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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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i dont see it. ill never stop considering a dummy terminal 'no local processing'.
many LLMs are moving to a locally processed version requiring far less memory usage/processor requirements than the bigger versions.. thats not going to just evaporate. lots of people dont trust cloud compute.
No telling for sure, I don't write the terminology. Some changes have actually been good changes, like when they decided to stop designating PATA hard drives as master/slave and started using primary/secondary instead.
But think about the newer generation that has never seen a true dumb terminal before, they have no concept of no local processing. So it won't surprise me a bit if the newer generation starts asking questions like 'Does it have Artificial Intelligence? No? Well it must be a dumb system then'...
yeah, but i only swim in technical circles and ive never, ever heard a general compute device referred to as 'dummy'. ever. not even machines that only run an app that connects to a mainframe essentially turning into a dummy.
that said, im old. i had a rather technical coworker ask me for clarification when i made a napster reference. the young determine the language.
now get off my lawn.
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