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White People Have Never Forgiven Haitians for Claiming Their Freedom in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Oh shit, we haven't? Do I... do I have to start saying stuff about eating pets?

Why is there so much hype around artificial intelligence? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

When ChatGPT first started to make waves, it was a significant step forward in the ability for AIs to sound like a person. There were new techniques being used to train language models, and it was unclear what the upper limits of these techniques were in terms of how "smart" of an AI they could produce. It may seem overly optimistic in retrospect, but at the time it was not that crazy to wonder whether the tools were on a direct path toward general AI. And so a lot of projects started up, both to leverage the tools as they actually were, and to leverage the speculated potential of what the tools might soon become.

Now we've gotten a better sense of what the limitations of these tools actually are. What the upper limits of where these techniques might lead are. But a lot of momentum remains. Projects that started up when the limits were unknown don't just have the plug pulled the minute it seems like expectations aren't matching reality. I mean, maybe some do. But most of the projects try to make the best of the tools as they are to keep the promises they made, for better or worse. And of course new ideas keep coming and new entrepreneurs want a piece of the pie.

Sound cutoff issues in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That does seem to at least help. It seems to be harder to trigger the problems with higher values. I could still get it to happen with the quant at 2048, but I had to really work at it.

I notice that the + Firefox line seems to show up with a quant of 900 even when the minimum value is higher than that? That seems weird.

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Sound cutoff issues (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello! I'm pretty new to pop_os and linux, but am trying to switch over from windows. I've been having some sound issues where it seems like sounds get cut off. It seems to most noticeable with something like doing duolingo from my browser (lots of short sound clips of words and such; if I click on words quickly, then spotify playing in the background will stop playing briefly). I've tried disabling sleep, as described by https://support.system76.com/articles/audio/, without luck. I've also noticed that I see errors listed in pw-top which sometimes correspond to sounds getting cut off. That is, sometimes I notice a cutoff without seeing an increase in the number of errors, but when I notice an increase in the number of errors it usually corresponds to something getting cut off.

Is there a way to see what the errors from pw-top are? Or suggestions for other things I should look into? I've looked at dmesg and systemctl status --user pipewire.service (and pipewire-pulse) but the only error I see is a nvidia-drm thing which seems to be innocuous. I've also uploaded my alsa-info results, if that's useful.

Japan says Chinese military violated territorial airspace for first time in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

Is this the Simpsons approach? "I'm just going to fire my chain guns like this, and if you get shot down it's your own fault!"

What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Two spaces after periods.

Could Donald Trump lose Florida? Poll sparks warning about Kamala Harris in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (7 children)

The winner of the popular vote within the state wins the state's electoral votes. And Florida has a sizeable number of electrical votes.

Should the Harris campaign co-opt this t-shirt? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

"Don't elect the other guy" campaigning is strongly incentivized by first past the post voting, unfortunately. Not that that's the sole cause, but... it's certainly not helping.

RFK Jr. Doesn't Deny Alleged Sexual Assault of Babysitter: 'I Am Not a Church Boy' in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 79 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Doesn't take a "church boy" to not assault someone, dipshit.

Washington man arrested after fatally shooting teen who had BB gun in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean, going from this example it seems like everyone should be afraid of good guys with guns.

What's an unusual but excellent food combo you've tried? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

I had a cherry chutney hamburger at a restaurant somewhere in Missouri. I ordered it because I thought it was a weird combo. IT WAS DELICIOUS.

NTSB releases report on Baltimore bridge collapse in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Maybe. But can it be configured to power the ship? If so why wasn't it?

NTSB releases report on Baltimore bridge collapse in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

S'pose that's fair. It does seem odd that the report would say the generator was "not configured" to power the ship, rather than not capable of it.