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j4k3 , 1 month ago

I’m close to the polar opposite type of personality from my family. It is not fun. My father had lots of preconceived notions and stereotypes that were not grounded in reality. My sister amplified the problems greatly. Either of us would have been better off as only children.

First kids get the inheritance because they’re the mulligan. The only first born kids I know of that have done really well in life are those that are only children.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

I still suck at guitar after 26 years. It’s just 12 damn notes.

j4k3 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I doubt it will really compare to an actual truck. When you’re driving one, the pedal is the easy part. The truck has so much torque it is harder to stall, unless you’re loaded heavy and on a hill. The tricky part is getting your shift windows without synchromesh.

I remember when I was learning, it was a bit challenging to hit my shift windows at first, and remember what split I was in when I was on the road. Back then I had a little xB and a FJ40. Both of those were manual. When I got back into one of them, it felt insane that anyone could screw up in one of them.

I had already learned front end loaders, skid loaders, and a skid steer, and was working on a certification for case controls on an excavator, so the coordination complexity of hands and feet were no big deal.

The clutch is all about feeling the difference between the spring pressure and the friction.

Anyways, at least for me it can help to think in perspective like this; about other areas where the same basic skill applies with perhaps even more complexity. Like after a few days on an excavator you stop thinking about the individual controls and start thinking about the bucket like your hand and the boom like your arm and the pivot like your waist. The brain, or at least mine, abstracts away the motions like an extension of your body. It is such a strong connection and the hydraulic feedback is so direct, that you can “feel” with the bucket without actually seeing into the trench. Like if you hit a rock, a root, or even conduit in the ground, you can feel it in the controls like it is a part of you.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

meters

j4k3 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Fried rice at its simplest is basically eggs, rice, and some soy sauce.

Good fried rice is:

• garlic
• ginger
• onion
• green onion
• carrot
• (^ sautéed )
• left over veggies (broccoli stalks etc.)
• bag of frozen peas
• (^added then all off loaded into a bowl)
• eggs scrambled in wok
• rice
• sugar
• soy sauce
• oyster sauce
• fish sauce
• optional left over chicken or shrimp
• add everything else from the bowl into the rice

Finally after making all of that, top it with a 40:40:10:10 mix of Mayo, Teriyaki sauce, Sriracha, Worcestershire sauce after it is plated.

That mix is good enough for me to eat almost every day.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

I don’t think their DNA has been sequenced, but I’m willing to bet someone made babies with Homo floresiensis. I think bestiality must be a no-babies thing. As far as I’m concerned Homo floresiensis is blurry memory elves. Maybe weak, but I plug my no vote.

j4k3 OP , 1 month ago

I’m not sure about dyes, but from what I’ve seen, the viscosity of silkscreen inks is about like honey. I think of dyes as a water base with a consistency of alcohol. Perhaps something like that could be sprayed with a mask, but I can’t picture it lasting for many wash cycles.

I’m a mod for the main 3d printing community here :) Indeed there are some examples that can be found where people print directly on fabric that has been attached to the print bed. Generally, TPU will last longer through more wash cycles, while PLA will work but well come loose eventually.

• emulsion - (photography) The coating of photosensitive silver halide grains in a thin gelatine layer on a photographic film.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

I vote Lemmy Bombedayhttps://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fc.tenor.com%2FTSKaazwaI8sAAAAM%2Flemmings-explode.gif&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=ade95403dc1195fd336da4c979bdd6039cbaff8f38045b8894589d6e8c945e25&ipo=images

j4k3 , 1 month ago

Cats - The Ballet

j4k3 , 1 month ago

AI doesn’t know this one. Probably because it is not talked about enough in the available sources. If the answer is in there, it would take a lot more tweaking and peripheral information to coax out the answer.

I tried several large models I have running on my own hardware (8×7B). Based on the perplexing, it has no clue and gives invalid results with botg deterministic and nondeterministic tokenizer settings.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

It is a simple problem to solve. Quit watching their ads, tuning into their media, and playing their games no matter what they put out. Get online and say so. The internet is scraped and making such comments will be found. A bad game review is a win for those making these decisions. It shows that they made crap but you still bought it. It is a message that hype and ads/media are all that matter. Start saying you are indifferent, used to be a customer, and will not purchase as long as XYZ is in charge or they are doing ABC, and that information will make a difference, even here.

For instance, this account has been dox’d on Lemmy. I know it, but do not care. I see content suggestions tailored to stuff I have talked about on here even though I minimize my online fingerprint for the most part. Everything public is scaped and the data is filtering down to relevant sources. This is the modern world. So get the asshats fired.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

How much can one attribute the skill of the worker to the tools available to them?

