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Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy ("Kees van der Leun") wrote:

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• Waterfall chart showing expected changes 2022-2025: a like less fossil electricity, a bit more nuclear, and an enormous jump in renewables. (remote)

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DanShappir@webperf.social ("Dan Shappir") wrote:

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

dear everyone who told me years ago that 17776 was great and that I should read it even if I hate football: sorry I didn't listen

https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I haven’t had much time to post because the last 3 months have been absolutely wild in terms of workload. But I’m very excited about how this platform is growing.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I mostly liked Pokemon Scarlet/Violet but they need to let you create Looks in the next one. The uniforms didn't offer enough variety

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• Screencap of an outfit in Pokemon Sword and Shield: a cap, skirt, socks in bright magenta. A white shirt with stripes in the same magenta. Sunglasses lenses and hoodie in bright yellow. Chunky doc marten type boots.

blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

Apparently I saved this to my phone in 2015. Having a fun time imagining the context now.

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isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Just saw a title "ChatGPT clones will destroy Internet search", and a thought occurred to me: may be it's actually a solution to SEO spam. If the search algorithm is based on neural networks it makes it almost completely incomprehensible and thus immune to manipulation. By both spammers and creators.

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jonty@chaos.social ("Jonty Wareing") wrote:

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meetar@mastodon.xyz ("Peter Richardson") wrote:

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johnmacintosh@swiss.social ("John Macintosh") wrote:

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rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Found in a book on assembly language for the BBC Micro: "I must give a vote of thanks to Amanda Poole Adams who transformed a sometimes untidy ink smudged hand written manuscript into a neatly typed one containing very few errors"

There probably should be dashes and commas in there, but on my copy I think they were destroyed by a noise filter at some point. But besides that, it is unfathomable to me that you'd HAND WRITE a book on assembly. Not even work directly on a typewriter!

blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

In case you’re shopping for your valentine, I recommend this #Whataburger burger box. 😍

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rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

On iOS there are 2 variants that I know of: one is based on a qwerty keyboard and you can enter syllables in the romanization style of your choice. The other is based on (I think) keyboards for Japanese desktop computers

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neilk@xoxo.zone ("Neil Kandalgaonkar") wrote:

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I think I like the default Japanese IME on android a little bit more than the iOS one. It's got a 3x4 grid of keys like a ka sa ta etc for consonant selection and then you hold down a key and slide in one of the cardinal directions to select the vowel.

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cspam@mastodon.cloud ("Twitter Death Cult") wrote:

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Is ChatGPT the Segway of writing?

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yaelwrites ("✨Yael Grauer ✨") wrote:

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exchgr@mastodon.world ("elle mundy") wrote:

anathema@girlcock.club wrote:

Struggling to focus on the book I’m reading because the typography is so beautiful

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

@seldo The React ecosystem itself provides interesting evidence for this. Shopify and Wix have gone all-in, and thanks to the terrible results, have come to "hold it" VERY differently, because they can understand the value relationship.

Most teams, including them, start ignorant, not informed.

The SPA thing is losing traction slowly because we are learning much more slowly than Laurie's premise suggests.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

@seldo There are situated reasons why the pricing function is wrong that are common to many software offerings.

Namely, the market for each (re)developed site is for a thinly traded, complex, non-commodity (due to historical factors related to production complexity). Ignoring them facilitates Laurie's argument, but doesn't help it in the end.

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andydavies@webperf.social ("Andy Davies") wrote:

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

@seldo Laurie's argument is, basically, the Milton Friedman "prices can be wrong in the small, but on average will not be".

The premise, of course, is that there is a good information being teased out by the pricing function.

In other words, Laurie's economics are just pre-1975, whereas i think the Chicago School has ruined enough.

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ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org ("Parade du Grotesque 💀") wrote:

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

@seldo And this, rather than Laurie's model of aggregate market price setting, is what I see over and over.

Outside of high-management-maturity organisations, NOBODY knows what this shit costs. The pricing function is busted.