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Elucidating

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Uninteresting. Genderfluid. No interest in performing for you. Was KirinDave on 🐦. Still KirinDave on YouTube.

$megacorp SRE. ML/Art/Software.

Not a fan of this capitalism. I am a fan of biocosmism, anarchism, distributed and robust systems, and economics when decoupled from capitalists and oligarchy.

ML models must be fully open sourced, including the training data! We deserve the right to audit.

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Elucidating, to random
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There's always one of these "well my murder boner gets one N/mm^2 harder for every person I kill and it's a legal, natural high" type when you talk about covid safety.

Elucidating, to random
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The single most expensive part of setting up active air quality monitoring is your CO2 sensor (and I recommend getting it in a sensor board).

This one here is a reasonable budget option from digikey, with adafruit-sponsored drivers available. It's $30US. You'd need to pair this with a microcontroller and a bit of soldering.

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/infineon-technologies/EVALPASCO2MINIBOARDTOBO1/14560477

Elucidating,
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In case folks don't understand why CO2 sensors come up in the context of COVID-19: we don't have a reasonable way to detect viral contamination of the air in real time. We do, however, have a way to measure the concentration of gas that comes out of humans when they exhale.

Elucidating, to random
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If you run a physical location and your COVID policy is "masks are required" but not also "we have invested in active air purification with active measurements" then you're making a bad decision. You're making "you-do-you" decisions and also passing all the costs and responsibility of space safety to people using your space.

Please contact me if you'd like help inexpensively doing either of these things.

Elucidating, to random
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Aren't I a good person? I haven't made fun of even one New Yorker about their reaction to the earth quake yet.

I want to. There are some pretty wild takes. But I haven't and I probably won't. I'm giving people time to process their fear rather than turning it into a social capital. Instead, I'm turning this process into social capital.

Elucidating, to random
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Gosh. It's been 15 years since I was doing Erlang dev.

I really miss it.

Elucidating,
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@janl I should modernize gen_leader and put it into gleam, and then that'd give me the perfect platform to talk about all the absolutely bonkers pitfalls of leader elected systems. :)

br00t4c, to random
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Job-seekers with pronouns on CV less likely to be hired, reports finds

#pronouns #state

https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/04/05/job-seeking-pronouns-cv/

Elucidating,
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@br00t4c Oh yes, I've encountered this. I even had a "leadership coach" explain to me that non-binary people are less likely to be empathetic to cis people, who are a majority, and therefore not good candidates for leadership in tech.

nyquildotorg, to random
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Just realized the blue-check situation has now moved on to phase two of the Star-Bellied Sneetches. People wanted blue-checks. Now they have blue-checks and don't want them.

Started working on making an illustration, then decided to look to see if anyone already had. Yup. Now I don't need to.

(Found on a random clip art site.)

Elucidating,
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@nyquildotorg I'm not sure this works at all. The people without stars initially didn't step into a machine to get them once Leon showed up with the belly painting machine en masse. That program has never worked well.

tenderlove, to random
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Couldn't a web server game "time to first byte" stats by just immediately sending "HTTP" and then waiting for the actual app server response?

Elucidating,
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@tenderlove I thought it was time to first content byte, because otherwise the metric makes no sense in an http/2 context.

Elucidating,
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@tenderlove Well I know my metrics at Google that we use to make sure cloud projects are healthy do ttfb on customer content.

I guess if you're running your own load balances you care about both.

Elucidating,
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@tenderlove I think cloudflare defines it as "first byte of content" as well:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/ttfb-is-not-what-it-used-to-be

Elucidating,
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@tenderlove I suspect so, but it's not a very good metric (as that cloud flare blog I linked suggested) so gaming it seems like the ultimate fusion of Goodhart's law and GIGO principles.

whitequark, to random
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there is nothing that i would not shove into a wasm container. nothing

Elucidating,
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@whitequark I'm really curious what you're using them for.

chris__martin, to random
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There are a million documents about yubikeys for consumers who don't understand what hardware tokens are or how to use them - But where the hell can I read about how to enable hardware token support on a website I run?

Elucidating,
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@chris__martin Part of the problem here is that the protocols are significantly complicated to set up and security software in general does not give a damn about if it's hard to set up. For many people evaluating that thing, it seems like they prefer it

That's why lots of folks just buy like auth0 fido servers prebaked.

jwz, to random
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Some Andreesen-Horowitz Crypto-Bro bloviates on a vision of Fascist San Francisco.

I hesitate to even give oxygen to a story like this, but it's just so fucking whack-a-doodle. It sounds a parody, or an April Fools joke, or a stand-up comic doing a...
https://jwz.org/b/ykOm

Elucidating,
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@jwz He is the sort of guy that really needs to experience antifascist action in person tho. He's desperate for relevance and some kind of fash mode because he, more than anyone else at a16z, got absolutely fucked by his unflinching desire to fund every scummy crypto play. He needs to find a government buyer for all these failed products within a few years or he's probably punted off the org to save face.

lzg, to random
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    Elucidating,
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    @lzg What I wanna know is who sold it to them!

    Elucidating, to random
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    Am. I. Talking. To. A. Fucking. Objectivist?

    Elucidating,
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    Oh my god. No wonder this guy immediately tried to play the victim card. Objectivistm is the religion of wealthy white entitlement.

    Elucidating, to random
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    The Google incognito settlement is a much bigger deal than the really shit tier analysis I've been seeing people talk about with it.

    Frankly I'm irritated with a lot of the discourse about it. It has a lot of "I am so smart I use firefox" takes which neglects to point out that those people were in this data set too, as I read the settlement.

    Elucidating,
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    @janl As I understand: Google associated incognito identities via the ads side of things. In that it didn't do anything to try and ignore targeting if you were in incognito mode. Many people found this misleading and I agree.

    Google will delete all this data and now, the big upside, has to respect incognito as a do not track signal itself.

    But this is the same dataset that would tag you on any browser. It's just it lacks the first party (misleading) signaling.

    wingo, to random

    this logo. who is going to tell them https://circle.gnome.org/

    Elucidating,
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    @xayah @wingo I can't help but ask "Aren't they right? Who cares about some boomer sex meme forcefully popularized largely by homophobic online sentiments in the early 2000s?"

    Elucidating, to random
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    It's hilarious to me that folks on Orange Website are locked in a furious debate about if it's okay that the a16z news site (and even as one comment points out, Orange Website itself) have a huge bias against competing portfolio companies.

    Of course it's not okay. But as with the Redis debacle, we'll see people argue that it is because profit is the only god of these people.

    danilo, to random
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    The velocity tradeoff of having an LLM write code for you is that, past a certain level of complexity, you INSTANTLY have no idea what it does, as opposed to the steady context decay of code you write yourself
    https://cute.is/@keith/112197120069316165

    Elucidating,
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    @vvelox @danilo @Sevoris I am almost certain that we're talking about different things, but if we aren't then what you're saying isn't even wrong. ML is firmly based in calculus?

    Elucidating,
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    @vvelox @danilo @Sevoris

    I'm going to need you to start getting specific. For example, what's your specific critique of, say, Bayesian Deep Learning?

    Why is it required to "understand" anything to make predictions?

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