finalarbiter
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- Comment on Meta - There's Levels To This Shit 6 hours ago:
Honestly my one critique of this is that if they manage to infect you with that ‘biotracker’, then they must already know where you are to do so. If not, how would the person they want to track be the only person infected with it? So then this tracker doesn’t really provide any new information. Maybe I’m overthinking it…
- Comment on LLMDeathCount.com 1 day ago:
Not really equivalent. Most videogames don’t actively encourage you to pursue violence outside of the game, even if they don’t explicitly have a big warning saying “don’t fucking shoot people”.
Several of the big LLMs, by virtue of their programming to be somewhat sycophantic, have encouraged users to follow through on suicidal ideation or self-harm when the user shared those thoughts in chat. One can argue that OpenAI and others have implemented ‘safety’ features for these scenarios, but the fact is that these systems have already lead to several deaths and continue to do so through encouragement of the user to harm themselves or other.
- Comment on I'm unsure what to self-host 5 days ago:
I don’t do a whole lot right now, partially because I’m just not sure what I want to run or how much risk I want to take on in terms of security (for exposed services) and data recovery. I started with pihole to get better ad blocking on my tv, and recently started hosting a dinner vtt server for my d&d group. Some time in the future, I might spin up a nextcloud instance to replace my dropbox or immich for google photos
- Comment on Top 20 Most Guru Bought stocks 6 days ago:
Why do you keep posting these thinly-veiled ads in a shitposting comm?
- Comment on Meet Mico, Microsoft’s AI version of Clippy 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure if it’s exactly the same, but there is a similar tool under ‘viva insights’ in teams
- Comment on xkcd #3155: Physics Paths 4 weeks ago:
I really thought this was just going to be a link to the same comic. Shame on me for doubting ig
- Comment on tried makin nookie 4 weeks ago:
‘Nyockie’ isn’t a word either, you’re looking for gnocchi.
- Comment on Forbidden knowledge 4 weeks ago:
This meme has been floating around for at least a decade at this point
- Comment on Brave launches 'Ask Brave' feature to fuse AI with traditional search 1 month ago:
As if the various bits of fraud over the years wasn’t enough of a reason to avoid it like the plague
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 1 month ago:
I’m torn between D and G. I love Thai, Chinese, Japanese, and Mexican/Central American cuisines, not to mention American barbecue.
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 1 month ago:
It’s fun but I wouldn’t want to denigrate Dickens by saying he got poverty wrong to make a political point.
I think they’re actually making the opposite claim- American wages are just that fucked, rather than Dickens being wrong
- Comment on We could have had it all 1 month ago:
Or a tiny bench
- Comment on What are your favorite open source 3D printers? 1 month ago:
Yeah, they’re definitely pretty interesting. I’m usually interested in the other end of the build volume scale with large machines, but it’s super cool to see how they manage to pack so much into such a small space!
- Comment on What are your favorite open source 3D printers? 1 month ago:
Documentation and open source are two orthogonal concepts. I’ve seen plenty of well-documented closed-source projects and just as many open-source projects with no documentation at all.
- Comment on What are your favorite open source 3D printers? 1 month ago:
Voron is a fairly popular set of designs and geometries, but they’re harder to source and build. There’s also RatRig, which sells a kit and I think just started selling fully-assembled machines under another brand name.
- Comment on xkcd #3137: Cursed Number 2 months ago:
The number that makes people go insane is bigger than 2.6*10^21^, or 2,600,000,000,000,000,000,000
- Comment on Juggalos Not Happy as Insane Clown Posse Releases AI-Generated Video 3 months ago:
I have unfortunately known some furries who happened to be shitty people, but that isn’t a trait exclusive to any one community. Case in point: the person you responded to is also a shit person
- Comment on You can still enable uBlock Origin in Chrome, here is how 3 months ago:
They only made those changes after several of the people whose likeness they stole called them out. Regardless, it should never have happened in the first place.
- Comment on You can still enable uBlock Origin in Chrome, here is how 3 months ago:
You mean the browser that was caught injecting affiliate codes on cryptocurrency sites and misleading users into making donations that were collected by brave instead of the supposed recipient? That browser?
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 4 months ago:
This line of thought is short sighted. Your senior engineers will eventually retire or leave the company. If everyone replaces junior engineers with ai, then there will be nobody with the experience to fill those empty seats. Then you end up with no junior engineers and no senior engineers, so who is wrangling the ai?
