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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a router ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Assuming you mean in the computer sense, it’s a device that forwards messages from one network connection to another. e.g. between ethernet connections and/or WiFi in home use, typically, or sometimes other kinds of networks in industry.

  Messages on the internet are usually transferred as IP packets (Internet Protocol packets). The router looks at the destination address on each packet that arrives, consults a table (“routing table”) to determine which connection to use to forward the message out on, and then it actually copies the message onto that connection. The basic idea is pretty straightforward, but it can get complicated in real world situations when you have multiple networks, redundant links, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree that the hardware being used right now is not well suited. I don’t agree that it’s strictly necessary to use the right hardware – there’s just less tedious waiting involved for the computation to happen if you’ve got better hardware. Real-time interaction is the boundary where you need to have good enough hardware. For everything else you just have to be patient enough – sometimes absurdly so, but you could, in principle, still perform the computation.

  LLMs are as close as we have right now, and they have miles to go. But they need hundreds of times more power than the brain does. No it won’t be soon and it won’t be with this kind of silicon processors.

  There are people already baking LLMs into custom hardware – e.g. chatjimmy.ai

  Their demo page isn’t the best LLM I’ve seen (Qwen and Gemma are much more clever and more likely to give decent results) but this is a taste of what’s possible… It gives responses at ~17000 tokens a second today.

  If I could get answers back from the best Qwen model I’ve got at that speed, I could just retry every query three times, feed it through another pass to self-assess the results, and then reply before you can blink. That would get rid of a lot of the “confidently claims knowledge about a made up subject” issue we currently see – we can do the same thing on CPUs/GPUs but you’re stuck waiting so long for the result that most people don’t bother.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. I don’t know about the timeline for the higher bar definitions of AGI. For the lower bar definitions, we’re basically already at “good enough” today.

  If you’d told me 10 years ago that I’d be able to run a program on my computer which would let me feed in an image along with some CSS and JS files and it would then give me a correction that fixes the bug I indicated visually… I would not have believed you. Here I am in 2026 though, and I have done exactly that several times with local LLMs on my own hardware. That same program can also take a natural language description of characters, motivations, and a vague scenario and write a scene. Not an especially well written scene, most of the time, but good enough to get the characters from the initial conditions to ending conditions via complex intermediate steps. I can also define tools it hasn’t seen before and it can combine them in sequence to solve a problem defined in natural language. Is it perfectly reliable? Hell no. Is it always coherent? Definitely not. The fact that it can do as much as it can is just bonkers though. If we’re getting this far with what I strongly suspect is not the ideal architecture for general intelligence, god only knows what we’ll see when we do hit on the right architecture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Before I got meds my go to when I woke up from panic attacks and couldn’t calm down was putting on an episode of ARIA: The Animation. It’s super chill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think goes through an animal’s mind and POV?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm. I’m not exactly sure how I got there or what would work for other people, but it can be done.

  Maybe try thinking of it like pressing the clutch in a manual drive car? The engine might keep spinning, but if you hold down the clutch and ignore it eventually it’ll run out of gas…

  Or maybe think of it like tuning out someone annoying chattering nearby. They might keep talking for a bit but if you ignore them, eventually they’ll get bored and shut up / leave. Even if they come back, just ignore them again if you don’t want to engage.

  Or, try focusing on sensory details instead of mental chatter. Really notice what you’re seeing/hearing/feeling without actively describing it or planning anything.

  I don’t usually stay in that state all that long, but sometimes it’s nice to just be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think goes through an animal’s mind and POV?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect most of them do not have an internal monologue in the same (verbose) sense that humans can have, but the relatively closely related ones (e.g. mammals, probably) likely have similar memory/sensory integration experiences. It’s possible to get your own inner monologue to “shut up” for a bit, and just be and feel and do. You can still remember an experience without talking to yourself about it as well. I suspect that closely related animals’ experience is like that – although differing based on the particular set of senses and drives unique to their species.

  The further away you go from that, the less idea I have of what’s going on (besides “state machine” of some sort). I have only the vaguest notion of what it might be like to be a spider, and even less of an idea of what it’s like to be a starfish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you pronounce 'Niche'?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I say it more like nɪʃ personally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tlennon-ie/cull: The curation engine for AI image datasets.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  vision_prompt.py is interesting. I probably won’t be using this exact tool for anything, but I will go through and analyze what it’s doing there to see if any of the techniques are applicable to the problems I’ve been dealing with in scientific data analysis…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many robots are there?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably hundreds of millions or billions if you include things like washing machines, dish washers, automated gates, garage openers, etc. that automate specific tasks. Just the read/write arms in hard disks alone is probably a staggeringly huge number, if we’re counting things like that…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Driving game poll⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Might be this? www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vk6hANjLeU

  YT thinks I’m a bot and has me blocked for some reason, so can’t confirm.

