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

So I've been using GitHub Copilot full-time (work and play) for a few weeks now.

I notice it either comes up with the perfect thing amazingly quickly, or spits out something so blatantly wrong a junior in their first week would laugh at it. There's no in-between; everything it suggests is either amazing or terrible.

The tricky thing is: it's not always apparent at a glance which is which.

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

Weird. I guess I'm not a "super lib", because I'm not concerned about how Mary Lou Retton uses donations to help her medical conditions.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/25/did-you-sign-up-for-the-war-on-mary-lou-retton/

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• Mary Lou Retton (remote)

Mastodon wrote:

Watch out for this banner at #FOSDEM! A bit more than a week left and you can meet a large part of the Mastodon team and buy some of our merch in building H, level 1! @fosdem

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• A roll-up banner with the Mastodon logo, the tagline "Where conversations happen", a cloud of hashtags #FOSDEM, #FOSDEM24, #OpenSource, #SocialWeb, and #fosdem2024, an illustration of colorful elephants on a green landscape and some clouds, a QR code, the second tagline "Free, open-source decentralized social media" and the address joinmastodon.org.

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thegibson@hackers.town ("The Gibson") wrote:

Be kind to others, build them up.

You don’t know the good you may do.

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

Of course we make tea by heating water in a microwave!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/25/how-to-make-tea/

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• US Embassy London explains the proper way to make tea (remote)

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

Ja, es ist mal wieder so weit.. Die Arbeit macht Tomas Tulpe nötig. :blobcateyesspin:

Tomas Tulpe - My name is Tomas
https://song.link/s/431QNdnCqhhAt4vqm1oX1v

#music #NowPlaying #TomasTulpe #electro

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

Why yes, it has been a long day. And come to think of it, I probably should be asleep right now...why do you mention it?

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

My best theory so far: "on" only works with horizontal things because our brains unconsciously perceive anything visual as having gravity.

The items can be perceived as resting on a horizonal row, but not on a vertical column, where they would fall, and so our brains instead perceive the column as holding the items.

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

Why do we always say an item in a grid/table/spreadsheet is *IN* a column, but *ON* a row?

✅ "On row 5, in column 3"
❌ "In row 5, on column 3"

✅ "Look on the first row"
❌ "Look on the first column"

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

MurderDeathHug@woof.group wrote:

@rmrenner Me driving to the Mansus: Yeah i'm a total fascinationpilled lanterncel. I'm basically going Long mode and i'm giving Watchmancore vibes

My 25 year old cultist Enid: Leader I think the Madrugad should kill you

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

The only reason I can recommend this book is as a historical study of how wealthy Europeans thought about the world in late XIX century: being the only enlightened people compared to the savage rubble like Indians, Chinese, Americans, etc.

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

It was very different from the cartoon I watched when I was a kid :-) Gone is the ingenious Mr. Fogg using whatever is at hand in clever ways. In the book he bribes his way through and is being saved by other people. The main idea is, to win a terminally dumb wager, you need lot of money and a lot of luck. But surprisingly, the story isn't satiric in the slightest, he's a damn hero :-).

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

After seeing some people talk about The Book of Hours I decided to start up Cultist Simulator for the first time since 2018 and wow, I did not remember how to play it at all

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

sadness

https://variety.com/2024/music/obituaries-people-news/melanie-dead-brand-new-key-singer-woodstock-1235886892/

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

I like TypeScript, but I maintain that beyond a certain point, it makes you *feel* more productive than it actually *makes* you.

It *feels* like an amazing achievement when you finally, satisfyingly, invoke the proper incantation to banish those cursed squigglies in your editor...

...but you might have just spent hours "improving" the code, when what actually ships and runs is 0% different that it was before.

It's possible the only thing you meaningfully changed was your own feelings.

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hikingdude ("Franz Graf") wrote:

Hey Friends! one more shot from my weekend's #photo #adventure! It was midday and the stream was not very calm, lots of ripples .. it didn't really please me until I saw how it was meandering from right to left and back.

I grabbed my ND filter and tried a couple of long exposures so that the "harsh" ripples turned into an interesting pattern.

