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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨irl shiny⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I learned that the worst thing to do is spray a Florida roach with bug spray. Now he's just pissed at you and looking for revenge.

I agree with the others. I actually think even the common roach color is pretty and they're fascinating creatures, it's how they behave that triggers a primordial panic.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
If you're still moving with traffic, why do you care that someone got in front of you? If you're slowing so much that lots of people are getting in front at one time, then you're the obstacle. A 3 second gap changes with speed, if it's slow traffic that's less than a car length. And if some asshole muscles their way into a gap unsafely, let them. You'll still get to your destination far faster than if you hit each other or cause some road rage stupidity because of who is in front.

Driving brings out the worst in people for no gain at all.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The best flowing highways I've ever seen were ones where the on ramp didn't end, but became the off ramp for the next exit. Obviously you can't have that everywhere, but it's basically a free flow lane that gives time for adjustment. I've also seen on ramps (older ones) that aren't much more than a turn lane, and dangerous if you don't know the area and traffic patterns.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I've always said that if you're using your brakes on the highway and it's not for an emergency stop, you're too close to the car in front of you. Even if they're the type that are on and off the brake constantly, if their speed isn't changing much you shouldn't need to follow their example. Of course I try to get out from behind them because they are like crying wolf and one of those brakes might be for real.

When caught in a traffic jam I look for a semi to get behind. They won't accelerate fast like some car drivers do, and they don't stop as fast either. Plus they can see better if things area really starting to move or not. Keep a few car lengths behind them and while everyone is doing the start and stop motions, I'm keeping a slow but steady speed usually without needing to brake at all. It's also less stressful.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you know???.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Exhibit A would be the comparison of how we label LLM successes at how "smart" it is, yet it's not so smart when it fails badly. Totally expected with a pattern matching algorithm, but surprising for something that might have a process underneath that is considering its output in some way.

And when I say pattern matching I'm not downplaying the complexity in the black box like many do. This is far more than just autocomplete. But it is probability at the core still, and not anything pondering the subject.

I think our brains are more than that. Probably? There is absolutely pattern matching going on, that's how we associate things or learn stuff, or anthropomorphize objects. There's some hard wired pattern preferences in there. But where do new thoughts come from? Is it just like some older scifi thought, emergence due to enough complexity, or is there something else? I'm sure current LLMs aren't comprehending what they spit out simply from what we see from them, both good and bad results. Clearly it's not the same level of human thought, and I don't have to remotely understand the brain to realize that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you know???.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
That is what AI scientists have been pursuing the entire time (well, before they got sucked up by capitalistic goals).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you know???.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
An LLM isn't imagining anything, it's sorting through the enormous collection of "imaginations" put out by humans to find the best match for "your" imagination. And the power used is in the training, not in each generation. Lastly, the training results in much more than just that one image you can't stop thinking about, and you'd find the best ones if you could prompt better with your little brain.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it realistic to hope that lemmy grows to the size of the bigger social media platforms?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
It's not an equal comparison because there isn't a single Lemmy. And I say that from a non-Lemmy account (Mbin), furthering the point. Most people from the Reddit migration probably came here because of the decentralization factor. Think of Lemmy and the rest as subreddits but without the domination of the main site. The best any community (subreddit) can do is defederate other groups (prevent their content from being seen in their own instance) that they see as problematic, but that's all that's needed.

Imagine the Fediverse structure, but there was a single controller that any instance had to go through to filter external content, and had to obey when told to filter external content. It's a new Reddit. The freedom for anyone to set up instances with whatever content or filtering they want makes it totally different. But to the point asked, that's why you can't talk about Lemmy in a singular manner, it's not one thing. And that's good.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Utter bullshit like this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
But maybe not AI. AI goes off training of real photos and would have variation in the surfaces, while someone doing this in Blender would be lazy and use the same texturing for all.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teaching Jordan Peterson That Climate Change Is Real: Part One – SOME MORE NEWS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
And the intelligence of the content coming out.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world if Africa didn't exist⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
It would be far different if the land mass of Africa had never existed. The whole tectonic movement would have resulted in different arrangements several supercontinents ago, with their own effects on climate and life itself.

But if Africa just blipped off one day, maybe. Then you have to explore what a sudden loss of land would do to the ocean waters rushing in, the change in Earth rotation due to its mass being shifted, lots of other things.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Technically Correct⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
This happened to me after a lunch break going back into the court room for jury duty. Didn't think about my soda until I got to the checkpoint, used to the TSA's mentality so figured the rest of it was forfeit. She just tells me to take a drink to show it's valid. Respect for people doing their job correctly, and using common sense.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨McDonald's Experience by non McDonald's patron.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Kiosks of any sort can vary, from fast food to grocery to other types. There are some that work well and make self service far faster and easier, and others that routinely have issues. I've never used McD's, but I have used Sheetz a lot before and it flows very well both in displaying the options as well as suggestive selling that isn't in your face and disruptive. As for groceries, Publix has always been perfect for me, while some others not as much. Walmart's is 50/50 on if it will work okay or have some issue.

