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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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armurray, to random
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If someone told me Marc Andreessen could never achieve happiness because of what happened with Netscape, I would believe it

armurray, to random
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a new computer may be right for me, when I retire, as a treat

tess, to random
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Proud to be on Marc Andreessen's enemies list

Tag yourself, I'm "tech ethics"

armurray,
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@tess my friends call me “social responsibility”, my enemies call me “risk management”

cecton, to programming
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one thing I learned in the past 10 years with my experience in #programming: lot of popular ideas are actually deeply wrong

you need to make your own experience to see if something is "good practice" or "bad pattern" because what the majority dictates is not necessarily what you will see happening in real life

one big red flag for me is when people refer to a famous big company or a very well known person. those ideas are based on faith, not actuality

armurray,
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@cecton it’s even more nuanced from what I’ve seen, there can be whole campaigns of numerous engineers who say something is “good”; however, when you unpack the underlying factors, there is a lot of fashion, bias, dependence on a high degree of expertise or tolerance for pain, and myopia toward future developments, integration or maintenance. The nuance gets lost amongst the hype

mcc, to random
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Have you ever heard of the Ellsworth-Stevens effect? That's a principle from sociology that if you phrase a claim as being the result of a study or scientific research, people will just believe you and not check to see whether the study exists

armurray,
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@mcc there’s some other effect, where you name a result from a study and people accept the result at face value without realizing it’s possible for studies to be flawed, challenged or overturned, to accept the claim as the basis for an argument

kf, to random
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previous VPE created a calendar invite for all of engineering, then left the company

the event stopped happening

a year has since passed

so, I finally decided to remove the event from my calendar, and for some reason, google decided to send an update to all the attendees that I had done so

…all of engineering 🫠

love this feature, so well-designed

armurray,
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@kf everyone must know!

carnage4life, to random
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AI has led to interest in new hardware form factors. But do we really need a pendant that records everything you say and hear then emails you a summary of your day?

armurray,
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@carnage4life Ron Howard voice we do not

mcc, to random
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I have officially relied too much on the YouTube algorithm and now, finally, it has run out of videos

armurray,
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@mcc made me so sad when I watched it, I fear feeling that way again

kf, to random
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whenever I meet someone who doesn’t have a job that requires scheduling everything to death, I wish I could be like them

oh, your calendar isn’t up-to-date? you’ll have to ask around to see if you’re free? must be nice

armurray,
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@kf me, too, but OTOH if it’s not in the calendar it’s out of sight as they say

CoolSWEng, to random

Microsoft's recently announced 365 Chat presents me with a tough choice. I'm not at all keen to share all my emails, documents, contacts, calendars with Microsoft. (Almost none of these are currently on a cloud.) But, I'll probably be out-competed on everyday efficiency by those that use it. What's your take? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtXZV41zQZA

armurray,
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@CoolSWEng I don’t believe this will be a source of an edge

armurray, to random
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Once you know about Apple hands, you cannot unsee it all the time

kf, to random
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finally watching "persuasion" because apparently it's on netflix now??

armurray,
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@kf we watched this yesterday, too

twasink, to random
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It would go a long way to fix the abuses by billionaires if using stock as collateral was treated as a capital gains event.

When stock gains are just on paper, they shouldn’t be taxed. But turn them into money - by selling, or using them as collateral - and they absolutely should be. https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/elon-musk-borrowed-1-bln-spacex-same-month-twitter-buyout-wsj-2023-09-06/

armurray,
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@twasink sounds valid, yes

kf, to random
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trying out a garmin instead of my apple watch today, and it’s already a lot of data

also it’s like “kf did you know that you’re 31 but in the shape of a 37 yo???” and I KNOW goddamn why does it think I bought the watch 😂

armurray,
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@kf I’d like to hear more… I have a garmin, but was thinking of grabbing an Apple Watch to switch things up.. maybe I should just stick with garmin. I also have a Withings watch that is half decent

armurray,
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@kf interesting, thank you!

Polypompholyx, to random
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I'm just a boy, standing in front of a software manufacturer, asking you to just write down the instructions instead of recording a video tutorial. Please. I beg.

armurray,
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@Polypompholyx just watch thirty minutes to find the one detail you need, then pause and replay twenty times until it’s clear, gawd!

kf, to random
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was talking to my personal trainer today about how some of his clients are finance bros, execs, etc. who keep telling him he should use OKRs for his business

me: "but you're literally a one-man business? you have no employees?"

him: "that's what I realized after I read all the books they recommended!"

dying

armurray,
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@kf big oof energy

chargrille, to random
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Are there people out there who are looking at AI/LLM-generated content as pollution?

Because that is the analogy that makes the most sense to me. It's creating huge externalities for the profit of a few - proliferating enormous amounts of digital pollution (as well as real-world greenhouse gas pollution).

The more AI/LLM churn out content for the internet, the dirtier the water, so to speak. Or the air. And the less it functions for users.

armurray,
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@chargrille yes, I hold this view

seldo, to random

San Franciscans: this is Wily. She is loose in San Francisco after escaping her dog sitter. We are not in town. If you see her, please call animal control. Please boost if you are in SF.

armurray,
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@seldo sorry to hear this, and hope you find Wily soon!

mhoye, to random
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As always, the most embarrassing thing about corruption like this is that the more you learn about it, the more you find out how cheap it is. The man's letting himself be bought off for pennies.

You take my annual pay and multiply it up to a billion, and you find out that dollar for dollar these motherfuckers are buying off SCOTUS justices for less than I spend tipping a barista. If you've got a billion dollars this isn't even shake-out-the-couch money. It's nothing.

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-other-billionaires-sokol-huizenga-novelly-supreme-court

armurray,
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@mhoye what’s the equivalent for you when you make the incentive relative to the SCOTUS salary?

simon, to random
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Random thought concerning personal AI ethics: it's rude to publish something that would take someone longer to read than it took you to write it

armurray,
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@simon @RuthMalan yet the truth is, we have broken the sound barrier and there’s no going back, how will we ever know the difference again

mcc, to random
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In "The Big Lebowski", Walter Sobchak reveals that his investigations of the man in the iron lung uncovered that he wrote "156 episodes" of the 1965 TV series "Branded", "the bulk of the series". However in fact Branded, which only ran for two seasons, only produced 48 episodes.

People of earth. You are being lied to

armurray,
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@mcc this is a good theory

timClicks, to random
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Nothing like recording video tutorials for 90 minutes to discover that the audio wasn't working correctly

armurray,
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@timClicks 😓

kf, to random
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one of the disappointing things about being single and living alone is that there are so many things you don't get to have, because they only work at certain scales

like right now, I really want yellow box cake

but it's just me, I just want a slice

so what would I do with the rest of the cake??

instead no cake for me

armurray,
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@kf @jonm but still, you’re working it! That’s some good spirit! even if they don’t say so, they definitely appreciate it!

kf, to random
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taking the streetcar downtown, and if I make it in time, I’m going to see the barbie movie

if not, I’m going to get froyo

either way a win-win

armurray,
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@kf #pink

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