[-] T156@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

For pens, I've found the cheap ones from Muji to be quite nice. They've a replaceable core and are also cheap if the body does break.

metal ruler

Is there such a thing as a non-BIFL ruler? Especially a metal one. They're basically a big stick. Not much that can go wrong there.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Or from the other angle, when there are better forms for working in a factory. We don't make cars giant mechanical humans you sit atop of, why do the same for robots?

[-] T156@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm not the most knowledgeable about LLMs, but I don't see the threat distillation is supposed to pose.

Surely what you'd get from training something on a model's outputs and reasoning chain would just get you something that sounds like that model. The model won't magically become more intelligent just because it's trained on data from a smarter model. It doesn't have the relevant vectors and mathematics, it's only got the text output. A lot of the model changes tend to be architectural than just more data these days.

At least from my layman's viewpoint, it seems very much like claiming that watching television would let someone build a better television just from what they saw. The whole fear around distillation just sounds like nonsense.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

It also doesn't preclude the device using other means than IP to detect location.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It is a bit redundant when you're in the same country.

People in England don't call English muffins English muffins, and Berliners don't call Berliners Berliners, why would Australians call Australian dollars Australian Dollars, unless they needed to specify?

[-] T156@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Ducks for short.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Rule 2: What is a context window???

Its the window through which you enviously stare at people running megatoken context windows.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Or that part of the drop isn't just from more accurate testing methods being developed and used.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It's a different tool, but for much the same end. I want to say it's more because the device is cheaper than a typical stenography machine would cost, but I don't know that for sure.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

"I hear you're a Romulan now, Father!"

[-] T156@lemmy.world 24 points 5 days ago

Lots of planets have an Ireland.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 43 points 6 days ago

Social media has also done its hardest to try and push people away from using it. Between the culture being awful, and there being an increasing number of roadblocks to using it, that ironically ruins discoverability for anyone who might want to use social media.

For example, if you want to use Reddit, and see a link, there's a lot of posts that you can't see without having an account and logging in. That's a big ask for something that you're not even sure that you want to sign up for, which would only be worse since you couldn't sidestep that using the old reddit interface.

Meanwhile, Twitter not only makes it so that you can't see much of anything without being logged in, but they're trying some new scheme where if you have an account, you need to download the app and give them your biometrics to confirm that you're human before you can use your account.

If you've scarcely used either site, why would you start now? Everything wants you to jump through more and more hoops to verify that you're actually a human, and if you don't have an account, the content that you can see doesn't seem to much of anything interesting. When not logged in, some subreddit and posts are completely inaccessible, and on Twitter, you can only see the tweet, but not the replies, or recent user posts.

Both of those were the main draws for each site. Why would any new user want to use them now? The only thing that they have is their reputation, and that will slowly go away with time.

Once upon a time, for example, Twitter was once the haven for beginner programmers, because they had a nice, free easy-to-use API that anyone could use to make bots and learn how to use APIs in general. Reddit was not far behind that. But that's mostly gone now. Reddit no longer approves API keys for the most part, and is working to shut down the public APIs that it has left, and Twitter has locked theirs behind a paywall.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by T156@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

Why is there a mother-daughter thing in the first place?

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submitted 2 years ago by T156@lemmy.world to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world

Voyager takes after the Apollo app in this regard, where if the app is closed while text is being edited, it'll bring back the unsaved draft, but it'll pop that into the next reply window you open, even if it is a different thread entirely.

Being able to reopen the same thread and resume editing would make it much easier if you're switching to another app to look up a reference or a link, and Voyager gets destroyed by the OS. It'd also help refresh your context if you can't remember what it was you were writing and why.

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submitted 2 years ago by T156@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

While kbin.social's site mentioned that they were migrating to a new provider, and as a result, the site might be experiencing some issues, kbin.social has been serving up a similar HTTP 50x errors, and that migration message for well over a month, if not more.

What happened?

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While ordering a crew cut is easy, since it's on the menu, what about other kinds?

Can you just go "I'd like a men/women's haircut" and leave it at that, or do you need something more specific, like saying you want a Charlestone done by a No. 3 to the sides, and a 4 up top?

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In our world, the police going to a spirit medium for the DL-6 case, and being ridiculed might be logical, since spirit channelling isn't a real thing, but in the world of Ace Attorney, it is.

Not only is it a known and established practice, with detectable physical effects, but the monarchy of at least one country is specifically sought out for their spirit-channelling powers by other governments, so that they can commune with the dead, and receive advice that way.

However, it also seems to be disbelieved, and ridiculed as a pseudoscience, despite that.

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I've been using "mechanoid" as a classification (similar to humanoid, etc), but a friend pointed out that it's both too generic, and that said inorganics might just consider it biology, with organics being the weird outlier.

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You wouldn't start off an e-mail with "My Dear X", or "Dearest X", since that would be too personal for a professional email, so "To X" being more impersonal seems like it would make the letter more professional-sounding, compared to "Dear X".

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Doctor Who zips all the way up and down through time, popping in at any time and place. If you don't have a time machine to follow them around with, it should be impossible to keep track of which incarnation was where. And yet, the Doctor's enemies somehow manage to do just that, with the Daleks being accurate enough to determine he was on his last regeneration on Trenzalore.

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One of the options for students enrolling into Hogwarts, if they come from a wizarding family, is that they have the option of using a hand-me-down wand. But short of wands being damaged beyond repair, we don't see many people replacing them, even though it happens enough that hand-me-downs are a valid option for new students.

So how long does one last? Does a wizard normally use one wand in their lifetime, or is it the kind of thing where an old, worn-out wand is fine for schoolwork, but you'd need something newer/better for adult life?

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What caused the shift from calling things like rheostats and condensers to resistors and capacitors, or the move from cycles to Hertz?

It seemed to just pop up out of nowhere, seeing as the previous terms seemed fine, and are in use for some things today (like rheostat brakes, or condenser microphones).

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submitted 2 years ago by T156@lemmy.world to c/fitness@lemmy.world

You often see people in fitness mention going through a cut/bulk cycle, or mention one, with plans to follow up with the other. Why is it that cutting and bulking so often happen in cycles, rather than said person just doing both at once, until they hit their desired weight?

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While we hear of the TARDIS having engines that are implicitly essential to it working, we've also see a TARDIS work without the rest of the machine.

"The Doctor's Wife" and "Inferno" show that a TARDIS is capable of operating as just the console, which would seem to imply that they're just a power source to allow the console to do its thing and move the whole ship around, or to allow for the pilot to do silly things like tow an entire planet one second out of phase.

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