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Naz

@ Naz @sh.itjust.works

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  • They're trying to take our guns!

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  • I'll be glad when it does; the guy was elected twice.

    I want to be wrong in this case

  • They're trying to take our guns!

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  • It's a fun take, and Lemmy is a bit of an echo chamber, so let me enlighten you all on how that would kind of go:

    The MAGA crowd is a combination of idiocy, brain damage, and then dark tetrad people.

    They don't care if their cult leader is hypocritical, they'll defend everything he says, even if it hurts their own interests; they'll cherry pick, gaslight, and deny basic facts.

    When you see them from a point of clinical detachment, their behavior makes a kind of twisted sense. The mistake is the assumption that they're just like you, and can be reasoned with or moved using empathy. Their worldview is fundamentally different, and typically only changes via direct experience: "leopards ate my face". Sometimes not even then.

    It's downright infuriating at times because it reminds me of that antisemitism quote:

    Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

    Jean-Paul Sartre

  • Humans on average get 2 hours of battery life for every hour they charge

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  • Ditto. Know such a person. They literally only sleep 4 hours a day and assume everyone else does despite massive lifelong evidence of the contrary.

    They've resorted to working night shifts to avoid going insane from boredom, they sleep from 9AM to around 12-1PM every day, and then STAY AWAKE. IT'S BEEN DECADES.

    I'm still wondering if they'll die a premature death or if this'll just pan out for them; the one thing I've noticed is their attention span got shot as they grew older, so maybe that's the trade-off

  • Era of ‘global water bankruptcy’ is here, UN report says

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  • Solar-powered desalination.

    Let's not all die.

  • Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab

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  • I mean, I did say this in a different thread, lol

    :)

  • strlcpy(3)

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  • Be like blowfish

    I gotta say it's a weird breath of fresh air to see an independent artist on an open source, federated social media group, drawing absurdist/surrealist art

    It feels shockingly meta

  • Most mouse pointers designs assume right-handed users

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  • Says the person who was jealous of their cool custom cursors 😎

    Look at that man, operating a nuclear powerplant terminal with a Starcraft cursor

    (/s)

  • Jesus H. Christ

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  • No

  • Revealed: The CIA-Backed NGOs Fueling The Iran Protests

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  • Hold on, this doesn't make any sense

    Venezuela was invaded, Saudi is voluntarily selling their oil, and Iran — ohhhhhhhhhh

  • You can count past 1,000 on your fingers by using binary, instead of just 10

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  • You can rate their driving on a 0-10 scale using this handy system

  • Cartoon physics is now in effect. What are you going to try?

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  • Painting a door on a wall that actually works

  • AI is everywhere, but nowhere in recent productivity data

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  • TLDR: It's because of the brain. AI makes us less productive.

    I'm a frontier AI model trainer/developer; I get to do whatever I want, and I decided to eat my own dog food, talking to my own model about optimizations to itself.

    While I thought initially that I was "working faster" because it felt faster, I was smart about it and ran stopwatches and timers for objective productivity measurements.

    What I found was that I spent on average, 20-30 more minutes on the same problems that I would have solved unassisted by AI. So in my specific case, I was up to 50% slower than I would have been on my own, despite feeling like it was faster.

    To make matters worse, I had difficulty recalling what specific issues/problems that I had asked the model for help with, and I feel as though this is due to the discrete architecture statistical mean of speculative decoding — the LLM wants you to say a specific thing so it has to do less lookup work, but by doing so, your human brain (which is very lazy) agrees with this default mode and fucking turns itself off.

    Crazy, right? Whodathunk it. We have our brains for a reason.

  • Unexplained crash on real hardware

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  • If I had to guess, the console was probably not unloading levels properly (software), and was relying on the save/load system to do so.

    By playing through 80% of the game without ever saving, you were an edge case the developers never intended for, and the console probably just ran out of RAM.

    Trying to load another chunk into already full RAM would trigger an OOM (out of memory) crash.

  • Ah shit, here we go again

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  • An obvious marker of intelligence.

    Elephants, man.

    Having full blown elephant thoughts and experiences

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  • Two stalkers are walking in the woods and come across a guy with a giant backpack, face down, surrounded by various mushrooms.

    They check him over and he's got enough packaged food, rations, and medical supplies to easily last someone well over a year.

    They flip him over, obvious signs of mushroom poisoning, old signs of mouth frothing.

    The two of them look at each other and one says to the other: "I think he was a prepper. I don't think he prepped on becoming a lootbox in the woods, though"

  • sometimes we get lost in the sauce

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  • You mean the odd shaped candleholder?

    It's so you could use candles of different sizes from different vendors without needing a distinct candelabra for each one.

    It's a genuinely useful thing to have because the small metal balls would always keep it upright regardless of the shape of the candle. You'd just need to match the diameter of the hole.

  • What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows

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  • What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows

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  • That's pretty much what I've got yeah.. Win-10 LTSE ran through WarHawk-DeBloat and only Steam installed

    It might make sense for me to dual boot *Nix then at some point; last time I did was in the XP Era, and GRUB worked flawlessly