Oracle's founder is a rabidly right-wing Trump supporter, so it's no wonder that the company is continuing its advertising on the deadbird site. Right on brand.
@dangillmor@spaf It seems to be the case that the vast majority of companies that were on Twitter historically are still there. Does anyone have the data?
We occasionally see large brands “pausing” and then coming back (e.g. Apple), but I haven’t seen overall long term stats - just lots of anecdotal data.
If most companies remain, Oracle’s presence would be the norm. Rather than being an outlier based on Larry’s politics, they would be following the audience like others. I’d love to know.
At age 15, Marques Brownlee began making YouTube tech videos. He just kept going until he became our era's leading gadget critic. And the media empire he created is still taking him to new places. Here's my cover story from the new issue of Fast Company! https://www.fastcompany.com/90978935/marques-brownlee-mkbhd-youtube-tech-review
@harrymccracken One of the interesting things about the internet era is how it has broadened the "domains of fame”. Fame used to come in a fairly limited set of categories; e.g. movie star, athlete, politician, scientist, musician. Even if one wasn't into science, they would still have heard of the most famous scientists.
It seems that now we have many more domains of fame where the famous are relatively unknown outside their domain.
There is no cloud, no network no app. No spell-check, no grammar-check no LLM generated text. Type-O doesn’t try to be clever or do anything you don’t ask it to. It simply captures what you type and gives it back to you as text files on your computer desktop."
@rasterweb@requiem A priest, a pastor and a rabbit walked in to blood donation clinic. The nurse asked the rabbit: "What is your blood type?" "I am probably a Type-O" said the rabbit.
Dear internet please get someone to do a reported piece on the Grace Hopper conference disaster about how that was a failure of event management bc holy shit was that a failure of event management
I'm not new to electronics, but I am (occasionally) an idiot.
So fat this week I have:
Touched header pins right after soldering, slightly burning my fingers...
Snipped a header pin with my hand it the way shooting it into my finger and making it bleed...
And then last night I thought I had something in my shoe, which seemed weird because I had my shoes on all day. I took off my shoe to see what was inside, and a damn single header pin had pierced the bottom of my shoe and I could feel it!
I made the mistake of browsing some Bambu Lab groups on Facebook. Lots of crazy people, and I just read dozens of comments about using glue sticks or hair spray for a normal PLA print… what!?
With Apple's frictionless and incredibly easy to use tap-to-pay and Apple Pay Later services, Vox questions whether the company is making it too easy for us to spend a lot of money. Without the physical reminder of cash in our wallets, our bank accounts could be taking bigger hits than we thought. https://flip.it/8Gew3K
@TechDesk Yes, by all means let’s make Apple responsible for ensuring we don’t spend too much money, rather than taking personal responsibility. Perhaps they should also warn us about spending money on the “wrong” things.
Talked to the 9-year-old about how you once had to wait, bored, like Prometheus tied to the stone, while your mom compared prices at Dillard's, and nobody had invented the smartphone. I think she understood intellectually but was unable to grasp the true depth of what we endured.
@ZachWeinersmith Yeah, I’ve given up trying to explain to CompSci students what it was like to use an IBM 360/50 with punch cards when I was a student. They just can’t internalize it.
Hmm, I am seriously considering a Bambu Lab P1S (or P1P) printer. I still love the Prusa MINI but I need to get rid of the old Monoprice which is past its prime, and that makes room for another printer.
(And yeah, I'll wait until at least Sept. 20th before I do anything.)
@rasterweb Speed, ease of use, and the AMS. I don’t do many multicolor prints, but it is convenient to have multiple spools loaded and I love being able to finish a spool and have it automatically start on another.
I just received the new book by @skrishna
and I can already think of several people that will be receiving it as a gift.
From the space.com review:
Krishna's new book "Stargazing: Contemplate the Cosmos to Find Inner Peace" offers everything you need in a night sky how-to guide, but goes beyond just showing you how to find the constellations. Krishna's readers can expect to gain a perspective of the stars rooted in an insightful, and perhaps unfamiliar past.
“The “Promise” of “Easier” Programming,” wherein I talk about why 4GLs were temporarily successful, why that was temporary, and why “programming via LLMs” will have the same fate: https://eschatologist.net/blog/?p=374
For many, Excel took the place of 4GLs. People could get things done in an ad hoc way when they couldn't get IT attention/resources. These aren't programs in the way you or I think about them, but they fulfill a need. This happens continually in large and small businesses.
I believe that at a minimum LLMs will amplify the power of these non-programmers to write more “code” that would otherwise go unwritten. See MS Office Copilot.