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unfortunate_ferret

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  • Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem

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  • I believe I have a counterpoint: Rubber duck debugging is old. Older than coding, older than the Industrial Revolution. If talking to an LLM is just rubber duck debugging, where have all these solutions been, for the decades and centuries before AI came about? If it's all smoke and mirrors, then the fact that we hadn't solved those problems already would be pretty embarrassing, wouldn't it?

  • No one ever looks in pepper grinders until they are empty, you could put a decent amount of dead beetles in one and the owner never even know.

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  • Ick. I've only had a few cups of pre-ground coffee in my life, because they were uniformly awful. I'd believe dead cockroaches are why, for sure.

  • AMD Goes Bigger With EPYC Venice and Verano, with New SP7 and SP8 Sockets Dwarfing Today's SP5 and SP6 Platforms

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  • And just think how short all the traces could be - the RAM would be comparatively right next door, instead of miles away!

  • Why Maine’s governor killed an pioneering data center moratorium

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  • Well, frankly, I hope he wins just to see what happens. After that other guy was such a dick I went to read up and at least he seems genuine that he didn't know what it was; we've seen enough real Nazis caught and proud of it to know how they usually act.

  • AMD Goes Bigger With EPYC Venice and Verano, with New SP7 and SP8 Sockets Dwarfing Today's SP5 and SP6 Platforms

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  • You wouldn't believe the compute you can get if you just make one side of the entire motherboard the CPU socket, and toss all that other shit on the underside. Of course you have to use the entire side of the case as the heatsink, and actively cool the fins or the tips will start to glow, but you'll have so much compute.

  • Why Maine’s governor killed an pioneering data center moratorium

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  • Does anyone else have concerns about Platner? I just think of him as The Guy With The Nazi Tattoo, and I can't trust anything he says or does because of it. It screams Fetterman 2.0 to me, or worse. I would really like to be wrong, but I can't escape the fact that I don't have a symbol so clearly historically linked to hate inked on my body, and nor does anyone I know.

  • Are we building an alternative to billionaire platforms or just a quieter version of them?

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  • What gives you’re instance of anything any importance.

    As in, why would anyone sign up on my instance? Why would anyone come see my content?

    Answer me this: Why would they have to sign up, or come to my instance, to see my content? If I'm not broadcasting objectionable shit, my instance will remain federated, so everyone will see posts from me and my instance on their preferred instance. And I'll see all their content, on my own instance.

    The problem you're imagining is already solved. Even if a big popular instance gets bought, or taken over by fiat, defederation works as a solution; the content is posted by users, so there'll just be an explosion of content from a different instance as everyone moves.

  • Why is it so easy for me to get off Soda than Snacking?

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  • I have a bigass bag of trail mix by my desk, the kind with the M&Ms. Just a handful or two and I'm set for another hour or more. The mix of salt and sweet should hit whatever cravings you're having for junk food, in fewer calories.

  • Make It Myself [XKCD]

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  • This is the real reason I do so much DIY. I don't save a lot of money, at least on the initial outlay, but I learn.

  • Updated: Honey, I Shrunk The Vids 2.3.4

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  • Ah, I'll put in a zoom feature, that's a good idea!

    Remind me of the hardware you're running on? 22 hours for a 4k HDR movie sounds about in the ballpark for converting on CPU. I've just switched to Linux (Mint, not Cachy) and I think there's an issue with detecting GPU on Linux, so this'd track (or you have Precision Mode enabled) - if you see "libx265" or "libx264" in the top right, you're on CPU. I'm looking into this one.

    Can I ask which version you downloaded? I'll look into the DVTools/MP4box issue.

    Also, yes, I removed the codec and container selection boxes - it's HEVC/MKV by default unless you go for "Compatibility Mode" in which case you get H.264/MP4. "Preserve AV1" of course preserves AV1 which is incompatible with MP4 so they're mutually exclusive.

  • Updated: Honey, I Shrunk The Vids 2.3.4

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  • So... How's it working? 😅 (Just realised it's been a while since I've touched HISTV and this came to mind, I've been working on my business and day job)

  • The Hidden Security Risks of Shadow AI in Enterprises

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  • Yeah, I'm really glad I'm not in corporate IT anymore. Having to manage BYOD was a transition, having to manage Bring Your Own Model is kind of a nightmare.

  • Appearances can be something

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  • LLMs will never be people

    Boy oh boy, you're not gonna like this one bit: https://www.npr.org/2014/07/28/335288388/when-did-companies-become-people-excavating-the-legal-evolution

    (To be clear, I understand you think you covered this with "computers may be" but my point is different: the law is often dumb and you would be amazed at what politicians who don't understand tech - or get paid not to understand it - will pull off)

    Edit: Downvotes from people who missed the point. You can't say "LLMs will never be people" because you simply can't guarantee your/our lawmakers won't be that stupid.

  • I predict by the year 2000, 99% of all Assembly will be written by compilers

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  • I watched Quantum Leap with my dad when I was a kid. You're gonna try and tell me I'm not writing this reply on Ziggy?

  • Updated: Honey, I Shrunk The Vids 2.3.4

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  • Ah, what version did you try? This is due to issues with the renderer, but I just got this fixed by disabling GPU drawing for the form last night. Give 2.5.9 a go 😊

  • maybe it’s my “selective empathy”, but i have no sympathy or empathy towards these types of idiots.

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  • When Reddit started, Spez and Aaron made "sock puppet" accounts to make the site seem more active than it was, because you have to have what looks like an active user base to attract more users.

    Now, after Reddit has gone public, they need the appearance of lots of users to attract advertising dollars and keep their stock price high, and there's no need to operate sock puppets by hand anymore because of LLMs - they can be the sock puppets, and if you have enough of them acting human enough, it doesn't even matter if some people realise or if one gets called out as a bot.

    This also has the extremely useful benefit of steering society slowly towards the ideology of the billionaire, by having those bots normalise hate in the tsunami if messages they post.

    I think the account you interacted with was an LLM, not even a real troll.

  • Mmm....free goo.

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  • Dammit I miss having raw semiliquid sugar encapsulated in more, solid (also, more solid) chocolate-flavoured sugar. Guilty pleasure, plus nostalgia?

  • StarCraft-Inspired RTS From Former Blizzard Devs Losing Online Multiplayer Because Server Partner Was Bought By AI Company - Aftermath (Nathan Grayson)

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  • From Software patched the original Dark Souls PC port to remove Games For Windows Live when that service shut down, replaced it with steam networking. This was years and years before the remaster, so they weren't making money on it - they just up and fixed it. MMOs? A bunch of unpaid modders brought up the first WoW custom servers, and some of those were reverse engineered.

    Your argument doesn't pass the "just look and see if it's true" test.

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    The Truth Behind “That’s Just Your Subjective Opinion”

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  • That's not "a very common way to see it". It's the way it is.

    Facts are independently measurable; there the same for everyone, you always get the same data; there are no exceptions. As you said in another comment, objective reality is what remains true regardless of reference frame.

    Opinions are not independently measurable. Once you have a measurement that holds true across reference frames, you have a fact.

    Objective reality is treated as superior to subjective reality because it's more useful. Subjective reality can be "better" in certain circumstances though, for example as an escape for a mind - abandon your observations of objective reality and replace them with something preferable.

    You have to accept the meanings of words in order to have a meaningful debate about the concepts they carry.