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Oh I'm sorry C: you've only got 6GB free? Only six fucking gig? We used to boot the OS off fucking floppy drives but I'm so so sorry that six entire gigabytes of free space isn't enough for you you poor starving thing. You've been experiencing worse and worse memory issues for months and now you're freezing and crashing every few minutes because why, you just can't make 6 gig work? Grow the fuck up.

derinthescarletpescatarian

On the plus side having to hard reboot my computer every 5 minutes is finally convincing me to (very very slowly through multiple reboots) back up my files and switch this machine over to Linux like I've been meaning to do for a good couple of years now

derinthescarletpescatarian

I'll just move some of this junk onto an old external and --

OH COME ON

derinthescarletpescatarian

Computer's on Ubuntu now with plenty of space on its nice clean hard drives. If this doesn't solve the freezing and crashing issues then I'm going to have to peel him open and start replacing his organs.

derinthescarletpescatarian

Downside: now I have to go hunting for all the add-ons and stuff to make my computer experience how I like it again. This is a horrible use of screen space and I forgot that every website has stupid fucking popups and stuff in the corners.

sayahastoomanyblogs

Computer of theseus

derinthescarletpescatarian

Every home computer should be a Computer of Theseus. Right to repair, fuck yeah.

thekijs

When I was dealing with a similar issue I saw a lot of people reporting issues with windows filling up their hard drives by creating log files and temp files and whatnot that just keep bloating in size forever when they absolutely should not be doing that. It's apparently a pretty common problem.

I managed to find a fix for myself, but I'm definitely coming closer and closer to following in your footsteps and doing the work to get Linux set up.

derinthescarletpescatarian

Common distributions of Linux aren't all that much work; if you're a casual user like me then Ubuntu's not any harder to install and work with than Windows is. You install it and you go, same as Windows. But installing any operating system on a computer is mildly annoying because you've got to download your programs and install your ad blockers and sign into all your "keep me signed in" stuff again. I use like four programs and four websites so my main problem is reinstalling all my favourite Steam games.

thekijs

That's really good to know!

Gives a solid starting point of making sure I have a list of all the programs that will need re-installing/replacing. (and various backups made) That's a project I can slowly chip away at until I've got a weekend where my brain feels like doing fiddly busy-work, and I've got plenty of reading to catch up on while stuff installs.

derinthescarletpescatarian

The problem with Linux is that people who give advice on Linux are Linux nerds who make everything sound way more complicated than it is. It's like of you go to a Spider-Man fan and say "where should I get started with Spider-Man media?" and they give you a complex timeline of several decades' worth of comics and how they interrelate to each other and warn you about all the crossover events in other heroes' stories and give you advice on tracking down digital versions of the particularly rare comics when really like. You can just watch a random Spider-Man cartoon and it's fine.

If you want to develop software in a hyperoptimised workflow then choosing a really specific Linux distribution and carefully choosing what to install and jury rigging some stuff is probably important. If, like me, you just want to fuck around on the internet, play computer games, and use basic word processing and image editing programs, Ubuntu or Mint or any of the other big distros will work fine for you right out of the box and it won't matter all that much which one you pick.

amemait

My mother uses a Linux desktop just fine and she doesn’t use computers.

altotrebleclef

I ❤️ Linux

ltwilliammowett

Curious Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) standing upright and looking through porthole into the kitchen of arctic expedition ship M/S Stockholm in Svalbard, Spitsbergen, Norway by Andy Rouse

captain-price-officially

ltwilliammowett

Hahaha that’s great. By the way, this is the picture of him with his head in.

clover-patches

akindplace

what i loved still lives in me. those I’ve loved still live in my memories. even when the memories fade, the love will always be there. I remember you. you’re still alive and still with me because meeting you changed me. I carry you in me, so if I’m still living, so are you.

depsidase

greelin

idk. too many people drive like they don’t realize (or care) that they could die and/or kill someone. as a result of the way they are driving. sorry if i sound lame or ancient i just feel insane witnessing the lack of concern on a regular basis. The vehicle you are in is thousands of pounds going many miles an hour. do you know this

mortalityplays

hi, a lot of you need a perspective reset

the average human lifespan globally is 70+ years

taking the threshold of adulthood as 18, you are likely to spend at least 52 years as a fully grown adult

at the age of 30 you have lived less than one quarter of your adult life (12/52 years)

'middle age' is typically considered to be between 45-65

it is extremely common to switch careers, start new relationships, emigrate, go to college for the first or second time, or make other life-changing decisions in middle age

it's wild that I even have to spell it out, but older adults (60+) still have social lives and hobbies and interests.

you can still date when you get old. you can still fuck. you can still learn new skills, be fashionable, be competitive. you can still gossip, you can still travel, you can still read. you can still transition. you can still come out.

young doesn't mean peaked. you're inexperienced in your 20s! you're still learning and practicing! you're developing social skills and muscle memory that will last decades!

there are a million things to do in the world, and they don't vanish overnight because an imaginary number gets too big

macpye

translation of THIS POEM by Leonard Nimoy into Vulcan

captain-raven-knight

The poem, from the link above. Just in case someone else doesn’t like going from tab to tab to look at it.

