xthexder

xthexder , 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago)

I'm not a professional, but all my powertools are covered under my renter's/hone insurance. It's incredibly cheap compared to car or health insurance.

Edit: I guess this doesn't count if the tools are stored in a vehicle parked anywhere but in my garage. There's definitely some policies available that will cover the full contents of your vehicle though.

xthexder , 1 day ago

It's sad probably 90% of this stuff won't make it back to it's original owner. Who's still got serial numbers or receipts for something they bought in 2014? Most people will have moved on or had insurance replacements already

xthexder , 7 days ago

This is the true "We did it Reddit" moment.

xthexder , 12 days ago

You can't use cash online tho

xthexder , 12 days ago

It's a little like comparing a top of the line gaming laptop to a middle of the road efficient laptop. Sure the games will run a bit better on the powerful laptop, but you're trading that for battery life. The Steam Deck is insanely efficient, and they made a few hard tradeoffs like the 1280x800 display resolution (which is great for battery, and honestly plenty sharp for the screen size).

I'm still a little blown away it runs Balder's Gate 3 and Cyberlunk 2077 at all.

xthexder , 12 days ago

I've had the audio desync in cutscenes after leaving a game open in sleep for a week or two. I think it's an issue with how the game timers work. If they're counting since the game started, any slightly inaccuracy will become more obvious as the game is left open, regardless of sleep.

xthexder , 13 days ago

I think they're being more literal. All the latest open source AI models get posted on Hugging Face.

xthexder , 13 days ago

Basically every car says not to wash in direct sunlight. From my understanding it's because you'll end up with water spots and other residue from the soap drying on to the paint before you can rinse it off.

xthexder , 15 days ago

Let me try putting this a different way:
The machine is picking the next best word / action / chess move to output based on its past experience of the world (i.e. it's training data). It's not just statistics, it's making millions of learned connections between words, and through association they start to have meaning.

Is this not exactly what the human brain does itself? Humans just have the advantage of multiple senses and having a physical agent (a body) to interact with the world.

The problem that AI has is it's got no basis in reality. It's like a human talking about fantasy things like unicorns. We've only ever experienced them as descriptions and art created from those descriptions without any basis in reality.

xthexder , 15 days ago

Because hallucinations pretty much exactly describes what's happening? All of your suggested terms are less descriptive of what the issue is.

The definition of hallucination:

A hallucination is a perception in the absence of an external stimulus.

In the case of generative AI, it's generating output that doesn't match it's training data "stimulus". Or in other words, false statements, or "facts" that don't exist in reality.

xthexder , 15 days ago

I have adopted the philosophy that human brains might not be as special as we've thought, and that the untrained behavior emerging from LLMs and image generators is so similar to human behaviors that I can't help but think of it as an underdeveloped and handicapped mind.

I hypothesis that a human brain, who's only perception of the world is the training data force fed to it by a computer, would have all the same problems the LLMs do right now.

To put it another way...
The line that determines what is sentient and not is getting blurrier and blurrier. LLMs have surpassed the Turing test a few years ago. We're simulating the level of intelligence of a small animal today.

xthexder , 17 days ago

As someone not subscribed to simpsonsshitposting, I really don't care if it's a repost. That community isn't even on the same instance, so it's a little like complaining if someone reposts from R*ddit.

xthexder , 20 days ago

The main thing sitting between me and being a billionaire is my conscience and moral values. I'm of the opinion that to become a billionaire you must necessarily have psychopathic tendencies.

For example: No way I could stand up on stage and bullshit my way through a Cybertruck reveal knowing it's all lies and unfinished ideas.

xthexder , 20 days ago

Personally grit makes me think of literal sand. Or dirt in general. It's something you wash off the first chance you get. Not exactly something to be celebrated.

xthexder , 23 days ago

Classic Nintendo, making simple things like copying screenshots so complicated hacking your switch is a reasonable thing to do....

xthexder , 23 days ago

I guess everything I've been calling light rail fits into the suburban rail category. Multiple cities I've lived in are adding in "light rail" tracks between major centers

xthexder , 23 days ago

I wonder what the people/hour max is on something like a stadium entrance or hallway? I bet it's insanely high. Definitely some safety concerns though with crushing or trampling

xthexder , 25 days ago

And yet the AC still blows cold in my 2004 Honda that's not ever had the AC serviced...
Sad to hear Honda reliability is going downhill.

xthexder , 29 days ago

The keyfob is either just a credit card sized thing, or your phone. There is no fob.

xthexder , 1 month ago

The article says revenue near the end. I find that a little hard to believe though, unless they sold barely any of them.

xthexder , 1 month ago

I think you're confusing net income with net revenue. As far as I know, net revenue is just gross revenue minus discounts and refunds. All other expenses such as cost of materials are then subtracted after that to get net income (their actual profit).

