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Abilt models typically perform worse than their bases at the same tasks, so while I'd use one to evaluate content knowledge, I'd probably ultimately stick to one from a family I could fool with abstraction or coerce through system prompt.

That's strike one from the Bowlero family.

It's not new, and entire disciplines exist because of these dependent structures. It doesn't do to unseat and discredit the connected and well regarded, but you might enjoy some mild comfort in security in numbers through a little citational flattery.

It's a game of cultural tribalism. The only thing worse for one than not engaging is to upset the status quo unblessed.

Race theory was always pseudoscience to imply the generalized differences between people who looked differently were genetic and thus inherent traits.

It's an extension of a much older, more insidious idea - blood purity. There are still people who would pretend to trace their own lineage back through every scholar, king, and prophet to Adam, while choosing to believe that everyone else is a mongrel line, inferior and subservient to them in some way.

There is no platform to discuss labor in the United States at the national level.

Just like there was no meaningful way to discuss individual data rights and privacy, or anything else that might have broken our proverbial Googles over the past two decades.

Yeah, unfortunately.

Effluent and wastewater companies have been getting greedy. If one suddenly 100x's your cost, you're fucked until you build onsite treatment or find a way to ship it out.

As an example, when my ex was trying to price ultrasounds on a breast lump as self pay before choosing where to go, the billing departments refused to quote her without the billing codes for the procedure, which require a treatment plan, which requires an appointment with a doctor at that office or hospital.

It took a month of calling around before a nurse who worked between departments took pity and leaked her the common billing codes. Once she got a quote, the estimates dropped from thousands out of pocket on her insurance to a few hundred, to an office comping the procedure.

She works in healthcare. I wouldn't have even known where to begin after being told no.

There are apps that can limit the charge %, or using something like Tasker to cycle a smart plug.

Android 16 also has native limiting under Settings > Battery > Battery Health > Charging Optimization > Limit to 80%

I've got a 4090 and 3090 in a node that peaks at 600W.

If you're not power limiting in nvidia-smi, start.

First come first serve, and multiple show dates if you're optimizing for sales.

There are lots of platforms for ticket sales and venue management. That's how they run high school and college events, local theaters, etc. Ticketmaster is doing something completely different.

You're focusing on the barest sliver of the pie. They and their ideas are entering politics, the clergy, influencing regulation and policy at national and international levels. Success anywhere is an initiation to a network of brotherhood. Accumulating clout, demonstrating acumen, amassing wealth, and coordinating at scale are not traits of people who will just "disappear" if one person does not give them attention.

And whether you care about them or not, they have access to your kids, your neighbors, your friends, your family, anywhere that social media promotes them, and you can't turn them off.

Our relative isolation was our best defense against destabilizing ideas, but we can't see inside the algorithms, and these people aren't teaching alternative value systems or ethics and civic behavior. They're role models for exploitation, preying on algorithmically selected vulnerable demographics.

And not seeing them doesn't mean you're successfully attenuating their reach, it just means that you're being excluded because you're not their mark. They know who they're looking for, and they know how to recruit. That's what we're up against.

Console games today are routinely >50GB, and more frequently >100GB for the most popular titles. On common residential plans, it can take upwards of an hour before installation even begins.

I'm not a gamer, but I hear with how often there are required updates before playing, slower internet is pretty disruptive to quick drop-in multiplayer sessions with friends.

Can't hear Fidonet without recommending BBS: The Documentary (2005)

youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7nj3G6Jpv2G6Gp6NvN1kUtQuW8QshBWE

They're last recorded snapshots, not live feeds.

Plex has become a platform, and I imagine a certain number of their customers are revenue generating providers.

Emby still offers lifetime for $119 with a 30 device limit, but I'm not sure what it offers over Jellyfin.

Are there any advantages to Plex outside of being able to easily share and manage library access to many users? It's been a decade since I've used it.

I played games online over dial-up, a few asynchronously via email, in the 1990s. Until the modern era, if some sort of direct TCP/IP connection wasn't built in, then an add-on usually supplied everything needed for private multiplayer and map editing.

I don't think companies should be on the hook for maintaining moderation, hosting, and development at no cost in perpetuity, but addressing not providing any legal way to access or modify content from a onetime sale forces companies to pick a model so consumers can make informed purchases.

