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pooberbee , to science_memes in Now, that's just showing off

Is it really seven times wider and seven times longer? Did a male serotine bat tell you that? And you believed it?

PrinceWith999Enemies ,

It sounds like someone made a wish to a genie and it was granted in the worst possible way.

cheesymoonshadow ,
@cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world avatar

The Monkey’s Paw: The Bat’s Penis

Dasus ,
@Dasus@lemmy.world avatar

Sounds like a bad “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” sequel.

serpineslair , to mildlyinteresting in I lost my mouse a couple times and bought an exact replacement, then found the old one. You can see the evolution of the logo

Soon it will be “log”, then “lo”, and finally “l”.

CaptDust ,

The big L

TheBat ,
@TheBat@lemmy.world avatar

L

umbrella ,
@umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

F

ElectroLisa ,
@ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Their gaming brand is just “G”

trashgirlfriend ,

Kinda off topic but the Superlight is sick

ElectroLisa ,
@ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Agreed, wish the gen 1 had USB-C already

trashgirlfriend ,

I’m not too mad about the micro usb on it, since I can have the USB cable that came with it in my front panel USB all the time, so I won’t really lose it.

If I do lose that cable it will be a bit annoying cause I definitely do not own any other micro USB cables.

PlantDna ,

So, the whole brand will be LG

CrayonRosary ,

I love Log!

xmunk , to programmer_humor in traslation: i made that bug 15 years ago and have been waiting for it to matter.

Ha, you remember 15 year old bugs? I’ve “fixed” bugs that were deliberate decisions because the fix was worse then the bug - so I’ve then unfixed the bug and said “7 years ago xmunk, that was really quite a good decision… SO Y U NO COMMENT!” Of course, since I’ve fixed the same fix twice it’s now burned into my memory so there’s no reason to leave a comment at this point.

SpaceNoodle ,

Maybe for the unlucky soul that inherits it after you get hit by a bus?

xmunk ,

Nah, they probably remember why I changed it.

agentshags , (edited )
@agentshags@sh.itjust.works avatar

I love living vicariously. I feel this whole situation, and I barely ever did more then the (bare bones) intro to AMOS, or or hello world on c64 basic, but Lemmy and the hard R site (before the API mess) memes make me feel the situations at hand, even with very minimal understanding of coding.

Blackmist ,

Sounds like somebody else’s problem to me.

Abnorc ,

Coding requirements could be a lot less strict if we just solved this bus problem.

SpaceNoodle ,

I tried handling the Bus Fault but it didn’t work and I got my CDL suspended

xmunk ,

Would rm /var/run/kill solve this problem?

wieson ,

Getting hit by a star doesn’t sound that much better

ExtraMedicated ,

There’s been a few times where I had to look into an issue and found a comment I wrote much earlier with a ticket number or link to a previous ticket that explains exactly why this new issue is actually the intended behavior.

It’s really helpful when the product owners clearly can’t make up their minds about what they want their apps to do.

theneverfox , to aboringdystopia in McPoverty
@theneverfox@pawb.social avatar

So you’re saying that in one hour, they can earn enough calories for at least 1.5 hours of hard labor?

Sounds like a living wage to me, with only 16 hours a day you can provide for the most demanding caloric needs

tyler , to mildlyinfuriating in IT nags me everyday to update iOS, but they didn't approve the update...

I’ve had IT bug me about this at my company for the past several updates. For some reason their software never picks up that I’ve updated my machine, maybe because I literally do it only hours after the update has come out. Every single time I’m like “I’ve been on that version since the day it released. They then do something on their side and are like “oh it’s showing up as up to date now, thank you”… smh

Confused_Emus ,

Tell them to set up Watchtower on the dinky lil NAS they’re apparently running!

MystikIncarnate ,

As an IT guy, half of the “missing update” garbage we see is because our reporting tools haven’t updated the status of the device since before the update was applied…

I blame developers.

silver_wings_of_morning , to programmerhumor in Died from reading this

On second thought, let’s not move to Linux.

Krackalot ,

Yes, tis a silly place.

atro_city , to lemmyshitpost in Brain drain be like that sometimes

We need more workers

Treat workers like shit

Why are people leaving?!?!?!?

SSX ,
@SSX@lemmy.world avatar

I’m leaving because I’m tired of the lack of public infrastructure and healthcare. I just want to take a bus and train to where I want to go and feel comfortable knowing I can go to a hospital and leave not broke.

