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@smochi@sakurajima.moe

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fujiwara, to random
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New boss is setting up weekly meetings... on Fridays at 9 AM :btr_seika_bruh:

smochi,
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@fujiwara As long as you don't have to be on site, that's somewhat fine. They didn't even ask if everyone in the team is ok with it?

smochi,
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@fujiwara Maybe you should take every Friday morning off from now on. Or just talk to them to make them see how silly meetings on Friday mornings are.

anianimalsmoe, (edited ) to random
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    smochi,
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    @anianimalsmoe Wasn't there another massive user data leak recently? Did you ever use Ticketmaster with this card?
    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/data-of-560-million-ticketmaster-customers-for-sale-after-alleged-breach/

    fujiwara, to random
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    Wasted a PTO day since UPS can't deliver on time and won't let me create an account to allow non-signature deliveries...

    smochi,
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    @fujiwara Enshittified logistics. :akko_nope2:

    hanakogames, to random
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    randomly getting into a discussion about how BOILING human bones is clearly a better decision for culinary monsters than GRINDING them

    smochi,
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    @hanakogames You can make jelly beans out of the gelatin extracted from the bones. Or bone soup.
    HUMAN JELLY BEANS. YUM!

    anianimalsmoe, (edited ) to random
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    My mom's backup old-phone as an MP3-player is a really old Xiaomi Redmi, and the phone basically self-destructed today. The Xiaomi account got suspended, the Xiaomi browser crashes after a few seconds, playing local mp3s just crashes.

    I get that it's so old that it should be End-Of-Life, but just brick the phone by self-destructing all the features thru the internet is a very annoying thing.

    smochi,
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    @anianimalsmoe Have you tried all the suggestions on https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/185116/enable-install-via-usb-without-creating-mi-account ?
    This sounds like a manufacturer anyone should avoid like the plague.

    chikorita157, to random
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    @yon Apparently, I bought a Mac Clone off a Retro Mac forum. Not an 8600/9600, but one of those Power Computing Mac clones, and it is one of those models that used the same processor daughter card despite the logic board being based off a Power Macintosh 7200 design.

    More on it later, but it looks like the RAM is the only thing I need to get since it has a SCSI2SD, although is it better to use a BlueSCSI one instead?

    Also, it supports BeOS.

    smochi,
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    @chikorita157 @yon Not quite in the same league, but if I had to choose a Mac clone, it would be the Laser 128EX/2. They were among the better Apple II clones, and they're rare enough to have some collector's value nowadays.

    smochi,
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    @chikorita157 @yon Raiser cards have become a thing with modern gaming rigs too, because of the massive power the GPUs draw.
    But there's a lot of other problems to solve, like the form factor of the slot bracket for example.

    smochi, to linux
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    Looking for recommendations on beginner-friendly distributions.

    I don't need any novice help, this is for a friend who wants to move away from Windows.

    They need the usual productivity software, web browser, mail, Word, Excel, etc. which will probably be easy to replace. I advised them to start working with now, to see if they feel comfortable with it. They also need some more exotic software, but I'm confident it will work fine with Wine. We'll test that out soon.
    They're also very privacy-sensitive, so I'm currently discounting .

    What would you suggest and why?

    smochi,
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    @popey Basically, I was put off by their Telemetry features (which thankfully seem to be opt-in, but I'm not up to date on that).
    What really bothered me though was that they installed a web search lens and Ubuntu One integrations into their default desktop, and they were very hard to get rid of. IMHO these should never be features that are installed by default.
    Maybe things have changed in the meantime, I haven't tried recent Ubuntu versions.

    smochi,
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    @popey That pleases me to hear. I actually don't hold a grudge, but it drove my decision back then to switch to 100% Debian, and I simply haven't checked back since.
    Maybe I need to give it another chance.

    dopey_kun, to random

    I've barely done any work since Monday because of all of these back-to-back meetings. This isn't helping with our tight deadlines.

    smochi,
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    @anianimalsmoe @dopey_kun Let the managers do all the meetings and the engineers the actual work.
    If your calendar has more meetings than free slots, it means you're on your way to become a manager. Or burnt out. :akko_nope2:

    terrehbyte, to random
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    Briefly took apart my mouse to clean the mouse wheel encoder to fix the jittery scrolling for the second time.

    The jitters stopped immediately, but the "tactility" of each bump didn't come back until the day after, like last time. This mouse has been going strong since 2021 and I hope it'll stay that way for a few more years too.

    smochi,
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    @terrehbyte My last mouse had horrible wheel jitter as well. I was pretty angry when I opened it up and found that the manufacturer had stopped using optical detectors and replaced them with cheap mechanical ones instead.
    On the upside, it was easy to find a compatible part and replace it. But that was probably the last mouse I'm buying from this manufacturer.

    fujiwara, to random
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    Me to my friends: I have been smoke free for a week!
    My friends: No way, you're lying.

