ulterno

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kiribati ⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless you are someone exceptionally good at walking with long leg-sticks (I don’t know the appropriate name for that) and have someone to make an over-engineered leg-stick for this purpose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kiribati ⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually, I assume darker blue to be deeper waters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's stick with just the one observer from now on, then⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  One particularly annoying thing in the SCP-verse that ends up breaking immersion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's the Lord's problem now.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The poo dropped right on someone’s car.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ya yeet!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I initially started de-upvoting just because it felt weird to have a blue marker on my own comment, which was supposed to be for other’s comments that I upvoted. It then evolved into having a “reason” behind it. But yeah, it just seems weird to upvote one’s own comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ya yeet!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, first you need to define a “person”.
  Then you need to define the starting point and what all environmental features you are considering as zero cost.

  Otherwise, to calculate energy to kill a person, you need to start by creating the universe.

  On the other hand, for a human person, you can either just get a really big syringe and siphon out blood from the heart, or pierce a thin little metal pipe with tactically placed holes, which will let gravity and internal blood pressure do the job. But these require access to a syringe/metal pipe making setup, which has its own energy costs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is eyemaxxing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are my eyes too good, or your “Spoiler” isn’t spoily?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lol, wrong⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Make sure to get her id first. You can then send her a SIGSEGVto get her dumped and then use coredumpctl to recover her dump.
  Even better if her debug symbols are available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨South Korea police say 120,000 home cameras hacked for 'sexploitation' footage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  and go elsewhere

  elsewhere, you would have this guy’s friends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The reason women cover their drinks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Won’t that just end up giving them excuses?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The reason women cover their drinks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a shitpost.
  If you want to protect your drinks from them, you would be making them yourself, keeping them inaccessible at all times and drinking them only in private spaces.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trure⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s just running a watch ls /proc to get Iive updates on /proc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bartender is sick of your magic tricks everytime you come into the bar⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, if you are buying the drinks before disappearing them, then of course they’ll love it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, my main point with all those examples was to put the point that “AI” always has been a marketing term.

  Curve-fitting and data-point clustering are both pretty efficient if used for the thing they are made for. But if you then start brute-forcing multiple nodes of the same thing just to get a semblance of something else, that is otherwise not what it is made for, of course you will end up using a lot of energy.

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  We humans have it pretty hard. Our brain is pretty illogical. We then generate multiple layers of abstractions make a world view, trying to match the world we live in. Over those multiple layers, comes a semblance of logic.
  Then we make machine.

  We make machines to be inherently logical and that makes it better at logical operations than us humans. Hence calculators.
  Now someone comes and says - let’s make an abstraction layer on top of the machine to represent illogical behaviour (kinda like our brains).
  (┛｀Д´)┛彡┻━┻

  And then on top of that, they want that illogical abstract machine to itself create abstractions inside it to be able to first mimic human output and then further to do logical stuff. All of that, just so one can mindlessly feed data into it to “train” it, instead of think themselves and feed it proper logic.

  This is like saying they want to install an OS on browser WASM and then install a web browser inside that OS, to do the same thing that they would have otherwise done with the original browser.

  In the monkeys analogy, you can add that the monkeys are a simulation on a computer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you noticed this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  NSFW has come to have 2 meanings.
  Even though the 2nd meaning is what people tend to mean nowadays, the original meaning is still in use in some places.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you noticed this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Show me yourself wearing a shirt with that visible all day during work hours in the office and not getting weird looks or weirdly less looks or a call from HR (depending upon the scale of your company).
  Alternatively, you could put it on a poster in the office. During work of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you noticed this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it was just invisible to you because you couldn’t see properly at the moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They were technically Expert Systems.
  AI was was the Marketing Term even then.

  Now they are LLMs and AI is still the marketing term.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If something uses a lot of if else statements to do stuff like become a “COM” player in a game, it is called an Expert System.
  That is what is essentially in game “AI” used to be. That was not an LLM.

  Stuff like clazy and clang-tidy are neither ML nor LLM.
  They don’t rely on curve fitting or mindless grouping of data-points.
  Parameters in them are decided, based on the programming language specification and tokenisation is done directly using the features of the language. How the tokens are used, is also determined by hard logic, rather than fuzzy logic and that is why, the resultant options you get in the completion list, end up being valid syntax for said language.

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  Now if you are using Cursor for code completion, of course that is AI.
  It is not programmed using features of the language, but iterated until it produces output that matches what would match the features of the language.

  It is like putting a billion monkeys in front of a typewriter and then selecting one that make something Shakespeare-ish, then killing off all the others. Then cloning the selected one and rinse and repeat.

  And that is why it takes a stupendously disproportionate amount of energy, time and money to train something that gives an output that could otherwise be easily done better using a simple bash script.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t consider clang tools to be AI.

  They parse the code logically and don’t do blind pattern matching and curve fitting.
  The rules they use are properly defined in code.

  If that was AI, then all compilers made with LLVM would be AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hackers Replace 'm' with 'rn' in Microsoft(.)com to Steal Users' Login Credentials⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not corn.
  It’s rnicrosoft.com

  To do corn, they would require a corn TLD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sensory issues⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  oic, so the “last headache” meant the headache during pregnancy.
  I was thinking of something more recent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hackers Replace 'm' with 'rn' in Microsoft(.)com to Steal Users' Login Credentials⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Another reason to like rnonospace fonts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OnLy tWo eLemEnTs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps if we started using SVG or PNG instead of compressed JPG for graphs, it would have helped a bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sensory issues⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can go a whole day wearing a shirt with a tag in it with no major issues, you are probably not autistic

  Or maybe it is because the tags are made of better stuff?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sensory issues⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am unaware of the effects of Tylenol.
  What does it do about shirt tags? How does someone else “sucking up” (what does that mean?) a headache have to do with another’s shirt tags and sensory issues?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is the type of Q&A that makes the internet so important⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  lemmy.zip/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbr…

  First it redirects me (301) to a similar url but at images.lemmy.zip
  Then the second url gives an internal server error (500).

  The other links work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is the type of Q&A that makes the internet so important⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But now your chest is less clean and you will end up re-dirtying the EXTRA CLEAN areas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is the type of Q&A that makes the internet so important⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  • No clothes remain hanging in the bathroom.
    • Towels have a separate hanging place in an airy place (at least I wish they did. I just make do with the gymnastics bars)
  • Toothbrushes are taken out after use and air dried (or momentum dried?) before returning them to their compartment, which is also outside the bathroom
  • The only things that remain in the bathroom are shampoos and soaps
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British plugs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you look at the picture, that’s clearly the front part of a plug without the back cover, disconnected from all wiring and kept on the ground, with the pins facing upwards, to pierce some fascia.

  If someone were to insert that plug into a socket as-is, it would still be a death trap as long as the power switch is on.