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  • What's a random thing your doggo is scared of?

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  • Anything with goldie doesn’t count, especially if it’s all goldie :). Ours ate anything we would eat plus grass, horse manure, compost, ring-pulls, socks, money, rat poison, and a football (whole). Those last two were a trip to the vet.

  • The Ultimate Robot Knockout Legend (URKL) is a professional, freestyle combat sports league for full-sized humanoid robots. This is real.

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  • They seem to do more damage to themselves when falling over than actually inflicting anything on their opponent…

  • Crazy Brits rule

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  • I’m from the north but live with southerners now. I grew up with dinner at noon (in school—dinner time, dinner-ladies).

    We’ve now compromised on breakfast, lunch, tea, and on Sunday it’s a grey area between Sunday lunch and Sunday dinner depending on how much the schedule has slipped.

  • Tiger Woods, according to the teenager I confiscated this from

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  • I’d say between 13 and 19.

  • Red kite (malvus malvus)[oc]

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  • Adult daughter. Should I disown her!?

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  • You can easily diffuse that situation by hanging a tea towel around her shoulders like a cape and saying “look, now you’re Super Angry”

  • I have too much scrap wood. I needed a scrap wood bin. So I made a scrap wood bin out of scrap wood to hold my scrap wood.

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  • Five gallon buckets? Luxury…

  • Someone is getting defragmented

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  • Sorry to hear that. We had a problem with our solar inverter disconnecting because of over-voltage on the grid. All I could find on the generation side was a ‘general contact form’ on a website. I didn’t hold out much hope, but a couple of days later, an actual engineer called me to talk about moving the tap in the substation down, as there was so much solar generation in our area it was pushing the grid voltage up. He’d already sent someone out to check there was scope to move it and was calling to ask me to check for the next few days and to let him know. Not had any more problems since.

    I’ve never been so pleasantly surprised by their level of customer service. My point is that it really depends on getting someone who (a) cares and (b) knows what they’re doing.

  • I can feel my horny levels rising to 30%

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  • down the vena cavity to her heart

    I’m not sure this guy is a proper doctor…

  • What comedy movies aged like fine wine?

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  • And what did you make of The End Continues?

  • LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do

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  • You say that, and GAs were used decades ago to design FPGAs to a spec. The evolved design worked perfectly on the test chip, so the design was copied onto a second chip and it failed. The logic gates were identical but the GA had utilised microscopic differences in the substrate and there were large areas of programmed chip totally unconnected to the main circuit. Without them, the first chip didn’t work any more.

    There are likely quantum effects available at the size / scale of neurons, and it’s brave to say evolution wouldn’t exploit them if there was some benefit.

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  • Since yours was the first reply I came to that didn’t just ‘react’, I’d like to challenge 1 point in your list (the rest I pretty much agree with), and that is the first one. For context, I worked in AI (or ML as it was known then) in the 1990s. The models were very much based on ideas from neuroscience (my CS PhD supervisor was a biologist). Saying “they can’t think” requires a precise definition of what “thinking” is, and I’ve not seen one so far.

    For sure, the most current LLMs are not what we might call human-level sentient, and have only seen a fraction of what a human baby would be exposed to in terms of training data. But as far as the way they process that data, perhaps they are “thinking” in the same way a brain would think if all it ever ‘saw’ was text. Perhaps they think in the same way an insect or small rodent thinks. And as they grow larger / more sophisticated, the same as a dog or cat? Or a small primate? You can see where that’s going.

    Anyway, I enjoyed The Infinity Machine by Sebastian Mallaby. My PhD was based on the early work of Yann LeCun, and putting all those names and the motivations behind them into a full picture was eye-opening.

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    🚨 BREAKING NEWS - Iran launches wave of ballistic missiles on Israel

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  • Well the headline on the article is very different now. I even get a slightly different version between reader mode and full website.

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  • But it doesn’t say ‘become’. That totally changed the meaning. My breasbone can brease easy now, thank you!

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  • Your ribs would what now?

  • Thdpsssps

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  • You missed a ‘?’ I think you meant:

    input?.map?.(item => …

  • 'Maybe we'll never take it down': Trump compares White House UFC arena to Eiffel Tower, says it could be permanent

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  • I’m curious—can you tell the lighting isn’t rated from these images, or just because of the number / cost?

    Also curious about the chains—does that means they can’t be reused for long if they’ve been outdoors? I assume there’s plenty of regulation around that kind of thing.

  • Repent or Perish

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  • I choose perish.

  • Finally—my XL pack of fragile crushable poison arrived.

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  • Wait, what? I’m sending it back…

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    Finally—my XL pack of fragile crushable poison arrived.

  • Mlem for Lemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Weird threading when opening comments from inbox

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    UI ‘stuck’ when editing a comment

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    More options for media viewer

  • Software Gore @lemmy.world
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    Schrodinger project

  • Mlem for Lemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Hiding crossposts

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    Code rendering issue

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    Image controls show when dragging zoomed image by small amount

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    (No) more replies?

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    Possible improvements to image viewer

  • Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world
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    Found this dude in the dishwasher…

  • Software Gore @programming.dev
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    Arse and elbow

  • Arch Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Moving desktop to Arch

  • Mlem for Lemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Issues / feature requests?

  • Software Gore @programming.dev
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    I am not a number (but my phone is)

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
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    CIA tracing those IPv44 addresses

  • Ask Electronics @discuss.tchncs.de
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    Trivial pcb with curved trace

  • Arctic @lemmy.world
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    Can't see Arctic community on Arctic :/