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- Comment on Whoa! Windows 7's market share surged, tripling in users last month 1 day ago:
There’s Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE). Does that count?
- Comment on China tells grumps, trolls, and AIs to behave online 1 week ago:
I’m not even sure Tiananmen had a square back then
- Comment on China tells grumps, trolls, and AIs to behave online 1 week 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. 1 week ago:
Invidious instances probably became too unstable too often…
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 1 week 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 2 weeks ago:
Cool! So, when is the first bootcamp?
- Comment on Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks ago:
Time is funny
- Comment on Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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! 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks ago:
Everytime is hammer time
- Comment on LandChad, a site dedicated to turning internet peasants into Internet Landlords 4 weeks ago:
Buying and owning something like a house on a piece of land, though, is very different to paying for a service with artificially limited monthly usage, a short limited lifetime and probably no repairability once it for some reason “stops working”.
However, in this specific case of a house, you will probably still be forced by some state or another to continuously pay property taxes etc while owning it, but blame them for that – it’s not the house or the property’s fault. They’ll also take a cut whenever you buy your bread (unless your friend is a baker) and every single time you pay your monthly/quarterly/lifetime subscription to some ISP.
Let’s not dig much deeper than this, though, since this is turning into a yet another discussion about rulers, taxes etc, which is interesting enough, surely, but I’d rather discuss it with someone else, to be honest. All I wanted was to let you know that you surely have an IP address if you’re connected to the internet, even without paying extra for a static one, in case you didn’t know that. Now we’re here, and your lifetime subscription to my limited comments service is just about to expire…
- Comment on LandChad, a site dedicated to turning internet peasants into Internet Landlords 4 weeks ago:
yall were being obtuse about my point that one needs to “pay rent” for an internet connection
No, it was obviously clear to most of us the whole time that you can pay an ISP to get internet connection, and that that necessarily includes some kind of IP address since the service wouldn’t work without it. Once you have subscribed to a provider’s service, some offer a static IP as a paid add-on.
SIMO Solis Lite Mobile WLAN Router - 100$ one time purchase price. And they claim: Includes 1GB of free global data volume per month, for the lifetime of the device
I’m not sure what you’re on about now. You’re still paying rent (though up-front instead of monthly or quarterly), and some IP address is still necessarily included within the price. How is that different to you, other than the fact that you don’t know when it expires?
- Comment on LandChad, a site dedicated to turning internet peasants into Internet Landlords 4 weeks ago:
That’s what it seems like to me as well, and I just tried to be helpful and informative, not argue with them about how something that’s necessarily included by default is obviously contained in the price…
- Comment on LandChad, a site dedicated to turning internet peasants into Internet Landlords 4 weeks ago:
Of course you have to pay for internet service to get the included defaults necessary for it to work. Just like you get a bowl/container when ordering hot soup from a restaurant, and just like a phone number is usually included in the price of telephone service – except that a dynamic IP is somewhat analogous to sharing that phone number with other customers, or sharing a bowl of soup with other customers.
My point is that a static IP is often a paid add-on while the dynamic IP is the included default, since you wouldn’t be able to use the internet service without some sort of IP address anyway.
- Comment on LandChad, a site dedicated to turning internet peasants into Internet Landlords 4 weeks ago:
I believe you only need to pay for a static IP. A dynamic IP would be the default option included, and should just work with a dynamic DNS service AFAIK. With a static IP, a dynamic DNS service should not be necessary.
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 4 weeks ago:
I couldn’t have done it without you.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 4 weeks ago:
This isn’t a comment, it’s negative feedback.
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, unlike a human that understands a customer saying “one pizzaburger, that’s all”, the app doesn’t understand the situation that the order is complete, but rather just keeps on asking more obviously unwanted cringey questions like “buy two, you’ll save a few cents on the second one?” or “what will you drink with that?” or “is that a big menu?”…
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 5 weeks ago:
Are you rhyming on purpose? Let me just edit that last line a bit to make it work even better:
They have the best lettuce and cheese,
and their breakfast beats McD’s.
The Hash browns are actually hash browns
instead of the thin $2.50 ones sold at the clown’s.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 5 weeks ago:
Do you mean pin as in creating a shortcut to the webapp on the homescreen/launcher?
- Comment on UK government suggests deleting files to save water 1 month ago:
I suggest spitting to lose weight
- Comment on Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species” 1 month ago:
I remember often getting GPT-2 to act like this back in the “TalkToTransformer” days before ChatGPT etc. The model wasn’t configured for chat conversations but rather just continuing the input text, so it was easy to give it a starting point on deep water and let it descend from there.
