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Off-and-on trying out an account over at @tal@oleo.cafe due to scraping bots bogging down lemmy.today to the point of near-unusability.

  • Have you guys seen this one?

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  • I have not seen that particular cartoon.

    However, a common criticism is that there are only a handful of Garfield cartoon "templates" with some bits swapped out, and I have seen plenty of Garfield cartoons in approximately this format: three panels, Garfield is bored, John is emotional, Garfield is bored.

    goes back to look at the first year of Garfield

    Okay, apparently it predates Garfield, as there was a predecessor strip, Jon:

    https://garfield.fandom.com/wiki/Jon,_1976_comic_strips

    Jon comic #7, February 19, 1976:

    EDIT: Jon #1 looked familiar. It looks like a lot of the first year of Garfield was recycled Jon cartoons too. For example, here's Jon #1:

    And here's Garfield #1:

  • Following the recent tipping question, what's a good wage for a server? What are they paid outside the US?

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  • What are they paid outside the US?

    I mean, that's going to depend radically on the country. Eritrea and France are not going to look very similar.

  • Finance jobs just hit a 4-year low, but banks posted nearly 49,000 roles seeking new tech skills — Financial activities shed 14,000 jobs in July. Commercial bank postings seeking AI skills jumped by…

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  • So, from past reading, I believe that a lot of jobs in brick-and-mortar banks --- which have historically had a major brick-and-mortar presence --- have been on a long decline. That's a phenomenon that well predates popular LLM use, brought about by Internet, ATMs, and similar, which tended to displace brick-and-mortar stuff.

    I physically went by my local bank the other month (for the first time in a long time) and while the building was still there, it was like a tomb. All of the service desks that had once held tellers were empty. There was one person in an office handling the few people coming by in person.

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    https://www.alliantcreditunion.org/money-mentor/the-rise-of-online-banking-in-the-us

    Every year, more and more Americans are going online to do their banking.

    According to Pew Research Center, 46 percent of adults in the United States banked online in 2010. That number grew to 51 percent in 2013, and in 2015, a full 81 percent of adults who manage their household’s finances banked online.

    https://www.branchspot.com/bank-branches-closed/

    U.S. banks have been closing branches for years — thinning out “banking deserts” where the nearest branch is now miles away. Branchspot tracks 939 closed or relocated branches nationwide, sourced from the FDIC.

  • U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative

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  • I agree that "open source" is often incorrectly used to refer to open-weight models, things that are more analogous to closed-source software where you get the binaries.

    That being said, the article does correctly use "open weights". The submitted title here lacks it, but the current title of the article does appear to have it, so either the article author updated the title or the submitter truncated it.

  • What's your favorite Chrome Extension?

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  • I don't use Chrome, but a favorite Firefox extension is Dark Reader (dynamically makes webpages that lack dark mode support dark mode), and it's available for Chrome. So maybe that.

  • Tech volatility hits highest since dot-com bust next to S&P 500 | Fortune

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  • Anxiety was on display on Tuesday, when the Nasdaq 100 fell 1.3% amid growing uncertainty about the eventual payoffs from massive artificial-intelligence investments. The S&P 500 declined 0.2%. 

    “IPOs are inherently more volatile,” Amy Wu Silverman, head of derivatives strategy at RBC Capital Markets, wrote in a note to clients. Given the size and scope of SpaceX, “it is likely that the vol spread between Nasdaq and S&P remains wide until we close in on the inclusion of SpaceX into the S&P as well,” she added. 

    The bank’s equity sales team recommends investors buy puts on the Invesco QQQ Trust Series 1 ETF and the VanEck Semiconductor ETF to express their bearish views on the tech sector. 

    It's certainly good for index fund investors (e.g. S&P 500 index funds lile SPY or VOO) whose indices didn't recently get their index's rules rewritten for rapid inclusion of some of these IPOs relative to those who did (NASDAQ 100 index funds like QQQ or QQQM, or Russell).

  • Tech heresy

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  • You didn't really have a 3D printer setup until its various lights were being driven by a DMX512 rig.

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    What sucks about having no internet and what is great about it?

