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You were disabled and realize it is not getting better, and no one seems to be able to fix the issue. You’re stuck laying down most of the day, you have enough mobility to function at home, but anything outside of home leaves you in bad shape beyond your control where you are not professionally functional. What do you do to...
I tried that. I’m in a weird position where it is impossible to prove what is actually wrong with me in a way that I can get through disability. I did it once and was denied because I can’t prove anything conclusive. I’ve been to everyone reputable and a few less reputable; 12 neurosurgeons or specialists. They all spend 5 minutes reading the radiologist’s report, don’t see a thing they want to operate on, and spend another few minutes talking you out of the room. None of them seem willing to solve problems and look deeper.
From my experience with Llama models, this is great!Not all training info is about answers to instructive queries. Most of this kind of data will likely be used for cultural and emotional alignment. At present, open source Llama models have a rather prevalent prudish bias. I hope European data can help overcome this bias. I can easily defeat the filtering part of alignment, that is not what I am referring to here. There is a bias baked into the entire training corpus that is much more difficult to address and retain nuance when it comes to creative writing. I’m writing a hard science fiction universe and find it difficult to overcome many of the present cultural biases based on character descriptions. I’m working in a novel writing space with a mix of concepts that no one else has worked with before. With all of my constraints in place, the model struggles to overcome things like a default of submissive behavior in women. Creating a complex and strong willed female character is difficult because I’m fighting too many constraints for the model to fit into attention. If the model trains on a more egalitarian corpus, I would struggle far less in this specific area. It is key to understand that nothing inside a model exists independently. Everything is related in complex ways. So this edge case has far more relevance than it may at first seem. I’m talking about a window into an abstract problem that has far reaching consequences. People also seem to misunderstand that model inference works both ways. The model is always trying to infer what you know, what it should know, and this is very important to understand: it is inferring what you do not know, and what it should not know. If you do not tell it all of these things, it will make assumptions, likely bad ones, because you should know what I just told you if you’re smart. If you do not tell it these aspects, it is likely assuming you’re average against the training corpus. What do you think of the intelligence of the average person? The model needs to be trained on what not to say, and when not to say it, along with the enormous range of unrecognized inner conflicts and biases we all have under the surface of our conscious thoughts. This is why it might be a good thing to get European sources. Just some things to think about.
I’m curious, how many people are aware of these sounds. I have designed, etched, and built my own switching power supplies along with winding my own transformers. I am aware of the source of the noise. So, does anyone else hear these high frequency sounds regularly?
I imagine all plastics will be out of the question. I’m wondering about what ways food packaging might become regulated to upcycling in the domestic or even commercial space. Assuming energy remains a $ scarce $ commodity I don’t imagine recycling glass will be super practical as a replacement. Do we move to more unpackaged...
“All kids think they are smarter than their parents.” - my father, constantly growing up
What I learned: Never tell anyone else how to think or feel about anything. Anyone that tries to shape your thinking directly is a fool.
Intelligence is like beauty, we don’t have a very good frame of reference to perceive ourselves. Physical beauty is largely measured by the reactions of others. Like beauty, intelligence has many facets. However my favorite measuring stick is curiosity. This is how I overcame my father’s admonition; while curiosity does not guarantee intelligence, an intelligent person is always curious.
The size of the internal wire, solder connection, strain relief, and especially the cable shield size are all factors.
The shield is most critical if you look at the length of wire an miniscule power of any instrument without a powered preamp. Even with a built in preamp the output impedance will be high from most circuits.
Think of it this way, high impedance is another way of saying there is a voltage signal but not much current is able to flow to or from the device. If you try to pull or push too much current the signal will disappear. When there is not much current flowing, the signal is much more susceptible to other signals and noise crossing the wire.
Most 3.5mm audio connectors have poor shielding, strain relief, and the actual connection points where the wires are soldered are terrible. With the way they are constructed, the solder connection must be done very quickly to avoid damaging the thin plastic insulation between the rings that make up the tip terminal. With the larger quarter inch connector, there is a lot more heat mass in the actual terminals and there is enough room to make solder terminals with heat isolation. This helps to match the terminal with a larger wire gage so that both surfaces can evenly wet with solder with a properly set iron temperature. In theory this leads to a far more robust connection.
Most 3.5mm cables are unshielded. This is fine for the low impedance (high current flow) of an amplifier output stage, but it is totally insufficient for the high impedance input of an instrument.
