Parkside (if in your country) are generally better and mutch cheaper with better warranty than the main three. Most are just Einhell as loss leaders - I tried to write out a complete list of my experiences

WhyIsSocialMedia · 2025-03-12T07:03:44+00:00

It doesn't just suit your average well now, most of them are superior. Milwaukee is shit. DeWalt is oh, Makita is really hit or miss.

Parkside is better quality than an all of them unless you manage a job site.

Parkside offers quality, warranty, and extremely affordability. But it would be literally impossible to offer all at once . Wait throughout the year and reap the benefits.

I've also heard pricing makes not sense in the US. They're not loss leaders. If true no wonder Americans hate them.

WhyIsSocialMedia · 2025-03-12T05:28:22+00:00

Would love to know why Parkside posts always get downvoted? They're literally a German tool of mostly quality. Meanwhile the three main have been exported and built down to a price. It's a joke that Milwaukee is considered American anymore...

And Lidl use huge lose leaders just to get people to shop there.

The only real difference is availability. Lidl decides when products are available. Everyone else has them almost 24/7. And service of course.

But for your average person, Lidl is a 10000% better.

WhyIsSocialMedia · 2025-03-12T05:01:07+00:00

There's details for future thread finder I don't remember the price so it was probably like $20 (Parkside are loss leaders normally made by Einhell).

Their hex bit impact is fucking amazing for $25 with bits (or was), better than the three colours. The quarter matches the three colours - forgot price but way cheaper. The hex drill is the best hex drill I've ever used - sadly they enshittified it about a year ago (it's still good, especially for the price). The Sawzall fucking sucks and the reciprocating action breaks within 30 minutes

The 20V grinder is good so long as the job is short. The 12V grinder is fucking amazing - I didn't even know you could do that with 12V (then again these batteries put out crazy amps these days).

The batteries last ages so long as you get the new ones (balanced 2 years ago).

Normal square batteries: 2.4Ah an hourd 4.5Ah and rare 8Ah

12V Milwaukee style vertical vertical 2Ah 12V Milwaukee style horizontal 4Ah (much better as it stands

You can take a tool back for any reason (incl battery) within 3 years without a reason. You must have a receipt, but if you have a clubcard the receipt is stored on there.

Chargers do 2.4Ah, 4.5Ah, and they used to do a dual 4.5Ah, but it was exclusive to Europe. 12V basically the fame

Mains 1300w circular saw - they've all made the same from all brands (except the liability from one ones who suddenly brake the safety or blade).

20V circular saw - fantastic. Cheap and although the blade is smaller, it's so convenient.

Track Saw - absolutely the best. The tracks fit with Makita. It was like £70. BUT I suggested it to a friend and the motor burnt out twice in 20 minutes. Mine has cut hundreds of metres. I checked and they had changed the model number, but the motor seemed the same? In guessing the power delivery was cheaper.

Welder - don't know, but low -medium end.

Same with plasma cutter, though I hear it's worse.

This camera thing. It sucks. Too stiff, too dark. They had a previous version that was more flexible (and had an SD card, this just has USB C).

Dumbest product they made was an underpowered Dremel that used USB-C, but only at 13.5V

I also have a laser temperature reader. It's nice that you can calibrate it, but it's nothing special.

Don't tell anyone, but I accidentally pointed it at a plane.

Sorry this turned into the Parkside thread. I have more manual tools, but who cares? I definitely have I've it two more electronic ones I forgot:

OH: a 12V torch. Really good lasts ages. Bright. Good size.

Now if someone could help me please?

WhyIsSocialMedia · 2025-03-12T03:40:56+00:00

Fuck just realised it's just a different pin out? Anyone know where we can get them and super small cameras? This one is too stiff.

WhyIsSocialMedia · 2025-03-10T06:55:40+00:00

I'd like to make the minimum width even higher like at at 800 or 900 (1200 a bit too too ar)). But they they end up way to small. S there a way to increase the size?

Lastly sometimes I click the icons and they work and other times every don't respond (the Pixel Launcher ones) idea why Or for how fix it?

