weebull @weebull@qoto.org
Joined Dec 2022
@Codeberg Not using cloud based services, but comparing self-hosted Gitlab and Forgejo is night and day.
- Gitlab has opaque database files for everything. Forgejo has plain git repos and SQL databases.
- Gitlab locks basic features like enforcing PR approvals behind a paid license.
- Bloat. Gitlab is trying to be a forge, a CI system, a project management tool, and 20 other things. Forgejo is a forge (but I worry that it's taking on CI now).
On the negative side, forgejo need to complete their API. Many things in their data model are not accessible through it.
@astrid Now that this is closed, I'll ask another question in response.
In base ten (decimal) what is your favourite number? 5, A, F, 3C
There was only one answer to your question because only "1" is the only base-2 number given. For those answers to make sense the question would be " What is your favourite power of 2?"
@DamonHD @isleofmandan @neil I think I knew at some point, but remind me...
Call termination charges?
@neil 19/F/in your area
@alexisbushnell I honestly don't think they are scared of trans people. They are scared that they are being asked to give up their segregated spaces FROM MEN. It's not about sharing with people who. Identify as trans in good faith. It is about sharing with people who identify as trans in bad faith.
Now you can argue if it's a rational fear, but it doesn't matter. The fear is real, and so unless legislators accommodate that fear they'll get huge pushback.
@fortyseven Indeed. I struggled to enjoy S4 just because so much of the script was straight out of the newspapers. It's depressing.
I'm hopeful S5's dystopia exceeds our own by enough that it becomes satire more than documentary again.
@johnpeart So about 10%. Last census had the UK with a 3% proportion identifying as LGBTQ+.
Maybe the census is underreporting in some way, but 3x seems like it could be overrepresented. No?
@aetataureate @grimalkina
Well it doesn't make sense to them. Their thinking is that the author would obviously retain copyright on their work. It's absurd to them that anyone would give away their rights just to be published in a paper journal and then have to buy them back.
And it is absurd.
@neil Indeed.
The reason social media has embedded itself so easily into life is because it mirrors our interaction with so many other things, but the effort barrier is massively lower.
@neil just to play devil's advocate.... Doesn't a journal like Nature meet that description as well.
We all have authorities we trust. Education is based on that. It's the people that question EVERYTHING that drive themselves crazy with conspiracy theories.
Like all things, the solution is balance. Be questioning enough so that you reveal those who would take advantage. Be trusting enough that you don't reject every challenging idea.
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AAISP’s Novel Solution to SLAMMING in New UK Broadband Switching System https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2024/06/aaisps-novel-solution-to-slamming-in-new-uk-broadband-switching-system.html
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@wagesj45 do you find that going class by class gives enough context for goods docs. If I did that as a human I wouldn't expect much more insight than just a "translation" from code to English.
@wagesj45 @mfowler Are you able to share any more on how this is done?
Personally, I think it's vital that this is a local process, but I've found the information out there about getting local models to ingest reference material is non-existent.
I'm just about to take ownership of python code based that is a few 10s of thousands of lines without documentation. Could be a good application of the tech.
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JFC, people in tech are really out there saying that language models will be better at therapy, financial advice, and career advice than trained people.
WTF is wrong with you people? Do you really have no clue about what other people’s jobs actually involve?
Language models can’t even do maths how are they supposed to get good at financial advice?
And therapy? Just… 😑
What’s wrong with people in tech?
@revk @TimWardCam @ImpossibleUmbrella
Doing that with a class would be great. A fun lesson that gets an important message across.
@TimWardCam @ImpossibleUmbrella @revk
3blue1brown did one (with an addendum video) on cryptocurrency that's really quite good. Explains on a conceptual level things like digital signatures along the way.
@simonzerafa @revk I very much believe CompSci should be a maths heavy subject in much the same way that Physics is. Different topics though. Logic, Groups, Number systems, Linear algebra (through matrices and tensors), etc, etc.
An "Applied CompSci" course would include the software development.
"Computer Engineering" would be focused on larger scale systems, networking, and infrastructure.
None of them would be about computer literacy.
Joined Dec 2022
