Depending on how cold you want it, the heat death if the universe is just another 10^101 years away ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Fair, thanks for the clarification.

There are a lot of people who make excellent mods who are not programmers. It’s already a small enough pool that requiring a particular skill only further narrows the pool. It also has a secondary effect that good mods may be unwilling to take on larger communities, or additional responsibilities.

If we want better moderation, the fediverse has to become more friendly to non technical people.

Yes, over a long enough timeline this is true. Usually people are interested in cooling things sooner than the death of the Sun.

It was a really excellent keyboard.

The number of fat cells don’t really change in your body. The individual cells grow and shrink.

also this

Do I have to ask them? Can I just wait to see if they bring it up? Or at least text them?

“Wait, explain how Neopets was Scientology again?”

“What was the purpose of the hamster dance?"

Geocities?

Facebook attempts to be an all-in-one everything platform for messaging, photos, video, events, marketplace, news, etc. It is a bloated, incoherent mess.

Most people actually prefer dedicated apps for different activities, with each app being better suited to the individual task.

I report dozens of bot accounts on meta every month (actually slowed a bit recently). 80-90% of the time they take no action and leave the account up.

Here’s an interesting post that gives a pretty good quick summary of when an LLM may be a good tool.

Here’s one key:

Machine learning is amazing if:

• The problem is too hard to write a rule-based system for or the requirements change sufficiently quickly that it isn’t worth writing such a thing and,
• The value of a correct answer is much higher than the cost of an incorrect answer.

The second of these is really important.

So if your math problem is unsolvable by conventional tools, or sufficiently complex that designing an expression is more effort than the answer is worth… AND ALSO it’s more valuable to have an answer than it is to have a correct answer (there is no real cost for being wrong), THEN go ahead and trust it.

If it is important that the answer is correct, or if another tool can be used, then you’re better off without the LLM.

The bottom line is that the LLM is not making a calculation. It could end up with the right answer. Different models could end up with the same answer. It’s very unclear how much underlying technology is shared between models anyway.

For example, if the problem is something like, "here is all of our sales data and market indicators for the past 5 years. Project how much of each product we should stock in the next quarter. " Sure, an LLM may be appropriately close to a professional analysis.

If the problem is like “given these bridge schematics, what grade steel do we need in the central pylon?” Then, well, you are probably going to be testifying in front of congress one day.

Oh, okay

The Appalachian Trail is about 2000 miles and a lot if people walk that. Worth a Google search. There are documentaries, memoirs, plenty of before/after photos, etc.

We can hope

The fact that helium is such a rare, irreplaceable, and scientifically useful material makes it wild to me that we use it to fill kids’ party balloons.

This requires Israel removing Netanyahu and his far right alliance from power, and Palestine building a stable elected government.

Netanyahu might be removed in the next election because Israelis are fed up with his military aggression that has failed to eliminate Hamas or free the remaining hostages. This is an election year.

The Palestinian authority has to be completely dismantled and rebuilt with new elections and authority to properly govern. Abbas is about to enter the 21st year of his 4 year term.

It’s also a good idea to share content without additional context whenever possible. Just send them a link to an interesting post. The more people get used to seeing interesting content on Lemmy, Masto, etc., the more likely they are to think it’s not “weird” and maybe make an account to comment on something.

“Imagine if social media were run by the people who use it instead of corporations selling ads through engagement at all costs.”

Most launchers have an adjustment period, so it’s not just you. Some are more customizable than others and some are build around a more rigid design philosophy.

You might also want to have a look at Lawnchair, which is designed to be a more “stock” experience, but with some additional customizations.