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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

starting to read through https://burn.dev/book/ to learn about what they refer to as a "deep learning framework"... which I assume just means #RustLanguage library/libraries for #LLM work.

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mpe@ravenation.club ("Martin Paul Eve") wrote:

Lol. I loaded our 900GB Crossref DOI SQLite database into @simon's Datasette tool for some initial exploratory work. Initial load was a little slow, but it handles the indexed fields very well indeed.

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GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

I'm not as confident, but I like seeing this:

Via Angry Staffer:

100% this.

Alexander S. Vindman:

#Trump looks very vulnerable. It’s just a single datapoint, but this spells disaster for him in a general election. Almost 50% of a hardcore Republican electorate is not interested in what he’s pedaling. Not sure why the media is missing this.

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CassandraZeroCovid wrote:

@GottaLaff

Yea - almost half of the votes last night went to other candidates in a hard- core Republican state with the hardest of the hard core Republicans showing up in the bitter cold. (Look at the media questions - the majority described themselves as "very conservative".)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"Starting February 1, 2024, senders who send more than 5,000 messages per day to Gmail accounts must..."

https://social.kernel.org/objects/0ca26a5e-7c34-4708-be03-2146f43ade03

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drrjv@vmst.io ("DrBob, Posting for Democracy") wrote:

A Win for #Trans Students 🤗

“The U.S. #SupremeCourt on Tuesday let stand lower court rulings that allow a #Transgender boy to use the #Restroom that matches his #gender identity, a win for the student.

The order protects transgender students within the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit — which includes Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin — and puts off any Supreme Court review of bathroom bans for some time, likely into 2025 or beyond.”

https://www.lawdork.com/p/supreme-court-indiana-trans-restroom-case

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KimPerales@toad.social ("Kim Perales") wrote:

"Judge blocks JetBlue-Spirit merger in a major win for Biden’s Justice Department."

FTC CHM Lina Khan won again!

#Antitrust

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/16/jetblue-spirit-merger-block-in-win-for-bidens-justice-department.html

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• LaGuardia International Airport Terminal A for JetBlue and Spirit Airlines in New York: (remote)

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akkartik@merveilles.town ("Kartik Agaram") wrote:

> The quest for passive income is really the quest for a greater fool.

> While we're nowhere near a place where bots can steal your job, we're certainly at the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that fails at doing your job.

> Hustle culture and passive income are about turning other peoples' dollars into your dimes. It is a negative-sum activity.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/15/passive-income-brainworms by @pluralistic

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kernellogger@fosstodon.org ("Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)") wrote:

Andrea Righi[1] wrote a #LinuxKernel scheduler in #Rust / #Rustlang using sched-ext[2]; he claims he was "'"pretty shocked to see that it doesn't just work, but it can even outperform the default #Linux scheduler (EEVDF) with certain workloads (i.e., gaming):"'"

He shared it on the #birdside: https://twitter.com/arighi/status/1746938387968254371

Github page: https://github.com/sched-ext/scx/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCfVbz9jvVQ

[1] #Kernel engineer @ Canonical
[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/922405/

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

This is fine.

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• A CNN headline reads: White House targeted by swatting call, latest in nationwide trend. Washington CNN — A significant number of emergency personnel responded to the White House on Monday morning after a 911 call falsely claimed there was a fire and someone was trapped inside, a source familiar with the incident told CNN. President Joe Biden spent the weekend at Camp David and was not on White House grounds during the incident. The call, which was traced to a fake number, was made at 7:03 a.m. ET. Multiple DC Fire and EMS units were sent to the White House. (remote)

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

Appropriate to my last post:

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• billionaire buttinski on campus (remote)

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gaxix ("Gax") wrote:

Dragon's lair 💎

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

Expose a DEI opponent, and what have you got? A naked, lying monster.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/16/headhunting/

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• Bill Ackman and Neri Oxman (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

On Jan 16, 1832: Alabama Claims Sovereignty Over Muscogee and Cherokee People; Bars Tribal Customs and Autonomy

“By 1837, 23,000 Muscogee people had been forced out of the Southeast.”

https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/jan/16

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

oh oh… Oscar the Housepanther has, after somehow being rained on by catnip, found the oranges

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changelog@changelog.social ("Changelog") wrote:

🗞 New episode of Changelog News!

