[-] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

Problem is, if your slang is too new it looks like gibberish. Of course you could try something else that stands out. Like badly translated idioms.

But it's probably jacket like pants. Even if you tear your ass open to make your writing look less 08/15 that doesn't mean everything's in butter. It's probably only a matter of time until LLMs will copper off that style as well and your clever plan turns into a zero number. And that's where the hare lies in the pepper: Your clarity goes over the Jordan and it ain't itching the LLMs' bean. It'll get trained on your stuff anyway and the cat bites its own tail.

Maybe bad translations aren't the solution either.

[-] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 20 points 3 hours ago

The same happens to people who write a lot and pay attention to their style, such as this gentleman. The way LLMs generate text is strongly influenced by what used to be considered a high-effort eloquent style. Varied sentence lengths, triplets, typographically correct punctuation, yada yada yada. Until recently, that stuff used to be the hallmark of professional writers (and Kenyans, apparently).

What were LLMs trained on? Professional writing, first and foremost. Books, scientific papers, op-eds, blog posts. So by default they take a polite, professional tone with all the flourishes and best practices that previously used to be de rigueur for authors and the like. So now what happens when someone used to "proper" writing writes something?

Everyone thinks it's AI slop because that's how LLMs talk. High effort now looks like low effort. And because tech bros immediately went on to develop "humanizing" tech, any other style will soon also look like low effort. And the same is true for art: Being able to produce highly detailed pictures with spectacular colors and shadows went from something impressive to evidence that you're just a random jackass with a ChatGPT subscription.

You can't really win anymore. Anything short of a live performance or a feature-length movie could feasibly have been generated by a fully automated content mill. That really sucks if you want to engage in creative expression of any kind and doubly so if you once thought you could make a living off of that.

[-] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Naja, am Ende kann aber ein klares "ich werde einer Aufweichung nicht zustimmen". Es ist also nicht völliges Herumgewiesel.

[-] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

It does to me. mm-dd is not used at all in my native language and would be considered grammatically incorrect. Since English doesn't prescribe it I have no reason to fully accept it.

Note that I still prefer to write ISO 8601 dates but my spoken dates are big-endian.

Middle-endian dates like "June 15th 2046" are just bad, of course.

[-] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 45 points 3 days ago

Yeah, the novelty is basically that it's Pokemon with the rose-tinted glasses off. But I'd argue that's not really what carries it and neither is gameplay that works surprisingly well for something they glued together from Pokemon, Breath of the Wild, and any survival action game.

What carries it is that Pocketpair have kept improving the game despite legal interference and without succumbing to the temptation of charging more money.

There's no pre-launch DLC. There's no out-of-early-access price hike. The 1.0 release had so much new stuff in it that it could've been sold as an expansion pack in the pre-DLC days and they just pushed it as a free update because they felt the game wasn't done yet. Even the crossover content is free.

This is a game where the developer actually seems to care about delivering a good product. And I think you can feel it in the quality of the game.

[-] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

Also, caffeine addiction is relatively easy to overcome. Nicotine addiction isn't and tobacco, its main source, contains tons of other crap, which is why governments have been running anti-smoking campaigns for decades but keep their actions against caffeine to "don't give energy drinks to minors" and "please don't sell premixed alcoholic caffeinated beverages".

[-] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

I have to disagree on side details: OS X did have version numbers starting with 10. I used it between Panther and Yosemite and I can remember Tiger being called version 10.4; it was literally printed on the installation disc.

Yes, that means "Mac OS X 10.0" had two tens right after one another. Apple aren't Microsoft silly when it comes to names but they can be silly.

Also, it wasn't introduced as OS X. It was "Mac OS X" until 10.7, then "OS X" until 10.11, and "macOS" since then.

[-] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Clean lines and a warm color scheme might be a good middle ground. The old version's wallpapers were a bit too busy and the new one definitely looks way too sterile.

But yeah, of I had to choose I'd go with the old one.

[-] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 99 points 2 months ago

Yes, infrasound is a fairly well understood phenomenon. Loud noise at frequencies below 10 Hz isn't commonly picked up by recording equipment but can induce things like anxiety, nausea, and sleep problems. While recently wind power plants have sometimes been accused of generating it, it's also been caused by industrial fans and even resonance in a building's ductwork.

It wouldn't surprise me if a data center's AC caused enough noise at frequencies not normally monitored to become an issue.

[-] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 93 points 8 months ago

A shorthand for 000a:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:000s. It's part of the alphabet v4 spec.

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I'm looking to replace an existing Hue setup and some dumb lamps, especially since Hue is hiding basic functionality behind a user account these days. I'm thinking of going with Nanoleaf instead.

What I have right now:

  • Bridge: Hue bridge
  • Living room: Hue pendant light + Hue E27 bulb, controlled by a Hue switch and optionally synced to a Linux PC running Huenicorn
  • Bedroom: Hue ceiling light, controlled by two Hue switches
  • Guest room: Dumb LED light
  • Bathroom: Dumb LED light

What I want to install:

  • Bridge: SLZB-06* for Matter+Thread, optionally talking to a Home Assistant instance
  • Living room: 2x 3-pack Nanoleaf Skylight, controlled by a Sense+ switch and optionally synced to a 4D V1 camera
  • Bedroom: Nanoleaf E27 bulb, controlled by two Sense+ switches
  • Guest room: Nanoleaf E27 bulb, controlled a Sense+ switch
  • Bathroom: Nanoleaf E27 bulb, controlled a Sense+ switch

Now there's a few questions I have:

  • Would this setup work or am I missing something? Nanoleaf's website is quick to mention several home automation hubs, none of which I want to operate.
  • Can I actually sync the Skylights with the 4D camera? The documentation only seems to talk about the corresponding light strips.
  • Is there another option for screen syncing that works with Linux?
  • Can I set a bulb to change its color temperature on a fixed cycle? If so, I could skip one of the Sense+ switches.
  • If Nanoleaf's stuff is unsuitable for my needs, is there another alternative that isn't Hue?
[-] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 148 points 1 year ago

He should go on vacation with the CEO of Nestlé and publicly endorse single-use plastics.

[-] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 114 points 2 years ago

"Well, excuuuuuse me, princess!"

gets shot twice, just to make sure

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