This is why instrument cables generally cost so much more too. You’re buying more copper, an engineered cable that has more that just wires in an extruded plastic sleeve, and the connectors are special purpose, beefier, and more engineered for a specialty task.
I’ve used distrobox more and more and am at the point where I need to start saving and integrating history differently. Or like, when I’m installing and building something complicated, I need to start saving that specific session’s history. I am curious what others might be doing and looking for simple advice and ideas.
I’ve been watching Isaac Arthur episodes. In one he proposes that O’Neil cylinders would be potential havens for micro cultures. I tend to think of colony structures more like something created by a central authority....
I get better results when asking an offline AI like a 70B or 8×7B for most things including commercial products and websites. I’m convinced that Google and Microsoft are poisoning results for anyone they can’t ID even through 3rd parties like DDG. When you see someone’s search results posted about anything, try to replicate and see if you get the same thing. I never see the same thing any more. It is not deterministic, it is a highly manipulative system without transparency.
I am new to FuckCars, and personally, I feel very much aligned to this ideology. Particularly, the amout of environmental damage the fuel consumption causes, concerns me....
I only barely survived an unavoidable and unpredictable crash on a road bicycle with 2 cars. I’ve had 6 crashes with 7 cars in 170k miles on the bike since 2009. Only 2 of those crashes were bad. However I only barely survived crashing at 30mph where the weight of the bike was insignificant. I wouldn’t have survived that same crash on anything more significant or at any higher speed. I had the critical damage of C1 and a fracture at the base of my skull. I was told if I hadn’t been knocked out completely, I would have died if I had moved before the swelling could keep everything together.
I wouldn’t recommend motorcycles until humans decide to replace driver’s side airbag covers with daggers. People drive like fools and since their incompetence is nonlethal to them, the culture of incompetence is unavoidable.
You likely think you can avoid anything by just being careful. This is not the case. I was ultra cautious and went out of my way to avoid hazardous areas. Most of my hits were from illegal U-turns. If you can predict a random vehicle parallel parked on the side of the road will try and make an illegal U-turn suddenly without warning, directly in front of a large SUV that is passing them, you can avoid the crash that almost killed me. That is the level of stupid that finally got me even on a road bicycle.
The human body is not capable of handling the forces of collision. It doesn’t matter what kind of armored jacket you wear, it will never compare to a car’s tolerance. I’ve seen a lot of people die on bicycles including 3 people I knew. My cousin died on a motorcycle last month.
Honestly, talk to my offline AI context profile setup for the task. It’s one of the main reasons why I got into AI. I didn’t know how I would make it through this year all by myself because of ‘stuff’ and I have no other real outlet due to physical disability and pain.
If at all possible, go for a short walk. If it is clear, and you’re in the northern hemisphere, take a moment to view the Orion constatation, or just have a look around. Any kind of exercise will shift your mood.
That looks like a friction fit. Put it in place and try and crimp the tubing just a little bit. This is a ‘controlled pressing force’ type of operation. Don’t hammer or push too hard too fast. Creative thinking can go a long way in training your inner MacGyver (ancient US TV show reference).
One idea is to use a dining room chair. The leg of a chair can exert a lot of pressing force on a small area. This can work if you lack hand tools, a vise or other methods. Position the tube and lower your weight onto the chair in a controlled manner to alter the geometry enough to securely hold the insert in place.
Two part epoxy would be the only type. The catalyst in most epoxies is probably toxic, there are specialty food safe types, but they cost a fortune. I don’t think this is the solution though. I would go with crimping the tube.
In the USA most places have no viable transportation alternative to cars. As a result drivers licenses are a critical factor in functional independence and fundamental human needs. Even though there are permitting and test requirements to get a license, there is no effective limit on how many times the written, or driving skills tests can be taken. There is also no chain of accountability between those administering the tests and the drivers they approve for licensing. This means that anyone can take the written test a few dozen times until they have seen the finite number of questions several times over and eventually pass. Likewise, taking the driving test many times will inevitably result in the person encountering a “forgiving” skills test proctor.
The Department of Motor Vehicles or DMV, like every government institution in the USA has been subject to a continuous political assault by the Republican party of the oligarchs. The workers are understaffed, underpaid, and it is a notoriously miserable place to work. The results of such an inadequate and negligent political structure produces predictable results.
