🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@TheOldGuy For years now I pay less by paying cash and skipping insurance than using insurance. Not to mention insurance refuses to cover virtually all of my requests.

worst part, I'm required to have it since obama care.

Yea im ready for them to abolish it and start over.

@TheOldGuy /Robert Reich is the example of what you get when you completely disregard the science and entirely pander for followers... I sprain my eyes with eye rolls with the majority of his stuff.

@louis You dont feed it on sylallbals, you feed if it on stemmed words..

so: hyperaldosteronism -> hyper- aldosterone -ism

Basically you separate the prefix and suffix and treat those as sperate words, keep the base word as one worrd.

This is for english, there may be languages where sylable per-idea works , but in english the idea of a word usually comes from just the break I mentioned.

@louis SLM already exists, it stands for Small Language Model.

But you arent too far off. LLMs are just the language part of the brain, if you somehow could remove someones language centers only and make them play, I bet they would sound like an LLM.. no reason, no logical, its only skill is forming nice looking sentences. What you have yet to see is the rest of the brain hooked up.

Them: You are insulting my intelligence.

Me: I cant insult something that doesnt exist.

@wjmaggos

II agree we need to look at the long term first and the short terma s only a temporary easement not a solution. I also agree this is a huge problem with people prioritizing short term fixes that have long term harm.

For me minimum wage is a great example of something that intends to have short term benefit (but it doesnt even do that) but long term causes more harm. Where actually improving the marketablility of people through training is a far better solution.

No body: ....
Italians: Whena you speaka everya syllabla needsa A-ah.

@y

Im sure some people might say that, but no thats not what I mean when I see free market. A free market is a market not under control of any of the players in said market. AS in it is a neutral and equal territory. That means the things I said, it doesnt mean "do nothing of anykind" thats not what free means (though again im sure some people share your opinion).

@wjmaggos

@wjmaggos Free market means a market where prices are adjusted freely due to their natural supply/demand.. In other words, a market where all players are on equal footing.

So that would mean the sort of things intervention is ok for:

1) Stopping monopolies from controlling the market
2) Prevent price fixing of markets by collaborating groups (aggregate monopolies basically)
3) Addressing the fact the medicare by its nature has a broken supply-demand curve, so things that fix that curve.

etc

Now id also be ok with the market spending taxes in general on anything that has a ROI on that money. So for example things like free education, I'd be fine with that because its a wise ROI.

@wjmaggos Any intervantions needed to ensure a free market.

@stux

Not if my company has anything to do with it. Ethics is a focus we put right on our front page. We even spun out a nonprofit whose whole job is to address ethics with regard to the evolution of AGI

@stux Well consiodering my company is already benefiting from this I dont mind **that much**... But i still dont like the orange one :)

@KimPerales

Ya know, im not sure how many R leaders actually know he is wrong... I mean **I** know he is wrong, and I am sure **you** know he is wrong... But im honestly not so sure if the R leaders are aware of this. I think their just all on board and ready to go with a smile on their face for most of this.

@manlycoffee

The last thing I want in my mind is another bear. There are enough of those in there already!

@manlycoffee

Oh and if you always seem to get the main default in git on mac thats cause at one point you or something added it to your config

git config --list

@manlycoffee if you create the repo on github itself and ask it to create the intial commit it will use main. If you use gitlab it will use master, if you create it with `git init` on mac or linux or windows it will be master.

@manlycoffee

GitHub is the only one who changes it to main and really in my expiernce no one every starts the repo on github itself unless they are a amateur without much programming expiernce. Most use the git client and it still uses master. So the vast majority of repos i see are still on master, even new ones.

I myself always go with master because its the git default therefore the closest thing I can see to a standard, so i will make sure as a rule all repos in my org must be "master" until git changes it as the standard and then we will follow whatever the industry standard is according to git tool.

https://theintercept.com/2025/01/22/trump-israel-settlers-west-bank-sanctions/

Of course he did ::rolls eyes:: The man is worse than biden.

@chris Its hard.. i have a dev team and we talked about that and at least from what im told its non-trivial if you want to keep all your followers, im not even sure if its possible without coding.