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Husband of a smart, outspoken woman, father of two little girls. ❄️ Peace and quiet enthusiast. 💾 Node.js/Java/PHP dev. 🤗 He/him.🍹 Unfollowable. https://ninozaur.com

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pies, to random
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When people say "or" they often mean "xor".

SmudgeTheInsultCat, to random
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pies,
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@SmudgeTheInsultCat Avogadro, you sly frog.

thomasfuchs, to random
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Just sayin’ it’s nice to see one of the big AI players saying out loud what I’ve been saying: generative AI is fundamentally broken and cannot be fixed. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

https://futurism.com/the-byte/ceo-google-ai-hallucinations

pies,
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@GGMcBG @thomasfuchs Sundar is not an expert at AI. He's a manager. His role essentially is to manage the stock price.

blair_fix, to random
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The United Kingdom discovers the Jevons paradox.

As energy efficiency increased throughout the 20th century, so did energy consumption.

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2024/05/18/a-tour-of-the-jevons-paradox-how-energy-efficiency-backfires/

pies,
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@blair_fix I think your graph is drunk.

pies,
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@blair_fix Also, it can be explained by market efficiencies resulting from higher sales volume, no? Assuming your claim is that efficiency results in more use. I imagine a similar graph can be made for car sales vs fuel efficiency.

pies,
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@blair_fix I just don't see efficiency as a one way cause of increased consumption, I think they boost each other.

ramsey, to random
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Stuck in that loop of reading and rereading and rereading and rereading things I’ve written, even after clicking send/publish.

pies,
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@ramsey My Mastodon instance/client doesn't allow editing posts, which is kind of a blessing.

pies,
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@ramsey I don't even know if it was a decision :) I just get a 404 error message when I click "edit".

tjdraper, to random
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Any company right now: You want some AI?

Me: Not particularly, thanks

Company: Got it, here's a big huge heaping helping of AI

Me: No thank you please

Company: Make job go fast, do vroom vroom on your career:

Me: I don't really…

Company: We put AI IN YOUR FREAKING MOUSE DRIVERS CAN YOU BELIEVE IT

Me: Kinda but not really

Company: Here's AI tools for your software engineering

Me: These are really obtrusive and in my w…

COMPANY: YOU WILL LOVE OUR AI

Me: …

pies,
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@researchbuzz @tjdraper @neurovagrant To fool the hiring AI your future employer will use into thinking that you're active in your community.

pies,
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@tjdraper AI in most cases just means "better auto complete" and I think it's pretty useful as that. I use GitHub Copilot and it saves me some boring typing of lists etc.

fox, to random
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what do y’all use for taking notes on mac + ios? i’ve been through notes, simplenote, ai writer, obsidian, notion and none worked out for me. either too complex or too simple.

i love markdown, but i don't want to write in any specific syntax — it slows down jotting down stuff. also, lots of apps are janky.

pies,
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@fox Open unsaved tabs in Sublime. The stuff I want to keep goes into a git repository which I periodically commit and push to GitHub as backup.

pies,
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@fox For context, I've tried something like 5 specialized note taking apps, but I always come back to Sublime because of the versatility and editing features (multi-line editing, transposing lines up and down). A big downside is that it has no multi-device sync, so I use Google Docs if I need that.
But great thread, I might try a few of the suggestions, thanks.

saramg, to random
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Say it with me: The stock market is NOT a measure of prosperity.

https://mastodon.social/@BNONews/112458225671773261

pies,
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@saramg Its a measure of prosperity of the rentier class. Literally the less money people who work get, the more money rentiers extract.

fox, to random
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it’s hard to describe the feeling of coming back to where you lived most of your life only once a year.

what’s great though is seeing it grow and evolve, seeing new places, parks, coffee shops. you become a visiting explorer after being an inhabitant.

pies,
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@fox It can go the other way too, like when I visited my former primary school, which was much smaller :)

kottke, to random
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Google is replacing their search results with AI answers. There’s a very simple explanation for this: it’s better/cheaper to provide potentially wrong answers to keep you clicking within Google than it is to send you away for the right answers. https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/14/24155321/google-search-ai-results-page-gemini-overview

pies,
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@RichelleTrickel @kottke I'm pretty close to paying for Kagu.

