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If you knew the source, you wouldn’t need to go to the LLM. It’s helpful when you don’t know where to begin, like when you don’t even know the name of the piece of your staircase that snapped off. You can just take a picture of the broken part and ask what is called and then verify that answer rather than read a bunch of blogspam from people trying to sell their home repair service.

It might depend on how large your pockets are. I’ve been tempted by the flip foldables because I’d love to have more options to put the phone than just my back pockets. Though I’m not actually sure if the front pockets on my pants are large enough for those.

My point was that not everybody tries different things. We’d never gotten a complaint before because every other person would try to tap a different part of the button (it was a fairly large button that took up 90% of the width of the screen). I just picked a example that was top of mind, but I’ve seen this in a lot of different contexts involving technology. I’ve had to help people with resistive touchscreen after watching them jab at the same place over and over.

The UI should have the sole purpose of enabling a user to accurately select a candidate, but they aren’t actually made that way. The county in question even provides sticks to help make selections more accurately, so it’s apparently been an issue with their machines for years.

Sometimes people just do the exact same thing over and over. I’ve seen this a few times. Some app I was working on had a bug where if you touched the icon on the dropdown menu, it wouldn’t work. Anywhere else would work. No one noticed until a support ticket came in where this one person complained about being unable to move past that screen. They were just mashing the icon over and over.

It’s possible that the layout of the ballot makes it more likely for the votes to switch in a certain direction. Especially since it sounds like they are using resistive touch screens. If the Republican option was on top and the Democratic option was right beneath it and if people are more likely to hit towards the top of the option, a poorly calibrated touch screen could cause votes to swap (initially selecting the Democrat and then the screen gets confused depending on how the pressure changes as you take your finger off and then selects the Republican above it). These kinds of errors were fairly common when resistive touch screens were the norm.

Then the technician comes out, hits firmly in the middle of the field, sees no problems, and calls it a user error.

In Texas, they used a machine with a kind of joystick to select between the options. And those had a tendency of overshooting the center when you let go of it, so the selector would go back up as you were reaching to hit the next screen button. They put incumbents at the top, so it was more common for people to see it swap from Democrat to Republican than the other way around.

It shouldn’t be acceptable to run elections with machines that have these problems, but there’s no real incentive to fix it.

Some people can’t have caffeine in the afternoon because it gives them insomnia. Quite a few people I’ve worked with have told me that they had to stop drinking coffee in the afternoons once they hit their 40s.

Everything he is saying is neoliberal because he is the neoliberal they are voting to cast out. The jedi in the background look quite tired of him.

You’d think with a title that says “California just passed a law”, that it would actually be about California passing a law. It still has to go through the senate and then get signed by the governor.

Edit: The bill was passed in the Assembly back in May. This is a nearly 3 month old article.

You didn’t go there for a tube of toothpaste, you went there for a trunkful of toothpaste. You need to be well-stocked in case of emergencies.

The first time I had to drink one of these before surgery, I had no problems with it. I was stopped up pretty bad a couple of weeks later and got another bottle; it had done such a great job the first time. Drank half the bottle and then immediately vomited. I guess my body remembered what the liquid did and got a little ahead of itself.

I feel you on the license thing. There’s the appeal of software that can’t be easily corporatized and then there’s the idea that if I could just get lucky with my own project, I wouldn’t have to work for some soulless company generating value for shareholders.

Oh yeah, 16 GB of VRAM is a strange spot to be in. Most of the focus goes onto the models that fit in 24 GB cards.

Qwen 3.6 35b-a3b is pretty solid when you don’t have enough VRAM for a dense model. Most of the weights can be left in RAM and it still runs really quickly.

Since you mention using Ollama, you probably aren’t running actual deepseek on your pc. Ollama took a Qwen model that was finetuned using deepseek output and named it deepseek.

Those are pretty out of date models at this point. Right now, the model most people would recommend for consumer gaming hardware is Qwen 3.6 27b.

My phone is in my lap while driving all the time because I take it out of my back pocket to not squish it when sitting down and I don’t have anywhere else to put it. Usually I remember to tuck it down beneath my legs, but sometimes I forget.

$250 from 5 donations? Textbooks must’ve gotten a lot cheaper since I went to college if you can get them with that kind of money.

Windows computers aren’t the only type of computers to freeze. I’ve had to hold down power to shutdown my MacBook and my Linux desktop. It’s usually GPU related. The Intel macbook I used to used would freeze if you plugged it into a monitor while it was sleeping (it was using the Intel gpu before it went to sleep and then tried to output to the amd gpu after being woken up before the gpu was ready). About once a month my Linux desktop will freeze after waking up from sleep and I’ll have to hit the reboot button on the front panel.

It looks like a kitchen backsplash. The tiled counter the other poster suggested would make more sense, since I don’t see how they’d have the burritos floating against the wall. Also the wood edge is weird. Doesnt make sense for a floor or for a backsplash.

Well yeah, it’s a myth pushed by fossil fuel companies and climate change deniers. I was just saying I’m surprised you haven’t anyone say it, it was the biggest ‘gotcha’ people would try to use when pushing back against EV adoption for years.

I’m surprised you haven’t heard the opposite. It’s wrong, but a really common talking point for a while was buying an EV wasn’t actually good because of the pollution involved in manufacturing the car. Then a few years later they updated the rhetoric to talk about the minerals mined for batteries. I assume it was pushed by Fossil Fuel companies.

This The Guardian article mentions the minerals one. You can see an example of The Daily Telegraph pushing the myths with the headline: “Electric cars are made of pollution and human misery.”

You can’t charge a ghost for haunting your house, it’s not like they live there.