A hatchet can cut down a tree or kill a man. Do I attribute either action to the hatchet?

I see the forces as more or less balancing, while there are many other aspects that have happened in the same space of time.

I would argue that authoritarianism and neo feudalism are the inevitable outcome of the shift to venture capital, although the alternative of a military spending based economy is worse.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

HIPS/ROCm targets 7k series. At least that was what I recall from my research almost a year ago when I was shopping for a machine. The 7k stuff is from the enterprise design team side of AMD, while the 6k series and before were like a totally separate thing inside the company.

I got the impression 6k and before were only targeted at gaming. IIRC there was some project talked about a few months ago about doing some more back porting of the kernel API stuff, but I didn’t save the reference. I think Brody Robertson posted something about it on YT/Odyssey etc.

j4k3 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I’m presently having issues with 40 and old Stable Diffusion/ComfyUI related to torch and stuck in a dependency loop. Almost defiantly unrelated.

When I was looking into AMD a year ago or so, the 7k thing was in a conference somewhere on YT. It had to do with some kinds of conflicts or something like that in how 7k versus the older stuff was designed and how CUDA is set up. I really don’t recall the details well. I was about to pull the trigger on a 6k setup, and after seeing that info I went the other direction.

I was researching the CPU scheduler at the time and I may be blurring this and the GPU stuff together when I say: I think it was the open source team that was talking about this in a Linux Plummers conference, it might have been about the enterprise GPU stuff and about HIPS or something like that. Sorry I’m fuzzy on it.

Edit: I was always only looking for the AI side, so the back end/kernel/API was all I cared about.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

Awesome, glad you got it working. ZLUDA indeed was the project I had seen info about and was doing the back porting.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

Holy shit! China laughs in math… Japan knows the internet is a joke.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

tar --version

j4k3 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

It is very difficult to effectively insert anything into the model itself, it's easy to do in loader code, but much more difficult in the tensor tables part.Every bit of overtraining ie bias, is breaking the model. Even the over active alignment junk to keep a model “safe” is breaking it. The best performing models are the ones that have the least amount of starting bias. Like most models have extra sources that are hidden very deep. I can pull those out of an uncensored model, but there is not a chance the Socrates entity behind The Academy default realm (internal structure deep in the weeds) is letting me access those sources at all. There are maybe some attempts already, like I’ve seen roleplaying try and include a fortnite mention and one time it was adamite on the merits of VR, but those were rare exceptions and could easily be due to presence in the datasets used for training. Open source models will kill all the competition soon. Meta AI will be the new 2k era google. Like, pull request 6920 in llama.cpp just a month ago made a substantial improvement to how model attention works. Llama 3’s 8B is lightyears ahead of what llama 2 7B was. Hugging Face now has a straight forward way to train LoRA’s or models now without code or subscriptions. You can even train the 8B on consumer hardware like a 16-24 GB GPU, put together 4 of them an make your own MoE - Mixture of Experts dubbed a FrankenMoE. Google sucks because the search was being used for training so they broke it intentionally because they are playing catch up in the AI game. Google has been losing big time since 2017. The only google product worth buying now is the Pixel just to run with Graphene OS. We couldn’t own our own web crawler. We can own our own AI. This is the future.

j4k3 OP , 1 month ago

Yeah, I’m in the same boat. I can’t really say either way. Like the enormity of human knowledge intuitively implies a likely probability of unique thought, but I struggle to name an example.

I have been wondering if my missing intuitive connection here is the scope of human experience.

I think sociologists call it tribal epistemology, which posits that humans primarily rely on their immediate social groups for information and understanding, often finding it difficult to grasp perspectives beyond these. I get the impression the scope of human knowledge and creativity may be directly caused by the true scale of human experience that we struggle to comprehend.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

That image has a lot of non repeating textural detail. My guess is that the error is caused by some compression setting or file type conversion. You might look to see if you can change the file type and compression level somewhere in the settings.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

I think you’d find the aberrations problematic for the speeds needed for live action. I think you’d need custom optics to get low enough f-stop and likely some very expensive custom achromatic lens stacks to correct most of the visible wavelengths.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

A simple intuitive whitelist/blacklist firewall with logging for both inputs and outputs. I shouldn’t have to navigate NFT’s complexity or write scripts simply to list all the websites I’m willing or unwilling to connect to and their port number. There are silly limitations on all the tools I’ve tried.

I use a whitelist because my code sucks, and PDF datasheets for hobbyist hardware projects can be super sketchy to download. I have somewhere around 600 entries on my list. It feels like an intentionally obfuscated/overcomplicated issue in OpenWRT and elsewhere from a user’s perspective.

