Almrond

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would cause a person to speak in different accents randomly?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Sounds like a disorder relating to MPD, but it could be any number of things. My advice is to be supportive as much as you can be, when ones own mind is the issue it just feels impossible to deal with.

Not all disorders are ones that will affect work in “predictable” ways, everyone is different. They might just like practicing dialects and not have particularly strong social and coping skills.

As difficult as it can be to interact with people like that, keep in mind their perspective: it might feel like everyone wants to alienate them which makes it difficult to interact without that assumption tainting the experience.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get in the Hilux⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I work in a grocery store, and while I would still need to be in about 25-30 hours a week to ensure product is on the shelves a massive amount of my time at work is useless facing and looking busy after the first few hours of real work restocking. If I was paid fairly I could come in for about 3 hours every day and have everything that needed done done without spinning on a thumb all day just to barely make rent.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honeypot⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Good, I think it’s hilarious and if they don’t they can fuck off. I love having the freedom to criticize and hold accountable the public figures in society. They don’t hold themselves accountable.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pokémon Go players are altering public map data to catch rare Pokémon⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, and the consequence of them using the dataset is massive amounts of people contribute useful data to the project. It is a fair exchange in my opinion. There are lots of reasons to hate Pokemon Go, but this isn’t one of them. You can use the maps too, and they are far better as a result of PGO using them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would lemmy benefit of implementing Polls?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It would be really neat to see the differences between instances that take part in the polls, I think it would work fine.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok, $23. Final offer.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
That’s an insulting way to haggle though. If $40 is a slightly below fair price and $45 is agreeable to both then that’s both a simple and pleasant transaction. Offering to haggle then refusing to haggle by doing that is insulting the same way as severely low balling.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All cheap smartphones have a fingerprint sensor but all laptops dont have one. Why?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
A lot of modern places use shibboleth and 2FA keys these days, but the military still uses smart card authentication
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Raids, NYPD Denied Student Protesters Water and Food in Jail⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t know, I don’t think you should be down voted for this because it is shocking, it should be shocking, but… You sweet summer child
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imagine denying other living and breathing lifeforms agency to thrive amd change lol lol lol⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I was going to say, definitely not Wyoming. Too many oil and gas companies absolutely destroy the areas they are in. I lived in Edgerton for a bit, there is literally no potable water in town, you will make yourself incredibly sick drinking out of the tap because of the drilling in the area. That’s just one of very many examples.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Haha, unfortunately no. None of the blades used a windowing system, so we technically wouldn’t have been able to as there is no graphical output (well, the IPMI controllers could have, but that’s kind of cheating). Although, as I’m thinking about it… We probably could have run it over ASCII graphics in a terminal… Man, that was a bit of a wasted opportunity, weather modelling is boring as hell.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
We were running meteorological models mostly, but I did have a colleague that was trying to use it to predict wildlife migratory patterns using topographical mapping. It was batched out on a few projects at any given time while I was there, it was essentially timeshares between a few different research departments.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s more of an operating cost issue. It’s almost decade-old hardware. It was efficient in its day, but compared to new hardware it just costs so much to run you would be better served investing in something with modern efficiency. It won’t be junked, it will be parted out. If you are someone that wants a cheap homelab with infiniband and shitloads of memory you could pick up a blade for a fraction of what it would otherwise cost. I fully expect it to turn into thousands of reasonably powerful servers for the prosumer and nerd markets instead of running as a monolithic cluster.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Hey, I have worked on this exact machine before, neat to see they are finally decommissioning it. It would be a terrible purchase to actually use these days though, for the cost of moving and deploying it you could rock a few Hopper or Grace clusters that would outperform the cluster for less than half of the operating overhead.

I fully expect it to get parted out, the actual components would be far more useful on their own as cheap homelab systems, and would be a much better ROI versus using it as is.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Kind of, you would use a deployment node to manage the individual blades, they are running really specialized software that is basically useless without the management nodes. It wouldn’t be difficult to spin it up (Terascale would have it ready to batch out jobs within a few hours) but you are going to need to engineer your building around it to even get that far. Your foundation needs to support multiple tons of weight, be perfectly level, be able to deliver megawatts of power, remove megawatts of heat (it is water cooled, so you need to have infrastructure and cooling towers to handle that), and you need to be able to get it into the building to begin with. I have worked on this system a few times, just moving it would literally cost upwards of 7 figures. The computer is pretty easy to use, it’s all of the supporting infrastructure that will need a literal team of engineers. I could (and have, kind of) spin the machine up to start crunching data within a day on my own. Fuck moving it, and double fuck re-cabling it. Literal miles of fiber in those racks.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How RCS on iPhone Will Make Texting Better for Everyone⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
But in order to get that ROM you need an unlocked bootloader, breaking integrity (best case scenario is device level integrity, you can’t get strong anymore). Google RCS will sort of work if you can pass Device, but in my experience things break silently if you don’t pass Strong (massively delayed messages, messages not sending, and RCS randomly disabling for no reason at all in the middle of a conversation).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's important to get a good interest rate⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
There are some nice perks to good credit outside of interest. It can qualify you for better housing, better perks on certain rentals, not having to worry about emergency situations killing your savings outright, and let’s you take advantage of stuff like cash back and bulk purchasing discounts. An example is staple foods, being able to hit the once-a-year bulk deals on stuff like rice or Lawreys garlic salt can cut the price of those items in half or better (personal examples, but the thought should hold). Ancillary perks, but they do add up.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's important to get a good interest rate⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
You could just ask easily be the bank yourself and save the “interest” for a birthday gift or something later on. This really isn’t a difficult concept to use as a teaching opportunity without just screwing over a kid. Do you teach your kids to not walk into traffic by letting them get hit by a car too?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They say the opposite of pro is con right?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Taking detailed notes?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Hi, I contribute to a number of projects that require incredibly specific information to facilitate (GPGPU kernel optimizations and unit tests for BLAS) and I use Reddit to collaborate with other engineers to solve issues like doing calculus on Lie groups resulting in a divide by zero because some non-zero groups multiplying to zero in the middle of the calculation. The best engineers and mathematicians I know moved here, so I moved with them to continue the dissemination of these principles.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think we should slightly rethink how login works on most Fediverse apps (Mastodon, Lemmy, but not only)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
To be fair, I use Summit and it just gives you one login box with a drop-down menu that has all of the major instances in it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers Showcase Decentralized AI-Powered Torrent Search Engine⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
DHT is an identifying protocol by design, it is how people find you to send/receive data. If your connection to the swarm is anonymized there really isn’t a ton the AI is going to be able to do that isn’t already happening with traditional methods.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers Showcase Decentralized AI-Powered Torrent Search Engine⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It is, but I can see a few use cases that could make it useful. Namely, it can look for common scam/virus patterns to filter more effectively and offer better content suggestions. There are also cases to be made for more descriptive indexing and content identification: lots of torrents have particularly bad naming schemes or misspellings that make finding the content somewhat more difficult or involved.