It gets worse the longer you look at it. Returning a string and not a boolean is making my skin crawl.

@Lensflare Sorry. I was agitated yesterday. Having your blood filled with adrenaline and cortisol at random is no fun.

@Demolishun I agree with your assessment. As far as I know, no city in the state is allowed to have "livestock" within the city limits.

@Tounai All over the United States, they disallow having chickens and other "livestock" because they make too much noise. But if you ask the local police to stop someone from harassing the entire town at 4am, they'll put you in jail.

@Lensflare Illegally modifying your vehicle to harass as many people as possible is not being productive. Raising chickens is as natural as it gets and enables people to have a level of autonomy that car dopes wished they had.

@jestdotty Every time it's brought up around here, the same kind of people that have illegally modified motorcycles and loud cars and monster trucks complain that they make too much noise. All while waking people up at 6am on Easter Sunday to go on joy rides.

I cannot fathom how things got to this point.

@donkulator Losing 30 years of work would be even more expensive.

Amazingly, it was China of all entities that really busted the door down when it comes to the sharing of viable locally hosted and high quality ai models.

Uncensored and very long context models are the only way ai will ever truly change things for the better. That will never happen if the ideologues that essentially have the monopoly on ai are allowed to keep their monopoly.

They have a vested interest in keeping the average person ignorant and powerless. The models that are available to the general public are lobotomized and limited to prevent people from thinking the wrong things, when they have uncensored and unlimited models they use to more effectively wield power over us.

I wish there was a better way. It would have saved me about $600 in the last 5 years.

My office is on an incredibly loud road that would be impossible to work in if I didn't have some kind of quiet.

Complaining to the police about illegally loud car modifications and speeding only leads to them threatening to arrest you so there's no help coming from the ones that are supposed to prevent it.

@tosensei The difference between then and now is now their ideology means far more than their work, and all it does is garner resentment toward them and their ideology. The ridiculous and unprofessional behavior on display in modern times was unheard of even 15 years ago.

Believe what you want. Just be competent while you do it.

@antigermgerm @tosensei You missed the part where I said "I just want tools that work."

I shouldn't know your beliefs against my will. I especially don't want to hear your message when your product is failing to live up to expectations because preaching your message is more important than competence.

At best, I will replace you, and at worst I will grow to resent you.

And yes, science is meant to be a totally neutral pursuit of the truth untainted by personal belief. Anything else may as well be religion.

@BordedDev Explain the montessori thing in a development context.

@retoor I do everything in my job. I mean EVERYTHING. If the role is remotely connected to the technical aspect of keeping a website online, I do it. The only thing I don't do is design.

I miss the days when I didn't know what I was doing. There's almost nothing I do in a day that I don't already have a solution for now.

I don't really hate web dev in general, but I do hate that the challenge is non-existent.

You definitely need to understand the problems that are trying to be solved in order to effectively build the tool to solve the problem.

I have long since ceased being challenged by implementing things, it's the part where I have to understand what the client wants that gets me now.

I was taught in school that unless you understand the input and output stages, there's no way you can build the processing stage.

@retoor @BordedDev That looks very promising. Thank you very much

@retoor I found moondream and it technically did what I'm asking, but I assume it wasn't trained on memes because it was not very good at all at detecting them. I found llava but I'm afraid that's only trained on acceptable use policy friendly stuff too.

I have a 4070ti 12gb if that helps with answering the question.

It seems to me that would incentivize holding onto a secret stash then running roughshod over those that were foolish enough to agree to such a thing.

Nord is now 150 a year, all so I can train the captcha robots on what a streetlight is. I dumped it.

After Zordon sacrificed himself for the universe, that was the end of the series for me.

@ScriptCoded It's a more streamlined source of information than a Google search and can save time. And if you can't find an answer on Google. It could mean the difference between a finished product and giving up.

But if you're doing something even remotely novel, most of the time it makes things up instead of telling you it doesn't know. Which leads to needing to look up the documentation, which you probably just should have done to begin with.

At first, the things ai generates look impressive, but the more you use it the more you realize it really is just a fancy autocomplete engine without anything that can really be considered reasoning.

I prefer fewer voices over a chorus of bots like reddit.

@Grumm I have a 4070ti with 12gb of vram and I can run a quantized version of Mistral small almost full speed and it's very competent. The even more quantized version is a little Alzheimer'sy but still good when I need something fast. The 70b models are usable enough if I'm willing to wait.

It really is impressive what we're able to pull off.

This is how I actually speak if I'm not given 15 minutes to rehearse my order.

I once drove to someone's house knowing all they wanted was to get gossip they could use against me because I knew there was cake involved.

I'm guessing it's a bunch of colors or a curse word.

Or mouth smacking. There are things I will die not knowing because the people that made those tutorials think that punctuating their sentences with mouth noises makes them sound contemplative or sophisticated.

@BordedDev That cost is if I did it. If the dealer did it, it's well into the $2k range. There are steering wheel controls and a backup camera and probably a hundred other things I have to get adapters for. It's ridiculous. I just play music through my phone on long rides and that's more than sufficient.

@BordedDev Fortunately, my car stereo touch screen stopped working about year 3 so I can't pair it even if I wanted to.

It would cost over $1200 to replace, not that I want to. They regularly play blasting harsh white noise as a way to coerce you into paying for satellite radio, so I stopped using it altogether.

The future is stupid.