abbaswift

not to be a number nerd on main but 2025 (45^2) will be the only square year most of us ever experience. the last one was 1936 and the next one will be 2116

dramatic-dolphin

a while ago I read this sci-fi short story from the 50s where a guy is kidnapped and interrogated by aliens using a very sophisticated lie detector, but he realizes that the lie detector works off technical truth, and with some careful phrasing and misdirection, he manages to make them believe that humans are a race of immortal, overpowered, omniscient telepathic beings. and it works.

my favorite part is when he tells them that humans are "capable of transportation without the aid of spaceships or any vehicles, just by using mental power to control physical matter". it's true, we can. it's called walking.

dramatic-dolphin

okay I found it, it's The Best Policy by Randall Garrett

and it has other gems such as "I know beyond a shadow of a doubt what every member of my race thinks of you" (they don't know you exist) and "every human knows exactly as much about the location of your home planet as I do" (nothing)

anna-neko

The Best Policy by Randall Garrett

THATS THE BASTARD!!!!

originally read it as part of a rando SciFi collection book, 'cept it was in Russian, so crediting wasn't exactly... the best....

now to track down the other short stories.... like the one with an off-world hard labor camp, but you earn "crime tickets" there, as in literally "you done the time, go do the crime" credits

dramatic-dolphin

oooh if you manage to track it down please share, that sounds amazing :o

the-haiku-bot

oooh if you manage

to track it down please share, that

sounds amazing :o

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

caats

autisticlittleguy

There was a paper in 2016 exploring how an ML model was differentiating between wolves and dogs with a really high accuracy, they found that for whatever reason the model seemed to *really* like looking at snow in images, as in thats what it pays attention to most.

Then it hit them. *oh.*

*all the images of wolves in our dataset has snow in the background*

*this little shit figured it was easier to just learn how to detect snow than to actually learn the difference between huskies and wolves. because snow = wolf*

Shit like this happens *so often*. People think trainning models is like this exact coding programmer hackerman thing when its more like, coralling a bunch of sentient crabs that can do calculus but like at the end of the day theyre still fucking crabs.

gaphic

and also they're not remotely sentient, can't do calculus, and they're not doing what's 'easier.' the algorithm doesn't, and inherently cannot, know what a 'wolf' is. it never knew that it was supposed to be differentiating dogs from wolves. it's not possible for these programs to ever know what they're differentiating, so this doesn't just happen often, it happens 100% of the time. it's just a matter of whether the program is under enough scrutiny for the incongruity to be noticed

gaphic

adding these tags bc damn this person put it so much better than i did! this applies to literally all of these models- you can replace the words 'wolf' and 'white' with whatever you like and it's still 100% accurate

can-i-make-image-descriptions

[Image ID: Tumblr tags reading: #'alright computer here's your training set of wolves vs not-wolves' #'note. a wolf is a higher than average amount of white pixels' /End ID]

inhumaninterest

This, all of this, this is why calling it "AI" makes my teeth clench. It's not even an attempt at any form of intelligence, it's a gods damned statistical modeling program. It literally cannot make decisions and cannot think, all it can do is show you what the fed in data looks like from a stats point of view.

altotrebleclef

^^^this^^^

Most of what is called “AI” had nothing to do with building a neural network, it’s just pulling information and displaying it in a reorganized manner

#fakeai #ai #stop being technologically illiterate #write some LISP and then we’ll talk

only-cat-memes

detectivehole

which of my household appliances am i most closely related to

detectivehole

genetically

alyanas-little-hideout

depends are we talking taxonomy or phylogeny?

detectivehole

taxonomy

alyanas-little-hideout

Refrigerator - upright - taller than it is wide - Has feet - Freestanding or was altered from a freestanding structure - Can be filled with food and/or liquids - Has fluids flowing through it to regulate temperature at the expense of energy. - Makes a lot of noise when its internals are exposed to outside air for too long.

tiredandoptimistic

It really is remarkable how MASH's longevity so totally shapes the experience of watching the show. It's a war that lasts three years, over a decade has passed, everyone's hair has gone grey, the head nurse has become a different person, the wisecracker has cracked, children grow up, marriages come and go, people leave, the new guy is only there for a year, he's become a part of your soul, it's winter again and again and again and again.

I genuinely don't think there's a better way to imitate how an experience like that can so completely change people. No TV program can capture the intensity of bonds forged through three years in a warzone, but by continuing for eleven seasons the fans are able to still develop that level of attachment to the people of the 4077th.

There's a scene where Hawkeye tries to commiserate with BJ about missing the folks back home, and BJ says that Hawkeye's dad will be the same as he always was but BJ missed out on Erin's development in a way he'll never get back. Now I love this interaction, but I think BJ is forgetting that the people they left behind aren't the only ones changing.

Compare Hawkeye in the pilot to him in the finale, do you really think his father will recognize him? They're both adults, it's only been three years, it shouldn't be that different; and yet Hawkeye's hair is grey and his eyes have lost their spark. You couldn't get that in three seasons of TV. Even if they'd tried, it wouldn't have felt as genuine and organic to the viewers because we wouldn't have gotten to really feel that gradual shift in Hawkeye's persona. It's not just about the writers planning out arcs for the characters, it's about the series itself developing over time.