I've often wondered how the gaming industry has gotten away for so long muddying whether they're selling products or services.

There are quite a few, now, and more coming out regularly to surprisingly little fanfare.

Tencent's Hunyuan3D (https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan) is a single/multi view photogrammetry replacement, which image-blaster is based on.

Facebook Research has extended SAM to 3D (https://github.com/facebookresearch/sam-3d-objects), separating as 'Objects' and 'Body'.

The workflows to make meshes watertight for 3D printing are all pretty effective.

E=MC^2+AI

Variations might be better for underwater or surface impact detection, but for now, congrats to them on the reinvention the 1950s Zenith ultrasonic remote.

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/385428-fi...

My grandfather used to love to show off how he could jingle his keys to turn on his TV.

Also, without regulating the ultrasonic frequency space, I imagine this would be prone to interference from other devices already employing ultrasoud, today, like Google Home.

https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/9509981?hl=en

"Why does Google flush all of my donors' smart toilets whenever I tap my champagne glass before a toast?"

When CNN was sold to Time Warner, we lost the last voice in cable news from outside of New York.

Not that many years ago, Facebook tried to broker a deal to provide free internet to India if all of their web traffic and communications would happen within the Facebook ecosystem.

It's long been the dream of more than a few American companies to be the gatekeepers of the web.

Based on 20g rdv, they could be estimating ~40kg of rendered fat for 2000 servings. I can't tell from the wording whether they don't know the population and are implying that's a possible maximum or are just trying to relay the observed production capacity.

Look into pre-Colombian grease trails, which we have much better logistical records for.

While contributing to a friend's Remembrance research, I was pretty surprised when Gemini Pro suddenly refused to answer any more questions about photos from the Höcker Album after it spotted an "SS" insignia.

Ironically, the justification it gave was that it wasn't its fault because it was just following orders. I hope this hasn't landed me on Google's list of undesirables.

Grok, for better or worse, didn't seem to mind.

How 2 men claimed an absurd record by driving an old 3-wheel car the length of Africa

That's one long car.

That's understandable. I went through a period of chronic pain and, had it continued, I likely wouldn't be alive today.

The mechanisms protecting us from non-existence by millions of years of evolution can be eroded by pain. It's not something you realize you even have to lose until you've experienced it firsthand. I certainly never expected it, and it's hard for me to imagine what I'd intended while going through it.

Logs to troubleshoot, for starters.

Not appreciably, and not before a 5-yr AppleCare+ warranty expires.

Out of our >3000 currently active Apple Silicon Macs, failures due to non-physical damage are in the single digits per year. Of those, none have been from production systems with 24/7 uptime and continuous high load, which reflects your parenthetical.

Perhaps we haven't met the other end of the bathtub curve yet, but we also won't be retaining any of these very far beyond their warranty period, much less the end of their support life.

I'm heartened that so much tape is still around. The lot of digital is often binary - it exists or it doesn't, but even a shred of flaking analog media can retain complete information.

I was a member of a few tape sharing communities at the turn of the millennium and spent those years digitizing scores of board and bootleg live recordings (APE or FLAC... the great debate). We'd trade our strategies for getting gear into shows, who was working door and board and was cool with what, stories of getting caught. When recorders got small enough, we started sneaking MiniDisc players into venues with microphones down our sleeves for stereo. I've still got a few stacks of those.

Leading up to that, at the dawn of LAME, I was doing the same over on IRC. Everyone with an fserve had a few tracks or albums of their favorite bands, tons local with no other distribution, and you could always message them for more info. There was a lot of love, and I found a lot of great people across the world that way.

When the RIAA crackdowns started, I archived as much as I could but lost everything in the mid-2000s when a Windows upgrade overwrote my external storage. The irony that hundreds of gigs (of both kids) would have survived if I'd put them on tape hasn't eluded me.

It helps with LLMs to ban personal pronouns. Give yourself a name, give the agent a name, and speak in third person. Reiterate this in the system prompt.

If you say "you" or "I", LLMs universally can not distinguish between the speaker as the context grows.

These services are pretty underbaked and not much better than local in operational utility. Also true, characteristics experienced at lower quants will always show themselves with base models at scale.

Mine did, once, and it hasn't been requested again. It was also, until recently, accepted by age verification services as indication of non-minor status.