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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
okay, this could change a lot of work flow... if I can just drop a dataset in to a specialty ChatGPT and explore it with "prompts", maybe I can do the same sort of thing starting from a locally-running open-source LLM
as a former teaching prof who struggled to get students interested in data exploration tools, this is fascinating...
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simon@simonwillison.net ("Simon Willison") wrote:
GitHub made it harder to get the URL to download a zip of a repo recently - you used to be able to right click and copy URL on the "Download ZIP" button but they broke that with a recent frontend change
I built this Observable Notebook to compensate: https://observablehq.com/@simonw/download-github-repo
You enter the URL to the repo (or in my case I typed simonw/datasette) and it gives you a URL to a zip, which starts with codeload.github.com
Clicking the "Use the latest commit hash" button fetches the latest commit hash and shows you that URL instead.][6] ([remote][7])
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Writing a blog post takes me weeks, because that's how long it takes to realize I'm trying way too hard to be clever and I should just delete like half of what I've written and get to the point.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Oscar the Housepanther apparently likes chard
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Remember the weird "BWAAAANG" noise they used for V'Ger in the Star Trek: The Motion Picture soundtrack? That instrument is called THE BLASTER BEAM: https://youtu.be/cj4f5z6nRhs
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
okay, DALL-E really is amusing
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robconnolly@fosstodon.org ("Rob Connolly") wrote:
Where have all the websites gone? - https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/where-have-all-the-websites-gone/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
I would love to see the term Digerati make a comeback to describe the corporate social media personalities disguised as celebrity tech influencers.
It’s a whole thing and we’re really not talking about it. #Meta #Threads #BigTech #SmallWeb https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digerati
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Just want to give a big shoutout to my #freelancers. The ones who've been in it for years. There's an element of exploitation that is often invisible to rest of the world. And the #freelancer often must deal with that alone. It's a weird and tough life sometimes.
I see you. I feel you. 🧑🏻💻👩🏿💻👨🏽💻👩🏼💻❤️
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Have started calling React-era stacks "contemporary frontend" rather than "modern" because "contemporary" implies that it's messy, contested, and unrefined.
"Modern" implies class, taste, style, and timelessness that most the codebases I inspect are devoid of, and we should reserve good words for good things.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This is cuttingly on-point: https://johan.hal.se/wrote/2024/01/24/concatenating-text/
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The abysmal state of iOS Push Notification support featured in a blog-length footnote of my most recent post, but it wasn't exhaustive. Thankfully, @rgadellaa is on the case.
TL;DR: it's bad. The horrible, no-good, verging-on-useless kind of bad.
The cynical among us might suspect it's part of a checkbox exercise to throw regulators off the scent without getting anywhere near capable enough to allow major apps to take the web seriously.
https://webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/web-push-ios-one-year/
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LaurieWinkless@scicomm.xyz ("Laurie Winkless") wrote:
I've written another newsy science article exclusively for my website. In this one, I talk about a major new paper that's been hitting the headlines - it shows that emissions from Canadian oil sands facilities may be many times higher than we'd realised https://www.lauriewinkless.com/journal/oil-sand-emissions-may-be-64-times-higher-than-reported #climatechange #oilandgas #athabasca #oilsands
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nuala@mastodon.art ("Nuala, with two As") wrote:
A man goes to see the great clown Pagliacci. He says, "Pagliacci, something is wrong with me, I don't find you funny." Pagliacci says "Maybe you are depressed, you should go and see a doctor" and the man says "but Pagliacci, I
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
(Not that there aren't many other pressing things to worry about. 🙁)
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Thinking today about the gap between these two ways of thinking about computing and my future employment prospects.
Me: Computer as a workshop of tools to help me accomplish my personal goals. Sometimes working with others to accomplish shard goals.
Corps, people who own them, etc.: Computer as a workshop of tools for surveillance, manipulation, undermining labor, and rent.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
There must be a feed setting somewhere between "I never want to have any idea what's going on in the world" and "I want to be overwhelmed with devastating news every second of my existence," but I've never quite been able to find it.
