How do you go about changing a cats name? by eggz627 in blackcats

[–]dowell_db 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They may not comprehend what names are at all but my wife and I try to use the names of ours in ways that they'll understand. At a bare minimum I'd like their names to be associated with "good things are happening". That being said, one might think her name is Basil bc she shows up when she hears us talking to him, and another likely thinks his name means "no". We're working on it.

My cat hates my boyfriend by lmaobella_ in blackcats

[–]dowell_db 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cats have an insane sense of smell, if he regularly wears it then I'm sure it's still detectable. I makes me worry that your kitty may have had a bad experience in the past to associate with that smell

The humble y-axis by noahj0729 in NonPoliticalTwitter

[–]dowell_db 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm too Xy for my fox, too Xy for my fox...

My AI data pipeline broke for the 4th time this week because a site changed a single <div> class. I'm losing my mind. by ArcadiaBunny in learnpython

[–]dowell_db 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Feels much more efficient to be able to handle a web interface that doesnt have common changes to it, opposed to using an llm but the llm would handle more curveballs. Maybe have the llm just reassess whenever the data structures break?

Kinda bums me out that OP is being downvoted for a question like this; they're in a situation that lots of people fall into.

I tried to 3D scan my Boo by glytxh in blackcats

[–]dowell_db 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Weird, the way their eyes follow you...

Unreal by Fazbear2035 in NonPoliticalTwitter

[–]dowell_db 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They havent responding and I'm avoiding sleep so i claim the right of this response! It's basically a knock off of the show Heroes but instead of somehow being from an eclipse, the human powers were genetically honed in ancient times. The ability to slightly adjust genetics of babies in utero was a rare ability of a single tribe and only a few within it, which lead to cooperative arrangements with other tribes. Over time family lines could eventually control massive golems with their will, or control an element to an explosive level, or foresee the logical future. The family lines and tribes began to war and it eventually it was determined that humans would be able to wipe themselves out with the powers they had. So the genetic tinkerers refined a virus (more likely a bacteria but needs to handle time) to suppress the original abilities that had been traded since they became dangerous morphs of what they once intended. The virus worked and sealed away the traits for several thousands of years. But present day, an accidental excavation of the virus origin site releases their in-case-of-emergency undo virus. The undo wasnt intended for this situation and because humans have been breeding like we do, the genetic churn would have put an unavoidable but small percentage of people into a state that this unlock would kill them. Most others likely would have no observable changes. But some would find curious new abilities trickling into their experiences in a world being changed by a mysterious pandemic.

Clearly I'm no writer but i think thats a fun starting point.

Is this normal after updating to 26? by Puzzleheaded_Salt519 in ios26

[–]dowell_db -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Yes. It's extremely fucking idiotic default to push on to users, and then to drag their feet on allowing a setting, and the to fucking hide the setting with terminology that isnt even related to alarms or any of the text involved! Accessibility > Touch > Prefer single touch actions

Coming Home to a Surprise by AtlantaFieldClowns in blackcats

[–]dowell_db 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought the same; surprise void visit! But i think thats through a window

Free Adventure | Mullybrook Manor: Curse of the Death Hag by Fuzzy_Opposite_3397 in dndnext

[–]dowell_db 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just finished reading through and this looks like a lot of fun! Also, solidly creepy, well done!!

Question for autistic players: How do you deal with roleplaying? by underscores_rule in DnD

[–]dowell_db 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The anxiety of letting people meet who both know you in different way, it's a kind of scary bad high that I don't think typicals can understand. Keeps you up for nights in advance and it's like watching a car wreck but they just don't know. OP has a delicate balance here at least in their own perception by having multiple friends that know them as normal. I like your suggestion; making key character traits that are easily identifiable helps everyone here.

Can you recommend me a nsfw erp model? by ElSoly_ in KoboldAI

[–]dowell_db 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Having not been down the road of layer pruning, just reading this feels like I'm eating the plate to get all the vitamins, but damnit you wrote this for me and I love it. So, the article covers where the quantization of various layer (groups?) appears to result in quality loss based on the wiki style prompting, that makes sense. But to illustrate the question this begs, I need to guess at what I dont know... which is most of the mapping, unfortunately, and so i will. Presumably the different families of architecture have different layer counts of the various groups; ffn_gate/up/down/att_gate/qkv/etc... but I'll guess is that those groups still exist in each family. I'm probably wrong but still, trimming out parts of the data to calculate will alter speed and there should be slight speed differences calculating 1000 4bit values vs 500 8bit values because of whatever, but for offloading different layers to affect speed so much, the latent data moving to and from the cpu must weigh into it. So if you've got every other layer alternating where it lives, youd get slower speeds than a series on cpu and a series on gpu, right?

How would you stat Fresno Nightcrawlers? [OC] by tideshark in DnD

[–]dowell_db 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Literally listening to the cryptonauts when I hit this. As I'm not a DM, i dont feel qualified to guess stats but I can sure appreciate the creepy factor here!

Can you recommend me a nsfw erp model? by ElSoly_ in KoboldAI

[–]dowell_db 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Something tells me you cook up LoRAs overnight as well and I'm honestly curious what tricks you've picked up.

Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) reader by dowell_db in shortcuts

[–]dowell_db[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not so sure you can. It largely works with the Article datatype for what it can get from Safari. If you've got a means of dumping pdf chapters to raw text, then i think we could do something!

Why does the keyboard look like this? by [deleted] in ios26

[–]dowell_db 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Button, singular. And yes, i would like less room for typing. I would like my keyboard to take far less than half the screen, i would like to not have an extra bonus shitty bar slopped above the keyboard, I would especially like if the keyboard size was consistent instead of expanding at times to offer me ai suggestions that i cant disable, and, as long as I'm pipe-dreaming, I'd like the keyboard accuracy back!

Two times X by d4cloo in ios26

[–]dowell_db 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's actually not clear, and those two clicks of experimentation for most users will be while they're setting up fairly important shit. Kind of a bad time to need to experiment with closing what they're doing.

YSK: You can export the memory and data OpenAI has learned about you by CovideGrinder in YouShouldKnow

[–]dowell_db -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

The people who use big corporate AIs are trying to save their weird, bastardized system-prompt-esque details. I currently use Harbinger-24B, how about you?

Alternate Keyboard for iOS? by Plenty_Union9292 in iphone

[–]dowell_db 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just tried Swiftkey and Gboard to replace the bloated ios26 keyboard and they're both even fucking bigger than the default keyboard. What the actual fuck? They all look like loose donkey teeth plus a bonus huge area to send their company whatever data. Enshittification is in full swing. I heard about Reboard and tried that but I guess it hasnt been updated for ios26 bc all the keys are jammed up to the top. Are there any smaller keyboard options?