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- Comment on Automated catalyst testing uses two coordinated robots, cutting 32 days of work to 17 hours 2 hours ago:
Ah, thx. Makes sense, now I get it.
- Comment on Automated catalyst testing uses two coordinated robots, cutting 32 days of work to 17 hours 12 hours ago:
Hehe. Sure. I mean it’s a blessing or can be problematic… I think most people appreciate a TV set is a few hundred bucks these days. Or the availability of smartphones and home computers. That’s only possible because of modern pick and place machines. I think our world would look a bit more like the victorian age if we didn’t have those modern perks. Each computer would be hand-soldered by a workforce of hundreds of people. Fill several rooms and be slow and unaffordable for anyone except the government…
But automation is problematic as well. I mean we’re arguing about it since the Industrial Revolution.
- Comment on Automated catalyst testing uses two coordinated robots, cutting 32 days of work to 17 hours 1 day ago:
Weird article. Is this some domain specific breakthrough? Because I’m fairly sure laboratories and researchers use some ultra precise experimental setups and sampling machines for like half a century now? For example an elaborate machine that loads 200 blood samples at a time and it’ll return the lab results to the hospital within a few hours. For what used to be a time consuming, labour intensive job with a higher error rate before… But we have these machines for quite some time now… They didn’t include any AI in the advertising, though.
- Comment on [Star Trek Voyager] To me, "Retrospect" episode is not as bad as "Blood Fever" 1 week ago:
I mean Retrospect is kind of an episode about date rape. Implying something about false memories in assault victims. And it ends on: Maybe the main thing behind the story never happened. The End. Which are the endings that often feel very disappointing to me. And we don’t even learn if it was an illusion. I get why that episode isn’t cherished by people.
I think the pon farr episodes are weird as well. And I don’t think I particularly enjoyed that episode. But at least some of the good guys are trying to do the right thing? And even if the Vulkan gets away unpunished, I don’t think he’s portrayed in a positive way. As far as I remember the crew unanimously thinks sex is unacceptable. Minus the people who are out of their mind. And Tuvok. But he has kind of a weird role with arguing logic in that situation. And the episode ends on a happy end. They’ve averted danger and death for the moment, and nobody had to have sex. And as a viewer I’m glad it turned out they didn’t need to follow through with Tuvok’s “logical” plan, either. That feels a bit more right to me.
But the entire set up of pon farr and biology or tradition just causing violence, is a bit rapey. I guess from a storywriting perspective it’s a bit difficult to bring up that topic in a creative way. But movie or TV is a lot about violence and sex. So I can see how storywriters make it part of stories.
Some Voyager episodes were just a bit weird in my opinion. I think it’s okay if it provokes thought. And less so, if it makes the audience start to confuse right and wrong.
- Comment on Retail stores still selling the same overpriced junk since at least 2019 and even pretending it's on sale 4 weeks ago:
Also got a nice Dell 7390 for a similar price a year ago. Though you really can’t compare a laptop bought in 2019 with a laptop bought 6 years in the future. You’d need to compare it to a refurbished one available for a similar price in 2019 and then factor in how that turned out for you a few years later. I mean technology always progresses and you’ll always get more a few years later.
- Comment on Need advice for buying first hardware 1 month ago:
Isn’t that processor almost 15 years old? Nor sure what kind of price is alright for that. 250 seems a bit much but I don’t really know. I mean it’d probably work fine and 24GB is plenty of RAM for a few selfhosted services. I don’t think you need a graphics card for most services. Jellyfin can make use of it. Or use the encoder that comes with the iGPU in the processor. And maybe the machine learning features in Immich…
No idea about power consumption. I don’t know where you live, some countries have really cheap electricity. Some don’t and you maybe don’t want to run a random (old) gaming pc, because some waste a lot of power and some don’t and there is no good way to tell except measure it.
- Comment on intel/openvino-ai-plugins-gimp: GIMP AI plugins with OpenVINO Backend 1 month ago:
Yeah, it’s pretty normal for the Linux community not to recommend Snap 😉
- Comment on intel/openvino-ai-plugins-gimp: GIMP AI plugins with OpenVINO Backend 1 month ago:
Uh, Snap package or compile entire GIMP yourself isn’t very convenient for all the people who aren’t within Ubuntu’s ecosystem…
- Comment on I watch the first Star Trek Discovery episode, I didn't like it. 2 months ago:
Lower Decks is awesome. That and The Orville were some of my favourite “Star Trek” moments in modern times.
By the way, there’s a bit of a story arc going on at the beginning of Discovery and some things don’t make sense until that gets revealed during season 2. The show changes some of the tone and atmosphere over time. But if you don’t like it, maybe it’s just not for you. It’s not classic Star Trek for several reasons.
- Comment on What browser(s) should I use? 2 months ago:
I use LibreWolf on the computer and IronWolf on the phone.
- Comment on Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk 2 months ago:
Grok is fitted wit a system prompt to view Elon Musk as its Lord and Saviour, source of truth and God. And deny the holocaust. So naturally it’d say things like this.
- Comment on How to Create Art for a Book? 2 months ago:
As far as I know, one way to do it is to use an image2image model / image editing model. You’d need to generate one reference image of your character. And then feed the reference image into it and tell it to draw that character in a different scenario. I haven’t done it in a while, not sure what people use these days to do it locally.
