kitnaht

@kitnaht@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What advice would you give to someone half your age?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t listen to your teachers regarding being “realistic” with your dreams. If you want to do mechanical engineering, electronics engineering, programming, robotics, build your own machine shop, etc – just start now. Get out of hickville where being intelligent is looked down upon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia to cap game streaming hours on GeForce Now instead of raising fees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t China do this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Universe would die before monkey with keyboard writes Shakespeare, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We already had a monkey write Shakespeare. His name was William Shakespeare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT has literally devolved into "let me google that for you"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve found that 4o is substantially worse than the previous model at a ton of things. So I run all of my LLMs locally now through OLLAMA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Money. Google has an incentive to make search results less accurate to get you to click around and interact with more ads. As it currently stands, AI models aren’t inserting advertisements; though I suspect that’s only a matter of time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are we talking who is going to grind the election to a halt, and then force this to go to the house, where they unceremoniously decide that Trump gets to be King?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The content is not unavailable to search engines. AI LLMs simply are better at surfacing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If someone has put in the work to find and feed the quality content to LLMs, why couldn’t that same effort have been invested in Google Search?

  I’d rather a world where 10 companies can compete with google search on AIs, than where they dump money into a monopoly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll just Committed a Federal Crime.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Crunchyroll has a monopoly on Anime? Shit, someone better tell Nyaa.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not remotely within the realm of plausibility that Sam Altman genuinely believes any of the horseshit he spews.

  Welcome to earth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve got a pretty high bar of proof for proving “actual fraud”…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You might want to look up the definition of reactionary. Because that’s…exactly what it means. To oppose reform/advancements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, he’s wrong though.

  I know tons of full stack developers who use AI to GREATLY speed up their workflow. I’ve used AI image generators to put something I wanted into the concept stage before I paid an artist to do the work with the revisions I wanted that I couldn’t get AI to produce properly.

  And first and foremost, they’re a great use in surfacing information that is discussed and available, but might be buried with no SEO behind it to surface it. They are terrible at deducing things themselves, because they can’t ‘think’, or coming up with solutions that others haven’t already - but so long as people are aware of those limitations, then they’re a pretty good tool to have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat lead⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And even better because they start to come to their own thought-out conclusions. There’s less baggage in the way for them to eventually work their way through it. Especially when they’ve got to convince you - because mysteriously they always jump to all of this “proof” to show you.

  It doesn’t happen immediately, and if you try to speed it up you’ll just cause them to reverse course.

  I’ll sprinkle a little bit of … my own confusion into the mix? As an example, I’ll remain interested, but be like “wait, you said X but then you said Y - doesn’t that contradict X?” I’ll let them explain and not fight them on it, but send them off with a warm smile.

  Not everyone will break free of the programming, but some will - and that’s all I can hope for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve always had that power, regardless of it being official or not. Because who’s going to hold them accountable? – Basically nobody.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, he’s right. The whole point of my mother leveraging her home to become a landlord back then was because she had a stroke and literally could-not-work. Landlords aren’t working class. They’re just investors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did we stop saying "things are fire" to "things are cold"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Cool” has been around for a lot longer than calling things “fire”. Things will continue to be called cool, until the next fad rolls around, and then it’ll go back to being called cool again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat lead⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, the existence of lead doesn’t necessarily prove the age of the earth so much as that those elements have existed for that long.

  HOWEVER – you’re basically guaranteed to find lead in uranium deposits found around the earth, and the ratio of lead/uranium is how we calculated the 4.6 billion years.

  Uranium is formed in Neutron stars or Supernova, so at the very least - the uranium found on earth itself is 4.6 billion years old. Whether “Earth” was “Earth” back then, who knows. This could be pre-moon? Could be before the earth even cooled down to have a solid outer layer? So the estimate is bound to be off by a little…

  Just not by 4.5 billion years.

