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Elucidating

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Uninteresting. Genderfluid. No interest in performing for you. Was KirinDave on 🐦. Still KirinDave on YouTube.

$megacorp SRE. ML/Art/Software.

Not a fan of this capitalism. I am a fan of biocosmism, anarchism, distributed and robust systems, and economics when decoupled from capitalists and oligarchy.

ML models must be fully open sourced, including the training data! We deserve the right to audit.

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danilo, to random
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the weirdest thing that has taken place in my life was reading valleywag throughout the aughts

with its excellent reportage of subjects the regular tech press wouldn’t touch

learning about how all these posturing tech guys were pretty sad and pathetic, and mostly winners of a random lottery

and now almost two decades later

these same pathetic guys are OBSCENELY powerful and wealthy

and still pathetic in ways the press remained reluctant to talk about!

Elucidating,
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@danilo what's so wild about that era is that even the supposedly good people were partially in on the grift. Even Valleywag itself had third rails it wouldn't touch because that would threaten their funding model.

Elucidating,
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@danilo You never saw them go after the egregious law firms, for example. The music industry was dumping tons of money and harassing tons of people in tech and it never got touched.

Also think about other outlets. E.g., the actual arc of MVC for example. Just wild stuff.

lzg, to random
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I'm horrified at how microsoft uses the term devops but I must persevere

Elucidating,
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@lzg @danilo If you do not know what "Log Horizon S1 OP" means avoid it like the plague. This conversation is putting me into a musical fugue state.

nyquildotorg, to random
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The last few years, I've thought it impossible to have a less interesting Google I/O keynote, but 2024 proves I was way, way wrong.

Xzibit voice: Yo Dawg, we heard you like AI so we put AI in your AI!

Elucidating,
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At least they had one passingly interesting demo this time, I guess?

Elucidating,
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@nyquildotorg the "take this email and put it into my invoice ledger spreadsheet" demo is a neat idea if it works. But the star of the show was the multimodal "have a conversation with my phone in which it has persistence of vision and can identify things by their properties."

lolgop, to random
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The right has spent tens of billions attacking Joe Biden – and of course, it’s working
https://www.patreon.com/posts/104249086

Elucidating,
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@lolgop I think this post, with its refusal to even give a single word to Israel and Palestine amidst a discussion of Biden's popularity, is the straw that broke the camels' back for me. Goodbye.

Elucidating, to random
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@danilo On that thing about money and family relationships, it makes me think what a massive divide there is in our various communities between "losing those relationships left me broken and alone" and "it was literally the best thing that could have happened / saved my life."

This is one of those bigger utterly irreconcilable differences.

Elucidating, to random
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I'm reading the interview of a hyper regressive anti trans person who runs the anti-trans bathroom line in Utah. They're mad they're getting so much obscene feedback, and they didn't want to run the service, and they oh... Want a more effective way to "protect women and girls" from the "menace" of trans people.

Gosh that German quisling who was so into protecting this agency on the grounds "they're just civil servants they probably don't even wanna do it" sure looks smart now. 🙄

rechelon, to random
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Listening to Steve Fuller confidently lecture that Nick Land says technological progress is good because it will cause a catastrophe that will stop technology and return humans to nature. Lord, may I never be granted the kind of confident ignorance of an academic grifter.

Elucidating,
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@rechelon To be fair, a surprising number of the so called Landians at OpenAI unironically believe something like this but also with neofeudalism that they're the winners of, but also kinda of "everyone else is poor and collapsed but because I know math it's better for me" vibes.

whitequark, to random
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the thermostat in this place is wireless and talks to the boiler over radio... but something happened (?) and it's no longer working. and i noticed that i'm cold.

fortunately i had a recording of the thermostat's boiler-on and boiler-off commands on my flipper zero.

so now flipper zero is a key part of how i'm going to not freeze to death while asleep

Elucidating,
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@whitequark what's worst about that reply is how they're taking all the joy out of owning a flipper just to write a toot.