grmpyprogrammer, to random
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How long until ChatGepetto starts including ads with it’s responses?

pies,
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@grmpyprogrammer Do you mean accepting advertising text from commercial entities as part of their training corpus, repeated to achieve ideal saturation?

eniko, to random
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as someone who has lived in both the US and EU i think the standard date formats are confusing as fuck and everyone should switch to ISO 8601 yyyy-mm-dd

pies,
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@IPmonger @eniko I think there are exceptions to the UTC rule, like anything in Polish should just show Polish time, otherwise it would be utterly confusing. Maybe timezone or UTC time on hover. Polish people are not used to timezones.

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Contrary to what I read on social media and in the mainstream press, when I think of the average software developer, I don't think of someone "moving fast and breaking things" in a cutting-edge tech start-up. I think of someone working in an established business on legacy systems that end users have come to rely on. Because that's what the vast majority of us actually do. Most software developers are in the distinctly not-cutting-edge business of keeping the proverbial lights on.

pies,
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@jasongorman All projects become either legacy or dead. I think inexperienced devs like to work on greenfield because they think it's easier and have the audacity to think it's possible to do it perfectly :)

aral, to random
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Folks: there’s no alternative to capitalism.

Capitalism: Hello! Today I created a potentially deadly new pandemic by feeding ground-up chicken shit and other poultry waste to cows because profit!

pies,
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@aral We really can't leave good enough alone. Now we need a badge on milk containers that specifies whether the cows were fed actual food or chicken shit? I feel like when I've noticed written on McDonalds packaging for an egg McMuffin "Made with real eggs!" Like wtf would it have been possibly made with instead? What's next, "This food product does not exceed the allowed percentage of rat droppings"?

grmpyprogrammer, to random
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This makes it feel like when my own lease is up at the end of October of next year the correct play is to get a different brand of EV/hybrid. It is rare to watch someone run their company into the ground in real-time https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112360392193527877

pies,
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@grmpyprogrammer There's choice now, Kia, Hyundai, Polestar etc.

Richard_Littler, to random
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I see he's reached 'Gulling the Gullible', chapter 2 of 'Big Con: The Right-Wing American Grifters Playbook'. If Jesus existed, he'd sue this unctuous, mock-spiritual, sham-Dickensian hustler. Would you buy a used cardinal from this man?

pies,
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@Richard_Littler Because sexual assault on a non-spouse is a sin, whereas being sexually attacked is not a sin, so if he confesses his sins everything is A-OK. Christians, you couldn't make them up.

frauenfelder, to random
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Lauren Witzke is a former drug runner for Mexican cartels turned beloved MAGA conspiracy theorist. Today, Witzke reposted a PSA that shows a woman being pulled over by a cop to give her a forced pregnancy test. Witzke's comment: "This is what we plan to do with all libtarded women."

https://boingboing.net/2024/04/22/popular-gop-activist-force-libtarded-women-off-the-road-for-pregnancy-tests.html

pies,
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@frauenfelder Chilling.

greegreehoist, to random
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I like that the difference between my pajamas and regular clothes is simply a matter of designation.
THIS t-shirt and leggings are my PJs.
These OTHER t-shirts and leggings are CLOTHES.
What's the difference? It's just a decision I made once!

pies,
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@greegreehoist I don't think you're supposed to sleep in leggings? Tight clothing I mean. Although what do I know, I've not had any kind of pajamas in at least 30 years.

dgar, to random
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A perfect, all-knowing God creates people exactly how they should be.

Also God: I'm gonna need you to cut a bit off your genitals.

pies,
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@dgar God made people in His image. Except for a tiny tweak that needs to be applied after assembly.
If only God could do genetic engineering he could have made the changes in the source code. It's probably on His Jira board right after not giving cancer to toddlers.

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    pies,
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    @fox I'm saying this because we've only had one female applicant ever (didn't work out), and we're not hostile at least as far as work environment - fully remote, flexible hours (4 hour overlap with business hours, otherwise as you like) sick leave as needed, hardware provided if needed, generous vacation days, holidays off, extra hours (i.e. on call) non mandatory and well paid for. Not sure what else we could do other than explicitly say "female or minority applicants only" which seems wrong and may be illegal.

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