- Comment on Why are some shows so dark? 3 months ago:
That’s your motivation to buy a new TV with OLED, high contrast and a smarthome with nice automatic blinds for the windows.
But seriously, I thought that was mainly over by now? I had a lot of those shows 5-10 years ago. But seems they still do it.
- Comment on [RANT] Why is so much coverage of "AI" devoted to this belief that we've never had automation before (and that management even really wants it)? 3 months ago:
I think the entire origin story of Amazon and why they outcompeted other bookstores, online- and mail-order companies was automation and their more streamlined processes. Afaik they’ve made sure from early on to have that chain of automation go end to end and that’s been their huge advantage.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Yeah, and super weird to write something like this about Star Trek of all the fiction out there. I can’t remember any episode where stupidity is portrayed as good or acceptable?! I mean the whole point of TOS is all the characters who are lined up on that picture, being clever in very different ways and combining that to have some fun in outta space…
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Well the reasoning in the article has nothing to do with the audience being conservative. It’s: Star Trek has a mainly male audience. Males are conservative. Then they show some picture how males went more conservative some 50 years(!) after it aired for the first time…
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Hilarious. The Republicans are watching progressive shit promoting liberalism, equality and ethics?
- Comment on ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for verified adults, OpenAI boss says 4 months ago:
[…] said the company has now been able to mitigate the serious mental health risks and […]
Wow. So they don’t just ignore all the warnings about detected suicidal thoughts any longer? As far as I remember from the news stories, that specific teenager got flagged hundreds of times by their systems for spiralling towards suicide. It’s just that OpenAI didn’t do anything…
- Comment on CAPTCHAs make me lowkey mad 4 months ago:
Reportedly, this training of bots is a thing of the past. Google used to do this, make people put in the street numbers from Street View or blurred words from book scans. But from what I read this isn’t really necessary any more, AI and computer vision got better and what we see these days is just wasted effort, it doesn’t contribute to anything except tell if you’re able to solve the challenge. I wonder why they still do all the zebra crossings and motorcycles and fire hydrants, though.
- Comment on The documentation links in PlatformIO are all bit [dot] ly short links 4 months ago:
Guess they’d have to click on it first.
- Comment on The documentation links in PlatformIO are all bit [dot] ly short links 4 months ago:
Wtf? I hope my commandline version of PlatformIO doesn’t do annoying things like that.
- Comment on My instance is lagging behind 14 hours of federated content... 5 months ago:
Seems it caught up a bit since. Now it's less than 2h, maybe less.
- Comment on Um if I upload a pic of my dog can someone cartoonize it like smoking a blunt or cigar or cig?? Don't really know how it works here because the mods post shhoow. Any help will help?? 5 months ago:
- Comment on An AI Social Coach Is Teaching Empathy to People with Autism 5 months ago:
Idk, does AI have anything to offer on the empathy side, except sycophancy and repeating what I just said?
- Comment on LLMs aren’t world models 6 months ago:
Oh well, LLMs are notoriously bad at chess. Other tasks as well. Maths, especially counting... But I'd say this is because they're not very intelligent. And not trained to be a chess computer. So a clever middle-school kid will outperform them at chess. Or a kindergarden kid at counting letters in words. But that doesn't directly lead to the conclusion they're not world models. That'd conclusion needs some qualifying, quantification and a mathematical proof. This is just opinion.
- Comment on Man, I really got hit with a "All men are predators, it's in the studies". 2nd wave feminism is a scourge on feminism itself. 6 months ago:
Maybe ask for the studies? I mean if that's phrased as a fact... Why not read up on it? Maybe they're mistaken, or you are.
- Comment on YouTube app is the worst 7 months ago:
I believe my WebOS version is so old, they stopped any update or data collection servers. I had developer mode running before. That's perfectly alright. Just a bit annoying to constantly refresh, and somehow my attempts to automate it failed. So one day I rooted it and now I have full ssh access, a homebrew channel... And I would have liked to use that to run an Ambilight, and that requires root. Sadly it requires a newer operating system version so I still don't have any LEDs in the background.
- Comment on YouTube app is the worst 7 months ago:
Youtube-webos is the single reason why I've resumed watching YT in the livingroom. I had stopped when they introduced the second pre-roll ad and a lot of things became unskippable. Now my old TV is rooted, it doesn't really phone home, it doesn't show ads and it's a breeze. Let's hope it stays that way, because Google is already trying to fight the adblockers for some time now.
- Comment on Shitsharing 7 months ago:
Correct. We currently have some sentiment against liberal spaces and DEI programs and so on. And some people think it's the war against straight white men. But having a men's groups or women's groups or safe-spaces to talk freely about whatever topics isn't authoritarian. The opposite of it is equally true. You can't discuss certain topics without the correct space for it, and not allowing them to discuss how they like is authoritatian as well!
- Comment on Does vibe coding sort of work at all? 7 months ago:
Concerning the IQ: App development and regular programming aren't that hard. It needs some time and dedication, and willingness to learn how all these things work and tie together, but I think everyone with an average IQ could do it. It's other domains where you need a high IQ, like writing advanced signal processing algorithms. Or detailed security audits. But App development is just moderately complex, you can get away with basic math... So I'd say it's doable. Still needs quite some time and effort though. At least several weeks to months. And the Kotlin book I have has like 800 pages filled with information, and that just takes some time to work through. None of it is magic, though. You do one chapter at a time.