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Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
mattrambles@t00t.cloud ("Matt Stein") wrote:
@fromjason 🤔 If I was painting, a lot of it would be…
“I have a sick idea for a landscape.”
[hours or weeks pass]
“Welp, that’s a cat with a balloon but I’m pretty happy with it.”
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
dthompson@toot.cat ("dave") wrote:
Guile Hoot v0.3.0 has been released! Quality of life improvements, bug fixes, more R7RS stuff, hashtables, and a really solid start on a module system thanks to the one and only @wingo
Get yourself some Scheme in the browser like it's 1995 in a parallel universe!
https://spritely.institute/news/guile-hoot-v030-released.html
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
henry@front-end.social ("henry ✷") wrote:
🔵 - a website in which you have been falling. you scold yourself now, free-falling endlessly down this trap-doored hole. you curse your foolishness for seeking the footer on a modern website, when you're certainly old enough (or perhaps young enough!) to have learned that...
(inspired by Andy and Matthias' conversation about the lurking evils in web design these days lol)
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Re: A crypto mistake via We keep making the same mistakes with spreadsheets, despite bad consequences | Ars Technica:
"The clerk who processed the refund for the Australian customer had wrongly entered her bank account number in the refund field in a spreadsheet. It was seven months before the mistake was spotted. The recipient attempted to flee to Malaysia but was stopped at an Australian airport carrying a large amount of cash."
I ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/01/30/re-a-crypto.html
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Breaktime for Bonzo ::poof::
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
xahteiwi ("Florian Haas") wrote:
If you have the chance to hire Ned and you don't, you're a fool.
https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202401/i_am_at_liberty.html
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
AlSweigart ("Al Sweigart") wrote:
Retired software engineer and national treasure K Lars Lohn uses math and some Python code to track an irritating early morning booming noise that was waking the community: https://www.twobraids.com/2024/01/air-cannon.html
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Side note: this tweet is almost certainly why I use the word "weirdo" in my writing so liberally. It's the funniest thing to me
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
dryak@mstdn.science ("DrYak") wrote:
"The audio log you find in a trashed office in a sci-fi horror game:"
Source: https://twitter.com/MikeIrvo/status/1752123455125016839
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Reading people's layoff notes the last few days, I would like to share some reminders:
1. Work will never love you back.
2. "It isn't personal." Ignore people who say that. Your salary, your sense of purpose and work integrity *are* personal, and when they are taken away without warning, it affects *you* personally, even if the decision to cut your position was only about money.
3. Thinking about your emotions through a job loss as grieving can be helpful.
4. Work will never love you back.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
yes!
https://blog.simplecast.com/sandmen-audio-in-the-age-of-netflix-exploring-the-sandman
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
There’s a lot of tweets to consider when we think of the all-time greats. But none match the beauty, the truth through art, the je ne sais quo, more than Twitter’s magnum opus by Ice T.
Mastodon Feedkeul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:
…and this is all I have to say on the argument. #Neuralink
Mastodon FeedA single Sir Mix-a-Lot song contains more swass than a medieval peasant would be exposed to in their whole lifetime.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"AI doesn't automate jobs, it automates tasks" - Prof. Andrew Ng
[a good thing to remember]
Mastodon FeedReblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
eniko@peoplemaking.games ("Eniko Fox") wrote:
@AlanyG21 there's no easy answer but here's the flowchart:
1. if the game is dirt cheap, buy it on steam, because fixed paypal fees on itch take too much out of cheap games
2. if the game is not dirt cheap, buy it on itch, cause the dev gets way more. if you really wanna help, leave a nice tip cause itch lets you do that
3. if you buy the game on steam, directly for yourself, and leave a positive review, that can be more valuable than the extra revenue generated by an itch sale. so if you really want to support devs and keep your library of games mostly on steam always leave a positive review of indie games you buy there. the actual review text doesn't matter so just "good game 👍" is sufficient. but remember that reviews only count for metrics and store visibility if you buy directly on steam and its not a gift
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“random graphs, which give rise to unexpected behaviors after they meet certain thresholds, could be a way to model the behavior of LLMs”
https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-theory-suggests-chatbots-can-understand-text-20240122/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
one of my failures at RIT was my inability to get anyone interested in Rust when it was new ;^{
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ajroach42@retro.social ("Andrew (cold)") wrote:
Are you familiar with Benshi?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benshi
Benshi were performers who provided live narration for silent films. adding commentary, explanations, and occasionally poetry.
They'd do this to theaters of 1,000 people, with a live orchestra, without amplification.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
All this warm weather lately has encouraged the spiders to flourish in my house.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/30/spider-season-has-come-early/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org ("Brewster Kahle") wrote:
new paper on AI: "New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand Text"
Quanta mag writes a layman version of a new paper. Seems important. (I *think* I get it). How LLM's can be 'creative' (novel) and 'understand' (generalize) and demonstrate its true in GPT-4, and better than GPT-3.5.
"Far from being 'stochastic parrots,' the biggest large language models seem to learn enough skills to understand the words they’re processing."
https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-theory-suggests-chatbots-can-understand-text-20240122/
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
SimpleX looks super interesting: usable secure messaging without long-term identifiers! https://simplex.chat/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
trying the bands, one at a time... so far, 20m & 30m #JS8 are where I get @HB responses
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Sorry, I guess I'm required to talk about Minnesota all the time now.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/30/we-have-to-talk-about-this/
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Ok, who's excited to read 5K words (excluding footnotes) with > 20 charts and tables on the current state of devices and networks and how that impacts what frontend can afford?
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Just had to block my first Mastodon account.
Don't play the semantics game when the topic is modern day slavery in our country? Especially under a Black man's post about said slavery. Is that such a wild concept?
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
I haven't published to fromjason in three weeks. But I'm writing.
I have a lot of big feelings, hard opinions, and half-baked ideas. And in about four thousand words, I haven't been able to bring it home.
But I will. This is more a message from me to me. I WILL. Eventually. Probably. :) #blogging
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Sampath Pāṇini ®") wrote:
“Early Twitter was #punk.
“Threads is Christian rock— where it sounds like rock, but you can't help but feel like they're trying to sell you a narrative.”
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
What we're seeing on #Threads and to a lesser extent, #Mastodon, feels like this cool two-way communication with our favorite tech pundits, founders, and CEOs.
But it also feels like a massive PR blitz in the wake of government regulation and shrinking faith in the digital platforms that ruled the last decade.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Considering the scope of our issues, and the negative effect #bigtech has on our democracy, I'm questioning whether being an online social media reactionary to the far right is an effective strategy (as one myself).
We give influential tech personalities a pass because they say the right "liberal" things. But behind closed doors they continue creating tools that further inflame our divide and place marginalized people in harms way.
Can't help but think more of our attention should be there.