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  • The keyboard interface sucks

    I'm not sure if you're going to see this if you're avoiding social media for two months, but...while I don't personally see much gain from using a phone rather than a PC for Internet access for two months, if it's enough of a pain and it doesn't violate whatever rules you're setting for yourself, you can connect a keyboard. There are a bunch of Bluetooth keyboards aimed at Android devices, some of which fold and are themselves phone-sized for portability.

    https://www.amazon.com/s?k=folding+keyboard

    You can also get USB-C hubs with pass-through charging, stuff like this that will give you some USB-A ports to plug wired keyboards into, if you're using the phone at a desk.

    Android won't show the on-screen keyboard if you have a connected physical keyboard, so you also get a lot more screen space while doing text entry.

    Most if not all UIs for websites are shit in mobile.

    Firefox (and probably other browsers, but I use Firefox) can request the desktop version of websites. Tap the menu button in the lower-right, and then choose "Desktop site".

    Now, the desktop site may not work well on a small screen either, but you will have access to it.

  • Someone Cut Down Every Single Flock Camera in This Town in a Single Night

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  • Replacing the stolen license plate readers will cost Winona roughly $24,000 total.

    That's one possible response to them being removed, I suppose.

  • authenticity problem

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  • cake...because of typos

    Aha! AI!

  • authenticity problem

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  • I honestly don't even think it looks ai, to me, and I may be wrong but it looks like someone painted it on a canvas

    Chiseled Etruscan stonework, that's what it is.

  • authenticity problem

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  • If you go through Unicode, there are a bunch of hyphen-like characters. In many typefaces, some may appear identical.

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    EDIT: That's not an exhaustive list, either. Off-the-cuff, I can also think of the line-drawing characters, which also have a horizontal line.

  • authenticity problem

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  • The marking above the hyphen there is an underscore --- it's telling you that hitting shift-hyphen will give you an underscore.

    You may be using software that supports inserting an em-dash when you hit that combination, but I don't believe that it's the keyboard layout that dictates that.

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    It sounds like Microsoft Word does something similar:

    https://www.avantixlearning.ca/microsoft-word/how-to-insert-an-em-dash-or-en-dash-in-a-word-document-4-ways/

    Use Ctrl with keyboard shortcuts to insert an em or en dash

    To insert an em dash, click where you want to insert the em dash and then press Ctrl + Alt + – (minus sign on the numeric keypad).

    To insert an en dash, click where you want to insert the en dash and then press Ctrl + – (minus sign on the numeric keypad).

  • authenticity problem

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  • I was once told "I write like someone who thinks they are good at writing." That was met with rounds of applause by the people who can't (or won't) spell, capitalize, or punctuate anything.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome

    Tall poppy syndrome is a term that originated in Australia and New Zealand in the 1980s that refers to people with notable public success or achievements that are ostracised by others as a form of egalitarianism.[1][2] Intense scrutiny and criticism of such a person is termed as "cutting down the tall poppy".[3]

    "That one sounds uppity!"

  • authenticity problem

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  • You can write or draw stuff with a fountain pen with an AxiDraw, and that's an off-the-shelf system. I imagine that it could paint as well.

    EDIT: Apparently the Inkscape plugin used to drive it was originally designed to drive a plotter that did watercolor painting.

  • authenticity problem

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  • I use a the Compose key (Compose hyphen hyphen hyphen) or emacs (C-x 8 _ m) on Linux, and on Android, my soft keyboard supports holding hyphen to insert one.

    And the Lemmy Web UI converts a triple hyphen to an em-dash.

  • authenticity problem

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  • The Lemmy Web UI converts a double hyphen to an en-dash and a triple to an em-dash when displaying text. However, not all clients do this. I'm viewing this in Eternity, and it leaves the hyphens intact.

    This conversion happens when viewing the comment, rather than writing it.

  • authenticity problem

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  • Smartphone cameras are almost certainly the largest source of photography in society today, and those things default to doing all kinds of automatic processing on the images they take.

  • authenticity problem

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  • It does rather make one suspect that a number of people haven't read a great deal of properly-written English.