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manicdave

@ manicdave @feddit.uk

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  • I think I'm going to get fired, what can I do?

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  • Join a union and ask for their advice. Even if there's limitations on what they can do as it seems the process has already started, they'll still be able to advise on what you're able to do deal with constructive dismissal.

    Look for another job. It's way easier to find work when you're in work and don't have to explain why you're not at your last job.

    Do both of these things. Your health isn't going to benefit working at a place where you're not wanted, even if they can't just fire you.

    Oh and if you're in a country where you're allowed a representative in meetings and you can take one, always have your union rep there, no matter how friendly it seems.

  • What were you ahead on the curve of in hating?

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  • Tesla/Musk.

    Back in 2014 Tesla and Ecotricity had an agreement to upgrade Ecotricity's charging network to be compatible with Tesla's superchargers. Tesla whined that it wasn't being rolled out fast enough. Ecotricity wasn't a very big company and was basically working for free, so asked Tesla to actually support the roll out if they needed it faster. Musk went mental has been trying to destroy the company ever since. The 2014 Tesla patent release was never about collaboration or saving the planet, he just hoped somebody, somewhere would use it to undermine Ecotricity.

  • I want to interrogate a database of blog posts using AI but ChatGPT has token limits

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  • If you want to try the openwebui route, This guide might be helpful.

    Edit: in fact I don't think this is for openwebui specifically, but I remember the chapter at the timestamp is what helped me increase the context window. That's the important bit if you're wanting to ask it questions about documents.

  • Basic recommendation video algorithm for peertube

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  • What would these deltas look like? It'd be hard to anonymise and protect from abuse?

    Personally I'd be happy to share my likes and watch times, but I know some people worry about that.

  • Why are there no big artists doing protest songs ?

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  • It's funny how Macklemore's redemption for humiliating Kendrick Lamar is humiliating Kendrick Lamar again.

  • I have a question in regards to 3d modeling for a filament slicer addon to my hotend

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  • I'm a bit confused by the wording of this post? Is the problem that you have two .stl files that you want to edit and munge together into a new object? If that's the case, then as @AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world you can import them both into openscad, subtract what you don't need or intersect what you do and place them into a new part for export. You can also do this in prusa slic3r if openscad is being buggy which it sometimes is with stl imports, but it's a massive pain in the arse

  • Labels go brrrr

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  • Why though? I've genuinely never had a problem with it. If something is wrong, it was always going to be wrong. Why is it preferable to have to write a bunch of bolierplate than just deal with the stacktrace when you do encounter a type error?

  • UK government says anyone working in Britain for the Russian state will have to register and declare what they are doing or face jail

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  • I'm not from hexbear and I agree. It's absurd that we let anyone who's primary interests are in another country dictate what our government does. That also goes for China, the US, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and anyone else too. The British government should act in the interests of Britons.

    I'll also note - while we're accusing people of astroturfing - you spelled labour wrong.

  • Linux is too hard

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  • Random fact: The guy that did the hook a Macklemore's thrift shop was partially responsible for that.

  • Europe goes into daylight saving time despite controversy

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  • The thing I don't get is why it happens in the summer rather than the winter.

    In the UK it gets dark at about 4pm in winter. We basically get no leisure time during daylight but we do get a bit of light during getting ready for work time when we don't really need it.

  • Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances - fiona fokus

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  • It's a failure on the part of mastodon. I don't really care about whatever drama dansup is embroiled in. Mastodon shouldn't imply a post is only readable by followers when it's just a public post that doesn't show by default in their frontend.

  • Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances - fiona fokus

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  • Honestly pixelfed should have just not fixed it. It's a fediverse problem that can be fixed and mastodon is just misleading people.

    Platforms should either make it clear that it means just that the post isn't advertised by default on all platforms but is always accessible to anyone that wants it or actually implement e2e encryption.

  • Grok Reveals Elon Musk Has ‘Tried Tweaking My Responses’ After AI Bot Repeatedly Labels Him a ‘Top Misinformation Spreader’

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  • As funny as this is, I'd rather people understood how the AI actually works. It doesn't reveal secrets because it doesn't have any. It's not aware that Musk is trying to tweak it. It's not coming to logical conclusions the way a person would. It's simply trying to create a sensible statement based on what's statistically likely based on all the stolen content that it's trained on. It just so happens that Musk gets called out for lying so often that grok infers it when it gets conflicting data.

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  • Cloud services and hardware alternative

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  • There's an annoying meme that Europe doesn't do tech things and it's infuriating. The world would be a very different place were it not for companies like Raspberry pi, ARM, Arduino and Prusa.

    Unfortunately the press and politicians seem to think it doesn't count unless the company is headed by a complete arsehole determined to enclose other people's property.

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  • I've got a Miele C2 cat & dog. It's by far the best vacuum cleaner I've ever owned. I've had it for years though, so I can't say if new ones are the same quality.

  • Animated characters from Europe

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  • It should be noted that in the UK we have the superior Dennis the Menace

    I can't say for certain, but the US one is probably a Christo-fascist.

  • muskrat's data eng expert's hard drive overheats while processing 60k rows

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  • When it comes to searching the database, the index will have already been created. When you create an index, it might take a while as the database engine reads all the data and creates a structure to shadow it. Each engine is probably different and I don't know if any work exactly like that, but it's an intuitive way to understand the basics of how B-trees work. You don't really need to think much about how it works, just that if you want to use a column as a filter, you want to index it.

    However, when you're thinking about the structure of a database it's a good idea to think what you'll want to do with it before hand and how you'll structure queries. Sometimes searching columns without an index is unavoidable and then you've got to come up with other tricks to speed up your search. Like your doctor might find you (i'm presuming gaz is sort for gary and/or gareth here) with a query like SELECT * FROM patients WHERE birthdate = "01-01-1980" AND firstname LIKE "gar%" The db engine will first filter by birthdate which will massively reduce the amount of times it has to do the more intensive LIKE operation.

  • How do you like to transfer large files between friends across the internet?

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  • I'd go for syncthing over nextcloud for your specific usecase. Nextcloud isn't good for unreliable connections and they're sticking with the annoying decision of not supporting server to server synchronization.