joshchandra

joined 2 weeks ago
[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 1 points 4 days ago

For what it's worth, I'm Asian and I had no idea that this was a derogatory word towards Asians and it doesn't bother me.

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 1 points 5 days ago

Thanks, I have more to learn about this topic!

 

At my workplace, I get intermittent IC gigs from other companies. Some of these gigs happen on days when I'm already there, but others on days when I'm not.

Which mileage could I deduct as a sole proprietor, all/some?

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Some UI questions (midwest.social)
submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by joshchandra@midwest.social to c/summit@lemmy.world
 
  1. How do you edit your comment that you make to someone's inbox reply? I couldn't figure out how and ultimately had to visit my own profile to edit my comment from there.
  2. How do you search for a certain post title in just one community, such as /c/summit?
[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 3 points 6 days ago

Going open-source was the biggest single factor in immediately swaying me over here from Thunder (well, it was really the multi-community feed feature, but closed-source is what held me back). Thanks for being transparent!

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Right, but I think it'd be harder to get it to unlearn the wrong data if the topic itself is obscure.

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago

None of which I know...

 

Hi everyone, I'm the pianist at St. John Vianney Catholic Parish in Brookfield, where I began a monthly dinner & game night in Fall 2023 and still run it to this day. All are welcome; you do not need to be Catholic nor a member to participate (I'm not Catholic myself, in fact)!

Have dinner, contribute some potato chips or your favorite dish if inclined (but no need), bring your favorite board & card games or learn others' titles, or just socialize and make new friends!

The link points to a webpage which then points to the following RSVP form: https://forms.gle/p6ApeY6AGzu3LUtt9

Hope to see you there! Attendance on average has been within 10-15, but recent events have seen >20 participants, thanks to new promotional efforts done by a volunteer.

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago

Let me introduce you to something known as military time (which, yes, even exists in the US)...

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago

Also, people forget that Discord's streaming capability is, unfortunately, absolutely top-notch; no other community-screensharing platform has fewer issues, and my friends and I like to watch each other play games often.

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is exactly what I was gonna say: I'm amazed that so many millions of people can tolerate its atrocious UI. Even now, the amount of notifications I get from the constant text channels across "servers" (which is such a misnomer for merely "communities") is so ridiculous that I ignore 99.9% of it.

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago

Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says - we don't know for sure what it'll be, but it's just generally not a good sign.

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

What I mean is that if people keep making it produce garbage tied to some keyword or phrase and people publish said garbage, that'll only strengthen AIs' neural network between the bad data and that keyword, so AI results for such trees will drift even further away from the truth.

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago (6 children)

So we could keep having it generate these and poison its own training data!

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 22 points 1 week ago

Remember, "AI" (autocomplete idiocy) doesn't know what sense is; it just continues words and displays what may seem to address at least some of the topic with no innate understanding of accuracy or truth.

Never forget that ChatGPT 2.0 can literally be run in a giant Excel spreadsheet with no other program needed. It's not "smart" and is ultimately millions of formulae at work.

 

Hi everyone, I run near-weekly board game nights at the Festival Foods grocery store in West Allis, WI for the purpose of fostering community, keeping our minds sharp by learning new games, and defeating loneliness in a fun way. I've also recently branched out into organizing dinners for the group (we go Dutch, though, to be clear), which you can still join even if you don't care for board games.

You are all welcome, even if you don't live in West Allis! For those who prefer it, I also duplicate all events on FB for users' convenience: https://www.facebook.com/groups/westallisboardgames

We normally get a minimum of 4-7 attendees every single time. The headcount has never gone higher than 14. The food court can take 24 people if it were to be totally crammed; I counted the seats!

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