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Scientists have confirmed that a 26ft tall, tree-trunk-shaped organism, first discovered in Scotland in 1843, isn't a fungus or plant, but an entirely distinct evolutionary branch of life in c/science@lemmy.world
[–] dave@feddit.uk 33 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Dick! Dick, take a look out of starboard…

‘Sometimes You Need a Dictator,’ Trump Says Following Threats to Cancel Election in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] dave@feddit.uk 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Which part of them did you date then? Just out of curiosity…

“Would you believe if I told you I voted for this man?” she said, referring to Trump. in c/leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world
[–] dave@feddit.uk 14 points 1 week ago

She thinks it’s not kosher

*Permanently Deleted* in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
[–] dave@feddit.uk 53 points 1 week ago (2 children)

“No, the fact you’re fat makes you look fat—the dress just makes you look blue.” was a reply one of my friends who worked in retail gave to a customer once. He does not work in retail any more.

Unbothered. In its lane. Flourishing. in c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
[–] dave@feddit.uk 3 points 3 weeks ago

Oh sure. The training data is about 5mb so easily manageable on a relatively modern machine, but not on the kind of thing that was used for ELIZA.

Unbothered. In its lane. Flourishing. in c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
[–] dave@feddit.uk 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

That tldr needs a tldr…

But also you absolutely can learn & build small versions of LLMs on a regular laptop. I did it on my old 2017 Dell XPS, and trained it on the complete works of Shakespeare. It learnt to write almost passable Shakespeare hallucination in a couple of hours. There’s a good tutorial online if you search for it.

Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99% in c/electricvehicles@slrpnk.net
[–] dave@feddit.uk 11 points 1 month ago

A 99% reduction from $2.9 billion is $29 million. On the scale from $0 to $29 million, $7,386 is much closer to $0, so it’s more accurate to say the deal was cut by 100% unless you want to quote it with several decimal places.

It’s 99.9997% to 4 places.

Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99% in c/electricvehicles@slrpnk.net
[–] dave@feddit.uk 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

And a lot less than $29,000,000.

Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99% in c/electricvehicles@slrpnk.net
[–] dave@feddit.uk 31 points 1 month ago (6 children)

How is $2.9bn to $7k a 99% cut? It’s far closer to a 100% cut…

Resistance is futile in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] dave@feddit.uk 17 points 1 month ago

This guy resists.

This Russian guy is an advisor to Vladimir Putin in c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
[–] dave@feddit.uk 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can you make a leaderboard? We can see which of us is closest to LLM—I’d place myself quite high up.

This Russian guy is an advisor to Vladimir Putin in c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
[–] dave@feddit.uk 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The fact you haven’t seen it and that it’s so common in LLM output just means there’s a huge amount of the internet you don’t look at. That could be a good or bad thing—depending on your perspective.

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CIA tracing those IPv44 addresses (feddit.uk)
 
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Trivial pcb with curved trace (feddit.uk)
 

I’m replacing a trivial pcb in a battery pack for a small fan. It’s 6V (4xAA) with a SPST top left and a USB socket top right. But why on earth would the power line on the pcb follow that curved path? There are no other components, just the 2 ends of the battery pack and a plastic housing.

Maybe just ‘because you can’?

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No!!! Not relationship talks... (feddit.uk)
 
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Problems with Arch upgrade (feddit.uk)
 

I’ve been using Arch for just over a year on my older Dell laptop, and have been regularly running sudo pacman -Syu but not once have I had a problem or anything break. What am I doing wrong?

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One community from linked post (feddit.uk)
 

I saw this comment which included a link to a crosspost in a different community. When I open that link, I see the post and the top of the view has the community name with menu. But I seem to be able to do everything (subscribe, favourite, block, read the sidebar) except just ‘open’ the community to see other posts. Am I missing the right place to click / menu entry?

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Post image preview not showing in feed (feddit.uk)
 

Don’t know if this is from the most recent update but I just saw this post and it doesn’t show the image in the feed—just a grey placeholder box. Opening the post shows the image.

https://feddit.uk/post/11005731

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Bug: Clicking messages in inbox don’t navigate to the comment (feddit.uk)
 

I got a reply to a comment in what’s become quite a bit post (≈150 comments). Clicking the message in the inbox goes to the post comments but not to the reply. It seems to go to a slightly different place each time I open it.

I saved the original comment I’d replied to, and navigating from my ‘saved comments’ does go to the right place.

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Enhancement: Option to turn off background refresh (feddit.uk)
 

This is an assumption on my part, and may have other explanations. I’ve noticed sometimes the feed ‘jumps’ down a post while scrolling, and I’m assuming this is due to a background feed update combined with a sort order that puts a new item anove where I was currently scrolled to. If that’s the case, having an option for manual refresh only would be great.

If that’s not it, there might be a bug somewhere but it’ll be hard to find I guess, as it happens quite rarely.

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Enhancement: settings for more theme colours (feddit.uk)
 

I find the high contrast cards in the main feed a bit hard on my eyes. I’d like to reverse the back card background and the grey page background, and maybe also dial down the text colour a bit. It would be fab to have RGB colour pickers for those kinds of elements.

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Bug: Default post sort order not saved (feddit.uk)
 

Sorry, can’t quite remember if you’d mentioned this already, but it resets to Hot if you force quit and restart the app.

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Inbox bugs / enhancements (feddit.uk)
 

Direct messages in the inbox tab always show as ‘unread’ and there doesn’t seem to be a way to clear that. They also don’t show the name of the other person you’re messaging (seems to show my id instead). It would also be great to link to their profile so you can find their posts / comments easily.

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Bug: Changing sorting / filtering options (feddit.uk)
 

Not sure if I’ve got the right expectations here, but for me, changing the sort ordering on All or in a community seems to have no effect. I also just turned off ‘Hide Read Posts’ and yet refreshing the feed still hides those I’ve read.

Sometimes quitting and restarting does seem to change the sort order, but I’ve also seen it come back still showing the previous ordering.

Are there known problems with sorting / hiding, or is this news?

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