davoloid

@davoloid@qoto.org

Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, moving towards Process Automation with MS Power Platform. Scatterbrain, interested in education, languages, Space and lots of disparate things. sorry.
Keeping my space toots at @astrodad as an experiment in self-moderation :)

*Background banner is a photo Yorkshire flag in blue and white, in front of a classic bell tent, in a field of similar tents at a festival.

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davoloid, to Argentina

Vote counting is going really fast, 60% of votes counted so there could be an announcement sooner than 9pm.

davoloid,

Electoral Officials saying that with the ballots counted already, Milei leads by 53% to 47%.

freemo, to random
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So seems my keyboard is showing a WPM of anywhere between 140 - 160 for me (this is after correction for errors and the standard penalty)... however my accuracyis showing as only 96%. I think It is largely due to the new keyboard though. I expect as I get used to it my accuracy may rise a % or two.

davoloid,

@freemo God, I've just done a couple of tests and realised mine is much worse on a laptop than I thought...

slcw, to random
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Just when you thought things couldn't get any more ... This guy is an intellectually stunted moron who holds the title of "most idiotic ". The facts of the case against him prove that he didn't even have a grasp of what was happening in the on 1/6, let alone an even rudimentary understanding of how our government works. Yet now he wants to run for elected office? I pity anyone who looks at this clown and decides to waste their vote on him.

https://www.businessinsider.com/qanon-shaman-jacob-chansley-congress-arizona-2023-11

davoloid,

@slcw You're gonna have to back up a sec for me... he's not in jail?

FlockOfCats, to random
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I’m very adamant about using “toot” instead of “post”. I’ll die on this hill, but hopefully not today because I have lots of errands to run, like buying stamps at the toot office.

davoloid,

@FlockOfCats When you die on that hill, I imagine you'll be given a toothumous award for your efforts.

biglesp, to random
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We go live to Banana-Cam

davoloid,

@biglesp Finger for scale.

Daojoan, to random
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A thousand pop-sci anthropology hacks and TERFs just felt a disturbance in the force 🫡

davoloid,

@Daojoan Really good long read last week on how the myth of "Man the Hunter" came about and how it got trashed by, you know, evidence.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-theory-that-men-evolved-to-hunt-and-women-evolved-to-gather-is-wrong1/

Daojoan, (edited ) to random
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In the realm of Arithia, where legends whisper through the winds, you, a fledgling adventurer, stand at the crossroads of destiny.

The once-peaceful land now trembles under a sorcerer’s shadow.

Three paths lie before you, each winding into the unknown:

davoloid,

@Daojoan TBH Staring at emerald leaves in an enchanted forest sounds just perfect right now.

davoloid,

@mrundkvist @Daojoan So... Are you looking for clues rather than going straight ahead with opening the ominous looking book in the forbidding glade? Glad someone's paying attention!

Daojoan, to random
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Some comments have resurfaced that I deeply regret, in which I referred to Episode 1: The Phantom Menace as “the best ever.”

To be clear, I was 10 years old at the time. But I recognise that is no excuse.

I am trying to do better.

davoloid,

@Daojoan It was at the time! Darth Maul, the pod racing, John William's soundtrack. Silly as the first three now I look back but if we'd got the story we really deserves, that of the sith lord Darth Binks, history would view it differently.

ChrisMayLA6, to london
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How bus use has changed in London & in big cities outside of London since deregulation. (from which London was exempt).

From @thomasforth (posted at the other place)

Its quite an extraordinary 'natural experiment' - from which we can draw the conclusion (without too much difficulty) that is not the way forward if are to be part of the

(and don't get me started on exceptionalism....)

davoloid,

@tomw @ChrisMayLA6 This is what worked well in West Yorkshire, though there was still a decline in patronage after deregulation. Local rail services were integrated, and so you could travel all the way from Skipton to almost Doncaster. Seems to have been reintroduced recently, and PAYG card similar to TFL's Oyster.

samueljohnson, to random
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/04/plans-to-redefine-extremism-would-include-undermining-uk-values

Dear oh dear. Anyone favouring Irish reunification is now an extremist.

davoloid,

@samueljohnson I think we all know who's been undermining British values and institutions over the last 13 years.

gratefuldread, to LGBTQ
@gratefuldread@gratefuldread.masto.host avatar

Marjorie Taylor Greene lies while testifying in the House about her anti-trans “signature bill” https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/11/marjorie-taylor-greene-lies-while-testifying-in-the-house-about-her-anti-trans-signature-bill/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

davoloid,

@gratefuldread Lying while testifying, is this a jailable offence?