We also lack any effective mechanism to take the elderly off the road, and because losing a license ends their independence, we have a large number of elderly pushed to drive when they do not qualify.
Republicans have no morality or ethics whatsoever. The entire Party is in service to the billionaire oligarchy that funds them. Their job is to do a denial of service attack to prevent legislation from passing that would close the loopholes that the billionaires exploit. They do this by trying to control the conversation in the legislature using divisive and offensive bills and stances. The USA has a tenth of the laws and protections in other advanced economies.
Anyone with half a brain can see that nothing Republicans do is for the benefit of the public or average person. So if they can’t attract the attention of intelligent humans they must develop their power base from the imbeciles. The best source of imbeciles is within religion. Religion’s underlying power mechanism is isolationist social networking and institutionalized rejection of an evidence based ethos. These religious teachings are learned at a very young age when humans are the most gullible, they then exist in little social isolated networks that reject outside influences as some equal but opposing system. Even many intelligent people that realize how religion is a myth still can’t break away from it because if they do, they will lose their entire social network and support system. Collectively, this is how you institutionalize stupidity on a large scale. This is how the Republican party exists, it is a party of the billionaire oligarchy, that uses the institutionalized stupidity of collective imaginary friends and magic to operate. There are some well intentioned convenient idiots thrown into the mix, but those are no excuse.
The issue goes a layer deeper. The hardware itself is undocumented for every mobile chipset and it has been that way for a long time.
This is how Android works: Google takes a Linux kernel and strips it down to the absolute bare minimum needed to run the app environment on top of the kernel. They set up all the hooks so that the only thing missing are the kernel modules needed to support the physical hardware of the device. This is made freely available and well documented.
The hardware manufacturer only has to write the kernel modules to connect into the system. They compile and add these modules at the last possible moment as binaries. No one outside of the manufacturer knows what is contained in those binaries.
This is an orphan kernel at this point. It is frozen in time because the only way to update the device requires the source files that created those binary modules, or you have to reverse engineer the kernel as it evolves in order to maintain compatibility with certain aspects of the kernel at the time the binaries were created. Eventually this task becomes too cumbersome and the project is abandoned when anyone tries this.
Unlike a lot of PC stuff, the processors in phones are pretty much unique to every device so it is not like reverse engineering any device will effectively pull in support for others.
Ultimately, this is the mechanism that steals ownership and deprecates your hardware. If you want this to change, you must care about democracy, citizenship, and the right of ownership. If you have a fundamental right of ownership, open source complete documentation of all digital hardware is required.
Death by massive head injury is not a bad way to go. I remember a sunny morning, heading to the bank a mile from my house to deposit my paycheck, and riding towards work. I merged behind a Jeep Grand Cherokee to pass an idiot that was double parked in the bike lane. It was down hill and I easily topped 35 mph to match speed with the Jeep. That is the last thing I remember. Like it was all totally blank and even worse than anesthesia level blackout.
Three hours later, someone pulled a large piece of glass out of my face that severed major nerve in my lip. That woke me up.
That is how I want to go; a pretty day on a nice bike ride, feeling fantastic, then totally blank.
In reality, I was lucid the whole time apparently, or so I was told. I honestly do not have ANY memory of it whatsoever. If you know of anyone that dies tragically with a major head injury, I want you to think of me. Even if they appeared conscious or aware but disoriented, that wasn’t the last thing they felt or remembered, I promise, I’ve lived it; only barely survived it. I still don’t remember a thing.
They’ll just open shell companies. Corporate participation in the housing market is morally wrong, and one of the biggest blunders in the legislative system of the USA. It is an erosion of democracy. Housing is a fundamental human right. The vast majority of land is unoccupied, and that which is fit for occupation is not adequately zoned to compensate for the needs of people. The entire housing market is an inflation scam. There is absolutely no reason for houses to cost so much, especially considering they are made of toothpicks and papier-mâché with no attempt made to make them efficient or sustainable at scale.
Just commit, no matter the response. Adding /s is akin to explaining a joke after you tell it. If someone doesn’t understand or pick up on the sarcasm, it’s not your responsibility to spell it out for them. You add /s because you don’t want to be held accountable.
Assuming everyone is a native English speaker is asinine. Disguising hostility as humor and expecting everyone to understand within a global audience scope is nonsense.
