You can flash a pi and have a standalone individual instance. Computing power is growing, scaling grows too. We don’t have an option for stuff like AI today, but I could host my own Lemmy instance that only supports my household for $30. Site hugs can still happen but there are still solutions; seeding partitions is one way to resolve that, reposting requires rehosting.

Open source will eventually create viable platforms, I’m not giving up until platforms successfully campaign to kill free alternatives

I’ve heard the theory that aliens avoid earth because they think we consume oxygen by choice which is poisonous to life so that we can generate biological fire. Seems improbable but it’s fun to think we are excluded for appearing insane.

Network engineering is kind of in the middle where you take the skill set of help desk and office management. This often leads to help desk and software development both falling under the organization in information technology. Application support also often falls under this category.

As a person of exceptional taste, do you think mint and cranberry would go well together? It came to me in a dream, but I am too afraid to try it for myself.

There is a large difference between factually incorrect and unpopular opinion. Downvotes are more of an indication posts are incorrect facts, not unpopular opinions. Even popular opinions end up generating discussion. The original design of the voting system was to up vote stuff worth seeing and talking about.

The horizontal display is meant to reflect our natural vision which is also a horizontal aspect ratio. There are niche scenarios like skyscrapers but the vast majority of the time it’s correct to stay horizontal and frame the shot properly.

I use this in my bash profile in case anyone else finds it helpful. Usage is:

gao fixing a typo

function gao() {
    git add .
    git commit -a -m "$*"
    git push origin `git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD`
}

There is a reason they didn’t offer specific examples. LLM can still scale by size, logical optimization, training optimization, and more importantly integration. The current implementation is reaching it’s limits but pace of growth is also happening very quickly. AI reduces workload, but it is likely going to require designers and validators for a long time.

Regardless of user count they have promised support for windows 10 until October 2025. Windows 11 has more ads and data harvesting.

You must have struck a nerve or that user has other stuff going on. Several months ago AI was practically eating paste. It definitely has short comings now but the adaptive speed is definitely going to disrupt most markets. AI will be considering things that the users aren’t aware of and have significantly more training than humans faster.

On call schedules, in your gym bag. I imagine the vast majority of them are less attached to their phones and develop habits of leaving it in the other room for a while.

Black ass momma, white ass daddy

I interviewed with Intuit a few months after they purchased mint. When I told them I was using it, they all pretty much said they bought mint to prevent them from taking their market share. Their entire business model is restricted access and lobbying.

I imagine it’s similar to growing a garden or maintaining lawns and aquariums. It could be earths hobby to cultivate critters ¯\(ツ)/¯

Windows 11 is miserable. You are now required to add Microsoft accounts at the OS level. Tons of bloatware, embedded ads in start menu, heavy user tracking. Shitty AI implementation pushed on all apps including notepad. And all of the windows 10+ elements are built in the windows 8 base image so all of the settings are nested on top of the new settings UI, on top of control panel.

I can’t play EA games because In 2023 they archived my account for “inactivity” with playtime in 2022. The only option is to delete my purchase history and save games… I wish people would stop giving them money.

Dennis is a specifically assaultive character from the fantastic TV series It’s always sunny in Philadelphia; that invented a system of picking up women using an acrostic of his name.

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The TV series is crass but hilarious. Highly recommend watching

Silliness is fine as a nod or one off, but EEAAO made it as massive of a plot point as Julia Roberts in Oceans 12. In writing your goal is clarify, mixed language conversations are a part of life but not story telling. I thoroughly enjoyed hot dog fingers, but it was overused.

I’ve actually gotten a lot of flack from friends for disliking this movie. The plot is heavy handed, the symbolism is shoved down your throat “everything bagel is everything”, changing languages mid sentence makes conversations hard to follow, and I personally did not identify with the cultural background.

Infinite universe removes stakes and motivation, there was no explanation for how or why we had these experiences. To drive the story, we had characters talking drastic action that made no sense, and had skills they couldn’t possibly develop. The writers waived the ability to “show instead of tell” by using subversion of reality to keep the boring story engaging. Without rules and boundaries the subjection of reality served no purpose.

I eventually looked up what some of the characters represented because it won 7 Oscars, but it turns out that there was no deeper message than the delivered one and overstated political agedas that were forced in as well. Overall EEAAO was visually stunning but presented nothing of value.