This is absolutely brilliant! I’ve tried to get results like this With starter images, but I have gotten nothing as nuanced and subtle as this! Great work!
My purpose in life is to be happy. My primary challenge in life is to find the things in life that make me happy and try to find ways that those things can make other people happy.
I’m a 15-year user of Reddit. Lemmy right now is very similar to very early Reddit. Reddit’s users were more technical back then, too. I’m betting the early adopters of places like this are usually the technical types.
Another nice thing about Lemmy is that a lot of the low-effort, casual users on Reddit haven’t gotten here yet. Interaction here is definitely a lot more pleasant.
It's so amazing to see a comment like this. For years and years, the tech industry workers were heavily anti-union. I'm glad to see the sentiment turning around.
Our system of measurement. There can be only one!
I’ve just spent a few weeks continually enhancing a script in a language I’m not all that familiar with, exclusively using ChatGPT 4. The experience leaves a LOT to be desired.
The first few prompts are nothing short of amazing. You go from blank page to something that mostly works in a few seconds. Inevitably, though, something needs to change. That’s where things start to go awry.
You’ll get a few changes in, and things will be going well. Then you’ll ask for another change, and the resulting code will eliminate one of your earlier changes. For example, I asked ChatGPT to write a quick python script that does fuzzy matching. I wanted to feed it a list of filenames from a file and have it find the closest match on my hard drive. I asked for a progress bar, which it added. By the time I was done having it generate code, the progress bar had been removed a couple of times, and changed out for a different progress bar at least three times. (On the bright side, I now know of multiple progress bar solutions in Python!)
If you continue on long enough, the “memory” of ChatGPT isn’t sufficient to remember everything you’ve been doing. You get to a point where you need to feed it your script very frequently to give it the context it needs to answer a question or implement a change.
And on top of all that, it doesn’t often implement the best change. In one instance, I wanted it to write a function that would parse a CSV, count up duplicate values in a particular field, and add that value to each row of the CSV. I could tell right away that the first solution was not an efficient way to accomplish the task. I had to question ChatGPT in another prompt about whether it was efficient. (I was soundly impressed that it recognized the problem after I brought it up and gave me something that ended up being quite fast and efficient.)
Moral of the story: you can’t do this effectively without an understanding of computer science.
Thanks for posting this! I was going to buy this on blu ray very soon after launch, but now I think I'll give it some time. The only thing I worry about is that the incorrect version will be sold to retailers, who will just sell me that when I go to buy it next year.
Oh, man. Can you imagine the misery of being appointed to this post? Literally half of the government would hate and despise you and would look for ways to undercut you just to have an extra talking point while they stand in the hall talking to Fox News. And to top it off, what could you actually do to affect change? I sympathize with the poor workers of this office.
Have we figured out if this solves the Netflix password sharing limitation yet?
As many tinnitus sufferers like myself know, the never-ending ringing in your ears can become unbearable at times. Sometimes white noise can help by making it harder to distinguish the ringing from other sounds. I know I've run fans in my bedroom while falling asleep to help distract me, for example.
You can use the iPhone's Background Sounds feature to generate this noise for you. And with Airpods Pro, you can deliver the sound directly to a single ear and let external sounds in so you can still hear what's going on around you.
Here's how you do it.
- On your iPhone, go to Settings > Accessibility > Audio/Visual > Background Sounds
- Turn on Background Sounds
- Select the sound you want to hear. I like balanced noise for tinnitus relief.
- Insert your Airpods Pro to get them to connect to your phone.
- Activate transparency mode on the Airpods Pro to let environmental sounds through.
The background sounds will play continuously, but will be suspended for announcements from Siri and phone calls. ~~Interestingly, background sounds are just reduced in volume by about 90% when you start playing Apple Music~~. There's a setting in the Background Sounds pane that will disable the background noise while media is playing. Otherwise it will continue playing but will be reduced in volume. Background sounds resume normally after stopping any of those activities.
We've been hard at work updating and refining the site since we came online about five weeks ago. If you're a regular user of the site, you should notice significant speed and stability improvements, as well as a lot more content. Here's a quick recap of the changes we've made over the last month.
- Site Rules Refined: We've relaxed some of the rules, especially those surrounding NSFW content. We are not and probably will never be a host for dedicated NSFW communities, but our intent is not to prevent you from participating in NSFW communities on other instances. The new rules should make that clearer. We'll continue to refine and hopefully condense our site policies as time goes on.
- Defederation: As a general rule, Lemmy.ninja does not want to defederate from other Fediverse sites. Even so, we have chosen to block a couple of sites after repeated abuses of our site policies. We may also temporarily block sites who have fallen victim to spambot infestations and are imperiling our server. Rest assured that this is a last resort, and that we re-evaluate our block list very frequently in an effort to get sites off of it.
- Security and Site Enhancements: We are continually monitoring server load and taking steps to optimize and improve the server. While we have so far chosen only to deploy official releases of Lemmy software, we may deploy a release candidate if we feel the security enhancements provided by that release candidate are critical to the operation of the site. Long story short, we value stability over the bleeding edge, except when there's an imminent threat.
- New Users and Communities: As our user base has grown, so has our list of local communities. We would very much like to add more moderators to our communities. If you are interested, please reach out to the moderator(s) of the community you wish to volunteer for.
As always, if you have recommendations for the site, or questions about the rules or how we operate, or if you just want to be social and talk about how god-awful the heat is, please feel free to post in our town square, the Ninja Tea Room. Until next time, stay smoky, ninjas!
If you're looking for NSFW communities, Lemmyverse.net now provides a Show NSFW checkbox to help filter your search. Unlike a regular checkbox, however, this checkbox has three states.
By default when you visit Lemmyverse.net, the checkbox is unchecked. That means that any search you perform will exclude any community marked as NSFW.
Figure 1: The Show NSFW checkbox is unchecked, so no NSFW communities will be shown.
Clicking the checkbox once changes the filter to include both NSFW and SFW communities in the search result. This is indicated by a hyphen in the checkbox with a yellow background, as well as a tooltip if you over over it.
Figure 2: After clicking the Show NSFW checkbox once, NSFW communities will be included in search results alongside SFW communities.
Clicking the checkbox again will set the filter to display only NSFW communities. This is indicated by a checkmark in the checkbox with a red background. As before, a tooltip will also indicate the state of the filter.
Figure 3: After clicking the Show NSFW checkbox a second time, search results will be limited to displaying only NSFW communities.
As you may have guessed, you can click the checkbox again to uncheck the box and display only SFW communities again.
In closing, here is a note about NSFW communities on Lemmy. If you are using the Lemmy UI on desktop or mobile, there is a Show NSFW Content setting in your profile. You will need to have this setting enabled before you can view the posts in the NSFW communities you subscribe to. If you've had this setting turned off, just be aware that your Lemmy experience could dramatically change when you enable it, especially if you spend a lot of time on the All timeline on a busy Lemmy server.