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macdonst@mastodon.online ("Simon MacDonald") wrote:
I wrote about React on Friday, but more importantly, check out our updated website. The team put in a lot of hard work on it. Hats off to @colepeters @kristoferjoseph and @scottjehl 👏
https://begin.com/blog/posts/2024-01-26-removing-react-is-just-weakness-leaving-your-codebase
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djlink@mastodon.gamedev.place ("David Amador") wrote:
Someone created a fully funcional 16-Bit 3Hz CPU in Excel!!! with 128KB of RAM 16 color display, and a custom assembly language to run some programs in it. It’s open source too
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Notes on Cruise's pedestrian accident:
[By morning of 10-03, leadership and 100+ employees knew that pedestrian had been dragged ~20ft. by the Cruise AV during the secondary movement after the AV came to a stop. On 10-02 and 10-03, "Cruise leadership was fixated on correcting the inaccurate media narrative" that Cruise's AV had caused the accident This led Cruise to convey information about the Nissan and omit "other important information" about the accident to "the media, regulators, and other government officials" "The reasons for Cruise’s failings in this instance are numerous: poor leadership, mistakes in judgment, lack of coordination, an 'us versus them' mentality with regulators, and a fundamental misapprehension of Cruise’s obligations of accountability and transparency to the government and the public. Cruise must take decisive steps to address these issues in order to restore trust and credibility." "the DMV Suspension Order is a direct result of a proverbial self-inflicted wound by certain senior Cruise leadership and employees who appear not to have fully appreciated how a regulated business should interact with its regulators ... As one Cruise employee stated in a text message to another employee about this matter, our 'leaders have failed us.'"][6]
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firestorm@kolektiva.social ("Firestorm Books") wrote:
How many banned books can a room of dedicated volunteers pack in an hour? Yesterday we found out! 💪📦
At our first Banned Books Back! packaging party, community members turned out in droves to sort through dozens of cartons of books removed from Duval County Public Schools in Florida. Together we prepped 642 chapter books and 936 picture books to return to young readers. Despite the chill in the air—and the Christofascism in the political system—the mood was festive. Participants jumped in, swapping tips and innovating strategies to ensure that each box was lovingly assembled, filled with beautiful stories, and addressed to a child in Florida.
As the pugilistic unicorn puts it in our fave kids zine: "Not everyone fights how I fight, but all unicorns fight because we are magical creatures and as magical creatures we believe in a better world." Yesterday we fought by sending banned books back to kids, because we're also magical creatures who believe in a better world!
Find more about our campaign at https://firestorm.coop/bannedbooks.html.
#BannedBooksBack #AntiFacism #BannedBooks #DuvalCounty #FeministBookstore #Firestorm Coop (- L)
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Independent@press.coop ("The Independent :press:") wrote:
Kyrsten Sinema has spent taxpayer cash on luxury airfare
One flight cost more than $50,000, records show #press
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
working my way through a Coursera course on "Generative AI", and the idea of "LLM As Reasoning Engine" is indeed a useful way to reframe my thinking.
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anguinea@mstdn.social ("𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚞𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚊 ✽") wrote:
After discussing the cyber-truck, my family and I decided we’re going to hold out for this.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Mourning machines.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/29/the-sad-death-of-a-distant-drone/
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trevorflowers@machines.social ("Ding Dang Trevor Flowers") wrote:
It's Inheritance Machining, but EE.
https://youtu.be/Nw5v5inCQQM
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Ken Ham embraces the Ray Comfort theory of the evolution of sex. How wrong can they both be?
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allafarce@hachyderm.io ("Dave Guarino") wrote:
I've got to clean up some cruft, but pretty excited I seem to have *mostly* set up #obsidian to be how I write "evergreen" posts [1] on my #Eleventy blog.
Only finicky part left is that drop-in images isn't working. It just shows the markdown tag as text instead. There is in theory a plugin I have enabled to fix this, but it doesn't seem to be doing that.
[1] as in: ideas that keep evolving
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redoak@social.coop ("Red Oak") wrote:
got myself thinking this morning about what open source would look like if it had the gumption to imagine a different world and actually try to build it. as opposed to the current state of affairs, where much of the "alternative" ecosystem is just, "well, we can build the same idea that the money machine came up with, just not as good because we're trying to play their game one-handed"
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
Today on Oxide and Friends, @ahl and I will be joined by @jmc to talk about Helios, the illumos distribution that powers the Oxide rack. We will talk about the motivation behind it, the mechanics of its operation, and our experience with it to date. Join us, 5p Pacific today!
https://discord.gg/x96yBE9n?event=1201568090626994289
More on Helios: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/helios
