Rhaedas

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 5 points 59 minutes ago

Not a real monologue, but Humbaba mocks Gilgamesh and Enkidu for their hubris and lack of wisdom. He specifically attacks Enkidu, questioning his origins and his betrayal of the wild. He vows to slaughter them both and feed their flesh to the birds and beasts of the forest.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 18 points 1 hour ago

If you just put something else in the cart to bump it to 24 million, you would get free shipping.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 2 points 5 hours ago

My mother was once hit from septic shock, and barely got through it. She waited thinking it was just something she ate or whatever, and had they waited another 30 mins to call 911, it would have been too late. Don't ignore your body tells.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 16 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Maybe it's not AI slop, but we're just too dumb to understand it.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 points 5 hours ago

Even though if you didn't tell them about the part they're missing, they wouldn't realize because it's so little of the whole. But they have to have every damn cent they can grab.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 19 points 5 hours ago

We don't know for sure. Maybe he was in terrible pain, briefly. Let's just keep that possibility to make us feel better.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 13 points 5 hours ago

Yeah, the RAM isn't the problem if you have it, it's the CPU/GPU cycles to do what could be done with simpler tools.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 points 6 hours ago

I actually considered getting an ebike once to get to work, but then started mapping out a good route to take and realized the infrastructure isn't designed for that kind of travel. Bonus, it would be at night, so statistically someone in a car would be a threat to me eventually, because bike lanes are a joke.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 points 7 hours ago

The best way to show the problems of LLMs now is to explore an alternative timeline where the technology was developed not for profitability, but for efficiency, usefulness, and the science itself. This means they used properly obtained data to train on. They looked at the steps along the way to try and improve the output's validity, not how well it appeals to the public. They measured the cost of growth vs. the energy use and resource exploitations to find a balance. There's certainly more that could have been done better.

We wouldn't have what we have though. Throwing money at it and ignoring the effects and ethics got us a lot more, faster. But at what price? It's also tainted the original AI field and label.

One positive thing. It's demonstrated that the dangers of AGI and how we'd behave in its emergence are real. That should be frightening. All the fiction writers were right. And LLMs, while not AGI, can in the right hands and application cause disasters. Hell, we've already seen it in small scale as companies threw out the old to bring in the AI and (some) realized it was a mistake.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 points 8 hours ago

I don't celebrate. But I do use Grumpy Cat's line. Then move on.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 5 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Unfortunately there are things that can come out of nowhere, even for younger people. It's not common, but still a bit scary to think about. You can be fine one day and suddenly if you don't notice the symptoms early enough... Septic shock is a big one. Stroke and heart issues are others.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 2 points 8 hours ago

Which ending? I'd take either that you were hinting at. An Arya ninja move from nowhere, or a Bran the Broken settlement. Either way, at least with reality we'll be able to see what's going on at night.

 

Made something a few months ago and put it on Amazon. Have different variations of covers and two sizes (50 and 100 pages, for 25 and 50 observation nights). Looking for options on the concept, contents (you can view the interior pages for their layout on the Amazon page).

Wondering if it's too flashy and a simple cover might work better, or if it's just because it's Amazon and there's too much competition. Or of course if it's just not what's being looked for.

 

Running Ubuntu 22.04:

I've tried searching for a solution to this, but there's way too many false positives. I know you can enable/disable using a single instance in two places, but that's not my issue. If I open a video the first time, VLC works fine. If I have both the "only use one instance" off, I can click on other videos and they run too. But if I have any combination of those boxes checked I can only play the first video, and to play a new video I have to manually close the VLC player.

What I want to happen is to have one player spawn, but any new video will run in that player, overriding the existing video. Is that just not possible? I don't want to have to close the window every time I run something new, and I don't want to have to go back and lose a whole bunch of separate VLC instances when I'm done.

Update: I found the solution, and I should have tried it first before posting. Oh well, at least I didn't leave anyone who might find this hanging like a DenverCoder9.

Being Ubuntu, VLC was installed via Snap (I can't recall if I did it or it's default). I suppose I should look into the de-Snap process I've seen mentioned before, as I've also had a few non-crash errors since running Ubuntu where snap was the source.

So the solution was to install the Debian version in terminal, not Snap. It works like I expect and wanted, and I can run video after video and it uses the same window.

 

I have an older robot vacuum that has finally shown some age in its battery. The charger will charge for about 15 mins and then gets an error, but it's enough to do a decent vacuuming of the room if I charge then vacuum, then repeat once more. I can't leave it on the charger now due to the error repeating, so basically I run it dead until the next time.

So my question is, can I continue doing this since it works well enough, or is there potential problems/danger with the battery being at less capacity? I could buy a new battery, they aren't terrible in price, but if it works and is safe, why not continue what I'm doing until it completely gives out?

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