Average guy?

Have you not heard of the president and his friends?

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Well, there’s “Imagine how cool that would be, bro”.

And they are kinda right, if you imagine it a fair bit cooler than it would actually be…, bro.

Other than that, you’d have to pretty much disregard anything learned from this. And you’d have to disregard the entire issue of getting rid of heat, powering a power hungry system that’s in earths shadow half the time, maintaining a server farm that’s constantly 500-1500km away from any technician and also in a vacuum, along with managing a solar flares, 500ms of latency and bits of sand traveling at 10km/s hitting your servers - oh and your boss being on drugs half the time.

But it’s not all robot wolves!

Why is she choosing the bear over the robot wolf that makes no sense. The bear is clearly stronger!

(just in case)

They will copy the slur into the text completion machine anyway to get a explanation, a summerized list of arguments along with their thoughts.

A slur is just being efficient.

Electronics are mostly solid state and are therefore virtually wear-free.

If it’s designed well, they could actually be more reliable than pushing fluids through tubes. But pushing fluids through tubes is already pretty fucking reliable.

I think the main point is to eliminate rusting brake discs from EVs, which rely largely on regenerative braking anyway. I know mine are constantly crusty; like I can always hear them scraping for the first few hundred meters of driving. Which is prolly not great.

I use the T14s G6, running Fedora Silverblue, as my only PC. I bought it mainly for its AMD 880M iGPU, which just hits the performance I need for the few games I still play, as well as its mobility so I can blender on the go (and because I got fed up with the seemingly endless hiccups from my ASUS G14).

It’s good. No issues I know of. The display is a bit slow even for a 60Hz panel, but the battery life is stellar (probably also because of the slow panel).

However, if it’s static, as you say, I’m not sure if a small desktop PC wouldn’t be the better choice overall. After all, modern ThinkPads are pretty expensive.

The craziest thing for me is how some people cling to propaganda, even when it doesn’t match their lived reality.

A friend of mine still insists that electric cars are [insert any cliché you know], and that they can’t make it up a hill once the battery is even slightly drained.

…

We’ve been on several road trips in an electric car.

With four dogs in a trailer.

All across Germany and even the Czech Republic.

And we (another friend who owns the electric road-trip car and me with my “city”-car) charge it at home, where we have a solar system and a heat pump.

And yet, every now and then “this can’t work”. The dissonance is real.

Is the issue solved and doesn’t require any action anymore?

Uhm, excuse me, but how are you supposed to click and type, while you’re not situated in a depressing cubicle, after driving 1½hrs to get to the depressing cubicle?!

I will use this to make my code unattractive for AI.

Bandlimiting isn’t just used in “AI”. It is a basic term for either chopping or smoothing out any signal.

I think of shaders, because currently that’s by hobby project. But basically whenever you have a lot on unwanted noise, not a lot of information and need to be quick, bandlimiting comes to the rescue.

Basically genAI images are weirdly smooth, because there are limited ways to quickly process a output to keep the network from exacerbating noise artifacts in the next step. That’s why practically all genAI images (but especially the earlyer ones) have this uncanny smooth look to them. That’s why LLMs struggle so much to procede in a story, despite have a shit load of flowery language to describe everything.

You can see that this isn’t AI generated, because of the physical coherence, the lack of bandlimiting, the small thingy to push the little light switch being an the right place, the reasonable arragement of shelves and the perfect amount of eggs every fridge should have.

TLDR: The result of current LLMs will be very bandlimited and one-directional.

I hope that means something to you, because otherwise I’m going to try to explain this very specific thing, and I’m afraid I might not be able to express it in very understandable terms (sorry):

Firstly, one-directionality: when a human wants to write a story, we usually think about the plot twist beforehand and then pave the way by hinting at the upcoming twist without giving too much away. It’s just nice when a first time reader is surprised, but struggles on a second time how they missed all the obvious clues.

This process requires a lot of back-and-forth while writing. Humans do this naturally. LLMs and other transformer networks have a huge problem with this. I often hear LLMs referred to as text prediction machines. This is not entirely accurate, but a similar enough. And to keep with this analogy: text prediction doesn’t really work backwards to suggest a better start to the sentence, does it? LLMs tend to take a path, from start to finish, even in great detail, but that’s it. There’s no setup. It’s very flat writing.

Secondly, bandlimiting: Over time LLMs tend to mush different characterizations and continuity into a smooth paste, leaving little grit to it. I really struggle to not say the word derivative (like in math). But LLMs just write average characters who do average things in an average way. And then spell out how everything was totally unpredictable, important and meaningful, while using superficially eloquent language. Nothing just is everything serves as. It’s a poor writing style that often misses the appropriate tone, trying to sound sophisticated.

Hey, man. Skimmed through your comments from today.

Are you sure you don’t want to go out? Maybe with a friend to enjoy the day. Or maybe fix something around the house that you’ve been meaning to fix for a while?

I’m sure you have a life full of little things that your energy is better spend with, instead of… you know. broadly gestures at your profile

I’m using a Dell S2522HG, that I calibrated using a colorimeter. Best display I’ve ever had. Not sure if they sell it anymore as 24" panels seem to be dying out.

Gnome uses around 1.6GB on my machine and runs a bit smoother than KDE (although last time I tested was 2½ years ago; so that may no longer be the case. I’m on a 240Hz panel aswell, so my experience may not be applicable to most users).

I find this to be a real problem with visual shaders. I know how certain mathematical formulas affect an input, but instead of just pressing the Enter key and writing it down, I now have to move blocks around, and oh no, they were nicely logically aligned, now one block is covering another block, oh noo, what a mess and the auto sort thing messes up the logical sorting completly… well too bad.

And I find that most solutions on the internet utilizing the visual editor tend to forget that previous outputs can be reused. Getting normals from already generated noise without resampling somehow becomes arcane knowledge.

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I once had a problem with an ASUS notebook. I think it was the touchpad. So I looked in dmesg and found something like:

“HID something something was configured with flag 1. If this is incorrect, try the command blah blah flag=0.”

Ran the command and it was fixed.

I’ve never seen such a beautiful error in Windows. And I really lost my respect when I tried to calibrate an external screen on a Mac because that felt like Linux from 2016.