- Comment on Anker's 3D texture printer raises $45 million in most successful Kickstarter campaign ever — world's first UV printer for personal use to begin shipping in August 4 months ago:
That’s cool as hell. My understanding is you have to have extremely high volume before uv makes financial sense. The previously-available commercial uv printers are extremely expensive, so the anker printer is only cheap by comparison. Hopefully we will see some more competition at this level that will continue to bring the price down towards something more affordable!
- Comment on Hey.. 4 months ago:
Yup, happens to me occasionally, typically on my morning commute when I’m still waking up. Scary as fuck every time.
- Comment on Anker's 3D texture printer raises $45 million in most successful Kickstarter campaign ever — world's first UV printer for personal use to begin shipping in August 4 months ago:
UV printers are used for direct to object printing, you likely own some stuff that has gone through the process. It’s especially popular for customized promotional items that would be otherwise difficult to print on, like flash drives, gold balls, etc. Admittedly, I also don’t see much of a reason to buy this for my own use, but one could say the same about other hobbies like 3d printing.
- Comment on Hey.. 4 months ago:
Anecdotally, something like gum or jerky to chew on helps me stave off highway hypnosis on longer road trips. I also find stopping and getting out to walk around for a few minutes helps fight the worst of it.
- Comment on why are we eatings shrimps 4 months ago:
Shrimp is bugs 🍤
- Comment on 3D Printer Simulator could take the guesswork out of printing — Virtual 3D printer mirrors physical machine's quirks, like stringing, supports multi-color printing 5 months ago:
The thing is, running a simulation is a pretty inefficient way to do this. Until relatively recently, most printers lacked the computational bandwidth to run a simulation in parallel with active control (my ender 3 back in 2018 didn’t even have the capacity to enable all features if you wanted a leveling probe). Even now, you wouldn’t want to run this on the same hardware that’s actually controlling the machine, since the simulation would delay its ability to send control signals in real time. That’s why Klipper uses a secondary control board, it offloads the extra computation to ensure the primary controller only has to compute the bare minimum to operate with as minimal a delay as possible.
Also, a parallel simulation just isn’t necessarily the most efficient way to catch issues. Thermal control accuracy has been a focus in the printing community at least since Anet A8 printers were burning down people’s homes, and we’re pretty good at preventing thermal runway these days.
On the motor side, the accuracy issues are largely a result of an open loop control system- The steppers have no way of telling the controller that they moved the correct amount. Thus, a simulation wouldn’t help with positional accuracy since the board has no idea if a motor misses a step anyway. There are some mitigating tools like stallguard for load sending, but it’s not really the same thing.
- Comment on 3D Printer Simulator could take the guesswork out of printing — Virtual 3D printer mirrors physical machine's quirks, like stringing, supports multi-color printing 5 months ago:
I think this will ultimately fall into the same category as watching a simukated CAM toolpath before running CNC machining operations- it will catch the more obvious mistakes like unsupported surfaces, but won’t be useful at catching more subtle issues caused by specific idiosyncrasies of the machine or material.
- Comment on 3D Printer Simulator could take the guesswork out of printing — Virtual 3D printer mirrors physical machine's quirks, like stringing, supports multi-color printing 5 months ago:
The Bambu printers do some cool stuff with measuring resonance to measure things like lubrication and belt tension. This is theoretically possible on any machine that can do Klipper’s inout shaping, but requires a LOT of data to be useful (from what I understand), which is orobably why we don’t see many printers on the market that can do that.
For thermals, Marlin (one of the popular printer firmwares) actually evaluates the control response of the heater based on the, rather than just looking at a specific temperature range. If the behavior is sufficiently different than what the system is tuned for, it will throw a temp error and shut down before thermal runaway occurs. I would expect other modern firmwares (e.g. Klipper) do this as well, but I don’t have as much experience tinkering with them and don’t want to make definitive statements.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 5 months ago:
You are not immune to your powers- when time stops, so do you
- Comment on The technology to end traffic deaths exists. Why aren’t we using it? 5 months ago:
Very early on, Tesla used lidar in addition to optical sensors. However, they only use optical sensors today and have for a while. Like many of the poor decisions at that company, the change to optical-only was made at Musk’s demand.