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

"In the future, I'm sure you will benefit from this technology that is today causing you problems and raising ethical concerns that I refuse to acknowledge by making inappropriate comparisons to other tech. By fighting it, you are just a bunch of free riders. Sad."

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

"In the future, this technology *will* benefit you whether you like it or not. " [shaking fist] "Benefit..."

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

It's interesting to see the delicate language they use to explain the situation to children, and it's really funny that they end the video with a segment showing off fan mail asking them not to cancel the show

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

so has everyone seen the apology video from the time that the Pokemon cartoon accidentally set off photosensitive epilepsy in a bunch of viewers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsDVDJYoMG0

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lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

Also, it is not a "Japanese fluency problem"... I've worked in 3 Japanese companies before, have a mortgage, etc etc etc.

They literally told me it's company policy.

The people I talked to were nice and understanding though and apologised.

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lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

So, Shinsei bank is running a promo that gives you 1.2% annual interest for a month if you open an SBI investing account at their store. 1.2% is nothing outside of Japan, but in Japan, it's huge.

Only catch: they don't allow foreigners to partake because foreigners can't open an SBI investment account in stores.

It's #FirstWorldProblems and probably peanut change at the end of the day (it's only for a month) but the principle of it annoys me, even after over a decade living here...

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

Just beat my personal best on the evil level. https://www.websudoku.com/?level=4

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djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:

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

ok the MC also thinks it's weird to hear people playing sports IRL say "noob"

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

VEM COM TUDO, SEU 'NOOB'

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

Surprised that a couple of smart techies in my feed are interested and mention Bluesky and the likes. I'm just going to rely on my gut feeling from a few years ago and continue ignoring those. They are attempts from people with money to make it look like they invented decentralization, but thankfully they're going nowhere. #Fediverse has won, even if it isn't supported by current numbers. The trend is obvious: this side of The Cycle where open technologies lay the foundation.

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

Hmmm... My wife seemed disappointed to learn I had spare whoopee cushions stashed away for the kiddo. 🤔

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bendingoutward wrote:

I'm my life so far, I've survived nearly bleeding out as a child, a pile of street fights, a few epidemics, too many vehicular situations, undetected pneumonia, and an actual goddamn pandemic (so far).

Friends, I was nearly taken out by a fucking raisin two minutes ago.

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marsroverdriver@deepspace.social ("Scott marsroverdriver Maxwell") wrote:

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

Er... "achievement unlocked"?

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

I got this to work, although I did have to add an operator to the obscure macro assembler's syntax. And... also run it with 'ulimit -s unlimited'. 😆

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futzle@old.mermaid.town ("Deborah Pickett") wrote:

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

Me: [explaining helpfully] So you see, today is yesterday's tomorrow *and* today is tomorrow's yesterday. Does that make sense?

4yo: ಠ_ಠ

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bcrypt@infosec.exchange ("yan") wrote:

to give an example, a lot of undergrad physics is proving equations from first principles but usually years later people forget the proofs (maybe equations too) and just remember the intuition, then look up the proofs/equations on wikipedia as needed. but there's not a lot of writing that focuses on just teaching the intuition without getting too deeply into the math. feyman's "QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter" is a good counterexample.

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bcrypt@infosec.exchange ("yan") wrote:

been reading about LLMs recently and it struck me that there's a lot of writing in the "how deep learning works starting from gradient descent" and "how to use chatGPT better than 99% of people" ranges but not much in between. seems maybe in general there is a shortage of technical writing in the intermediate range which IMO is probably most useful for non-research developers.

i think if you're trying to learn a topic quickly for some specific purpose (rather than general learning) it's important to pick the right level of abstraction and not waste too much time in other ones.

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