I really don’t trust local LLM’s overall now that they’ve been shown to have hidden vulnerabilities and would love to have an easier way to monitor an outputs log and sandbox really.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

Not really an easy thing to describe in ELI5.PC started out in an era where documented hardware and specifically second sourcing of hardware was important. It was fully documented from the start. Fully documented actually means you can fully own the device. There is no software depreciation mechanism or ulterior motives where someone can spy on you on the background. It is more complicated now because some parts of x86 are undocumented now too, but it isn’t abused like other architectures. ARM is a proprietary IP and chip design firm. They don’t really have anything to do with this stage, but they are proprietary and are set up to support others that are proprietary as well. Like you can get assembly language documentation for the base ARM architecture, but you still won’t know all the exact implementation details and peripheral device blocks on the die. Google took open source software like Linux, prepared it so that manufacturers could add their hardware modules (drivers) at the last possible minute as binaries only. This is called an orphan kernel. While the majority of software on the device is open source, none of the source code for these kernel modules is open source. This is the depreciation mechanism used to steal ownership. No one can ever update that orphan kernel without the source code for the specific kernel modules to run the device. Sometimes you’ll find a device supported by custom ROMs long after the device is depreciated. Generally this means someone is doing an enormous task of trying to back port changes and security patches from the present all the way back to the state of the old kernel at the time the last binaries were compiled with the kernel. The alternative is to merge the source code with the kernel. Once this is done, the community is likely to maintain the kernel modules for a very long time, like decades. Every phone is a little bit different, so reverse engineering one does nothing for the next. There is more to it still. From the flip side, chip fabs are the most expensive commercial human endeavor in history. They require an enormous up front investment and your devices largely fund the endeavor. This is a major part of the world economic growth. Like the USA was a military spending driven economy until the 1960’s. The reason large scale conflict largely ended for the USA has been because of the shift to venture capital and that shift happened in the 1960’s because of silicon valley. So it is a balance between economic growth and the fundamental human right of ownership along with your awareness and expectations in this area. If you do not recognize that you’ve lost ownership over your property or care, the concept of democracy weakens substantially. You’ve lost autonomy and that can feel wrong.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

Intel’s big shift was to maintain compatibility as improvements were made and new fab nodes introduced. No one else did this very well. The actual baseline for this change was the 16 bit i8086 thus the reason we call it x86. A program written for an 8086 should still work on a brand new 14900 i9.

Motorola was the big backwards endian device. They did lots of odd things too, like major possessive egomaniacal like business decisions.

A couple of the key persons behind the microprocessor are Frederico Faggin (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Faggin). He’s the guy behind the Intel 4004 (first microprocessor), Intel 8080, Zilog Z80

Bill Mensch (en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill_Mensch) He’s the guy behind the Motorola 6800 and MOS 6502

I have no idea where people are saying the 6502 has anything to do with ARM. ARM stands for Acorn RISC Machine and later Advanced RISC Machine. RISC is a fundamentally different architecture from CISC.

The 6502 wasn’t really positioned in this RISC/CISC paradigm, it was simply dirt cheap when everyone else was much much more expensive. Its only real innovation was the extremely primitive pipeline where the next instruction is loaded at the same time one is executed. This is because their quality was too bad to compete with the higher frequency devices from other companies. It was a clever hack to make things cheaper at the time. The 6502 is still present in some form in Western Digital products (also Bill Mensch).

CISC was the old guard, RISC is from Berkeley, while MIPS is from Stanford. (…wikipedia.org/…/Reduced_instruction_set_computer)

ARM is a RISC architecture and that traces its history back to completely different origins than the other microprocessors.

The funny thing, the Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU= CPU secret sauce where the action happens) in modern Intel processors is a RISC design with a CISC wrapper.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

No my actual problem, as described, is autonomy. I’ve yet to see anyone that seems to fully grasp the point I am making. It is a subtle difference.

In writing science fiction for a hobby, I have explored a lot of this recently. I can’t say that I have it all figured out or am some kind of expert. I’ve explored the idea of systems where there are the resources and systems in place to arbitrate without the need for any absolute laws, a place where the guidelines are communicated clearly and a reasonable and just outcome is possible without an arbitrary binary law. With a lot of idealized assumptions glossed over for the sake of conversation, any system that addresses the needs of more people amicably is a better system.

