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  • If you want to try the openwebui route, This guide might be helpful.

    Edit: in fact I don't think this is for openwebui specifically, but I remember the chapter at the timestamp is what helped me increase the context window. That's the important bit if you're wanting to ask it questions about documents.

  • At a time when the US are breaking their own absurd tariff rules to shake us down, for seemingly no reason other than just to humiliate us. Our government can't encourage buying British, but they can take credit for opening an American theme park..

    It's like they're making a point to the British public that US interests come first.

  • I'm a bit confused by the wording of this post? Is the problem that you have two .stl files that you want to edit and munge together into a new object? If that's the case, then as @[email protected] you can import them both into openscad, subtract what you don't need or intersect what you do and place them into a new part for export. You can also do this in prusa slic3r if openscad is being buggy which it sometimes is with stl imports, but it's a massive pain in the arse

  • Why though? I've genuinely never had a problem with it. If something is wrong, it was always going to be wrong. Why is it preferable to have to write a bunch of bolierplate than just deal with the stacktrace when you do encounter a type error?

  • I'm not from hexbear and I agree. It's absurd that we let anyone who's primary interests are in another country dictate what our government does. That also goes for China, the US, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and anyone else too. The British government should act in the interests of Britons.

    I'll also note - while we're accusing people of astroturfing - you spelled labour wrong.

  • The thing I don't get is why it happens in the summer rather than the winter.

    In the UK it gets dark at about 4pm in winter. We basically get no leisure time during daylight but we do get a bit of light during getting ready for work time when we don't really need it.

  • I think the arrangement is that we hand over what's left of public services to BlackRock and Palintir. That's the reason why Trump isn't actually sanctioning us yet. We give them everything they want without the threats.

  • It's a failure on the part of mastodon. I don't really care about whatever drama dansup is embroiled in. Mastodon shouldn't imply a post is only readable by followers when it's just a public post that doesn't show by default in their frontend.

  • Honestly pixelfed should have just not fixed it. It's a fediverse problem that can be fixed and mastodon is just misleading people.

    Platforms should either make it clear that it means just that the post isn't advertised by default on all platforms but is always accessible to anyone that wants it or actually implement e2e encryption.

  • As funny as this is, I'd rather people understood how the AI actually works. It doesn't reveal secrets because it doesn't have any. It's not aware that Musk is trying to tweak it. It's not coming to logical conclusions the way a person would. It's simply trying to create a sensible statement based on what's statistically likely based on all the stolen content that it's trained on. It just so happens that Musk gets called out for lying so often that grok infers it when it gets conflicting data.

  • What exactly can they parent here? Hyundai already make the software and SIM racers have been making the hardware for like a decade now.

    Don't get me wrong it sounds fun. This just doesn't seem novel enough to validate a patent.

  • When it comes to searching the database, the index will have already been created. When you create an index, it might take a while as the database engine reads all the data and creates a structure to shadow it. Each engine is probably different and I don't know if any work exactly like that, but it's an intuitive way to understand the basics of how B-trees work. You don't really need to think much about how it works, just that if you want to use a column as a filter, you want to index it.

    However, when you're thinking about the structure of a database it's a good idea to think what you'll want to do with it before hand and how you'll structure queries. Sometimes searching columns without an index is unavoidable and then you've got to come up with other tricks to speed up your search. Like your doctor might find you (i'm presuming gaz is sort for gary and/or gareth here) with a query like SELECT * FROM patients WHERE birthdate = "01-01-1980" AND firstname LIKE "gar%" The db engine will first filter by birthdate which will massively reduce the amount of times it has to do the more intensive LIKE operation.

  • If there's something you want to search by in a database, you should index it.

    Indexing will create an ordered data structure that will allow much faster queries. If you were looking for the username gazter in an unindexed column, it would have to check literally every username entry. In a table of 1000000 entries it would check 1000000 times.

    In an indexed column it might do something like ask to be pointed to every name beginning with "g", then of those ask to be pointed to every name with the second letter "a" and so on. It would find out where in the database gazter is by checking only six times.

    Substring matching is much more computationally difficult as it has to pull out each potentially matching value and run it through a function that checks if gazter exists somewhere in that value. Basically if you find yourself doing it you need to come up with a better plan.

