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are there any plans to support providing functions for local models that support it? i.e. functionary-7b? there is some support for this in the server provided by llama-cpp-python which also follows the openai schema.
Comment · 3 years ago
this game came at just the right time in my life. i related to it to such an extent at that low point that at times i felt it was created for me. i even share a name with the protagonist (out of body experience when you hear your name spoken in-game for the first time). in any case, i'm doing better, but having revachol to escape to was a life-saver.

i still play the whirling-in-rags morning theme whenever i'm down.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
congratulations on 14
Comment · 3 years ago
i'm in more or less exactly the same boat, only i got diagnosed officially with adhd yesterday and wont receive any medication for a few weeks. hoping it's not a misdiagnosis and life becomes a little easier.
Comment · 3 years ago
i've been using nix for a few years and i finally understand flakes now. thank you!
Comment · 3 years ago
I mean, you can definitely go back, there's just friction to doing so and it won't happen unless you are intentional about it. Might be more accurate to say you can go back, but it will never be the same now that you've had the veil pulled back on how things are being coordinated behind the scenes.
Comment · 3 years ago
I remember reading this many years ago. It didn't mean much to me at the time. It hits an awful lot harder a decade later.
Comment · 3 years ago
tbf I can't imagine a phone with as much functionality being as cheap as the base price - even in the UK, 250 GBP ish for a semi-decent android with a physical keeb is weirdly low for the nice in which it lives. i'm sure ebay has cheaper but i daren't look.

in fact you could have mine for 100 GBP - I've realised how little I use it - harry @ skh . am if you are interested.

Comment · 3 years ago
Thank you for this clarification - I don't think I ever read Invasion (despite reading relative dross like Frolix) - so I might revisit.
Comment · 3 years ago
more than a decade ago the running joke in our house was to set the bathroom light to bright red just as someone had snuck off to take a shit. not a hack but still, hilarious.

got even funnier at house parties where people on various psychedelics did not know what had just happened.

Comment · 3 years ago
When I say "Hey Google, turn off all the lights" and it says "Okay, turning 55 lights off" I always recoil. No significant regrets, though.

The app was awful a few years ago but they took the feedback in stride and made something responsive and usable (lots of headroom for improvement but I can't overstate how bad the app was on launch).

Comment · 3 years ago
On holding these conflicting beliefs:

"I can just picture myself being examined by a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist says, “What year is it?” And I reply, “A.D. 50.” The psychiatrist blinks and then asks, “And where are you?” I reply, “In Judaea.” “Where the heck is that?” the psychiatrist asks. “It’s part of the Roman Empire,” I would have to answer. “Do you know who is President?” the psychiatrist would ask, and I would answer, “The Procurator Felix.” “You’re pretty sure about this?” the psychiatrist would ask, meanwhile giving a covert signal to two very large psych techs. “Yep,” I’d replay. “Unless Felix has stepped down and had been replaced by the Procurator Festus. You see, Saint Paul was held by Felix for —” “Who told you all this?” the psychiatrist would break in, irritably, and I would reply, “The Holy Spirit.” And after that I’d be in the rubber room, inside gazing out, and knowing exactly how come I was there. Everything in that conversation would be true, in a sense, although palpably not true in another. I know perfectly well that the date is 1978 and that Jimmy Carter is President and that I live in Santa Ana, California, in the United States. I even know how to get from my apartment to Disneyland, a fact I can’t seem to forget. And surely no Disneyland existed back at the time of Saint Paul.

So, if I force myself to be very rational and reasonable, and all those other good things, I must admit that the existence of Disneyland (which I know is real) proves that we are not living in Judaea in A.D. 50. The idea of Saint Paul whirling around in the giant teacups while composing First Corinthians, as Paris TV films him with a telephoto lens — that just can’t be. Saint Paul would never go near Disneyland. Only children, tourists, and visiting Soviet high officials ever go to Disneyland. Saints do not."

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