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A candid mess.

‘I don’t feel like writing what I have just written, nor do I feel like erasing it.’ —Kierkegaard

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grimalkina, to random
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So many "developers produce more quantities of code with copilot" studies so few "the patterns of interleaving and retrieval change depending on active vs passive consumption of generated solutions and we have like fifty years of research on this in learning science and so maybe we can apply it to make good recommendations about the best usage of generated work output" studies

argonaut,
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@grimalkina i guess one of the reasons, if not the main one, why companies don’t study the production of code is that the focus is mostly, and sometimes only, about the code, by both companies and developers, and not the human person, the developer, that is not only part of the equation, but the most vulnerable and biased part as well.

GossiTheDog, to random
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For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

video/mp4

argonaut,
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@GossiTheDog easy: make a Hollywood movie of all your passwords.

RickiTarr, to random
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Alright, lots of heavy discussions today, so let's talk about something silly!

What is a movie that always makes you laugh?

Personal pick:

Anything Mel Brooks, but Robin Hood: Men in Tights, it's just funny every time I watch it.

argonaut,
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@RickiTarr

  • The Heat
  • Monty Python And The Holy Grail
  • Dr Strangelove

Once I fell and hit my head almost concussion-level while watching The Heat, so literally ROTFL. Both Melissa McCarthy and Bostonians completely kill me.

argonaut, to random
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Steve Jobs (at the helm of the most recognisably design-driven company in the world, and just after launching the iPod, a product that would revolutionise user experience and service design): “[Design is] not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

Designers today: “No, design is definitely how it looks.”

RickiTarr, to random
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If the gods exist, it's mighty presumptuous to think they have our best interests at heart, or even think about us at all.

argonaut,
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@RickiTarr that’s why I love mythology, and how the gods played with us like we were ants…

argonaut, to random
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I’m not sure I understand what the point of social media is. Happily, that is only a problem the few days my mind is clear and free of anxiety…

RickiTarr, to random
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I used to babysit a lot, and I was kind of famous for getting kids to try foods they normally wouldn't. I was never pushy about it, just included them in the shopping/harvesting/cooking process, and asked them to try a little bite of everything, and to remember that your tastebuds change as you age, so keep on trying stuff.

This backfired on me occasionally though. Once as an adventure, we went to a Japanese restaurant, and I ordered the kiddos some Katsu (who doesn't love something fried with dippy sauce), and got myself a plate of sushi rolls and sashimi. Well, since I always asked them to try one bite of something new, they looked at me expectantly, so I let them try a bit of each. Turns out they were all in for sushi, and those little nerds ate most of my plate, and then they always wanted to go. Kids, I don't have sushi money every day!

argonaut,
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@RickiTarr my new life goal is to have “sushi money every day”.

RickiTarr, to random
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Avatar really did rip off Dune, and don't get me started on Star Wars.

argonaut,
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@RickiTarr please get started on Star Wars, I wanna know.

hotdogsladies, to random
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Angus and Malcolm Young hit guitar strings so fucking hard.

AC/DC - "Whole Lotta Rosie" (Live, 1977)

https://youtu.be/CHo2EqDpK7g?si=rHOF31f9oxZ5lJBP&t=20

argonaut,
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@gruber @Gte @hotdogsladies To me, ABBA’s Dancing Queen is the ultimate embodiment of 1977, but probably not for everyone’s 1977.

RickiTarr, to random
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So, what's the thing, what's the big thing no one can help you with? How do you cope with it?

argonaut,
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@RickiTarr the big thing is the world being broken by misdirected incentives and the destructive myth of individuality, and the cope is making myself into a little ball and sighing myself to sleep.

argonaut,
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@RickiTarr not a doubt, if we see what every single other species (including many small-brained dinosaurs) figured out eons ago.

RickiTarr, to random
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You are going to make love to a Cereal Mascot, who do you choose?

I'm going Snap, Crackle, & Pop.

argonaut,
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@RickiTarr Honey Loops ;)

mcc, to random
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My ex had this rule, or sort of a philosophy I guess:

"Never feel bad about spending money on books."

