I never had one but they had them at school. Thought they were the coolest thing ever and also assumed digital because CDs were starting to become popular.

https://lemmyverse.net/communities

And the auto-submitting TOTP entry form where you’re apparently not allowed to make a typo. And obscuring the TOTP number like it’s a password or state secret.

TIL and nice bit of trivia!

Lol, exactly that.

Lol, I was about to reply to the main post and make the same joke.

🤚totally guilty there.

I wish there was a way to mute or turn off replies, and I might post more. Sometimes / often I’ll want to post something but definitely do not want to be bombarded with the comments it would generate. Other times, I’ll like the community but not be involved enough in whatever hobby to post anything but still enjoy seeing other people’s work (e.g. HAM radio, sewing, etc).

I’ll come hang out, but I will not be helping you move any furniture.

Disclaimer: : All of my LLM experience is with local models in Ollama on extremely modest hardware (an old laptop with NVidia graphics) , so I can’t speak for the technical reasons the context window isn’t infinite or at least larger on the big player’s models. My understanding is that the context window is basically its short term memory. In humans, short term memory is also fairly limited in capacity. But unlike humans, the LLM can’t really see (or hold) the big picture in its mind.

But yeah, all you said is correct. Expanding on that, if you try to get it to generate something long-form, such as a novel, it’s basically just generating infinite chapters using the previous chapter (or as much of the history fits into its context window) as reference for the next. This means, at minimum, it’s going to be full of plot holes and will never reach a conclusion unless explicitly directed to wrap things up. And, again, given the limited context window, the ending will be full of plot holes and essentially based only on the previous chapter or two.

It’s funny because I recently found an old backup drive from high school with some half-written Jurassic Park fan fiction on it, so I tasked an LLM with fleshing it out, mostly for shits and giggles. The result is pure slop that seems like it’s building to something and ultimately goes nowhere. The other funny thing is that it reads almost exactly like a season of Camp Cretaceous / Chaos Theory (the animated kids JP series) and I now fully believe those are also LLM-generated.

If it turns out to be the former, I don’t blame them.

If you’re gonna repost stuff from ml at least re-upload it so I don’t have to connect to it.

• Not every <input type="text"> is suitable for political opinions.
• Political opinions are like assholes: we all have them, they all stink, we all think our own doesn’t stink, and the world is a better place when everyone doesn’t have them on constant display.
• People who inject politics into everything are generally insufferable and there’s a reason major communities have rules prohibiting politics.

Pluribus does that, but also bounces around, so not sure if it fits.

I don’t think it ever fully went away, though. I’ve seen it as recently as 2018.

Personally, I love that layout.

I’m always at a loss for what to put up as wall decorations, and I hate rats nests of cables. Win-win!

New U.S. rules will soon ban Chinese software in vehicle systems that connect to the cloud

Seems to me that the easiest way to get into compliance would be to not make the car connect to the cloud/internet. I’m gonna drive my 2017 model until I can buy a new car that isn’t a smartphone on wheels.

Trash? None.

Clutter / work-in-progress: No comment.

Lol, touche. Also:

In order and in character:

1. [Chidi]: No, that would be highly unethical
2. [Eleanor] Of course. How else would you do it?
3. [Eleanor] Obviously they had it coming so no harm no foul.
4. [Jason] Nah, Pill-Boi said it was fine.
5. [Tahani] My heavens, no. I would never want to upset my friend Ray. Charles. Ray Charles was my friend.
6. [Jason] In Jacksonville we’re legally required to.
7. [Chidi] Given the ethical implications of restraining user freedom but also providing safety for the majority of people, we have to take into account several factors [ pulls out a blackboard, stomach ache intensifies ]…

I mean, it might if you did all 4 of those with the same post. lol. The Judge would invent “The Super Bad Place” for that.