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SandraDeHaan@mastodon.nl ("Sandra de Haan in Heeze") wrote:

#fakenews 😀

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

PSA: Ritual zero-proof whiskey is godawful. Pour some liquid smoke into some apple cider vinegar, and save yourself the $35.

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

Definitely spiderish. Olde Spiderish.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/27/a-carboniferous-arachnid/

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• Douglassarachne, a Carboniferous arachnid (remote)

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

fbuontempo ("Fran") wrote:

Last day of @ManningPublications
Memorial Day sale! Half off everything! You can get my #Cpp book here if you want:
http://mng.bz/2KXw

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• "Memorial day sale" HALF OFF SITEWIDE Ends Monday

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

micha ("Michael Klöpzig") wrote:

Great post by @jenniferplusplus about the limitations and problems of using AI in software development.

“The hard part of programming is building and maintaining a useful mental model of a complex system. The easy part is writing code. They're positioning this tool as a universal solution, but it's only capable of doing the easy part. And even then, it's not able to do that part reliably.” –

https://jenniferplusplus.com/losing-the-imitation-game/

#ai #webdev #webdevelopment #coding #softwaredevelopment

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alice_i_cecile@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Alice I. Cecile") wrote:

1. https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/13418

Sharp screen-space reflections! Another pcwalton PR, another modern 3D rendering feature. This is a fast, approximate solution for generating reflections of objects in the scene. Like always, the PR description holds a wealth of information and links to further reading.

Well-reviewed, low risk to merge even this late in the cycle. If this is broken, the damage should be quite isolated. A nice example, reasonable code quality. Merging!

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

The great-great-great-etc.-uncle of my spiders looked like a shrimp.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/27/an-ordovician-ancestor-to-spiders/

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• Setapedites, an Ordovician euchelicerate (remote)

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

whatkatedoes@mastodon.scot ("Kate "K8-bit" Lorimer") wrote:

Sunday afternoon jam on the Wavestate. I seriously underestimated this thing, it's like a suped-up #Amiga with 96 channels 24-bit and effects DSP.

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

Today in History: 1892 - White Mob Destroys Memphis Office of Ida B. Wells’s Newspaper

https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/may/27

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jacqueline@chaos.social wrote:

check this out

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• it's a tangara music player! it's standing up on its end, you can see it has a transparent looking case, a touchwheel, and is playing some kind of song! (remote)
• it's the same device, but now it's lying on a table. it's off. you can see some of the buttons and the sd card slot on the side. (remote)

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

I seem to be having a hard time waking up today, so I threw on some Amyl and the Sniffers. Any track will do.

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

Marc Rebillet (some swearing)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enYdAxVcNZA

Otyken "Belief"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNanp6lKm2E

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yosyshq@fosstodon.org ("YosysHQ") wrote:

Today’s the day! 😻

YUG7 is happening & we are super proud to host 6(!) FPGA enthusiasts sharing their ideas.

Join tonight, 6pm CEST via the link below.

Minutes:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13e8hERQ_eqLQrdtH1WXnGUXDtgyQ8oa_zZWXPHJCiN0/edit

Meeting room:
https://meet.jit.si/yosys-users-group

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

dthompson@toot.cat ("dave") wrote:

Congratulations to everyone who participated in the Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024! Whether you finished your project or not, I hope you had fun building things with your favorite Lisp. We received a whopping 49 submissions!

Check out all of the games here: https://itch.io/jam/spring-lisp-game-jam-2024/entries

If you did submit a game, these next 3 days are for playing and rating the submissions. Have fun and be nice!

#lisp #gamejam

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futzle@old.mermaid.town ("Deborah Pickett") wrote:

At $dayjob we’ve been using Intel NUC PCs as staff Windows computers. Now that (a) Intel is selling off their NUC business, and (b) I am aware of Intel’s presence on BDS lists, who can recommend for me a similar AMD small-format computer? :boost_ok:

Maloney clause: not seeking people’s opinions on Linux, BDS, or other tangents.

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

I'm going to go somewhere and not look at a screen for a bit and see if that helps.

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

I landed on a web page for an oscope vendor about half an an hour ago, and they had their product images sloooowly creeping for some reason. After a couple of minutes, I felt nauseous and have continued to feel that way. What the heck? 🤢

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noracodes@tenforward.social ("Nora, Tech Aspect") wrote:

dependency ejection is when you raise your inputs as exceptions and the caller catches them to bind them into a variable

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

Algot@mastodon.art wrote:

I'm wallowing in following.
Lurking 'stead of working.
At the beginning, thought I was winning.
Getting to know, Sally and Betty and Joe.

