MacNCheezus

MacNCheezus OP , 26 days ago

You must not have met HOAs.

MacNCheezus OP , 26 days ago

I like dandelions. I’d let them grow even without the additional benefits just because they’re pretty. And also fun for kids when the seeds mature and you can pluck them and blow them into the wind.

MacNCheezus OP , 26 days ago

I’ll pass on the wine but I’m down for everything else.

MacNCheezus OP , 26 days ago

I’m sure there must be some based HOAs out there that encourage this sort of thing instead of forbidding it. You just have to not live in Normieville.

MacNCheezus , 26 days ago

In the sense that Doom more or less invented the genre (unless you count the original Wolfenstein, I guess).

Still kind of an awful headline. While GZDoom technically IS based on “Doom tech” because it’s derived from the OG Doom source code that was released to the public, it’s still vastly more powerful than the original engine, with GPU support, beefed up lighting effects, and many of the limitations of the original engine either vastly increased or removed entirely.

MacNCheezus OP , 27 days ago

Add some baked beans for bullets (and Lemmy cred), make stickmen out of fries and slather them in ketchup, boom, you got a proper massacre for your hunger

MacNCheezus , 28 days ago

I reckon someone must have been watching the Spiffing Brit innit

MacNCheezus , 27 days ago

Yes, I would like to invest in your electric crustless brownie company. Call me when you have a prototype ready.

MacNCheezus , 28 days ago

In my experience, most women tend to prefer wine

MacNCheezus OP , 29 days ago

LOL I remember this guy. First video game I ever played.

MacNCheezus , 30 days ago

!mildlyinfuriating

MacNCheezus , 30 days ago

Imagine how many ranches had to die in order to make ranch dressing.

MacNCheezus , 30 days ago

!2meirl4meirl

MacNCheezus , 29 days ago

Like if you steal out of necessity, and get caught once, you then just starve?

I mean… you could try getting on food stamps or whatever sort of government assistance is available in your country for this purpose?

In pretty much all civilized western countries, you don’t HAVE to resort to becoming a criminal simply to get enough food to survive. It’s really more of a sign of antisocial behavior, i.e. a complete rejection of the system combined with a desire to actively cause harm to it.

Or it could be a pride issue, i.e. people not wanting to admit to themselves that they are incapable of taking care of themselves on their own and having to go to a government office in order to “beg” for help (or panhandle outside the supermarket instead).

MacNCheezus , 1 month ago

Apple

MacNCheezus , 1 month ago

Now this guy is paying attention!

MacNCheezus , 1 month ago

Sure, the AI is never going to understand what it’s doing or why, but training it on better datasets certain WILL improve the results.

Garbage in, garbage out.

MacNCheezus , 1 month ago

Well yes, I’ve seen those examples of ChatGPT citing scientific research papers that turned out to be completely made up, but at least it seems to be a step up from straight up shitposting, which is what you get when you train it on a dataset full of shitposts.

MacNCheezus , 1 month ago

Yes, I understand that. But I’m fairly certain the quality of the data will still have a massive influence over how much and how egregiously that happens.

Basically, what I’m saying is, training your AI on a corpus on shitposts instead of factual information seems like a good way to increase the frequency and magnitude of such hallucinations.

MacNCheezus , 1 month ago

Yeah, I mean that’s basically what GPT4Chan did, which someone else already mentioned ITT.

Basically, this guy took a dataset of several gigabytes worth of archived posts from /pol/ and trained a model on that, then hooked it up to a chatbot and let it loose on the board. You can see the results in this video.

MacNCheezus , 1 month ago

New SkyNet origin story just dropped

MacNCheezus , 1 month ago

I was gonna say, just make a commit changing the license to something else, like MIT?

MacNCheezus , 30 days ago

Alternatively, having a lot of money also works.

MacNCheezus , 1 month ago

Tell me again that Swift isn’t an asset of the deep state.

MacNCheezus , 1 month ago

Just stop being poor, problem solved.

MacNCheezus , 1 month ago

Makes sense to me!

Jokes aside, this actually IS in fact the only effective method I’ve found to create lasting change in life – basically, you have to find a way to reframe your situation into something that’s temporary, rather than making it a core part of your identity. Basically, if you consider yourself poor (or homeless) BY DEFINITION, all you’ll ever see is evidence to support that fact. But by doing so, you are in fact robbing yourself of any chance of improvement because if the situation is unfixable, there is no point in even making an effort to try. But if you don’t even try, it simply becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, and then you are indeed stuck with no way out.

So in a way, you do in fact have to gaslight yourself in to believing the opposite about yourself, and then attempt to validate that idea by looking for evidence to support it. This can of course be rather difficult at first, but the more you practice it, the better you’ll get. And the better you get at it, the more you’ll believe it, which ends up making that idea another self-fulfilling prophecy that ends up replacing the former.

MacNCheezus , 1 month ago

Of course it’s possible to fix it, they’ll just have to change some parameters around and retrain the entire model (which takes a long time). Not an easy fix, that’s for sure, but if anyone has the resources to do this, it’s Google.

MacNCheezus , 1 month ago

This should give hope to all of those people who have been worrying about AI taking their jobs away.

It doesn’t matter how good technology gets, it will always be merely a tool. Humans will still be necessary in the future.

