TheTechnician27

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

You've Gotta Be Kidding! Arthur meme where Binky replaces Arthur's dad and sleeps with his mom

So this but Binky is a moth?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think I should really have to explain this, but different prompts produce different results.

Ron Swanson saying "I know more thab you" to a home improvement store employee

[–] [email protected] 11 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

It's a two-pass solution, but it makes it a lot more reliable.

So your technique to "make it a lot more reliable" is to ask an LLM a question, then run the LLM's answer through an equally unreliable LLM to "verify" the answer?

We're so doomed.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

Something I think you neglect in this comment is that yes, you're using LLMs in a responsible way. However, this doesn't translate well to school. The objective of homework isn't just to reproduce the correct answer. It isn't even to reproduce the steps to the correct answer. It's for you to learn the steps to the correct answer (and possibly the correct answer itself), and the reproduction of those steps is a "proof" to your teacher/professor that you put in the effort to do so. This way you have the foundation to learn other things as they come up in life.

For instance, if I'm in a class learning to read latitude and longitude, the teacher can give me an assignment to find 64° 8′ 55.03″ N, 21° 56′ 8.99″ W on the map and write where it is. If I want, I can just copy-paste that into OpenStreetMap right now and see what horrors await, but to actually learn, I need to manually track down where that is on the map. Because I learned to use latitude and longitude as a kid, I can verify what the computer is telling me, and I can imagine in my head roughly where that coordinate is without a map in front of me.

Learning without cheating lets you develop a good understanding of what you: 1) need to memorize, 2) don't need to memorize because you can reproduce it from other things you know, and 3) should just rely on an outside reference work for whenever you need it.

There's nuance to this, of course. Say, for example, that you cheat to find an answer because you just don't understand the problem, but afterward, you set aside the time to figure out how that answer came about so you can reproduce it yourself. That's still, in my opinion, a robust way to learn. But that kind of learning also requires very strict discipline.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

The bottom two quadrants are indeed not making that up.

* EDIT: So far, in fact, that egg prices are now ballooning (recent drop due to imports etc.) from us packing birds so close together that commercial egg production has turned into a game of The Last of Clucks. Good job, humans. 🥳

[–] [email protected] 81 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

OP, for future reference, any post without a source is subject to removal. This is yours: https://futurism.com/klarna-openai-humans-ai-back

There are better sources like the TechRadar one this Futurism article cites, but it's not bad enough to get removed for Rule 2 or anything.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Currently, Karton is actively developed by Derek Lin, a University of Waterloo student participating in Google Summer of Code 2025. His primary aim is to deliver a virtual machine manager that truly belongs in the KDE ecosystem.

Neat, but celebrating this as "finally getting" seems premature at best.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Calling her comics mid as fuck? I mean they are, but that isn't "drama".

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

But we're not...? Someone just asked "what's the drama?" and someone matter-of-factly said what the drama is. What makes you think anything here is imitating Reddit?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Eagerly waiting for the 2.0 update where Saddam has intact balls and the astronaut has a Saddam Hussein patch.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

That's her biggest platform by far, so I think what they said is fair game. Does Mastodon never talk about what happens on Twitter or BlueSky? The fact Reddit is a cesspool doesn't mean we should pretend it doesn't exist.

 

It's baaaaack!

 

Context: I usually don't follow a recipe and just make things ad hoc with a generic set of (usually shelf-stable) ingredients I keep. I just mixed together the following:

  • Quinoa
  • Vegetable broth
  • A Mediterranean seasoning mix I combined myself from like 20 herbs and spices
  • A light drizzle of olive oil
  • A handful of grape leaves
  • About a spoonful of pomegranate molasses (never saw this ingredient before but found it on a good sale; shockingly versatile)
  • About a spoonful of mango/peach jam (don't ask; I choose minor ingredients like a pregnant person)

It tastes good, but it's very homogenous flavor-wise, texture-wise, and nutrient-wise. Mainly I'm thinking of solid ingredients. Avocado? I had none on hand, but maybe next time. If I liked olives more, they'd go well with the grape leaves and Mediterranean spices to make it sort of Greek. I have a tomato, but I didn't add it; maybe I was wrong? Vegan feta exists, but I didn't like feta when I ate animal products. I bet falafel would work nicely, but I have no way to make them. The sweet ingredients already in the recipe don't make the dish taste "sweet"; they just add a bit of background flavor, and I don't want anything too sweet in it after those (except a squeeze of citrus juice which I didn't have on hand). I think white wine would be good, but I never drink, so a lot goes to waste if I use it for cooking. Lastly, I'm thinking I want the dish to be hot instead of chilled, but that's probably a stupid idea.

TL;DR: Having writer's block in finishing a potentially decent recipe; I feel like I want to go in a Greek direction, but I have little experience with making Greek food.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28780534

Nine people killed after car plows into crowd at Vancouver Filipino festival

A driver plowed a car into a crowd at a street festival celebrating Filipino heritage in Vancouver on Saturday night, killing at least nine people and injuring others.

Some of those attending the festival helped arrest the suspect at the scene, who police identified as a 30-year-old man.

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“It’s something you don’t expect to see in your lifetime,” Kris Pangilinan, a Toronto-based journalist, told Canadian public broadcaster CBC. “[The driver] just slammed the pedal down and rammed into hundreds of people. It was like seeing a bowling ball hit — all the bowling pins and all the pins flying up in the air.”

He continued, “It was like a war zone… There were bodies all over the ground.”

 
 
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