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gerryflap , 3 days ago

This one is so much better than the Dutch pride flag in the post. It's awesome

gerryflap , 27 days ago

Same

gerryflap , 28 days ago

I'm not so sure that the laypeople will, but I do expect a shift. Personally I'm still running Windows 10 next to Linux currently. Most of my time is still spent on Windows, because it's generally a bit more stable and hassle free due to the Windows monopoly. Software is written for Windows, so sadly it's usually just a better experience.

But so many things I read about Win 11 (and beyond) piss me off. It's my computer, I don't want them to decide things for me or farm my data. I'm mentally preparing for the transition to Linux-only. 90% of the software I use will work out of the box, and I think with some effort I can get like 8% of the rest to work. It'll be a lot of effort, but Micro$oft has pushed so far that I'm really starting to consider.

Multiple friends and colleagues (all programmers) I spoke are feeling the same way. I think Linux may double in full-time desktop users in a few years of this goes on.

gerryflap , 1 month ago

Maybe you should learn how to hold a normal discussion without attacking the other party. Cursing and telling the other party to fuck off just because they disagree with you will not convinced anyone of anything and will only make you look bad. It's not like the person you're responding to is advocating for school shootings or anything else immoral.

gerryflap , 1 month ago

Okay, that's actually quite impressive

gerryflap , 1 month ago

What's wrong? I find this a reasonable result. Most people looking for megabyte to bytes are actually looking for mebibytes, since the mega- prefix is literally just times a million but a lot of programs actually list mebibytes as "megabytes".

gerryflap , 1 month ago

Hmmm, if this were in proportion to body volume then it may lead to an infinite cycle of the ice cream getting larger -> the body getting larger -> the icecream getting larger -> etc. Depending on the frequency of course.

gerryflap , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Many of the new bottle caps I encounter will actively push back into the closed position, meaning I have to keep them out of the way when pouring if I don't want to pour over the cap. Since I tend to encounter them on drink cartons rather than bottles, because I don't drink soda etc, it becomes even more annoying. Bottles you can turn whichever way, but drink cartons need to be kept at a certain angle for optimal pouring. Quite often the cap is in the way and there isn't really a nice place to put it.

This is even more frustrating because I never lost these caps anyway, I always threw them away with the packaging. I understand that it probably helps in the bigger picture, but for me personally it solves nothing and is incredibly annoying.

Edit: two examples

This one is fine, it snaps into a position that's handy and out of the way:
https://feddit.nl/pictrs/image/88779773-153c-4f87-bfaa-986dd29662a6.jpeg

This one is very annoying. It'll stay in this position and requires constant force to keep out of this position. When opening or closing the packaging the attachment point also rotes, meaning it's always in the wrong place:
https://feddit.nl/pictrs/image/a5036bcd-fafd-4804-81d6-21e535950e78.jpeg

gerryflap , 1 month ago

Hmmm yeah, now that you mention it I do remember a few occasions of launching soy milk throughout the kitchen. Still I prefer it over the second one though. After it's been opened once, it's much less in the way.

gerryflap , 1 month ago

:3

gerryflap , 1 month ago

Kinda makes sense though. I'd expect images where it's actually labelled as "an Indian person" to actually over represent people wearing this kind of clothing. An image of an Indian person doing something mundane in more generic clothing is probably more often than not going to be labelled as "a person doing X" rather than "An Indian person doing X". Not sure why these authors are so surprised by this

gerryflap , 2 months ago

I was beginning to think that I could go this day without any "joke" or remark that would exclude me from the group "men" because I'm not into women, but here it is. I was almost getting worried that it took so long today :/

gerryflap , 2 months ago

Haha, when I heard about it I was expecting as much. It'd be pretty impressive if it went smoothly with the amount of testing they seemed to have done. Still an interesting project, curious how it'll evolve.

gerryflap , 2 months ago

I'm 100% a cis guy so this doesn't apply to me. But I'd probably go for eepy princess because I'm always eepy. Or combine into the eepy tomboy because cool.

:3

gerryflap , 2 months ago

Man pages save me an online search multiple times per week. Not sure that you're no about

gerryflap , 2 months ago

Me after I spent a whole evening being unable to boot into grub after trying to get Wayland to work. Wayland will have to wait for a bit longer...

gerryflap , 2 months ago

Yuppers. I need CUDA for my machine learning projects, both for hobby and professionally. I considered AMD and their alternative at the time, but it wasn't supported on their consumer cards back then, and I also didn't fully trust their commitment. It's getting better though, so hopefully AMD can convince me for my next GPU in a few years.

gerryflap , 2 months ago

:3

gerryflap , 2 months ago

I kinda agree, but also want to offer a different perspective. I agree that the more specific labels are not efficient for communication in most cases, because nobody knows all of them and it's easier to just say who you find attractive.

