monotremata

joined 7 months ago
[–] monotremata 2 points 14 hours ago

Oh, sure enough, that fixed it. I only cleared "cached images and files" and it loaded right up. Thanks!

[–] monotremata 1 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I'm still getting the issue, but it seems to be specific to Firefox on Android. Chrome works, I'm just trying not to use that anymore. But I guess this is mostly a "me" problem. Thanks for your work on it, though! I'll just stick with the old interface for now.

[–] monotremata 1 points 1 day ago (4 children)

This is on mobile, so, not really. It seems to work on desktop.

[–] monotremata 1 points 3 days ago (6 children)

I tried this frontend and liked it, but the next time I went there I just got that spinning hypercube animation endlessly, with no other UI to interact with. Is there a forum to discuss that frontend or something?

[–] monotremata 4 points 1 week ago

I think it's reasonably likely. There was a research paper about how to do basically that a couple years ago. If you need a basic LLM trained on a specialized form of input and output, getting the expensive existing LLMs to generate that text for you is pretty efficient/inexpensive, so it's a reasonable way to get a baseline model. Then you can add stuff like chain of reasoning and mixture of experts to improve the performance back up to where you need it. It's not going to be a way to push the state of the art forward, but it's sure a cheap way to catch up to models that have done that pushing.

[–] monotremata 1 points 1 week ago

I do love games, but most of what I do at my computer is maker projects. CAD, 3d printing, electronics design, coding. Lately I've been building a puzzle box for my niece's birthday.

Interestingly, I did upgrade my GPU a year and a half or so ago (to a used 3070, I'm not made of money) and since then the main thing I've used that GPU for is actually AI experiments rather than games. E.g. for the puzzle box, I got Stable Diffusion to generate images for a puzzle for me. It's four images, and when you combine them in the right way they reveal a fifth image. I don't think I could have done the same puzzle without AI.

I do still play games, though. I'm just kind of off the big budget stuff these days.

[–] monotremata 3 points 1 week ago

I wouldn't really say Republicans deliver what they say they'll deliver. A week before election Trump was saying he'd have grocery prices lower on day one, and then as soon as he was elected he suddenly became aware that was complicated and the wouldn't be anything he could do about it. Part of his campaign the first time around, too, was that he would provide a brilliant replacement for Obamacare, but after four years he'd done absolutely nothing on that front, and four years after that he still insisted he was going to do that, but admitted that he only had "concepts of a plan."

They carry out a lot of the culture war aspects of their promises. And they carry out the promises they make to their billionaire megadonors. Everything else they hope gets forgotten about.

[–] monotremata 7 points 1 week ago

Yeah, that's plausible for cooking in general, but boiling vs poaching is a pretty fine distinction.

[–] monotremata 16 points 1 week ago (21 children)

I'm also intrigued as to why they think hard boiling vs poaching the egg has any bearing on its calorie content.

[–] monotremata 50 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Hey, it's not just that! It's also decimal 88 in the ASCII table.

[–] monotremata 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You are agreeing. They said we must be INtolerant of intolerance.

[–] monotremata 4 points 2 weeks ago

The open display of oligarchy at the inauguration has a bunch of people suddenly turned off of corporate social media sites in general. It's a meme, basically, but one that could have a positive effect. I'm happier about this than the people flocking to BlueSky.

 

Bear with me for a moment, because I'm not sure how to describe this problem without just describing a part I'm trying to print.

I was designing a part today, and it's basically a box; for various reasons I wanted to print it with all the sides flat on the print bed, but have bridges between the sides and the bottom to act as living hinges so it would be easy to fold into shape after it came off the bed. But when I got it into PrusaSlicer, by default, Prusa slices all bridges in a single uniform direction--which on this print meant that two of the bridges were across the shortest distance, and the other two were parallel to the gap they were supposed to span. Which, y'know, is obviously not a good way to try to bridge the gap.

I was able to manually adjust the bridge direction to fix this, but I'm kinda surprised that the slicer doesn't automatically choose paths for bridging gaps to try to make them as printable as possible. I don't remember having this issue in the past, but I haven't designed with bridges in quite a while--it's possible that I've just never noticed before, or it could be that a previous slicer (I used to use Cura) or previous version of PrusaSlicer did this differently.

Is there a term for this? Are there slicers that do a better job of it? Is there an open feature request about this?

Basically just wondering if anyone has insight into this, or any suggestions for reading on the subject.

Thanks!

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