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- Comment on opencloud - I migrated from nextcloud. Screenshots and docker-compose-compose.yml included 13 hours ago:
[You should] Let people use whatever they want.
:D
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 5 days ago:
Oh, I see. But yeah, it’s a pretty big difference.
You’re welcome. I think I like thinking about things and stuff.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 5 days ago:
if you think about it
I tried that, and I’m not totally sure about the correctness of my numbers, but your numbers intuitively seem off to me:
a 50" 1080p TV is almost 10x the size [of a 7" screen]
How did you arrive at this? I’d argue a 50" screen is much more than 10 times the size of a 7" screen.
The inches are measured diagonally, and I see how 50" is somewhat “almost 10x” of 7", as 49" would be 7 times longer diagonally than a 7", and 7.something is " almost" 10.
But if we assume both screens have a 16:9 ratio, the 50" screen has a width of ≈110.69 cm and height of ≈62.26 cm, while the 7" is only ≈15.50 by ≈8.72 cm.
The area of the 7" is 135.08 cm² while for the 50" it’s ≈6891.92 cm². The ratio between these two numbers is ≈51.02, which I believe means the 50" screen is more than 51x the physical size.
At least, that number seems more realistic to me. I’m looking at my 6.7" phone screen right now and comparing it to my 55" TV screen, and it seems very possible that the phone screen could fit more than 50 times inside the TV screen, not just “almost 10x”.
If I totally misunderstood you, please explain what you mean.
My numbers for width and height were calculated using this display calculator site that someone else mentioned somewhere under this post, and I rounded the decimals after doing the calculations with all decimals included.
- Comment on Its a solar powered phone / webserver! Made from a pixel 6a, solar panel, and hopes/dreams. 1 week ago:
What makes you think it would consume more power than the WiFi radio currently does?
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 1 week ago:
Just ask ChatGPT…
- Comment on X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn't trust it yet | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Agencies
- Comment on Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily 2 weeks ago:
Now you can easily find all the porn videos you have collected of any of your friends!
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 3 weeks ago:
Loaded Ant Meat Fries
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 3 weeks ago:
Labeling All My Files
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 3 weeks ago:
Lying About Mount Fuji
- Comment on Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time 4 weeks ago:
Reminded me of these two projects by some Dylan Tallchief:
He first made a programmable drum machine, then a DAW in Excel.
- Comment on How Much Energy Does It Take to Power Billions of AI Queries? 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t quite understand the abbreviation “teu”, so I searched for it, and it seems it means “twenty-foot equivalent unit”.
- Comment on Whoa! Windows 7's market share surged, tripling in users last month 4 weeks ago:
There’s Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE). Does that count?
- Comment on China tells grumps, trolls, and AIs to behave online 5 weeks ago:
I’m not even sure Tiananmen had a square back then
- Comment on China tells grumps, trolls, and AIs to behave online 5 weeks ago:
Having Children, One Left… (HCOL) /s
- Comment on BOTS - a biting, satirical commentary on how online discourse is weaponized to divide and sow chaos. 5 weeks ago:
Invidious instances probably became too unstable too often…
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 1 month ago:
Are we talking OpenCore Patcher? I was actually planning on trying that for my Early 2013 MBP, but I’m leaning more towards some Linux distro now, for the longevity of it, though I haven’t yet figured out which distro supports my MBP the best. Got any recommendations to share on some of this?
- Comment on Boots - A place to share your footwear journey 1 month ago:
Cool! So, when is the first bootcamp?
- Comment on Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels? 1 month ago:
Yes, but why? Are they in place to protect the spinning rust when you hard drive the car? Or has it something to do with cracked Windows and a missing driver?
I’m always being extra careful around those computers on wheels, since most of them have a built-in backdoor!
Fuel for thought…
- Comment on Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels? 1 month ago:
Time is funny
- Comment on Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 1 month ago:
I’ve figured out the swimming again, but I still don’t fully understand economics…
- Comment on Never steal a hacker’s girlfriend’s phone: How an expert exposed a global network of thieves 1 month ago:
Paywalled
- Comment on GN's GPU smuggling documentary is finally back up after being fraudulently DMCA'd by Bloomberg. Go give them a watch to try to make up for the lost traction! 1 month ago:
Since we first got easy access to various LLMs, I’ve been doing the opposite, asking obscure questions I know the answer to, trying to get a better understanding of what various models are really (not) capable of, and what data they’re (not) trained on, but it seems that you’re right and I’m in a minority. Most people treat the only LLM they know of as an oracle, and don’t seem to understand that it can write with confidence and still be incorrect. I’ve seen countless examples of just that, some funnier than other, so to me it has always been very obvious. It’s possible that using GPT-2 (back in the talktotransformer days), which was not configured for chat-style conversation but rather just to generate a continuation to the user’s input text, has actually helped me understand LLMs better and avoid using them in that common naive way, but I’m not sure how to make it just as clear to everyone else…
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 1 month ago:
Thank you, you really didn’t have to. That cupcake is truly the icing and it’s almost too much! I’ll give you this giant egg of unknown origin: 🥚 in return, as long as you promise to use it for baking and making some more of those cupcakes for whoever else needs or deserves one within the next few days, hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds and 999999 bananoseconds 🍌
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 1 month ago:
I want a free cookie emoji!
I didn’t ask an LLM, no, I asked Wikipedia:
The mean month-length in the Gregorian calendar is 30.436875 days.
So,
1041 ÷ 30.436875 ≈ 34 months and…
0.2019343313 × 30.436875 ≈ 6 days and…
0.146249999987 × 24 ≈ 3 hours and…
0.509999999688 × 60 ≈ 30 minutes and…
0.59999998128 × 60 ≈ 35 seconds and…
0.9999988768 × 1000 ≈ 999 milliseconds and
0.9999988768 × 1000000 ≈ 999999 nanoseconds
34m 6d 3h 30m 35s 999ms 999999 ns
Or we could just say 36s…
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 1 month ago:
Or really, fuck it 3 y
Seems about right! But really, it often seems pretty useful to me, since it removes a lot of unnecessary information thoughout a content feed or thread, though I usually still want to be able to see the exact date and time when tapping or hovering over the value for further context.
The lemmy app on my phone does basic calculator functions.
Which client and how?
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 1 month ago:
You forgot doing the years, which is a bit trickier if we take into account the leap years.
According to the Gregorian calendar, every fourth year is a leap year unless it’s divisible by 100 – except those divisible by 400 which are leap years anyway. Hence, the average length of one year (over 400 years) must be:
365 + 1⁄4 − 1⁄100 + 1⁄400 = 365.2425 days
So,
1041 / 365.2425 ≈ 2.85 years
Or 2 years and…
0.850161194275 × 365.2425 ≈ 310 days and…
0.514999999987 × 24 ≈ 12 hours and…
0.359999999688 × 60 ≈ 21 minutes and…
0.59999998128 × 60 ≈ 36 seconds
1041 days is just about 2y 310d 12h 21m 36s
Wtf, how did we go from 1041 whole days to fractions of a day? Damn leap years!
Had we not been accounting for them, we would have had 2 years and…
0.852054794521 × 365 = 311.000000000165 days
Or simply 2y 311d if we just ignore that tiny rounding error or use fewer decimals.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 1 month ago:
Attach some dangling USB modem with a data SIM, or just keep a mobile router with a data SIM in your backpack, for 3G/4G/5G data connectivity over WiFi. Then, use some VoIP provider if you actually need a phone number as well.
- Comment on Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? 2 months ago:
Everytime is hammer time
