Nah als ik zou moeten gokken dan denk ik dat de server geheugen tekort heeft en daardoor non-stop staat te swappen. Dat stapelt op en zorgt ervoor dat de load steeds hoger en hoger wordt, tot op een gegeven moment het geheel niet meer werkt.

Iets wat vanuit de cache geserveerd kan worden, werkt goed. Soms kun je iets werkend krijgen door het op te vragen, waarna je een timeout krijgt. Dan heel even wachten en opnieuw hetzelfde verzoek naar de server sturen, met wat geluk is de cache dan gevuld met wat er nodig is en krijg je wel resultaat. Vraag je bijvoorbeeld All Top Six Hours, dan krijg je meteen resultaat, want die zit vaak in de cache. Probeer je dan te bladeren naar de volgende pagina, krijg je een timeout. Doordat de pagina afhankelijk is van je eigen persoonlijke cursor zal die niet in de cache zitten en dus niet werken.

Afhankelijk van het tijdstip werkt alles of juist niets. Vroeg in de ochtend werkt alles perfect, maar begin van de avond is het een wonder als er überhaupt iets wil laden. Het persoonlijke profiel incl recente posts laden is iets wat vrijwel nooit werkt.

Wat de oorzaak is? Geen idee. Het zou kunnen dat de hoeveelheid gebruikers teveel is voor de server, maar Ted zei dat hij rate limiting had ingeschakeld, dus dat zou niet direct het probleem moeten zijn. Het lijkt haast wel alsof er iets mis is met de database, een index die ontbreekt of corrupt is, waardoor bepaalde zaken veel langer duren of veel meer geheugen opeten dan de bedoeling is.

Iets wat wel duidelijk is, is dat de status pagina’s vrij waardeloos zijn op het moment. Wellicht dat we wat constructieve feedback aan de makers kunnen geven, zodat ze die kunnen optimaliseren. Wanneer een simpel request 5 sec duurt bijvoorbeeld, zou ik dat niet als “up” beschouwen. Of de Photon interface, die technisch gezien up is, want hij serveert de bootloader pagina, maar alle benodigde requests geven vervolgens een foutmelding. Vanuit het perspectief van de gebruiker krijgt die alleen een witte pagina te zien, dat lijkt me ook niet “up”.

Maar ik heb er alle vertrouwen in dat Ted het kan fixen als ie de kans krijgt.

You’d have to ask a real expert, I’m more of what you’d call an armchair expert.

As I understand it, horses are a species that can be domesticated. That means with relatively benign actions (intensives with food, corrections with hitting with a paddle or small whip) the animal can be made to do what you want it to do. And usually once a horse is domesticated, they will stay that way and won’t become aggressive. However this isn’t universal, not all equine species can be domesticated, it’s just that humans only keep the most useful around. We’ve also done so for so long, selective breeding is probably a huge factor in this. Horses can be dangerous as well, but far less so than bears. A horse can throw a human, kick or step on them, but usually that’s not enough to kill someone. Bears can do anything a horse can and on top of that they are usually bigger, have sharp teeth and sharp claws. Another aspect is probably that horses are prey animals where bears are predators and pretty high up in the food chain at that. Bears probably hunted humans, before humans invented stuff like fences and fire and stuff.

Bears can’t be domesticated, they can only be scared so much they will obey. The techniques used are usually very brutal, with a significant amount of animals not even surviving the process. They won’t ever truly obey, only when they are afraid. So they will be abused continually, to keep them afraid. And even then, when the animal sees an opportunity to strike back or see something as prey, they will act upon that instinct.

But in the end I personally don’t think humans have the right to domesticate any kind of animal and raising something living with the express purpose of using/abusing/consuming them is morally incorrect. So in that case there is no difference between a horse and a bear. But from my experience with people who hold horses these days, they are more like pets, being loved and cared for rather than working animals. So it is a spectrum and bears are more on very much not OK side as compared to horses.

Because they are wild animals that don’t lend to domestication very well. All so called “tame” bears have been tortured to get them to behave. And even then they don’t always behave and leads to them getting killed because they are too dangerous. On top of that, they are so large and powerful, they can easily kill or severely injure humans by accident.