Other's life, other's strife,
Other's need, my steady feed.
I've come to sense no recompense
For the hours spent on random content.

Tomorrow I shall change. My days I'll rearrange.
Showing others what I've done. I think that should be fun.
I won't expect to influence. Of that there'd be no sense.
Oh, heck, I'll start today. Let's just get under way.
#poem

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peterbrown@mastodon.scot ("Peter Brown") wrote:

“Remarkably, food production doubled under the agrivoltaic system. And because water evaporation from the plants cooled the panels, the solar system itself generated 3% more electricity during the summer, showing how both food and solar production can perform better when done in collaboration”.

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/12/solar-and-crop-production-research-shows-multi-solving-climate-benefits/

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

lindsey@recurse.social ("Lindsey Kuper") wrote:

Seeing people toot that they're bummed about how little coverage there was of the Voyager 1 fix, and I want to reply WE'RE HAVING A KEYNOTE TALK AT @bangbangcon ABOUT IT!!!!!!! but they're strangers and that might be rude

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

lexfri@hachyderm.io ("Lex Friedman") wrote:

I’m a pretty good mime. That goes without saying.

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

pb@xoxo.zone wrote:

When your computer crashes the blue screen still works. Why not make the whole computer out of blue screen?

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

larsmb@mastodon.online ("Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷") wrote:

We are more prone to anthromorphizing LLMs than to humanizing suffering humans

Reblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):

ramin_hal9001@emacs.ch ("Ramin Honary") wrote:

> "There are plenty of things to legitimately criticize when it comes to current U.S. policy on Gaza, but don't make false equivalencies."

> "I'm frustrated with Biden oftentimes but he did say that he supports peaceful protests and that's free speech."

@reignstorm @JohannasGarden @argv_minus_one Even after the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) has stated clearly that there is more than enough evidence that the state of Israel is "plausibly" committing genocide, and the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague have stated that this evidence can be used to proceed with a criminal trial against Israel (Netanyahu), in spite of this overwhelming evidence Biden continues equate anti-genocide protests with antisemitism, while congress has passed a bill broadening the official definition of antisemitism to include any criticism "targeting the state of Israel conceived as Jewish collectively," which is likely to face more academics and students with more severe legal consequences for protesting against genocide, a bill most likely to sail through congress and be ratified by Biden. Further, the Biden administration responded to the Hague by issuing sanctions against the ICC.

• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-condemns-antisemitic-protests-palestine-columbia-university/
• https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/05/07/remarks-by-president-biden-at-the-u-s-holocaust-memorial-museums-annual-days-of-remembrance-ceremony/
• https://www.commondreams.org/news/jewish-students-support-gaza

So it is not an exaggeration, nor is it a false equivalence between Democrats and Republicans, when I say as a matter of fact, cracking down on anit-genocide protesters, and generally flouting the rule of international law regarding crimes against humanity, has widespread bipartisan support, including from president Biden.

@pzmyers

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

I am not accustomed to hard physical labor.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/26/work-2/

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

Bluey is the best kid's show. No contest.

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pmorinerie@mastodon.xyz wrote:

Repost with alt-text:

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• Screenshot of a Bluesky thread: First post, by Joseph Fink: “It turns out this whole time that the Turing Test was the wrong way to think of it. Thinking a chatbot is alive is not a test of how good the chatbot is, but of your own ability to think of other human beings as real and complete people.” Second post, by Greg Stolze: “I heard some professor put googly eyes on a pencil and waved it at his class saying "HI! I'm Tim the pencil! I love helping children with their homework but my favorite is drawing pictures!" Then, without warning, he snapped the pencil in half. When half his college students gasped, he said "THAT'S where all this Al hype comes from. We're not good at programming consciousness. But we're GREAT at imagining non-concious things are people.” (remote)

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Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:

"Embrace AI or be left behind" is a condescending and heartless ultimatum. A false dichotomy that reeks of debunked social darwinist horse-fuckery.

Tech should adapt to people's needs.

Not the reverse.

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john@sauropods.win ("John Conway") wrote:

A random artwork from my gallery:

"Velociraptor mongoliensis" — 2019

A reboot of a paiting I originally did in 1997, age 16. I think at the time I considered it my first sucessful oil painting. I have added all the stuff to it that I originally intended to, but chickened-out (painting over skies in oil painting is scary,... [more]:

https://johnconway.art/velociraptor_1997

#Art #Dinobirds #Dinosaurs #FeatheredDinosaurs #Mesozoic #Mongolia #Painting #Palaeo #PalaeoPortraits #Paleo #Theropods

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