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Neither is nature, this sounds like an environmental disaster waiting to happen

Even the guide dogs are getting laid off?? That's the most depressing AI victim news yet.

I've been accosted outside enough shops to buy underage smokers a pack of cigs to know how well this will work.

I rebuilt my PII system last year and really wanted to run SAH on it for old time's sake but sadly that hasn't been possible for a long time. I miss watching that old screensaver and optimising the system performance so I could get through a WU in less time, iirc at the time it took about 18 hours each.

Sounds like using Instagram posts to determine what someone really looks like

Randy Andy

I recently picked up a Threadripper 3960x, 256GB DDR4 and RTX2080ti 11GB running Debian 13 and open web-ui w/ ollama.

It runs well, not much difference to Claude etc but still learning the ropes and how to get the best out of it and local llms in general. Having tonnes of memory is nice for switching out models in ollama quickly since everything stays in cache.

The GPU memory is the weak point though so I'm mostly using models up to 18b parameters that can fit in the vram.

As is the gopher service, which is a shame.

if the UK had a written constitution, the right to drink tea would be damn near the top of it.

As a neurodiverse British person I tend to communicate more directly than the average English speaker and I find LLM's manner of speech very off-putting and insincere, which in some cases it literally is. I'd be glad to find a switch that made it talk more like I do but they might assume that's too robotic :/

welcome to the 4 digit club! I'm on day 1,360 and still today gaining new insights into my drinking habits and learning more about myself without it.

I had a dog, then kids and now just got a puppy and I think there is perhaps some truth to it, dogs are certainly much much lower effort/stress/cost but provide a good amount of companionship. It wasn't enough for us, obviously, but we also have minimal family connections outside our household, for others the equation may add up that a dog/cat is enough and if it was then all the power to you.

I used Tiddlywiki for years, never stopped liking it but eventually migrated to LogSeq which fit my note-taking style better. Looks like things have moved on since then though so I'll have to catch up on what's happening with it!

Games that start with the Bongcloud attack are fun to watch if only for the facial expressions that follow.

I've only seen this happen when the plug was fitted badly (pinched or damaged wires inside the plug) or someone use a nail in place of the fuse. People do stupid things like that all the time but it's not the fault of the standard, a fuse should blow if it's run over-current for too long.

My wife is a huge Disney fan and I accepted my fate years ago that eventually we will take our kids to Disney world when they are the optimal ages to get the most out of it. That time comes next year and we had already pencilled our visit for the spring but now we are considering our options and may look at going elsewhere, it's a real shame as it's been a long standing dream for my wife to repeat her childhood experience but it's a different world now.

I met my wife at 21, married at 32, I was a hard sceptic about marriage in my 20's after seeing my parents divorce in my late teens, they married too early and I didn't want to make that mistake.

As it was, our pre-marriage relationship was a period of huge growth for both of us until marriage was a natural progression, by which time we were both very different people but better suited to one another. When we had kids our relationship was strong and it got use through some tough times. It's a long road but it's a more stable one.

So no, no regrets.

I wonder if anyone has tried feeding a skyscraper's lighting rod into a sand battery and let it charge up from lightning alone, so much potential for free energy there.

I could really get into a UK version of this. As it is I'm at a handicap with most of these clues. Great puzzle though!

Good, but I'm now deep into logseq for work use and switching now is unlikely. Their previous terms were a barrier, it created a chicken and egg problem that meant I never got onboard enough to consider paying for a license. Most people I know that got into it did so outside of work but I never had a need for it there.

I'd rather use two power tools, wouldn't cost much more but would last a lot longer and do a better job

A 25 year old article that might as well have been written yesterday, clearly stood the test of time.

it almost sounds robotic, if I didn't expect that even AI would prefer generally accepted terms even just to try sound more authentic.

I'm sure there is a historical reason we have "half" and "quarter" and no others but it's not my area of expertise but still, not using them when they're appropriate just seems...odd.

"one-fourth of all women"

is this a Americanese thing? It reads like a gross simplification of just saying "a quarter" which is quite jarring coming from a prestigious university.

That may be true if you routinely use a text mode web browser and get all your content from RSS feeds, I've certainly moved more in that direction to avoid the sensory overload of the modern web.

I still find Gemini great for reading long-form content though, I appreciate Gemtext is the important factor in this and if web browsers would render it over HTTPS then great, but I'm not aware of any that do.

I also like to use Gemini on vintage hardware that really struggle on the modern web, some of that hardware isn't even that old anymore, low-end devices from just 10 years ago with 2-4GB RAM will have a hard time nowadays.

Converting between pta formats is easy but between pta and database formats will always be difficult.

Seems like a missed trick, I'm not going to change my accounting system for one app but if it was in the pta ecosystem I could easily see myself using it as a nice front end for my existing data files.

Feeder on Android, simple, decent enough.

I see no reason to move away from my synching/keepass setup, it's worked reliably for years and I expect it will continue to do so regardless of what happens with these services. It's nice they exist for less technical users but it's not for me.