    Thanks for the vote of confidence, guys...

    smochi,
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    @fujiwara It's interesting how the internet has more confidence in you than your friends...
    Good job, keep it up! :rae_thumbsup: :ChikaThumbsUp1:

    gsuberland, to random
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    SD cards are the literal worst.

    they've expanded to be the size of small hard drives, and devices like the rpi keep using them as boot media, but they:

    • use garbage tier low endurance flash cells internally
    • have little to no overprovisioning for wear
    • perform only the most basic wear levelling
    • have no protocol level integrity checking
    • have few internal error correction features, if any
    • decay comparatively quickly without patrol scrubs
    • do not perform patrol scrubs
    • cannot do PLP
    smochi,
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    @gsuberland Plus, the whole industry keeps stalling all technological advancements. I have yet to see a single SD UHS-III card on the market, let alone SD Express. I heard there are some UHS-II cards available, but card readers with the additional pins and data channels are rare. Apparently some DSLRs support them?

    grumpygamer, to random
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    I think the root is my problem is I'm generating floats from n-m. I needs it to be blazing fast and it can't use any libs because I need 100% consistency across platforms.

    smochi,
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    @oblomov @arghdos @grumpygamer @TomF Is that really the case if the exponent is constant? The distribution of the mantissa should be exactly uniform.
    Then again, you'll probably end up with denormalized floats, so some trickery might still be needed.

    smochi,
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    @oblomov @arghdos @TomF @grumpygamer Scaling to an arbitrary n..m range is a "blazing fast" operation on any modern FPU, though. You won't need more than a multiply-add (FMA) if n and m and the source range (let's call it a..b) are compile-time constants.

    So, you would generate a random number in the uniform distribution a..b (which can be as optimal as you need it), then scale it to the desired range like this:

    d = s * (m - n) / (b - a) - a * (m - n) / (b - a) + n

    With a=0 and b=1, this becomes

    d = s * (m - n) + n

    Provided that everything except s is constant, you're just left with an FMA with precomputed constants.

    fujiwara, to random
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    They should make a job that's fun

    smochi,
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    @fujiwara You should make up your own job, then. The only challenge will be to get someone to pay you for it.

    smochi,
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    @fujiwara Only if you spend it all on Fujiwara merchandise and get all other fans to spend at least twice as much on more merchandise. :ChikaBrows:

    NaraMoore, (edited ) to random
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    May 13: When does AI cross the line between helpful tool and problematic tech for writing and publishing?

    I am an active luddite and do what I can to sabotage AI.

    When does it cross the line?

    1. When steals training material.
    2. When it plagiarizes or mimics others.
    3. When they utilize immoral terms of service. i.e looting social media that have implemented "legalized theft."
    4. When it attempts to substitute itself for real individuals.
    5. When it attempts to pass itself off as human output.
    6. When it attempts to imply it is "intelligence."

    In other words, everything that currently labels itself as AI. "Deep Learning" tools could be acceptable but not as they are currently implemented and run.

    Oh forgot when it uses "sweatshop" labor.

    smochi,
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    @NaraMoore Actually, it's never the ML model that does all these things. We're not quite at that level of sophistication (or lack of ethics) yet. It's always humans who try to sell you something. Ok, sometimes it may produce lies, but nobody should expect you to believe them.

    smochi,
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    @NaraMoore I meant, we're not quite at the point yet where we let ML replace CEOs, marketing, legal, development, security, etc.
    It's still some humans making the (bad) decisions.

    chikorita157, to random
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    AI developers are brazen stealing other peoples work without permission, hence this.

    https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-05-13/shosetsuka-ni-naro-novel-website-scraped-for-a.i-developer/.210384

    smochi,
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    @anianimalsmoe @chikorita157 But does it allow monetization of the end result?

    fujiwara, to random
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    A coworker of mine literally had a heart attack and his supervisor came into my office to somehow make the whole situation about herself and how she basically "saved the day" by calling 911. I'm just worried about the guy but I can't get an answer about him from her...

    smochi,
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    @fujiwara The situation would be far worse if she hadn't called 911, though, so that's at least something.

    NaraMoore, to manga
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    I still buy some physicl manga. I do perfer it, but have no room to store it and there is so much. I am mainly finishing series I started before I went to emanga. Photo of this summers physical purchases, include She is So Cheeky For a Commoner and the next volume of My Job is Yuri, as well as two volumes of Whisper me a Love Song.

    smochi,
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    @NaraMoore I hear you! Manga take up so much space, and it's really hard to get rid of them. There are some used bookstores that would buy manga, but they're usually not interested in Japanese-language ones.
    I'd have switched to emanga completely if the market was more open. I'm really not interested in any proprietary reader apps and DRM. Also one of the reasons why I stopped buying from Amazon after the shit they pulled with Comixology.

    fujiwara, to random
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    When someone has been typing on Teams for 10 minutes :ChikaREEEE:

    smochi,
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    @fujiwara Happened to me as well - a coworker had to point out it might have been faster to just call the other person. :remblush:

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