[–] 10 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

Well, maybe not just because you feel like it.
I think the premise is that you crashed on an alien planet and need to build a spaceship to return back home?

The fact that you are destroying the entire ecosystem of the planet to do so is just a slight inconvenience.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Invictus:


    Out of the night that covers me.
    black as the pit, from pole to pole.
    I thank whatever gods may be,
    for my unconquerable soul.

    In the fell clutch of circumstance,
    I have not winced nor cried aloud.
    Under the bludgeonings of chance,
    my head is bloody but unbowed.

    Beyond this place of wrath and tears
    looms but the horror of the shade.
    And yet the menance of the years
    finds and shall find me unafraid.

    It matters not how strait the gate,
    how charged with punishments the scroll.
    I am the master of my fate,
    I am the captain of my soul.


    It's the only (english) poem I know by hard.
    Many people know the last 2 lines.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Ok, thats good. But I suppose I can't point at something with the cursor while he is using it right?
    One person I help is using eye-tracking software, so I guess he would have to turn it off every time I want to show something

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Rustdesk is a remote control application, right?
    Would it be possible for the other person to keep controlling the computer while i'm annotating, or would it require me to take control of their computer?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 7 months ago

    Forgot to mention: I'm mainly using Linux and the people I help are typically on mostly windows, but also macos and linux
    Apparently slacks annotation feature never really worked on linux in the first place?

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    I'm helping students and people with disability to navigate their devices and learn how to do things on their computer.

    Sometimes I do this remotely, and I'm looking for software that would allow them to share their screen to me. And me to annotate on their screen (visible to them) or at least show my cursor so I can point at things.

    I know this used to be possible with slack. But I would like to find an open-source and affordable alternative.

    Anybody have some experience with this?

    [–] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    This is from the Limited Collector's Edition of Forza 3, right?
    I actually have this one, unused, lying around somewhere in the box at my parents home.

    If you are not too far, I could probably ask them to mail it to you.

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    I worked as a software engineer.
    AI is supposed to replace programmers, or at least help you write code.

    But I never really wrote a lot of code in the first place??
    I looked up libraries that do what I need and then wrote a bit of code in-between to link our API or GUI to the right functions of the selected library.

    And these libraries were tested, functional and most of all consistent and reliable.

    Now what do you want me to do? Ask an non-deterministic LLM to implement the code from scratch every time I need it in my project?
    That doesn't makes sense at all.

    That's like building a car and every day you ask somebody else to make you a new wheel. And every wheel will be slightly different than the previous. So your car will drive like shit.

    Instead, why not just ask a reputable wheel manufacturer to make you 4 wheels? You know they will work. And in the case of programming, people are literally giving away good, reliable wheels for free! (free libraries and APIs)

    Why use LLMs at all?

    [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago

    Having less power in those centralised organisations is definitely a good thing.

    Online communities are helpful, and also sometimes necessary for those who are not able to easily participate in local communities, or who live in a place where nobody is interested in the same things as them.

    And still I found it much better to interact with people in-person.
    Even when their interests might not align perfectly with yours, it's just much more fulfilling than online-only interactions.

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    I suppose it would be mostly practical skills, cooking, fixing things. Usually had to be done by people themselves.

    Maybe also mental things like navigating (with or without paper map) and remembering their daily and weekly agendas.

    What other things would be a big difference with the people today?

     

    So I have some lemon balm and peppermint in my garden and we use it to make tea.

    I really like the smell and aroma of lemon balm and if I look online, it mentions for example that lemon balm is used for relieving anxiety, stress and can improve cognitive function.

    But how is this tested, how can people even tell?
    Does it really have this effect? And what would happen if you drink a lot of it?

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