However, they can still be useful to discover more about yourself. As someone who's aromantic and asexual I've found that many of the labels in the community caused me to ask myself the question "how do I feel about this". Before finding "my" labels I just kinda felt like "nope" about anything related to relationships, but all the more specific labels and spectra have made it much more clear to me what I want and what I don't want. They also provide a way for people to find others with the same experiences as them, which can feel incredibly validating.

These specific labels are a jargon for queer people, they make sense in their context, but are not useful when trying to communicate with most people from outside of the community.

gerryflap , 2 months ago

When I was a student I never understood how something like this could happen. "Just rewrite it" I thought, how hard can that be. But working in a corporate environment I now totally understand it. Everything you write will at some point become part of code that, to the fast majority of colleagues, will just be a black box that they've never touched and don't intend to. Despite my urge to test and document everything, I've already more than once complained about my own code, only realizing later that I wrote it myself. Often you can still find out what it does, but the "why" gets lost and because of that people are afraid to change it.

gerryflap , 2 months ago

I'm not a hundred percent sure, but afaik it has to do with how random the output of the GPT model will be. At 0 it will always pick the most probable next continuation of a piece of text according to its own prediction. The higher the temperature, the more chance there is for less probable outputs to get picked. So it's most likely to pick 42, but as the temperature increases you see the chance of (according to the model) less likely numbers increase.

This is how temperature works in the softmax function, which is often used in deep learning.

gerryflap , 2 months ago

How is Spotify a scam? I can probably at most buy one CD per month for the same price as Spotify. Yet Spotify gives unlimited access to good quality versions of almost every song out there. Even with raised prices it's still a way better deal for most consumers than buying music directly.

Personally I tend to also buy a few albums a year, because I like owning them and I like supporting the artists. But the convenience of having every track at your fingertips is hard to beat

gerryflap , 3 months ago

Even worse is that this is from 2016, so we're 8 years further along and not enough has happened

gerryflap , 3 months ago

Shit, they've adapted. Now I need to avoid the sirens too.

gerryflap , 3 months ago

I guess it's a matter of priorities. Some experts will deal a lot with air quality in their field, so they go kinda tunnel vision on that. And others (like firefighters) will be very focused on the fire safety aspect so to them that seems most important.

Personally I usually close all doors for fire safety except for my bedroom door because the air quality improvement is just too large. I can open a window, but it usually blows open further due to the wind. Then it becomes too noisy and cold. So I tend to keep it closed when it's cold outside.

gerryflap , 3 months ago

Isn't it to make sure that you're not mixing two incompatible chargers? I have 2 Philips chargers that do fit (as far as I can see), but are not the same voltage. I've previously also had something like this where 2 fitting chargers were completely different electrically, one 12V AC and the other 9V DC. One time a family member mixed them up, bit luckily the extra voltage didn't fry anything. I don't mind having to get an extra charger of it prevents me from doing something dumb and frying my electronics.

gerryflap , 3 months ago

Imo it's more the other way around, but that's not necessarily bad. Arch (and Linux in general) gives you a lot more control, while windows tries to block the user from touching the internals. In my experience Arch breaks more often though, but when it breaks I can usually fix it. In Windows things usually work, but when they don't work you might be kinda screwed because the internals aren't that easy to reach.

gerryflap , 3 months ago

Barony doesn't need an end life button. Just walk around for a bit and get smacked by a random boulder. It's a fun game though, just quite hard and unforgiving.

gerryflap , 3 months ago

Yeah I only played with friends. Alone it seems even harder because it becomes permadeath. With friends you can at least continue as long as one player makes it. Any favorite playstyles? Personally I like being arcanist and then trying to pick up tinkering at some point to get a cute helicopter buddy, or starting as tinkerer but also doing some magic. Basically (cross)bow + magic + tinkering.

gerryflap , 3 months ago

It's hard to say what I'd recommend for a 1 player run because I didn't really do those. I think I'd go for a solid "base" class like a warrior, barbarian, wizard, or something. Ultimately it'll always be difficult though. Maybe something ranged like wizard, arcanist, or tinkerer is actually easier when playing solo because you can stay out the range of most enemies. But when they get close, you'll probably get killed because there's no-one to protect you.

