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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

crumble is a bit of a misnomer at this stage. it has hardened into a solid lump and the teaspoon i'm eating it with is struggling to break bits off.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

no you're having leftover crumble at silly in the morning.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
ricmac ("Richard MacManus") wrote:

Now they’ve discovered external style sheets.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
jnpn wrote:

You can now use paredit to edit rust code

https://github.com/ThatXliner/rust-but-lisp

#lisp #sexp #rust #plt #cs

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I immediately went to go fill out the form to get access for one of those computers to access outbound SMTP and then I paused and thought "why"

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I just discovered that I no longer have administrative access to _any_ computer that can make an outgoing Internet TCP connection to port 25, and I do not have words for the emotion I'm experiencing.

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

#caturday

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MNSpy@mastodon.online ("Minnesota Spy Club") wrote:

May 9, 1921: Sophie Scholl was born on this date in 1921. She was a central member of the anti-Nazi White Rose group in wartime Germany. She was captured, charged with high treason for distributing anti-war literature, & beheaded along with her brother, Hans. Since the 1970’s her antifascist resistance has been recognized and honored.

#Antifa #Resistance #WhiteRose #Germany

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
astraluma@tacobelllabs.net ("AstraLuma") wrote:

Losers: I asked Gemini to generate a logo for my project
Me: I mushed together two free icons in inkscape

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
rosie_108@toot.wales wrote:

Pretty sure they have a recording of me going "Nope, I hate this"

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
rosie_108@toot.wales wrote:

I applied for a job and they just sent me a response that directed me to A CHATBOT INTERVIEW WHERE I HAD TO RECORD MYSELF ANSWERING QUESTIONS!?

Closed it and asked to talk to a person 😐

Shaken to my CORE

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
vga256@tomodori.net wrote:

tiny lua compiler: a lua compiler in a single file, that's well-documented, that was hand-crafted over several years, and made to teach you compiler/tokenizer/parser/lexer design.

this is a crazy impressive project, and in a time when people are haphazardly slopcoding projects, is a standard to live by.

https://github.com/bytexenon/Tiny-Lua-Compiler

#programming #lua

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

"Remember that prophecy that some old god would end the world last year?" the guy at the tavern bar laughs. "What happened with that?"

I feel Finna flinch beside me.

"There's no point telling them," I say.

"Well, I didn't kill that old god for their sake."

"Saving the world includes the jerks."

#TootFic #MicroFiction #SmallStories

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

"Have you thought about how CrAzY it would be if the world were a DyStOpIa?!? Look at how BAD this is! Like imagine how HoRrIfYiNg it would be to live a life as a SLAVE to a MACHINE!??!"

yeah bro I got it we all live like that now do you have, like, any suggestions

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

There is an oft-repeated saying in recent years that #ADHD is a disorder of doing, not of knowing. I already know what I need to do; and managing the disorder is all about either changing its conditions (i.e. medication) or putting the strategies into my sensory field so I *perceive*, rather than *know* them. The same is true for depression; "don't be sad" doesn't work, depressed people already know they'd prefer to be less sad.

All political satire feels like "have you tried not being sad" now

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

you know that feeling where you want to explain, but you know the other person won't understand?

especially when it's because you are a massive computer nerd and they aren't.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Forgot to post... From February in Brussels.

📷️️ Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
👤 @Ameboid
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm

sky@schub.social ("Sky Schubert") wrote:

naming things is hard. naming people is even harder.

so, anyway, I've got a new name.

hi. :8bitheart:

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

well i basically stopped for the day after this.

tomorrow is the big day, i will attempt to get it to write code. you know, the thing that people are very convinced it can do better than me, despite the copious proof suggesting otherwise.

Boosted by jwz:
prahou@merveilles.town ("Tomáš") wrote:

in the
darkest hour
of man

saddle the steed
of apocalypse

and ride with
angels of hell

#unix_surrealism #comic #tarot #occult #computers #art #fediart #triapul

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MetalheadDana@metalhead.club ("There is No Dana") wrote:

#ai #fuckai

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peter@thepit.social ("Peter") wrote:

my post clarifying that this is not a golden calf is raising questions already answered by my post.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

the drugs don't work, cause captain kirk replaced your stash with icing sugar.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mastodonmigration@mastodon.online ("Mastodon Migration") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116545218419254244

Action: Follow #FindOutCrew Members

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
leahmcelrath.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Leah McElrath") wrote:

“Let me be clear: this is not a golden calf” is pretty funny.

Boosted by jwz:
jwz wrote:

@aparrish There are two kinds of articles you can write about AI, just like there are two kinds of obituaries you can write about Henry Kissinger.

And every morning tech "journalists" wake up and choose the one that is not this: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/

Boosted by jwz:
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

“When I asked them if they had actually consulted with anyone on the ground in the district, they said no.”

The DCCC decided to support Randy Villegas’ corporate-backed opponent in the CA-22 primary. Randy explains why his people-powered campaign scares the Democratic establishment.

Attachments:

• video: 1d7090248f6df32b.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

extremely upvoted hacker news comment about how actually if you think about it it’s extremely kind of google to tell you it’s raining when they piss on you

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

@glyph it is however the future of comedy. i've just spent 3 days getting it sandboxed on my local machine and i'm unimpressed with the payoff.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
abucci@buc.ci ("Anthony") wrote:

@davidgerard@circumstances.run @xgranade@wandering.shop @mttaggart@infosec.exchange @cwebber@social.coop

Incidentally, as a bit of an aside since it touches on my own CS research a bit:

high output generation with review

seems to be load bearing in the push to widely deploy vibe coding or agentic coding or whatever they're calling it today. "It's OK to have LLMs produce code as long as there is thorough human review" is an argument I've seen trotted out countless times, but should not be given any credence.

I am here to tell you that this is a misapprehension that ignores the substantive difference between:

(a) Competent human beings producing X by, in part, avoiding producing Y
(b) Less-competent human beings with machine help producing Y, catching that Y is bad with a test or review, and lather-rinse-repeating until X is produced.

If you like, (a) is gradient ascent while (b) is trial-and-error (generate-and-test, or hillclimbing, to use the GOFAI jargon). Everyone who works with such algorithms knows that (a) is many orders of magnitude faster, more reliable, and more robust than (b) when a good gradient is available. Most of machine learning is based on this observation! When it comes to producing code, competent human software developers provide such a gradient (that's what we mean when we think of them as "competent").