No one would EVER tell me in my field, that a scientist in leadership was not "truly part of my field" and "did not represent me." That is what many many people are telling me in my thread about tech people and users though. It's just very convenient that not a single part of engineering leadership represents engineers???
@codinghorror a short conversation vs a brief one
@solar_chase yeah, it looks like it's one of these fuzzy boundaries. I don't think native speakers always agree (living in German-speaking Switzerland for 15 years). I just found out that avocado is usually Obst, which is not particularly intuitive to me (tomato is usually Gemüse)
Kerfuffle between the CNCF, one of its projects, and the company that contributed it? Sounds like a topic tailor-made for Oxide and Friends! @bcantrill and I were joined by @rstephensme and @adamhjk to discuss how we got here and possible outcomes. https://youtu.be/dYIgswVvIt0
Qwen 3 offers a case study in how to effectively release a model https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/29/qwen-3/
@kathimmel I think it could be, Wikipedia mentions Kandinsky and Mondrian (though I'm not sure if it's reliable on this point)
@kathimmel hey! I wanted to thank you because I looked at your bio and it reminded me of proun, a game I used to play a lot a while ago and completely forgot!
(I'm not sure if that's what you're referring to)
@stuart trente Trent c'est mieux que treize reznor
@deborahh @mcc @northernlights 2.5th I would say, started in school (Switzerland) before English, but started hearing English before that
@simon re: the gemini vs chatgpt thing, I've been able to use 2.5 pro and 2.5 flash for a week now (on the free plan, though I have Google One storage). They both give similar results to the o3 query (and return faster). You do have to click "show thinking" to see what it searched.
code / data wrangler in Switzerland.
Recovering reply guy. Posts random photos once in a while.