JustTesting

@JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New wealth of top 1% surges by over $33.9 trillion since 2015 – enough to end poverty 22 times over, as Oxfam warns global development “abysmally off track” ahead of crunch talks⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing I always wonder is if it actually could end poverty 22 times over.

  i mean, rich people hoarding money is increasing moneys scarcity for everyone else, theoretically increasing its value. And if it were suddenly distibuted fairly, it’d lose value and there would be a higher cut off for what’s considered poverty. on the other hand, a lot of their money is funny money, like being tied up in stocks and not actually worth as much in currency compared to what is said (if they sold the stock, the value would drop and they’d get less).

  so i’m actually curious if anyone ever did an analysis of what would happen if e.g. the wealth of the top 0.1% is evenly spread across the population.

  of course that’s super complex and hard to say what the social effects would be. But the simplistic ‘everyone would get x dollars, poverty limit is y, x > y, so no more poverty’, while useful to show the scale, always sounded too naive to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there other options than Prusa/BambuLab?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m super happy with my formbot Marathon IDEX, works perfectly fine with TPU (though i did have to adjust one screw guide in the extruder so it doesn’t eat the filament). it’s not very well known, since they don’t hand them out to influencers etc. The discord is pretty active and lots of helpful people there.

  made with all standard components, regular Klipper firmware, so i know i can replace parts if anything ever breaks.

  And IDEX in mirror/copy mode for printing multiple parts at twice the speed is great when you need it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a federated Strava alternative?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  After ther recent acqusition and expecced firing of a lot of staff, it might not be the best alternative

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are AI Models Advanced Enough To Translate Literature? The Debate Is Roiling Publishing: Major publishers are experimenting with automated translations, hundreds of which have already been produced.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, as to your edit, the it sounds like you’re fine-tuning the model for your data, not training it from scratch. So the llm has seen english and chinese before during the initial training. Also, they represent words as vectors and what usually happens is that similiar words’ vectors are close together. So subtituting e.g. Dad for Papa looks almost the same to an llm. Same across languages. But that’s not understanding, that’s behavior that way simpler models also have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kobo.com DRM is also very easy to bypass and turn into epub using knock

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell kills the XPS brand⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The newest generation of xps i shit anyways, good riddance.

  i was really happy with my 2019ish xps. But the 2024 one is hot garbage. not just that it arrived with the keyboard not working and Dell taking 3 months to replace it. There’s a total of 2 usb-c ports on it. That’s all the connectors, yes. No, no headphone jack either. And one of those two is taken up with charging, so i’m left with one port if i dont use a dockingstation.

  the whole function bar is touch now. you need to hit it 3 times for it to react, who needs Esc anyways. Unless you want to type in the number row, then the function row will pick up random key presses sometimes.

  Copilot key no one asked for. Power button is just an unlabelled piece of plastic that looks like filler, not a button. Keyboard sucks in general, too little space between keys, you’re bound to mistype.

  linux support is ok, though webcam doesn’t work in firefox, hibernate doesn’t work, every few weeks it’ll just freeze. But otherwise acceptable.

  definitely my last dell, i really hate it.