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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."

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..."

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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• Screencap from the apology vid. It shows a corkboard with a child's drawing of several pokemon and "Please don't cancel Pokemon!" written in kana.

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

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.

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...

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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• The flyer for the Doctor Deathray Album Release show, featuring Red Hot Empty & De3ra The flyer features the album artwork from our new album, "51 Miles from Nowhere" with a red Rayburn emblazoned with hearts and retro sci-if curves. The show is April 29th at 7pm in Ellijay, Georgia. (remote)

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runasand ("Runa Sandvik") wrote:

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

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

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

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

VEM COM TUDO, SEU 'NOOB'

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• Screen from Freezer Pops. The MC is overhearing volleyball players that are not visible on screen. A dialogue box says, "Fernando: Bring it, you noob!" in Portuguese

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h_thoreson@mastodon.world ("hannah") wrote:

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eRatt@gaygeek.social ("Elliott") wrote:

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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julialuna@chaos.social ("julia, serial project starter") wrote:

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• a signup form with a gender field. the gender field has a dropdown with different levels, and its contents change depending on which one is selected. beginner: radio buttons between man, woman, non-binary intermediate: slider between masculine and feminine advanced: three sliders: masculine/feminine, agender/hypergender, queer/normative expert: this one has a lot. 5 sliders: - hypomasculine / hypermasculine - hypofeminine / hyperfeminine - gendersolid / genderfluid - cis / trans - queer / normative a grid between star signs and celestial bodies a color picker for aura 4 more sliders: - nerd / jock - wretched / ethereal - herbivore / carnivore - cringe / based a grid between good/neutral/evil and lawful/neutral/chaotic 5 more sliders: - pure of heart, dumb of ass / villain (sexy) - hoarder / spartan - top / bottom - cats / dogs - podcasts / music hardcore: a textbox elevated: yes / no (remote)

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drwho@hackers.town ("The Doctor") wrote:

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. 🤔

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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psf@oldbytes.space wrote:

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

Er... "achievement unlocked"?

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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rugedigu@mastodon.art wrote:

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• Picture of the upper half of a person from the back with blonde hair in a ponytail in front of a green hedge. A black-and-gray shawl is draped over their outstretched arms. It consists of three layers of elongated „feathers“, looking a little like wings. (remote)
• Same person and shawl as in first picture, only from the side-back. (remote)
• Same person and shawl as in first picture, but from the front, and without head. The shawl is wrapped around the torso. Black kitty stalks the lawn in the background. (remote)

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shugmonkey@mastodon.art wrote:

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• A girl with a bob hairstyle. Her dress is made of abstract shapes. (remote)

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

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.

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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edavies@functional.cafe ("Ed Davies") wrote: