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greenshirtdenimjeans , to showerthoughts in I wonder how many US babies have been named Donald in the last few years and may live to regret it.

Remember when Khaleesi was a popular name?

dohpaz42 ,
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My niece named her daughter after Bella from Twilight. At least her full name is Isabella, but the inspiration is there.

db2 ,

Tell her to tell people she’s named after the Phineas and Ferb character. There’s zero down side.

FiskFisk33 ,

Which I never understood. Khaleesi was her title, not her name.
It´s equivalent-ish to naming a kid King or Czar or something.

AllYourSmurf ,

Donald means something like “ruler of the world,” so not far off.

southsamurai ,
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Like Cesar, or Roy, or Regis, etc.

FiskFisk33 ,

hm, good point.

Chozo ,

It's even worse, because my understanding is that "Khaleesi" doesn't actually mean "queen", but would more accurately mean "concubine/wife of the king/khal". I believe the queenship is only implied after the death of the khal.

ech ,

Not really implied by the term itself, since after the death of the khal the khaleesi are basically exiled to the capital. Daenerys only brought greater meaning to the title when she used it in her conquests.

Chozo ,

Thanks for that clarification!

MushuChupacabra ,
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A lot of us jumped on the fad of naming our daughters after Game of Thrones characters, especially the ones popular in the earlier seasons. And then D and D came along as show runners, and fucking wrecked everything for our baby girls. So Hodor, I regret getting sucked into that show and hope you’ll forgive me one day.

madcaesar ,

My son Ghsrrfgff really hates me 😢

greenshirtdenimjeans ,

I like the name actually and don’t think it’s bad at all. The shower thought OP posted just reminded me of it. This dothraki female liberator saving her people —-> dragon firing everyone lol

I don’t think Khaleesi or Donald are going to be names that are dunked on in the future, at least not that badly.

fr_mg , to linux in Gantt in linux

Planner does Gantt charts, graphical ui.

RandomStickman , to pcgaming in Which game made you realize PC was superior platform to Console (or/and viceversa)?
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STALKER games because of mods

Blxter , to pcgaming in Which game made you realize PC was superior platform to Console (or/and viceversa)?
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R6 Siege made me want a PC way back. Stayed ever since

beebarfbadger , to science_memes in Old AF

If you ask linguists, then “old as fuck” only dates back to the 14th century.

vk6flab , to technology in Posit: In the future, generative A.I. will be thought of as the unconscious part of a general A.I.'s mind.
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It’s a lofty sentiment, but I don’t agree.

I think that in the future generative A.I. will be seen like the Turbo Button, Desktop Publishing Revolution and Information Superhighway of their day, ideas that over promised, under delivered and faded into obscurity. I suspect that Block Chain and Crypto Currencies will go the same way for similar reasons as outlined below.

Machine Learning is a useful tool to automatically generate a model for a multivariate system where traditional modelling is too complex or time consuming.

Generative models are attempting to take that to a whole new level but I don’t believe that it’s either sustainable nor living up to the hype generated by breathless reporting by ignorant journalists who cannot distinguish advanced technology from magic.

It’s not sustainable for a range of reasons. The most obvious is that the process universally disintegrates when it ingests content generated by the same process.

Furthermore, it doesn’t learn, specifically, the model doesn’t change until a new version is released, so it doesn’t gather new models whilst it’s being used.

And finally, it requires obscene amounts of energy to actually work and with the exponential growth of models, this is only going to get worse.

Source: I’m an ICT professional with 40 years experience

Hackworth OP ,

Isn’t your comment more of a perspective on the public perception of AI, the missteps surrounding its implementation, and its current role - rather than an examination of the potential role (practically speaking) of generative AI in a more general AI model? As is the thrust of the post, generative AI will necessarily be part of a larger AI, in part to make up for its weaknesses, in part to utilize its strengths.

That said, generative AI isn’t nearly as endangered by generated training data as is commonly understood. Even if it were that bad, embodiment is rapidly changing the landscape. There are a ton of papers about how to use larger models to make smaller models more effective, using generative AI to improve generative AI along with efficiencies. Heck, novel efficiencies get developed almost as regularly as novel use cases. We’re always learning how to do more with less.

vk6flab ,
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No.

I think that the current generative models are fundamentally flawed and won’t last the decade.

