Notices by Bitals (bitals@fediverse.bitals.xyz)

@SuperDicq @iskyline332
I generally think your own timezone is fine when either you are the only user or everyone is in the same timezone, but if there is anybody with different local time everything should instantly be UTC.
A shame I can't convince anybody I work with to do so, and there are servers I need to look at literally everywhere from US to Japan, all with their local time set up.

@SuperDicq @benthor @jae
As far as I looked into it, either only or the majority of the "blobs" are the waveforms for the screen. And they are not even code, not executed, so I can live with them being present on a separate partition for the FOSS driver to look at.
Anyway after a year thousands of km away from my paper book closet, the withdrawal was too close to killing me. This is the most free one for the foreseeable future, as no e-ink manufacturer shares their waveforms.

@SuperDicq @benthor @jae
My Pinenote disagrees.

@SuperDicq @karpour
To ego-boost the bros, obviously.

@SuperDicq @koakuma

@lain @feliks @SuperDicq
Those are all separate models trained on different things.
Parrots just have less memory, so they can't store all of that random text. They also don't burn MegaWatts of power for storage alone.
LLM don't *know* anything though. They have a huge library of tokenized text, and they will give you back the tokens most often seen together with ones you provided with your query.
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@SuperDicq @feliks
Stuff, but not actual speech. LLMs have reinforced learning that kinda crutches that in, similar to methods available with parrots.
The difference is parrots can also fly, push buttons and be cool, all while not burning 1000W continuously.

@feliks @SuperDicq
It is fatual though. LLMs just tokenize your words and spew out the tokens most often seen together in the training data, with some specific actions like googling strapped to some tokens. It's literally the same thing as a parrot.

@feliks @SuperDicq
It's pretty useless to disagree with the way the technology actually works, but you do you.

@feliks @SuperDicq
As a small language model natively speaking a non-roman language, I don't.
I haven't encountered the word "semantics" much, so my answer will be straight from DuckDuckGo.

@SuperDicq @feliks
It's "talking to a parrot" actually. Techbros just overclocked it, losing 95% of efficiency on the way.

@snacks @SuperDicq
Openai api call "you are an if statement. Choose 1 value to return based on the input. Do not hallucinate. The return value must be spelled out in a vocaloid voice."

@SuperDicq @evamik
Enlighten me please.

@SuperDicq as always: it depends. If you just stand at it — that's a knee destruction speedrun. The idea is either a treadmill or changing between sitting and standing throughout a day.

@SuperDicq @lanodan
In most CIS counrties I know the rules are the same, but using the horn in any other context will result in nothing at all.
So I've recently had a guy honking under my window rushing his friend to get out and into his car. At 3AM. Cool!

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@SuperDicq
Yes, they animated all of this by hand, so doing the whole thing would be very hard, time-consuming and expensive.
It's just as if they knew something while doing the original and went with CGI for this reason...

Also in later Initial D seasons there were manually animated technical scenes, and they were fine.

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@SuperDicq
When I first got it shown to me by a friend (the *kansei dorifuto* scene), I immediately noticed not the absence of the eurobeat, but how like half of the Takumi' actions and the 86' movements were missing, stealing away most of the scene' impact.
The original clearly showed all this nerdy stuff while still making everything necessary obvious enough for normies, this was completely gone in the Legends.

@SuperDicq
I just treat the new Trigun as a separate thing, it'pretty good this way. Not the anime of the decade, but good.

Initial D Legends is just dumb though, completely agree. I do my best to forget it exists after every time it's mentioned, and it's pretty easy to do.

@eal @kaia
Studded winter tires are cool and work very well, but good ones cost a pretty penny.

@SuperDicq @BrodieOnLinux
There also are filesystem updates to necessitate a reboot lol, what a time to be alive.