A little bit of processing later, I was really positively surprised!
Enjoy 😉

#photography #landscapephotography #landscape #river #art #nature #winter

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• This image captures a serene winter landscape, where a river meanders through a snow-covered terrain. The river, appearing placid and untouched, serves as a stark contrast against the snowy landscape. The surroundings are dotted with trees, their branches laden with fresh snow, adding a sense of tranquility to the scene. The image is presented in black and white, adding a timeless and almost ethereal quality to the tableau. The foggy atmosphere further enhances the sense of stillness and quietude, transforming the scene into a monochrome winter wonderland. The composition skillfully intertwines elements of nature, water, and winter, creating an atmosphere that is both outdoor and somewhat infrared in its aesthetic appeal.

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

noodling around on JS8, 40m is getting pretty busy #AmateurRadio

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infosec_jcp@infosec.exchange ("@infosec_jcp 🆓🐦🐈🃏 done differently") wrote:

@rtyler @pluralistic

Love how this just says ' so use a web browser like the developers of the web site intended. ' #W3C

Don't make me tap the sign
⚠️
👇

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• Love how this just says ' so use a web browser like the developers of the web site intended. ' #W3C Don't make me tap the sign ⚠️ 👇 (remote)

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

GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

Oh?

House Ethics Committee investigating Rep. Matt #Gaetz has reached out to the woman whom the congressman allegedly had sexual relations with when she was a 17-year-old minor #GaetzGate

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/24/politics/house-ethics-matt-gaetz?cid=ios_app

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

And just to be clear... this probably has more to do with the language choice than whoever wrote this code.

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

"Message Not Understood" is a not completed documentary about the early days and visions of personal computing predating the microprocessor and the companies we know and loathe today. It includes interviews with many of the people involved. I hope they're able to complete it.

https://vimeo.com/716569419

https://www.messagenotunderstood.com/

Not that this history and ideas are a secret, but it certainly doesn't get the marketing support that corporate narratives get.

Thanks to @j12i for pointing it out to me.

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SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote:

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• TORPENHOW PLEASE DRIVE SLOWLY Torpenhow Hill, England When the Saxons arrived and asked the Welsh the name of that hill, the Welsh said "pen" which means "hill" in Welsh. So the Saxons used their word for hill, "tor," and called it Torpen (hill hill). Then the Norse arrived and the same process added the their world for hill "Haugr". So now it was Torpen Haugr (Hill Hill Hill). Later, the English called it Torpenhow Hill (Hill Hill Hill Hill) Language is awesome. (remote)

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

we have enshittified enshittification to meaninglessness

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

The Linux kernel sources are often terrible code.

There, I've said it.

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SailorDisco ("David 🏳️‍🌈☮️🇵🇸 he/they") wrote:

@StillIRise1963 If a law prevents someone from sheltering the homeless or feeding the hungry there’s a moral obligation to break that law.

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Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net ("Dr. Damien P. Williams, Magus") wrote:

Reminder of one of my most Edible Temperature Take: Both Steven Pinker and Peter Singer bear large amounts of direct responsibility for the worst turns in contemporary western culture— especially concerning the popular understanding of ethics and society— and should be ostracized from the canon and public intellectualism as a whole 👍🏾

Pinker's beliefs as regards the lived experience of power, oppression, and the social construction of both criminality and suffering excuse the powerful and blame the oppressed. He's largely responsible for the prejudicial stereotype of autistic people as "robotic." He did a large amount of work to rehabilitate Charles Murray in the public view. And he aided Jeffery Epstein's legal defense.

Peter Singer has straight-up advocated for eugenics and the understanding of disabled life as one of inherent suffering and thus less valuable as recently as this year.

Do not heed them. Do not center them. Remove them from your work as much as possible.

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bengrosser ("Ben Grosser") wrote:

I spoke with Techtonic on WFMU (NYC independent radio) about Silicon Valley's obsessions with growth, their war against sustainability and ethics, and artistic counteractions that invert their growth-obsessed capitalist logics. It aired yesterday. You can listen to a recording below, or find it in the typical podcast apps:
https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/135921

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macrumors ("MacRumors.com") wrote:

Apple to Get TSMC's First 2-Nanometer Chips https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/24/apple-tsmc-first-2nm-chips/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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Just_Tired@mastodon.world ("Just Tired") wrote:

@StillIRise1963
Considering that Alito used a Judge that hung witches to justify his position in the draft, I'm waiting for the court to decide that the legality of witch burning is best decided by the states

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RIDDLES@c.im ("Cindy") wrote:

@RIDDLES

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