PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 8 hours ago

What is your credit card number and all the information needed to use it?

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 12 days ago

LLMs are not necessarily evil. This project seems to be free and open source, and it allows you to run everything locally. Obviously this doesn’t solve everything (e.g., the environmental impact of training, systemic bias learned from datasets, usually the weights themselves are derived from questionably collected datasets), but it seems like it’s worth keeping an eye on.

Google using ai, everyone hates it

Because Google has a long history of doing the worst shit imaginable with technology immediately. Google (and other corporations) must be viewed with extra suspicion compared to any other group or individual because they are known to be the worst and most likely people to abuse technology.

Literally if Google does literally anything, it sucks by default and it’s going to take a lot more proof to convince me otherwise for a given Google product. Same goes for Meta, Apple, and any other corporations.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 12 days ago

It can use ChatGPT I believe, or you could use a local GPT or several other LLM architectures.

GPTs are trained by “trying to fill in the next word”, or more simply could be described as a “spicy autocomplete”, whereas BERTs try to “fill in the blanks”. So it might be worth looking into other LLM architectures if you’re not in the market for an autocomplete.

Personally, I’m going to look into this. Also it would furnish a good excuse to learn about Docker and how SearXNG works.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

If that happens then I swear to fucking God I’m done with YouTube forever.

Edit: i.e. if it breaks FreeTube, Invidious, Sponsorblock, etc. (because I’m already done with the main site forever) then I’m out. If the choice is between content vs no ads, I’ll take no ads even if it means no content.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 28 days ago

*moving, not motion.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 28 days ago

Broke: not farting in the office

Woke: farting in the office

Bespoke: sharting in the office

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 1 month ago

Do most people generally eat the same things all the time?

Yeah. IMO variety is expensive because it’s usually cheaper to buy a few things in bulk.

consulting a professional before doing so.

I consulted a nutritionist before doing my first weight loss [1] because I wanted to make sure my diet was nutritionally sound. Surprisingly, it was fine, just too much of everything. Very surprising considering that I’m a picky eater with texture issues, but I’ll take it.

In contrast, my sister had to see a nutritionist to go on hormones and apparently her diet was nutritionally whack, so she had to make a bunch of changes.

vegetables

Please God no (at least not raw)

[1] I put it back on when I went to engineering school, but I managed to keep it off for a couple years. Oh well. I’ll get around to losing it again soon.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 1 month ago

I don’t judge anyone by their weight, but it’s sure hard to direct that same acceptance toward myself.

Yeah same here, but I’m at a weight where I’m exceeding weight limits of things like ladders, furniture, etc. And I’m in terrible physical shape on top of all that. It’s really more of a “tactical” thing for me at this point. Just gotta get it done.

Sounds like you’re doing well, though.

Thank you. Could be better, could be a lot worse. I’m still a social disaster.

And I make my own frozen meals

Me too. The other day I made like half my meals for the entire summer in one giant cook.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 1 month ago

get π million dollars and get +3 on all charm. This would actually help me dramatically.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 1 month ago

way more than $π million.

I don’t need more than $π million. I just need enough to get some stuff started. I’m not interested in getting rich.

I would also use the first loop to take medical tests of my health as much as possible since it wouldn’t matter if I went into debt in the first loop.

Fair enough, but I really need the charm. I’m autistic and I’m not good at being social. I’d definitely be willing to give up a few years of life for more charm.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 1 month ago

Actually Sonic I am frying chicken

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 1 month ago

If Justin/anyone at Cockos is reading this: please open-source REAPER. You really would be doing the audio community a huge service.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 1 month ago

Tbh if you just want to get started making music, you can hack it without theory. Theory will make you a more creative composer, but IMO don’t make it a strict prerequisite.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 1 month ago

Me reading about nonlinear dynamical systems 💀

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 1 month ago

Not the ideal way to do it, but I literally just pirated the game [1] and installed it as a Windows application with stock WINE-staging. I then installed Vortex as a Windows application with stock WINE, installed some mods, and played some modded FNV on Linux. It played just as well on Linux as it did on Windows even with all the mods.

Point being, the way that worked best for me was to just treat it and all its mods as a Windows application and let stock WINE handle it for me.

[1] I purchased the game on Steam but I couldn’t be arsed to find the Windows executables or get it to work with Steam and Proton.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 1 month ago

9.8 Staging currently. I’m on Debian, but I get WINE from the WineHQ repo.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 1 month ago

Look closely at the map: the water is in the country labeled Atlantic Ocean.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 1 month ago

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RIP in spaghetti, never forgetti

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 1 month ago

Only one way to find out

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 1 month ago

For anyone wondering, this is from /r/photoshopbattles. Excellent shitpost.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 1 month ago

I mean how else are you supposed to unclog your cock?

