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·11 mesi fa·discuss
One thing I hate about modern TV shows is that they have been further sliced into ~5-10min sequences between ad breaks, and even if you watch them without ads, you get narratively unnecessary cliff hangers just before a break, complete with dramatic music and a closeup of some dramatic gesture, trivially resolved in the next 5 seconds after the break.

You're constantly yanked out of the narrative in service of ads even if you never see them, which has disfigured the medium.
ldmosquera
·anno scorso·discuss
Small note - https://github.com/flatcar/Flatcar has no code in any branches:

> Flatcar project repository for issue tracking, project documentation, etc.

Per the building page https://www.flatcar.org/docs/latest/reference/developer-guid...

the actual code seems to be at https://github.com/flatcar/scripts.git
ldmosquera
·anno scorso·discuss
But it's a continuum, not a hard cutoff. They start hallucinating as soon as you query something they haven't learned verbatim, and they hallucinate/extrapolate sucessfully up to a point, beyond which they start bullshitting, maybe up to a further point where they start saying "I don't know".

The key question is where the boundaries are. Maybe they should be part of the response - a per sentence or per paragraph "confidence scale" that signals how hard they extrapolated from their trained space (I know transformers work per token, but sentence/paragraph would be better human UX).

Of course, if they were trained on garbage input, that would only tell you how accurately they sticked to the garbage. But it would still be invaluable instrumentation for the end user, not to mention for the API provider. They could look at high demand subjects with low confidence answers and prioritize that for further training.
ldmosquera
·2 anni fa·discuss
I hate this contant emphasizing with a burning passion; even some newspapers do it. It's like trying to hold a conversation with someone that shouts the important bits to your face.

https://pypi.org/project/html2text/ has --ignore-emphasis which drops bold and italics and cleanses this pest.
ldmosquera
·2 anni fa·discuss
You left the very best out: dadbod.vim (a DB helper)
ldmosquera
·2 anni fa·discuss
This pilot's account of ejecting underwater (!!) after a failed carrier landing is truly amazing: https://www.ejectionsite.com/eunderh2o.htm
ldmosquera
·2 anni fa·discuss
I recently got Lenovo Moto G7 Plus (not recent but recent enough for their purpose), because LineageOS fully supports them [1].

Then I found out to unlock the bootloader I had to:

1. get a string via a `fastboot` command

2. create a motorola.com account

3. paste string in some motorola.com page to get an "unlock code" emailed IF Motorola decides your device is "unlockable"

4. `fastboot oem unlock UNLOCK_CODE`

5. connect phone to the Internet and wait between 3 and 7 days [2] (turned out to be 3 or 4)

Until I did all that shit, the option to unlock the bootloader in system settings was grayed out.

Afterwards the device works well, but it was a terrible experience and I DO NOT recommend Motorola devices for rooting based on this.

[1]: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices

[2]: https://nerdschalk.com/how-to-fix-oem-unlock-greyed-out-or-o...
ldmosquera
·2 anni fa·discuss
I lolled at the "egress optimization" tag, then followed it and found this other gem:

https://practicalbetterments.com/drill-holes-in-your-keys/

Makes sense in an XKCD kinda way.