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armurray

@armurray@mastodon.social

Software Engineer developing tools to enable evolution, collaboration, and design (esp as pertains wicked problems)
I like motion graphics and films on parallel universes and time travel

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ylegall, to random
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rubiks projection

video/mp4

armurray,
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@ylegall @loosenut we’re not worthy

grimalkina, to random
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Lambda School /BloomTech is old news; always talked about like it was run by Satan himself by all of us who worked on actual education and learning access issues in tech.

But what's not old news and will always emerge again is that probably now people will just be more biased against e.g. bootcamp learners who are trying their damndest to claw into a better life, rather than taking it out on the men who find toying with education a way to make their own terrible imperium

armurray,
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@grimalkina I hear you!

GeePawHill, to random
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Some folks have been consistently rewarded for decades for doing things that, a) impress and please their peers, but b) simultaneously hold them back from the levels at which they could impress and please their peers even more.

They are basically caught in a classic hill-climbing problem. To get to the higher hill, which they are not even sure is higher, they will have to go down into the valley, and they can't see their way clear to trying that.

Self-awareness is a superpower.

armurray,
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@GeePawHill I live for the Valley, and i loath impressing and pleasing people

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Lots of discussion about how Google has become garbage at pulling up helpful information... how are the alternatives doing? Does anyone actually use another search engine and like it? What do you like about it?

armurray,
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@justinesherry I’m using DuckDuckGo (for longer than I can remember) and the brave browser has started running AI on my queries (without my… prompting)… this has been a mostly positive experience. sometimes it’s not just wrong/hallucinating, it’s subtly, devilishly wrong, requiring deep insight to unpack… the kind of wrong that requires expertise, which is in direct conflict with the curiosity mode with which I search

My view is, we must accept, now is the worst time for interfaces in history

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    armurray,
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    @lzg just watched it (and heard it was taking some flack but haven’t seen what anyone is saying). Here is my take: most of the things getting crushed are things I love, piano, arcade machine, books, guitar, turntable… stuff I want in my home and life. Goals

    nancycomics, to random
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    Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller May 9,1947

    armurray,
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    @nancycomics love this one

    lzg, to random
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    armurray,
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    @lzg my go to joke: I used to think I was depressed, turned out I was just listening to Portishead

    Been revisiting lately

    armurray,
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    @lzg what a time to be alive! Teen angst for me, too

    rit, to random
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    My 12 year old nephew is doing a school project where he has to interview someone about their career and then do a presentation with graphics.

    I ask what graphics he has so far. "I have a guy drinking coffee at a computer"

    Perfect.

    armurray,
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    @rit Kurt Russell plays chess in The Thing .gif

    davetron5000, to random
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    Is there an explainer for what is actually the point of all the AI stuff? For crypto I was fine ignoring it as it was stupid on its face. I would ignore AI too if it were just hyped by tech companies and VCs, but it seems to dominate everywhere. I’m in a “CTO club” and it’s nonstop AI.

    Internet search on this topic is, even via Kagi, tons of SEO nonsense.

    Don’t tell me about it writing emails or code. I understand that part. What actual problems is it supposed to solve?

    armurray,
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    @davetron5000 was just thinking about how incredibly limiting the actual results have been so far

    armurray, to random
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    I am excited for the Edmonton Oilers!

    kf, to random
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    this week really feels like the monkey’s paw is curling tbqh

    armurray,
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    @kf say more?

    armurray, to random
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    The year of Linux on the desktop!

    lzg, to random
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    @lzg temptation does not exist, only pleasure, little godling

    armurray, to random
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    Today I learned everything there is to know about baking powder. Quite a chemistry (and cooking) lesson

    carnage4life, to random
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    This is nuts to me. I’d never have predicted this outcome if asked on any day of the past twenty years.

    image/jpeg

    armurray,
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    @carnage4life cheers to the investment advisors who talked me out of buying each stock 20 years ago

    mcc, to random
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    I love Nine Inch Nails, and I love the Revolting Cocks, but I've never listened to, like, any Ministry. I wonder if I should. One problem is it's hard to know where to get started, there is a lot of it

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    @mcc the response that said, “with sympathy” is borderline insane

    armurray,
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    @mcc the responses that said the mind is a terrible thing to taste are correct

    armurray, to random
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    @kf somehow I wanted to tell you about the movie, “clockwatchers” (Parker Posey, Toni Collette), but think I failed to mention it. Hidden gem

    armurray,
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    @kf I laughed like mad, mostly by way of understatement; anyway, I loved it, now shared!

    armurray,
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    @kf we were chatting the other day and Parker Posey came up (you’ve got mail), and well, you have a somewhat chaotic stance with work (not dissimilar to Posey’s character) and I thought you might like it… it has a certain distrusting vibe you might enjoy

    TheBreadmonkey, to random
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    I don't know if we can really blame McDonald's for Morgan Spurlocks death, but it sort of feels like we should

    armurray,
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    @TheBreadmonkey i certainly thought about it! I also thought big shark (the industry) got to Rob Stewart when I recently heard of his 2017 death

    kf, to random
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    one of the weird things about walking and taking public transit for the past two years is that I now HATE cars

    HATE them

    not just having them, but being in one. you want me to get in a car? to go to a place? instead of a bus/streetcar/train? what if I just didn't

    armurray,
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    @kf best attitude to hold, really

    lzg, to random
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    i saw TWO coyotes hanging out together. the best.

    armurray,
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    @lzg used to see this in the Presidio from time to time

    armurray, to random
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    Brawndo’s got what plants crave, and coconut is a food that ends in um, like bananum
    https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/112411684628599192

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