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 1 month ago

Would be great for me and others who have trouble with body language. I could deepfake a version of myself with neurotypical body language and offload the effort of “acting normal” to the AI for interviews and video calls. Genuinely I’m super pumped for this.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 1 month ago

But like seriously, I have absolutely no idea what is going on with these images. Like bare-minimum context.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 2 months ago

Brown pill so that I can force any set to be compact and make math like 69% easier.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 2 months ago

Beautiful. Really like this group.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 2 months ago

E followed by B obviously

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 2 months ago

Faced with threats of ethnic cleansing by Azerbaijan and struggling amid a nine-month long blockade, 100,400 ethnic Armenians, representing 99% of the remaining population of Nagorno-Karabakh, fled by the end of September 2023, leaving a couple dozen people within the region.

Fucking hell…

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 2 months ago

Yeah my position is really to recommend any FOSS OS in the large over proprietary ones. However, since my experience is primarily with Linux distributions, and I do think that Linux makes sense for a lot of use cases, I usually start by talking about “Linux” first.

But, from my experience, if a “solution” to a problem “forces” the user to make a choice, then they’ll stick with what “currently works” over having to make a choice. So when I talk to people about Linux IRL, I typically direct them to Linux Mint directly, even though other distros exist and it actually doesn’t fit my use cases. Once they’re comfortable in the Linux ecosystem, they can switch to a different distro or OS family if they feel the need to do so.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago

{ s | s is a song }

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago

We were on the verge of greatness. We were this close.

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago

I’m a simple man. I see Fisto, I upvote Fisto.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago

I don’t like furry textures, so I would not pay any amount of money to pet the cat. Actually, I’m more likely to pay money to not have to pet the cat. However, I would accept $800 to pet the cat.

I love cats, just, like, not touching me lol.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago

But they’re so fluffy

Yeah that’s kinda the “problem.” Unfortunately my brain doesn’t have the tools to deal with those kinds of textures.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago

In the ASCII character encoding, the hexadecimal number 61 is the letter ‘a’. (Yes, it is lowercase.) 0x is just a notation that indicates a number is in hexadecimal, as opposed to decimal or binary.

Therefore, 0x6161616161616161 translates to the string “aaaaaaaa” (without the quotes or a null terminator).

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago

Me lol

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago

So I was going to write a comment about how you actually can adjust weight and mass independently based on W = mg if you can control gravity, and that comment relied on the assumption that kg measures mass and lb measures weight…

Except the latter is not true! In US customary and other systems that use the avoirdupois pound, 1 lbm := 0.45359237 kg exactly. However, there is also a pound-force, which is lbf := (1 lb) × (gravitational acceleration in ft/s^2 ). This gives rise to the slug, yet another unit of mass defined as slug := (1 lbf) ÷ (1 ft/s^2 ) = 32.17404 lbm. I actually used this unit in my differential equations class because my professor was really old-school.

The source of the confusion is that the “pound” as a unit of measurement (really one of several units) predates the distinction between mass and weight.

Moral of the story: if handed US customary units, just convert to metric (SI). And I guess I have to write lbf or lbm now whenever I’m forced to use US customary.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago

Thanos Shaq

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago

Honestly I doubt it ever will.

I somehow doubt it won’t soon.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago

Okay so I promise you that this will be the only “Linux proselytizing” comment I will make to you, after this I’ll shut up forever about Linux lol. I know we can be a bit incessant…

Well, older versions of windows still exist so it would be years before put into the position of having to consider a subscription. Even then? I would rather that than Linux.

Windows 10 was released in 2015. It will be a decade old next year, and support for it will begin to vanish soon. Windows 11 has stringent hardware requirements that means it won’t run on most of my devices, so it’s not even an option if I wanted it.

Anything before 10 is too old to run a ton of new software. I actually moved to Linux in June because I finally could no longer put off upgrading from Windows 7 on my audio PC. A few programs needed to update but would not do so for Windows 7.

Those being that very little of what I use/am interested in has any Linux support

I feel you there. I have years of old work on Windows, so I still need to keep my Windows partition lying around.

Last time I tried to use the Windows partition on my laptop, a Windows update broke it. According to Microsoft, I basically have to reinstall from scratch. So even when I gave Microsoft a chance to play nice, they burned me.

I recognize that some users cannot fully abandon Windows, myself included, but it might make sense to partially abandon Windows or move new work to a new operating system. Also, WINE allows you to run many Windows programs on Linux. Anecdotally, Fallout New Vegas played better on Linux in WINE than it did on Windows 7 with the same hardware, even with like 100 cursed mods.

At a bare minimum, definitely give it a shot if you have any old computers to revive. I put Debian on my grandmother’s 10 year old computer that could barely handle Windows after being factory reset, and it runs like a treat now.

Linux being needlessly complicated for the average/casual user

Short version: it can be as complex or as simple as you need it to be. For a no-fuss option, go for Linux Mint.

