Rabbit and chocolate are not even remotely biblical either. Church adopted that shit to appease pagan converts ages ago.
Hu inssain
I don't think so. As far as I know the primary constraint is the number of seats. That is an artificial constraint from the top to maintain exclusivity and brand value. In the trickle down effects of such a constraint those managing the school are incentivised to get the most money for each of those seats as this is largely what is funding their pay and research, like the kinds of lab equipment available. We are in the age when lots of equipment exists beyond the scope of what any school can afford, such as EUV for edge node silicon fab tech. How the school prepares elite students to lead in a field where the school cannot provide direct and relevant training is a bit dicey and is the basis for a lot of financial pressure. Overall, removing this elite class of funding will inevitably reduce the relevance of the institution because it will need to do more with less while filling the same number of seats via supply and demand adjusted prices.
I don't like the method, execution, or reasons, but I feel torn as this type of move will force these institutions to restructure for servicing the youth of the USA instead of primarily pricing out the nation in favor of the super wealthy elite from abroad. From that angle, this eventually creates slightly more upward mobility access for social classes that have long been de facto bared from these institutions due to financial competitiveness of a foreign elite. Maybe that perspective is naΓ―ve. I comment it to engage with other reasoning people, not dogma or the stupidity of tribalism.
Just a bit of advice: maybe use the Jehovah's Witnesses playbook of never act alone like some kind of prime directive. Seriously, this is effective and why you never see Witnesses knocking on people's doors or slinging literature solo. This applies both if approached or if you see someone being approached. The key is not to gang up on the other person. It only takes 2 people and should only be 2 people to avoid making the other person uncomfortable. The second person is there to mostly support and occasionally act like a moderator. The second person can pull back the conversation, tone down, or redirect in ways that the first is less in control of in the flow of conversation.
Witnesses encounter a lot of confrontational people. When I was one, I was chased, threatened, followed, and a number of other things. Witnesses are directed to always be friendly and amicable while walking away from all confrontational people.
This is so stupid. I have my AI server up right now in another tab and setup for creative writing. I currently have these tokens banned: 3221, 265, 28845, 382, 650, 28716, 16913, 1101
Those tokens correspond to specific word fragments and punctuation. Most are due to some sentence starting patterns I don't like. I can ban any tokens and the model will not use them. All models have this functionality in the API for any user that actually knows what they are doing at a basic elementary level. Like the tokens for - β β are 28773, 764, and 1040, for my mixtral model.
I do this all the time too. The new standard for polite calling anyone is to initiate the conversation if the line goes live as far as I am concerned. Never say anything for an unknown caller, and expect to get dropped or hung up on even if you are legitimate. If you're unwilling to call me twice or thrice, you didn't need to call me in the first place.
This sure as fuck better check locale for US only!
juu lie! I am August!!!
Print and toss in the lawn from the car while passing your local church
Not being able to function independently, and existing in a world where the average person in good health struggles to survive and find gainful employment is more like killing a person slowly in a very cruel and torturous way in many cases, like with anyone living in the USA of the present.
I was not expecting to see so much Caesar
meddle your mettle to metal pls
Yeah, like Oh no! doG hates your fundamental human needs as scientifically defined. You're supposed to bottle and depress yourself on par with the most sadistic misers in the group!
Actually look at the way Discord works in your network, like all the raw IP addresses and and connections with no clear ownership or human readable name, with dozens of changing connections to get any of it to work. Then go try to ask questions about what is going on and who you're connecting to. Discover that none of it is documented or described anywhere. Then realize that this means no one running Discord is doing so on a fully audited and logged host. You simply cannot be without a bunch of effort. I made it to the 6th layer of whitelisted raw IP addresses, and still nothing worked while trying to connect to Discord in a fully logged and documented network. I am simply unwilling to write a script to annotate that many connections so that all of my logs make sense. I seriously doubt anyone on Discord is doing so, and they certainly lack any understanding of what they are connecting to, why, or the protocols. So the Discord user is telling me "my opsec and privacy awareness is as nonexistent as a pig in a herd running off a cliff, and my system should be assumed compromised with no idea of what might be connected." Everyone else doing it is a garbage excuse. That no one appears to have gotten hurt β has tissue thin merit, but also reveals that the user runs blind in herds while hoping for the best. Such information infers a lot about a person, their depth, accountability, and ethics β in certain scopes.
