Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
Politically moderate, but a registered Democrat since January 7th 2021.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
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@D_J_Nathanson I'm no expert in that subject, so I have no way of knowing for sure.
But, humans are the only species we *know* to be self-aware, so it stands to reason that closely-related apes would be the most likely candidates to share that property, and it would get less likely the further away you got on the evolutionary tree.
I am pretty confident in saying, based on personal interactions, that the cats and dogs I've met and cared for are not self-aware.
@D_J_Nathanson "Sentience" means something different with AI, though; something closer to "self-awareness" or "sapience". Apparently due to the misuse of the word by scifi writers.
Were any of those animals capable of that definition of sentience, people might care more. Until then, they're just another part of the food chain.
(Also: chickens, really? How are those pea-brained ground-peckers sentient? I thought they operated purely on instinct.)
Spilled some beverage on my mechanical keyboard yesterday and I'm using a regular one now temporarily and I do not understand how people work like this.
Idea:
A website called "StackUnderflow" where all the newbie programmers can ask the stupid questions that aren't allowed on StackOverflow.
Anyone convicted of hacking-related crimes would be required to work at the site answering questions for the duration of their sentence.
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if you want to make a list or host a panel that includes the whole spectrum of people who aren't men, that's totally cool! just for god's sake don't call it "women in [x]"
and PLEASE avoid those "clever" terms like women*, i am begging you
p.s. maybe no one's told you this but you are totally free and welcome to highlight exceptional people who aren't men all 12 months of the year!
@NatlSecCnslrs@mstdn.social @mmasnick It's caching. It always did that for really old tweets (even the API only allows you to go so far back) but it's gotten much worse since Musk fired all the guys running the cache servers.
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Good policy is not partisan.
Repealing a grocery tax puts more food on every person's table, continuing to tax groceries takes food off of every person's table.
The effects of the policy are the same regardless of political party.
The path forward for our country is to get back to discussions of policy and away from arguments over political party.
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@shayneoneill From what I understand, SpaceX has formed a culture specifically around "handling" Musk. They have learned to distract him with bright lights and pretty colors so the real work can get done in the next room.
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"We don’t need more hyperventilating about TikTok: we need strong privacy and transparency laws, and antitrust action to break up the companies getting rich off their data empires"
@team https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/02/resistance-tiktok-ban-is-growing-washington/
@freemo Or some diclofenac potassium so you can relax a little easier while you're at it 😜
@freemo Oh, man, I'd die if I had to eat the same thing every night. If you want some low-carb suggestions to help mix it up, curry is a great choice, as are veggie roasts (basically pot roast without the beef).
A supposed lawyer popped into my mentions to try to deny an easily provable fact then blocked me before I could bring receipts.
Yep, it's starting to feel like Twitter here...😕
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The Supreme Court is all but certain to invalidate Biden's student debt forgiveness plan. And they're legally correct to. Whether you think the plan was good policy or not, the president has constitutionally limited powers—which is good, because you don't want a presidency without limited powers—and his plan obviously went beyond them. If you want to forgive student debt, Congress needs to do it.
@pixelpusher220 "Facebook is evil" confirmation bias is a bitch. 🤷♂️
@dangoodin ...If it's linked to an endpoint machine, wouldn't that also make the data unusable to anyone with a recently bricked PC?
Wonder how they get around that.
@pixelpusher220 You're only thinking in the short term. If Facebook thought that way too, then they'd switch to chronological view (https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/facebook-removed-the-news-feed-algorithm?s=09).
But they don't because they're clearly playing the long game. And preventing Twitter crossposting vs Mastodon migration tools looks very different in the perspective of long-term strategy.
@pixelpusher220 Not necessarily, no. They understand that people use different social networks for different purposes. Twitter and Facebook is a two-way street, with people using both networks for different reasons. Allowing people to cross-post keeps them from walling themselves in a different garden.
OTOH, Mastodon seems to be much more of a 1-way migration. Not a lot of folks choosing Mastodon as their first social network then moving over to Facebook or Twitter.
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
Politically moderate, but a registered Democrat since January 7th 2021.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
