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bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
As it apparently needs to be said: An organization that both eschews traditional hierarchy and mandates stack ranking is a guaranteed hot mess
Mastodon FeedMastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
NATO didn’t make Putin invade Ukraine
“It is Vladimir Putin’s inability to tolerate an independent Ukraine, not NATO’s presence in eastern Europe, that has driven this brutal invasion.”
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
better late than never, and pardon the bad lettering… Happy Engineers’ Pi Day (3 14)
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Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I sometimes wonder if Styled Components, CSS Modules, and maybe even Tailwind would have ever taken off if React wasn't so dominant, and so intransigently dismissive of styling.
What you get with Vue, Svelte, Astro, and many others is so much better. It's hard to imagine those styling systems even making sense—let alone being popular—in a world where React isn't the default.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
> One of Reddit's biggest investors just happens to be OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman. It would certainly make sense for Reddit to consider selling its data to OpenAI to help train its ChatGPT models.
Huh. I had no idea.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Another creationist outs themselves, and I have to dissect their arguments. At least they're pitiful and easy.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/17/will-knowland-knows-nothing/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
george@a2mi.social ("George Hotelling") wrote:
If you're the type to self-host apps on a Raspberry Pi or NAS, you absolutely need to check out Paperless-ngx. It manages scanned documents (hint: your phone can scan documents for you) so you can save them and search them.
You can email docs to Paperless-ngx, save them to a network folder, use a native app, or just upload them to the web app. It also works well with networked scanners. There are plenty of videos and blog posts to get started.
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StillIRise1963@mastodon.world wrote:
The colleges that ditch liberal arts are the colleges that will produce ignorant students incapable of recognizing threats to their freedom and autonomy.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by zack@toot.cafe ("Zack"):
Holding Hands with the "Fediverse" – ActivityPub at SFO Museum
Holding Hands with the "Fediverse" – ActivityPub at SFO... #fediverse #activitypub
https://millsfield.sfomuseum.org/blog/2024/03/12/activitypub
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
russss@chaos.social ("Russ Garrett") wrote:
This is such a cool laser installation (and also a really good video about it) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxLLwJrYy-M
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
it is getting more real
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Blacklist any scientist who uses an AI to write a paper. It ought to be a rule.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/17/ai-poisons-everything/
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Honestly, whenever I post on here, I prefix an unwritten "At the risk of embarrassing myself..."
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
she can hear this song so deeply that she can sing a completely different song and you know exactly what she means https://youtu.be/9Oy3pyPxRo0
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
At the risk of embarrassing myself, I present the entire page of yesterday's doodling. It did not start off strong, and I struggled to settle my mind from the usual worries and stress to find any direction. Finally some heckler in the back of my brain yelled out, "Skiing turtle!" And I went, "Skiing turtle?" And they just said "SKIING! TURTLE!" more emphatically. And I was all, "Hmm... Well... Maybe..." I dunno. I kinda liked the result.
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- A scan of my sketchbook from 2024-03-16. There are various, uninspired doodles. A rocket, an alien head, a "futuristic" coal bucket on tracks, some kind of rodents, a disaffected youth with a jaunty hat, a reptilian head that I gave up on very quickly, and some kind of sinister and cunning looking gremlin fellow. Finally at the bottom just as I was running out of space is the downhill skiing turtle. He looks focused and like he is going at a pretty good clip for a turtle. He's wearing knitted scarf and hat. I kind of like how the turtle turned out. (remote)
Mastodon FeedTrained a multiclass classification model, built on top of google-bert/bert-base-uncased, tuned on the Drug Review Dataset (Drugs.com). It's useful for making a best attempt classification for the condition someone has, based on their review of a drug...
Done as more of a learning exercise / refresher on the whole ML scene after being basically away for 8 (!) years. So much has changed .. tooling, education, etc are MUCH improved.
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
He’s delightfully squishy and stretchy.
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Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
video games are really good
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Mastodon Feed"Finetuning my model!" is the new "Compiling!"
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
For Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta ( #GAMM ), the old cloud sync-and-share business model wasn’t working anymore.
So what did they do?
They convinced us that our notetaking apps require an internet connection and forty thousand dollar GPUs located on a server three hundred miles away. That's the future they've made for us.
#SmallWeb #IndieWeb #Fediverse #ActivityPub
https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/any-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic-is-hiding-something/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Ooooh. Pretty. And destructive.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/16/i-guess-i-wont-be-visiting-the-blue-lagoon-soon/
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I can already hear the React apologists blaming the developers of the slower services for not [ checks notes ] RSC-ing hard enough?
Weird flex, but OK.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
How web bloat impacts users with slow devices:
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polotek@social.polotek.net ("Marco Rogers") wrote:
I have been hesitating to talk about this for a long time. I know that some people are reading this and thinking that I'm disparaging my teams. That's not what this is at all. I know how to hire great engineers. These folks are smart and capable. For them to be defeated by complexity is an indictment of the ecosystem. Not the team.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:
Do you ever get sad because the cyberpunk dystopia we're living in is so much stupider than the one we were promised?
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polotek@social.polotek.net ("Marco Rogers") wrote:
As a middle manager, I tried hard to bring multiple sides together so that everybody wins. But part of the problem is that employees only have leverage with leadership when we're kicking ass. If we're not kicking ass, we can't ask for shit. And we've created an ecosystem that makes it so much harder for us to be kicking ass. We're not winning.
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polotek@social.polotek.net ("Marco Rogers") wrote:
Meanwhile I'm also loosing credibility with executive leadership. They wanna know how to think about this.
"Why are things so slow? Why is the team complaining so much? Why are they talking about overhauling the stack *again*? They chose these tools, so why are they now saying it won't work?"
"Be honest. Is this team just not very good?"
Whew. Listen. I tried so hard to explain to my teams how they were setting themselves up.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
polotek@social.polotek.net ("Marco Rogers") wrote:
My message has been related but a bit different. The complexity here is unsustainable. As a leader of engineering teams over the last 10 years, I've watched them become less and less empowered. There are a lot of engineers who still care a lot about building something good. But I watch as they drown in complexity. They want to fix things, but they literally can't. And that frustration comes out in all kinds of dysfunctional ways.
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Oh, today is my 8th anniversary of working on Mastodon. I was 23 when I started, finishing my last year of university, still living at my parent's place. I had no idea what I was getting myself into or that it would consume the next 8 years of my life almost completely.
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
We created such an amazing toy. That photo alone doesn’t do it justice. I’m going to write about it on the blog soon. Just can’t wait to get it out to people. And I hope you’ll love him as much as we do.