Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org
- Enthusiasms
- 🏍️ 🪂 🚀 🎷 🔬 🔭 🎞️ 🐧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
- Credit
- A Quinn-Martin Production
Software Engineer, mostly in the Pacific Northwest of late
Medical Informatics - Carrier-Grade Network Video Distribution - Real Time Clinical Telemetry
Formerly: Motorola, Tektronix, Intel, HP, Qualcomm, Nintendo; others you're less likely to have heard of.
Will code for pie. 🥧
Joined Dec 2022
I don't know why I still do this.
- "Everyone thinks X."
- "You don't speak for everyone; some others may think, for example, Y."
- "Yes I do speak for everyone."
... and repeat.
{citation needed}. Biden has been a rather successful President. Swapping in just anyone would certainly have an effect on the motivation of some voters.
And do what? Do they think people will go to the polls and cast a vote for "Not Biden - Democrat"?
Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧
boosted
People sometimes confuse the plural of octopus.
Here’s a guide:
• one octopus
• two octopuses
• three octopods
• 3.14 octopi
• four octopodes
They've got their work cut out for them, restoring the UK to a functioning country so the Tories have plenty to loot when they eventually get in again.
@w7voa Perhaps he should see if he can access Trump's cognitive test. Did he really manage all of 'Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.'?
@warandpeas Your point #4 doesn't get as much play as it should. There's so much the tech industry can and should do to apply "AI" to the kinds of tasks that computing itself was created for: to take the drudge out of time-consuming and effortful task, liberating people to do what they're good at: creating original works.
Instead they're trying to create ersatz humans to swamp the latter with reprocessed derivatives. Because it's easier to raise VC for sexy stuff like that.
Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧
boosted
Few things piss me off more than a huge, multi-billion IT corporation that suddenly sends me an email regarding an open-source project I’ve been running since 1990’s that I’ve recently shut down due to absolute lack of interest from its users… which happened to be telcos and large IT companies. Here’s what I replied:
Thank you for your email. As it’s often the case with open-source projects, their value to organisations is only noticed and appreciated when they go offline. I have maintained pam_tacplus for the last years and it had the call for sponsorship prominently displayed for most of the time specifically because it’s a legacy project that is difficult to maintain. None of the commercial companies that clearly do rely on it ever demonstrated any interest in even nominal donations, so it was archived. While it’s notable someone finally noticed it, I’m not the person to discuss any future development any more.
I did work in large companies and I do understand the sick logic that drives them, when it’s easier to get approval for annual spending of $50k for some office decorations than $100 for a mission-critical project which happens to be open-source and can be used for free for some time.
But it’s possible. If you’re working in such roles, please make every effort to get this $100 because otherwise it will become your responsibility to develop and maintain code that you always got for free.
Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧
boosted
As a reminder, in 2016 Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and UN mediated a deescalation agreement with #Russia which included reporting precise locations of hospitals and other civilian safe zones in #Syria to prevent what Russia claimed were “accidental bombings”. Guess what happened next? Russia bombed exactly these locations:
“The destruction of the hospital leaves the local population of around 40,000 people without access to medical services in an active zone of conflict,” said MSF Syria operations chief Massimiliano Rebaudengo.
A report published by the international medical charity on Wednesday said that during 2015 “a total of 94 aerial and shelling attacks of hit MSF-suppported facilities” with “12 cases leading to total destruction.” MSF said that 81 medical staff members were killed in these strikes.
Speaking in Geneva, MSF international president Joanne Liu told reporters that civilian institutions are being deliberately targeted on a regular basis, said the Guardian.
@w7voa Where were these idiots a year ago when it wasn't too late?
@Carl_Zimmer Predator species make poor prey, don't they? They have a wide range per individual, tiny numbers compared to their prey species within that range, and, well, not a whole lot of body fat. Developing techniques for hunting snow leopards seems like a poor investment.
The book is terrific.
They always do this: try to equalize a race by inflating one or two populist criticisms of the decent candidate. It's like they're allergic to an election where one candidate is clearly worse, and try to whatabout it into a horserace.
“…But if the Supreme Court is ever composed of imprudent men or bad citizens, the Union may be plunged into anarchy or civil war.” - Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1831
h/t @RIOldFolksHome on xitter
It's a sobering experience to, in a public discussion, question closely someone with whom you're politically aligned, when they make an irrational or unsupportable assertion.
You very quickly learn who's principled and who's tribal. It isn't pretty or fun, and doesn't give one much cause for optimism.
All it takes to believe a lie is willingness, ignorance or some combination of both. To understand and accept its refutation takes patience, discernment and often, considerable emotional discipline.
We are so fucked.
When a lie takes 10 seconds to tell and 30 minutes to refute, in the age of social media we're pretty much doomed.
I've often thought the same thing. What's more, that's a relatively temporary situation, coincident with the existence of humans, and seemingly centered on this period of human "civilization". A few tens of millions of years from now, we'll only get annular eclipses.
@ottocrat
Plaid Cymru Britain looks forward to your return.
- Enthusiasms
- 🏍️ 🪂 🚀 🎷 🔬 🔭 🎞️ 🐧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
- Credit
- A Quinn-Martin Production
Software Engineer, mostly in the Pacific Northwest of late
Medical Informatics - Carrier-Grade Network Video Distribution - Real Time Clinical Telemetry
Formerly: Motorola, Tektronix, Intel, HP, Qualcomm, Nintendo; others you're less likely to have heard of.
Will code for pie. 🥧
Joined Dec 2022
