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T156

@ T156 @lemmy.world

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  • What would you want to see this site do differently from Reddit?

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  • As a whole, Lemmy isn't really big enough to branch out into individual game communities just yet. They just end up petering out.

  • Why do all text LLMs, no matter how censored they are or what company made them, all have the same quirks and use the slop names and expressions?

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  • It's something of the law of averages. At their core, an LLM is a sophisticated text prediction algorithm, that boils down the entire corpus of human language into numeric tokens, that it averages out, and creates entire sentences by determining the next most likely word to fill the space.

    Given enough data, and you need a tremendous amount of it for an LLM, patterns start to come about, and many of those end up the ones that we see in LLMs.

  • First time posting here — how does Lemmy feel compared to Reddit for you?

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  • What do you like better here than on Reddit?

    The interfaces are better, and being able to integrate with mastodon is interesting.

    What do you miss from Reddit?

    The size of the communities, really. On Reddit, a lot of the subs have grown big enough that they can maintain themselves, whereas here, they're pretty much dead without input. A few of the more interesting counterpart communities that I would frequent a tonne on Reddit are dead now, and if you're just one user, it does feel like spam to try and contribute to it constantly.

    It's really only a limit subset of communities that seem very active at all, and they are generally news or politics based.

    Do you feel the culture here is genuinely different, or does it eventually drift the same way?

    Bit of both. The culture in the larger communities would drift the way of Reddit just by volume, but the smaller ones are a bit more unique, and not always in a good way. Because Lemmy is a bit more tech-focused, I find a lot of the main medium-sized communities tend to have similar abrasiveness you see a bit in tech, though it can depend on both community and server.

  • What's the deal with breakfast in bed?

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  • IMO the appeal isn't the actual breakfast in bed, it's having your partner care for you enough to make you breakfast and bring it to you.

  • Is there an anti- sleep-paralysis device?

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  • Lately, she doesn't even wake up and she just kinda turns in her sleep and whacks me in the face like she's hitting the snooze button. It's... admittedly been very effective.

    Cat energy

  • How, and why, are there so many AI-generated videos of incredibly obscure/niche topics?

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  • Then you shit out the slop content and hope your channel picks up. If it fails to drive numbers you abandon it and start with the next channel with the next topic variation. If you get lucky and the algorithm blesses you, you continue to shit out hundreds of videos.

    I'm not even sure that you would have to do the abandoning part. There's likely toolkits that let you upload to multiple channels at once. You can just start them up and spread them out as you wish.

    Why abandon a channel when it costs nothing to upload to it, and it might go viral one day?

    A lot of older videos can be randomly promoted by the algorithm.

  • How, and why, are there so many AI-generated videos of incredibly obscure/niche topics?

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  • Everyone on ~Reddit~ Lemmy is a bot, except you.

  • master vs main

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  • It would at least be a little more understandable, what with the whole aborting, terminating, or killing children before the parents to prevent zombies.

  • master vs main

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  • Brain and Limb.

  • Linux Users

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  • Being able to just enter a partial command, and hit [up] to jump to prior commands that started in the same way in zsh is a godsend.

  • Do you think conservatives feel the same need to burn it all down when charlie kirk died as everyone else felt when trump won again?

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  • Another victim of the high blood pressure epidemic 😔

    He should've tried eating less salt.

  • Are fossil fuels vegan?

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  • There's a fair bit of nuance around the topic of whether honey should be vegan or not, since honeybees also overproduce, and that is its own problem. Like with sheep's wool.

    Although crude oil has the additional complication where it's an incidental post-death product, like fertiliser, and from that viewpoint, it would be about as ethical.

  • Interesting way of putting it

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  • And for the robot (technically Cyborg) front, The Murderbot Diaries. The main character is a cyborg who has trouble relating to humans.

    But also has no desire to be human itself.

  • best episodes for people who've never seen star trek?

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  • At the same time, Yesterday's Enterprise needs some context. It doesn't work quite as well in a vacuum.

    Like why it was such a big deal that Tasha Yar finding out she didn't exist in another timeline, why the Klingon war is such a horrible development, and why the Enterprise was willing to put itself on the line to send them back to change history.

    Plus it's also unusually gory for TNG. A couple of people die in quite violent and horrible ways, and they could easily be misread as being the standard tone for the show, rather than the exception.

  • best episodes for people who've never seen star trek?

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  • I personally found the first episode of Lower Decks to be a bit of a turn-off. It felt a bit too much like Star Trek Rick and Morty.

  • Superfan Ben Stiller Has A Star Trek Pitch, Says It’s Important For Franchise To Return To Big Screen

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  • What's wrong with it? It's very much a product of its time, but it's still serviceable.

  • If there's a sort of "apocalyptic" event but there are still surviving communities, will people be able to make eyeglasses again, or are people with vision issues gonna be fucked?

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  • That's not how LASIK works.

  • YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection

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  • It seems like the kind of thing that would give rise to the ~ Earth movement

  • If I invented a shirt that caused cameras to be damaged when filmed/photographed, would I be committing a crime by wearing the shirt at events with cameras?

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  • Although that really only works as long as the camera doesn't have an IR filter in place.

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    If there are motherboards and daughterboards, are there fatherboards and sonboards?

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    How do you ask for a haircut?

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    Why is "Dear X" considered more formal than "To X" in e-mail/writing?

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    What caused the change in electronic terminology?