CeeBee

@CeeBee@lemmy.world
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in most 1st world countries

The US isn't a 1st world country. It just cosplays as one.

I think it's important to note that this also coincides with the start of what's predicted to be a super El Nino (we've had a couple of those already). If the model holds true then 2024 will be even hotter than this year, and (again, if the model predictions are right) will shatter all previous records. Then come 2025 or 2026 average temperatures will settle down a bit.

The issue isn't the seasonal or even the yearly hottest temps. It's the overall trend that's a concern (which is what the article is talking about), which are trending up.

Not sure if any of that made sense.

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This case shows they’re doing precisely the opposite,” said Roth, who said the abuses Caswell endured were tantamount to “torture”.

No, it was full-blown torture. There's no room for interpretation here.

Women across the country have increasingly been jailed for pregnancy outcomes, including miscarriages and stillbirths.

Geez. I don't even know what to say. Miscarriages are way more common than people realize. In fact, it's possible that miscarriages out number full-term pregnancies. There are so many NORMAL biological factors that could trigger a miscarriage.

It's an incredibly complex and nuanced field of biology, and this simplistic mindset of "miscarriage means bad woman" is both disturbing and alarming.

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Here's a bit of good news. The idea that frogs just wait to get boiled is proven false. Every animal has a limit to what they will tolerate due to self preservation. The from will jump out when it gets too hot.

That being said, I just recently watched Idiocracy... I'm a bit worried.

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The lawsuit against Yuzu is going to have the exact opposite effect they hope.

All it's doing is increasing public awareness of the project, and because it's open source it will just sprout more heads like a hydra, and it will live on forever.

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Ya, reading the GitHub issue sounds entirely like burnt out devs being abused by users. It's a massive issue in open source.

The Late Night Linux and Linux Dev Time podcasts talked about exactly this in a recent episode. It can be extremely demoralizing to do all this work for free for a project only to be inundated by ungrateful people demanding you fix something or implement a feature they want. Many open source projects have died because of that.

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This exact same thing happens when trying to cancel a subscription. Magellan TV wouldn't let me continue to cancel my subscription until I selected a reason for the cancellation.

So I exited the process and contacted support with the message "your website will not let me cancel without providing a reason".

They replied with "you can just select a reason and then it will allow you to continue"

To which I said "and where's the option to cancel without you holding my account hostage until I do what you demand of me?"

They replied with confirmation that they've cancelled my subscription for me.

It seems petty, but no company should be allowed to forcibly extract additional info out of you when you want to cancel. They can ask all they like, but never force.

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People with dexterity and hand control challenges have a difficult time with these skinny scroll bars.

I have neither dexterity nor hand control challenges and I still find it incredibly hard to grab those skinny scroll bars.

One additional design "feature" I really despise is auto hiding scroll bars. So then to visually see when I am I have to scroll up and down to bring it back.

And web designers that do that stupid scroll hijacking where scrolling "stops" and then things move around for a bit should be launched into the sun. It's the most anti-UX design I've ever seen. It's literally the same as temporarily causing your mouse cursor to move in the opposite direction of input and then calling it a "design feature".

Imagine if each application on your computer arbitrarily changed up the direction your mouse cursor moves. It's literally the same thing. Computer input should be 100% predictable and reliable. The instant you do that it makes the computer/program/website feel sluggish and inoperative.

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it's weird watching like four people who are definitely more tech savvy than me just bumble fuck their way through all this server stuff with enterprise level gear.

As someone who is very technically savvy, let me assure you that these guys are clowns. They are tech entertainers, not experts. Give yourself some credit.

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What about the group that's aware that Palestinians were forced out of their homes and have been forced to live in impoverished conditions for decades?

What about the group that recognizes the actions of both sides as being wrong and that neither side is "right"?

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I really hope this is satire. Otherwise I'm scared to ask how long it took.

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I had almost this exact scenario.

I was given a ticket for something I was still unfamiliar with at the time, as I was only about 6 months into the job. The thing I was working on was fairly complex in a very specific and niche subject, so it's the kind of thing literally no one would know until you work at this place.

I made the requested changes per the ticket as best as I understood them and fired the ticket back to the BA. Almost a month goes by and the project lead calls me up telling me it wasn't done properly. After going through what the issue is I remark that now I understand better and will update it. He started on a rant about how if I don't know something I should be asking and these kinds of changes shouldn't be left to the last minute only a day before deployment.

