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kjhealy ("Kieran Healy") wrote:
In my experience it's an informative exercise to ask the students what they think the Save icon is supposed to be a picture of.
Mastodon FeedMastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kjhealy ("Kieran Healy") wrote:
Cursed with being born young enough to have to understand social media but old enough to have to understand the file system
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:
I understand Pica’s form is not conducive to her pronouncing human words— and so I’ve tried my best to glean some meaning from the collection of chirps, peeps, screams & mews that pass for her natural tongue. But for all my attentiveness & patience— I can make no sense nor decern any pattern or reason in the cacophony— yet, she will persist at her efforts to hold— conversation sometimes lengthy ones with whoever will engage. Murrping and mewing as if answering and asking questions. #cats
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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:
@fivetonsflax @nrohluap What linguists thought was the cat phase for “thank you” (or more literally “grateful mine”) turned out to mean something closer to “you will be/shall remain grateful for me(existing)” — That cats say this at times where “thank you” would be a more expected response (from a human perspective) is something we can only puzzle over. Perhaps, when cats receive gifts they endeavor to remind us how we ought keep giving them more?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
That techno marching band (Meute) has a new video out today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UtCQIzgEkI
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
Someone asked* why we can't just have good healthcare.
Short answer is that there are several industries which derive much (or in some cases, all) of their revenue from us having BAD health care.
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*rhetorically; I'm pretty sure she knew the answer & just wasn't willing to give in COMPLETELY to cynicism.
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
I should learn pascal. It's kinda sad that I have technically implemented a pascal compiler* and yet I have no fucking clue how to use the language.
* In a compilers class, but we just did the lexer/parser with lex & yacc. The prof provided the code gen stuff
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
hildabast@mastodon.online ("Hilda Bastian") wrote:
This is groundbreaking botanist & cytogeneticist, E.K. Janaki Ammal (1897-1984).
She was the 10th of 19 children in a mixed race family in Kerala, India, with caste adding to the discrimination she faced in life. Ammal chose a life of science over a planned marriage.
"My work is what will survive", she said. She was right. Her achievements are awesome....
https://www.thebetterindia.com/75174/janaki-ammal-botanist-sugarcane-magnolia/
1/8
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
every machine is a smoke machine if you operate it wrong enough
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
good morning
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
there may be a pattern to tonight’s posts
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
if cats could text you back they would not
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
such a happy cat
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
hazelweakly@hachyderm.io ("Hazel Weakly") wrote:
In software we don't build a 10 ton deck when a 2 ton deck would do, we build a Deck Builder Factory that prints out decks that are fully extensible up and down but we build it into a concrete foundation where the only extension options are sideways. Then we bolt on safety join points to the house that prevent you from actually extending the deck at all. Then we only use the printing system once and throw it away. Then we complain that we over engineered the deck. But the deck? Rated for one ton
Mastodon FeedReblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
simon@simonwillison.net ("Simon Willison") wrote:
I extracted some of my favorite quotes from the Oxide and Friends podcast episode I recorded with @bcantrill and @ahl and posted them on my blog, along with a detailed description of how I generated the transcript (MacWhisper) and found the quotes (Anthropic's Claude) https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jan/17/oxide-and-friends/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
mia@front-end.social ("Miriam (still)") wrote:
I wish more software was designed to let me be an expert on my own needs. I want to customize anything and everything. I want software to fit into my life, not the other way around. I want to put info in, and get it back out.
I'm tired of software being something I rent from other people, and wait to see what features they allow me to have, until they sell to a new landlord.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
As INP hits and the tide goes out regarding JS excesses, keep in mind that the badness you're seeing in the stats isn't new from a user experience perspective. The JS-first approach was *always* bad for *most* sites.
All that's happening is that the embedded badness is becoming slightly legible.
