[-] calculuschild@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago

I get along with Autistics better, but mainly because we cope with social situations in a similar way.

In my case, we play a lot of board games and video games. We can socialize without requiring smalltalk or eye contact. If there is no such activity planned, we don't get together, and nobody is offended.

[-] calculuschild@lemm.ee 12 points 6 months ago

I got my PhD in engineering just fine. Had to push myself to make a few connections and meet regularly with my advisor, etc., but doing research was really well-suited to my hyper-focus tendencies.

However the opportunities I had tutoring/teaching did not appeal to me at all. I pulled it off, and I enjoyed sharing my knowledge and being the "expert" in a room full of freshman students, but I would be highly stressed all morning in anticipation, and then out of commission for the rest of the day.

So, I opted to move into industry mainly to remove the expectation of teaching regular courses and the dependency on networking to successfully claim grant funding and collaborate with other academics. (Also money)

Several autistic-spectrum friends also left academia but stayed in research in some form, and are doing really well. A couple stayed in academia. One is doing great, and the other basically destroyed his marriage due to the stress.

Probably depends a lot on the specific responsibilities of your chosen academic field as well as your individual point on the spectrum.

[-] calculuschild@lemm.ee 8 points 6 months ago

Illustrator supports webp for a couple years now.

[-] calculuschild@lemm.ee 10 points 6 months ago

"Living fuels" as opposed to fossil fuels?

[-] calculuschild@lemm.ee 15 points 7 months ago

Pretty recently.

When the majority of people I grew up respecting decided to use their religion as an excuse to participate in or support a terrorist attack, a lot of things started unraveling pretty quickly. Turns out none of them actually cared about what Jesus wanted, but rather what that news station said.

With so many of my old friends and church leaders telling me hate was the answer, the cognitive dissonance didn't have any ground to stand on anymore.

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submitted 8 months ago by calculuschild@lemm.ee to c/foss@beehaw.org

I like todo lists, and I like time blocking so I can schedule out specific hours to work on each task. However I have yet to find an app that combines these cleanly.

Features I am looking for:

  • Todo list that allows nested lists, and adding details to each item (due date, more detailed instructions, etc.)
  • Seamless integration with a calendar, so I can assign a given todo item to a date and time
  • Adjustable time durations. Not every task is exactly 1 hour.
  • Accessible and syncable across PC and Android,
  • Freeee....?

Nice to have:

  • Sync with Google Calendar/Tasks
  • Color-coding tasks
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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by calculuschild@lemm.ee to c/softwareoptions@lemmy.world

I like todo lists, and I like time blocking so I can schedule out specific hours to work on each task. However I have yet to find an app that combines these cleanly.

Features I am looking for:

  • Todo list that allows nested lists, and adding details to each item (due date, more detailed instructions, etc.)
  • Seamless integration with a calendar, so I can assign a given todo item to a date and time
  • Adjustable time durations. Not every task is exactly 1 hour.
  • Accessible and syncable across PC and Android,
  • Freeee....?

Nice to have:

  • Sync with Google Calendar/Tasks
  • Color-coding tasks
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Windows Live Gallery had a great Photo Fuse feature that allowed you to select multiple similar photos and be able to select which faces from each photo would be used in the final composite image. This was great for group photos where in every photo someone isn’t looking at the camera or blinking etc, as you can combine them all and select all the faces that are looking in the right direction. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-Zy4mLkEL4

Unfortunately, Windows Live Gallery is now unsupported and unavailable for download. Is there any software that has similar functionality (offline/online)? Preferably on Android so I can directly clean up my picture collection as I take the photos.

I know I could do this manually in something like photoshop, but that's not what I'm looking for.

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submitted 8 months ago by calculuschild@lemm.ee to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

Windows Live Gallery had a great Photo Fuse feature that allowed you to select multiple similar photos and be able to select which faces from each photo would be used in the final composite image. This was great for group photos where in every photo someone isn't looking at the camera or blinking etc, as you can combine them all and select all the faces that are looking in the right direction. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-Zy4mLkEL4

Unfortunately, Windows Live Gallery is now unsupported and unavailable for download. Is there any FOSS software that has similar functionality (offline/online)? Preferably on Android so I can directly clean up my picture collection as I take the photos.

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submitted 8 months ago by calculuschild@lemm.ee to c/foss@beehaw.org

Hoping this is on-topic. If not I can delete.