  On the original CD-ROM, it was SOUND/RADIO/STATIONS/Bluegrass/MUSIC/sp.WAV

  Probably the best song in the game. Certainly the most memorable!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Driving game poll⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I’d get bored pretty quick just driving around with no goal – although, I did have a fair amount of fun driving around Streets of Sim City as a kid and probably spent more time messing around my own SC2K maps than I did with the actual game missions, so I could be wrong about how bored I’d get of a pure driving simulator…

  Regardless of whether I’d enjoy it, I have family members who I’m pretty sure would find it right up their alley – especially the classic car aspect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What was the first thing or video or music or whatever that was so called "pirated" from the internet? How did it happen and was the end user happy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No idea, but Lenna is probably one of the earlier images pirated over the internet given its history in testing image compression algorithms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's ask this AI app!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not good enough for me knowing there are Thomas Midgley Juniors out there:

  On October 30, 1924, Midgley participated in a press conference to demonstrate the apparent safety of TEL, in which he poured TEL over his hands, placed a bottle of the chemical under his nose, and inhaled its vapor for sixty seconds, declaring that he could do this every day without succumbing to any problems. […] Midgley later took a leave of absence from work after being diagnosed with lead poisoning.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.

  He was the jackass who invented both leaded gasoline and CFCs and inflicted them on the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LEARN THE TRUTH⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, the real Bugs Bunny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t seen compelling enough evidence to believe in the supernatural.

  That said, we do seem to be well on our way to engineering ghost-like phenomenon. People will set up LLMs and generative AI systems that imitate dead people, if they haven’t already…

  No ghosts IRL? No problem! We’ll make ghosts!

  Thanks Humanity. 🙄️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say no to BAYES⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this a Bayeskisser meme? 😛️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What was your social media path?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IM-based: AIM+MSN+etc… -> IRC -> Google Talk -> SMS -> (nothing for many years) -> Slack (for work)

  Web-Based: forums (esp. GMC) -> Digg -> reddit (mainly) + HN (sometimes) -> kbin -> lemmy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So Deep⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know about bears, but I wouldn’t it put it past a bonobo…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does google decide to log people out of all their google accounts all at once with no warning?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use container tabs for that. Makes it easy to keep two logged in accounts side-by-side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How on earth do I fix my trackpad?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  if anyone knows a better solution to sharing videos that doesn’t involve making accounts, please let me know!

  You can upload small files (under 200MB) to catbox.moe

  I don’t know how to fix your trackpad issue though. Sorry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LE TITS NOW⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Colder than a witch’s tits!”, as some of my relatives are fond of saying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite RPG maker games?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Demons Roots is probably the best RPG Maker game I’ve played that was actually playable as an RPG. (So, not counting things like To The Moon which other people have already mentioned.)

  I wasn’t a fan of most of the sexual content in Demons Roots, but taking the whole thing as basically a giant love letter to fucked up doujinshi stories – i.e. to unpolished indie writing with wild genre bending plot twists in addition to the hentai stuff – I can accept it for what it is. The game has that RPGMaker wabi-sabi; it’s not especially well-crafted software… but the combat was OK (unlike a lot of indie RPGs), the music was good – a mix of original and mostly well chosen asset packs (I still listen to some of it occasionally!), and, without getting into spoilers, it did a couple of very memorable things…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Micron to boost DRAM output with $1.8bn chip fab buy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  By “legacy” they probably mean that they work with the older process technologies, not that the fab itself is old:

  In its May 2024 ’Hooray, we’re open!’ announcement, PSMC said it invested more than NT$300 billion (US$9.5 billion) on the facility, and that it had capacity to produce 50,000 12-inch wafers per month under 55, 40 and 28 nanometer technology nodes.

  Those kinds of chips are still very useful for things like cars and washing machines and such where you don’t need bleeding edge chip tech.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most games have trophies designed by some corporate drone and consist of a handful of trophies giving for completing the storyline and the rest for token actions that you’ll inevitably do while playing.

  Those are basically just publicly accessible analytics for how far people typically get in a game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mount an ISO in Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As others have noted, you can use the mount command from the terminal. On Mint, you should also be able to use the Disks utility that ships with the OS if you’d prefer to use a GUI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apparently your hobbies becomes less interesting if you're forced to do them all the time? Who knew?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OP has a ℂ now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does everyone put celery in soup stock?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, and they’re often used together.

  Celery is cold tolerant and can be grown/harvested in winter, IIRC. That might also be a factor in why it’s prevalent in soups?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does everyone put celery in soup stock?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an aromatic vegetable: thespruceeats.com/what-are-cooking-aromatics-5223…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any games I missed in the last 21 months?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t gotten around to playing either of them yet myself, but Nine Sols and Astro Bot also come to mind as titles that got a lot of attention.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨same shit every day, on god⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What does a mile per hour really even mean when you can turn back time? 🤔️