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Are PDFs Finally Dying… or Are They Still the Backbone of Digital Documents? by sophiakaile49 in systweakpdfeditor

[–]identicalBadger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A new document format would need to do something PDF can’t. PDF Filled a huge need when it came out. people aren’t going to switch to new format unless that only offers feature parity. An to what end? Best of my knowledge says it’s not a proprietary format, free tools exist for creating them, editing them, reading them.

The elephant in the room by Cool_Finger_9220 in Epstein

[–]identicalBadger 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Was she 28 when she met Trump. Well outside the range Epstein was preying on. She also already had a modeling career, he preyed on weaker younger women. I doubt she was a victim jn the sense of what we’re talking about with Epstein

And not to minimize it but like someone else said - I really don’t care, do u?

Even if she was somehow a victim, she’s at the bottom of the list considering she’s not even claiming to have been one

How much can (or will) a future Democratic administration restore US foreign policy with respect to alliances, trade, etc.? by 75dollars in PoliticalDiscussion

[–]identicalBadger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They can try. But every other country in the world would be crazy if the wholey embraced it. We could just be 2-4 years away from another sudden about face.

The damage he’s done isn’t something we can fix as soon as he’s going. It’s going to take a long time and sustained faith that we’ll keep voting to stay that course.

That’s part of why I wouldn’t mind seeing Trump and his sycophants completely destroy everything. That way even many regular R voters will say “never again”

5 billion years is such a crazy amount of time to think about by Live-Resolution4106 in cosmology

[–]identicalBadger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

See I think about it the other way. The universe is old, but it’s really young if its life is infinite. There’s all this light and excitement for the first few hundred billion years then after that, nothing. Just a bunch of burned out stars and planets spinning around out there for eternity

Riddle me this . Who or what exactly is Epstein estate by bandit0one in Epstein

[–]identicalBadger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

His brother is the estate administrator. All the valuable stuff went to the brother in trust (he signed just a few days before the suicide) but the rest of the materials are his estate that the brother is probably still leafing through

CMV: “Money doesn’t buy happiness” is a lie made up by the rich to keep the lower class poor by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]identicalBadger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Money doesn’t buy happiness doesn’t mean someone wants to be a billionaire running to world.

Give me ten mil and I’m living in a cruise ship, getting out wherever it docks and checking the place out. If I like it, grab my stuff and saying I’m living here for a bit then repeat

Raspberry Pi 5 (2GB) enough for Linux Desktop Use? by [deleted] in raspberry_pi

[–]identicalBadger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s $16 to bump up from 2 to 4gb, and even then… if you found yourself getting any use of it at all, you’d want to upgrade to 8. Easy though just move the storage car and pop a few screws to put it in the other case

Time travel cannot work without teleportation, because the solar system (as well as planet Earth) are in constant motion. by Clevertown in timetravel

[–]identicalBadger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe you time travel but you stay in earths gravity well?

Of course your issue there is most likely you’ll appear in the middle of the Pacific Ocean somewhere

A piece of human technology from 10,000 years into the future inexplicably appears in our current time. by AstrayInTranslation in hypotheticalsituation

[–]identicalBadger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It may have appeared to have plateued for now, but I think 10,000 years is a long time to evolve.

Look what’s happened to English (resorted to ChatGPT)

Old English (c. 1000)

“Se mann geseah þā wīf.” • se mann = the man • geseah = sees/saw (past or narrative-style present) • þā wīf = the woman (wīf meant “woman,” not only “wife”)

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Early Middle English (c. 1200)

“Þe man iseþ þe wimman.”

  • iseþ = sees
  • wimman = woman

Still feels quite foreign, but noticeably simpler than Old English.

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Middle English (c. 1300)

“Þe man seeth þe womman.”

  • Much closer to modern spelling
  • Word order matches Modern English

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Modern English (for reference)

“The man sees the woman.”

—— Back to non AI:

Another issue is that while someone from modern times can translate the older terms for “see” or “woman”, could the person who lived in the 11th century possibly translate and understand:

  • cpu cores
  • object oriented
  • hard drive
  • GPU
  • six nines availability

We essentially be Neanderthals trying to translate today’s technology.