Which is why I don’t think that they’ll be thought of much at all beyond academic curiosity.

Hackworth OP ,

I can’t imagine willingly going back to before Adobe added Generative Fill to Photoshop. Gen AI will certainly remain more than an academic curiosity, at least until they can be replaced with something better.

vk6flab ,
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For shits and giggles you should try to do a generative fill on an area already filled that way.

(After saving the work, quitting and relaunching the Photoshop.)

Hackworth OP ,

Oh man, it saves me so much time - but it is like working with a bipolar intern. Sometimes it pulls off these amazing fills that would’ve taken me hours to do by hand. And sometimes it has a fit trying to fill in a cloudy sky, and I just do it the old fashioned way. I’m pretty systematic about testing tools in general, and gen fill resists all attempts at building a reliable workflow. Ya really gotta switch up tactics to react as ya go, which can be fun when it’s not irritating. Plus I find surreal hallucinations hilarious, so it makes up for some of its behavior issues with entertainment value.

MCasq_qsaCJ_234 ,

AI has been around for a long time and has had moments of high interest and low interest. The latter has been given the term “AI Winter.” It is possible that there will be another winter if there is a limitation that cannot be avoided for several years.

A_A ,
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Thanks onno & @Hackworth

… “the process universally disintegrates when it ingests content generated by the same process.”

For a Layman enthusiast like me, this sounds like people very isolated (i.e. in a station at the South Pole), go crazy after too much time alone.

Hackworth OP ,

Here’s the paper onno’s alluding to, for reference.

vk6flab ,
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It’s more like a chemical chain reaction that explodes than anything to do with human behaviour.

Petter1 ,

I think there were many unthinkable things achieved in the past that one can hope that we can find a way to train LLM-style “AI” a lot faster with way less recourses and thus achieve self trained assistants, that interact exactly as one expect from their personal helper.

🤷🏻‍♀️I guess we’ll see

Markmus , to android in Buying a Pixel 7 Pro, install Custom ROM or stay on default?

LineageOS, LibeageOS+Microg and GrapheneOS would be good Custom roms.

It really depends on your use case.

massive_bereavement ,

LibeageOS

For a second, I thought there was a LineageOS fork named "LiberaceOS" and now I'm sad there's none...

Markmus ,

Sorry for my misspelling. 😊

massive_bereavement ,

Don't be, I've done worse.

owenfromcanada ,
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I’ve been using LineageOS on my Pixel 7, and it’s been great. As much or as little Google stuff as you want, plus more direct control. Updates are easy, overall would recommend.

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new_guy , to pcgaming in Which game made you realize PC was superior platform to Console (or/and viceversa)?

I’m not particularly fond on the idea that PC is “superior to console”. I just don’t own a console because:

  • The games are cheaper
  • It has retro compatibility built in
  • I can justify spending money on parts to my PC because it’s also the tool I use to work with.
lilja ,
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I agree. We can celebrate what makes the PC platform great without turning it into a competition.

dbx12 , to linux in Gantt in linux

PlantUML supports Gantt charts if I remember correctly. Can run locally (java if I’m not mistaken) or via web.

southsamurai , to showerthoughts in I wonder how many US babies have been named Donald in the last few years and may live to regret it.
@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works avatar

My cousin Donald now goes by his middle name.

His quote: “man, fuck that yankee piece of shit.”

dogsnest ,
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Sadly, half of voting Americans think you’re a fascist, Chinese bot.
Or a woke commie queer groomer in drag.

snausagesinablanket OP ,
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half 1/10th of voting Americans.

2ndSkin ,

maga is 1/10th of voting Americans?

Forester , (edited )
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<span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Remember only 2/3  of the country votes that has the ability to vote
</span>
Thorry84 ,

But even when someone doesn’t vote, that doesn’t mean they aren’t Maga?

So if half of voters are Maga and 1/3 of eligible voters actually vote, it’s almost impossible to say something about the population as a whole. We can say about 16% would be the lower limit, but it could be a lot higher. If we take the voters as an unbiased large sample, we could extrapolate and say 50% of the population is actually Maga. But since voters are by definition a biased sample, it’s hard to say what the actual number would be. Especially with humans, that have complex interactions, like a certain persuasion could actually mean someone is less likely to vote. Or the other way around, where wanting to vote makes one persuasion more likely. This makes the whole thing pretty hard.

snausagesinablanket OP ,
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TLDR: Math is hard.

dogsnest ,
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so, so wrong…can’t you google?

miss_demeanour ,

You’re claiming there are 800 million eligible voters in the USA?
And you got upvoted at least 10 times!