What should you take from this? That the folks who kept telling you "better DX" would lead to better UX have been definitively proven wrong.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
OpenAI opens the door for military uses but maintains AI weapons ban:
"On Tuesday, ChatGPT developer OpenAI revealed that it is collaborating with the United States Defense Department on cybersecurity projects and exploring ways to prevent veteran suicide, reports Bloomberg."
Kinda just sounds like they’re making a suicide-prevention app for vets with no military application. Not sure why they took that part ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/01/17/openai-opens-the.html
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Brb about to leak a memo on how people who don't like me shouldn't leave me bags of cash and I'm very afraid of that prospect
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Since my #microblog will now include links and the occasional rant, I decided to update my cover image and profile.
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jalefkowit@octodon.social ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:
Kind of surprised this story hasn't generated more discussion.
Cummins is a company that, among other things, makes automotive engines used in a variety of vehicles. In independent testing, the EPA discovered that the Cummins diesel engines in 630,000 Ram trucks made between 2013 and 2019 had included a "defeat device" to let them pass emissions testing when they should not have.
The Justice Department, EPA and state of California all filed suit, and Cummins eventually agreed to a settlement that requires it to both pay for a recall of all the affected vehicles, and to pay US$1.675 billion in civil penalties. That's the largest penalty ever levied under the Clean Air Act in its history -- larger even than the one Volkswagen had to pay over Dieselgate.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
ezio@akko.wtf ("Alyssa :yuyueat: :american_megatrans: ") wrote:
Oh but the best part
Dude dumped the rom by CRASHING A GBA AND RECORDING THE CRASH SOUND FOR HOURS https://youtu.be/0-7PSmYYHF0
Yea so it turns out if you crash a gba game and wait long enough, the "crash sound" starts playing the entire address space, so if you take enough recordings and do a majority vote on differences, you can dump a ROM
How the fuck do people figure this shit pit
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Not sure I'd be spending $3500 on a head dongle from a company that can't do push notifications right in 2024:
https://infrequently.org/2024/01/the-web-is-the-app-store/#fn-checkbox-compliance-3
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
A quick rant on that 2023 “leaked” Google memo “We Have No Moat And neither does OpenAI”:
"But the uncomfortable truth is, we aren’t positioned to win this arms race and neither is OpenAI. While we’ve been squabbling, a third faction has been quietly eating our lunch."
Boy, does this entire memo smell of bullshit; a red herring; the ol' pit us against the lunch lady routine.
First, it implies #Google and #OpenAI are on equal footing. ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/01/17/a-quick-rant.html
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
hi_mayank@hachyderm.io ("Mayank") wrote:
omg finally! chrome 121 ships with standard `scrollbar-color` and `scrollbar-width` properties https://chromestatus.com/feature/5665308343795712
that leaves just safari missing all `scrollbar-*` properties (including the incredibly useful `scrollbar-gutter`)
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I learned after posting this, from @walpolea, that this is because the `/` actually *is* a division symbol, and so you can just provide the result of the operation if you want, rather than having CSS run the math. (e.g., 1/1=1, 16/9=1.777, etc.)
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
TIL `aspect-ratio: 1` is a valid shorthand for `aspect-ratio: 1 / 1`.
That's apparently because the second number will be default to 1 if you don't provide it. (So you can also do things like `aspect-ratio: 2` if you want a box that's twice as wide as it is tall, for example.)
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
I was looking at NES asm again and I'm freshly annoyed that the 6502 is little-endian but the PPU is big-endian. Make up your mind!!
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Good times. Good times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Samsung_Electronics_Co.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
simon@simonwillison.net ("Simon Willison") wrote:
I am an expert prompt engineer
(This genuinely worked)
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- ChatGPT: The Python code successfully parsed the provided HTML content and populated the SQLite database with user data. However, it seems that the relationships data is not captured correctly. This issue might be due to the logic used (›-) You: Fix it ChatGPT: Error analyzing There was another issue with the 'current_user (›-) You: Try harder (remote)
