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ALostInquirer

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I like to ask a variety of questions, sometimes silly, serious, and/or strange. Never asking in an attempt to pester or “just asking questions” stuff.

I’m generally curious and/or trying to get a sense of people’s views.

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ALostInquirer ,

I had been publishing articles on my own website since 2003, but I did that mostly manually by writing whole HTML pages.

Huh, so literally raw html? I know it’s not too difficult, but I have wondered occasionally how many small websites may have been written that way.

ALostInquirer OP ,

OP asks the real life equivalent of being AFK which, assuming you’re normally regularly online, only really corresponds to being high or sleeping.

The funny thing is, it didn’t occur to me how vague my question was until after I posted and started seeing the replies. That’s made it more fun tbh, and interesting as in this context (online vs. in real life) I’ve not really thought of being online in such individualistic terms as this and some other replies suggest.

ALostInquirer OP ,

This does seem to come closer to what I was wondering about when I originally posted, good eye!

ALostInquirer OP ,

Appreciate the reply! It’s a cool way to view it in individual terms. I was thinking in more social terms, however, which I’ve been a little fascinated to find seems to be a little atypical from the replies so far.

ALostInquirer ,

Does ffmpeg work best standing? Or is it better spread out? Did it work properly if it finished fast?

ALostInquirer ,

Does it sometimes seem like commenting in high traffic online spaces feels this way too, not just Reddit?

ALostInquirer OP ,

Huh, thanks for the detailed reply! I suspected some of them must have something extra going on to help their time in the water, but wouldn’t have thought this!

Were you able to feel how dry the otter was through the sealed fur, or was it sealed enough that you couldn’t really tell?

ALostInquirer OP ,

Second, as a disposable, dead layer, it also provides protection against UV light and such. We don’t think of living out of water under the direct radiation from the sun as being particularly difficult or the environment harsh, because we casually do it every day, but it was a very hard problem for life to solve.

Oh yeah, that’s a good point! I’d typically be more concerned with the drying out part for a lot of aquatic life, forgetting about the UV exposure issues.

ALostInquirer ,

While Lemmy doesn’t have enough people for each product category yet, have you checked out the community !buyitforlife?

There’s also !recommendations for broader discussion, but it’s not gained much traction yet.

ALostInquirer ,

For those interested in discussing their job searches, did you know there’s a !jobs community? Not terribly active at the moment, but given the discussion here there seems to be some potential interest

ALostInquirer ,

Was it a matter of some good timing that these casts were able to be made? That is, with enough time, wouldn’t the voids/cavities themselves likely collapse with the gradual shifting of the soil?

Why don't more filtering systems enable sorting by least viewed/visited, including for older pages/material?

Sometimes what I’m interested in may be more specific or niche, but a lot of search engines and filtering systems don’t seem to provide a way to drill down to those results. What may be some reasons behind that?...

ALostInquirer OP ,

While largely true, I was also thinking of filtering/sorting systems within specific sites (e.g. stores/archives/etc.) as well, which may result in similar junk results but fewer than with a search engine.

ALostInquirer ,

Why do tech journalists keep using the businesses’ language about AI, such as “hallucination”, instead of glitching/bugging/breaking?

ALostInquirer , (edited )

(AI confidently BSing)

Isn’t it more accurate to say it’s outputting incorrect information from a poorly processed prompt/query?

ALostInquirer ,

When I wrote “processing”, I meant it in the sense of getting to that “shape” of an appropriate response you describe. If I’d meant this in a conscious sense I would have written, “poorly understood prompt/query”, for what it’s worth, but I see where you were coming from.

ALostInquirer ,

It’s not a bad article, honestly, I’m just tired of journalists and academics echoing the language of businesses and their marketing. “Hallucinations” aren’t accurate for this form of AI. These are sophisticated generative text tools, and in my opinion lack any qualities that justify all this fluff terminology personifying them.

Also frankly, I think students have one of the better applications for large-language model AIs than many adults, even those trying to deploy them. Students are using them to do their homework, to generate their papers, exactly one of the basic points of them. Too many adults are acting like these tools should be used in their present form as research aids, but the entire generative basis of them undermines their reliability for this. It’s trying to use the wrong tool for the job.