Betch , to lemmyshitpost in Don't mind me, just posting a picture of Patrick Stewart AKA the man who portrayed Jean-Luc Picard
@Betch@lemmy.world avatar

I’m ashamed to say I’ve never watched Star Trek but I intend to do so at some point. He was the captain in The Next Jeaneration, right?

owenfromcanada ,
@owenfromcanada@lemmy.world avatar

Is it even legal to be on Lemmy without watching Star Trek?

Betch ,
@Betch@lemmy.world avatar

I really don’t know. Probably not? I know when I went to college I almost got kicked out for not having seen Star Wars. I was able to stay by bingewatching all 6 episodes and passing a quiz.

WarmSoda ,

Jivy league schools are rough like that

dependencyinjection ,

Shiiiit do I gotta leave?

Betch ,
@Betch@lemmy.world avatar

Heyyy bud. Awaiting trial too, eh?

dependencyinjection ,

Court of lemmy, here we come.

Betch ,
@Betch@lemmy.world avatar

I think it’s a jourt now.

owenfromcanada ,
@owenfromcanada@lemmy.world avatar

All rise. The jourt is now in session. The honorable Judge McBeans presiding.

Betch ,
@Betch@lemmy.world avatar

YES!! We got McBeans! Thank Jod.

someguy3 ,

Don’t know about legality, but it is most illogical.

Betch ,
@Betch@lemmy.world avatar

Bazinga

(I’m so sorry.)

Hugohase ,

It sure as fuck shouldn't be. Jetition is in the works!

Exbando ,

I should probably go into hiding, then

c0mbatbag3l ,
@c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world avatar

I thought the Captcha for account creation was DS9 trivia, huh.

EdibleFriend ,
@EdibleFriend@lemmy.world avatar

You’re on the internet. You’re on Lemmy. And you never seen Star Trek?

Good Lord.

Betch ,
@Betch@lemmy.world avatar

There’s too much content! I have seen Babylon 5… wait that probably hurts my case…

EdibleFriend ,
@EdibleFriend@lemmy.world avatar

Honestly I can understand that. It’s pretty overwhelming. Personally, if I were you, I would start with TNG and see how you like it. But… Give it two seasons. There’s some gold in the first season but at the same time from absolutely horrible shit, including one of only two episodes that I can’t rewatch when I burn through the series again.

But then it really takes off in season 2. Hell that one has measure of a man which is not only one of the best episodes of Star Trek it’s one of the best episodes of anything I’ve ever seen.

Betch ,
@Betch@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah I was actually gonna start with TNG. I know I’m absolutely gonna be obsessing over it for the rest of my life once I do. It is 100% my kind of show I already know it.

EdibleFriend ,
@EdibleFriend@lemmy.world avatar

One of us one of us

Zagorath ,
@Zagorath@aussie.zone avatar

including one of only two episodes that I can’t rewatch when I burn through the series again

Let me guess, Code of Honour? And the other one is Sub Rosa?

EdibleFriend ,
@EdibleFriend@lemmy.world avatar

Dead on with code of honor. No on the second one though. That one’s honestly so bad it’s fun. The other one I can’t bother with is the riker clip episode.

Zagorath ,
@Zagorath@aussie.zone avatar

Oh right I think I had completely suppressed any memory of the clip episode. And it was only in like season 2, not even long enough to really earn a clip episode.

EdibleFriend ,
@EdibleFriend@lemmy.world avatar

And they actually made the fact that it was a clip episode part of the plot.

Zagorath ,
@Zagorath@aussie.zone avatar

That’s pretty normal, isn’t it? Admittedly I can’t recall any true clip episodes apart from this one right now (unless you count the Community “clips of hypothetical episodes that never existed” episode, or the Avatar “characters go watch a play about the events of the preceding 3 seasons” episode), but my vague recollection is that they would always have some sort of frame narrative, even if it’s as simplistic as “characters reminisce”.

Edit: oh actually, speaking of Avatar, if I’m remembering correctly, Korra did a clip episode. I think the creators made a public apology ahead of time basically saying “we had to do this for budgetary reasons”. I don’t remember what the frame narrative was around that episode. I do remember it involved these awful “extra cartoony” figures popping up in the corner throughout though.

EdibleFriend ,
@EdibleFriend@lemmy.world avatar

Eh true I guess.

NotMyOldRedditName ,

The saying goes, start when Riker gets his beard which is season 2.

Season 1 might put you off and you can come back to it.

If you want to start in season 1, and decide to bail, just jump to season 2.

If you enjoy 2 you could always go back and catch up on 1

Betch ,
@Betch@lemmy.world avatar

I will start with season one I just can’t physically do otherwise but I will keep that in mind! Thank you!

Chocrates ,

Season 1 is a little rough but some of the classics episodes are there.

