TehPers

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TehPers,

The sooner, the better. It’s so painful when I use Google these days. Why is it that smaller people can do seemingly obvious features like custom user-controlled site rankings, but the big players are completely incapable of that?

TehPers,

This has to be a meme, right? To be clear, I’m all for more options with card arts, but this feels like it should be part of a secret lair.

TehPers,

Not just marketing, that’s the term it’s always been called. Plug a bunch of parameters into a non-deterministic model and you’ve got an AI, at least by what seems to be the common definition of the term.

TehPers,

Do they give up the copyright, or license it to the website? They still created the content, and I don’t have a Twitter account, but after briefly reading the ToS, it says they license it to Twitter (which is pretty standard from the other services I use that I’ve read the ToS for).

TehPers,

This is a guess since I’m not a lawyer, but since users license their content to Twitter when posting it, Bright Data might have to prove fair use. I don’t think that question has been answered yet in relation to AI model training, but search engines have been doing this for decades for what it’s worth, so I don’t know.

TehPers,

I think Steve makes a great case against Asus in the ROG vs ROC debate. In fact, it raises the question of who is stealing from who here. Clearly Asus took the ROG name from roc. They had to have started with the ROG acronym and went backwards because, let’s be real, who would have thought “Republic of Gamers” was a good name if they weren’t forced into using that acronym from the beginning? The ROC branding is clearly a reference to the same bird, just taken more literally.

The Win11 ads has me looking at good Linux distros now. I didn’t buy a (discounted) $200 license so i can look at ads.

Advice - Getting started with LLMs

I’m new to the field of large language models (LLMs) and I’m really interested in learning how to train and use my own models for qualitative analysis. However, I’m not sure where to start or what resources would be most helpful for a complete beginner. Could anyone provide some guidance and advice on the best way to get...

TehPers,

I managed to get ollama running through Docker easily. It’s by far the least painful of the options I tried, and I just make requests to the API it exposes. You can also give it GPU resources through Docker if you want to, and there’s a CLI tool for a quick chat interface if you want to play with that. I can get LLAMA 3 (8B) running on my 3070 without issues.

Training a LLM is very difficult and expensive. I don’t think it’s a good place for anyone to start. Many of the popular models (LLAMA, GPT, etc) are astronomically expensive to train and require and ungodly number of resources.

TehPers,

If the ICC has no jurisdiction, why are they all worried about the investigation? Let them do their thing, then just nod and say “OK” afterwards.

Also, I love how the US refuses to allow itself or certain close allies to be held responsible for war crimes. At least we can criticize our own government though, could be a lot worse I suppose. Still, maybe don’t do those? That’d be great.

TehPers,

“Thieves break into a car in SF” is somehow less surprising than “the grass is green in SF”.

TehPers,

You’re right about that. She’s a real catch.

TehPers,

Timestamps do apply. This is why Dryad of the Illysian Grove overwrites Blood Moon’s ability if it comes out afterwards (but not before).

TehPers,

Speaking from experience, in the past year, I’ve used 3 different hosting providers for git repositories at work. Only one of them is GitHub. It’s good to keep your options open - git isn’t locked to any particular provider, after all.

TehPers,

Steve Harvey at home.

TehPers,

You’re not wrong. All religious extremists are, in fact, air breathers. They’re also generally water drinkers.

As someone who doesn’t drink, this has reinforced my preference to wait until things improve (hopefully they will eventually…) before considering a trip there.

TehPers,

Everyone has their own unique story for going through the process. For example, someone close to me believed they were F2M, and mid-transition, learned instead that they actually liked to express themselves as feminine but wanted some features granted by the hormones they took. Once they got what they wanted, they stopped taking hormones. I’m not sure that’s the same as a “detransition”, but it answered a lot of questions this person had and ended up helping them with their body dysmorphia (which was what the goal was in the first place - not necessarily to fully transition, but to address their discomfort with their own body).

In this case, it seems like this person did fully transition, but they were unable to adapt at first to the transition (largely due to their environment). I’d imagine this kind of story isn’t super uncommon for people in environments that won’t accept them transitioning, where they feel the need to change themselves back to satisfy society until they can either accept that their environment will reject them, or find an environment that will accept them.