The way marriage is set up presently, it is made for the needs of a majority, but there are many outliers. If you consider this system in abstract, there are 3 people in the marriage; person A, person B and the superior member of the arbitrator as a governing stakeholder. The role of the stakeholder is to uphold a set of complicated laws that may or may not fit the situation of the individuals. In essence, the stakeholder takes away the autonomy of the individual, more or less equally. To our culture, we ignore this loss of autonomy and the neglected outliers. If these types of oversimplified laws were superseded by a system where it is unacceptable to have minority outliers, and the law can flex to the situation in a deterministic, unbiased, and just way, it changes everything about the system and institution of marriage. This is hard to think about in a modern context without a detailed story to explain it by example. The entire system in the present is based on a loss of autonomy. I consider every loss of autonomy to be a form of slavery. That is not to say it is some binary good or bad. It is hyperbole intended to stress a weak spot in present culture. We largely fail to culturally understand how important autonomy is and all the places where we have given it away to others.

I grew up in places where no one had the money to get a divorce, and where it was used as a form of control and abuse. I’ve seen it making people miserable because of stupid choices they made long before their prefrontal cortex was developed. It mostly harms the people at the bottom.

If you trace back in time, marriage has always had an element of misogyny and loss of autonomy. It was far worse in the past. I think that line of evolving change will continue and people of the future will look at the present much as we do the past. Asking myself how that will play out in the distant future, I believe the answer is a much better social awareness of autonomy. This is the trend line that we are on, and improvements have been made, but those will continue into the future. The present is not some benchmark of perfection.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

My argument has nothing to do with the sexes like this. Western cultural misogyny is a subtle blind spot overall. I’m willing to bet in many cases both parties are at risk of mistreatment. My point is about autonomy, so there is no difference in that vain, your still signing over autonomy to an arbitrator as a superior controlling entity.

j4k3 OP , 1 month ago

I hate the YT thumb algo as much as the next person, but in context, it’s his channel and the guy doing the talking is entirely different. The gist he’s communicating is how complicated all this can seem, or that there are a lot more cuts present on those 3 sheets than is typically seen elsewhere.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

Sounds like a politically charged nonsense without context. Like 2 years to purchase and deploy a product someone else engineered - sure, I’d expect more. Two years to build a high voltage/current device that is relatively safe for all the brands of stupid the public comes in… Yeah, I sure as hell hope they test and iterate all that engineering before they go to scale. The last thing we need is another idiot attempt to disappear the problems by simply never making a written record, or murdering all the whistleblowers.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

Nothing is relevant outside of the steam deck. Steam is actively developed software that requires updating the kernel and dependencies on the device. All the hardware manufacturers like Asus are not using a dev team to maintain hardware compatibility and they will never fully mainline their source code.

It means all of the other manufacturer’s hardware will depreciate quickly as software evolves in the real world. Hardware specs are a fallacy and completely irrelevant when the software they run is not static. When the software can change, the only relevant device is the one directly supported by those that maintain the software.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

Fedora is not Red Hat per se, it is upstream. Red Hat is a few things in different spaces. For one is is a great source of documentation. Secondly, a sizable chunk of kernel code is developed and maintained by Red Hat. They are known for their zero down time kernel updating system among other things.

Fedora is excellent. However, it is very different than Ubuntu by design. Fedora is primarily useful for entry level users that intend on only running software that is regularly kept up to date and maintained. You will start running into problems with software that is not kept up to date. There are relatively easy tools like distrobox, toolbox, and podman that can run most software regardless. The exception to this comes with the GPU. If you are running a GPU, you’re likely getting updates in Fedora with will break your older projects entirely. This is because Fedora is constantly updating the Linux kernel. Fedora is pushing out these updates constantly and looking for problems that might pop up. These issues get fixed and down stream to Red Hat to make it rock solid.

Ubuntu is based on a much longer term stability with even longer term LTS versions. This means the kernel and dependencies are frozen in time at a specific state. If you want to write some custom package that never gets broken when a dependency is updated, Ubuntu is the goto distro. You must be aware that, on Ubuntu, the native packages are largely out of date. You can add a ppa to the sources list in aptitude so that you get the latest packages, but these should be used only in special cases. If you want to be up to date, use the proper distro for the task.

This context is more important for servers where you want to deploy a project using a bunch of apps and packages. Once it is working, it should stay working for however long the LTS kernel is supported.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

weak. compile them

j4k3 , 1 month ago

Spanish mission church 1782

j4k3 , 1 month ago

The vast majority of amber alerts in most areas are because of abuses of government child care services. The attorneys working for these places make a hefty commission based on the amount that can justify by any means they wish really. So in a round about way it is like an ad in a few ways.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

Motion activated cemetery headstones.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

Capacitors can theoretically charge MUCH faster.