My daily experience of using a computer has scarcely changed. It’s still “point and click to reach your destination”. I do use BASH commands pretty often, but only because I’m trying to do something too technical for a graphical interface on any platform, or because the command is a few seconds faster than doing it in the GUI. The terminal embedded into the file browser I use (Dolphin) makes using BASH commands so much easier, because I’m a very “visual” guy.

IMO unless you’re doing something where a program needs serious hardware access, just go with Flatpaks (or a distro with baked-in Flatpak support) for programs. I use KDE Plasma and it has a lot of Windows-like features (actually, it’s the other way around—Windows has a lot of Plasma-like features, because Windows “takes inspiration” from Plasma). By default, it has a Start menu and task bar, and it uses the desktop metaphor just like Windows. IMO it’s like the Windows desktop with a ton of extra options and telemetry disabled.

I use Debian as my daily driver on all my computers. It was mildly complicated to set up, no more so than Windows, but after about two weeks of acclimating it’s been zero drama ever since. In contrast, Windows machines usually failed to boot about twice a year per machine for various reasons in my house. If you need those complex features that Linux has, (1) they’re available for you, but you don’t have to touch them, and (2) they’re not kept secret like many undocumented features in Windows.

I actually wouldn’t recommend Debian for most new users, since it’s more focused on stability than being new, fresh, easy to use, or basically anything else. It has been there literally longer than I have been alive, and I expect it will be considering how many Linux distros reuse their work as a base. Also, it doesn’t come with Flatpak support by default, but it can be enabled in one command. I come from the school of “never update ever” and I’m slowly unlearning I same thing that habit, so Debian works for my use case. Also, some of my applications do need to be tightly integrated with the hardware. However, these applications are inherently technical, and would be difficult on a default Windows setup (i.e., Windows sucks by default for pro audio work, which needs to work fast). I’d recommend Linux Mint if you’re really not interested in tinkering.

and it being such an enormous departure from windows

Internally it definitely is different from Windows, but again my experience so far has not been markedly different from Windows other than that it runs with less drama. Actually, Linux is internally more like almost every other OS being a Unix derivative, particularly OSX and the BSDs. It is Windows that is the “odd one out”.

And like…yeah, that’s kinda the point. As a desktop environment, Windows is fine and usable, but as an operating system it sucks. It has a ton of bloat, it keeps too many secrets, and it doesn’t give you the stability you pay for. It’s no better than Linux, just better supported because of the network effect. If you like the look and feel of Windows, you can get that with the right choice of desktop environment (IMO KDE Plasma or Cinnamon) without giving your money and data to Microsoft.

IMO if you really want to check if a Linux distro (or any other OS with a live version) is right for you, try out a live USB of a given system for a few days and see if you like it. Most importantly, make sure you can connect to the Internet and you can see your screen. Then the rest should be fixable without an external computer. That’s how I got roped into this. I tried it for like a week and I didn’t want to go back.

There is literally nothing that Linux offers that I find outweighs the enormous downsides of the OS.

IMO Linux offers freedom, security, privacy, auditability, control, documentation, diversity, and decentralization. Each of these are worth an essay and this comment is already getting long so I’ll spare you the details. Freedom alone would make the switch worthwhile IMO, and I wish I understood that sooner.

And now I will shut up about Linux forever to you unless you want to know more.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 4 months ago

I’ll take 20

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 4 months ago

Bingo along the first column

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 4 months ago

Actually if the pee is distributed throughout both balls, then it is stored in the union of the balls, i.e. all the space in one or both balls by definition.

Furthermore, the intersection as depicted in the diagram only includes the area common to both balls. If we take the “balls” (sets) to be the testes themselves, then anatomically the pee is stored nowhere because the two testes are physically separated and therefore have an empty intersection.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 4 months ago

Thankfully all the bootloaders in all my Linux systems are in working order, but the Windows partition on my laptop won’t boot and I think it has to do with bootloader corruption. Otherwise I’m all of these.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 4 months ago

My understanding is that GRUB (using the chainloader command) successfully calls the Windows bootloader when I ask it to run Windows, but I think the Windows bootloader is corrupted. It is corrupted to the point that I cannot even use the recovery disk or install disk to fix the system.

I think a Windows update broke it. I have OS probing enabled, and it successfully detected (and booted into) the Windows partition back when I first installed Debian. It still detects the Windows partition, but Windows bluescreens with an error message that I can’t remember off the top of my head, but both Microsoft’s support forum and other resources basically indicated could only be fixed with a reinstall. Debian, of course, boots just fine.

I ran chkdsk on the Windows partition with the Windows Recovery Disk and I also checked the partition in Gparted, and both processes found no errors. The Windows partition is perfectly readable from Debian.

So I’m inclined to believe that Windows broke itself.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 4 months ago

the formula got completelly messed up

I’m just glad to be included ☺️.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 4 months ago

Sinusoids have infinite support and therefore never stop 😈.