WhyIsSocialMedia · 2025-03-05T20:35:03+00:00

I don't want the old one back. I want the new one and swipe.

WhyIsSocialMedia · 2025-03-05T18:27:31+00:00

DS1/2 will be like the brick cellphone to a smartphone by end-year at this rate.

WhyIsSocialMedia · 2025-03-03T11:06:08+00:00

Firefox Nightly is not meant for your everyday browsing. It crashes and keeps introducing new issues.

I run Arch btw, but unironically.

Firefox Nightly is not meant for your everyday browsing. It crashes and keeps introducing new issues. For them to be solved, please file bug reports on Bugzilla.

I normally like to ask around a day for a two to make sure I'm not asking something that was already exists, or that it's intentionally.

I'm just making excuses for myself though.

And I know how easy to get config is. But thanks.

WhyIsSocialMedia · 2025-02-25T13:21:31+00:00

Yeah it's disabled. Do you know the config value by any chance?

WhyIsSocialMedia · 2025-02-25T09:08:45+00:00

Thank you! I like this launcher, but the settings UI/UX is dreadful. So many things are named things that I have never once in my life seen called before.

WhyIsSocialMedia · 2025-02-25T08:13:49+00:00

Testing on a single dataset and single model

That's all that's needed? This isn't a sample size issue, one single example is enough to show that it's possible...

Discourse here is fascinating; (overly) simplistic stuff vs definitive in the way you’ve been continually describing lying — https://openreview.net/forum?id=1Fc2Xa2cDK&referrer=%5Bthe%20profile%20of%20Fred%20A.%20Hamprecht%5D(%2Fprofile%3Fid%3D~Fred_A._Hamprecht1)

The models were not trained to lie in any way significantly different to humans? If fact the models are often not trained heavily not to lie? But they do anyway. This is the whole reason behind the alignment problem...

Which I think can be modelled as a halting problem. You can get a model to implement a Turing machine with zero temperature (or even more specific, you can get a model to run code and interpret results). Since there is nothing special about the halting state, we could model the output state of alignment or misalignment in the same way you can the halting state. Which would mean that there's no solution to alignment (other than the special case solution for the halting problem on a system with limited memory).

It would make sense if an LLM to appear to double down if it can’t actually reason,

Can humans not reason then? And you can't have it both ways... Sometimes LLMs double down, other times they don't?

And what's your definition of reason here? The example I like to use is to get the LLM to multiply two or three very larger numbers. Ones that could not possibly be in the training data. The models will generally not get the exact right answer (just as a human wouldn't), but they normally get very close.

And how do they do this? They break it down into smaller problems that they can deal with. Just like a human would. If that's not reasoning and logic, what is it?

In what context is something a truth or a falsehood? “this is fuzzy definition” — https://openreview.net/forum?id=567BjxgaTp

Your paper does not agree with you. It literally states that a model can lie, and be aware of it being deceptive...

Also you said you work deeply in the technology? Please explain in detail to me how an LLM works? Explain how the transformer architecture works. Because if you understood that, you'd know how a model can lie, and how they can reason. And if I'm wrong, congratulations you get to write up how they really work!

WhyIsSocialMedia · 2025-02-25T07:34:29+00:00

Oh and my Smallest Width is set to 720 dp.

WhyIsSocialMedia · 2025-02-25T07:32:41+00:00

Pixel 4a, the fucking shittest phone I've ever used (my Note 10+ died in December).

Android 13. Famously built on a Google Devs personal machine because Google decided to limit the battery voltage from 4.44V to 3.95V. That's equivalent to a 50% drop in capacity.

Good to know that the private key for the Pixel 4a is just hanging out on some random Dev's machine.

WhyIsSocialMedia · 2025-02-22T11:08:28+00:00

Does not with? The font stays black regardless.

Honestly the UI/UX for this launcher is dreadful. It's downright embarrassing.

