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Reblogged by teller ("Siim Teller"):

mikebutcher ("Mike Butcher") wrote:

European investors grab the popcorn for the new 'series' of OpenAI, but are fearful of the fallout https://tcrn.ch/49I1KGf by me

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

I can't help but notice the more someone talks about free speech, the less they seem to comprehend the concept.

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

sysop408@sfba.social ("Sheldon Chang 🇺🇸") wrote:

This whole ordeal with #OpenAI tracks against my past dealings with AI. You could get the AI 90% of the way to doing the job you wanted it to do, but attempts to close the last 10% would result in the project moving backward.

Because of this, we could never take a human off of closely babysitting the AI's decisions, which didn't actually save us much time. It just changed the nature of the work for the human.

If we went all in and and tried to close the final 10% to make the AI self-sufficient, the whole thing would go haywire to the point of being unusable.

So at least for me, OpenAI blowing up as soon as they could see the promised land is totally on brand. 😂

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

Have literally nothing to add to the openai stuff, except to ask: why is this front-page news around the world in serious publications? Seriously? A staffing drama?

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

i'm starting to question elon's commitment to free speech

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

johnallsopp@indieweb.social ("John Allsopp") wrote:

@carnage4life I’d not have picked OpenAI mirrors NFTs in value destruction 7 days ago but here we are.

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

In fairness, there's actually a little more to it than that. It seems to have something to do with animation and/or transitions too.

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

raphael@mastodon.sdf.org ("Raphael") wrote:

Because it bears repeating: #python datetimes should always have timezone information it it. Always. Just put it in! It prevents so many bugs from happening

"I use UTC everywhere" Great! So you can just put UTC as the tz info!

(you are only exempted from this if you are processing 10k datetimes per second for some data analysis or something)

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

latte@mastodon.online ("a new hope :blobcatcoffee:") wrote:

Attachments:

• Flowchart: 1) get new idea. 2) start new project. 3) tell everyone. Skip step 4 of 'finish project' and go straight to 1) get new idea again. (remote)

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

Anyway, here's one of the recovered photos for you! My wife @alenacpp has a special soft spot for this piece set due to pieces resembling "C++" :-)

#darktable

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• A figurine holding an axe. Made from pieces resembling Lego, but all of them have the same shape of two merged plus signs: ++

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

… What I'm trying to say is, us programmers use computers in a vastly different manner than non-programmers. Being able to wrangle data without pre-defined user interfaces is a huge enabler. Fight to keep it free, don't let the gloss of "curated computing" blind you.

Also, I keep being impressed with the quality of #Darktable as a project. This time by the docs. Imagine a commercial app documenting location of its files.

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

- Stumbled upon a few RAW photo folders that weren't in #darktable library for some reason. Decided to check the rest.
- Searched for "darktable database", found the exact file path in DT's online docs.
- In sqlite, .schema revealed the table "film_rolls" with folder names
- ipython, sqlite, pathlib.glob, set - set, sort — got the list of folders missing from the db
- Dumped the ipython session into a .py file, will be running it while sorting through my photos.

Took ~10 minutes.

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

Free_Press@mstdn.social ("Aure Free Press") wrote:

Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row

For nearly a week, the country of 10 million met customer needs with wind, hydro and solar — a test run for operating the grid without fossil fuels.
#AureFreePress #News

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/portugal-just-ran-on-100-renewables-for-six-days-in-a-row

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

So it seems like the BBC is making the Next/React mistake?

*sigh*

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

wim_v12e@scholar.social ("Wim🧮") wrote:

If all search queries are replaced by ChatGPT-style queries, what does that mean for energy consumption and emissions?

tl;dr: Emissions would increase by 60x.

"Emissions from ChatGPT are much higher than from conventional search"

https://limited.systems/articles/google-search-vs-chatgpt-emissions/

#FrugalComputing #ClimateEmergency #AI

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

This talk from https://perfnow.nl/ really highlights some important things to know about React:

• It is a system designed to generate extra work
• If, at any moment, you don't want it to do extra work, that's *on you*
• ...ergo, React is an extra-work-about-extra-work-avoidance system, at the team scale

https://noti.st/keerthanak17/koNy8w/optimizing-react-applications

The "fun" part is that most teams don't learn this until it's too late.

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Today in "Safari, please, I'm begging you, lay off the new features for five minutes and just go fix your existing CSS":

Safari is apparently the only browser that can't calculate changes between px and another unit type when border radius is involved.

(Fun fact: I learned this from a StackOverflow question that just so happened to turn eleven years old today!)

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

Bummer. Looks like Artstation has quietly disabled the RSS feeds. :/

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

sanityinc@hachyderm.io ("Steve Purcell") wrote:

This Is Just To Say

I have terminated
the EC2 instances
that were in
the #AWS account

and which
you were probably
saving
for "Testing Stuff"

Forgive me
they were t3.xlarge
so idle
and so expensive

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

(Oh wait. Does this have to do with that stochastic parrot, Sam Atlman, being in the news?)

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

I'm not sure why there's a sudden uptick of negativity on VC backed "AI" and ML (that is basically deployed against people and has few if any redeeming qualities worth all the resources needed to operate and run them) on my timeline, but I'm here for it.

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

ashedryden@scholar.social ("Ashe Dryden") wrote:

US pals: as of this morning you can order 4 more COVID tests for free from the government. Get them now before you need them! https://www.covid.gov/tests

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

I know this will be hard to believe, but sometimes Nobel prize winning atheists can be colossal idiots.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/20/okay-boomer/

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• John Clauser (remote)

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Staring at 32 lines of React and TypeScript code that literally just put a single link tag on the page, and wondering how the fuck we got here.

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

I don't think this is something the good guys do.

I don't think we should "stand with" the people doing this.

I don't even need to think of my own child and what an unspeakable horror this would be to know this is not a thing that anyone should support, under any circumstances, ever.

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• A New York Times article notification. The headline is the quote "Graveyard for children," which follows, "parents in Gaza have begun scrawling names directly into their children's skin, in case they need to be identified." (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I've switched from Chrome to Firefox about a decade ago. It's just as fast and intuitive, and container tabs are a game changer. It always catches me off guard when I see its market share is so low.

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

That's not how I'd define success.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/20/oh-come-on-now-2/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF2C7xE9Mj4

Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):

tcarrez@fosstodon.org ("Thierry Carrez") wrote:

Finally found the time to watch @bcantrill 's "Intelligence is not enough" talk -- engaging, fun, and timely.

And as a mechanical systems engineer by trade, I can relate :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQfJi7rjuEk

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

How will you be coping with the holidays?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/20/holidays-coming-lets-get-depressed/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kyRNRZBB4M

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

nikitonsky@mastodon.online ("Niki Tonsky") wrote:

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• Q: What's the most significant change in our industry over the last 10 years? A: Teams of 5 developers unquestioningly adopting cumbersome tools/patterns from 5000 developer orgs promoted aggressively via open source. (remote)