Elucidating, to random
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Did you know Scott Siskind and the EAs have started their own Prager U style project called "Rational Animations"?

Elucidating, to random
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It's quite frustrating how folks can simultaneously say, "We should follow the science" but also "I don't care if Dunning Kruger is debunked, it's a useful tool to describe people."

Elucidating,
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@hyc There is no Dunning Kruger effect as described. It's an artifact of the analysis technique. You can get the same effect with random data, because it's autocorrelation.

danluu, (edited ) to random
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This exchange reminds me of the debate I had with Jeff Atwood on whether or not servers should use ECC memory a decade ago. Jeff said no and I disagreed and said yes in https://danluu.com/why-ecc/.

At the time, there was one argument that could've, theoretically, been overturned by progress: Jeff argued that commodity non-ECC memory was becoming more reliable and was highly reliable. This was not true at the time, and it turns out this still isn't true a decade later.

Elucidating, (edited )
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@danluu Hey just fun fact: at Google we recently had a truly amazing moment where non-ECC ram holding part of a protocol buffer got corrupted after transmission and validation, got replicated all over the place, and caused chaos.

I do not know how we defense in depth much harder but we'll have to figure out a way because I have officially lives to see a cosmic ray infiltrate and destroy a distributed system that aggressively validates input off wire on all nodes.

Elucidating, to random
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Idk, folks. If you hate Adobe's use of AI so much maybe show them that by not using their products?

I'm not saying you can't also talk about how it makes you mad. But it is weird how you keep jamming your hand in the machine that makes you mad by chewing on your hand.

Elucidating, to random
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The problem with Google is not the search. It's the ad model of the Internet and their monopoly over that.

This, of course, indicts capitalism. So we won't talk about it

Elucidating, to random
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So is Mastodon like, worse than Hacker News for hammering sites now?

Elucidating, to random
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So of course Tesla's infamously erratic operations are getting more erratic over time. Now the supercharger network that was going to become the new mandated standard is now unstaffed and "only growing where critical".

But they've managed to get every other vendor to incur the cost of adopting their under-documented connector and data standard. Essentially hamstringing EV growth in many parts of the US.

And we said: it is bad to put Tesla in charge of this. I wish more folks listened.

danilo, to random
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Japan's McDonalds is FIRE
https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/112357481953359352

Elucidating,
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@danilo This is because, as any non-american will tell you, American cuisine is either processed garbage or barbeque.

Whereas Japan just fucking cannot hold all the dubs their cuisine has.

Elucidating, to random
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Biz Stone is not a great person, and I say that from brief personal experience.

But uh... He's not exactly dangerous or irrelevant. I'd need to see the charter of the new nonprofit to see how dangerous his presence actually is.

Elucidating,
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@lzg Yeah, agreed.

Elucidating, to random
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The extremely strange thing about how Twitter and a decade of walled garden Internet has shaped people's brains is that I see people talking about how they want to "convert" other users to other activitypub experiences "better" than Mastodon.

Stop doing this. It's conquest brain. You're thinking like a VC. The point here is that all these systems can co-exist and organically compete. Stop trying to force things. You will only be the bad guy doing that.

Elucidating, to random
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Python's GvvR wrote a blog post on why multi-line lambdas aren't around in 2006. (ref: https://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=147358) It has aged like milk, and looks impossibly ridiculous in light of modern languages. But it also points out: A lot of "Pythonicity" isn't Pythonic because the community has decided it is. It's "Pythonic" because GvvR had control of the project and its purse strings, and he didn't like it.

Which is fine, for small projects. For Python in 2024, it's pretty outrageous.

Elucidating,
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In general, the idea of "pythonic" code is dead. Libraries outrageously abuse various syntaxes for domain convenience. Dataframe libraries roar over the shattered remains of the Zen of Python.

Yet still, these arbitrary decisions from 2006 shackle the community and continue to make a feature-poor language with an interpreter that STILL hasn't managed to sort out multi-threading as one of the most consequential languages in tech. It's depressing.

dav1d, to random
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you’re a programmer? name every programming language

Elucidating,
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