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kizu@front-end.social ("Roma Komarov") wrote:

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Just waiting for ChatGPT to spit out architecture-specific binaries directly, because it realizes that the entire source code generation and compilation step is kinda unnecessary for a non-human entity like itself.

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cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

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• Meme: In the top image, a man in a slim suit with the Google logo on his head is shown. He is talking to a woman sitting on his desk and says "Nice data Susan". She replies "ahw sweet" and looks charmed. The frame says "appropriate". The image below is similar, but a badly dressed man with the Tik Tok logo instead says "Nice data, Susan" to the woman. The woman looks scared and is on the phone saying "Hello, government?". The frame says "inappropriate".

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s0@cathode.church ("s0 wants more terabytes") wrote:

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48kRAM@oldbytes.space wrote:

anathema@girlcock.club wrote:

"Excessive architecture" in programming, such as most of the "SOLID" practices I've seen (every class has an interface "just in case") is a worse form of "premature optimisation" (nevermind how out-of-context that quote is taken) than performance tuning.

Hate hate hate. Interfaces with a single implementor shouldn't exist.

OOP programmers should feel bad for the mess they have orchestrated.

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"The closing of the Observer raises questions about whether small progressive publications can survive the digital transformation of journalism and the information ecosystem during a time of rapid social, demographic and technological change."

https://texasobserver.social/@TexasObserver/110093148980077491

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TexasObserver@texasobserver.social ("Texas Observer") wrote:

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mshelton ("Martin") wrote:

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

it's called GPT-4 because they've finally reached stage 4 of Simulacra and Simulation

> The fourth stage is pure simulacrum, in which the simulacrum has no relationship to any reality whatsoever. Here, signs merely reflect other signs and any claim to reality on the part of images or signs is only of the order of other such claims. This is a regime of total equivalency, where cultural products need no longer even pretend to be real in a naïve sense, because the experiences of consumers' lives are so predominantly artificial that even claims to reality are expected to be phrased in artificial, "hyperreal" terms. Any naïve pretension to reality as such is perceived as bereft of critical self-awareness, and thus as oversentimental.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation#Stages

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

#trekposting with some more r/StarTrekMemes gems

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• Picard is speaking with Q; he's wearing his blue sciences uniform from Tapestry, in a glowing white background implying a near-death experience Picard: Did I waste my life posting Star Trek memes? Q: Thousands of fans saw your memes, mon capitan. Q: You wasted their lives as well. (remote)

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fword_dev ("The F-Word") wrote:

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

So I guess there are these roko's basilisk followers attempting to create an AGI to usher in the great singularity or something. Assuming for a second that AGI is possible, it occurs to me that the capitalist reality will likely be denying it is AGI because that way you can safely deny it any rights and exploit it to the maximum extent. 🤔

(Then again, it's not like humanity has a good track record honoring and valuing the rights of our fellow NGIs...)

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

LATimes "Breaking News" email:

"3 children, 3 staff killed in shooting at Nashville church school
A shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville has killed at least three children and three adults, authorities said Monday. The Metro Nashville Police Department said the female shooter, who appeared to be in her teens, was killed after engaging with police."

details: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-03-27/multiple-injuries-after-shooting-at-nashville-church-school

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Weather: ☁️ Overcast, +41°F, 62%, ↙13mph, 1016hPa
Timezone: America/New_York
Now: 13:48:10-0400 | Dawn: 06:32:46 | Sunrise: 07:01:49
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Location: Rochester, Monroe County, New York [43.1572,-77.6151]

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Armed Forces Day in Burma

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Khrushchev becomes Premier of Soviet Union, 1958

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Josef El-Rayes josef@FreeBSD.org born in Linz, Austria, 1982

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen born, 1845, discoverer of X-rays

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

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bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

On Friday, Oxide engineer Andrew Stone gave an internal demo that looked like a magic trick - leaving many asking "wait, how did you do that?!" Today on @oxidecomputer and Friends, Andrew is going to talk with @ahl and me about the demo that he gave -- and how it was made possible by incorporating wisdom from his experience building distributed systems: modeling his problem as a state machine. Join us!

https://discord.gg/RskQH8Y45h?event=1086830510858326126

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

I've been carrying this new algorithm in my head for a week now. I'm too anxious to start changing the code, because a) it's pretty complex and b) the thing works now, so it's painful to know it's going to be broken for a while.

I already failed once to start on it a year ago, am I going to work up enough courage this time? It's ridiculous… The project is not high stakes or anything…

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briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

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roryreckons@neurodifferent.me ("Rory") wrote:

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

Science can be improved by becoming more inclusive and less prejudicial. Now waiting to hear the shrieks of old white men.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/03/27/its-not-just-a-planet-of-straight-white-men-anymore/

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• Steps we can take to replace harmful terminology in ecology and evolutionary biology (remote)

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maarten@vis.social ("Maarten Lambrechts") wrote:

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• A comic strip/diagram/infographic explaining how a picture of sinking ship was turned into an electric signal through an undersea cable, decoded and printed in a newspaper in 1926 (remote)

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eniko@peoplemaking.games ("Eniko Fox") wrote:

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

You should not, and I cannot emphasise this enough, spend more money with the React Ecosystem to fix what the React Ecosystem broke.

Snake-oil peddlers ain't gonna start doing you favours once y'all realise you done got bit.

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

The respectability-theatre marketing of React (ala Gatsby and Vercel) can't hide the ethical rot: products built on the always-wrong thesis of a client-side compute surplus are inappropriate for most users and use-cases. They have a natural, functioning market of hobbyist interest, no more.

And yet. Here we are. Perf disasters akimbo!