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collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
More companies need to get more sued more often.
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
In the garden.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/25/handsome-wolf/
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Anyway, I'm glad to be able to read and write. Perhaps I should use it more wisely. 😆
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
But does this also promote the "sacred text" world we live in? So many people arguing about the meaning of words written by people now dead. As though progress can only be made through reinterpretation (instead of just writing new agreements). The text is imbued with power it shouldn't have. The past binds the future with written agreements containing horrible ideas and thoughts, slowing progress. (I'll leave it to you to think of examples of those.)
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
But invent paper (rice or papyrus etc.) and vellum, and now you start to have efficient tech to distribute writing. Printing and distributing text becomes cheaper. More variety of things get written which promotes and supports a desire to read.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
It just occurred to me that widespread literacy is likely dependent on having the right technologies for storing and distributing writing. You need cheap and transportable. Proclamations carved on mountainsides, clay tablet receipts, and wall frescoes are cool, but not necessarily practical nor efficient for transmitting the thoughts on them. And their existence won't necessarily motivate most people to want or need to read and write.
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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:
It's clear that AI can't do even a tenth of what it promises, but they keep grasping that dream of not really needing to have smart people to work with... because the problem with smart people who are good at their jobs, who have bright ideas that make your project even better... the problem with such people is they see themselves as collaborators ... they won't just do the thing, then let you take the credit and then forget about it.
They want to shape the future with you. It's intolerable!
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liebach@bsd.network ("liebach 🏳️🌈") wrote:
Saw a pretty flower today.
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I know people *exactly* like this. It's creepy and horrible.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/25/how-can-a-cartoon-be-so-true/
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
It's sad to see the result when brain worms are done with a guy.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/25/it-shouldnt-take-so-long-to-recognize-a-fool/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
sucking down coffee in prep for usual Saturday AM dog walking shift 🐾🐾 at the #ROC City Pound
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xot@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:
Sierra On-Line accidentally included the source code to their AGI adventure game engine on some copies of Space Quest II. Its presence is not obvious but with enough sector sleuthing it is possible to recover about 70% of it. The recovered source code is peppered with illuminating comments regarding its history and authors. It can be examined in a GitHub repo linked in the article.
"The Space Quest II Master Disk Blunder"
https://lanceewing.github.io/blog/sierra/agi/sq2/2024/05/22/do-you-own-this-space-quest-2-disk.html
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I'd missed this post, but it's a great encapsulation of why I spent so much time on web packaging, Isolated Web Apps, and PWAs. The web isn't worse, even for complex scenarios; in many cases all that's missing is understanding and a little bit of imagination:
https://emilymstark.com/2024/02/09/e2ee-on-the-web-is-the-web-really-that-bad.html
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
benschwarz@front-end.social wrote:
Turns out you can use CSS `light-dark` for SVG element colours.
As long as the SVGs is inlined to the page, you can bake in both light and dark mode colour 🌄
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Mastodon FeedThere's an economic curse on Large Language Models — the crappiest ones will be the most widely used ones.
The highest-quality models are exponentially more expensive to run, and currently are too slow for instant answers or processing large amounts of data.
Only the older/smaller/cut-down models are cheap enough to run at scale, so the biggest deployments are also the sloppiest ones.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
angusm ("Angus McIntyre") wrote:
It's fashionable to criticize #LLMs, but can you think of another human invention that allows us to spend the energy budget of Tanzania to lift shitposts out of context and present them as if they were authoritative knowledge?
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BrianEnigma@xoxo.zone ("Brian Enigma") wrote:
It's almost time to rainbow-wash the corporate logos.
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Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Just walked into a Little Caesar's for a Hot 'n' Ready pizza. They said it would take 10–15 minutes, and I seriously was like, where is the misunderstanding here?
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uxmark@mstdn.ca ("Mark Connolly 🍻 🚴🏼♀️ (he, him, his)") wrote:
I finally got around to reading this today, after seeing many mentions of it, and it really is as good as everyone says.
“And beneath that anger were probably lots of other feelings as well, the ones that patriarchy socializes men to mask: hurt, loss, frustration, sadness, loneliness. It’s sad when someone you want to be close to does not want to be close to you. It’s frustrating when you don’t know how to get that closeness. And it’s lonely.”
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
It's Friday before a long weekend, time for some #Meute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMefxohehPQ&list=RDEMWfLiM0l4i4Y026y85aO0nQ&start_radio=1
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The Fabric preview site is here:
And you can poke at the underlying FWCv3 components (which are compatible with the Fluent v2 design language) here:
https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/tree/master/packages/web-components
They're marked as being in Beta, but we're rolling them out in Edge today. YMMV.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Teams that adopt these components in Angular and React apps get a lot of the runtime performance benefits of moving to Web Components: style isolation via Shadow DOM, shallower Light DOM, and cheaper styling via Constructable Stylesheets. At the size of our apps, this is a BFD.
This isn't the whole enchilada, perf-wise -- for that, teams need to move to an HTML-first approach + "raw" Web Components, like we're doing in Edge -- but one investment is now delivering wins for all consumers.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:
the public perception of AI has been permanently damaged by shitposting in training models
…we all understand what needs to happen next, right
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This might be Peak $work Posting (complete with LI link!), but it really is exciting: Microsoft just launched the Fabric design system that works across Angular and React apps...because it's Web Components underneath!
Fabric is building on Fluent Web Components v3, which is the same set of FAST-based web components that we're rebuilding Edge's WebUIs on too. Legacy React and Angular apps get many of the benefits and we all get to share. Hot damn!
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
A decade ago, Joyent accidentally rebooted an entire datacenter, an experience that I described in my 2017 GOTO Chicago talk, "Debugging Under Fire":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30jNsCVLpAE
On the next Oxide and Friends, @ahl we will be joined by folks who were at Joyent a decade ago, both to recall the fateful outage and to reflect on its ramifications, both at Joyent and beyond. Join us, Monday, 5p Pacific:
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Those little yellow baby orb weavers popping up everywhere today,
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/24/spiders-blooming-everywhere/
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
1. See "weird AI true believers".
2. Get disappointed it's not about Weird Al.
3. Use inspect element to change font to monospace family for the duration of this session.
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ZachWeinersmith ("Zach Weinersmith") wrote:
Mathematics
The shocking bonus panel is available here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/mathematics-2
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Jgbird@mas.to ("Jerome G") wrote:
Green heron
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
to the russian shithead who stole my #328747 account 20 years ago: icq is shutting down in one month
https://icq.com/desktop/en#windows
😆