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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

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How do you "Do as as I say, not as I do"?

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

People talk about being there "for" someone. Here being there "with" him is more important. Something as mundane as letting him take a nap on your couch while you fold laundry. The more regular, boring or routine the better. Best if it's something you can do without talking. That's harder since you can't go see each other, but maybe just leaving a video call on or suggesting it to someone else would help.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Not to call you out, but it always perplexes me that people do this without considering why.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

There are worse things in our daily lives. Like the giant pothole you hit on the way to the store. Your neighbors dog shitting in your yard. The stack of TPS reports your asshole boss left on your desk. These have a direct negative impact on your life. Regardless of their agenda, politicians will always have less impact on us than our daily does of regular human bullshit.

Pessimistic as that may be, there's an upshot. As many times as that dog shits on your grass, you might watch your favorite baseball team win. Or for every TPS report, you have a real sincere laugh at the water cooler. Think about the scope. Keep it in perspective.

Note: This is meant for the people who leaned hard into the move to Canada meme last time. Obviously, there are people who's lives will be irrevocably be changed. Check your privilege and fight for those who lack it. People of conviction don't hide.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Counter question. Enjoying those up votes?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I hope that you, and your degenerate kin, and we, the 'crazy leftists', have a mutual understanding that liberals are spineless principleless cowards whose only conviction is to have no convictions.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Training a model takes more power than what? Generating a single poem? Using it to generate an entire 4th grade class's essays? To answer all questions in Hawaii for 6th months? What is the scale? The break even point for training is far far less than total usage.

Have you ever used one locally? Depending on your hardware it's anywhere between glacially to a morgue's AC slow. To the average person on the average computer it is nearly unusable, relative to the instant gratification of the web interface.

That gives you a sense of the resources required to do the task at all, but it doesn't scale linearly. 2 computers aren't twice as fast as one. It's logarithmic. With diminishly returns. In the end, this means one 100 word response uses the equivalent of 3 bottles of water.

How many queries are made per hour? How does that scale over time with increased usage of the same model? More than training a model. A lot more.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (10 children)

It is also the fast lane so move TF over if you are moving slower than the other lanes

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

The assignment was to state a topic. Not advocate for it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

I have a PhD in physics. A requirement for a physics professor. Also. A requirement for an unemployed physics professor seeking a job as a physics professor.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

I don't chase a big paycheck. I live meagerly, and save, but live comfortably. As they say, "love what you do and you'll never work a day in your life."

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A friend of mine has a daughter who is too young for a smart phone, but he still wants her to be able to listen to music on the go. I found the following devices using spotify. Have you used any of these or do you have any alternative suggestions?

https://www.tunepat.com/spotify-music-tips/portable-spotify-music-player.html

Edit: found what I was looking for. https://bemighty.com/

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When I get fast food, I don't eat the fries until I get home.

 

As an American, the US participation in the Ukrainian conflict as well as the Palestinian genocide are beyond reproach. Many describe them as proxy wars, but I'm not there yet.

During the Cold War, there was the Afghanistan, Vietnam, South America, Cuba, etc. These were proxy wars because there was a clear adversary on the other side. The Soviet Union.

Now, who is that? Russia? China? Who is "our enemy"? I see it was war is good for business and projection of power.

Am I wrong?

 

Obviously, a bit of clickbait. Sorry.

I just got to work and plugged my surface pro into my external monitor. It didn't switch inputs immediately, and I thought "Linux would have done that". But would it?

I find myself far more patient using Linux and De-googled Android than I do with windows or anything else. After all, Linux is mine. I care for it. Grow it like a garden.

And that's a good thing; I get less frustrated with my tech, and I have something that is important to me outside its technical utility. Unlike windows, which I'm perpetually pissed at. (Very often with good reason)

But that aside, do we give Linux too much benefit of the doubt relative to the "things that just work". Often they do "just work", and well, with a broad feature set by default.

Most of us are willing to forgo that for the privacy and shear customizability of Linux, but do we assume too much of the tech we use and the tech we don't?

Thoughts?

 

FOSS or otherwise

 

My understanding of google analytics is that it is a 'free' tool which gives site operators bird's eye information on site traffic like the old fashion visitor counters all the way down to very granular information like what buttons users click on.

I have no idea what google tag service does. Based on a prior conversations I've had, I believe it has something to do with SEO.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, use the developer tools in Firefox to view the HTML of the page you are on. In the header you'll see javascript blocks. You'll see google analytics and tag service on just about every site, often meta or amazon, and some with completely unidentifiable names. I imagine the latter are the non big tech third parties we accept with cookies, but I'm not sure about that either.

 

My upstairs neighbors seem to like clog dancing at 2am. What would you do?

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