In theory, it’s just an algorithm that will always produce the same output given the exact same inputs. In practice it’s nearly impossible to have fully deterministic outputs because of the limited precision and repeatability we get with floating point numbers on GPUs.

I’ll admit I don’t spend enough time on here to have a well-formed opinion, but aside from the occasional obvious spam post, I don’t see a lot of obvious bot activity… Depending on the instance/community, you’re going to get a lot of very strong and, uh… controversial opinions.

Keep in mind that the (still relatively) niche nature of Lemmy/Piefed (and the fediverse writ large) means that a higher proportion of people around here are going to be far from the center of the political gradient… and the western world is very much experiencing a cultural/political paradigm shift which is driving people to the fringes.

I also think that a lot more people are using the platform than a year or two ago and that has knock-on effects on moderation that we still need to figure out how to deal with.

I mean, Cyberpunk 2077 does have construction workers being contractually obligated to receive strength-augmenting implants that are low quality and frequently malfunction and/or drive the wearer to homicidal insanity.

I can relate to… every single one of those points. I’ve spent some time living in small spaces though, so I’m not so bad about my room being messy anymore. Everything else though? Yeah. I spent many years in therapy as a teenager and nobody even brought up the possibility of neurodivergence. I eventually looked into it enough to get formal diagnoses of both Autism and (mild) ADHD when I was 27. They’ve been a recurring theme but not by any means a focus of sessions with my therapist since then (I started therapy again around that time too).

Treatment isn’t going to do anything if you feel like your quality of life is good, as you’ve basically managed to do the treatment yourself. That said, I think that therapy is generally a good thing, even for people who manage to cope well; as it can aid in deeper understanding of the self. It’s shocking how many people think they’re happy but really aren’t.

Connecting with others is hard. Even for neurotypical people, from what I can tell. All I can really suggest is trying to meet other people who are on the spectrum. You’ll likely find other autistic people are much easier to connect with. I have my partner and a couple of close friends who are all also autistic, but I definitely haven’t figured out how to connect with neurotypical people at any meaningful level. I think that’s largely because we tend to crave deeper connection than neurotypicals, so we’re trying to connect with them more than they have any interest in connecting with anyone. That’s not a bad thing, necessarily. I think we just connect in fundamentally different ways that make it difficult (but not impossible) to maintain relationships.

Also, I don’t have any reading material to suggest, but there are a handful of “Autism Youtubers” that I think have interesting content like Orion Kelly or Trevor Carroll.

I’d like to see similar testing done comparing models where the “misaligned” data is present during training, as opposed to fine-tuning. That would be a much harder thing to pull off, though.

Me and my partner have been wanting to start/join one for the last decade, but life is complicated and we’re bad at talking to people.

Because evaporative cooling is much cheaper and easier to accomplish at scale, and megacorps don’t care about long-term resource constraints until it begins to affect their wallets.

I know this is true for most employers, but I’m not sure I’d be willing to be confident that there’s no way for any company to know. I’ve heard more than one report of companies that sell that sort of information to certain partners.

Yeah, watching and copying is something that neurotypical people do all the time… but I’m specifically referring to the act of being consciously aware and anxious around it, which is very much not a neurotypical thing.

Neurotypical people do this far, far less; and if someone feels like they have to point out that it happens to them all the time, they’re definitely not neurotypical.

Anyone who has a problem with singular they can eat my non-binary ass.

Honestly I think proper search is one of the biggest things holding the fediverse back from mainstream adoption. It needs exposure, and it needs to be easy to find information and communities around obscure topics in order to really replace silos like reddit and facebook. I’m glad to see this exists, and I particularly like that it supports kagi.

Edit: Maybe this should have been obvious when seeing that it uses other search providers as a backend, but all it does is pass a list of fedi websites to filter results for. That’s… not a proper search. It’s a potentially useful tool, but it’s not doing any of its own aggregation and more importantly the list of websites is also painfully small. Color me disappointed.

Ok, but have you used Linux?

Mine was also glued to the heat bed when I broke it… I ended up replacing both the glass plate and the heater because trying to separate them wasn’t worth the effort. A PEI sheet should work okay on the thin aluminum as long as the bed is trammed reasonably well and you can use mesh bed leveling. Otherwise, yeah, stick with glass and be sure to use a release layer.

I got some screw-on bed clips to hold it on at the margins outside the print area instead of gluing down the new one.

idk, I feel like the phone and the mobile service operator could qualify as two different layers of scam.

Since it seems like most of the comments are along the lines of “haha stupid maga idiot 😂😂😂”, I’d like to make it clear that 404 Media is actually a pretty left-leaning publication which appears to be reporting on trump mobile from the standpoint of “wow, let’s see how bad this actually is”. Their reporting is mostly tech-focused, so this is in their wheelhouse.

That said, if it were coming from any other source I’d be laughing my ass off.

Looks more like a pelvis than a head to me. 🤷

i prefer to do mine in the czech republic, personally

Seems to be a common thing with Chinese tech, honestly. It’s kinda frustrating.

My claim is that alternatives with minimal drawbacks are going to be required in industrialized societies, yes, because plastic is very deeply ingrained in our industry, and has been critical to many of the advances that we’ve had in the last few decades (especially medicine and healthcare).

If we’re talking about just the food supply chains, that’s a little bit different because people are more willing to suffer inconvenience if the perceived health risk is large enough (because health depends on our diets). The problem is that the perceived risk, for the vast majority of people, is fairly small. Plastic ingestion poses chronic issues, not acute ones (mostly). This means that we’ve already addressed most of the more acute toxicity concerns, and the chronic concerns are going to require more conclusive data to persuade people to care now and not dismiss it by saying “I’ll worry about that later, we have more important problems now”.

That said, I never said we were “doomed”. In fact I think that we’re going to develop better and safer technologies, and plastic and how it reacts with living organisms will be better understood. But, I think that’s going to take some time. In the mean time, I think we’re going to start to go back to older materials (particularly in the food supply chains) where the additional cost is manageable. Plastic isn’t going to go away completely though. Not now, not ever. The best we can do is make it safer, and mandate other materials where it’s most important.