[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I think they meant people don't know how these models work in practice. On a theoretical level they are well understood. But in practice they behave in a chaotic way (chaotic in the math sense of the word). A small change in the input can lead to wild swings in the output. So when people want to change the way the models acts by changing the system prompt, it's basically impossible to say what change should be made to achieve the desired outcome. And often such a change doesn't even exist, only something that's close enough is possible. So they have to resort to trial and error, trying to tweak things like the system prompt and seeing what happens.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 11 hours ago

She isn't a snob, she's an addict. It doesn't matter how she gets her fix, even if she has to murder some transporter freak, she needs to get the good stuff.

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I humbly reserve the right to give you a hug, if you'd consent, for all you did for us. Also I would like your permission to kick you in the balls for this "announcement". If your biology doesn't allow for that, don't worry, I've got a magic spell that can give you balls just long enough for me to kick them.

Just kidding, love you <3

[-] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago

3 years? I've been bald for 20 years and I'm 300K down the hole, when does this trick kick in exactly?

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Lmao political position far right. That sounds like enlightened centrism allright

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I think the costume is pretty much impossible to move in. She can't turn her head vertically at all and her arms don't go to anywhere near her body.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 20 hours ago

(A head-on crash at 60 MPH is like hitting a brick wall at 120 MPH.)

This is not true at all. The amount of energy is the same as hitting a brick wall at 120 mph, but the energy is spread over both cars. So the end result is actually the same as hitting a brick wall at 60 mph.

The Mythbusters got this wrong once and were buried with people correcting them, so they tested it and it turned out the viewers were right.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago

So King Trump is just fucking up the world economy because it's fun to him? Right that tracks.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

I've been following Jan for a while now, he does excellent work and I love his technical explanations.

His prints always look like they are on fast-forward, but that's actually just the real speed. Amazing!

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First of all, microwaves emit non-ionizing radiation and thus can't affect anything biological except for heating it. Wifi uses the same radiation and we bathe in that all the time, it is totally safe.

Second of all, even if the microwave blasted huge amounts of ionizing radiation into the underwear or even food when heating, it will NOT turn the food radioactive. This is a common misconception and radiation is often used to treat food in order to kill all the microbes, this makes the food very resistant to spoiling. Often MREs used in the millitary are treated this way to give them a large shelf life, which is a really good feature to have. The food is totally safe to eat (at least from a radiation standpoint).

It is possible to use radiation to make something radioactive, but the energy levels need to be extremely high. Think inside of nuclear reactors high. This is actually a large reason for radioactive waste, not just the spent fuel, but a lot of parts used inside the reactor become radioactive. This is why nuclear fusion reactors still output a lot of radioactive waste, as parts used inside the reactor (especially the shields) become radioactive.

However it's important to know radioactivity can absolutely spread and contaminate stuff. This is not because of the radiation, but because of the material itself spreading. It's usually in the form of dust that spreads, gets stuck all over the place and especially when it gets inside of biologics it can be a real problem. But the exact same risk exists for toxic materials that aren't radioactive, for example asbestos fibres.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Extremely humid, we were at 86% around then.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

I heard a Brit say the other day it was scorching out. So I asked how hot it was, they said 25 degrees C. I laughed so hard I almost fell from my chair. Where I live it was 33 degrees at that time and had been 39 degrees earlier that week.

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I've played a demo of this game or a Shareware version, I never had the full game. It was on one of those 1000 shareware games CDs. It's a top down racing game with a gritty sort of vibe, a bit dark. As you raced there were pickups and bonus items and I'm pretty sure you could fire weapons at other racers. It was a single player game. It was top down in that semi 3D kind of way, but I think the cars were meant as full sized cars, not a micro machines kind of thing.

The one unique feature that never let me pinpoint exactly what game it was, was this very specific sound effect when getting a certain pick up. A voice would say "Booster", but it was pronounced more like "Boostah".

There were jumps on the game and one way to kill other racers was to jump on top of them. I think the track had multiple routes you could take.

I think because of the shareware version I had I only had one track, which was kinda dark, like maybe a cave. And the surroundings were rocks. I think there were also thinks like oil barrels with fire in them and pretty lighting effects for the time.

Very similar to Death Rally, but maybe a game inspired by Death Rally? Because that game was earlier I think and doesn't have the distinct "Boostah" audio clip.

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She died about 10 years ago. I love and have loved all the pets I've ever had, but Pyxel was something special. She was very headstrong and did whatever she felt like, getting pissed off if you did something she didn't like. But when she was in the mood she would be the sweetest thing in the world.

She was saved from the dumpster, along with her mother and brother. The mother had to be put down and a lot of the brothers and sisters didn't make it from being dumped in a trash bag. But Pyxel and her brother made it and we adopted them from the rescue when they were very young still.

I remember Pyxel sleeping for hours in my lap, or in the cat bed on my desk. When I was working from home, she slept in the cat bed, till she got fed up, went for a drink and a snack only to get back and jump in my lap because it was her time and she would let me know it.

Still miss her every day.

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Rescued old CRT I put a lot of work in. Was totally dead when I got it, rescued it to be almost perfect again.

It still has an intermittent horizontal size issue and the power button has some cosmetic wear. But at least the power button works, it used to only work when you would hold it down.

Be sure to enable the audio for some good retro tunes coming from the monitor.

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Serious question. I know there are a lot of memes about microservices, both advocating and against it. And jokes from devs who go and turn monoliths into microservices and then back again. For my line of work it isn't all that relevant, but a discussion I heard today made me wonder.

There were two camps in this discussion. One side said microservices are the future, all big companies are moving towards it, the entire industry is moving towards it. In their view, if it wasn't Mach architecture, it wasn't valid software. In their world both software they made themselves and software bought or licensed (SaaS) externally should be all microservices, api first, cloud-native and headless. The other camp said it was foolish to think this is actually what's happening in the industry and depending on where you look microservices are actually abandoned instead of moving towards. By demanding all software to be like this you are limiting what there is on offer. Furthermore the total cost of operation would be higher and connecting everything together in a coherent way is a nightmare. Instead of gaining flexibility, one can actually lose flexibility because changing interfaces could be very hard or even impossible with software not fully under your own control. They argued a lot of the benefits are only slight or even nonexistent and not required in the current age of day.

They asked what I thought and I had to confess I didn't really have an answer for them. I don't know what the industry is doing and I think whether or not to use microservices is highly dependent on the situation. I don't know if there is a universal answer.

Do you guys have any good thoughts on this? Are microservices the future, or just a fad which needs to be forgotten ASAP.

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