arcdrag

@arcdrag@mastodon.sdf.org

Staff engineer that has spent most of his career working on building software for farmers. Mostly backend data pipelines, services, data engineering, etc... #scala #clojure #python

US Army OIF veteran.

General nerderry and making stuff occupies my freetime. #ttrpg #dnd #fp #3dprinting #lasercutting #woodworking #linux

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ernie, to random
@ernie@writing.exchange avatar

It’s confirmed. The Vice website is shutting down.

My God.

via @willsommer

arcdrag,

@ernie @willsommer What does a "studio model" mean?

arcdrag, to random

On and

At the gym with my daughter. ESPN is on the TV on mute and they start showing Caitlin Clark.

Daughter: Oh they're showing Caitlin!
D: Yeah, she's going for the all time scoring record tonight
D: Can we watch?
Me: Sure thing.

TV switches to showing Steph Curry.

Her: Who is that?

I knew was big, but never imagined there would be people that recognize her immediately that don't recognize Steph Curry.

arcdrag,

@ParadeGrotesque I don't think I've ever seen a player in any spport that is just so clearly on a whole other level than all of her competition. She is pretty incredible to watch. It reminds me of watching Michael Jordan as a kid, but somehow that doesn't do her justice. The entire opposing team's gameplan will clearly revolve around trying to stop her at all costs and she'll still score 40+ points.

codinghorror, to random

I am a huge fan of Etsy because the absurdity of the mashup art I can find over there is absolutely off the charts; forex:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/867104987/
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1224594376/

arcdrag,

@codinghorror Regardless of whether you're a 3d printing fan or not, if mashup art is your thing, thingiverse has you covered.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3345385/files

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5660975

arcdrag,

@codinghorror oh definitely. It is a fun hobby for printing stuff like this that I gift to people randomly, but I think in total I've spent around $2000 on a 3d printing hobby that I've used to print approximately $100 worth of useful stuff.

arstechnica, to random
@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar

Zip lining wireless TV lands on self-deployed foam if vacuum suction mount fails

Displace TV slowly (and loudly) lowers self down to foam feet before lying flat.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/zip-lining-wireless-tv-lands-on-self-deployed-foam-if-vacuum-suction-mount-fails/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

arcdrag,

@arstechnica the dangers of generating product ideas with .

reginasbread, to random
@reginasbread@homo.promo avatar

I'm so tired of teenagers being "the chosen ones" in fiction. please, let a middle-aged woman save the universe! she's seen some shit and dealt with it. she's tired of it all. she doesn't give a fuck. she's angry. she will get this shit done.

arcdrag,

@reginasbread I think that's one of the many things I liked about "Everything Everywhere All at Once". Lots of non-traditional heroes.

nixCraft, to random
@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar

ChatGPT traffic has decreased again for third month in a row, per Reuters. 😅😂 I guess hype is over. IDK.

arcdrag,

@nixCraft Most large companies have a private chatgpt instances now and enterprise accounts. There are also no shortage of apps and plugins that interface with everything from Slack to iOS.

There's not much reason to go to the actual website anymore.

arcdrag, to ChatGPT

One thing absent from the training datasets of chatbots designed to mimic everyday conversation is datasets that contain common non-scripted everyday conversations among people.

LLMs are trained on social media, novels, scripts, songs, and everything in between. But not on common conversation.

I wonder how this will affect them in the long run.

arcdrag, to random

That feeling when on 16th commit, at 4pm on Friday, you appear to have gotten the pile of terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad code working.

evacide, to random
@evacide@hachyderm.io avatar

It has come to my attention that some of you are very concerned about data brokers collecting your data, but are not familiar with the work of @yaelwrites and the Big-Ass Data Broker Opt Out List. Please enjoy:

https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List

arcdrag,

@evacide @yaelwrites how you gonna have a project name like that and bot advertise it with a BADBOOL acronym.

b0rk, to random
@b0rk@jvns.ca avatar

working on some laser cut boxes to store zines in

arcdrag,

@b0rk Cool! are you familiar with https://www.festi.info/boxes.py/ It is pretty awesome and open source. I've used it a few times for this sort of thing.

baldur, to random
@baldur@toot.cafe avatar

“Tech experts are starting to doubt that ChatGPT and A.I. ‘hallucinations’ will ever go away: ‘This isn’t fixable’”

More accurately, AI researchers have always said that this isn’t fixable but y’all were too obsessed with listening to con artists to pay attention but now the con is wearing thin. https://fortune.com/2023/08/01/can-ai-chatgpt-hallucinations-be-fixed-experts-doubt-altman-openai/

arcdrag,

@baldur not sure how anyone expected to solve hallucination in AI when we havent solved it in natural intelligence either.

ColinTheMathmo, to random
@ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz avatar

This ... THIS !!!

Never, ever, ever trust ChatGPT.

The greatest value of ChatGPT in is teaching people to be better critical thinkers.

Read this:

https://mathstodon.xyz/statuses/110742552497021945

arcdrag,

@ColinTheMathmo I agree with the sentiment, but I don't understand how this is a new thing.

Everyone that has written a few lines of code has came across fundamentally broken code in official documentation. Everyone that has written code for more than a few months has stumbled across some malicious suggestions. I recall at like 10 y.o. someone on my local bbs suggested I delete autoexec.bat to get my sound to work.

Don't blindly trust anything or anyone.

simon_brooke, to random
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot avatar

friends, I have a weird bug.

This expression

(< (rand 5) 1)

fails intermittently with a null pointer exception (no message); backtrace starts

clojure.lang.Numbers.ops(Numbers.java:1095)
clojure.lang.Numbers.gt(Numbers.java:261)

Numbers.java:1095 is

static Ops ops(Object x){
Class xc = x.getClass();

https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/clojure-1.11.1/src/jvm/clojure/lang/Numbers.java#L1095

So it looks as it (rand 5) is occasionally returning null, but it never does so when I test in the repl.

Any clues?

arcdrag,

@simon_brooke

I would probably double check that you're not actually shadowing the rand method with something else outside clojure core.

Most of the time when I see errors that I can't reproduce in repl, the cause was that I wasn't actually importing the exact same things in repl as I was in my source file.

That said, I've never seen that issue, so I'm stumped otherwise.

arcdrag, to random

is making good progress in their quest to be the first social network where humans don't actually write any of the content.

codinghorror, to random

“I mean, I’m sorry, but people seem to really like Two and a Half Men, and none of my writers want to write that. They all want to write Barry. And you know who watches Barry? Nobody.” https://www.vulture.com/2023/06/streaming-industry-netflix-max-disney-hulu-apple-tv-prime-video-peacock-paramount.html

arcdrag,

@codinghorror There already is, but there will be too.

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