Either way, revenue represents how much money they actually received from customers.

xthexder , 1 month ago

Note that since it's just an Android app, there is no purpose in selling this e-waste device other than increasing the price, since it does nothing you can't already do on your phone.

xthexder , 1 month ago

I'm pretty sure that story was faked by putting a separate display in the shell of a pregnancy test. They don't even have real displays usually, let alone a full reprogrammable microcontroller

xthexder , 1 month ago

I'd expect in most cars it's as simple as pulling a fuse for the cellular radio. But depending on how the car is designed that might break other features like the infotainment or keyless entry. It's hit or miss how any given car will react to things being unplugged.

xthexder , 1 month ago

What specific features did you notice the most? (I'm assuming switching from Android?)
90% of my phone usage is through a browser, so I could probably install Graphene pretty easily.

xthexder , 1 month ago

Interesting. Not having a good maps / navigation app might be a bit of a dealbreaker for me, since that's pretty much the last 10% of what I use my phone for. Degoogling myself there will require some effort....

As for push notifications and feeds, I don't really have a problem with that on my current phone with base android. I'm pretty aggressive about blocking random notifications or uninstalling apps entirely if they show me push notifications ads or "use me" reminders. And my home screen is just a clock and calendar.

xthexder , 1 month ago

I didn't realize GrapheneOS is only supported on Pixel phones, so I can't run it after all...

xthexder , 1 month ago

I don't think this has anything to do with Israel. The government moves so slow, this was probably all started back in 2021 or 2022 at the start of his term.

xthexder , 1 month ago

As far as I know, pretty much the only anti-cheat that doesn't work on linux is the kernel-level malware kind. I personally avoid those games at all costs regardless. That's easy for me to say though, since I barely play any competitive games...

xthexder , 1 month ago

Windows support? What does that even mean in the context of a smartphone?

xthexder , 1 month ago

I didn't even know this was a feature until now... It's buried in the dropdown menu like setting an arrival time.

xthexder , 1 month ago

I think they're talking about steer by wire here, not throttle by wire.

xthexder , 1 month ago

Open Source Software is definitely pretty 🔥 if you ask me!

xthexder , 1 month ago

That'd be twittererox.com I think? As far as I know it's only replacing "twitter.com"

xthexder , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

This graph actually shows a little more about what's happening with the randomness or "temperature" of the LLM.
It's actually predicting the probability of every word (token) it knows of coming next, all at once.
The temperature then says how random it should be when picking from that list of probable next words. A temperature of 0 means it always picks the most likely next word, which in this case ends up being 42.
As the temperature increases, it gets more random (but you can see it still isn't a perfect random distribution with a higher temperature value)

xthexder , 1 month ago

You seem to be the only one arguing about how this meme can apply to multiple ideologies. So far no one has disagreed about this meme possibly applying to feudalism, communism, or even a dictatorship.
I don't think there's any debate that the selfishness depicted in this meme is representative of modern day capitalism, so I don't really understand the point you're trying to make? It seems like you're just trying to find anything you can to disagree with.

xthexder , 2 months ago

I'm on a prepaid plan, and got in on a really good deal. They were offering $25/month off indefinitely for signing up for auto-pay (Basically 35% off, lol). It made the plan cheaper and better than most of their monthly plans. I'm happy to know it also saved me from giving out my SSN.

xthexder , 2 months ago

Same! I've lived 3 different places in this city and this is the first one that had an independent fiber internet provider.
It's hilarious getting Comcast/Xfinity mailers advertising internet offers that are higher priced and slower than what I have.

xthexder , 2 months ago

On Windows, EAC runs at the kernel level and basically has full access to everything about your system. It only works on linux because newer linux kernels support emulating system calls in user-space (this might not be 100% accurate, but it's the general idea).

xthexder , 2 months ago

Microsoft Defender exists for Mac? What?

xthexder , 2 months ago

That's like saying HDDs will forget numbers if you store them next to a powerful magnet. Most SSDs have an operating range up to 70°C, so that hot room would have to be more like an oven.

xthexder , 2 months ago

Now I really want a lego kit of a mechanical computer. That would be so cool.

xthexder , 2 months ago

FTX had over a million users, and was advertising publicly on things like the Superbowl. It wasn't just rich people that lost money on FTX.

xthexder , 2 months ago

Depending on the credit card system used, there's various levels of fraud detection. Some stores use a point-of-sale system for in-person transactions, and those generally don't need the CVV code because you're supposed to have the physical card. It doesn't stop some businesses from using the system incorrectly, allowing them to charge a card without a billing address or security code.

This is part of why credit card signatures are basically useless compared to a pin that's required for all in-person transactions.

xthexder , 2 months ago

It's taken a while to figure out the meaning, but the reading I did basically defines "Woke" as generally being aware of the world and its problems, (Or in other words, not having your head in the sand). It's baffling that the term has been used as an insult by anti-intellectuals.

xthexder , 2 months ago

Okay, fair. Let me reword that: I'm baffled that anti-intellectualism is a thing.

xthexder , 2 months ago

Douglas Adams strikes again.

xthexder , 2 months ago

You don't need Internet to put charging on an hourly schedule. I've never heard of any EVs doing actual smart communicating with power stations to distribute load, it's all manual and up to the car owner to charge during off-peak hours.

Please direct me to any EVs that actually do this though, since it sounds nice.