Man, I had an IQ test tell me 145 or some similar score. I still struggle with simple things like with laundry, cleaning and cooking. I’ve never had my drivers license because driving is fucking hard. I flunked my bachelor’s degree twice before finally getting it.
Dumb is relative and situational. That being said, nowadays I’d probably be diagnosed with some form of autism and / or ADHD.
That’s what I do. If you’re ready, you’re ready, no point in counting.
I just say “THREE!”. It’s the “ONE TWO THREE!” variant but I skip “ONE” and “TWO”.
If you’re not ready now, you won’t be after the count down.
Straps keys to the belt loop on jeans
I AM THE KEY CHAIN NOW
Stationery. I always stop at stationary section at shops to look at pens, fountain pens, pencils, mechanical pencils, pencil holders notebooks.
Simple utility tools: axes, shovels, rakes, various types of knifes, crowbars, big wrenches. I have no use for these things, but love to stop and hold them whenever I’m in a hardware shop.
Making coffee. I have a manual grinder and one of those V60 ceramic filter holders for filter coffee. I enjoy everything: from weighing the beans, to grinding, to pouring water slowly over the grounds.
Crows. I’ve been carrying shelled peanuts with me and whenever I see them I toss some. It’s amusing watching them. Some recognize me, come close and expect peanuts in return.
but if you’re going to criticize them, please do it accurately
You should take your own advice.
They do know the meaning of words, but only in relation to other words.
That’s only one part to meaning and it’s the only one LLMs have. It’s facinating what this one part can do, but we don’t operate this way. LLM have no world model, no logic model to associate a word to. It doesn’t think, it’s still just and input - output machine.
It’s not a statistical thing like word frequency pattern.
Instead, they’re doing math on words in a several hundred-thousand dimensional array where placement on this grid indicates the meaning of the word
I’m sorry, how is this not statistics?
The training is by it’s very nature statistical. We give millions of text inputs with expected outputs and tune the model until they match. How is this anything but statistics??
It developed this array via training on terabytes of text, but it’s not storing a copy of that text, nor looking it up, nor copying anything from it
Yes and no? Yes - it’s not storing a copy of the training data in the text form. No - it most definetly can “memorize” text, if that’s not a copy I don’t know what is.
I could memorize foreign script text without understanding it and then I could recreate it. Did I make a copy? no. Can I make a copy? yes.
I might be dumb, but… it looks fine. I didn’t really have other expectations besides it being functional and it functioned.
It worked for my small “projects” and I didn’t have problems finding different features.
Disclaimer:
I’ve never used Adobe’s photoshop.
What’s wrong with GIMP UI/UX? I’ve used it for small stuff and it did the job. It was… fine? No complains.
So a genuine question: what’s wrong with it for someone who uses these programs more in depth?
and scraping metadata from activists.
And what does it have to with this?
I mean yes, it’s not ideal that they require a phone number. But how does that translate to metadata scrapping and especially from activists?
and scraping metadata from activists
You have proof on that?
I don’t know how many times I had to deal with missing VCRUNTIME140.dll or MSVCP140.dll or other crap on Windows. This is not a Linux exclusive problem.
Reading through the comment thread I can’t help but think that your whole situation is self imposed.
Dependency problems are universal and there are tools to deal with it. It just seems that you’re refusing to use those tools (even Windows has winget now instead of relying on every installer bundling / linking its dependencies).
Now, it’s fair to not want to deal with CLI, but your cited experience is an outlier. It is not normal to break your system with just apt update && apt upgrade -y. As a matter of fact apt will not upgrade if there are conflicting dependencies, you sort of have to force it to break your system.
There are wrappers that provide a GUI for apt (and even dpkg, which is usually invoked when double clicking a .deb file) so why not using them?
In Windows dependency issues are often offloaded to the provider of the software, but they are still just as present. In Linux this problem was solved[1] a different way — via package managers. I don’t want to be the “skill issue” guy, but refusing to use the platform intended tool to solve a problem is kind of a “skill issue”. At some point you are responsible for knowing how to use an OS, just as you are responsible for knowing how to drive a car if you want to drive a car.
dependency hell is still an issue so take the word with a grain of salt. ↩︎
It wasn’t internet, it was part of conscription health checkups. I remember the psychologist being all smug and annoying going like “Almost as high as mine…” when went over the results.