Forester , (edited )
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You may notice how I said. I believe not that I factually looked it up. The source was it came to me in a dream this is why it’s important to do research on the internet and to use good reading comprehension skills. I did not make it an authoritative statement. You should not have read it as one. Now that I’ve looked it up I’ve edited it

Dark_Arc ,
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Eligible, not voting. It’s roughly 1/3 of voting folks are maga.

dogsnest ,
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Ding! Ding! Ding!

EVERYONE here has the internet, yet 4 wrong answers before this…!!!

HiddenLychee ,

Unfortunately it’s way more than that :(

southsamurai ,
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Why not both?

I mean, I can be a woke queer, fascist, Chinese groomer in drag that’s a bot, can’t I? It’s a free country ;)

dogsnest ,
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“Equal in the eyes of the Creator” allows us to be us, without adversely affecting our equals.
The hypocrites don’t believe in mirrors.

PhlubbaDubba ,

You could, but I’d imagine your therapist sending you a fruit cake every year at christmas as a thank you for latest new lambo you funded

southsamurai ,
@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works avatar

Well, are you okay? You’re kinda not making much sense in your comments here. Like, the individual sentences make sense, sorta (this one anyway), but they don’t match what you’re responding to very well.

It makes it seem like you’re responding to the wrong comments. Is that the case? Gods know I fuck that up myself.

garbagebagel ,

Woke commie queer is my middle name

snausagesinablanket OP ,
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Too bad his middle name is Elon. 😒

southsamurai ,
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Ima start calling him that lol

PhlubbaDubba ,

I’m guessing either a brit, an aussie who hates rhyming slang, or a VERY unwilling to adapt southerner.

southsamurai ,
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Huh?

robocall ,
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Trump isn’t a proper representation of a New Yorker. I doubt he even likes baseball.

kiwifoxtrot ,
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Yankee is a nickname for all Americans in the rest of the world.

Nuke_the_whales ,

I still don’t understand how a bunch of Southern, trailer park rednecks who hate new York city rich people, decided that a Manhattan millionaire was the guy to vote for. Why do they think he’s anything like them or has why idea how they live? He’s literally a northern, cartoonish carpet bagger.

garbagebagel ,

I’m sure there’s deeper takes on this but from my understanding, it’s a mix of things: 1) he convinced them he’s not like other politicians (which is true, he was not a politician at all) and 2) he convinced them he’s the “pull yourself up by the jockstrap” American dream and everyone can be like him - that’s just the typical American lie they’ve been using for decades if not longer. Then sprinkle a little bit of christofacist fear mongering in there and you got some undereducated folks excited to see someone who’ll “fight” for their American dream.

kindenough , to pcgaming in Which game made you realize PC was superior platform to Console (or/and viceversa)?

Any game because I like modding.

Lost_My_Mind , to nostupidquestions in When a medicine asks you to "take with food" how much food is enough?

C’mon man! You can’t just be asking me questions like that!

Even without medicine I don’t know what the right amount of food is.

Is it a 7 coarse meal eaten within 10 minutes?

Or is it nothing at all for days on end, as your stomach growls and mocks you for being so fat?

Who can say?

SpaceNoodle ,

No, it’s a three fine meal.

QuarterSwede , to asklemmy in Need help picking out a heating solution for the winter.
@QuarterSwede@lemmy.world avatar

They make window heat pump units now. Might work as a cheap mini split alt.

www.google.com/search?q=window+heat+pump&ie=UTF-8…

Coldgoron OP ,

I don’t know the price points but I appreciate the suggestion.

QuarterSwede ,
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The window units are much more efficient than the portables with hoses. A lot less loss.

Coldgoron OP ,

Very good to know, thank you.

CaptainPedantic ,

This is correct, but they do make portable units with two hoses. Those will be as efficient as a window unit. Costco sells dual hose models for a few hundred dollars. I have one and it works well for heating and cooling.

Rentlar , to pcgaming in Which game made you realize PC was superior platform to Console (or/and viceversa)?

Mods, and the fact that to play with anyone more than 20 metres away from you, you have to pay something every month.

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