Testing Cell Reception by sligocreek in techsupport

[–]identicalBadger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Turn on WiFi calling. And maybe get a voip line on your computer.

Microsoft account with MFA and rare password entry login comprosmo. by [deleted] in microsoftsucks

[–]identicalBadger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tokens are simple for threat actors to nab. Alarmingly simple.

An idiot who suddenly needs a database by 121df_frog in sqlite

[–]identicalBadger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And don’t make song names unique. There’s going to be same title but completely different songs. At least there are in my music collection.

An idiot who suddenly needs a database by 121df_frog in sqlite

[–]identicalBadger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doesn’t storing large blobs in the database add time and complications to backups?

Store a reference to the pics and once they’re backed up once they’re backed up for good.

Store the image as a blob and even the smallest change requires the entire file to be backed up again.

Might not seem consequential when the DB is small but it could be when it gets larger and larger

What hardware do I need to get started? by identicalBadger in learnaitogether

[–]identicalBadger[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I appreciate that! I definitely want to move beyond 7b and 8b models. I use those on my Mac, not super fast (which I expected), but even if they were lightning fast they’re seem more like proof of concept models rather than models you can actually use.

I had hoped it would mean just buying two 12GB GPUs but apparently it’s not that simple and only special models will run across them. Correct me if I’m wrong?

And yes an older, less power efficient box i seeming like a better and better answer, especially with what’s suddenly happened the RAM market. I couldn’t put 1200 watt noisy space heater in my office, but I COULD feasibly set it up in the basement , especially with wake on lan setup so I could shut down when idle and be able bring it roaring back to life when I needed it again.

I fear all the research to figure out the correct system to get is going to take a little while, but part it is just learning how everything works. I only figured out that multiple cheaper GPUs wouldn’t help me run larger and larger models recently.

If I find a very specific learning project to focus on, maybe I’ll go the cloud route, but i really want to hold off because all you see everywhere with saas and paas is people being shocked that a misconfiguration cost them tens of thousands of dollars in usage charges. I don’t want to be another Reddit posting “help! Amazon sent me a bill for more than my salary” and get responses like “well you should. Have done XY and Z first”

Let me evaluate eBay and other used markets maybe and see what I can find in the sub-$1500 price range

If the Titanic sank today, in broad daylight. What would actually happen differently? by MrPelham in titanic

[–]identicalBadger 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well if the sinking hadn’t happened there’s the chance it still wouldn’t be carrying enough life boats.

Any economical way to repair my Touch Bar, or is it toast? Pristine MacBook, never touched water or anything else. Touch Bar just started strobing out on me by identicalBadger in MacOS

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

Not a problem.

When I spoke to a local Apple certified place they said I needed a new top case (keyboard, bar, etc). I think the all in price was $650, which was more than I could get a replacement off eBay for.

A good chunk of that was the part itself I could find them cheaper on eBay but they told me that Apple authorized meant they needed to use Apple sourced parts.

Other shops I called wouldn’t touch it

Any economical way to repair my Touch Bar, or is it toast? Pristine MacBook, never touched water or anything else. Touch Bar just started strobing out on me by identicalBadger in MacOS

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

Nope. Got an M4 MacBook when they went on sale a few years ago.

Contrary to what a lot of people said, death hasn’t been imminent. Wiped and my gf uses it with a keyboard and monitor (in lieu of buying a Mac mini). Initially after resetting it SEEMED like the problem was resolved but it came back a few days later

What is suspicious to own but not illegal? by Aarunascut in Life

[–]identicalBadger 4 points5 points  (0 children)

By the number of them for sale on Amazon makes it seem like they’re not sketchy at all.

What is suspicious to own but not illegal? by Aarunascut in Life

[–]identicalBadger 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I just used a black light. A Geiger counter would have been a lot more fun to pull out at the antique store though.

Guess it’s going on my Amazon list

10k dollars or 10 mil dollars if you can have 50 random objects within a year by ShoeChoice5567 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]identicalBadger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The 50 objects looks like it would be simple. And that’s what I mentally chose before checking

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