I own a couple of FOSS projects on Github, and have been toying with the idea of adding some kind of bounty to a few issues, since I do get a (small) amount of income via Patreon from which I'm happy to use to encourage contributions.

I'd rather keep things visible inside Github itself rather than hosting issues on yet another third-party site I would need to administer. I know there have been services like this in the past, but they seem to eventually stop paying out bounties and just disappear.

I've seen "boss.dev" showing up in my Google results and it looks to do what I want, but I'm skeptical since there seems to be no reviews or community around that tool.

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submitted 9 months ago by calculuschild@lemm.ee to c/foss@beehaw.org

I've collected quite a number of STL files for 3D printing, and realized I need some better way to catalogue them, because the default Windows explorer is starting to become burdensome. I'm looking for something that:

  • Shows a 3D preview I can rotate around to see the model
  • Allows me to sort into folders
  • Allows tagging with keywords for later searching
  • Snappy search

Maybe Windows already does this and I'm just not seeing it, but I feel like my collection is at the point where I need something dedicated, similar to a photo cataloguing tool (e.g. Google Photos) or a reference manager (e.g. Zotero/Mendeley).

Any good FOSS tool that does something like this? Or a generic "better file explorer"?

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submitted 11 months ago by calculuschild@lemm.ee to c/autism@lemmy.world

I am married and have a couple young kids. Recently late diagnosed at 31 years.

Surprise! Turns out the loud noises and random chaos that comes with kids sometimes leads me to a meltdown.

Usually, I can feel it coming on and go "hide" for 5 minutes in a dark room to reset myself and go back to being a helpful parent. Wife is very understanding and supportive.

The problem comes when we are out in public. I'm not always with my wife. Last week I took the kids on an outing, and wife was taking the opportunity to shop (fortunately nearby, but out of sight or earshot) while I played with the kids. One thing led to another and I pretty quickly found myself melting down with no way to stop it, and became basically paralyzed and barely able to keep the kids from getting lost, much less destroying everything in the store.

Luckily my wife answered her phone and was close enough to come help (about 15 minutes because she was in line to buy things), but with my kids I couldn't just abandon them and go "hide". But it took me a good hour to come back to reality without any good hiding place to reset myself.

I know this is a potentially dangerous situation for my kids, and quite unfair for my wife to have to come save me all the time, but unavoidable sometimes. Any tips to prevent/delay a meltdown in critical situations like this? I can't use earbuds in this case like I usually would because I need to be able to hear my kids.

Edit: I had no idea I might be on the spectrum until after having kids. I suspect growing up in a very mellow family and then living mostly alone afterward isolated me enough from triggering situations and social interactions in general I just didn't connect the dots.

[-] calculuschild@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago

Yep, if you liked the author, Project Hail Mary by the same guy has very similar vibes. Optimistic scientist dude stuck in space using science in creative ways to save the day.

[-] calculuschild@lemm.ee 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

My understanding is most NSFW posts are hidden by default unless you are logged in; if you are just visiting that instance directly and aren't logged in with an account there and changed your settings to view NSFW content it's gonna look pretty empty.

[-] calculuschild@lemm.ee 13 points 11 months ago

Just finished Doom 2016. Runs smooth as silk, and the controls are great. Just starting Hollow Knight now.

[-] calculuschild@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago

What are they getting income from? Are they wanting to run ads on your instance or something?

[-] calculuschild@lemm.ee 13 points 11 months ago

It's a newer image file format. You could think of it as a "better" version of a GIF or PNG. It compresses to a smaller file size with better quality, so lots of sites are using it now to speed up image loading without sacrificing quality.

[-] calculuschild@lemm.ee 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The problem is they aren't comparing apples to apples. They asked each version of GPT a different pool of questions. (Edited my post to make this clear).

Once you ask them the same questions, it becomes clear that ChatGPT isn't getting worse at math, because it has been terrible all along.

[-] calculuschild@lemm.ee 58 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

My understanding is this claim is basically entirely false. The tests done by these researchers had some glaring errors that when corrected, show gpt-4 is getting slightly better at math, if anything. See this video that describes some of the issues: https://youtu.be/YSokS2ivf7U

TL;DR The researchers gave new GPT questions from two different pools. It's no surprise they got worse answers.

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