pies @pies@qoto.org
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Husband of a smart, outspoken woman, father of two little girls. ❄️ Peace and quiet enthusiast. 💾 PHP/Node/Java/Go dev 🤗 He/him.🍹 Unfollowable. https://ninozaur.com
Joined Nov 2022
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This is an interesting take on the whole Meta vs. Fediverse thing, the history of XMPP vs. Google, and so forth;
https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
It misses a few things that are in my recollection of those years, though. First of all, in my circles, we lived in the original ICQ client, and then in multi-protocol clients like Trillian, and Adium. The only reason we even knew or cared about XMPP is because it allowed those clients to talk to people on Google Talk, and Facebook Messenger.
Yes, Facebook used to support XMPP, too. After a while, it became a pain to use because the protocol didn’t support custom emojis, and it was removed.
@estelle I get your point, but I doubt they're actually looking for the sailors. They're looking for the expensive and secret boat.
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“Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you’re keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls—family, health, friends, integrity—are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.”
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When Henri Matisse Was 90 Years Old, He Couldn’t Go to His Favorite Swimming Pool, So He Created a Swimming Pool as a Work of Art
https://www.openculture.com/2023/06/matisse-swimming-pool.html
@blikkie @emilygorcenski Same experience here, although I do like it. Helps a bit with enumeration and things like that, not very consistent though, so I'd prefer those features as IDE code.
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Hiring a software engineer in their late 40s:
Pros:
* Understands your stack better than you do after glancing through the repo for five minutes.
* Will rewrite said stack 2x as fast, and half as buggy if you let them.
Cons:
* Gives zero fucks.
* Knows we're not *really* like family here.
* No, seriously, absolutely zero fucks given.
Do not cite the deep magic to me, product manager, I was there when it was written.
Who are the AI investors who talk about AGI allowing us to not work - secret communists, liers or ignorant? Because who exactly will own the AI? Who will benefit from is productivity? If it's everyone, then how will their investments pay for themselves? If it's the rich people then how is that different from what we're have today?
@GrimmReality "high five Satan" if you're fancy.
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My old bud JC is getting surgery this week and I was on the phone with him and said "Good luck under the knife" and he said "What?" and it seemed a little weird so you know how you don't say "good luck" to actors before a show, you say "break a leg" because "good luck" is bad luck to actors? I propose we have a different phrase for "good luck getting surgery" and my proposed alternate phrase is "Punch an angel."
Whales are even-toed ungulates, but they don't like to talk about it.
@lcamtuf maybe I've been out of frontend for too long, but I've never even heard of JPEG XL. At least JPEG 2000 has my favourite version of Windows in its name.
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There has been a lot of research about autistics over the years, but this one really took the cake! 🍰
Find out what happened when researchers attempted to compare the moral compass of autistic and non-autistic people... (1/2)
#actuallyautistic #autism #neurodivergence #comic #art #MastoArt
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Sorry, had trouble with the earlier Mastodon post, so I posted an extended article on Substack:
"LLMs are better than you think at playing you"
https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/llms-are-better-than-you-think-at
@frauenfelder I think it's just not enough thoughts and prayers.
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"Evil sorcerers" vs "ordinary mediocrities"
@emilygorcenski I'm not so sure because US had the 1st amendment during anti--Vietnam-war protests and during the red scare. A lot depends on the Supreme Court.
@henryfarrell Let's all just surrender to whatever the average of the internet is on givent topic and then we win by mass generating content that supports our views for other models to learn on.
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What self respecting election geek doesn’t love a good chart? I’ve got plenty of them in today’s piece, courtesy of Catalist. They tell an amazing story about youth and women voters, especially in the battleground states. Check it out: https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-deep-data-is-in-and-democrats?sd=pf
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He wanted her to be more open to experimentation, so she experimented with poisons and celibacy.
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Husband of a smart, outspoken woman, father of two little girls. ❄️ Peace and quiet enthusiast. 💾 PHP/Node/Java/Go dev 🤗 He/him.🍹 Unfollowable. https://ninozaur.com
Joined Nov 2022
