TropicalDingdong

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TropicalDingdong ,

I mean is it really a truck?

There needs to be a way to validate if something is a truck.

Like, if you can't put a 2x4 in it, is it a truck? Is an el camino a truck?

IF a cybertruck is a truck, is a Pontiac Aztek a truck?

TropicalDingdong ,

I mean, the el Camino caught a lot of flak when I was young. I remember my "surfer/ stoner/ slacker/ loser" gen x cousin who was a pool guy used his as a work vehicle and I guarantee that guy was SMASHING with that ride. I'm not saying a cyber truck truck is on that level and but some things take time to catch on.

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TropicalDingdong ,

That being said go ahead and pirate, I’m not your dad

What am I letters on a screen? I'm not going to stop you.

TropicalDingdong ,

I too volunteer as tribute hypeman for the three-time defending Olympic champion U.S. women's water polo team

TropicalDingdong ,

Sometimes it's better to let a shit tree grow than to shake the shit fruit out of it.
-idk Ramaswamy probably

TropicalDingdong ,

Material science has just been crushing it for a good long minute now.

TropicalDingdong ,

Theres probably a room temperature superconductor for example.

I thought that one was a no go? Did I miss more news?

TropicalDingdong ,

If they could inject the ad's into your veins, they would.

TropicalDingdong ,

I * think * those were the brand I bought?

Regardless, 80 for 12 TB is a steal.

TropicalDingdong ,

No issues what's so ever. Have them in a four drivE QNAS. I was a bit concerned about them being cheaper drives initially but after I got them installed I literally haven't thought about them again in terms of reliability.

0 complaints and they seem to be doing about as well as some more expensive drives might be.

TropicalDingdong ,

I mean, I don't know your use case, but as a self-hoster/ research scientist, I think my usage is much much. And I do rely on mine for business, as my wife and I both rely on it for hosting our data, which for me is large geospatial datasets, and when I'm doing large compute runs, there are many many read writes. We also store a large amount of music/ videos for streaming and running a jelly fin server. Thats been fine as well. I think since in our case we don't have a ton of people hitting the server at once, its just never as stressed as it might be in a corporate/ multi user environment.

TropicalDingdong ,

I dont know if this even makes sense but damn if bluetooth/ audio could get to a point of "It just works".

TropicalDingdong ,

Just being.. crappy?

Not connecting automatically. Bad quality. Some glitchy artifacts. It gets horrible The only work around I've found is stupid but running apt reinstall --purge bluez gnome-bluetooth and it works fine. So annoying but I have to do this almost every day.

TropicalDingdong ,

I don't know why this works, but if im having issues, i do this, and it fixes all of them across the board. Even just restarting the service is not as effective as this. That some times works, sometimes doesn't.

I'm confident its not a drive or ram issue. Its a blue tooth issue/ audio. But I also can't explain why it is so consistent.

TropicalDingdong ,

Yep. Nothing sus. I also don't have the time to do a deep dive. I need to work. It might be this chip. It might be my bluetooth headset (but I have issues with my mouse and keyboard too). I don't have time to figure it out, so I just keep this on a copy paste ready terminal and if I have issue, I run the command and I'm good to go.

TropicalDingdong ,

Grace “Light has a speed limit” Hopper

I'll have you know that googling this phrase results in a link to this post, which makes the origin of this phrase no more clear.

Can you explain please?

TropicalDingdong ,

yep yep and yep.

and they've been eating their lunch so long at this point I've given up on that changing.

The new world stands in cuda and that's just the way it is. I don't really want an nVidia, radeon seems far better for price to performance . Except I can justify an nVidia for work.

I can't justify a radeon for work.

TropicalDingdong ,

I think. it's just path stickiness at this point. CUDA works and then you can ignore it's existence and do the thing you actually care about. ML in the pre CUDA days was painful. CUDA makes it not painful. Asking people to return to painfully..

Good luck..

TropicalDingdong ,

Its not really a complaint, but more of a direction I hope we go with this.

I think we can do much MUCH better than reddit in terms of new features, and I don't think 'copying reddit' is the way to go to guide development.

The number one I'm looking for: some kind of dynamic linking that is an improvement to cross posting.

Cross posting or repeated posting of the same news story was already an issue under Reddit, but the nature of the fediverse/ federated platforms is that a lot of the same shit gets posted over and over and over again. So some way to collapse or considate threads/ conversations around this; I think with the RSS feed nature of things it should be possible. Maybe its like a different style view or a bot we could add..

But spreading a conversation that might have generated 120+ comments into 16 threads of like 2-3 comments; it really breaks up the value of those conversations (which is more than the sum of its parts). In this way, the networked/ federated nature of the platform works against us.

So I dont know what the answer is, but in reddit we had megathreads. I think thats over kill. But it might be something to think about and ideate on, because spreading the conversation out inot many small threads really lowers the value of the individual conversations.