When will we see water heaters with a computer rack mount?
recherchΓ©
Adjective
recherchΓ© (comparative more recherchΓ©, superlative most recherchΓ©)
- Sought out and chosen with care; choice; exquisite.
- Exotic; of rare quality, elegance, attractiveness, etc.
- (by extension) Precious, pretentious, affected.
sycophant
Noun
sycophant (plural sycophants)
- One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favour or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
Synonyms: ass-kisser, brown noser, suck-up, yes man - One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
Synonyms: parasite, flunky, lackey - (obsolete) An informer; a talebearer.
Derived terms:
sycophancy
sycophantic
sycophantish
sycophantism
Verb
sycophant (third-person singular simple present sycophants, present participle sycophanting, simple past and past participle sycophanted)
- (transitive, obsolete) To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
- (transitive, rare) To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.
If I gave you a million dollars but you must give it back in 1 year, what do you do with it?
I have OP magic. I can reverse time and take my money back from your future. There is no escape from OP Magic Lemmings.
You have 1 year. What do you do with this small sum of money?
Number of toilets is an approximation of wealth
"How many toilets do you possess?" This interview question works both ways in many cases.
The Surprising Science of Plastics β The Efficient Engineer (25:57)
This is the best explanation of the chemistry and properties of plastics I've ever seen from an edutainment YT channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bycVtx07f0w
opprobrium
Noun
opprobrium (countable and uncountable, plural opprobriums or opprobria)
- (archaic) A cause, object, or situation of disgrace or shame. [from mid 17th c.] Synonym: (obsolete) opprobry
- Disgrace or bad reputation arising from exceedingly shameful behaviour; ignominy. [from late 17th c.]
Synonyms: obloquy, (obsolete) opprobry - Scornful contempt or reproach; an instance of this.
Synonyms: blame, castigation, censure, derision, invective, (obsolete) opprobry - (archaic) Behaviour which is disgraceful or shameful.
cogent
Adjective
cogent (comparative more cogent, superlative most cogent)
- Reasonable and convincing; based on evidence.
- Appealing to the intellect or powers of reasoning.
- Forcefully persuasive; relevant, pertinent.
The prosecution presented a cogent argument, convincing the jury of the defendant's guilt.
Synonyms:
compelling, conclusive, convincing, indisputable
Antonyms:
debatable, irrelevant, uncogent
Derived terms:
cogency
cogently
incogent
uncogent
Related terms:
cache
coagulate
squat
If I know the frequency and magnitude of a high pitched continuous sound, how can I calculate the potential effects of damping materials?
I have a small hard drive that is making a constant high pitched sound that is typical of the drive, and not very noticeable to the average person, but I have pain induced noise sensitivity. I am curious about how to calculate damping potential. As an initial guestimate, the frequency is very near to my maximum audible range and likely around 12kHz-16kHz. It is a little higher than the switch mode power supplies that I can also hear if it is dead silent in the room, although the drive is a higher amplitude. Addressing the noise with a solution is probably beyond the scope of anything I would actually do, but knowing how to solve it is far more interesting to me. (ELI15 )
Add me as a mod to pics@lw
Porn is up right now with trolls and ~50 down votes in 2 posts. I don't recognize any of the mods. I don't care to take over, but I will catch any flags in these off hours as I stay up late most of the time in California stretching into this time of day when peak evening hours are over the empty Pacific.
Economic terrorist (banned pic from LW)
Banned shitpost from LW bc some islamiphobe called this islamiphobic to faceswap Trump with bin Laden in a satirical context of calling Trump's actions terrorism. His policies have and will kill far more people than bin Laden ever did. He caused the largest stock market drop in history. That is stollen money and potential. He is a criminal and belongs on such a poster. Still I removed anything potentially harmful. It is not even "Wanted" or any call to action.
Perhaps explaining things in stupid level depth is required here for the proliferation of children and those adolescent of mind.
::: spoiler This is the underlying image edited poorly and merged in gimp 
Icon and .desktop file if you want one for Doom Emacs
Got this one from ddg images but I think it was posted on reddit by someone.