And this made a lot of sense to me, at the time,

but this was before I actually realized

just how much money I am capable of spending on books

argonaut,
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@mcc @lisamelton in our home, we have a simpler rule “unlimited budget for books”, which at first seems something that will take you to chapter 11, but soon becomes apparent to be an interminable fountain of joy and knowledge.

donni, to random
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Scientists agree that the best thing to do is lie on the floor

argonaut,
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@donni AI seems to have missed that “on the floor” part.

Daojoan, to random
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Did you know there are writings from ancient Greece that talk about how culture is in decline and writing is dying?

For thousands upon thousands of years, people have been saying the same thing.

https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/everything-is-always-dead

argonaut,
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@Daojoan @lisamelton like the sun, orbited by the earth, constantly, while all we see is it rising and then it declining, setting, constantly, eternally.

We and our damn senses.

RickiTarr, to random
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That Novelty Cup you had to have on vacation, you'll never use it again.

argonaut,
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@RickiTarr mugs do count in my cupboard. Mugs count a lot, cause they’re lovely and useful. Mugs count so much there’s no space for anything else. Open the cupboard and it’s all mugs. All mugs! All. Mugs…

argonaut, to random
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"We're all one thing, Lieutenant. That's what I've come to realize. Like cells in a body. 'Cept we can't see the body. The way fish can't see the ocean. And so we envy each other. Hurt each other. Hate each other. How silly is that? A heart cell hating a lung cell."
— Cassie from THE THREE

RickiTarr, to random
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Have you ever met someone who lies all the time, but doesn't seem to realize they are lying?

argonaut,
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Yes, their name is ChatGPT.

Also, me, because I have small children.

Also, we all, because almost all that what was true a century ago no longer is, and so today’s truths will be lies in a century’s time.

christianselig, to random
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Playing around with a Meta Quest 3 version of my Vision Pro stand, and I want a flourish on top to differentiate them, but I can't decide if I prefer the inset or raised sensors. What do you think?

Meta Quest 3 rendered in stainless steel in Fusion 360 with the three sensors inset from the "pringle" top

argonaut,
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@christianselig insets are more difficult to clean.

Green_Footballs, to random
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The fact that every mainstream news site is now locked behind a paywall is a real boon for the spread of misinformation, because very few right wing sites have paywalls — which means their disinfo and propaganda can spread much more easily. Paywalls are a slow motion disaster.

argonaut,
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@Green_Footballs @lisamelton the fact that as capitalists we don’t want to part away with money in order to have better information and learn valuable thoughts and facts is a slow-motion disaster.

(Just another way of seeing it.)

schwa, to random
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    argonaut,
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    @schwa tall grass meadows are where the snakes and the ticks hang out.

    grimalkina, to random
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    In my forever battle to understand a better way to talk about "load" in human problem solving I'm reading about team-level resource allocation theory as intersecting with goal orientation and gd I think this is a better model than a purely individual cognition way of thinking about it.

    Team attentional load is much bigger and invokes social-behavioral processes much more than indiv cognitive load. And to my read it's potentially something you can actually intervene on much more.

    argonaut,
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    @grimalkina in this case is the part of the perceived problem that is not inherent to the definition of the problem, so the undescribable part of something not working, and any ideas on how to solve it, that are somehow difficult to document, and sort of intuited.

    Which I think tends to feed, for better or worse, innovation.

    Sorry if I don’t make much sense, I’m trying to define things I’ve perceived but haven’t properly defined before.

    argonaut,
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    @grimalkina prob because I work on an environment (ML) where resource changes need to be defined by teams (can be a change, can be a glitch), then team consensus is not always a good measure, and teams open to reconsider issues even (and mostly) if outside of their consensus definition can be (and mostly is) a driver to radical innovation.

    Like those stories of scientists bumping into weird results and, instead of discarding them, trying to understand them, resulting in “radical innovation”.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Another quiz to take if you're game, this one takes about 5 minutes:

    https://www.idrlabs.com/food-disgust/test.php

    argonaut,
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    @RickiTarr not sure I get the interations: should I thumbs up when I agree with the statement, or when my own statement is positive towards the mentioned scenario?

    schwa, to random
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    @lisamelton @schwa I’ve had three on my right eye and two on my left eye since I have memory. Guess having them when young gave me some perspective, since I used to play with them a lot (make them dance or move in patterns) when bored at school. Contrary to others, they have disappeared with time, but it may be my presbyopia that made them fade away… ¯_(ツ)_/¯

    (So yeah, getting old sucks…)

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