on those (older) games I’d expect them to run just fine. MacOS is probably my favorite OS from an overall coherency standpoint, power with the command line, aesthetics and usability. You’re just not going to find a lot of overlap between people who use linux and the traditional mac crowd (except when it comes to software development weirdly, which is where I sit), but it is criminally underdiscussed around here every time Windows enshittifies. (BTW, not a fanboy, running multiple Windows, Linux and MacOS systems at home)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  they’re going to spend $20 million in salaries playing Tom and Jerry games to try and get $7 from me that’s never coming…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the link! I actually use SD a lot practically so it’s been taking up like 95% of my attention in the AI space. I have LM Studio on my Mac and it blazes through responses with the 7b model and tends to meet most of my non-coding needs.

  Can you explain what you mean here?

  Personally I prefer avoiding fine tuned models wherever possible and just working more on crafting longer constrained contexts for pretrained models with a pre- or post-processing layer to format requests and results in acceptable ways if needed (latency permitting, but things like Groq are fast enough this isn’t much of an issue).

  Are you saying better initial prompting on a raw pre-trained model?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t tried them yet but do LORAs (and all their variants) add a layer of learning concepts into LLMs like they do in image generators?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does South Park get away with trashing identifiable people? Are they sued often?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You would probably get a kick out of the episode after this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mimic⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cephaloflage