TehPers,

I’ve been writing Lua off and on for probably close to a decade, and I can’t remember the lack of a round function being an issue. I may have needed it at some point, but it’s not exactly a complicated function to write up in a minute.

To me, the biggest appeal of Lua is actually the lack of an overbearing standard library. It has just enough to be usable as a scripting language within a larger application, and the larger application can always include its own helper library that gets loaded into the interpreter automatically on initialization. Feature-wise, there is enough to define your own OOP helpers (but no language built-in specific OOP stuff beyond metatables basically), there is enough to build your own async/await and generators using coroutines, etc.

Not having a huge built-in standard lib comes with the benefit of not needing to distribute a huge standard lib with your larger application.

A New Bill In Louisiana Would Criminalize Librarians and Libraries Who Join the American Library Association (bookriot.com)

The House Bill 777 was introduced on March 25 by Representative Kellee Dickerson, who helped fund the Louisiana Freedom Caucus. The bill would criminalize library workers and libraries for joining the American Library Association....

TehPers,

Genuine question, but is this bill even constitutional? Article says no, but doesn’t explain why. Still, a similar bill could easily say that people are not allowed to join any other kind of organization (except presumably a religious one), right?

TehPers,

This seems super useful! Personally speaking, I’d also love to see more effort done in general to simplify consuming and producing the JSON-LD (and ActivityStreams vocab) used by these federated services as well, as it’s been something I’ve been trying to tackle myself for a while now (turns out it’s really hard to do in a statically typed, non-dynamic language, from my experience).

TehPers,

Or, in the US at least, signing the bill at a restaurant and writing in the tip (many places also take signatures on electronic devices these days). Or, in work and academic settings, writing on a pad to take notes (many, but not all, schools/classes allow students to take notes on electronic devices these days).

I don’t think I’ve been required to use a pen that wasn’t provided to me in the US in years. In other countries, I have though, with Japan being the most recent example I believe. Those situations are extremely frustrating, but when a pen is provided, I generally don’t mind. I can’t see it being some big conspiracy about pens though - unless you consider the slow adoption of technology in general a conspiracy, which I’d be more open to.

TehPers,

I have used checks in the past couple years. Only like two or so, but enough that I somehow have a checkbook.

TehPers,

See, it’s democratic as long as people vote for their candidate of choice. Only one candidate? Well, you voted for them at least.

Also, I’m curious why this hasn’t been an issue in the past. Is it Ohio changing the deadline, or the DNC being moved later in the year?

TehPers,

Both would be good, one does not need to exclude the other. Neither is going to be enough on its own though. More EV availability would overall reduce carbon footprint, but more can be reduced by increasing biking availability and encouraging it more where possible.

I can say from experience though that the $40+/hr parking in some areas of SF make me never want to drive there again though. BART does help though, since you can get around SF pretty well on public transit alone. Other cities in the area also benefit from BART, but not as much, and could generally have better public transportation (busses and such).

TehPers,

Those charts seem to be from SoCal. This might be a better reference for Bay Area: www.baaqmd.gov/…/air-monitoring-data/#/

Worth adding that Bay Area has manufacturing and refining. Not sure how much that affects air quality relative to cars.

TehPers,

I’m confused by this comment. The entire Bay Area is closed to SF. No single city there is not close to it, and people commute from the entire Bay Area to SF. Not everyone commutes there of course, but traffic patterns primarily cause traffic towards that city in the morning and away in the afternoon.

Each other city in the Bay Area also have their own jobs and individual traffic patterns of course, but housing prices are expensive in the entire Bay Area, often increasing as you get closer to SF but also to other city centers. The cost of living in the entire Bay Area is prohibitively expensive to most people, with people often needing to compromise between proximity to work, the size/quality of their home/neighborhood, having roommates to help pay (I have friends who have roomed in groups of 4 to cover rent), etc. SF isn’t the only expensive city in that area.

TehPers,

It might help if you explain what yours is. Perhaps you’d like to elaborate on why saying most cities aren’t SF is relevant in any way to a discussion about an article about the Bay Area?

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