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

tregagnon@piaille.fr ("Thierry Régagnon") wrote:

GitHub Copilot is just a new way for developers to get small dopamine hit. Like social network scrolling.

Most suggestions are garbage, but getting a good one is satisfying. It nudges us to continue using it for another potentially good suggestion.

We are basically rolling dices every time we type code, hoping for a lucky result.

#copilot #GitHub #ai

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Side note, if you'd like us to help pay our bills for the 5 full-time employees and a number of freelancers we currently have working on developing Mastodon and bringing you new features, and potentially grow the team to do so even faster, there is a number of ways you can do so outlined on this page: https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

artemis@dice.camp ("Artemis") wrote:

This makes me want to scream and pull out my hair.

"Reduce your vocabulary by 10-20% to prove you're a human."

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• Dr. Damien P. William... Remember how i told y'all that text written by neurodivergent peeps would likely have a higher false positive rate on "Al" checkers because masking means they are likely to engage in careful and specific word choice and that that would show up in text as "unnatural?" This is more of that. Quoting Mike Masnick: Kid has an English assignment, where school has kids first submit essay to an "Al checker." Kid did not use Al. Al checker says the use of the word "devoid" magically turned essay into 18% Al written. Changing "devoid" makes it drop to 0%. We're spending time "un-Al-ing" an essay that has no Al. (remote)

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

UncleDuke1969@universeodon.com ("Uncle Duke") wrote:

Not enough has been written about Schrödinger’s assistant, Otto.

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• A large gray cat sits on a partially-closed shoebox. Another cat’s face pokes out of the open corner of the box. (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

#DevinTownsend's #PowerNerd album is out now. Time to listen to the whole thing...

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

joe@f.duriansoftware.com ("Joe Groff") wrote:

Undefined behavior consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be compiler developers whom the language standard protects but does not bind, alongside developers whom the language standard binds but does not protect

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Mastodon is financed by crowdfunding instead of venture capital not because we don't know that venture capital exists, not because we don't have bills to pay, and not because venture capital isn't willing to give money to new social media platforms. VCs don't want a sustainable business, they want a big exit. Every VC-backed business is on a timer to deliver or die.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Me: [holding basil plant from Publix I haven't killed yet] as a single father-

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

artemis@dice.camp ("Artemis") wrote:

Imagine coming up with a machine that effectively gets to decide how humans are "supposed to" write and speak.

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

They really are going balls to the wall on hating trans people.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/24/my-political-dilemma/

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• Graph of Trump's ad spending -- it's mostly on anti-trans stuff (remote)

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

This is some mighty takedown of a propane shill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg81dHXEGMc

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

bw@social.lol ("Blake Watson :prami:") wrote:

@zachleat Imagine if real engineers were like “yeah this bridge feels sturdy to me, ship it.”

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

Felienne wrote:

Just presented my latest paper "A case for feminism in programming language design" which was surely the scariest paper to present ever, as it is such a personal exploration of what it means to research programming languages, but I am very proud of it!

Here is the paper and blog post, a video will be available later!

https://www.felienne.com/archives/8470

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

when repeated successful coding changes do not seem to have any effect upon the server after recompilation, consider the possibility that YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN TO RESTART THE DAMNED THING, IDJIT

https://tenor.com/view/not-again-frustration-gif-7054327450484496346

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

ajroach42@retro.social ("Andrew (Television Executive)") wrote:

But the point, regardless of how specific I'm able to get, is that people have not changed significantly for as long as we have records.

Our goals and hopes and studies and stories and diversions and play and rituals and all of that, the details change -- the specifics, the names, the methods even -- but the acts remain largely the same.

Thousands of years ago, the people we'd call Ancient Egyptians were studying and restoring the monuments of their ancestors thousands of years removed from them.

Nearly 2,000 years ago, people were writing stories about traveling to the moon and participating in interplanetary colonialism, and also engaging themselves in lampooning the popular culture of their day ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_True_Story )

We were making toys and playing board games and just generally being people.

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

Breakfast is delivered.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/24/phase-2-complete/

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• Spider fondling a mealworm (remote)

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

davidthewid@hci.social ("David Gray Widder [💔 for 🇵🇸]") wrote:

#introduction Heya! I'm a post doc fellow at Cornell in NYC studying how those creating ~“AI”~ think about the downstream harms their systems make possible, and the wider cultural, political, and economic logics which shape these thoughts. Ex NASA, Microsoft Research, and Intel. I was born in rural Oregon, grew up in Berlin and Singapore.

