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Anathema wrote:

Bit disappointed that the Kensington Slimblade doesn't come with an armwrest.

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emsenn@ecosteader.com ("emsenn says end food apartheid") wrote:

Canadians, is your workplace or organization recognizing September 30th, the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation?

If yes, what specifically are you doing?

If no, have you asked your employer why not?

(If Canada lowered its flag for a day, for every child known to have died at your residential schools, the flag would not raise for 18 years.)

(Boosts encouraged.)

Anathema wrote:

Is there a name for the thing where I can't focus on my work because I'm too anxious about an upcoming meeting?

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

I should listen to fewer podcasts and more music like this when I run:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2yPyidhTtQ

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

I strongly suspect we are often applying ML in places where it is either not appropriate or a better solution is already possible.

Here's a fun example applying inverse FFT to remove halftone patterns from a scanned printed photo. The author originally thought they might need some ML tech.

https://www.getrevue.co/profile/shift-happens/issues/moire-no-more-688319

I like that it is also actually an example where somebody could say, "Enhance", and the image would magically improve so you could read the text like in that TV/movie trope.

Anathema wrote:

gosh I'm actually so excited for this

Anathema wrote:

A Be'lakor album this year? What a gift! https://smarturl.it/Belakor-Coherence

Anathema wrote:

Fuck @VirginMediaCorp@twitter.com for giving me late payment fees when the direct debit bit of their website literally never works. Once this contract runs out I will be moving to someone else.

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Anathema wrote:

Given the energy and anger that comes through on most of their tracks @otep@twitter.com's cover of Wake Up is surprisingly tame

Anathema wrote:

The lyrics support in Apple Music is almost enough on its own to make me never consider @spotify@twitter.com again.

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NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@isagalaev I definitely wouldn't give some rando 15m of my time if I wasn't interested in working with them. If I gave every spammer 15m I'd have no time left in the day.

However, if I am interested, 15m is nothing to get the ball rolling, so I don't see the big deal there.

owl@beach.city wrote:

grandma
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Anathema wrote:

On my monthly "maybe I should just get rid of all this warhammer I never use or paint that is taking up space" thought cycle.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev") wrote:

"Hi, I like your profile! Opportunity-growth-challenge-career-blah-blah, let's talk for 15 minutes on the phone. If you're *not* interested, let's talk for 15 minutes on the phone anyway."

Really? I understand that to an average recruiter "talking on the phone for 15 minutes" is a kind of noncommittal activity one can do without as much as waking up. When will they learn that to an average engineer it's something they hate with all their guts?

Learn about your customers, assholes!

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CBWebb@mastodon.art ("CB Webb") wrote:

a draw from last night before bed of a back burner dnd character that I finally get to play this week. His name is Timothy. He’s a bard.

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comradery@social.coop ("Comradery") wrote:

#introduction Comradery is a new subscription payment platform that is cooperatively owned and democratically controlled by every creator who uses it. Learn more about us and sign up for early access to be a creator at https://www.comradery.co

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mhoye wrote:

RT @mhoye Barely a game, closer to a mildly playable koan; exactly what it needs to be and no more. https://haraiva.itch.io/novena

technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

the #fennel survey is closed; I posted a writeup of the results here: https://fennel-lang.org/survey/2021

thanks to everyone who participated; it was great to hear from the community.

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umalkosh@goblin.camp ("steven spielberg, neutral evil") wrote:

oh you want ivermectin to treat your covid? yeah i have a big stash in the catacombs under my house,

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freedcreative@merveilles.town ("Kezz") wrote:

@aral @maxi I finally got around to watching Blade Runner 2049 last night.

You know things are cooked when one of your thoughts is that the recently made dystopian future movie seems unrealistic because the main character can have a private conversation in his home with his advanced AI girlfriend, and that he’s not location tracked by default.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Frog blast the vent core! Unwind with me at the end of the first full week of classes.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/08/31/im-escaping-into-outer-space-at-the-end-of-this-week/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAzdb5GrGG4

Anathema wrote:

Today's repeating song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2skAp_bRwT8

Anathema wrote:

How do I get rid of the anxiety chest-pain? :( :( :(

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Slavery = socialism = capitalism = abolitionism, and slavery is good while capitalism is evil. I have fallen into an ocean of chaos. Thanks, George Fitzhugh.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/08/31/socialism-with-slavery/

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trash_cat@www.librepunk.club ("trash cat 2: the trashcatening") wrote:

netflix's documentary "the social dilemma" is available at no cost on youtube (without drm) until september 30th.

here's the youtube link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mqR_e2seeM

here's an invidious link:
https://invidious.silkky.cloud/watch?v=7mqR_e2seeM

even if you don't think you'll get around to actually watching it during the next month, now would be a great time to download it with youtube-dl so you have a copy for later.

Anathema wrote:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/archive/blogs/ericlippert/is-is-as-or-is-as-is "In short, de jure is is is, and as is as is is, but de facto is is as and as is isinst." I love @ericlippert@twitter.com's blogs

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Now I have to get all of them tractors for birthday.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/08/30/a-kiss-on-the-hand-might-be-quite-continental-but-heavy-machinery-is-a-girls-best-friend/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5I7LY9_ltM

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rek@merveilles.town ("R E K") wrote:

Amphibious bicycle 'Cyclomer'

(Paris, 1932)

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danielcassidy ("Daniel Cassidy 🦌") wrote:

RT @danielcassidy Vampire-repellent baked goods such as garlic bread and hot cross buns

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Maybe there are fewer creationists, but they are getting more stupid.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/08/30/boiling-down-stupid-to-its-essence/

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