Domesticated bears is animal abuse and outlawed in most of the world.

So what was the point of the trade deal if the orange fucker still uses tariffs as a threat?

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I feel it’s a vaguely Australian term?

I got shingles at 40 and it was terrible. They don’t vaccinate people who are that “young” for shingles here. I was sick for weeks, it was brought on by stress from a surgery I had removing a tumor (luckily lab test confirmed not cancer). I was recovering from the surgery and the shingles hit my face. I had immense pain and high fever for weeks. The doctors did what they could, but set me down for the talk. I was most likely going to lose at least one eye and might lose both, I should prepare to go blind and be disabled for the rest of my life.

Turns out in my misfortune I was actually lucky, I didn’t end up losing an eye. My vision in one eye did degrade a little bit, but it was at above 130% of perfect before (probably even better, but they don’t bother testing beyond that). The right eye had issues for a bit, but in the end returned back to perfect vision. In my experience worse than it was, but still very good.

So imagine me laying in bed, super high fever, worst pain I’ve felt in my life and all the while waiting for the lab results to figure out if the tumor they removed was actually cancer. I might go blind and I might have cancer. Worst few weeks of my life right there.

Afterwards I was a lot better, but still had terrible nerve pains. It started as a tingle where I had scarring from the shingles blisters, then intensify into full pain. Over the years it has gotten better, sometimes it gets irritated or hurts a bit, but mostly it’s fine. I wouldn’t wish shingles on my worst enemy, that shit is hell.

Interesting point. I don’t really know what would be fair.

On the one hand you are right, if someone puts in a lot of time and effort to create a book. And it becomes a hit and gets a movie deal, I do believe they should be rewarded for that.

On the other hand, out of the tens of thousands of books written each year how many get turned into a movie? 1 or 2 maybe on average? And how much of the book is in the movie? I’ve both read Mickey7 and seen Mickey17. And while they both have some things in common, they are basically completely different stories. Should we really compromise the rules for everyone because of this very rare exception?

And I also feel like movies are caught in a slump the past years, with very few original stories being made. All remakes, reboots and super hero crap. If more stories were available for free use, how much would that influence new story creation? Very hard to say really.

As with all art, nothing is made in a vacuum. Everything builds on each other, everything is influenced by other things. I can’t help but thing about what the community did with 3D printing once the patents expired. Having stuff available to use can only be a good thing right?

But I don’t really know, you make a very good point. In a world where all kinds of art gets devalued all the time, I feel like we should celebrate artists and the art they make. I like to fuck around with creating my own art in my free time and have made stuff for friend and family. Even sold series of hundreds of units in the past. But it’s not my day job and I consider myself an absolute amateur. Maybe if UBI was a thing, it would be the thing I put most of my time into.

I hate our world revolves around money and capitalism. It leads to difficult situations like this one, where copyright holds us back and mostly benefits large mega corps. But on the other hand, we must support artists for everything they do.

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I’m sorry that happened to you. Being blinded by all mirrors is impressive, but I can imagine the kind of truck that does so.

You might want to check if your side mirrors aren’t set wrong. They should be angled down a little, no sense in looking at the sky through them. This helps to prevent you from being blinded through the side mirrors. For the main rear view mirror there should be this little toggle on the bottom. With this toggle you can quickly flip the mirror down to a second shaded mirror. This way you can still use the mirror, but not get blinded by it. I don’t know if all cars have this, but my old cheap car in the 80s had it, so I think it’s pretty standard. My current car, and presumably a lot of modern cars, has a auto darkening feature. When there is a chance of being blinded, it auto darkens uniformly, just like a welding shield. This helps a lot.

My advice if you get annoyed by other people whilst driving, is to stay calm and focus on yourself and your own driving. Be sure you drive safe, look out for other people in the road you might have missed due to being distracted by other assholes. Do everything you can to not let it get to you and make the roads safer for everyone.

It’s actually very important for headlights to not be diffuse. As their job is the very specifically throw light dozens of meters away in a very selective cone. The idea is to light up only the road and nothing else. Headlights usually achieve this by having multiple sets of lights inside. There are the main beams that light up the road in the distance. Wider broad beams (usually achieved with a lens) are used that light up more area near the car. This helps a lot with lighting up road sings and such. There’s also side beams that light up the sides of the roads. Depending on the exact sort of headlights, there can be even more. Like smart lasers that selectively highlight some stuff.