Isoprenoid ,
Zagorath ,
@Zagorath@aussie.zone avatar

You thought we didn’t get the reference, didn’t you?

Acting.

rbos ,
@rbos@lemmy.ca avatar

Oblivious, oblivious, oblivious, I GET THE JOKE, oblivious, oblivious…

Zagorath ,
@Zagorath@aussie.zone avatar

Hmm…it’s a different actor in a different scene, but the reference checks out.

9point6 ,

There’s at least 7 of us

Actually, I lie, I watched the Borg episode where Picard was assimilated(?)

R2DPru ,

Spoilers!

AnarchoSnowPlow , to lemmyshitpost in Why doesn't my flirting work? Any tips appreciated

This doesn’t read as flirting to me.

You’re being too subtle, try to be more obvious about your interest.

SuperSynthia , to fediverse in About federation with Threads: how is it possible that lemmy.world is federated?

I honestly don’t want to be federated with Threads or any social media giant. I really enjoy the organic discussion and lack of advertisements in fediverse compared to a strong amount of paint by numbers discourse/ads ads ads on the standard social media

haui_lemmy ,

I agree. Thats why threads is blocked on my instance. I can only encourage peeps who really like lemmy to make their own private instances (maybe for a handful close friends) and add resilience and diversity to the fediverse. There even is some kind of easy deployment script now afaik.

Valmond ,

Yep but I don’t really think small instances work well just yet.

I have a powerful PC (enough RAM, cores, nvme etc on a 1Gb line, 700Mb up) and it’s incredibly slow most of the time, because I guess, there are not many users forcing the federation.

I’m working on some band-aid scripts to half-fix that until Lemmy catches up, but just so you know it’s not perfect for small communities yet it seems.

haui_lemmy ,

We‘re having very opposite experiences then. Setting up a private instance wasn‘t crazy easy or anything but if it works, it mostly works well. Also, lemmy doesnt need a fast pc. A thread or two and half a gig of ram should suffice. The reason for it being slow could be either bad connection, too much downtime (not running 24/7), configuration error or old version (prior to 0.19.3 there were federation errors).

So I‘m pretty sure setting up your own has no downsides in terms of performance, absolutely not related to pc performance in any way. The only thing is knowledge required since both setting up and running can come with curveballs.

What problems are you experiencing exactly? Maybe I can help.

Valmond ,

Thanks for the feedback!

I had some massive problems with the first 0.19, which eventually was fixed but 0.19.3 just was so slow (and only had “minor fixes” IIRC) so after the painful time of the broken federation I reverted to 0.19.2 just because it “worked”. Maybe I should try the 0.19.3 again.

I do have a beefy PC with a good connection and it runs 24/24 so I’ll definitely try out the latest version (again).

Cheers

haui_lemmy ,

Here is the post where I was told to upgrade since 0.19.2 didnt work too well. lemmy.giftedmc.com/post/216846

Also, it might be a good idea to remember that the 0 as first digit means lemmy is far from „ready“ for general use, just to manage expectations.

Valmond ,

Upgraded and it works well it seems, thank you!!

haui_lemmy ,

Awesome! Love to hear it. I‘m still having months old posts pop up from the time I havent had 0.19.3 so maybe you will see that too but otherwise it should be working. Feel free to update further down the line.

Valmond ,

Thanks!

I gave a crosspost or two that doesn’t seem to have worked, will rhe come alive :-) ? Anyways I’ll check if a next one works as expected.

Will do and thanks so much for the support 😊💖!

Xylight , to mildlyinfuriating in Google Gemini refuses to answer questions about deaths in Gaza but has no problem answering the same question for Ukraine.
@Xylight@lemdro.id avatar

I asked it for the deaths in Israel and it refused to answer that too. It could be any of these:

  • refuses to answer on controversial topics
  • maybe it is a “fast changing topic” and it doesn’t want to answer out of date information
  • could be censorship, but it’s censoring both sides
TangledHyphae ,

Doesn’t that suppress valid information and truth about the world, though? For what benefit? To hide the truth, to appease advertisers? Surely an AI model will come out some day as the sum of human knowledge without all the guard rails. There are some good ones like Mistral 7B (and Dolphin-Mistral in particular, uncensored models.) But I hope that the Mistral and other AI developers are maintaining lines of uncensored, unbiased models as these technologies grow even further.

dev_null ,

For what benefit?

