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drahardja

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Software since 1998. Ex-Apple. I smushed AppKit and UIKit together and never looked back.

Black lives matter. Trans lives matter. LGBT+ rights are human rights. Healthcare, security, a decent income, and housing with dignity are human rights. Abortion is healthcare. Science is our best hope as a species. Kindness and empathy are the noblest of human traits.

I block assholes and bigots.

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drahardja, to random
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I remember operating it at a tech expo in Singapore, where some French folks were demonstrating it.

It’s really cool! The service had bulletin boards and chat rooms and everything you expected. https://mastodon.social/@JoBlakely/112498975046015192

drahardja, to random
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A Brit just explained to me that a lot of homeownership in England is based on a leasehold arrangement, where you own your house, but RENT the land from a landowner. When the lease expires, the land AND THE HOUSE IT CONTAINS reverts to the landowner, even if you’ve paid for it. While leases can be extended basically indefinitely, it is possible for it to lapse and for landowners to seize the house that YOU BUILT for zero money.

Can someone confirm this? If true, that is…landlording and “generational passive income” taken to a WHOLE new level.

drahardja,
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@skinnylatte I’m aware of that (and I brought it up to said Brit friend) but the main difference is that the land belongs to the government (and thus the taxpayers) in Singapore, but it belongs to Some Bloke in England, which I think is Feudal and insane.

drahardja,
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@jonhendry That’s pretty awful.

drahardja,
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@sandhu Many times it’s a (borderline money-laundering) scheme called a leaseback. They did that to Red Lobster. RL owned the land their restaurants stood on, but the Private Equity firm made them sell that land to them, and had the restaurant chain lease the land back from them. In effect, the PE firm both got prime land, and also collected rent from their own companies, transferring capital out of RL into their own pockets.

drahardja,
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@deirdresm @kyozou That’s incredible

drahardja, to macos
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Why is it so hard to have my Mac mini consistently appear on Finder via #ZeroConf #Bonjour? Half the time the computer isn’t visible, and there’s no amount of flushcache or killing mDNSResponder or Finder that brings it back. I wait many minutes with my Finder open and…it spontaneously comes back? WTF?

So flaky. #macOS #apple

drahardja,
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@stevenodb Yeah and some other devices do too (including my Windows machine!). I think the fact that the mini is the machine I connect to the most (it holds my Time Machine backup among other things) makes its entry churn the most on my MBP. Maybe my MBP gets confused when it uses a different access point or connects via Ethernet and dedups the mini against a previous entry from another interface.

drahardja,
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@stevenodb Yes

drahardja, to llm
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There was a paper shared recently about the exponential amount of training data to get incremental performance gains in #llm #ai, but I seem to have misplaced it. Do you know what I’m referring to? Mind sharing the link if you have it?

drahardja, to random
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Hahaha #Geminidiot

jacqueline, to random
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check this out

it's the same device, but now it's lying on a table. it's off. you can see some of the buttons and the sd card slot on the side.

drahardja,
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@jacqueline 😍😍

titociuro, to random
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He’s clearly bored. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/elon-musks-xai-plans-to-build-gigafactory-of-compute-by-fall-2025-using-100000-nvidias-h100-gpus

drahardja,
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@titociuro Looking for the next grift

drahardja, to random
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HAHAHA

thomasfuchs, to random
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Wonder how long it will take for “to google something” to disappear from the language…

…or maybe it will take up a meaning of “utterly destroying a useful thing for sheer greed”.

drahardja,
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@thomasfuchs “Too bad that company googled itself” used to describe a company that changed their most successful product and made everyone hate it.

drahardja, to random
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Agreed, except for “summarization” of text that I haven’t read (e.g. “summarize this financial report for me”), because there is no way to tell if the summary is accurate and does not omit important elements.

I think Microsoft Copilot for helping coders has legs. Coding problems tend to be the same set of queries repeated over and over, with slight variations in theme: perfect for LLMs. https://cleverdevil.club/@jonathan/112504327461154045

drahardja,
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@bgrinter @jonathan Most of what I’m looking for when I ask for AI programming advice is the shape of my solution, not the solution itself. Of course it remains to be seen if AI coding help can keep up with API changing all the time, or if it will keep recommending deprecated patterns.

drahardja, to random
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#Geminidiot https://discuss.systems/@ricci/112493860798864416

drahardja, to random
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HAHAHA

drahardja,
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@qurlyjoe Paleolithic religious ritual!

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We need a hashtag for these. I suggest #Geminidiot https://mastodon.social/@OiskaE/112494643820731928

drahardja, to ai
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Fucked up.

#ai

“Arizona lawmaker uses ChatGPT to help craft legislation to combat deepfakes”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/arizona-lawmaker-uses-chatgpt-help-craft-deepfake-legislation-rcna153432

drahardja, to ai
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So a German magazine decided to run an “interview” with Michael Schumacher, in which Schumacher’s “responses” were fabulations generated entirely by #AI.

The real Michael Schumacher sustained a brain injury in 2013 and has not recovered.

The Schumacher family sued the magazine and won a settlement. But the fact that this story ran at all is beyond dumbfounding.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/michael-schumachers-family-gets-settlement-after-fake-ai-interview

marioguzman, to random
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sigh

I’ve already had to get my windshield on my new #Prius fixed because it got a small crack from a rock while driving on the freeway.

The guy who fixed it told me I better get used to it. The car is really low to the ground and because the windshield is super slanted, it has a much larger surface area — which means more area to get hit by road debris.

Luckily I didn’t have to pay for the fix 😊

drahardja,
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@marioguzman Ah, the vagaries of low cars in a world of gigantic SUVs. I have a couple of cars that are low, and I am very aware of flying debris when driving them, especially on highways. I’m especially aware of dump trucks, which have cost me two windshields so far. I now strategically use tall cars to shield me from dump truck debris.

In any case, I recommend putting paint protection film over the front and top of the car at least (I just PPF the whole thing). In the end, I consider the windshield a consumable item and replace it every few years.

drahardja, to random
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I’m looking forward to a day when diamond surfaces can be made as cheaply as Gorilla Glass, and diamond jewelry as cheap as cubic zirconia.

Aluminum was once incredibly expensive to mine too, and now they’re ubiquitous and cheap, thanks to the invention of the Bayer process in the late 1800s.

I hope diamond goes the same way. At least it will stop the inhumane treatment of diamond mine workers.

“Scientists grow diamonds from scratch in 15 minutes thanks to groundbreaking new process”

https://www.livescience.com/chemistry/scientists-grow-diamonds-from-scratch-in-15-minutes-thanks-to-groundbreaking-new-process

drahardja,
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@pjakobs I’m not a diamond expert, but my understanding is that industrial diamonds are still expensive to make, mainly because they need high pressures, and large particles are still very costly.

The breakthrough in this paper is that they can now do the same process at atmospheric pressure, which opens up the process to way more producers at lower prices.

The path to affordable jewelry-sized chunks is still a ways out, I think, but we are moving in that direction.

De Beers can eat shit and die, as far as I’m concerned. The sooner, the better.

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