Follow me for AI ethics hot takes, academia nonsense, anti-surveillance and student labor activism.

#AIEthics #AI #surveillance #artist #labor

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

Is geography destiny?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/24/a-map-that-explains-so-much/

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• Map of average precipitation in the US (remote)

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

djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:

I understand why the Depeche Mode cats don't dig "People Are People" as work output but the song has its placetimes, and frankly there are people who could benefit from hearing it far more often than they have, apparently.

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• official music video for Depeche Mode's song "People Are People" from 1984. Credits Performed By: Depeche Mode Written By: Martin L. Gore Produced By: Depeche Mode, Gareth Jones, Daniel Miller Video Director: Clive Richardson (remote)

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

Selling a house in a strike zone. I'm still cheering on the union.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/24/go-go-go-boeing-workers/

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• dce509bdea45bda9.jpg (remote)

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Hey JS framework vendors: you know the "showcase" part of your website is for things you're *proud* of, right?

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:

Remember: Trump was supposed to debate Harris tonight but chickened out.

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

It's time for a fairer, more competitive app ecosystem. Enforcing the DMA is the quickest way to get there.

Together with many others, we urge MEPs of the ECON and IMCO Committees to hold the gatekeepers accountable for compliance with the DMA

Read More:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/its-time-for-a-fairer-more-competitive-app-ecosystem/

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

yurnidiot@mstdn.social ("CandyMandu 🍬🥟 Farewell to..") wrote:

furball corner pocket

#Caturday #billiards

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• two cats sitting on billiards table. cue ball hits 8 ball into corner pocket, the kitten chases it down into the pocket, then comes out and pushes around the cue ball (remote)

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

davidthewid@hci.social ("David Gray Widder [💔 for 🇵🇸]") wrote:

I had a kidney biopsy on Monday. Results weren't great, so an occasion to ask:

Please consider becoming a living kidney donor. I'm years away from needing one, but without lasting health impact to you, you can change someone's life:

https://www.kidneyregistry.com/for-donors/am-i-qualified-to-donate-a-kidney/

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

octothorpe@mastodon.online ("CM Skellington") wrote:

Now playing: side D of Joni Mitchell’s Ladies of the Canyon MoFi 1-Step.

Sounds great! It isn’t all-analogue (1/4” 15 ips Analogue master to DSD256 to analogue console to lathe), but this beats my OG pressing (used but in pretty great condition)

Woodstock is so *crystal* clear, you can hear when she has bad mic positioning ;-)

#JoniMitchell
#RealMusicByRealMusicians
#vinyl

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• Photo of the Now Playing prop with the Mofi box. It’s the new style box of dark brownish black, with the OG cover inset. On the top, ‘Original Master Recording’ is reverse gold-stamped. On the bottom, ‘ultradisk one-step pressing my mobile fidelity sound lab’ in gold foil. To the left is my turntable playing the record, sitting atop an unused amp. (remote)

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

danielnichanian@threads.net ("Daniel Nichanian | Taniel") wrote:

This is a twist: There's an open seat on the Michigan supreme court, and the Republican chief justice of the Michigan supreme court is endorsing the Democratic-nominated candidate Kimberly Ann Thomas rather than GOP lawmaker Andrew Fink.

https://michiganadvance.com/briefs/thomas-wins-surprise-backing-for-michigan-supreme-court-from-gop-nominated-chief-justice-clement/

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

think I finally got a db for my seekrit project properly installed and locked down for support of service scalability...

I have designed so I can run identical copies of my server behind a load balancing front end, and store all user & session data on a joint-access db machine or tier of synchronized data-store machines. (each copy of the server maintains it's own connection pool)

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

pbump@journa.host ("Philip Bump") wrote:

Speaker Johnson's off-hand declaration that 4.5 million people would be quickly assigned for deportation should serve as a reminder that the process that would lead to those deportations is as arbitrary as the number.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/23/practical-moral-difficulties-deporting-millions-draw-closer/

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

pbump@journa.host ("Philip Bump") wrote:

Was writing about how key members of Trump’s administration have explicitly called him a fascist prompting the Trumpworld defense “yeah, but they’re anti-Trump” when Fox News offered a perfect example.
Gift link: https://wapo.st/3A69aGp