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  • 2000, XP, and Vista are NT too.

  • The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people?

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  • Because capitalism!

  • If AI is so good at coding - where are the open source contributions?

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  • Egg Substitutions

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  • Blood is an almost perfect substitute for eggs.

    You can even make blood meringues.

  • How are you?

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  • No! 😃

    In the beginning the Universe was created.This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

    — Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)

  • What game from your childhood is most nostalgic for you?

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  • I'd say it's a tie between The Curse of Monkey Island and Wing Commander (1 and 2).

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    YSK - a very comprehensive guide on how to avoid "very"

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  • Personally I'm partial to replacing very x for more x¹ than a very x thing in a pot.

    I'm fairly certain I got it from Blackadder, but I can't recall the episode.

    1.– Or xer, where appropriate. Eg., this list is sillier than a very silly thing in a pot.

  • The sharp edges and lack of crumble zones do additional damage

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  • Just give them time to rust. A few minutes after a light rain should do.

  • The sharp edges and lack of crumble zones do additional damage

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  • *Bonus damage.

  • The sharp edges and lack of crumble zones do additional damage

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  • Synthetic data is still ultimately built on raw data

    So they're still feeding LLMs their own slop, got it.

    includes lots of curation steps to filter it for quality

    Ah, so it's going back to the good old days of curated directories like Yahoo. Of course, because that worked so well.

    I don't know what you mean by "a replacement for search engines.

    I mean that they're discontinuing search engines in favour of LLM generated slop. Microsoft just announced it was shutting down the Bing APIs, in favour of Copilot. Google are shoving LLM generated nonsense all over their search. People are asking LLMs questions instead of looking them up in search engines because they've been sold the fantasy that you can get useful information out of that shit when it's evident that all you get is information shaped hallucinated garbage (also because search engines have been intentionally enshittified to the point of being almost as useless). People are being sold dangerous nonsensical misinformation and being told it's factual information. That's what I mean.

    there's still a search engine providing it with sources to generate that summary from

    No there's not, that's not how LLMs work, you have to retrain the whole model to get any new patterns into it.

    Even if you stick the LLM between an actual search engine and the user, it just becomes a perverted game of telephone, with the LLM mangling the user's prompt into a search prompt that almost certainly will have nothing to do with what the user wanted, which will be fed into the aforementioned enshittified search engine, whose shitty useless results will be fed back into the LLM, which will use them to hallucinate some answer (with inexistent references and all) that will look like an answer to the user's question (if LLMs are good at anything it's brainwashing their victims into believing that their answers are correct) while having no bearing whatsoever in reality.

    The tragic fact is that LLM's offer practically no benefits over 40 year old Eliza if you gave it a fraction of the data and computational power they need, while being many orders of magnitude more expensive and resource intensive.

    They have no affordable practical applications whatsoever, and the companies selling them are so desperate to earn back the investment and run off with the money before the bubble bursts and everyone realises that the emperor has been hanging his shriveled little dong in front of our faces the whole time that they're shoving this shit everywhere (notepad!? fucking seriously!?) whether it makes sense or not, burning off products that used to work, and the Internet itself, and replacing them with useless LLM infected shit so their customers have no option but to buy their useless massively overpriced garbage.

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  • there doesn't seem to be any reason why synthetic data can't be used for the whole training run

    Ah, of course, it's LLMs all the way down!

    No, but seriously, you're aware they're selling this shit as a replacement for search engines, are you not?

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  • Obviously, yes.

    They knew this when they poisoned the well¹ (photocopy of a photocopy and all that), but they're in it for the fast buck and will scamper off with the money once they think the bubble is about to burst.

    1.– Well, some of them might have drunk their own coolaid, and will end up having an intimate face to face meeting with some leopards...

  • What's an important (in your opinion) skill too many people seem to lack?

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  • Reading the screen.

    Seriously, about 90% of computer problems would be solved if people just read the fucking screen.

  • This gives me an idea

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  • That's a good question.

    Applied science and engineering, I suppose, or the results thereof..?

    Or, anything that we intentionally make that isn't naturally found in nature...

    It does get a bit fuzzy, though... some kinds are easy: machines, tools, architecture... but are writing and maths technology, or are they something else? What about dogs, or farm animals like pigs? We certainly made them (not cats, though, they took care of that whole domestication business all by themselves)... GMOs are quite evidently technology, but what about most of the vegetables and fruits we eat? We made those too... maize, or most citruses, for instance, wouldn't exist without centuries or millennia of selection and grafting...

    And it gets even fuzzier when you get to animals... crows can intentionally modify a stick to make it better to get a seed out of a tube, making it a tool, and therefore technology if it was us doing it... dams are certainly technology when we make them, but what about beaver made dams? Knots are probably technology when we tie them, but what about a cuttlefish tying her eggs to algae stems? And let's not get into termites or especially ants, with their air conditioning, and fungal agriculture, and aphid farming...

  • Adventure buddy

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  • That cat's gonna be devastated when she starts going to school.

    Oh well. Carpe diem, I suppose.

  • "They just have to read the documentation"

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  • I don't think I've needed to ask anyone anything when dealing with computers (except when helping someone with a self caused issue, of course, in which case the question is usually “why did you do this?”) since I was a little kid figuring out how to use my 286... I find that usually you just need to read the fucking screen (an extremely rare talent, I've come to realise), and in harder cases a bit of googling or, if push comes to shove, RTFMing seems to do the trick... but OK, we'll see, I've been wanting to try NixOS for a while once I have the time, and my computer is getting old... maybe this summer I'll find some time, better this than updating to Windows 11 in any case. 🤷‍♂️

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  • Call bells are technology.

  • [ADHDinos] sigh

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  • They come pre-sliced now, who knows what they looked like when we started messing with them. Probably mostly rind, with a ring of seeds inside, each surrounded by a bit of excessively bitter fruit, like the citron.

    Then we selected the juiciest, largest, sweetest, and easiest to eat, and grafted them onto each other, over millennia, until we got to something that's actually edible and seems to come pre-sliced.

    Just look at teosinte to see what maize started like, for instance, or how many "different" vegetables we made out of brassica.

    Whatever fruit Eve is supposed to have eaten way back when must have been some bitter nut, or a poisonous berry, or a tuber barely distinguishable from a root, or Adam's gay brother Bob, or possibly a fig (wasps made that particular abomination, not us); anything else we didn't make until much later.