There are not many places where 95% compression of UTF-8 plain text could outweigh needing a 30GB model in memory and a significant fraction of current LLM inference cost to decompress it − and good luck convincing librarians to adopt it.

Well, if there’s a pedestrian traffic light, that’s the legal thing to do

My grandpa had a similar problem when my cousin gave him his old gaming PC. I replaced the GPU with an old 2010 Radeon with a native VGA port as opposed to a converter and then it worked. So now I have a spare Gigabyte (Nvidia-chipset) GPU…

The only problem now is that pressing the “AUTO” button on the old NEC AccuSync 1680×1050 monitor makes it play dead (shut down and not turn on again, even after unplugging it and plugging it back in)… until you press every other button simultaneously. No problem, I manually adjusted the pixel clock’s phase.

Like with a slowly rolling unbraked car: Don’t take photos if you can prevent the crash

Edit: No swop? 🫪

Pill-shaped, food-safe RFID tags exist already, they’re being implanted in dogs

DRM-free too

Every dev gets less than $0.10 but think how many ads would need to be in a game to make that much per player

Use integer scaling when rendering limited-palette pixel art, especially as GIF.

My country’s public TV stopped offering subtitle downloads for shows that can’t be streamed online

(The transcript was always easily available with second-accurate timing by clicking the ㏄ button next to any subtitled program, whether or not it was available for streaming (usually indefinitely for old ČT production, 14 days for old movies and recent ČT production, never for new movies or shows). One person used this transcript of a documentary on nutria breeding verbatim (no edits except stage instructions and punctuation) to create a somewhat dadaist sci-fi musical featuring intellligent alien beings that happen to be called Nutria. And the frame-accurate, albeit Teletext-restricted (Czech+Slovak+German uppercase/lowercase alphabet only, 38x2, 1 subtitle/s, 7 colors) subtitles were also available by applying a simple Regex to the show page’s URL. Now a unique subtitle URL is generated only when the server and JavaScript + WideVine player complete a handshake.)

It’s meant for forestry work (good luck dodging an unexpectedly falling tree fast enough if the chainsaw hands get stuck or a branch pierces the pneumatics: bye bye expensive robot). Yes, it’s so scary I just casually mentioned CHAINSAW HANDS.

Wheels work great for indoor spaces, roads, tracks etc.

You don’t have to post this much. Think a little in between.

Permanently deleted now. https://lemmy.world/post/48620112

Comments can still be found on users’ pages like @Thunderfist@piefed.social, search for “vaginismus” for example

Welcome to Lemmy! Sorry about the degenerates saying “you’re gay”, as if sexual orientation had anything to do with it (plenty of lesbians like penetration - usually with toys - and vice versa). Trust me, Reddit would be way worse…

I made a pull request today! It didn’t get merged but I think I can use the fork on my own. How do I switch Firefox a local PDF.js without recompiling the whole browser?

It’s not very energy-efficient. That’s one of the reasons supercomputer clusters and datacenters exist despite all the cooling requirements.

It does format text in the editor pane by default now but uses a big warning with a button to disable it.

However, the built-in code highlighter, much
like in many Lemmy frontends, highlights
some words/symbols depending on the default
language. Therefore, it's best to not use 
4 spaces at the start of each line for a code block.

Instead, this one starts with "```text" and 
ends with "```". No extra indents and I get
to specify the highlighting language!

Edit: Damn

What’s up with the https://soundcloud.com/ihmix logo?

𓌂𓐍𓏏𓁐 is one of the ways Sekhmet has been written (maybe the two small glyphs are supposed to be above each other, that’s a font/renderer issue) and 𓄿𓈖𓎼𓂋𓇌 decodes to A-n-g-r-y using Manuel de Codage’s hieroglyphic ASCII representation