Skip Navigation

Posts
44
Comments
1618
Joined
3 yr. ago

Just your typical internet guy with questionable humor

  • Glasses. Not for me, but to show the Romans that some that can't see shit that magic glass can make them see better. Either that or a magnifying glass, so it can double as a fun trick of sunlight burning, which, hopefully, can teach them to make concave/convex glasses for people.

    A sewing machine. It's electric, but by opening it up and trying to replicate the pattern manually, those old, fully manual ones could be built.

    A world atlas. Maps weren't exactly common and, for most of human history, unreliable, so having something like that would be extremely valuable, even if it lacked some info like terrain elevation or type of environment.

  • Even ignoring computer technology, which took a light-year leap from 1986-2006 compared to 2006-2026, the fall of the Soviet Union in late 1991 was a massive upheaval and the following years had several countries having to readapt.

    Nothing of such scale has happened in the last 2 decades, though the current decay of the USA is an event of its own.

  • You're not a company dealing with massive inventories :P

  • GPT2-BASIC uses constraints from that period as an engineering target rather than a nostalgia premise. The relevant question is not whether a 486-class DOS machine can imitate a modern hosted model. It cannot. The useful question is which pieces of language-model inference, local recall, and assistant behavior can be made small, explicit, and reproducible enough to run there. The historical comparison and design implications section covers that context.

    Ok, this looks pretty cool. The token-per-second looks ok, I guess?, for those emulated early 1990s configurations with a max of 32MB RAM. Still, gotta wonder how much of the code actually works, as the entire readme is llm generated, so it wouldn't be far off to guess the code also had llm meddling.

  • I wonder if t-i-m-e is a slur in a different language, because it definitely ain't in portuguese, english, spanish, italian or japanese

  • AI is about to join the list of "stupid technologies that people should really wait and see before investing on", which includes

    • 3D TVs - complete dud
    • Blockchain - useless for real world problems already solved by typical computing
    • Metaverse - still one of the best jokes around
    • Folding screen phones - overpriced junk
    • Fully autonomous self driving cars - "Just around the corner" for the past 10 years
  • tldr; ai is getting worse at coding

    Reminder: "AI" companies want to bill users for token use, so it's in their best interest to make users spend as many tokens as fast as possible

  • surveillance state, the end of personal computing

    These two were coming way before showed AI, so I don't think AI's to blame here, just the typical technofeudal mindset of not wanting the serfs to own anything

  • What a load of bullshit

    Huang said the ability of AI to design a website, analyze complex documents, guide advanced research or even plan a kitchen remodeling has helped to close the technological divide in America. People can now do advanced work on computers without having to know how to program or write software, he added.

    Glorification of the boss mindset: why do something when you can just tell someone else to do it? Better yet, without paying! Plus, you can even say it that "you" did it!! Seriously, though, that thing is not closing, it is widening the tech divide in 'murica and elsewhere, increasing the number of people who don't know what the fuck they're even trying to do with a computer in the first place.

    Huang said society will adapt to AI just as it did to automobiles. He said cars were once portrayed as killing children, but the world changed its norms by having sidewalks and crosswalks and stopping kids from playing in the streets.

    Also speed limits, speed bumps, unleaded gas, safety regulations. You know, things which he obviously didn't mention because that would bring attention to the current lack of regulation in AI space.

  • The problem is that a lot of lemmy posts are "undetermined", including lots of those german posts. From my instance, if I select any language when creating a new post, it doesn't create the post. If I put it back on "undetermined", it works.

  • Weirdly enough, I got a long blocklist of communities in languages I don't understand, mostly German, those often showed up while I browsed [all].

    Porn rarely shows up for me, even hentai. I've yet to see a furry porn post while browsing [all]. I wonder if this has something to do with the home instance? I even have "Show NSFW posts" on, so it's not that.

  • I want the world to stop being run by "the economy"'s rules and its parasite cultists

  • Isn't that the idiot who managed to get banned by the automod bot?

    Besides, the Unix Haters' Handbook is always worth a read for laughs. Some stuff still hasn't been fixed (looking at you, rm and useless man pages)

  • Big mistake after big mistake, yet the company remains profitable in its perpetual surveillance. Eat a shitberg, zuckerberg.

  • But the Jesus in that book loves everyone, unconditionally, and calls his followers to love everyone too.

    He also whipped the temple merchants and berated his disciples who went around getting coins in his name. Makes one wonder

  • He promised to come back, but it seems he realized what an immense fuck up it'd be. He could at least say "Guys, I'm not coming back anymore, ok?"

  • Funny thing they did back in ye olde times (circa 200-300 AD), back when there wasn't an "orthodox christianity", which was accumulate power and declare every other type of christianity heresy

  • We used a one-piece body side, and so that means if you damage like the rear fender, the repair operation, depending on the level of the damage, you can either do body work or you have to cut out a portion of the panel, re-weld the new panel on,

    So, a problem of design that didn't really think about repairability

  • Or any full loot pvp focused MMORPG