I wonder if there's a list of what manufacturer supplies what kiosks and a correlation can be made.

Outside of the ordering, McDs has never been the best, but as they've dropped in quality to drive profits and still meet the demand that persists regardless, so have others. My favorite used to be Burger King in the 90s, but I will go to McD instead of stepping foot in a BK at this point, that's how bad they are.

And the stupid thing is, none of them are doing anything much different. The quality doesn't have to be this low in food and service. I can only assume the bottom line is greater if they sacrifice everything needed to keep standards up and maintain just enough to keep a minimum demand flowing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨please be nice to retail workers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
And the most common excuse when you point that out..."at least it's something". Which while true, since not everyone gets raises at all, is still robbery.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨please be nice to retail workers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Back in my day my first job was $5/hour* and it was fine.

*of course, that would be almost $15 in 2024 dollars
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Geohydtotypography⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Companion trivia: Can the whole of text of the internet cover the entire Atlantic in 12 point type, and if not yet, when based on how fast it grows?

Secondary question: What font would be best, besides Papyrus?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robert Downey Jr returns to Marvel as Doctor Doom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Maybe that's the angle they're taking it. Remember that Reed Richards was in a different universe in MoM, and Spider-Mans were different Peters, so...

I have no doubt he can do well with the character, just hope it makes a bit of sense and doesn't feel like they're using RDJ as a selling point to breathe life back into a tired run.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want to donate old work shirts, but I don't want people to be mistaken for employees there. How do I remove the logos?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Or cut them up and use them as shop towels or whatever before you toss them. At least get a bit more out of them before they contribute to the landfill.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good game soundtracks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Elite Dangerous, both original OST and Odyssey (for the planetside background music)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good news everyone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I can tell you it's probably when they transitioned to frozen dough for the pan pizza vs. mixing it fresh each day. I will say that the frozen wasn't terrible, still better than other chains, but it was not the same as fresh.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm terrified of the Netherlands now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Such techniques are often used to sell a conclusion with data that doesn't agree. Scaling, cropping, etc. Visuals are very powerful, and people will look at a graph and assume it's correct.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fortnite Players Band Together to Pick on In-Game Tesla Cybertrucks: 'Destroy on Sight' - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
My first live sighting of one of them I realized how god-awful ugly they really are. Even in some bronze/pewter terrible color. Or maybe it got left in the rain and that's just corrosion.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any actual standalone AI software?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
The breaking down I mentioned is the quantization that forms a smaller model from the larger one. I didn't want to get technical because I don't understand the math details myself past how to use them. :)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any actual standalone AI software?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
The AI, image, and audio models that can run on a typical PC have all been broken down from originally larger models. How this is done affects what the models can do and the quality, but the open source community has come a long way in making impressive stuff. First question is more hardware - do you have an Nvidia GPU that can support these types of generations? They can be done through CPU alone, but it's painfully much slower.

If so, then I would highly recommend looking into Ollama for running AI models (using WSL if you're using Windows) and ComfyUI for graphical generation. Don't let the workflow of complicated ComfyUI scare you, starting from the basics with plenty of Youtube help out there it will make sense. As for TTS, there's a lot of constant "new stuff" out there, but for actual local processing in "real time" (still takes a bit) I have yet to find anything to replace my Coqui TTS copy with Jenny as the model voice. It may take some digging and work to get that together, it's older and not supported anymore.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If global warming is a biproduct of humans, wouldn't the logical answer be to kill 2/3rds of the humans?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
He picks the outcome that's the simplest to explain. But you could explain it as a sadistic goal, because look at what second Thanos wanted to do upon learning the universe didn't appreciate him the first time. Kill it all.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If global warming is a biproduct of humans, wouldn't the logical answer be to kill 2/3rds of the humans?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Neither addresses the problem, they just both push it into the future. Half the population/double the resources isn't even a reasonable amount to give much more time. It's better for drama though, because disappearing 99% or more of the universe would have really set back the Avengers, if any of them made the cut at all.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time Terror⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Most of the Appalachians is now located within the eastern part of the United States as runoff. Imagine how long it took for huge mountains to erode down and wash outwards into the ocean that distance.

And the Appalachians are still young compared to a few other mountain areas around the world.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans didn't invent agriculture⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Just like cats.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
We've got one of their pull around vacuums. Superior product, best vacuum I've ever had in reliability and features.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Good to know. I regularly pull it out and clean the vent with a vent extension brush anyway, once I got a house with a long vent where all sorts of things can settle. Huge fire hazard that most home owners don't even think about. It seems to be catching the lint it ought to be, but perhaps this goes back to the idea that even in a line of product you can have good and bad machines made.