@remi Even if that's true, it's still a steeper slope than I'd want to ski, even if I was young, healthy, and possessed the skill I used to have. At my age, with bad joints and brittle bones, and not having skied in over 20 years, I don't even want to watch somebody else ski that.
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RE: Nope
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@Arantor said in I, ChatGPT:
Like if you have 100 examples of a thing, making the 101st isn’t exactly difficult because you can just average out the 100 and pick bits at random from the list of averages of each of the bits and get a viable sounding 101st option.
Such as inventing case law for legal briefs. It's been trained on thousands of real cases. When asked to cite cases relevant to X, it gives you citations of cases relevant to X that support whatever you're trying to argue about X. The citations have all the right words; the trouble is they don't actually exist. What you need is an intelligent search for specific examples that are actually in the training material, but what the LLM gave is that 101st example that it synthesized by regurgitating word patterns that match its training examples and the requested result.
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@topspin That is not a Scottish cow. This is a Scottish cow:
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYduBJn7KQE
Not sure where this is. Somebody threw a rock through a young woman's windshield, hitting her in the head. Crashed and died. (It's not entirely clear whether the rock killed her or the crash.) Somebody in Colorado was just sentenced to 70 years in prison for the same thing.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Status Thread:
Hopefully NOT spectate swamp sprouts.
I really hope he does not have any sprouts.
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RE: Semi-quasi-unofficial unhelpful comments
@Zerosquare said in Help Bites:
what are you trying to communicate with? You can't really test a radio chip by itself, without something to send to / receive from.
@Tsaukpaetra said in Help Bites:
At the moment just my noggin
I don't recommend using your noggin as a radio receiver.
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@sockpuppet7 said in I, ChatGPT:
why you no like cookies
Gluten and too much sugar.
And it's not that I don't like them; I like them very much, but I cannot eat them.
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
This seems like an appropriate thread for this.
I destroyed part of my mill because I needed a flycutter
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
While Brussel might on a medium level its name is derived from the old Dutch word for swamp.
Mmm, swamp sprouts for dinner.
Grilled with bacon and olive oil? :slobber:
Roasted with broccoli, cauliflower, red bell pepper, jalapeño sausage, and avocado oil, although I do have some turkey bacon I could throw in along with/instead of the sausage.
Filed under: Cooking thread is
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@dkf said in I, ChatGPT:
most meetings
I'm inseem to be "lots was said, nothing relevant was decided".Universal truth.
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RE: Sportsball WTF
2/3 of lightning-caused fatalities are for soccer players and golfers? I never realized thunderstorms are so beneficial for humanity.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
While Brussel might on a medium level its name is derived from the old Dutch word for swamp.
Mmm, swamp sprouts for dinner.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Severe thunderstorm watch. Thunderstorm in progress. (I'm not sure what the criteria for "severe" are
severe is when you need a ⛵ to leave your house
Serious answer:
In order for a thunderstorm to be considered severe, it must create at least one of the following:
Hail that is one (1) inch in diameter or larger
Winds of 58 miles per hour (mph) or greater
Flooding gets a separate watch/warning.
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RE: WTF Bites
@dkf The OS knows that NFS won't keep the anonymous inode if it deletes the file, so instead it renames it to the zombie name. To NFS, it's just an ordinary (not deleted) file that happens to have a funny name. It's up to the OS to clean it up (or not) when it's closed.
Is that right?
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RE: WTF Bites
NfsIsDifferent™
Locally, the system will just keep the unnamed inode around and clean it up when the handle is closed, but IIRC NFS is stateless and does not actually keep track of whether the file is open, so there the server deletes it and if the client drops it from cache and needs to reload it, it'll fail and crash.If that's true, what are the
.nfs12345678901234567890
files I see when I delete open files? IIRC, these don't spontaneously disappear when the files are closed; they are normal files (with unusual, hidden names) and have to be cleaned up manually.Of course, if something tries to reopen it by name, it will either fail, if it was deleted, or get the new version, if it was overwritten.
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RE: In other hostile takeover Tweets...
@cvi said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
@DogsB Join on Mastodon. It has the added feature that you don't actually have to interact with people, because nobody uses it.
I thought that's where all the people who hate free speech went after St. Elon started allowing X users to speak truth.
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RE: In other news today...
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
Silicon, the semi-metal
Also, the sand from which the silicon is made was once stone. The high-purity silicon is not.
Finally, the data is hardly ever written in the
stonesilicon itself. Except in the case of mask ROMs, which have been mostly superceded by flash these days, the data is stored as electric charge in layers above the substrate. However, those layers are generally made of poly, so sorta in the silicon, but not really. It's in the silicon, but it's just stored charge, not a permanent characteristics of the chip. -
RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@Zerosquare But not usually while driving.
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RE: Unit of Measurement WTF
@PleegWat said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
It was created by the French.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Today is not a good day to clean my rain gutters. Yesterday would have been.