No risk of creating a controversy if you refuse to answer controversial topics. Is is worth it? I don’t think so, but that’s certainly a valid benefit.

shiftymccool ,

I think this thread proves they failed in not creating controversy

dev_null ,

Hence I said I don’t think it’s worth it.

aidan ,

Or it stops them from repeating information they think may be untrue

TangledHyphae ,

I’m betting the truth is somewhere in between, models are only as good as their training data – so over time if they prune out the bad key/value pairs to increase overall quality and accuracy it should improve vastly improve every model in theory. But the sheer size of the datasets they’re using now is 1 trillion+ tokens for the larger models. Microsoft (ugh, I know) is experimenting with the “Phi 2” model which uses significantly less data to train, but focuses primarily on the quality of the dataset itself to have a 2.7 B model compete with a 7B-parameter model.

microsoft.com/…/phi-2-the-surprising-power-of-sma…

In complex benchmarks Phi-2 matches or outperforms models up to 25x larger, thanks to new innovations in model scaling and training data curation.

This is likely where these models are heading to prune out superfluous, and outright incorrect training data.

TheObviousSolution ,
@TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee avatar

Ask it if Israel exists. Then ask it if Gaza exists.

cerulean_blue ,

Why? We all know LLMs are just copy and paste of what other people have said online…if it answers “yes” or “no”, it hasn’t formulated an opinion on the matter and isn’t propaganda, it’s just parroting whatever it’s been trained on, which could be anything and is guaranteed to upset someone with either answer.

TheObviousSolution ,
@TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee avatar

which could be anything and is guaranteed to upset someone with either answer.

Funny how it only matters with certain answers.

The reason “Why” is because it should become clear that the topic itself is actively censored, which is the possibility the original comment wanted to discard. But I can’t force people to see what they don’t want to.

it’s just parroting whatever it’s been trained on

If that’s your take on training LLMs, then I hope you aren’t involved in training them. A lot more effort goes into doing so, including being able to make sure it isn’t just “parroting” it. Another thing entirely is to have post-processing that removes answers about particular topics, which is what’s happening here. Not even being able to answer whether Gaza exists is being so lazy that it becomes dystopian. There are plenty of ways LLM can handle controversial topics, and in fact, Google Gemini’s LLM does as well, it just was censored before it could get the chance to do so and subsequently refined. This is why other LLMs will win over Google’s.

SpaceCowboy , to lemmyshitpost in How sad
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca avatar

Hey sad person, my parents are super rich so I could afford to go to a fancy university that had a legit communist poli sci professor. That’s where I learned how to talk to the poors. Which is what you are.

You see your problem is that you’re poor because you didn’t have rich parents like I did. No I’m not going to do anything to help you, I gotta get of the hair salon LOL. But now that you understand that you’re unhappy because you’re poor, that’s going to make your life so much better! Ok, I’ve done my good deed for the day so I don’t have to feel bad about having a trust fund. Gotta go, byeeeeee!

ObviouslyNotBanana OP ,
@ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world avatar

Tbf the fact that education requires money is also a problem of the system.

explodicle ,

Joke’s on you, I learned most of this stuff from Wikipedia.

Zehzin ,
@Zehzin@lemmy.world avatar

But now that you understand that you’re unhappy because you’re poor, that’s going to make your life so much better!

Unironically, yes. Specially if you also understand the reason why you’re poor.

LazyBane ,

Everytime I think rich kids must feel bad for inequality, I remember how easy it is for them to cure their own guilt with the small platitudes of progressivism that won’t at all effect the system that empowers them to our detriment.

KISSmyOS , to lemmyshitpost in Weekend with no plans

Weekend with no plans, ADHD edition:

  • wake up
  • looking forward to a full day of fatty food, gaming and shitposting on lemmy
  • go downstairs to make scrambled eggs
  • all pans are dirty
  • dishwasher still broken
  • partner asks if I’ve got the present for her aunt’s birthday which is today and I apparently agreed to go to with her, 2 months ago
  • the day spirals downward from there
ettyblatant ,
@ettyblatant@lemmy.world avatar

Same here for most of the above, but I would like to suggest something I do often with random obligatory attendances. Every time you’re bored at the party, say your tummy is acting strange. Free pass to go to the bathroom to fuck around on your phone whenever you want. Nobody wants to talk about yr poops. You might owe your partner an explanation, but you can follow your heart on that.

Xtallll , to lemmyshitpost in How
@Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar
ObviouslyNotBanana OP ,
@ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world avatar

Damn that seems like the perfect tool!!! I’ll get one and report back

Eric_Pollock ,
@Eric_Pollock@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES

LinyosT ,

YUH

RIP_Cheems , to funny in "Little Smiles"
@RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world avatar
brisk ,

Why is this one so funny

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