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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
durumcrustulum@ioc.exchange ("Deirdre Connolly¹") wrote:

NEW EPISODE!

We invited Mark Schultz-Wu on the podcast to talk about the history of lattice cryptography. When lattices are explained in plain english, they are actually quite simple!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ey89%5FkW%5F1g

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

Comity is a hell of a drug.

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

I should note here that celebrations about Temporal bolster, rather than blunt, the case; it came into committee in *2017*, back when I was still Chrome's Standards TL: https://bloomberg.github.io/js-blog/post/temporal/

You aren't beat the "your system has far too many veto players" rap when every time something gets momentum, it's blocked for half a decade, and the primary public communication mode is to celebrate folks clambering over artificial, arbitrary walls the system maintains for illegitimate reasons.

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
demoographics@wikis.world ("Matthew Vernon") wrote:

Can you help me out with some citations? I'd love reliable articles that support or refute these #AI statements:
0) AI-generated code's harder to review (because it looks plausible but you can't try and work on a "the author meant [thing]" basis)

1. People are less good at reviewing AI-generated code (because they're inclined to trust what the computer says)
2. AI-generated code has high environmental costs (e.g. figures about DC capacity?)
3. Using AI is cognitively harmful

Boosts very welcome

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

TC39ers: but that's not fair! It's the implementers that aren't pushing for new things!

me: yes.....?

TC39ers: but how is the rest of the committee supposed to make the outside world aware that this is a dysfunctional situation without blowing up the committee?

me: ....yes?

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

TC39ers: the committee is working well and doesn't need fundamental reform.

me: <checks on statuses of the largest, most top-of-mind features anyone has dared to bring into the Bermuda Triangle of SDO progress since I stopped attending...>

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-signals
https://github.com/tc39/proposal-decorators

mhmm...I see...yep. "Working" "well".

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
grim_elsewhere@lgbtqia.space ("aria.DNE") wrote:

@swearyanthony I worked at a robotics startup for 8 years. Autonomous vehicles for indoors industrial work. One thing that was explicitly discussed is this:

Do not anthropomorphise the AMVs. When people do that, then they ignore or excuse issues. Unaddressed issues are dangerous.

"Number 23 is slow. We should open a service ticket."
"Oh, that's just old Betsy. She's always a little stiff in the morning."

No, it's a malfunctioning machine that needs repair. Don't humanise the machines!

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
amsomniac@mastodon.mit.edu ("air queerness index") wrote:

3 billion devices runs on dunkin

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io wrote:

disorganized attachment style? yea idk I usually just save them in ~/Downloads

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mcc wrote:

Went to perform a task but got neurodiverted

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

GUINAN: What can I get you, big guy

WORF: I would like to order a drink

GUINAN: Great, what kind of drink?

WORF: It is an Earth beverage

GUINAN: Oh no

WORF: I heard my mother describe it to me as a child.

GUINAN (backing away): No no no it's happening please don't-

WORF: It is called

GUINAN: Don't say it if you say it I can't-

WORF: Kool Aid

KOOL-AID MAN: OHHHHHH YEAAAAAAAH

ENTERPRISE: [venting into space]

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
jzb@hachyderm.io ("Joe Brockmeier") wrote:

From last night: We had tornado warnings so I gathered all the cats and dog into the stairs to the basement as the safest spot if a tornado hit the house. Sam was not convinced that it was necessary. #catsofmastodon

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

does anyone know of anything like a "share screen mode" extension for firefox where i can flip all the settings like search bar autocompletions, text box autocompletions, etc. on and off quickly? it's not like i do much unsavory online, but i don't think people need to know how often i download left 4 dead 2 maps and etc. when i'm giving a talk

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Viss wrote:

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• gifv: 44e9b7fb73606413.mp4

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
unascribed@sleeping.town ("Exa, lost&found") wrote:

apropos of nothing, irregular reminder to replace fonts.google.com or fonts.googleapis.com with fonts.bunny.net anywhere that you use it

it's a drop-in replacement that is privacy-respecting and isn't fucking google

i generally prefer to host my own fonts and trim them down to just characters i need, but this is markedly better than staying on google and requires basically no effort

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
kurrikage@meow.social ("Kurrikage :deifirev:") wrote:

BLFC photoshoots are now open! Prices starting at $200 for an hour session. I'll be your camera for the time and we can go wherever you'd like.

Examples of past shoots can be found on my Furtrack #BatPics

https://www.furtrack.com/user/Kurrikage/album-3898

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Cornellbox@a2mi.social ("Philip Proefrock, architect") wrote:

At the time, I thought Vernor Vinge was an idiot when I hit that part of Rainbows End, because it was so blatantly, flagrantly idiotic. Even as metaphor, it was just ludicrously ham fisted and stupid.

And yet, here we are, in the year 2026, and some fresh batch of nexus tormenting techbros are "inventing" that very idiocy.

That kind of behavior is what fully engages my misanthropy. And I owe Vernor Vinge a full apology.

https://beige.party/@laprice/117005195737270080

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
RikerGoogling@mas.to ("Riker Googling") wrote:

bash_profile vs bashrc

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
jrconlin@mindof.jrconlin.com ("j-r conlin") wrote:

Do Not Take Less than 20% over your previous rate.

Make it hurt.

https://mastodon.social/@annaecook/117005159685124497

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)") wrote:

You heard it here first:

https://www.grumpygamer.com/twp2%5Fannounce/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Fabian Giesen") wrote:

"Strings don't vibrate the way you think" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYdXa%5Fyp0fc This is really cool.

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

Our moral and political imagination must concieve and demand Elon Musk behind bars for the rest of his life.

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Just saw Spider-Man: Brand New Day. It was very good.

Boosted by jwz:
koen_hufkens ("Koen Hufkens, PhD") wrote:

So, this "curing cancer" thing will have to wait to feed the word salad generator.

https://www.engadget.com/2225849/google-shuts-down-alphafold/

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
aryounce ("A. R. Younce") wrote:

@mevenlennonbertrand @jonny This incident is reminiscent of Adrian Thompson’s evolutionary algorithms work which ended up exploiting chip-specific variation in FPGAs. https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/ & https://gwern.net/doc/ai/1997-thompson.pdf

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

It's probably worth seeing the actual top-level post too, though:

https://old.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/1v9ee0b/how%5Fdo%5Fsenior%5Fdevelopers%5Fbuild%5Fsuch%5Fbroad%5Fand/?depth=1

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

I wrote a Reddit comment on r/learnprogramming yesterday and thought it might be worth sharing here too, in case it's helpful to anyone:

https://old.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/1v9ee0b/how%5Fdo%5Fsenior%5Fdevelopers%5Fbuild%5Fsuch%5Fbroad%5Fand/p0e9l9g/

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

Our moral and political imagination must encompass Elon Musk behind bars for the rest of his life.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SimpsonsGifs ("Simpsons Gifs") wrote:

Season 14, Episode 19: Old Yeller-Belly

#Simpsons #TheSimpsons #S14E19 #Cartoon #Frinkiac

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

1971 was a good year https://music.apple.com/us/album/on-the-way-home-live/218213938?i=218213939