EverydayMoggie

cabel, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to random

I just really hope Apple is preparing a metric hectare of reassurances if (big if!) they’re about to announce a deep partnership with OpenAI.

Like, reassurances about the environmental impact (all that work down the drain?), about the training data sources, about general ethics, about the cringy move-fast-and-break-things startup-bro vibes that they will then inherit onto their brand, etc…

Andres4NY, 3 days ago to cycling

I'm thinking.. time to retire this one?

#BikeTooter #RimBrakes

Same thing, but a different part of the rim (and slightly brighter lighting). Again, the rim in this spot is worn down about 1mm.

capntransit, 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago) to random

I'm already not boosting any quote boosts. I just blocked someone who used quote boost to call someone else out - something I was told not to worry about on Mastodon.

drahardja, 9 days ago to random

Thanks, Yelp Ask The Community.

drahardja, 10 days ago to SanJose

The slowly deflating #CommercialRealEstate bubble continues. People are just not that interested to go back to the office.

This building in a suburban #SanJose office park was occupied by Nio, the Chinese carmaker, who did not renew their lease in October 2023. Without a new tenant, the building went into foreclosure with $25M of outstanding debt.

#cbre #returnToOffice #remoteWork #flexibleWork

“Big San Jose office building is seized by lender as market wobbles”

https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/05/13/san-jose-property-real-estate-office-build-economy-loan-foreclose-tech/

Unpaywalled: https://archive.ph/88aEk

EverydayMoggie, 10 days ago to random

It is very weird to think that actuaries might be the ones to shake our large institutions out of their complacency on climate change.

"The people who control the world's money rely on financial risk assessors to give them accurate data about future scenarios that could adversely affect their vast portfolios. The message coming from those risk assessors right now is...your money is in grave danger if the world does not act urgently to mitigate the worst consequences of our rapidly warming climate. Now a new report sets the challenge out in painful detail."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A8YIc6Ru6g

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 17 days ago to Victoria

Victoria: Hundreds of patients died after catching COVID in Victorian hospitals, new data shows

Almost 1 in 10 patients who caught COVID in hospital died.

Documents obtained by ABC News under Freedom of Information laws reveal at least 6,212 patients caught COVID in hospital in 24 months — 3,890 in 2022 and 2,322 in 2023. Of those, 586 died — almost 6 per week, on average — with men dying at a higher rate than women (11 per cent vs 8 per cent).

#COVID19 #Victoria @auscovid19

Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-06/hundreds-died-catching-covid-victoria-hospitals-testing-masking/103784896?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=twitter

RickiTarr, 19 days ago to random

Awww this takes me back! What has been the most important in your life?

notjustbikes, 19 days ago to random

So, I'm on this Shinkansen train in Japan ...

Seating area of car 2 on the Hello Kitty Shinkansen
Pink and white Shinkansen train

RickiTarr, 19 days ago to random

I'm not saying anyone should do this, but if you were looking to get revenge on a colonizer, this would be a really good time to take over Britain.

compost, 23 days ago to climate

Feeling miserable because of allergies.

I was not always suffering from those issues as I grew up on a farm and used to help with the hay work in the summer.

So the fact that I am now experiencing hayfever symptoms is the consequence of #ClimateChange.

Despite taking a powerful allergy medicine it is still not safe to go outside for me.

This is why when we talk to you so often about the #climate on this account, it is not because we are being greenwashed.

It is because it is affecting my health and our #gardens in a significant way.

It is also why those who would like to deny the climate issues are very unwelcome on this community, I could not give less of a damn about their opinions.

drahardja, 23 days ago to random

The slow collapse of downtown commercial real estate is continuing. I suspect news like this, and stories about the decline of retail around downtowns that depend on daily commuter traffic will come in at faster and faster rates.

Workers are not returning to the office to work. #RemoteWork and #flexibleWork are showing to be a perfectly viable solution that is more friendly to workers. Even with hybrid work, the volume of people commuting is far lower than it used to be.

#CBRE is slowly declining to a new, lower-value equilibrium.

“Once-hot tech office in SF's SoMa sells for a fourth of its 2019 price”

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/410-townsend-sale-downtown-sf-price-19408862.php

compost, 25 days ago to climate

There is no such thing as to "believe" in climate change. It has nothing to do with beliefs, it is not a theory...

It is real, it is measurable and if you observe the facts you can easily tell that the climate around you is changing.

I don't believe that climate change is real, I have experienced the #climate changing in our gardens and it has affected my health.

At the end of the day, your beliefs are very irrelevant to the situation, what matter is what are you going to do about it?

drahardja, 1 month ago to random

Holy shit, they fixed it.

Voyager 1 had a failed chip, and the engineering team patched around it.

Put THAT on your resumé. FUCKING BADASS.

#voyager1 #softwareEngineering

“NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth”

https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/

compost, 1 month ago to climate

We can be angry at #ClimateChange and those who could not care less for it.

Do I want to be remembered as the angry one in the corner who did not act?

If one day my kids ask me what have you done for the planet I want to tell them what I did and prove them that I cared for their planet.

Happy #EarthDay we only borrow this planet from the next generation, they will see us as careless and uncivilized fools if we keep doing nothing.

sysop408, 1 month ago to random

Does anyone else get angry at their box of spare computer cables and power adapters?

cabel, 1 month ago to random

I really don't love this thing

• I don't love that I can't turn OFF file sync that I never use
• I don't love that many top-level items (like ‘Stock & Marketplace’) are false fronts that just open a web browser.
• I don’t love that prominent UI here is trying to sell me more seats — and I can’t hide it!?!
• I don’t love that it can’t auto-fill the 2FA login codes when they come in via text message

Thank you for letting me vent about this thing

dnc, 1 month ago to Korea

Could anyone help me with the instructions on this? https://www.diningandcooking.com/1336371/could-anyone-help-me-with-the-instructions-on-this/

#Korea #KoreaFood #Korean #KoreanFood

drahardja, 5 months ago to ai

I’m more certain than ever that the first quarter of 2024 will see a grand reckoning for companies that have bet big on #AI. As I said before, I predict a lot of CFOs getting sticker shock at their compute bills, and we will see pivots and downscaling of expectations across the industry. By the middle of the year, there will likely be a general cool-down as users and investors come to grips with what “AI” can realistically do at reasonable cost (hint: not as much as the hype claims). Strategically deploying smaller models will become quite attractive, rather than monolithic solutions.

I also think 2024 is the year of the legal reckoning for the industry. Creators whose work have been used for training (i.e. plagiarized) will likely make big inroads into establishing legal frameworks for compensation, and some models will become poisoned because they were trained with unvetted data. Hopefully this also means that model-makers who have been meticulous about their training data’s providence will reap rewards.

markwyner, 1 year ago (edited 1 month ago) to accessibility

Every hashtag on every post on every platform should ALWAYS be pascal case (a.k.a. camel case). I made this to illustrate how screenreaders read hashtags depending on whether they are lowercase or pascal case.

It’s a small thing that all of us can do to build a more inclusive, accessible internet for all. Please take the time to use pascal case.

Read more:
https://markwyner.medium.com/hashtag-accessibility-by-everyone-for-everyone-298667b2d891

#Accessibility #WebAccessibility #Usability #Readability #Hashtags #SocialNetworking #Blogging #UX