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I've been trying to get custom tools to work with Ollama.

I thought I had a very reasonable, simple goal:

• Use one of the Ollama models that fit into 16GB VRAM
• Give the LLM a list of very simple tools
• Use a prompt that requires at least two tool calls

My first attempt was extending a C#/SemanticKernel demo. It defined some tools for: get the current time, get the alarm, set the alarm, get the light state, turn the lights on or off.

My two (separate) prompts for the LLM were "get the current time and set the alarm to the hours:minutes of that time" and "check if the lights are on. if they are on, turn them off, otherwise turn them on" (not word for word, I experimented with the promp

Around that time, I heard that Netflix had publicly changed their mission statement from something like "We make everyone's favorite shows" to "We make the shows that everyone's watching" (don't remember the exact words).

That's a huge difference. That's the difference between Dark and a million low-budget reality shows and pseudoscience "documentaries".

I was also angry at their decision to go after account sharing, since I was sharing mine with my parents. I chose to stay subscribed because she got really into K-Dramas, but personally I didn't get another account to watch anything myself.

Even if Netflix produced something that isn't "second screen compatible" low-effort garbage, I woul

I've always hated Facebook all the way back to Zuckerberg's "Dumb fucks" comment. Lost interest in Oculus when they were bought by Facebook. Thanks to some lapse in judgement I convinced myself that getting a Quest 3 was okay since you only need a Meta account. It's not.

I don't think Valve is perfect either, but compared to many other tech companies it's the sanest one around, especially for not having to answer to short-term investors.

I'm getting the Deckard day one and then I'll have the difficult decision of whether to sell the Quest or throw it in the trash.

I've started experimenting with VR game development, and I'm not entirely sure how to get into some sort of workflow that doesn't kill my focus.

I'm not a pro, and I'm relatively new to modern game development, but this is how I imagine a "normal" workflow when creating maps and programming behaviors etc:

Make some changes, run the game, repeat. Most engines will even let you change a lot of things in the editor while the game is running.

But with VR it's not that simple:

Make some changes, put on the headset, if it's wireless it might have to wake up from standby, the runtime might start to flicker some screens, run the game, take off the headset. Changing anything while the game is run

The negative reception of the wedding arc made me think. What exactly was everyone expecting? And why?

The only difference of this arc compared to any other, was that we were expecting it to happen for a few (real, not in-universe) years. Maybe I missed something, but that's it. No big announcement from Jeph that it'll rock our socks off. No post saying "My Netflix movie deal fell through, so I'll be integrating its plot into the regular webcomic". But everyone still seems disappointed and keeps complaining. Not just the "main" subreddit (that's what they do) even this one.

I have a theory.

I've been following QC for around a decade, maybe more. The first time I started deep in the archiv

I'm planning on getting a Steam Deck, and I wonder whether it could replace my media center PC. Selling that would offset the cost a bit...

I currently have a Ryzen 7 5700G - while the CPU is faster than the SD, the GPU is comparable. I can easily stream youtube 4K, 60fps, HDR. What are your experiences with streaming at that resolution? I can't find much - one review mentioned frequent dropped frames. It's hard to search because all I get are gaming benchmarks, not video decoding or streaming.

The image quality of PC VR on my Quest 3 is nothing like that of games running directly on the device.

Air link: Not great, some connectivity issues.

Steam link: Very bad image quality, some error happens like a heartbeat and then it seems to drop to 360p and recover until it happens again. The graph shows errors too. I have a fast router, 5ghz Wi-Fi 6, I also tried using the wifi antenna on my PC for a local hotspot so it's literally in sight of the quest.

Quest link via USB: That's what I use, but it also drops out once in a while, and the image quality is still worse than "native". I am using the 20GBit port on my mainboard and the app says it's okay. The image is still blotchy, to var

I feel like "don't recommend channel" etc doesn't work that well. If I even watch one video that is fine by itself but where the author has a dark past or part of the viewership is made up of idiots, I get tagged as a toxic idiot myself and am now entitled to an endless barrage of videos for toxic idiots.

Example: I've always been interested in Scientology as a dangerous modern cult. It's a fascinating story, and in the recent years more and more ex-Scientologists have been fighting back at what used to be the Voldemort of Hollywood.

It's also a rare bipartisan issue in the US. How do you unite the left and right against you? Forced abortions! The right takes issue with the "abortion" part

(Monotheistic) religions tell you there's an all-powerful being that really cares about what you think about it and will throw a temper tantrum if you think the wrong things or don't support it enough.

Laughable, right? Silly religious people.

Roko's Basilisk is a thought experiment proposing that a future omnipotent artificial intelligence could punish those who did not help bring about its existence by torturing them for eternity.

That sounds scientific and game-theorific! Oh no! I thought Pascal's wager ("Can't hurt to believe in God, nothing lost if he doesn't / I get to heaven if he does!") was stupid because I'm a smart atheist but the Basilisk idea won't let me sleep!

As with Pasc

I'm running Node-RED instances on Raspberry Pis and Linux VMs.

I keep having issues with exec nodes that don't behave the same way as running commands in a shell (like over SSH or in a terminal). For example, via ssh I can use "aplay test.wav" just fine, but in an exec node I need to specify the output device. Or some ffmpeg call to capture a webcam image fails only in the exec node.

In my example Node-RED is running as the same user as I used manually.

Is there some easy fix I can do so that the exec node behaves the same way? Some shell/environment stuff I might not know about? I just don't want to have to troubleshoot every time I use a simple linux command.