    Cartesian explosion would be when your query ends up doing a shit load of redundant work. Like if the query to load this thread were to look up all the posters here, get all their posts, get the threads from those posts and filter on the thread id.

  • I'm looking forward to hearing all the people that say raising taxes would lead to all the talented people leaving the country addressing this.*

    Realistically I understand that they're all talentless lying bastard failsons that just wanted to make more passive income from their family's wealth and no journalist will ever challenge them on it.

  • And Finally... @feddit.uk
    manicdave @feddit.uk
    Programmer Humor @programming.dev
    manicdave @feddit.uk

    TIL ROCm stands for "Radeon mlatform

    Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
    manicdave @feddit.uk

    What's something that's taken for granted that occasionally makes you think, wait wtf?

    For example, Britain's national mapping organisation's brand is associated in our national consciousness with going to a small shop in a quaint village to get a map showing how to walk up a mountain. It's called Ordnance Survey. If that sounds like Artillery Research to you, that's because the project started because the king wanted to know how to accurately bomb Scotland.

    UK Politics @feddit.uk
    manicdave @feddit.uk
    Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
    manicdave @feddit.uk

    "three fold" should mean 8x not 3x

    When people say there's been an "𝑥 fold increase in such and such." They mean such and such is 𝑥 times as big.

    If you get something that actually folds like a sheet of paper, the amount of layers doubles each time. One fold = twice as many layers. Two folds = four times as many layers...

    Casual UK @feddit.uk
    manicdave @feddit.uk

    You lot gonna to post your snow pictures then or what?

    Lemmy @lemmy.ml
    manicdave @feddit.uk

    Can Lemmy treat a crosspost like a boost? (merge threads?)

    As far as I know this isn't a feature that exists, but I know the protocol should make it fairly easy.

    What I'm thinking is for Lemmy to basically have the option to inherit the comment thread when posting a URL to another fediverse service.

    E.g. If crossposting a Lemmy thread, you get a tickbox saying "inherit comment section" or something and it makes the new thread effectively a symlink to the original.

    This could also be used to bootstrap other fediverse services like pixelfed and peertube by enabling people to comment directly from their Lemmy instance.

    Casual UK @feddit.uk
    manicdave @feddit.uk

    Why is nobody talking about the farmer's protests here?

    Aren't you all surprised by them blocking public rights of way and trying to intimidate anyone who says they should live by the same rules as the rest of us?

    Casual UK @feddit.uk
    manicdave @feddit.uk

    I made a website that lets you use ranked choice voting in a mock UK General Election to explain how it works.

    I don't know if this is too self-promotey to put in the more serious subs so I'm putting it here. I need to blag being able to do the django framework so I spent a week fannying about with it to make this. Feel free to mess about with it, give feedback or repost it on reddit or any other lemmy knock-offs.

    Antiwork @lemmy.ml
    manicdave @feddit.uk

    Wells Fargo fires employees for utilising down time.

    UK Politics @feddit.uk
    manicdave @feddit.uk
    Memes @lemmy.ml
    manicdave @feddit.uk

    agile is far left too. I will die on this hill

    Programming @programming.dev
    manicdave @feddit.uk

    Is there any reason the fediverse doesn't use torrents to not ddos itself?

    This is a question that comes to mind every time I spend a few days focusing on the fediverse. Normally I'm on the microblogging side, but now I have a Lemmy account it might start a proper discussion.

    So, to the point, pretty much every fedi platform has similar problems with small servers taking a beating whenever a post goes viral. This ends up costing the server owner a bunch of money trying to keep their server alive while thousands of instances attempt to pull large static files from the original host's post. This recently instigated this call to action on this forum.

    I've never seen the question of torrents answered and it feels like a lot of effort and a bit self entitled to get the ear of fedi software devs to implement torrents as a solution, so I'm putting this here.

    If media files were made into torrents when a post was being created, an extra object could be added to post objects like

     {..
        
      
    Test @feddit.de
    manicdave @feddit.uk

    what happens if you post an iframe?

    Test, I guess

    <iframe title="2024-03-12 23-00-57.mkv" width="560" height="315" src="https://streamarchive.manicphase.me/videos/embed/cdfd08f8-bd08-49fc-8718-47f5498d89c1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" sandbox="allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups"></iframe>