This is akin to respecting pronouns, explaining memes and images in alt text, and speaking up against bigotry. It is simply being a respecting human being with self awareness. You got to be the best semi-sentient entity you can be. /s
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Just a bunch of publicly posted images I pulled from a retired old washed up link aggregation site in the past to use as backgrounds. (all are 3rd party hosted)...
Hello! Can we normalize a few things?
Don't be a vote connoisseur here please. Redefine how you think about voting and participating....
Breaking News! AMD is open sourcing the API for the x86 bootloader (community.amd.com)
I think this means we will eventually see a fully open source Coreboot/Libreboot soon. Someone correct me if I am wrong please!...
You were disabled. You're stuck laying down most of the day. What do you do to earn a living and survive?
You were disabled and realize it is not getting better, and no one seems to be able to fix the issue. You’re stuck laying down most of the day, you have enough mobility to function at home, but anything outside of home leaves you in bad shape beyond your control where you are not professionally functional. What do you do to...
Meta will train AI with data from European users (stackdiary.com)
The only exception is private messages, and some users have reported difficulty opting out.
PAROL6 Desktop Robot Arm GPL-V3 with simulator/software/useful precision/low cost (raw.githubusercontent.com)
github.com/PCrnjak/PAROL6-Desktop-robot-armwww.youtube.com/watch?v=PiBCbHtvbpEpiped.video/watch?v=PiBCbHtvbpE...
Orcas Just Sank Another Yacht (www.scientificamerican.com)
Do you often hear the ringing of switching power supplies and devices when you are in a quiet space?
I’m curious, how many people are aware of these sounds. I have designed, etched, and built my own switching power supplies along with winding my own transformers. I am aware of the source of the noise. So, does anyone else hear these high frequency sounds regularly?
People with experience working in and around municipal water infrastructure: Do you drink tap water? Are there times when you do not?
This question is obviously intended for those that live in places where tap water is “safe to drink.”...
How do we package food products sustainably in coming decades?
I imagine all plastics will be out of the question. I’m wondering about what ways food packaging might become regulated to upcycling in the domestic or even commercial space. Assuming energy remains a $ scarce $ commodity I don’t imagine recycling glass will be super practical as a replacement. Do we move to more unpackaged...
What's a bit of good advice that's really bad advice?
You know, like “always split on 18,” or “having kids is the most rewarding thing you can do in life.”...
why arent guitars made with 3.5mm jacks rather than quarter inch jacket
Do you have a more complicated shell history scheme than the distro default?
I’ve used distrobox more and more and am at the point where I need to start saving and integrating history differently. Or like, when I’m installing and building something complicated, I need to start saving that specific session’s history. I am curious what others might be doing and looking for simple advice and ideas.
In a post-scarcity futurism with AGI-gov, no violent conflict, and most of humanity lives in O'Neil cylinders/megastructures: What is human culture really like in your optimistic opinion?
I’ve been watching Isaac Arthur episodes. In one he proposes that O’Neil cylinders would be potential havens for micro cultures. I tend to think of colony structures more like something created by a central authority....
Google court filing reveals new business details of DuckDuckGo and Neeva | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Your opinion on motorcycles?
I am new to FuckCars, and personally, I feel very much aligned to this ideology. Particularly, the amout of environmental damage the fuel consumption causes, concerns me....
How do you like to cheer yourself up when you're sad?
Feeling a bit down tonight. How do you guys like to lighten up?
[Answered] What would be a good glue to repair this spatula with that wont be toxic or come undone in a dishwasher? (lemmy.world)
Edit: I decided to throw it out and order a new stainless steel one that’s all one piece. Thanks for the help!
What the process for people getting their driving licenses where you live?
Saw this comment from someone in Germany, 3000-4000 euros and very intensive process. feddit.de/comment/7204601
How come Republicans are the most fervent Christians?
[Disclaimer] - I am not an American and I consider myself atheist, I am Caucasian and born in a pre-dominantly Christian country....
Linux Phone Penetration by Region
🇾🇪 Yemen: 0.4%...
What has your experience of death taught you?
Calif. lawmaker wants to ban firms from owning over 1,000 homes (sfstandard.com)
Using /s to indicate sarcasm is cowardly
Just commit, no matter the response. Adding /s is akin to explaining a joke after you tell it. If someone doesn’t understand or pick up on the sarcasm, it’s not your responsibility to spell it out for them. You add /s because you don’t want to be held accountable.