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dgoldsmith

@dgoldsmith@mastodon.social

Started in #physics, landed in #computers. Flipping bits since 1971. Software Engineer at a large tech company. I write #fanfiction in my nonexistent free time. Trans girl when JFK was President. San Francisco Bay Area.

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Cdespinosa, to random
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Do not ask a language model questions involving reasoning, factuality, or moral judgment. Language is a vehicle for those, but it is not the SOURCE of them. And there is an enormous amount of language in the public sphere that’s devoid of them—and that trained the models.

dgoldsmith,
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@Cdespinosa When I was younger I remember reading theories that the human facility of cognition is identical to our facility of language. I think we're seeing evidence now disproving that idea.

rubenbolling, to random
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I wrote on Boing Boing about quantum field theory and multiple universes. No big deal.
Physicist Sean Carroll and the Biggest Ideas in the Universe:
https://boingboing.net/2024/05/17/physicist-sean-carroll-and-the-biggest-ideas-in-the-universe.html

dgoldsmith,
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@rubenbolling Also a big fan of Carroll and his books (and podcast). As a very rusty ex-physicist (dropped out halfway through grad school with an MA) I suspect the debate over interpretations of QM may be settled by increasingly larger "Schrödinger Cat States”: macroscopic objects put into quantum superposition.(e.g. https://apple.news/AZQwoWZiGSNCWR6faczustA). At some point either this will fail, or it will become undeniable that there's no limits to quantum superposition.

drahardja, to TeslaMotors
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Matt Farrah of The Smoking Tire gave an honest and (therefore) devastatingly negative review of the #Cybertruck. Good on him. Every point he makes is spot-on (except maybe the chuckle-inducing post-Apocalypse truck argument).

#cars #carReview #tesla #ev

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC9a3GR1HJY

dgoldsmith,
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@drahardja The Edsel of the 21st Century.

Sheril, to random
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If you had the time to go back to school to study any field at no cost, what would you choose?

dgoldsmith,
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@Sheril I'd go back and finish my Physics Ph.D.

sundogplanets, to random
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Here comes a thread on light pollution from satellites, with a concrete action that you all can take to help push for regulation of satellites in orbit!

Astronomers have been worried about light pollution from satellites (if you've been following me for more than 24 hours, you've perhaps heard a bit about this). Astronomers spent SO much time and effort begging and pleading with Starlink to make their satellites fainter, with mixed results.

dgoldsmith,
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@sundogplanets Done!

christineburns, to random
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I can’t believe it. I went to use the PatientAccess app and suddenly, without much explanation, it wants me to CHOOSE and set up an authenticator app — making the service even harder to log in to than it already was. The NHS and its surrogates are so obsessed with security (far more than banks) to the extent they’re making their useless app, with almost zero functionality, practically unusable. Suppose I was in a panic to book an appointment? This is a huge senseless barrier to usability.

dgoldsmith,
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@christineburns I haven't tried it recently but I believe when you're in such a situation, you can just long-press the QR code shown on the phone and it will “scan it" from the image itself, then offer to add it to Passwords.

dgoldsmith,
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@christineburns That also works for any QR code, not just 2FA setup, I believe.

dgregor79, to random
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2021 me did a quick temporary hack to unblock a critical feature.

2024 me just tripped over it in the dark and fell flat on his face.

2024 me is not amused with 2021 me.

Gandalf saying “I have no memory of this place”

dgoldsmith,
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@dgregor79

dgoldsmith, to random
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Excellent thread shredding the bogus arguments in transphobic pseudoscience.
https://chaosfem.tw/@JoscelynTransient/112434854812460168

dgoldsmith, to random
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From @ErinInTheMorn:

Dr. Cass is a hit parade of right-wing mythology.

Opinion: No, Dr. Cass, Porn Will Not Make You Trans https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/opinion-no-dr-cass-porn-will-not

dgoldsmith, to climate
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From HEATED:

Pure propaganda. The laws of physics are immune to it.

Don’t fall for “climate-friendly” beef https://heated.world/p/dont-fall-for-climate-friendly-beef
#ClimateCrisis

dgoldsmith, to random
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@birb

http://assignedmale.tumblr.com/rss

dgoldsmith, to random
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@birb

https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/serious-trans-vibes/rss?title_no=206579

Cdespinosa, to random
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I take it there’s not a lot of action tonight?

dgoldsmith,
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@juandesant @Cdespinosa There's also https://www.spaceweather.gov (same data).

dgoldsmith, to random
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From @ErinInTheMorn:

Real scientists weigh in on gender-affirming care for trans youth. Care to wager on whether the mainstream media will even mention it?

Endocrine Society And American Academy Of Pediatrics Respond To Cass, Reject Bans https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/endocrine-society-and-american-academy

spocko, to random
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Me when I look in the mirror these days. .
#Superman

dgoldsmith,
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@spocko My standby:

End Jones GIF

MrAdamJohn, to ukteachers
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Is your and/or facing the cliff combined with other downward pressure? We could be facing a pivotal moment in as the landscape faces remarkable forces for/of change, across ( not just but including of course, with and ) and cultural shifts, politics generally, social-emotional development in Society, and so much more ... Here is the thing. It's going to work out. But put on your seatbelt, it might get a little bumpy.

dgoldsmith,
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@MrAdamJohn Hi, I think maybe you were meaning to contact someone else with this?

dgoldsmith,
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@MrAdamJohn I would prefer not to be involved, thank you.

dgoldsmith, to random
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You don't need to be optimistic to take bold action. You need to be determined. It's hard to be optimistic at this point—I think the climate is going to get substantially worse because we're being so slow—but we can be determined to keep fighting to stop the Carbon mafia from making things even worse.
https://mastodon.energy/@CarbonBubble/112416133032001066

dgoldsmith,
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It's possible both to feel despair and to be resolute.

JuliusGoat, to random
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eBook format of VERY FINE PEOPLE is now available for presale in all the eBook format places.

Also signed copies can be preordered now. Link for details.

https://www.the-reframe.com/vfp-e-book-now-available/

dgoldsmith,
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@JuliusGoat Not on Apple Books yet.

dgoldsmith,
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@JuliusGoat Thank you!

krzyzanowskim, to random
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I'm trying to find out why text layout takes 4s (TextKit2), that some editors makes in a fraction of second. then I see that NSTextLayoutFragment._layout takes all the credits, mostly thanks to private NSCoreTypesetter. Why the heck text layout is so slow in UIFoundation

dgoldsmith,
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@krzyzanowskim Could you please file a FB report with the sampling data you have?

dgoldsmith,
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@krzyzanowskim Is there another FB? Can you share the number with me?

dgoldsmith,
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@krzyzanowskim I was just looking to see if there's any information on the performance issue you're experiencing. I'll pass your page on. If you don't mind and have the time, could you write up a FB report with your performance data? If not that's OK.

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@krzyzanowskim Thank you!

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