Save the image to:
/.local/share/icons/
Save the modified .desktop file to:
/.local/share/applications/
This is mine, including the execution command modifier to make the window frame adwaita dark for gnome:
undefined
[Desktop Entry] Name=DOOM Emacs GenericName=Text Editor Comment=Edit text MimeType=text/english;text/plain;text/x-makefile;text/x-c++hdr;text/x-c++src;text/x-chdr;text/x-csrc;text/x-java;text/x-moc;text/x-pascal;text/x-tcl;text/x-tex;application/x-shellscript;text/x-c;text/x-c++; Exec=bash -c 'GTK_THEME=Adwaita:dark emacs' Icon=doom-emacs.png Type=Application Terminal=false Categories=Development;TextEditor; StartupNotify=true StartupWMClass=Emacs
::: spoiler and one I made for the Ter
Thucydides trap
Etymology
An allusion to the ancient Athenian historian and military general Thucydides, who posited that the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta had been inevitable because of Spartan fears of the growth of Athenian power.
Noun
Thucydides trap (plural Thucydides traps)
- An apparent tendency towards war when an emerging power threatens to displace an existing great power as a regional or international hegemon.
Usage notes:
Coined and primarily used to describe a potential conflict between the United States and the People's Republic of China.
Alternative forms
- Thucydides' trap
- Thucydian Realpolitik
dearth
Noun
dearth (countable and uncountable, plural dearths)
- A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.
- (by extension) Scarcity; a lack or short supply.
- (obsolete) Dearness; the quality of being rare or costly.
Verb
dearth (third-person singular simple present dearths, present participle dearthing, simple past and past participle dearthed)
- (transitive, dated, obsolete) To cause or produce a scarcity in something.
anathema
anathema (plural anathemas or anathemata)
- (ecclesiastical, historical) A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, often accompanied by excommunication; something denounced as accursed. [from early 17th c.]
Synonyms: ban, curse - (by extension) Something which is vehemently disliked by somebody.
Synonyms: antipathy, bΓͺte noire, bugbear - (literary) An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.
- (ecclesiastical) Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority to unending punishment.
How do you explain the principal of "you cannot prove a negative" to someone that is very weak at abstractions like this?
accouterment
accouterment (plural accouterments)
- (military, chiefly in the plural) A soldier's equipment, other than weapons and uniform.
- (chiefly in the plural) An article of clothing or equipment, in particular when used as an accessory.
Synonyms: equipment, gear, trappings, accessory - (by extension) An identifying yet superficial characteristic.
- (archaic) The act of accoutering; furnishing.
What is the deal with LVDS and monitor displays?
Is it super standardised, like where all 30 or 40 pin LVDS connections are the same, as in pin and voltage compatible?
Are there hardware peripherals in a microcontroller that just drive LVDS like how UART, SPI, CAN, etc. work? Or is it a messy complicated thing with display specific power supply voltages, and unique power management requirements, baud rates and such?
I can find lots of old style monitor to HDMI or VGA conversions for an old laptop screen based on display model number. But what I am looking for is a USB-C/USB-3 to LVDS converter board small enough to fit into an old apple laptop top shell and act as a second monitor with all power and functionality controlled through the USB interface. I have the fab skills. If there is a simple chip that does USB-C PD/display to LVDS, I'll toss it in KiCAD and etch it myself if I can get the chip. In my past experience with small displays for hobby microcontrollers, they were anything but standard in most cases. I have never messed
The gptel package with Oobaboga Textgen Webui works well in Doom emacs
It is not in the list of combinations. Most of the LLM packages seem to lack an easy way to run a llama.cpp server with the load split between CPU and GPU. Like Ollama appears to only load a model simply with the whole thing in the GPU. The simplification pushes users into smaller models that are far less capable. If the model is split between the CPU and GPU one can run a much larger quantized model in GGUF format that runs nearly as fast as the smaller less capable model loaded into the GPU only. Then you do not need to resort to using cloud hosted or proprietary models.
The Oobabooga front end also gives a nice interface for model loading and softmax settings.
gptel is at: https://github.com/karthink/gptel or MELPA
Oobabooga is at:
https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
With a model loaded and the --api flag set the model will be available for gptel.
In packages.el:
(package! gptel)
In config.el:
undefined
(setq gptel-mode 'test gptel-backend (gptel-make-op