Ultimately, if I were you, I'd just play whatever I want. Dying is extremely common in this game, so just accept that, have fun, and get better.

gerryflap , 3 months ago

I don't have the data to back it up, but as someone who lives in the Netherlands I can tell you that e-bikes definitely seem like a problem. People who ride a normal bike to go somewhere definitely don't go faster than 15 kph on average. You totally can do so if you want, just like you can run everywhere instead of walking, but then you might arrive sweaty and out of breath. E-bikes allow people who don't usually have the physical strength to cycle that fast to suddenly go 25 kph without much effort. Especially children and elderly are a problem. The bikes are heavy, meaning that they're hard to control for these groups. And children and elderly also both often lack the awareness of their surroundings needed for driving this fast. I've seen many dangerous situations where these groups on an e-bike yeet into a crossing, suddenly have to brake due to other traffic that they failed to account for, and then almost fall over or crash.

E-bikes have a way too large speed difference with normal bikes, and imo they're definitely a danger. Anything that makes them slower is imo a good thing.

gerryflap , 3 months ago

Shit, another existential crisis. At least I'll forget about it soon

gerryflap , 3 months ago

Ridiculous. How can someone write "we value your privacy" and then share data with 807 partners. If I share anything with 8 people I pretty much consider it public information already, unless I have a very good reason to trust them. Sharing something with 807 companies is probably less private than taking all that data, putting it up on a billboard, and placing that billboard next to the busiest place in town.

gerryflap , 3 months ago

I'm already very good at the eepy part :3

gerryflap , 3 months ago

Everything is "the left" if you're far right

gerryflap , 3 months ago

I loved this game. All these planets and their different vibes and playstyles. All the different endings.

gerryflap , 4 months ago

Building an army of futuristic battle robots and an artillery cannon and shooting a likewise enemy army to smithereens

gerryflap , 4 months ago

Yup. Didn't think anyone would guess it though. I'm quite impressed by ithe game, it definitely has its quirks, but so far it's been a lot more stable and performant than the AAA games I've recently played.

gerryflap , 4 months ago

Yep, Beyond All Reason. Awesome open source game like Supreme Commander.

gerryflap , 4 months ago

Bullshit. Even if AI were to fully replace is software developers (which I highly doubt), programming is still a very useful skill to learn just for the problem solving skills.

gerryflap , 4 months ago

This, but then in German (I'm Dutch). It added to the confusion, but at the same time it was way more enjoyable than failing another German grammar test

gerryflap , 4 months ago

Wtf is this image?! Especially the top-right part is very concerning

gerryflap , 4 months ago

I looked at these videos with very mixed emotions. On the one hand, I marveled at how far we've gotten. In a few years we went from generating sort of okay images in a very confined domain and essentially uncontrollable, to generating high resolution video that on first glance looks real.

But then the sadness struck me. I think we're entering the post-truth era, where the truth is harder and harder to find because all the fake stuff looks so real. We can generate text, images, sound, and now also video of whatever we want in the blink of an eye. Combine this with the tendency of people to accept any "information" that fits their view, and the filter bubbles that already exist, and we can see that humanity will start living in separate bubbles. Every bubble will have their own truth, and even if someone proves that a video or image is fake, that information will probably not even reach them because the truth doesn't generate enough clicks.

I want to stay optimistic, we've overcome so much stuff as a species, maybe we'll right the ship at some point. But with all the shit that is already going on in the world, the last thing we need is the ability to fake videos like this in no time at all. At some point the separate filter bubbles will tear our stable western world as we knew it apart, and we'll see shit like WW II again. The situation is already heating up.

gerryflap , 4 months ago

Haha thanks

gerryflap , 4 months ago

Kinda off topic, but I'd honestly distrust any product with "freshness guaranteed" on it more than one without. It's like they're trying to compensate for something. Everyone knows that they're going to do the absolute bare minimum they have to do to "guarantee" that freshness, so it's not really a guarantee. Unless they back it up with a great return policy of course.

gerryflap , 4 months ago

I think these models struggle with this because they don't process text as individual characters, but rather as tokens that often contain parts of a word. So the model never sees the actual characters within a token, and can only infer the contents of a token from the training data itself if the training data contains more information about it. It can get it right, but this depends on how much it can infer from training data and context. It's probably a bit like trying to infer what an English word sounds like when you've only heard 10% of the dictionary spoken aloud and knowing what it sounds like isn't actually that important to you.

More info can be found here: https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer

https://feddit.nl/pictrs/image/97d3cc01-d817-4318-9194-69cb3b63c3b1.png

gerryflap , 4 months ago

I've written Haskell quite a bit, and I don't fully understand why this is called Haskell style. Haskell code looks nothing like this, the syntax is completely different. For Haskell's syntax I think it works fine, because I never noticed something weird. But this code in "Haskell style" looks absolutely insane