it's both gratifying and disappointing when the $50000 piece of scientific equipment that the company "can't repair anymore" can be fixed by us taking off the back panel and installing a functional 24V power supply.
these repair engineers I swear are trained to not think of solutions. "this power supply is obsolete" is not reasonable when there are 100,000 models of 24V 6A DC power supply.
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It's okay to mute people temporarily even if you follow them. Your ability to tolerate things varies.
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I get the schadenfreude seeing companies trying to make private moat-protected LLMs masquerading as AGI getting obliterated. I very much get it.
I also get the relief that it is possible to make this LLM stuff work without using nuclear power plants worth of electricity. Thank god, I can actually consider ethically using them for certain tasks.
But they still need stuff to be trained on... and I doubt China respects copyright even as much as Altman.
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How do you read the word "revision" in the context of describing a surgical procedure in a medical paper?
Apologies, it is not my field and this jargon is throwing me off. I get from context and :duckduckgo: that maybe it means a subsequent surgery to correct an undesirable change or inadequate repair?
I ask because a procedure with a 23% chance of needing "revision" in a median 14 months when it takes 6-9 months to heal from the procedure seem pretty bad.
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was there some kind of campaign to get people to leave meta on Feb 1?
I cannot find any reference to it whatsoever anymore.
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:duckduckgo: how to add LYCOS as a search engine in Firefox
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@siderea sorry I didn't want to make an account to comment, but I had to deal with biologicals in tubing for work so maybe that experience is transferrable? I could not quite tell from the description.
cleaning plastic tubes is hard, the wrong thing will damage the tubing. I think soap is probably the safest if you can sort of flush it through. often it came down to what the tubing manufacturer said was safe, but after cleaning we'd always purge with DI water.
does it have a model number?
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Instead I have to use a bluetooth headset for someone to understand me on speakerphone with a 2024 model phone. It's got a great camera though.
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think how good call quality would be if smartphone manufacturers had focused on having a decent microphone first and foremost.
I know the nerds designing them are afraid of talking on the phone, but if microphones advanced as far as cameras there'd be like fourteen of them doing noise cancellation and things like triangulate the location of multiple people talking on the speakerphone at once based on phase relationships to do volume normalization or whatever else we can't even dream of yet.
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I remember the first time we hosted an international karate team. No one spoke the same language. Google translate sucked, but hell it was so much better than ten years earlier with a hand held dictionary. Improving human communication in this way is such a huge win for humans.
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Having a handheld device that translates between verbal and written languages, even with bad accuracy, is a miracle for real human interactions. It seems very different than trying to remove humans from the creative process.
Yes, this version still needs a too powerful GPU and a human translator will be way better but I want very much that particular technology to exist.
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Wait, why are we upset about VLC offering on device subtitles when there is no track present? Or translations? Especially when made on device?
Sorry, I've lost the thread. If I read right, it is local, supports making inaccessible media accessibile (like mastodon's own alt text generating AI) doesn't plagiarise because if the subtitles existed they wouldn't be generated, and is about as much AI as Google translate was ten years ago.
Who is harmed? This seems unambiguously beneficial.
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Does anyone know a good cheap place to get ICP-MS analysis for heavy metals?
Context: tincture of [entirely legal] plant extract that might have gotten heavy metals from the ground.
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Which bean(s) do you like the most in your vegetarian chili (texans, I meant to say bean stew)?
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Dear lord people using public LLMs to analyze the stock market.
https://trading.snagra.com/
Unsurprising that a text synthesizer trained by techbros would say that companies using blockchain are great. I imagine it doesn't count as insider trading to "accidentally" bias your model to play the market...
SMX's innovative 'digital twin' technology, combining chemical barcodes and blockchain, offers a unique solution for supply chain traceability and anti-counterfeiting.
At least it's not a coin.
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This is probably literal propaganda considering the "article" references a study that doesn't contain the number they reference at all other than as a page number.
Are other parts true? Maybe. Does the article make a good point about issues with immigration to the UK? Probably. But this is just fake.
Please, my friends, if it sounds ridiculous -- like any survey having a result in the 90s -- consider that misinformation means it's your fault when your followers lose arguments.
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When people post links to stuff that seems scandalously true but when you actually look at the sources you can't find a single reference to it -- do you bother to reply to strangers polluting the timeline with misinformation?
Context (subtoot sorry) --
https://social.marxist.network/@yogthos/113726620856933723
with this provocative clip (attached), but the actual research referenced (https://www.britishfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/HK-to-UK-report.Final_.pdf) does not even include the number "94" in it.
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"What I would much rather do is target relief to that person who, you know, inherited their house from their grandmother, you know, 40 years ago, never had a lot of income, now is struggling to pay their property tax bill. That's the person I'm worried about."
Um, I empathize, but what? I want a free house forty years ago too. And what does that have to do with the price of business real estate taxes?
https://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2024/12/13/boston-mayor-michelle-wu-tax-proposal-beacon-hill
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Just ask ChatGPT who the murderer is.
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Really, who decided that if you click back to return to a search result page it makes sense for it to dynamically reorder the results.
It's bizarre that duckduckgo is doing this, I'll click the first link, hit back, and suddenly the second link is the visited one while the previously second link becomes the first.
I kind of understand why someone might think "this one wasn't it" is a signal to tune the results, but it's wild that consistency didn't take priority.
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