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synlogic

@synlogic@toot.io

#software engineer
#gamedesign -er
#writer

topics:
#programming, perf & #scalability, #latency, #Golang, #climate, #democracy, #wargaming, #scifi, #utopian, #comedy

consulting:
https://github.com/mkramlich/portfolio/blob/master/sw-eng-MikeKramlich.md

"Slartboz"
education & political game on topics of democracy & climate. style: sci-fi, #postapoc, funny, real-time Terminal-based #Roguelike

To encourage work on my projects PLEASE send a tip or donation. Best upboat!

Alt text: profile icon & banner are screenshots from Slartboz prototype

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dgar, to random
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synlogic,
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@dgar 4. accompanied by roll. 5. jailhouse

nixCraft, to linux
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Every fucking time. Checking the OpenSSL version is a real pain in the butt on #Linux. Woof

synlogic,
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@nixCraft reminds me of early java. they didnt conform too

synlogic, to random
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I dont want my Mastodon feed to turn into All Things Trump 24/7. happened to me on Twitter. and spent 4+ years forced to live in Trump World, via every possible media channel. I'm done!

looking for ways to mute all toots with his name in it...

synlogic,
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@emc2 ok thx, I'll look around

paul, to random
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It's surprisingly difficult to find a cheap (< $30) set of BT over the ear headphones that work right on a Mac. I got one set like 5+ years ago and finally broke, have tried 4 diff ones so far and they are all annoyingly buggy, have bad battery life, or bad range.

synlogic,
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@paul curse of the demand for lower prices and higher profits per unit. cut corners

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    synlogic,
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    @filippo yep math works out to giving $1,260 per recipient project/org. yikes

    nixCraft, to random
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    $65M for Obsevability? This is ridiculous. https://twitter.com/TurnerNovak/status/1654577231937544192/photo/1

    synlogic,
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    @nixCraft I'd provide their monitoring for a mere.... say $30M per quarter

    dgar, to random
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    Rick Astley is happy to lend you any movie from his collection.

    Except that one Pixar animation.

    synlogic,
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    @dgar ha. reminds me, one of Prince's lustiest songs is about a Disney film

    dgar, to random
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    I hate going to MC Hammer’s house.

    He won’t let you touch anything.

    synlogic,
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    @dgar total opposite of Peter Gabriel's house. he not only lets you touch his monkey, he literally demands that you SHOCK the monkey

    dgar, to random
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    Starting with this dude at the front door?
    Matt.

    The two guys holding up the fabric near the window?
    Kurt and Rod.

    The guy with the shovel?
    Doug.

    The guy standing in the hole?
    Phil.

    That person under the car?
    Jack.

    The lad in the flower garden?
    Bud.

    The guy lying in the pile of leaves?
    Russell.

    Old mate with the water skis?
    Skip.

    The fellow reading the book?
    Mark.

    The man in the pool?
    Bob.

    That guy with a rabbit in his pants?
    Warren.

    That person on the beach?
    Sandy.

    Did I miss anyone?

    synlogic,
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    @dgar sounds like a Frank Zappa song

    nixCraft, to random
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    This machine from the 1980s was ahead of its time.

    synlogic,
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    @nixCraft it fit in one's pocket too. all the kids on my block had one

    rodhilton, to random
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    The constant-threats-to-defederate thing is going to kill this place, seriously.

    Defederating an instance is an extreme measure and it should only be taken in extreme circumstances.

    Finding out I might stop getting posts from people I explicitly follow because they happen to be on an instance being defederated by mine all because a bunch of admins I don't know got in a spat over a user I don't follow is just about the most annoying value proposition imaginable.

    https://federate.social/@mattblaze/110317006852580015

    synlogic,
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    @rodhilton yep when I was hunting through the various Mastodons in the herd it was a real challenge finding a server that didnt have an overbearing Correct Opinions Cult in place.

    dgar, to random
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    My friend just brought a load of graph paper.