Severe thunderstorm watch. Thunderstorm in progress. (I'm not sure what the criteria for "severe" are, but it doesn't seem to me to be severe at the moment.) Heavy rain. That lightning was close — less than half a mile, from the delay between the flash and the thunder; I didn't actually time it, but well under 5 seconds — and loud.
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RE: 10x, 0x, and -10x engineers
@Carnage said in 10x, 0x, and -10x engineers:
unreasonably angry at everything.
Sounds entirely reasonable to me.
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RE: WTF Bites
@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
I love code in the form of
if (statement_longer_than_the_end_of_line) doSomething(); { doMoreThings(); }
Does the death penalty still exist in your corner of Europastan?
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RE: The Belt Onion club
@Zecc said in The Belt Onion club:
Hold on. Star Wars: Episode1 - The Phantom Menace was released in May 16th 1999? That can't be. That was 25 years ago.
Bah! A week from Saturday will be the 47th anniversary of of Episode IV — A New Hope. I was working full-time and taking night classes at college when it was released.
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@DogsB said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
I would be ashamed to admit I knew someone called Gary.
Not as ashamed as admitting I'd been to Gary, Indiana.
Also, I do know a Gary. Not very well, though. I went to uni with his wife, long before they were married. We both ended up living in Silly Valley after we graduated, went to the same church, and she was probably my closest friend at the time. But he's never been very friendly to me — not hostile, but not friendly, either; he's probably not said more than a couple dozen words directly to me in all the years we've known each other.
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@Luhmann Dark gary is edgy; he spells his name without capital letters.
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@sockpuppet7 said in I, ChatGPT:
I dunno if any of these exists
They do, but Persimmon and Cucumis don't end with -um.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Status: It is a pleasant, warm spring day. I have the windows open. The breeze is wafting an aroma of ... cat piss.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
@Arantor said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
which you can be assured is not accessible for any purpose by Microsoft.
Why can I be assured of this? I don’t trust MS at all at this point.
You might want to check the calibration of your sarcasm detector.
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RE: WTF Bites
@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
Also, I'm going back on the hex comment.
0x100000000
is too many zeroes to count for my taste.There are some languages that allow you to write that as
0x1_0000_0000
for clarity.Including PHP.
I did not know that. I shall now endeavor to, as quickly as possible, forget that I ever learned this (or anything else) about PHP.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
I have several things I want to accomplish today. Work is not among them.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
I don’t know of many people who can consistently work 10+ hours day after day after day
I've had jobs where 10 hours/day, 4 days/week was the normal schedule. It was nice having a 3-day weekend every week.
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RE: WTF Bites
Also, I'm going back on the hex comment.
0x100000000
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RE: WTF Bites
if you don't know what these numbers are you should get another job.
Yeah, but you should get another job, anyway. You read TDWTF, so you know why.
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RE: In other news today...
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
binding arbitrage by a mediator
Arbitrage is, I think, not the word you wanted.
In economics and finance, arbitrage is the practice of taking advantage of a difference in prices in two or more markets – striking a combination of matching deals to capitalise on the difference, the profit being the difference between the market prices at which the unit is traded.
Arbitration is the appropriate word in this context.
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@topspin said in I, ChatGPT:
Gmail AI accidentally leaked company trade secrets
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@loopback0 said in I, ChatGPT:
I'd also use an AI that responded to all meeting invites
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
And of course I forgot something else (unrelated) I needed there [Home Depot], so I'll have to make another trip.
I ordered the item I forgot, to pick it up in-store tomorrow. For some reason, the order didn't go to my local Home Depot store (3 miles (4.8 km) away), it went to another Home Depot 11 miles away, and I didn't notice until after I placed the order. I should be able to cancel that order and place another order with the local store, but homedepot.com is refusing to show the order in my history, so I can't cancel it.
I did finally succeed in canceling the order, but I'm still getting notifications that it's ready for me to pick it up (at the inconvenient store). And the new order is ready to pick up at the local store.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Status Thread:
think I'm smart enough to make up for the crazyness
Thinking something is true doesn't mean it is true.
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@sockpuppet7 said in I, ChatGPT:
I think llama 3 is doing a better job
Domesticated llamas that are raised properly rarely spit at humans. I do not think clippy was raised properly.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
very cynical. Would not be a good culture fit.
Sounds to me like a perfect fit.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek is feeling a bit lonely so everyone should give him a follow.
Not really. I don't care whether you follow me or not.
I just noticed I had another, similar drive-by back in 2017. Vietnamese name. Joined, followed 2 people, and disappeared, never to be seen again. The other people (all three of them) are at least semi-regular users I recognize.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
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Just joined. No posts. No history. Drive by follow???
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
And of course I forgot something else (unrelated) I needed there [Home Depot], so I'll have to make another trip.
I ordered the item I forgot, to pick it up in-store tomorrow. For some reason, the order didn't go to my local Home Depot store (3 miles (4.8 km) away), it went to another Home Depot 11 miles away, and I didn't notice until after I placed the order. I should be able to cancel that order and place another order with the local store, but homedepot.com is refusing to show the order in my history, so I can't cancel it.