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tedward, to random
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Aw yeah! Sunset Bike ride season is back! @SutroTower

xek, to random
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Can you imagine working at four or more software startups and not being a Marxist?

Or, at the very least, agreeing with Marx's analysis (thus making you either a serial entrepreneur or a sucker).

tedward,
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@cmdrmoto @xek
Guess I'm in the sucker category over here.

schizanon, to ai
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tedward,
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@schizanon Sure, but also "computer" used to be a job title.

schizanon, (edited ) to fediverse
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This is why mastodon.social is my burner instance; it's too thought-policed https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/112118260677357857

#fediverse #mastodon #moderation #ai #mastodonsocial

tedward,
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@schizanon Is it still thought policing if you're policing an LLM that's incapable of thinking?

schizanon, to Engineering
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I can never tell when engineers are arguing what tech is "best" if they're actually trying to figure it out or just defending their skillsets.

#engineering #softwaredevelopment #programming #webDev #developer #developers #softwareengineering #software

tedward,
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@schizanon I'm usually trying to figure out what's the choice I'll regret the least for my specific current needs.

I've been around long enough to know there's always more than one way to do things and rarely a universally best alternative.

tedward,
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@schizanon yeah agreed.
I do think skill set plays into it, though. we're usually asking "what's the best solution to this problem that's already within my wheelhouse"

schizanon, to programming
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I actually love the way that ChatGPT/Copilot write code. It's super generic, and simple. No fancy compsci affectations. Clear concise names that aren't trying to be unique. It's already better than any human coder I've ever met.

tedward,
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@schizanon What I don't understand is why copilot can never get the number of closing paren/brackets right when it autocompletes.

docpop, to random
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Valencia Street's new bike lane isn't the cause of the economic downturn affecting businesses all over San Francisco?! What a shock!
https://missionlocal.org/2023/12/data-fails-to-back-claims-of-valencia-bike-lane-kneecapping-business/

tedward,
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@docpop Would "A precipitous rise in the cost of living coupled with wage stagnation has led to a shortfall in consumer spending which is killing small businesses and destroying our vibrant community" fit on a window flyer?

cmdrmoto, to random
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I seem to have fallen down a research hole about Woodrow Wilson.

He really was Just The Worst.

Apparently even the conservative-leaning think tanks concur: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/why-woodrow-wilson-americas-worst-president-ever-22692

tedward,
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@cmdrmoto I'm just gonna leave this here.

tedward,
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@cmdrmoto Speaking of which, if you haven't seen the 2014 "Black Jesus" sitcom, it is excellent: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Jesus_(TV_series)

tedward, to random
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Have OpenAI & Microsoft considered just not doing LLMs? No one actually needs them and even if they don't destroy the world they're going to make the Internet way more annoying.

Can we just skip this one? Maybe put those resources into making printers not suck? Or Bluetooth that handles device-switching better? Or even like a really good open source Artifactory alternative that doesn't need the JVM?

tedward,
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@schizanon My friend, I can't even keep a cactus alive. I'm gonna somehow maintain a pigeon coop?

All I want is to not waste any more of my time on earth finding or configuring a print driver.

Let's say we want to put our collective efforts into solving real problems people actually have. What problem are LLMs solving?

Spending several fortunes generating huge volumes of potentially-gibberish text that needs to be parsed and evaluated by humans doesn't count. That is creating a problem, not solving one.

schizanon, to random
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StarWars sucks, The Beatles suck, Teslas suck, iPhones suck

Y'all suck at judging quality

tedward,
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@schizanon Hey, now. Rubber Soul was good!

schizanon, (edited ) to webdev
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There's this problem that you encounter when you build a that depends on one or more data sources.

Your user wants to see results right away. The data sources take an indeterminate amount of time to respond.

The solutions are a shit sandwich.

tedward,
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@schizanon there's another option: write a data-fetching endpoint that doesn't suck

veronica, to internet
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Way to miss the point, Wired.

Meta's metric is "engagement" and "time spent". I don't think anyone disputes that these algorithms increase these.

The argument isn't even necessarily that algorithmic timelines are fundamentally bad, but that what they do, for the sake of profit, is unhealthy.

Personally, I wouldn't mind a view on here with a selection of what I missed since last time, of the stuff I follow.

#Meta #Facebook #Algorithm #Timeline #SocialMedia #Research

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-just-proved-people-hate-chronological-feeds/

tedward,
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@veronica I like the chronological feed precisely because it allows me to get to the bottom and close the app

technotramp, (edited ) to ask Czech
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Dear , I want to the .com in the fediverse environment, but due to where I can't the (to avoid changing the IPFS ), I'm not comfortable with the the is inserted. I am looking for a way to verify the domain using a record. Exactly what was discussed half a ago for example :

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/20030

My question is: Is it possible to verify a domain in this way?


tedward,
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@technotramp yes, it is possible.

letsencrypt/acme implements this via the DNS-01 challenge method https://letsencrypt.org/docs/challenge-types/#dns-01-challenge

schizanon, to random
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Everyone just sits there with #Docker Desktop taking up 5% of their CPU at all times like

tedward,
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@schizanon this is a main reason it's better to run Linux on a workstation

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