    I think they’re plotting something.

    synlogic,
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    @dgar dont grid shame him

    nixCraft, to random
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    If you can upload a custom file to a domain/subdomain, bluesky social (Jack Dorsey's new twitter) uses it to verify you are the owner of the domain. Chaz uploaded his custom file to their Amazon s3 bucket and now since he was the first one to do it, his account is now associated with Amazon S3.
    https://chaos.social/@jonty/110307532009155432

    synlogic,
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    @nixCraft classic Chaz. raises a toast

    nixCraft, to random
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    Leaked Internal Google Document Claims Open Source AI Will Outcompete Google and OpenAI. Google "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI" https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither What do you think? Would Open Source AI win the AI war?

    synlogic,
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    @nixCraft well those kinds of docs are just "some guy's opinions." even the leak may be intended to shift public opinion. NNs and LLMs are special in that the larger the data sets and more cash you have to spend on cleaning and training, the better results. hard to compete with the giant shops

    cks, to random
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    This is my expression when local (and exclusive) flock() locks on a Linux NFS server don't conflict with POSIX locks obtained over NFS through lockd/NLM/etc. Because these NFS locks may be from flock() on clients.

    Augh. This is robot logic and it means 'don't run anything on your NFS servers'.

    synlogic,
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    @cks yes flock over NFS is not reliable. ran into that 15 years ago for first time. one of the many bugbears of concurrency and distrib systems

    Pwnallthethings, to random

    Given how vast the cash-cows of Azure and AWS are ... it is astonishing to me how bad the user-interfaces for both actually are

    synlogic,
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    @Pwnallthethings let me stop you at the word Microsoft

    beep, to random
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    Tech workers: if you, like me, have ever wondered about how automation will impact your work, you should probably pay close attention to how “artificial intelligence” figures into the WGA strike. https://www.wgacontract2023.org/strike-hub

    synlogic,
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    @beep yep. someone out there is going to train an LLM specifically on stories or screenplays. what it churns out wont be great and may sometimes be outright insane. but theres a chance it might do better than the lowest quality tier of paid writers. which are often also the early career ones, simply trying to make ends meet

    nixCraft, to random
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    Gentoo Penguin Colony on Martillo Island, Beagle Channel, Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina https://www.dreamstime.com/photos-images/martillo-island.html

    synlogic,
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    @nixCraft the one place where its always been the Year of Linux on the Desktop

    nixCraft, to random
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    😅

    synlogic,
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    @nixCraft I feel seen

    bagder, to random
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    The number of Internet users worldwide has increased from 36 million in 1996 to almost 6 billion 2023

    synlogic,
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    @bagder your work on curl has likely been a not-insignificant reason behind and contributor to that becoming true

    davew, to random
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    You know what's freaking amazing.

    No news org has rushed into the space of running a ChatGPT that is totally up to date on the news.

    I think if one put their mind to it, it could be done in a couple of weeks, if that much.

    synlogic,
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    @davew they should ensure the NN is trained on facts only. now a sea of lies, fakes and propaganda online

    dgar, to random
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    Y’all be sure to listen to at least one Dgar song today, okay?
    ☝️😅🤘

    #Dgar #WishfulThinking #TheFunniestJokeYet #AintGonnaHappen

    Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/dgarmusic

    Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/au/artist/dgar/1534169037

    YouTube Topic: https://youtube.com/channel/UCODHoyCwEoGged7UU0FSjKg

    YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/@JonDgar

    Tidal: https://tidal.com/artist/21571623

    Deezer: https://deezer.page.link/rD9kbQYQBeFg2rbG9

    Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0oeCPGv32IomKqc7zB6u36

    synlogic,
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    @dgar love your music. listened to a few on YouTube. Monday on the Moon, and Space Pop prob my two favorite so far

    synlogic,
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    @dgar welcome! and btw I noticed that those two in particular had a kind of "retro sci-fi comedy" style to their theme/lyrics. well one of my own hobbies is writing fiction. Theres a little adventure serial I write in my free time, been described as a kind of sci-fi The Princess Bride. if curious, heres a little standalone excerpt from it named The Reddest Blue:

    https://toot.io/@synlogic/109663512134696258

    ct_bergstrom, (edited ) to random

    Listening to very smart people talk about #GPT4 I'm reminded of the joke about a checkers-playing dog.

    A guy has a dog that plays checkers. "My goodness," everyone says, "that's amazing. What a brilliant dog!"

    "Not really," he replies, "I beat him four games out of five."

    That's GPT4. It's capacities are amazing and completely unexpected.

    But it's also so limited. You shouldn't back the dog in a checkers tournament, and you shouldn't use an LLM as a medical assistant or in many other ways.

    synlogic,
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    @ct_bergstrom I also get sick/amused hearing people praise ChatGPT for doing things I've been able to do for decades. things that nobody has given a damn about in general. things the economy has seemed to assign an economic value of 0 or near 0 to. yet when ChatGPT its like the Second Coming of Jesus.

    baby: spits up

    parent: OMGBBQ!!!!!

    me: I can do that

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