🙏 A plea for lean software
💽 PocketBase is a backend in 1 file
🏭 Vanna AI framework for text-to-SQL
💭 Henrik Karlsson on what to focus on
🏡 Calvin Wankhede’s offline smart home
🎙 hosted by @jerod

#software #news #podcast #python #rag #sql #homelab #smarthome #privacy #golang #focus #productivity

🎧 https://changelog.com/news/77

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StillIRise1963@mastodon.world wrote:

“Again we have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was built on the exploitation of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor, both black and white, both here and abroad.”

MLK
—The Three Evils speech, 1967

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andrewfeeney@phpc.social ("Andrew Feeney") wrote:

Starship Enterprise implies the existence of Starship Free, Starship Personal, Starship Cloud (Most Popular), Starship Cloud Pro, Starship Cloud Pro PLUS, and Starship On Premises (Contact for pricing).

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

this is Not Good

‘This person should not be president’: Kamala Harris takes hits in book on Biden | Books | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/jan/14/kamala-harris-joe-biden-book-the-truce-hunter-walker-luppe-b-luppen?utm_term=65a67dd36f44a63691fd37cd1744c992&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUS_email

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

I am particularly peeved at apologists for terrorism who use moral relativism while condemning atheists for lacking the moral clarity of their holy books.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/16/there-are-jerks-on-mastodon-too/

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• @escarpment@mastodon.online @pzmyers It says in your profile you are an atheist yet you still seem to have been convinced by the religious moralizers that there exists a clearly defined objective standard of good and evil, which there is not. @escarpment@mastodon.online @pzmyers Also, though many people claim half-heartedly to condemn both Israel and Hamas (which in my view is unjustified), they spend the majority of the time and effort condemning Israel, therefore tacitly endorsing Hamas. They hold rallies against Israel, not against Israel and Hamas. They bring cases to the ICJ against Israel, not against Israel and Hamas. (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Gorsuch urged to recuse himself from supreme court case over ties to oil baron | US supreme court | The Guardian

“Two days before oral arguments in a US supreme court case set to have a major impact on federal health and environmental regulation, a leading government watchdog called on Neil Gorsuch to recuse himself over close links to a billionaire oil baron who has hosted the rightwing justice at a mountain resort called Eagles Nest for weekends of dove shooting and who stands to benefit from the ruling at hand.”

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2024/jan/16/neil-gorsuch-supreme-court-case-recuse-philip-anshutz?utm_term=65a67dd36f44a63691fd37cd1744c992&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUS_email

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

I know outdoors ice is a very usual thing for some people, but seeing it around here it always feels like something impossible just happened.

tf you mean it can get cold enough to freeze water

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

I did a podcast with @code4thought
explaining my views on the need for #FrugalComputing

https://codeforthought.buzzsprout.com/1326658/14291879

#Code4Thought
#ClimateEmergency

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JenMsft ("Jen Gentleman") wrote:

async await async await async await async await
in the function, the mighty function, the child thread sleeps tonight 🎵

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I can see why they called it “Oracle Cloud Infrastructure” (OCI) rather than “Oracle Cloud Database” (OCD)

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melle@chaos.social wrote:

TIL: https://github.com/wireviz/WireViz Like GraphViz but for wires 😍

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

While waiting to see how bad the freezing rain will be, I decided to warm my cold heart by reading about Bobbie the wonder dog:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobbie_the_Wonder_Dog

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

when: 9pm East Coast US time, Tuesday 16 JAN 2024
where: at the 20m JS8 meeting freq (14.0780MHz)
what: @ROCDIGI group net

we have established a weekly net to explore the possibilities in JS8 with others, centered around but not limited to the Rochester NY area. feel free to join us no matter your location, it will be more fun with a good turnout to explore things like automated checkins and message relaying.

the idea is to establish a welcoming environment for people to get comfortable operating in this short-text-message mode, which works great with low power, with less-than-optimal antennas & sites, and over relatively long distances-per-watt.

looking fwd to working together

jeffs
—
Jeff Sonstein
wa2rrb

#AmateurRadio

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

You shouldn't care about the Iowa caucuses, except that it reveals the existence of MAGA assholes and the corruption of the Republican party.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/16/why-should-i-care/

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• Suddenly, the whole world blows up. (remote)

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mkwadee@mastodon.org.uk ("Khurram Wadee ✅") wrote:

#PearlsBeforeSwine by #StephanPastis for January 16, 2024 - GoComics

https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/01/16

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• Rat congratulates the cartoonist on having made it through another 365 days closer to being claimed by the dirt. The cartoonist wishes he'd said Happy Birthday like everyone else. (remote)