I merely replied that it's difficult to ask about something when you aren't even aware of its existence (too hard and too difficult to explain here). But what really set him off was me saying "why am I hearing about this an entire month after I finished the ticket?"

He didn't know what to say and just hung up the call.

And what exactly qualifies as "legitimate interest"?

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China's also building a lot of nuclear plants and what they claim will be the biggest nuclear plant in the world.

Not that it negates building coal plants, but it's not a simple issue. They're growing faster than the energy industry can keep up with.

And like others have said, the rest of the world is at fault too. Germany shut down all of its nuclear plants, which forced them to go heavy into coal. And not just any coal, but lignite which is considered the dirtiest of all types of coal.

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The best/easiest way to get started with a self-hosted LLM is to check out this repo:

https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui

Its goal is to be the Automatic1111 of text generators, and it does a fair job at it.

A good model that's said to rival gpt-3.5 is the new Falcon model. The full sized version is too big to run on a single GPU, but the 7b version "only" needs about 16GB.

https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-7b

There's also the Wizard-uncensored model that is popular.

https://huggingface.co/ehartford/Wizard-Vicuna-13B-Uncensored

There are a ton of models out there with new ones popping up every day. You just need to search around. The oobabooga repo has a few models linked in the readme also.

Edit: there's also h20gpt, which seems really promising. I'm going to try it out in the next couple days.

https://github.com/h2oai/h2ogpt

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These numbers are inflated due to our population and government and health sector office pc using linux

So just like Windows numbers being massively inflated because of corporate computer fleets?

These office pcs just require a chrome browser and all the work is done on the browser Nobody here cares what os they use in their office pc.

Right, so again, the mostly the same with Windows for both office and personal use.

I don't see anyone here switching to linux on their personal pc other than the IT students who are forced to install kali linux.

What are you expecting exactly? Is the choice of each person supposed to be formally announced? Are we supposed to real into a populated areas and declare like Micheal Scott "I declare: I'M USING LINUUUUUX!"?

People here buy desktops only for gaming/content creation, which means most households here doesn't need/require a desktop.

You just described the entire world. This is far from unique to India. Most people I know don't have a desktop and maybe have a laptop, and I live in North America.

Not to be conceded, but I'm guessing this post is in response to my comments from a couple days ago?

I really don't understand your point. It's like you're saying "the users in India don't count because they're not using Linux the way I do".

Does that mean that all the workstations at CERN don't count? Or that the systems up on the ISS don't count?

To me (and I'm certain most people in general would agree) the ISS story is very important, because they were originally running Windows on those systems, but it kept crashing. They switched to Linux to get more stability out of those systems and have been using Linux ever since.

Also, does the story of the City of Munich switching to Linux not count either? It's supposed to be a major win, btw. A city government switching away from Windows and choosing to go with Linux is huge. I see it the same way with India. The more often people are Linux in the wild, the more normalized it is and the more mind share it generates. And mind share is huge in getting people to make a certain choice. It's the reason why product ads are everywhere. The more often you see a product/brand, the more likely you are to say to yourself "that's the thing I'll buy".

Before anyone says Munich switched back to Windows, they didn't. Microsoft made an under-table deal with some officials with the at-the-time in power government to switch back to Windows if they set up a Microsoft office in Munich. Then a new government was voted in a few months later and said "hell no, we're continuing with the Linux rollout" and that's where we are today. The City of Munich is a Linux success story.

Ultimately your post was just stating some facts and then waffling on about how it doesn't count.

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Wtf are they going to do with that?

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I can’t quite put my finger on what exactly makes me feel so strongly, but it’s something to do with how sentences and paragraphs are constructed.

It has the classic 3 section style. Intro, response, conclusion.

It starts by acknowledging the situation. Then it moves on to the suggestion/response. Then finally it gives a short conclusion.

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The other side of that is that the telemetry data never gives you a "why" of something.

For example, users might spend a long time at a screen because they are thinking about what to do, or they are confused by the options and can't figure out which option they need.

This is why a QA team coupled with a large amount of beta testers is invaluable and necessary.

Telemetry, in the context of software development and UX design, is either a decision by the misinformed or just an excuse to save costs by axing the Windows QA department.

In reality it's likely the data is being sold off. But in either case, that's data Microsoft isn't entitled to (from a moral/privacy perspective).

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Right? I've met so many of those people.

Well yes, the super El Nino's are part of climate change. They are getting worse each time. All I was saying is that it's not a straight year over year increase. It comes in waves or heaves in a periodic manner.

