T156

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[–] T156@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Did he read/hear about gut flora somewhere, and get his eggs scrambled?

[–] T156@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

If they had done a Google and sold GPU-compute cloud services, they could probably have made quite a tidy sum. Everyone wants compute.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

I'd honestly agree. It's fine after you get established and a feed set up, but before then, not having a good way to find stuff to follow in the first place hurts it a bit.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

I'd argue that it was more to do with the fediverse setup being confusing/complicated, if you're not used to it.

People would think you'd need to sign up to all the servers that you wanted to access, rather than using just one account for everything.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Though it's better now, it used to be that Lemmy and a lot of Lemmy-type alternatives' documentation were more for people who wanted to host their own server, rather than someone who wanted to join a social network.

But at much the same time, that complication also hurts adoption, so if people ever wanted Lemmy to be a proper social media site to replace the existing ones, the barrier to entry does also need to go down.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Or that it's not right for their use case.

Like someone throwing a bunch of data into an LLM and trying to use it to process it into a chart or something. It can work, but it was never designed to be used in that manner.

I've got an acquaintance who does that, despite the fact that python would be a better thing to use.

Personally, I sometimes run a few saved images thorough a multi-modal 8 gigaparameter local model on my computer, so I can automate giving them more descriptive names than randomnumbers.png, and that seems to work fine. I could do it by hand, but it would take hours and days, compared to minutes, and since it's not too important, it doesn't matter if it's wrong. The resource usage is also less of an issue, since it's my own computer.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Especially if they can achieve their goal of keeping it alive for months.

Right now, we can only safely do it for hours. Potentially months is a massive improvement.

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

The oil crisis isn't quite that bad yet.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

This feels like it's trying to skirt unions/regulations. The teachers aren't actually teachers, they're "guides", which is a completely different thing entirely.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

TP-Link is Chinese.

 

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

 

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.

 

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?

 

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?

 

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.

 

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.

 

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".

 

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.

 

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?

 

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).

 

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?

 

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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