IrritableOcelot

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[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago

Well, I doubt they'll release one for my clippers since they're discontinued, so that inspired me to go ahead and model a variable-depth one for myself. Based on some of the comments here, I thickened the comb blades to make them print more easily.

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They havent released one for the razor I have, but honestly I might try modeling them myself. Doesn't seem impossible, and I've been waning a deeper comb than they sell.

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

These aren't relying on gravity, theyre relying on maintaining a vacuum, and concrete is extremely porous. They're obviously sealing the inside of the chamber, but basically no coatings have a lifetime of 60 years for holding vacuum.

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 6 points 3 months ago

"Meat's back on the menu, boys" hits different in this timeline...

(Yes, I know that Taking the Chickens to Isengard is noncanonical in other ways...)

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

There are currently 252 Catholic cardinals, but only 135 are eligible to cast ballots as those over the age of 80 can take part in debate but cannot vote.

You're telling me the Catholic church has more term limits than the US Supreme Court?

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 2 points 3 months ago

Maybe the graph mode of logseq?

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 9 points 3 months ago

This gives strong "Lovecraft describing things he doesn't understand as noneuclidian" vibes.

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 2 points 3 months ago

🎶 Saturday night and we in the spot, don't believe me just watch 🎶

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Chuck mangione soothes my soul

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 2 points 4 months ago

WELL ACKSHUALLY its a clay tablet, you just press into it with a little stick, then its fired...

Gotta love the low-quality-copper memes

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

While I agree that publishers charging high open access fees is a bad practice, the ACS journals aren't the kind of bottom-of-the-barrel predatory journals you're describing. ACS nano in particular is a well respected journal for nanochem, with a generally well-respected editorial board, and any suspicions of editorial misconduct of the type you're describing would be a three-alarm fire in the community.

I will also note that this article is labelled "free to read" -- when the authors have paid an (as you said, exhorbitant) publishing fee to have the paper be open access, the label used by ACS journals is "open access". The "free to read" label would be an editorial decision, typically because the article is relevant outside the typical readerbase of the journal, and so it makes sense both from a practical perspective (and more cynically for the journal's PR) to make it available to everyone, not just the community who has institutional access.

Also, the fact that the authors had a little fun with the title doesn't mean its low-effort slop -- this was actually an important critique at the time, because for years people had been adding different modifications to graphene and making a huge deal about how revolutionary their new magic material was.

The point this paper was trying to make is that finding modifications to graphene which make it better for electrocatalysis is not some revolutionary thing, because almost any modification works. It was actually a useful recalibration for expectations, as well as a good laugh.

Edit: typo

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 11 points 4 months ago

Not somebody who knows a lot about this stuff, as I'm a bit of an AI Luddite, but I know just enough to answer this!

"Tokens" are essentially just a unit of work -- instead of interacting directly with the user's input, the model first "tokenizes" the user's input, simplifying it down into a unit which the actual ML model can process more efficiently. The model then spits out a token or series of tokens as a response, which are then expanded back into text or whatever the output of the model is.

I think tokens are used because most models use them, and use them in a similar way, so they're the lowest-level common unit of work where you can compare across devices and models.

 

To deal with all this Intel CPU disaster, I've been having to manually check MSI's website for mobo updates. It occurred to me that keeping BIOSes and other drivers that aren't delivered through your OS's update manager of choice is such a pain, and it's common knowledge that a lot of critical BIOS updates just don't get applied to systems because folks don't check for updates unless there's a problem.

Thinking about that, I realized that it would make life a lot easier if you could just have section in your RSS reader for firmware updates, and each mobo manufacturer published BIOS update announcements as an RSS feed. All your updates are in one place, and you're notified promptly! Of course, this would also apply to NVIDIA drivers, so you can get automatic updates on Windows without having to download Geforce NOW bloatware, but of course that's very intentional on NVIDIA's part.

Does anyone know of other easy ways to passively keep track of BIOS updates?

 

OK, y'all. I'm trying to find a book I read many moons ago. I feel like it was by Diana Wynne Jones, but it's not in her bibliography. Massive spoilers incoming, obviously, but I can't remember what the spoilers are for.


The book starts on an island nation in the south of the world, with a rigid code of conduct which one of the main characters is being disciplined for breaking. The main characters leave on a quest to the oppressive and powerful kingdom in the north, and its revealed that one of the other main characters is the crown prince of the evil kingdom in the north, and can use their magic. If I recall correctly, his use of that magic makes dark veins stand out under his skin, and he has to fight against it controlling him. There's some kind of time limit, I think if he uses the magic too much, it'll take him over and he'll become the new ruler.

To gain some advantage over the evil kingdom, they visit an abandoned city, break into some kind of temple, and have an encounter with some kind of deity, which might then take over one of the characters?

Later in the story they make it to the evil palace, and there's a plotline about multiple children of the evil king trying to kill this guy, so they can inherit the throne. I think the evil palace is embedded in a mountain somehow.

Anyone who can set me on the right track, it'd be much appreciated!

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