I had it running on Windows (no container) a while back. Wasn’t particularly difficult at that time, at least.

Can’t give any advice here though, since all we’ve been given to work with is an OS.

You’re in luck! The book I’ve generally heard recommended to beginners for Python is available for free online!

100%. To be honest I don’t even use this “trick” anymore myself because like 60% of the links are inaccessible now.

It’s incredibly sad that they destroyed such a great resource, that place was like the Wikipedia of opinions.

I feel like Aaron 100% would have backed Lemmy.

(Edit: Not that I or anyone can speak for him, obviously.)

For the record, the real trick is to add “site:reddit.com”. But as the site decays over time that will sadly become less useful.

Haha well that’s uhh…

Ngl that’s a interesting idea. Would definitely want it running locally, though.

I think I’d be okay up until you pulled intellisense, at which point I would literally deflate like a balloon.

Just went to look for it, and looks like they were all deleted from that post after I called it out, thankfully.

Saw a post here on Lemmy the other day where the replies were very obviously from ChatGPT. That’s when I knew the internet was over.

I used to have to put !g (redirect to Google) on like half my searches to get the results I wanted. These days, I actually generally prefer DDG’s results over Google’s.

I wonder how much of this idea that you can be “too old to learn” came from the advent of schooling and childhood education. Like, in a time before everyone went to school up until a certain age, did people still have this mindset?

Regarding the TTS specifically, I remember looking into TorToiSeTTS back when this stuff was first coming out. You can generate ElevenLabs quality audio with it, but it’s insanely slow. In fact, when I was looking into it, it seemed like ElevenLabs may have been using a (much faster at the time) version of TorToiSe TTS, given the output is so similar.

According to the linked Github page, they seem to have solved the speed issues now, so it might be worth looking into. Of course, the other commenters have provided solutions that are pre-integrated into the LLM, but if you’re just looking for TTS this could be worth checking out. Also worth noting that this requires an NVIDIA GPU.

Some people seem to be more concerned with this study “feeling” correct more than it actually being verifiably correct.

Was going to say this same thing to back you up. We can’t both defend this “obvious” study by saying “it’s good to have data to back it up!” And then simultaneously argue against having data because it’s “too obvious”.

I completely agree, a study like this is as good as worthless without disclosing the list of words, or the methodology used for testing words (if they are stored in a latent space rather than a list, for example).

Honestly, before now, this is what I had implicitly assumed was going on. I’m not American, and I had blocked most of this trash when it was happening, but my impression was that these ignorant people were just “coming out of the woodwork” so to speak.

Of course, fear and hate are learned behaviors, but it’s interesting to me to see that these people were actually being quantifiably radicalized by that website in particular, and they weren’t simply bringing views to the platform that were being established elsewhere.

It’s true. I even live in a place where the “Software Engineer” title actually does require a special designation, and I’m a “Software Engineer”, and I have no such designation, so there’s that.

People might be more familiar with this viral picture as well, if not the name.

“Margaret Hamilton shown in 1969 standing beside listings of the software developed by her and her team for the Apollo program’s Lunar Module and Command Module.”

This is largely semantic, and highly subjective, but to me “Engineer” implies more design, architecture, and planning (ie, meetings).

A Senior “Developer” would imply more day-to-day coding to me. Not that companies care what I think, of course.

Not to turn this into a sociology discussion, but for anyone unaware: this is a fairly common pattern.

Women often pioneer fields like this, but as soon as it becomes seen as something “important” out “respectable” then suddenly it becomes male dominated.

The opposite also happens, where as society deems something as unimportant, a male dominated field will become female dominant - see teaching for an unfortunate example of a field that used to be highly paid and respected, and is now largely looked down on.

Sorry, don’t mean to go off on a tangent - it just bugs me and I think more people should be aware of it.