  I’m pretty sure just soap has been around for more than 4k years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“I am still alive”: Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing “lifetime” price lock⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Any guarantee of a price lock with the stipulation of “You can just NOT use us if we ever decide to fuck you over!” - should come with HEAVY penalties.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  MSN = Microsoft Network. They didn’t “happen”…they were always part of the process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody who ever voted for trump is a cunt.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t vote for him, but my mistake was not voting directly against him. As heavy-red of an area I’m in, it probably didn’t matter, but I still felt guilty when he won. I’m one of the Bernie bros who couldn’t let go; and we legitimately made a mistake back then - but I was for sure Hillary was gonna dunk it. I was flabbergasted when Trump won.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gushing over Magical Girls Season 2 Announced⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This was not what I thought it was going to be when I initially downloaded it. Unfortunately it’s existence is just an example of the stuff that exists within the broader topic of ‘anime’ which hinders wider acceptance. I really wish it existed under its own category somehow; as people point to this any time someone mentions the topic - and it’s embarrassing on a wider scale, as it’s mostly shut-ins and incels which enjoy this kind of thing. The fact that it’s getting a second season is only testament to the growing social problems that exist on a wider scale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is a dremel 3D40 worth it in 2024?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My advice is worth exact as much as everyone else’s, one random voice on the internet.

  That’s…not true at all. If I gave someone advice on how to do a brain surgery, they’d be idiotic to listen to me. Same with 3D printers. Your replies echo the hordes of uneducated 3D printer owners who don’t know where to locate these things.

  Glass is manufactured using a float method - it cannot be manufactured non-flat unless it is intentional. Which shows the straws you’re grasping at because you didn’t have the knowledge available to you at the time as too what was causing your issue.

  The fact that you’ve made the same mistakes that I see plenty of people making over and over and over again - means that your opinion is misinformed, and sharing it is not only not helpful, but actually detrimental to the greater discourse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is a dremel 3D40 worth it in 2024?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have pretty unique experience here in that I run a 3D printer repair shop. I have my hands on literally thousands of machines per year (an avg of 3-4 a day or so).

  I’ve never once seen a bent gantry extrusion. The Ender 3 was known for a faulty period between 2020 and 2021 where they made a non-glass-filled extruder levers.

  And I’ve never seen a brass hobbed gear for the extruder wear down on just normal PLA. White-PLA can be a little bit abrasive, but glow in the dark is just as bad as carbon fiber.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is a dremel 3D40 worth it in 2024?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It really isn’t. It’s the users who are mostly to blame. The one I see all the time, is users who replace the PTFE without knowing how that whole system works. Especially people who replace the PTFE with Crapricorn tubing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You know the problem I have with Librewolf? – Fuckall nobody knows how to spell it.

  The beauty of Firefox is that even the densest idiot knows how to spell those two words. And with attention spans the equivalent of a gnat, people need to have things simplified for them as much as humanly possible.

  Fortunately enough, Firefox is about the only one with a renderer that isn’t controlled by Google, but - even now they’re shifting to a pro-advertising stance and backing off of the privacy orientation that they took just a year or two ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is a dremel 3D40 worth it in 2024?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely on the K1. Nobody should be buying it. Only time I ever recommend them – is when referring to the K1 Max. And that’s only when people want: A - To Print Fast, and B - Something larger than Bambu. But I’m starting to move toward suggesting the SV08 if I can see they are at least a little bit technical.

  The normal K1? Forget it. Don’t buy it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is a dremel 3D40 worth it in 2024?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Creality isn’t a bad company, they’re just hindered by the ignorant. The Ender 3, the baseline, old 8 bit model - was a perfectly fine machine if you knew what needed to be tight, and what didn’t.

  The new 3v3 SE is a wonderful machine at like $180 with direct drive, magnetic PEI bed, dual Z screws, and the works. It doesn’t require all the knowledge that the old versions did. It’s a perfectly fine beginner machine.

  The problem with Creality is just that everyone bought one as an enthusiast, so they told all the non-enthusiasts it was a great machine, and without that same level of knowledge, those people fell HARD. In doing so, they returned and claimed that creality machines were garbage. But they really weren’t. As far as bottom-of-the-barrel budget machines go, they were pretty alright.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is a dremel 3D40 worth it in 2024?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s worth it if you like paying for headaches, living with outdated slicer software, and generally having to figure out how to achieve the things everyone else is doing with workarounds constantly.

  I wouldn’t take a Dremel 3D40 if someone paid ME to take it from them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to fix this glass that is no longer in place?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like the fine folks here have you covered. This should be a pretty easy DIY to tackle. As others have said though, that glass can be incredibly heavy, and it’s likely tempered, so don’t hit the corners on anything or it’ll basically explode into a million pieces.