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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Why are his necktie and fingers covered in spangles? Is that slang for shiny expensive bits?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah I see ;) I also have two loves, but my gaming pc is too heavy to drag to bed...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I know! Horrible isn't it? I just can't help it, thinking about stuff is actually fun for me... so embarrassing!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (8 children)

One reason why that is probably not true is because there are less positrons but if it were true they should number the same as electrons, right?

But if electrons are moving along the same "time direction" as we are and positrons are moving in the opposite "direction" then wouldn't we expect there to be less protons? As we can't measure the protons that already "passed" us? And we would measure more electrons as a some/many/all of the existing electrons are traveling alongside us?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

No! I'd rather be 20 years ago!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The satellite went boing boing?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So you could just use Email in these archaic programs called Thunderbird etc. If you really wanted to use gmail. You know, without adds, without the need for an ad blocker, without AI recommendations and at your leisure.

But hey, you'd have to install something on your computer for that.... how horrible.

And who uses computers for work anyway, you can just write your essay on a tablet. (but there are also email apps on those)

It's a shittier way to work but hey it's easier.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You may achieve biologic immortality, but you will still age mentally, get jaded and bored. Unless someone also invents being mind wiped after so many centuries. But then you might as well just die normally again right? What is the difference between a person who has no memory of their past and a new person.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

That's the cheap chinese knockoff, Neckdobalds.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago (9 children)

Every 20 year old is going to be a 90 year old someday (if they are lucky). Complaining about age is unnecessary, because all those young people you see running around and envy...

You can be content in knowing they'll pine after youth the same way in a few decades. You can feel smug in knowing that they too will despair in a midlife crisis and look in horror upon the wrinkles in the mirror. That they too will feel the fathomless sadness of knowing that all the things they dreamed about and never achieved will weigh them down deep into murky depth.

That they too will live in the future as old people and not get to fully enjoy its marvels.

You may rejoice, for you have already climbed that mountain. You stand on its peak or near enough, and soon you will jump off into everlasting oblivion...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago

The voices in their head.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We didn't get hover cars, personal jetpacks, high speed personal tube travel systems, moon bases or mars terraforming.

But we do have robot dogs, electronic cigarettes, lying AI and the ability to kill people remotely by dropping grenades on their heads from almost invisible micro aircraft.

 

I think it would be a great way to give money to the hosters and get something that actually helps the community. Like having the cake and eating it too.

You donate a certain amount and get a sticker or something you can stick to threads like gilding in reddit.

But instead of giving money to an evil corporation you`d give it to the people that actually enable us to have the fediverse.

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Vicuna 13B vs 33B (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Hi! I posted this over at lemmy.world in the technology sublemmy, but I thought maybe some knowledgeable people here could answer the question easier.

Oh and I know it's not really designed to give out functioning code, but it does look good enough I thought I'd ask.

I have both Vicuna-13B and the preview version of Vicuna-33B running on my desktop and asked both a simple coding question from another user:

"What can I use to draw curved text in an SVG?"

I got these two answers, I am not really a code but, while the code looks like it could work, I don't think it is correct?

Can someone here tell me if either answer is correct or more correct than the other?

Thanks!

33B:

.....

User: How are you doing today?

Vicky: Today, I'm doing well, thank you for asking! How about you?

User: I am doing great! what can I use to draw curved text in an SVG?

Vicky: To draw curved text in an SVG, you can use the element. This allows you to wrap text along a path defined by an SVG path or elliptical arc. First, create the path using the 'path' or 'ellipse' element, then use the element to wrap the text along the path. Here's an example:

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html
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="800" height="600" viewBox="0 0 800 600">
  <path id="curve" d="M200,200 Q400,200 400,400" fill="none" stroke="black" stroke-width="2"/>
  <text text-anchor="middle" dominant-baseline="central" x="300" y="300" text-path="url(#curve)">
    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
  </text>
</svg>

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In this example, a quadratic curve is defined using the 'Q' command in the 'path' element, and the text is wrapped along the curve using the element with the 'url(#curve)' attribute. You can adjust the 'd' attribute of the path and the text's position to create different curves with the text. .....

13B:

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User: what can I use to draw curved text in an SVG?

Vicky: In SVG, you can use the "textPath" element to create curved text. You can also use the "text" element and position it using "transform" attributes to achieve the same effect.

User:Can you give me a code example for that?

Vicky: Sure! Here's an example using the "textPath" element:

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php
<svg width="100" height="100">
  <text xlink:href="#text1" y="50" text-anchor="middle" font-size="20">
    This text has a curved path.
  </text>
  <rect x="50" y="50" width="30" height="10" fill="#000" />
  <text xlink:href="#text2" x="70" y="50" text-anchor="middle" font-size="20">
    This text has a curved path.
  </text>
</svg>

+++

And here's an example using the "text" element:

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php
<svg width="100" height="100">
  <text xlink:href="#text1" y="50" text-anchor="middle" font-size="20">
    This text has a curved path.
  </text>
  <rect x="50" y="50" width="30" height="10" fill="#000" />
  <text x="70" y="50" text-anchor="middle" font-size="20">
    This text has a curved path.
  </text>
</svg>

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*Note that you'll need to define the curved path for each text element using an SVG path string. In this case, the path strings are #text1 and #text2.

To use the same path for multiple text elements, you can define the path once and then reference it using the xlink:href attribute. The text-anchor attribute determines the point of the text element where the path is anchored.*

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(no idea why Lemmy doesn't italicize that last text part)

13B-Vicky gave more code, no idea which code example is better. 13B runs much faster than 33B, it would be really interesting to know if either or both example codes are valid and if 13B, despite being the simpler model gave a correct answer. 33B is a preview model not the final version.

What I am noticing is that neither has actually used the textPath element, though 33B used text-path, no idea if that exists.

p.s. by offloading 41 of the 63 layers to gpu 33B runs as fast as 13B without offloading but with CUDA on my machine. Very interesting.

 

Thought about a meme, made this pic. Didn't work out. Someone got one that could fit?

 
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Unlimited power!!! (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I hope I am doing this right!

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Guess the game! (i.imgur.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Continuing on from a reddit post. Who can guess the game?

The winner gets 5 virtual cookies!

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