You don’t want any of the generative capacities of a large-language model AI for research help, you’d instead want whatever text-processing it may be able to do to assemble and provide accurate output.

ALostInquirer ,

perception

This is the problem I take with this, there’s no perception in this software. It’s faulty, misapplied software when one tries to employ it for generating reliable, factual summaries and responses.

ALostInquirer ,

Yeah, on further thought and as I mention in other replies, my thoughts on this are shifting toward the real bug of this being how it’s marketed in many cases (as a digital assistant/research aid) and in turn used, or attempted to be used (as it’s marketed).

ALostInquirer ,

Fun part is, that article cites a paper mentioning misgivings with the terminology: AI Hallucinations: A Misnomer Worth Clarifying. So at the very least I’m not alone on this.

ALostInquirer OP ,

Thanks for the pointers, I’ll have to give’em a look! Eusociality does sound right in line with what I was wondering about, but hadn’t heard of it before!

ALostInquirer ,

…Does anyone have data on how many people still use checks?

ALostInquirer ,

if you primarily watch videos with your smartphone, couldn’t you call it a pocket tv?

https://media1.tenor.com/m/QLbV11ltA8cAAAAC/smart-thinking.gif

ALostInquirer ,

Would this require feeding it batteries like a triggerhappy machine gunner?

ALostInquirer ,

What’s a CLA?

ALostInquirer ,

Thanks!

ALostInquirer ,

I just hope this pointless move won’t bring down the wayback machine.

What was the pointless move you’re referring to?

ALostInquirer ,

Isn’t this simply a contrivance to uphold a questionable system?

ALostInquirer ,

What sets IceShrimp apart from the other Misskey forks in your opinion?

ALostInquirer OP ,

That’s kind of what I was thinking may be the case, but I’m not sure if I’m asking this well enough or if I may be misunderstanding ActivityPub.

It’s not clear to me how, without communication/searching outside of an ActivityPub instance, it would ever find other ActivityPub instances to connect to and communicate with.

ALostInquirer ,

Is this a lecosystem?

ALostInquirer OP ,

Yeah, to clarify I don’t mean organizing/arranging files as a part of maintenance, moreso handling different installs/configs/updating. Sometimes since more folks come around to ask for help it can appear as if it’s all much more involved to maintain than it may otherwise be (with a mix of the right setups and knowledge to deal with any hiccups).

ALostInquirer OP ,

When I hosted game servers: Depending on the game, you may have to fix something every few hours. Arma 3 is, by far, the worst. Which really sucks because the games can last really long, and it can be annoying to save and load with the GM tool thing.

Was that a mix of games being more involved and the way their server software was set up, from what you could tell, or…?

ALostInquirer OP ,

Simply checking out the media without prior research

ALostInquirer OP ,

How do you mean? When I say research I mean like looking up not only a description but also reviews (articles/YouTube/etc.).

So what I meant in my other comment was finding out about some media (including maybe some brief description) and then watching/listening/playing/reading it without anything more.

ALostInquirer OP ,

Any sort of entertainment media, whether movies/books/shows/games/music, so you got it with your reply!

ALostInquirer ,

Won’t this potentially contribute to an increasing population of people supportive of, or otherwise apathetic about, abortion restrictions, supposing those taking this course are largely against abortion restrictions?

ALostInquirer ,

Sorry, I should have been clearer, as I wasn’t aiming to suggest it was a genetic trait. As another commenter indicated below, as well as another in this thread, I was asking in relation to the upbringing perspective.

Although I’m well aware upbringing isn’t brainwashing, and so even those anti-abortion parents couldn’t prevent their children from being for bodily autonomy, but I thought it worth asking about to see what others might think. If you read through some conservative leaning texts, some of them unambiguously talk about having children for the express purpose of perpetuating their beliefs, so at least some will view this trend as in their favor.

Also to be completely clear here: I’m pro-choice, and for bodily autonomy.

ALostInquirer ,

Joke’s on you, have you looked behind your furniture lately?

:::spoiler Move furniture behold hairballs and late night spewings! :::

ALostInquirer ,

Jealous of feline flexibility? 😂

ALostInquirer ,

Thanks! I always wonder how people handle navigation with setups like you described.

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