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

The costs of the complexity are being paid somewhere, sometime, and possibly even diffusely. External costs.

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LadyDragonfly@universeodon.com ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 :verifiedtrans:") wrote:

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• Rep. Zoey Zephyr, on the Montana house floor, raising her mic (which was shut off) above her head. (remote)

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

I have a feeling that cheap complexity isn't.

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trevorflowers@machines.social ("Ding Dang Trevor Flowers") wrote:

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• A demonstration room set up with 70s personal computer replicas. (remote)
• A demonstration room set up with 70s personal computer replicas. (remote)

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

Who has a spare Blue Sky invite? Interested to see if/how it's different

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simon@simonwillison.net ("Simon Willison") wrote:

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sugar@goblin.camp ("Davey :sugar_approved:") wrote:

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

First we had SALAMI[1], and now we have PIGs (Probabilistic Image Generators)[2]. Seems like good terms to adopt.

[1] https://blog.quintarelli.it/2019/11/lets-forget-the-term-ai-lets-call-them-systematic-approaches-to-learning-algorithms-and-machine-inferences-salami/
[2] https://mastodon.social/@glyph/110266087814266763

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

TFW you probably should've just gone with tkinter.

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"When the Black people refused to leave, the white mob attacked them with sticks, clubs, pipes, and whips while local law enforcement did nothing to intervene. When white airmen from a nearby Air Force base tried to protect injured protesters, they too were attacked." https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/apr/26

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

It's Rust (except for all the parts that aren't Rust)! It's Python (except for all the parts that aren't Python)! It's Node (except for all the parts that aren't Node)! It's ...

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

That's an awful lot of effort to show that zebrafish don't like french fries. I coulda told 'em.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/04/26/whoa-its-been-an-awful-long-time-since-i-had-a-french-fry-must-be-why-im-depressed/

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• Results of computer analysis of zebrafish responses to acrylamide (remote)

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

Python: The best C wrapper.

HTML/CSS/JavaScript: Because it won.

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

I've been musing on mixing Electron with a Python backend for reasons that have nothing to do with the merits of either technology stack, but it might be the least bad option in this moment, and it's a little demoralizing.

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janneke@todon.nl ("Janneke") wrote:

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• A graphviz-generated acyclic directed graph showing the root of the GNU Guix package tree, from gcc-core-mesboot0-2.95.3 down to stage0 and the bootstrap seeds. (remote)

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

Two losers having a perfectly normal conversation.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/04/26/two-losers-having-a-perfectly-normal-conversation/

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• Carlson-Musk (remote)

anathema@girlcock.club wrote:

I have just purchased an input switcher with a passive attentuation knob

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

The whole concept of "Chads" is warping reality. Don't fall for it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/04/26/how-to-turn-a-bad-relationship-into-a-click-baity-article/

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• That idiotic "virgin vs chad" meme (remote)

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mythologybot@botsin.space ("MythologyBot") wrote:

anathema@girlcock.club wrote:

@marcan I don't suppose you know a way to either disable high-impedance detection in an m1 macbook (OSX) or otherwise lower the output volume so I can have the volume higher than the literal minimum without it being too loud?

anathema@girlcock.club wrote:

Do I need a special cable??? I just want to listen to things at a reasonable volume ;_;

anathema@girlcock.club wrote:

Why is everything always too loud even on minimum volume settings, these are supposed to be 250 ohm headphones ;_;

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

checking out bluesky, where I am xor.blue https://bsky.app/profile/xor.blue

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bradeeoh ("Brady "Bivalent" Eidson") wrote:

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jalcine@todon.eu ("Jacky Alciné") wrote:

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

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• A photographer along the edge of the water, setting up a view camera with a very long bellows on two tripods. (remote)

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

getting set up for weekly local 6m USB net 📡

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shauna@social.coop ("Shauna GM") wrote:

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

nice post by @micahflee on solving the #bsidessf CTF using gpt4! https://micahflee.com/2023/04/capturing-the-flag-with-gpt-4/

people who hire candidates using take-home assignments... are you worried about this