TropicalDingdong ,

The US never really recovered from 2008.

TropicalDingdong ,

My issue is that I have to believe my lying eyes. Rates of homelessness, buying power, financial solvency, they all dropped through the tank and never really came back after what amounted to a financial earthquake for many many families. Whole extended families dropped through the cracks and never came back. There was basically no relief for the working families most effected by the incident, and basically no consequences for those that cause/ profited from it. Covid and the financial repercussions seems about the same. We've "recovered" from it "economically" because those permanently impacted by it that will never recover stopped being counted.

TropicalDingdong ,

Millennial and I’m making over twice at much as I was in 2012. 🤷‍♀️

And able to afford a third as much..

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TropicalDingdong ,

I just want to point out that the fruit in this image is almost certainly a strawberry guava and not an apple.

TropicalDingdong ,

Oh duh I see it there now. And good symbolism.

TropicalDingdong ,

No reason it can't exist. I'm not super familiar with the program, but for a couple bucks you can run it on elest

TropicalDingdong ,

The second they start sticking AI bloat in Firefox, I'm out.

TropicalDingdong ,

If they want to build extensions that do those things, I fully support them.

I don't need or want my engineering team building my browser doing things other than building my browser. I want them working on the browser. I need AI I didn't ask for in my browser like I need an additional hole in my head.

I want my browser to be a browser and if Firefox isn't focused on just building a great browser, I'm leaving.

TropicalDingdong ,

You miss the point. This takes away from them actually building and maintaining a browser. If they want to do this as a plug in or something, that's fine. I do not want it and am not interested in anything AI related being built into the browser. Its that toxic, VC mindset around everything having to be everything and following the hype of the moment. Its dumb and the announcement was a redflag warning.

TropicalDingdong ,

Any where? Its a browser not a religion.

TropicalDingdong ,

Its absolutely not my job to protect Firefox from its self.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/13/mozilla-downsizes-as-it-refocuses-on-firefox-and-ai-read-the-memo/

They are the ones who made the announcement and I could give two wiffs of stinky piss about their image. I only care if they make a good product that serves my needs. The microsecond their product ceases to to be a 'good' product from my personal viewpoint, I'm dropping them and calling them out on it. They've got the best browser in the game rn (imo). Its their game to lose but it looks like they are starting to make some dumb ass choices.

Corporate cheer leading is for sycophants.

TropicalDingdong ,
TropicalDingdong ,

“AI” has been used for many things for many years. The fact that the news is full of machine learning and generative AI doesn’t mean that it’s sensible to condemn anything using it.

Maybe you should move onto Edge. I hear they are big on AI in the browser.

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TropicalDingdong ,

I asked ai to give me an image for a super hero for the fediverse and got this:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/bdc98abb-e55e-483c-9fee-d5fa03cbb2f2.webp

Honestly, it seems like a federated solution is in order, since this seems to be the most effective way we can have content on the internet that isn't 'owned'. Its not a perfect solution, but I completly commiserate with your issue. I've come across reddit threads for arcane GIS or programming issues and found the comments deleted.

Its only a matter of time before the walls go up around stack overflow and github. We should be thinking about the future and what its going to take to maintain an open and accessible web. A bit part of that is having the tools and resources available to learn. Theres a generation of learning that has the potential to be lost because some one 'owns' it.

Some other considerations. Most platforms as a resources 'work' because they've reached some critical mass. Focusing on niche programming tasks or languages and building a small but robust community is more effective than trying to go very wide, but very shallow. Compare the success of the programming communities here . Most are empty. Most have no posts and no activities. But that's because we're conditioned to the granularity an extant critical mass supports. Instead, just like you are doing, you can post to more general communities like this one.

There is also the strategy of focusing on more 'diy'/ self supported projects that are based in open source. For example, QGIS, I think belongs on the fediverse. They are a phenomenal project and embody that open and free spirit.

TropicalDingdong ,

nah.

TropicalDingdong ,

Ok, fine, I'll do the actual curve fitting instead of just estimating.

Eyeballing it, were saying 1% in 2013, 2% in 2021, 3% in 2023?

Gives us a fit of..

0.873 * exp(0.118 * x)

So..

Correct the equation and solve for x

x_target = np.log(200 / a) / b

Calculate the actual year

year_target = 2013 + x_target

print(year_target)

In ~2058 everyone will be using two linux desktops at once.

TropicalDingdong ,

Ugh.

Yes. I even bought a generation previous in bluetooth hoping it would be issue free for my work machine I have to use windows on. I regularly have to turn it off and turn it back on completely. i also get random extreme video lag sometimes when bluetooth connects.

TropicalDingdong ,

Isn't that the point of the exponent in the exponential function?

TropicalDingdong ,

yo dawg..

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