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plenipotentprotogod

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  • I can abide by most of Captain Jellico's decisions... most

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  • Theres actually a similar story with the fish. From Memory Alpha:

    According to Ronny Cox, Patrick Stewart hated Livingston's presence in the ready room, and constantly petitioned the producers to remove the fish. Stewart, a strong animal rights advocate who opposes many forms of pet ownership, felt that using a captive animal in an ornamental display was "immoral" and inconsistent with TNG's core theme of exploring the inherent dignity of different species across the galaxy. Cox, who called Stewart's point "well taken", stated that Livingston's temporary removal in "Chain of Command" was thus a "sort of a bone they threw to Patrick".

  • I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS - and You Should Too

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  • Man, I feel you on the affiliate link fluff. I actually ended up unsubscribing from the Popular Mechanics and Popular Science feeds because the signal to noise ratio was so bad.

    The creator of Nunti provided a very good primer on the algorithm design here. Basically, you indicate to the app whether you like or dislike an article and then it does some keyword extraction in the background and tries to show you similar articles in the future. I suppose you might be able to dislike a bunch of the fluff and hope the filter picks up on it, but it isn't really designed to support the kind of rules that would completely purge a certain type of content from your feed.

  • I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS - and You Should Too

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  • Most of the feeds I subscribe to came to me in one of two ways:

    1. I enjoyed reading an article posted somewhere else (Lemmy, etc.) so I sought out the feed of that publisher.
    2. Sometimes news outlets enter into agreements to republish each others articles. When they do this, the re-publisher will usually include a little blurb at the end giving credit to the original publisher. If a feed I'm already subscribed to has an article re-published from elsewhere then I click through and check out the original source to see if I want to follow them as well.

  • I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS - and You Should Too

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  • It can be as simple as just putting an app on your phone. I use feeder which is fine. Pretty bare bones, but in that way it's easy to learn and use.

    I've also been meaning to try out an app called Nunti, which I heard about a while ago from this Lemmy post. It claims to be an RSS reader with the added benefit of an (open source and fully local) algorithm to provide some light curation of your feed. It looks interesting, but I haven't actually tried it out yet because I'm still deciding whether I want any algorithm curating my feed, even one as transparent as Nunti's. It's also only available through F-Droid right now, which is a bit of a barrier to entry.

  • Do I have to build my own touchscreen thermostat?

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  • Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far

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  • I feel the same way about AI as I felt about the older generation of smartphone voice assistants. The error rate remains high enough that i would never trust it to do anything important without double checking its work. For most tasks, the effort that goes into checking and correcting the output is comparable to the effort I would have spent to just do it myself, so I just do it myself.

  • 29 November 2024

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    This is not the funniest cartoon in the world, no

    This is just a tribute

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  • Being an adult

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  • Case in point: I replaced my coffee machine with a chemex. So much easier to maintain.

  • Anyone? Anyone???

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  • Sorry in advance for what will probably be a long reply, but I was actually thinking about this recently and I'm taking the excuse to type out my thoughts.

    The fact is that Lower Decks does have certain similarities to Rick and Morty, but they're mostly superficial and the show is different where it counts. Aside from the obvious similarities in animation style and the characters' penchant for wacky hijinks, Lower Decks also features frequent bleeped out swearing and occasional jokes based on sexual innuendo or censored nudity. Some people really don't like that stuff in their entertainment. If you're one of those people then it isn't a show for you.

    But there's one big way in which Lower Decks is the exact opposite of Rick and Morty. The difference is the thesis of the series. Rick and Morty is at its core very cynical. Morty said it best himself: "Nobody exists on purpose. Nobody belongs anywhere. Everybody's gonna die. Come watch TV" I don't know if it was by accident or on purpose, but I think that line is really the whole show in a nutshell.

    Lower decks is not a cynical show. Lower decks is a joyous show. Sure, the characters fight, but they always end the episode as friends. They make mistakes, but they learn from them. They have problems, but, over time, they mature.

    I remember seeing an interview with the show creator in which he said that he conceived of it as a story about a group of young adults maturing and figuring out who they really are. I think that's his thesis, and he delivers on it.

    So yeah. I guess bottom line is, if adult oriented animation in general turns you off then Lower Decks probably isn't going to change your mind. It inherits a lot of its sensibilities (and a few bad habits) from its predecessors. But if you're mainly concerned that it'll be a Trek skinned Rick and Morty then I would encourage you to look past the superficial similarities and give it a try.

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    Framework boosts its 13-inch laptop with new CPUs, lower prices, and better screens

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  • If you were actually hoping to buy one but the rounded corners are a dealbreaker, then you may be interested to know that the DIY edition lets you mix and match the older display with the newer motherboards. Looks like opting for the older display even saves you $130 on the purchase price.

  • Has anyone here built a Beowulf Cluster?

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  • Out of curiosity, what software is normally being run on your clusters? Based on my reading, it seems like some companies run clusters for business purposes. E.g. an engineering company might use it for structural analysis of their designs, or a pharmaceutical company might simulate the interactions of new drugs. I assume in those cases they've bought a license for some kind of high-end software that's been specifically written to run in a distributed environment. I also found references to some software libraries that are meant to support writing programs in this environment. I assume those are used more by academics who have a very specific question they want to answer (and may not have funding for commercial software) so they write their own code that's hyper focused on their area of study.

    Is that basically how it works, or have I misunderstood?

  • Has anyone here built a Beowulf Cluster?

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  • This actually came up in my research. Folding@Home is considered a "grid computer" According to Wikipedia:

    Grid computing is distinguished from ... cluster computing in that grid computers have each node set to perform a different task/application. Grid computers also tend to be more heterogeneous and geographically dispersed (thus not physically coupled) than cluster computers.

    The primary performance disadvantage is that the various processors and local storage areas do not have high-speed connections. This arrangement is thus well-suited to applications in which multiple parallel computations can take place independently, without the need to communicate intermediate results between processors.

  • Has anyone here built a Beowulf Cluster?

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  • I'll have to look a little more into the AI stuff. It was actually my first thought, but I wasn't sure how far I'd get without GPUs. I think they're pretty much required for Stablediffusion. I'm pretty sure even LLMs are trained on GPUs, but maybe response generation can be done without one.

  • Has anyone here built a Beowulf Cluster?

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  • I’m not sure what you’d want to run in a homelab that would use even 10 machines, but it could be fun to find out.

    Oh yeah, this is absolutely a solution in search of a problem. It all started with the discovery that these old (but not ancient, most of them are intel 7th gen) computers were being auctioned off for like $20 a piece. From there I started trying to work backwards towards something I could do with them.

  • Has anyone here built a Beowulf Cluster?

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  • I was looking at HP mini PCs. The ones that were for sale used 7th gen i5s with a 35W TDP. They're sold with a 65W power brick so presumably the whole system would never draw more than that. I could run a 16 node cluster flat out on a little over a kW, which is within the rating of a single residential circuit breaker. I certainly wouldn't want to keep it running all the time, but it's not like I'd have to get my electric system upgraded if I wanted to set one up and run it for a couple of hours as an experiment.

  • You're Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds

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  • Searx is a search aggregator. It masks your identity from the search providers, but under the hood it's still just a middle man for google/bing results. I don't see how this helps if the results themselves are getting worse.