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I genuinely have no interest in anything he does any more

This was me when he started trying to shoehorn his kid into the spotlight with those cringe interviews and that really awful movie about not being scared of aliens or whatever. I care about it so little that I can't remember the name of the movie and have zero interest in looking it up.

This comment about not caring about Will Smith is the maximum effort I'm willing to put into anything related to him.

As soon as anyone can do this on their own machine with no third parties involved

We've been there for a while now

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Tailscale

It's WireGuard based and it's completely free for 100 devices.

In what world are people getting that kind of speed on 5G? In like a lab with perfect conditions and non-consumer equipment?

It's right in your quote: "Peak theoretical throughput on an uncongested 5G network"

It's the theoretical limit of the technology, not real-world numbers.

You stated that you are a Dev yourself, but then I was expecting that you should have tried to check their API and make the calls with curl, Postman, Insomnia or whatever, but apparently you never tried.

You're absolutely right. I didn't. Because I wasn't invested in troubleshooting it. I have a full-time job, a family, etc.

The issue here is not about what wasn't working. The issue here is being told off when simply asking for a refund.

The support person has even acknowledged that my profile was showing no downloads.

I am pretty sure they have monitoring on their API backend and can spot a problem

They are, as evidenced by the screenshot the support person shared showing the number of API calls. And they actually did have a problem with the API, which required an update to the plugin, which is all laid out at the start of my post.

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I think what you meant to write is "online games with anticheat are the worst thing".

Because "online anticheat" is becoming a thing wherein the anticheat system is run on a remote server and not your local system. Not only does it not need to install malware on your local system, but it does a better job at catching cheaters.

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Hospitals should never be privately owned. Business and healthcare have diametrically opposed incentives.

Damn, I thought we had a while before the 14 yr olds showed up on Lemmy.

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Not "Asians". Companies that follow the CCP's policies and ways of doing business.

What you did was typical pro-CCP misdirection. You took "fear of cheap Chinese EVs" and ran with that to "Asians bad". Chinese are not all Asians and the CCP is not a race.

https://youtu.be/yOA7qKMcjcE

Edit: https://youtu.be/qKa8mVOe5so

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Only if we have 3 red lines, 2 blue lines, and one transparent line. And have all of them perpendicular to each other.

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You don't have to put unified in quotes, it's the proper term for an SoC that shares the same memory between the CPU and GPU.

The major advantage of unified memory is that it doesn't have the copy overhead. When using a discrete GPU you need to load data onto the host and then copy it over to the GPU. And then if data on the GPU needs to be processed separately by the CPU (saved to a file, sent over the network, etc) you incur more overhead again. And let's ignore more specific technologies like Direct I/O and io_uring for this discussion.

On an SoC with unified memory you don't have this overhead. The CPU can (in theory) access the same memory space as the GPU with zero overhead, and it makes the performance hit from shuttling the data back and forth non-existent.

But there's a massive downside, and it's that it drastically cuts down your available memory, because now the CPU and GPU have only a single 8GB pool to use for both. Whereas in a system without unified memory and a discreet GPU would have the 8GB for the CPU in addition to whatever the GPU has. They don't step on each other's toes.

For example, if I use a system with 8GB of host RAM and a GPU with 6GB of VRAM to run a model of some kind (let's say stable diffusion), it will load the model into the VRAM and not clog up the host RAM. Yes, the host will initially use system RAM to load the file descriptors and then shuttle the data to the GPU, but once that's done the model isn't kept on the host.

On a Mac it would load it onto the only memory available and the CPU would not have the full 8GB available to it the way an x86 system would have.

The point I'm making is that because of the unified architecture the 8GB is effectively even less than 8GB in a discrete GPU system. It's worse.

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$25 million dollars. That's just pocket change for Amazon.

Are they obligated to?

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Ya, it's a good point. I've actually never had to deal with a client/customer providing logs before. Aside from one system that I built which would collect everything in the backend and provided a tidy zip file to be emailed. I'm used to getting the logs myself and was trying to be helpful without thinking about that.

There's a lot to break down and go over so these things take time.

Wait, so now they care about getting things right?

These people don't have the right to call themselves Christian. They just use that word to back up their actions with unchallengeable authority.

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And is the photo/video generator completely on home machines without any processing being done remotely already?

Yes

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People have already been falling for scams that "Elon Musk" was promoting. Naturally I'm talking about these crypto schemes run by scammers on YouTube using a deepfake of Musk. It's been happening for about two years now.

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