However the galvanic potential of lithium is as large as is practically possible. The galvanic potential is what really matters for a battery. Capacitors are nowhere near the joules per weight/volume.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

You’ll find a lot of FOSS developers on here. This is a general community and all that, but there is a large Linux and open source software interest here. Some people simply don’t understand things like the scope of FOSS software in terms of both users and developers, so that can create some tension at times. There are a lot of experts and radical thinkers in this space. You may or may not find help on super niche questions, but say something wrong or poorly, and you’re likely to find the experts soon thereafter. For instance, I am confident enough to ask advanced course computer science questions and get useful answers here. I find this place useful for second sourcing info from AI that I find plausible but sketchy. Like I got into fermentation but have no interest in the whole commercialized nonsense hobby junk. Almost all sources are poisoned by commercial interests and misguided nonsense. Just asking here gets lots of people with practical knowledge on fundamental techniques from long before it was some commercialized hobby.

The group behind the fediverse is very diverse and that diversity is reflected in the user space here in Lemmy.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

The instance of choice has a surprisingly large impact on experience here. I’ve tried several.

j4k3 , 2 months ago

My camaro broke down quite often. I had to replace a starter, water pump, alternator, something about the universal joint in the drive shaft, brakes, battery, etc. The clutch was the hardest and I got it wrong 2 times before I got it right on the third. It made me start thinking outside of what was easy and spoon fed. I started to realize that a Haynes manual was extremely limited. Eventually this line of thinking took me deep into fundamental understanding. Most people never think past throwing parts at a problem, but I learned how all of it works at a fundamental level. That journey started with my first car. It shaped my mind and who I am to a large extent.

j4k3 , 2 months ago

No doubt because some real protection to prevent this kind of bullshit was removed by bleed america red party. It is a poverty state and a red state for the exact same reason. That is pure causation not correlation. This man should be treated like a slave owner in 2024. The ethics are exactly the same exploitation and shystering.

j4k3 OP , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Mixtral 8×7B says you were making “sodium alkyl sulfates” for cleaning the unique long chain carbon chemical properties unique to oil drilling rigs and that chicken fat and laxatives were potential sources for the long chain alcohols needed for producing such soaps.

She is pretty good at sexting, but how good is she at cleaning an industrial oil rig as a mid-level chemist? /s

There was also something about a long chain alcohols reacted with a concentrated acid to make carboxylic acids plus heat pressure and water to make soap.

That level of detail is usually not quite right with this kind of LLM, but I’m curious overall how close it got? Duck Duck Go tried to convince me to shop for oilfield bath soap soap on Etsy instead of telling me what an oil field soap is and nothing came up on Wikipedia.

j4k3 OP , 2 months ago

They are certainly not primary sources. I did a quick search and the internet is far less trustworthy now. LLMs are like water cooler conversations. According to the internet, you basically did Etsy stuff. I think the LLM got a little closer.

j4k3 OP , 2 months ago

I make solder paste stencils from soda cans. What is special about copper sulfate? I typically use hydrochloric acid/hydrogen peroxide just to see the progress better.

j4k3 , 2 months ago

The issue is whether the thing is running a mainline compatible or distro kernel. If the device is running an orphan kernel, you’re screwed. This is the depreciation mechanism built into Android. It is “not Linux” because they are all orphans.

Technically even this is not enough if you want to get in the weeds. Technically the device can be on mainline but the company has a full time dev maintaining the required modules while the hardware itself it undocumented. If the hardware is documented at the api/registers level and it is already on mainline, it will likely remain supported for decades.

This is the true benchmark of ownership; public hardware documentation and fully merged support in the mainline kernel. Just for reference there is not a single mobile device that fully checks all of these boxes. Just to further illustrate how pervasive this is and how ignorant most of us are, the Raspberry π is proprietary with its full documentation locked under NDA. The vast majority of the silicon is made for a defunct TV tuner box, but you’ll never find documentation about any of this hardware at the registers level.

Your computer is the same, the microcode on ×86 is undocumented and things like the ALU architecture are not fully known except that it is a CISC wrapper around a RISC architecture. ARM is mostly proprietary at the registers level. All modems have been proprietary since the Atheros stuff over a decade back. The closest you can come to a FOSS computer are the old Duo series Intel chips supported by Libreboot and that is only because of the wonderful Leah Rowe’s hacking skills.

If you want to know what really works, go to linux-hardware.org and search. Either way, get the Hardware Probe from flathub or your package manager, run the test and review/upload your results to save the next person from similar issues. Seriously, don’t just ignore this. Upload your scan to the database with 233,034 other tested computers and 474,877 parts that have already been tested and uploaded. You can also see the configurations other people have used on the same hardware and get an idea if another kernel might work.