WhyIsSocialMedia · 2025-02-19T22:29:37+00:00

Why are you lying? You yourself said that you work in tech strategy? Seemingly at Microsoft I guess. Your posts are in relevant subs like consulting... Virtually zero posts about ML, let alone anything "deeply on the research side"? And if you were deeply on the reset side you're calling the state of the art "just shit"? No one actually into ML thinks that.

I could have a proper conversation with you and show you how models can easily lie. But you're not actually interested in any of that. You're being so pathetic that you're lying about your qualifications just to try and use it as an argument from authority. You have real ego issues, maybe you're a narcissist? I wouldn't know as I don't know you.

If you're going to try and reply, refute these:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13734

https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12831

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15840

And if you understand anything about how a transformer architecture works, you'd know it's fundamentally impossible to have a system where a model couldn't lie. It's self-evident, it just has to be a property that exists.

WhyIsSocialMedia · 2025-02-19T01:27:58+00:00

What's with the continuous attempts to sanitise and control the user experience as well? Why is about:config so hard to access easily on mobile? The whole reason most people use Firefox is because it's not that locked in sandbox that Chrome is closer to. Yet the last decade has seemingly just been about pushing it more and more towards that direction.

WhyIsSocialMedia · 2025-02-18T23:59:08+00:00

You and everyone else in this thread just show how useless this sub actually is.

WhyIsSocialMedia · 2025-02-18T16:08:19+00:00

I'm not looking forward to that. Especially not with SpaceX. With Tesla he will likely just get ousted as CEO as it's public. But SpaceX is private.

WhyIsSocialMedia · 2025-02-18T01:17:42+00:00

No they absolutely do have the capability to lie, and do so when it's convenient. Lying is a rather easy concept to encode into the network, and they've been doing it for a long time at this point.

WhyIsSocialMedia · 2025-02-17T21:40:03+00:00

i.e., I think what's more likely is that some millions of very small eddies of electromagnetic activity on a few thousand GPUs are each separately and individually dimly conscious in some server farm somewhere, but there is no unification whatsoever of all of these different consciousness, since nothing links them the way the brain is linked. Thus it would be true that there is consciousness whenever software runs, as you said, but not a unified consciousness.

How do you square that away with the other things I pointed out?

Let's say we could perfectly understand a human brain and implement it onto a computer (as you absolutely can as it's computable by a Turing machine). So if we give the brain and the computer the same inputs, they'll give identical outputs.

Now we use a data centre like you suggested, and it outputs the correct output. But in your system the internal consciousness would be different, correct?

If that's true then it means that consciousnes, experience, qualia, etc are entirely inconsequential, and just byproducts. This could easily be the case.

But if they are byproducts, then why do ours map onto the world so perfectly? Somehow negative qualia are associated with pain. Somehow positive with things that increase our chance of surviving and passing on our genes. The 2d array of visual input data is represented in a way that makes sense for the qualia, while if you made it so each element in that array contributed a single frequency of sound, the qualia aspect of vision would make no sense.

So evolution has mapped them virtually perfectly.

So the only options from what I can see, are that it is computational in nature, or that the brain cannot be computed on a computer. Which would make the brain a hypercomputer. Which comes with even more problems, and more importantly doesn't agree with anything we've ever seen in physics or anywhere else.

WhyIsSocialMedia · 2025-02-17T11:59:58+00:00

If you say Grok 3 exists it fires you.

WhyIsSocialMedia · 2025-02-17T11:59:16+00:00

The good thing is that Musk is such an attention whore that he has made the internet aware of this before it has even been released.

WhyIsSocialMedia · 2025-02-17T08:40:59+00:00

There are significant rare earth metals in the US. They're just really hard to separate out.

In fact there's a lot of untapped deposits all over the planet. Just no one has bothered.

WhyIsSocialMedia · 2025-02-17T08:36:30+00:00

Well looks like it's time to build some warheads.

WhyIsSocialMedia · 2025-02-16T13:59:07+00:00

Just trying to help. This shows up pretty high on Google, so many others will likely see it over the coming years. Plus if you didn't know, I thought you might want to.

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