The future of Linux
Fungah @ Fungah @lemmy.world Posts 0Comments 278Joined 2 yr. ago
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Yippee I oh cahier. Kai ay? Kai eh?
Motherfucker!!
About a year with varying levels of commitment and intensity.
I kind of just threw myself into the deep end. Which was a rewarding but frustrating experience. My first project was one hot encoding 400gb of reddit porn to try and teach stylegan3 how to make porn. And then turning the function on in stylegan3. And then there was validating the images and ditching the ones that erroted. Resizing the whole datasets. Using ffmpeg to extract stills from the gifs and mp3s
I found stable diffusion existed like 5 days into actually training it which was bitter sweet. I mean. No way it would have produced actual porn but I was really looking forward to the horror.
I taught myself as I went along which is a great way to learn but it's super disheartening when I see the math that's second nature to anyone whose studied this stuff academically.. I don't like math. In fact I hate it, and no matter how skilled (or not) a coder I become I'll never learn calculus sometimes makes it all feel like a fools errand.
I've been on Linux for about a year and a half. So just passing the newbie phase I guess.
My advice is to dive right in. Don't know what that file does? Delete it. Punch in cd /; rm -rf, try to us ethe find command, think you understand the find command. Then avoid the find command like your creepy uncle. Open up vim, have no idea what vim is, and restart your computer because there's a snowballs chance in hell of figuring it out once you're already in vim. Fuck the install of your first distro beyond recognition, download a new one and do it again. That last one isn't advice, it's going to happen so you might as well embrace it.
Just try shit. Say: I wonder how I.... And then figure it out. Look into what all the symbols on the bash scripts do. Be curious and brave and remember that as long as you back up the important shit you may fuck something badly enough that it's not worth fixing but a reinstall doesn't take very long and it gives you a chance to try another distro anyway.
I'm telling you when the terminal "clicks" it's such a good feeling. When you write a short bash script that works the first time without looking for help it feels GOOD. But nothing as good as peeling back layer after layer of abstraction and seeing there right in front of you all the shit Microsoft keeps from you. Sure most of an s trace is total fucking jibberish and probably always will be because I don't have myself enough to learn C but just look at all the stuff my computer does! Boy, look at it go.
Bottom Line is that you can read all the books and how to guides in the world but none of them will do more to carry you forward into the perplexing and frustrating world of computers like a wild-eyed sense of curiosity and a bottle full of Xanax
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He could even translate into German. Mein.... Something.
Duckduckgo is bing.
How you're able to get that turd to vomit out s useful search response is beyond me.
Kagi has a lot of room to improve but it's still far better thab Google / Bing.
I think Sunday prichai, and the entire executive team at google, should be brought up on charges of crimes against humanity for what they've done to our access to infirmstion.
The judges will be the gods. We give them a specific piece of info they need to find with one Google search. If they can get it in the first try, they move onto the next round. If not then they lose a limb. 7 rounds. If they fail four times: no more limbs. If they fail five times they lose their head.
Whether they live or die is entirely up to their own ability to use their own search engine, and that search engines ability to do what is fucking supposed to.
Of course every one of them will end up headless. But that's the point isn't it?
It was never good. It's performance sucked ass and I can't think of s single feature it had that I got anything out of.
I want my browser to do 2 things: load the fucking webpage and save bookmarks. That's fucking it.
Your country is so fucked
Reminded of how truly little I know about programming despite the time have spent doing it
Ugh. I'll never be any good.
Are we so different?
Isn't meaning just comparing and contracting similarly learned patterns against each other and saying "this is not all of those other things".?
The closer you scrutinize meaning the fuzzier it gets. Linguistically at least, though now that I think about it I suppose the same holds true in science as well.
The MD algorithm does make text hard to parse.
Super typical of people like that. The triangulation especially. In psychology I think it's often used literally but I think a broader definition to include bringing in new people to a situation to try and maintain control and "win" since they're almost never discussing anything in good faith, makes sense.
It's one "disease" that's different from most other mental illnesses. It's a personality disorder. So, like, it's not really something you're afflicted by so much as it is you. It's a "cluster b" personality disorder.
It's characterized by an extremely limited sense of identity and a very simplistic black or white way of viewing the world and most things in it. This extends to that sense of identity. So rather than saying "this person must be having a bad day", it's "this person is evil. How could they say that to me? I need to teach this person s lesson. Anything I do to them is okay because they're evil." Or "yeah normally I'd be miffed about someone running down 8 people in their car on purpose but it's George and George is my favourite person. He really seemed to enjoy that. I can't believe I never realize how much I enjoy running down people in my car too".
They'll turn on anyone on a dime and hold grudges forever, gaslight you and themselves constantly to support a worldview where emotion trumps fact, and lie about anything and everything which could indicate to someone else that they have flaws, unless those flaws are serving some kind of purpose in whatever conversation they're having. They tend to be very id-driven, promiscuous, and female. It's ridiculously common to hear people that have dated with it slept with a person with bpd to say that it's the best they've ever had.
It's borderline (heheheh) untreatable, with part of the issue being that they'll lie constantly to therapists. This coupled with the fact that there's a tendency for them to kill themselves mean even getting diagnosed becoming more and more uncommon and even when there is a diagnosis it's often pointless.
There's some evidence of a genetic component and unfortunately many people with BPD suffered abuse as children, sexual and otherwise, so environmental factors play a role as well.
It tends to be comorbid with other more typical psychiatric disorders but isn't characterized by them.
Evacuate Deez nutz
I don't understand why people think downloading s fucking app is so arduous. I truly don't. Their stalwart refusal. To do it puzzles tf out of me.
A step further is anything an employer would do is fair game imo. Lie. Cheat. Deny that the sky is up. Their rules.
I have an app that records all my calls. All of them. It's uploaded to the cloud daily.
I did it because I know I'm not the only one listening to them. Or at the bare minimum parsing them. If csis or the NSA isn't running all our calls through some kind of aj I'd be shocked. "Oh w|re not recording your calls don't worry" they'd say slyly as every fucking utterance is tokenized and stored forever in some kind of creepy fuck you mainframe somewhere.
When I started looking through what Google collects on me I realized that this is just what they're letting me see and there's all kinds stuff I don't get to see. And they "keep it for 3 months' or some timeframe like that (riiiight).
If the time ever came where I needed any of that data (I'm extricating myself from Google slowly but surely but in the meantime) - they've proven they're not trustworthy enough for me to be able to rely on them to get it.
Also I can do fuck you.
The sharing thing sounds like a security nightmare. And who the hell am I sharing files with anyway? No thanks.
My vision of the future is having an os that'll install itself on any device I own whether the manufacturers want me to or not. I want to own the things I own.
That's it. Everything else is fine.