If one were to just blast diffuse light in all directions, it would not light up nearly as much of the road ahead. Which means they would need to be way more bright in order to do their job. At the same time they would blast out light in useless directions, wasting energy. And would make people getting blinded by lights even worse as all that light that would otherwise be pointed down, point straight into people’s eyes. But not just in the oncoming directions, but in all directions.

A diffuse light is good for being seen, but not good for lighting up a specific area. A directed not diffuse light is hard to see, except from the one direction, but is very good at lighting stuff up.

The issue with most car lights has nothing to do with the lights or the cars. It’s the idiots driving them. So many headlights are set way too high or not aligned at all. People often intentionally set them higher, because it helps them see, but hurts everyone around them. Another issue is the amount of light being put out is way too much. In the past, the amount of light would be pretty low, so people’s eyes would adjust and letting them see everything. However with more street lights being placed to help safety and these street lights also using leds and becoming brighter, it was harder for people to adjust to the light and thus needed more light for themselves. It’s like an arms race where we keep adding more and more light, which is terrible for everyone (including nature). In the end it’s lack of regulation that hurts the most. Brighter wider lights sell better, because people driving like them for the better vision it offers. Even people that get annoyed at being blinded by others. If people like them, it drives up sales, so cars get designed with brighter headlights. Same for cars getting bigger and bigger. And those bigger cars have the headlights higher, increasing the issue as well. Market drives into lunacy.

I fucking hate cars, get blinded by headlights all the time and think something should be done. But diffusing the lights is definitely not the solution.

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Also this length should be at most 25 years and 10-15 years is better. These 75+ year copyrights are total BS.

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She was a pretty good Starbuck, but nothing comes close to Dirk Benedict to me. Hearing the name Starbuck instantly pops in an image of Dirk in his uniform, jacket unbuttoned, smoking a stogie and gambling.

Probably because I’m old.

Alexander Skarsgård carried that show so hard. If it weren’t for his excellent performance I would have given up for sure.

It’s because GPT5 was such a disappointment.

Partly because they hyped it up beyond belief and partly because the results are actually bad. GPT3 to 4 was a big step up and with all the marketing people expected 4 to 5 to be just as big of a step. It turned out to be mostly a step sideways and in many aspects even a step back. Energy consumption is rumoured to be up, hallucinations are up and user experience is way down. At the same time all of the very public and high profile promises made are being broken and for a change people actually noticed.

The sentiment in the market was down for a while, but GPT5 release really kicked everything into high gear. Earlier people were disapointed “AI” didn’t live up to the hype. Regular folks use it all the time as a replacement search engine, because Google had gotten so bad. But in businesses adoption was slow and where it was used the gains promised weren’t seen. If the product was given away for free, people would use it, but even modestly paid subscriptions weren’t taking off. But people thought: Hey, this is just the current level of tech, the next level is going to be so much better and improve a lot right? GPT5 proved that wasn’t really true, so people lost faith fast.

LLM system are rapidly running into diminishing returns with larger models not yielding better results and sometimes even worse results. They also run into the issue they’ve poisoned the well. They used to train on data from the internet, but with the internet being flooded by output from older AI models, it’s eating it’s own shit. That’s really bad for the performance of the newer models. Especially on things like coding and such, where it relies on code examples to produce new code. With Stackoverflow dying due to a lot of things, but AI being a big factor, there isn’t as much of that as there used to be. Same for other stuff on the internet, once you kill the internet that great source of data is lost.

Now I don’t think it’s as worse (or good depending on your point of view) as some articles make it out to be. Many companies still see AI as the infinite money well the marketing claims it to be. A lot of people use it all the time, even though they’ve had negative experiences with it. But it’s somewhat good to see some reality seeping in here and there.

I fully expect the shit to hit the fan and the bubble to burst in a catastrophic way. This will be bad, way worse than when the dotcom bubble burst. It’s not going to be good for anyone. But better it burst soon than keep pumping it up further.

Genuinely hate everything that’s going on right now

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