MacNCheezus , 1 month ago

It will certainly change the way we work, yes, but that’s always been the case with any disruptive technology in the past.

20-30 years ago, people were already worried that computers would replace people, because they could automate away menial office jobs like invoicing and book keeping. Yet those jobs still exist, because computers can’t be trusted to work completely autonomically. Meanwhile, a whole lot of new jobs were created in the IT sector as result of those computers needing to be programmed, updated, and maintained.

When cars came around and started replacing horse buggies, people were also worried because it would make horse breeders, stables, blacksmiths, etc. obsolete, but of course it just ended up created a new industry consisting of gas stations, car dealerships, and garages instead.

So yes, some people might lose their jobs because what they’re doing now will become obsolete, but there will almost certainly be new ones created instead. As long as you’re willing to adapt and change with the times, you’re never going to end up with nothing to do.

MacNCheezus , 1 month ago

It is. Unfortunately it does tend to use up a lot of RAM and requires either a fairly fast CPU or better yet, a decent graphics card. This means it’s at least somewhat problematic for use on lower spec or ultraportable laptops, especially while on battery power.

MacNCheezus , 1 month ago

That’s the whole point of Lemmy, isn’t it.

MacNCheezus , 26 days ago

There used to be a lot of problems with that back in December/January after the 0.19 release was being rolled out, but they managed to fix them eventually and I haven’t really had any issues for the past three months or so. Has your instance recently upgraded their software perhaps?

MacNCheezus , 1 month ago

Sounds familiar, where I have heard this one before? 🤔

MacNCheezus , 1 month ago

Everything git does is “keeping files with extra steps.”

Not quite, because text files are stored as incremental diffs, which not only saves massive amounts of space but allows for effective comparisons of what exactly has changed between versions. While the former is more of a nice bonus these days with storage being extremely cheap, the latter is in fact the main reason one would use git to begin with.

MacNCheezus , 1 month ago

You probably can but here’s why that’s still not gonna be all that effective.

MacNCheezus , 1 month ago

Yes but without the ability to quickly see what’s changed between different versions (on a semantic level), all it will do for you is safe you some storage.

With a bunch of separate files, you can at least open two of them quickly and do a manual scan, but with git you can only ever have one version checked out at the same time, so now you’ll be checking out an older version, making a temporary copy of that, and then checking out the version you want to compare it to and STILL end up doing just that.

From a workflow perspective, it’s really just extra overhead, with little to no practical benefit.

MacNCheezus , 1 month ago

Sorry, I just woke up and clearly didn’t parse your entire comment correctly. Should have had my coffee first.

MacNCheezus , 1 month ago

I suppose it can be helpful if seeing a folder full of revisions would otherwise drive you crazy. I mean, I fully admit I also sometimes just dump a mess from my desk into a drawer just so I don’t have to look at it constantly.

Also, if you have a consistent habit of writing accurate and descriptive commit comments, you may not need to rely on being able to compare line-by-line diffs to see what’s changed between versions.

I think the moral of the story is that git is a somewhat suboptimal tool for this purpose and it whether it’s helpful at all depends far more on your habits and discipline than on the functionality it provides.

MacNCheezus , 1 month ago

Outside of being able to comment on each revision when making a commit, I guess I don’t see what benefit this provides that regular, automated backups (such as Time Machine) don’t.

MacNCheezus , 1 month ago

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MacNCheezus , 1 month ago

I meant the last one of those. If you have a directory of lose files, you can just open any of them and compare them directly, but if they’re all in git, you’ll either have to make a copy of your current version before checking out the other one (because it would be overwritten otherwise), or like you said, use multiple worktrees, which is a rather advanced feature (that I honestly didn’t even know existed until now).

Either way it’s a bunch of extra work and it’s only necessary because you chose the wrong tool for the job.

MacNCheezus , 1 month ago

This might work

MacNCheezus , 1 month ago

I find it hilarious that Linux users STILL continue to hate on Windows Update when memes like this exist.

In my experience, Linux wants to update itself far more frequently than Windows (which is really generally no more than once a month these days), and it DOESN’T EVEN OFFER THE OPTION of automatically postponing it to a more convenient time. Yes, you can always say “not now”, but then it’ll just keep bugging you again until you say yes.

Ironically, at this point, updates on Linux are basically everything that Windows used to get made fun of in the past (for good reason!), but while the situation has actually improved on Windows, on Linux it’s only become worse as distributions grow and updates become even more frequent.

MacNCheezus , 1 month ago

That’s certainly true, and there may even be advantages to this because security issues might get fixed more quickly, but it doesn’t change the fact that the annoyance factor is at least as high as that of Windows used to be, and there is no convenient option to have it taken care of automatically, say, at shutdown.

Instead of making fun of Windows, it would serve Linux far better to actually address this issue, even if that means copying what Microsoft did here.

MacNCheezus , 1 month ago

I mean, popups are by definition intrusive, no?

Windows 11 just shows a little icon in the notification tray and won’t really bother you otherwise until you click on it. I think by default it will try to install the pending updates on shutdown, but when you click on the icon you can choose to either postpone it or do it immediately.

Meanwhile, Ubuntu always interrupts you with a popup which yes, you can click “Not now” on if you want to deal with it later, but then it’ll just pop up again some other time. And the only other option is to just let it do its thing (but at least it can run unobtrusively in the background and only requires a restart if there’s a kernel update).