SocraticEthics, to Ukraine
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⚡️🇺🇦Ukraine’s State Property Fund to hold 19 privatization auctions next week (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-economy/3782515-ukraines-state-property-fund-to-hold-19-privatization-auctions-next-week.html

davoloid,

@SocraticEthics What measures are taken by the state to ensure this doesn't create the next generation of oligarchs?

rebeccawatson, to random
@rebeccawatson@mstdn.social avatar

The FDA just announced that an ingredient in nearly every cold medicine is completely useless. How did it end up on our shelves? Here's the story of how the Pharmaceutical Industry helped meth become an epidemic & fucked up our cold meds
https://skepchick.org/2023/11/why-do-your-cold-meds-not-work-thank-meth-big-pharma

davoloid,

@rebeccawatson You mentioned a 2011 PBS documentary, do you have the name of that and/or link?

jonny, (edited ) to random
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Helping someone debug something, said they asked chatgpt about what a series of bit shift operations were doing. He thought it was actually evaluating the code, yno like it presents itself as doing. Instead its example was a) not the code he put in, with b) incorrect annotations, and c) even more incorrect sample outputs. Has been doing this all day and had just started considering maybe chatGPT was wrong.

I was like first of all never do that again, and explained how chatGPT wasnt doing anything like what he thought it was doing. We spent 2 minutes isolating that code, printing out the bit string after each operation, and he immediately understood what was going on.

I fucking hate these LLMs. Empowerment is learning how to figure things out, how to make tools for yourself and how to debug problems. These things are worse than disempowering, teaching people to be dependent on something that teaches them bullshit.

Edit: too many ppl reading this as "this person bad at programming" - not what I meant. Criticism is of deceptive presentation of LLMs.

davoloid,

@jonny I think I'm not using it much as results are rarely useful straight away. There's extra work required to verify the results, or work out what's missing from the solution offered... so I might as well have not bothered wasting my time and the CPU cycles.

taylorlorenz, to random
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Ok grandpa let’s get you to bed

Musk saying cis is a slur

davoloid,

@tdverstynen @taylorlorenz Difficult times for those working on upcoming Moon missions.

ryanhoulihan, to random
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I am doing a live show in New York again today, for the first time in like a year, and it’s Buffy themed. Please send me Buffy GIFs or quotes to get me in the zone!

I will also accept Angel.

davoloid,

@ryanhoulihan

Giles from Buffy holding a green mug in front of a bookshelf, and raising his eyebrows quizzically.

lowqualityfacts, to random
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Please keep this in mind.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

davoloid,

@lowqualityfacts Hence George Orwell's famous quote: "4 legs bad, 2 legs good, 6 legs better."

jon, to random
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Welcome to Autumn 2023 Day 27, 27 Oct, Coimbra - Guarda - Vilar Formoso - Ciudad Rodrigo

Today I’m crossing these borders
Vilar Formoso 🇵🇹 - Fuentes de Onoro 🇪🇸

Map of today’s route
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-political-tour-autumn-2023_933893#10/40.4673/-7.4913

davoloid,

@jon @wood5y That's pretty impressive and likely big energy savings compared to scrapping and replacing. Wonder if that process has been documented anywhere?

davoloid,

@jon @wood5y The Train of Theseus.

jon, to random
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Good night from Santiago de Compostela

It’s still raining

I’m not religious, so I don’t get this place. But it’s beautiful in its way

davoloid,

@jon I believe there is a ginormous thurible (incense burner) that swings dramatically along the whole aisle. Supposedly "the prayers of the saints" but likely also covered the scent of the smelly pilgrims.

freemo, to random
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Why are we genetically programmed to find animals so cute? I would think as an omnivore finding your food cute would be counterproductive.

My hypothesis is that we are supposed to eat meat as a last resort and prefer vegetables. So their cuteness acts as a deterrent so we prefer them less...

Though the fact that meat tastes so good would seem to be a counterargument to that theory...

davoloid,

@LouisIngenthron @freemo Thinking about that aspect, it also requires a wide number of species to become cute by natural selection as a result of human hunting. Which is a relatively recent thing and certainly not at a global scale.

More likely because there are common mammalian ancestors, hence facial morphologies, that kin affinity is lurking in the background. Many cute creatures have also been selectively bred over thousands of years, since their first domestication as useful tools.

garius, to random
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Fact of the day:

ISO3103 is the International Standard covering the serving of tea. It's there to ensure consistency in taste testing.

Key points:

  • Pot should be porcelain or earthenware
  • Milk should be added AFTER hot water

Ireland were the only country to object on its submission, noting there was no provision for pot-warming in the specification.

This was overruled.

davoloid,

@garius Thanks, I've got my Departmental April Fool's sorted for 2024 now. Will work something out based on that information, along with RFC2324 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2324

Edent, to random
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Other than planting trees etc, is there a viable method of carbon capture for the home?

davoloid,

@Edent Composting, which has a double whammy:
Carbon that would have gone to air, instead goes into soil, and especially in urban areas this is great for sustaining other plants.

Landfill produces a lot of methane as organic matter breaks down anaerobically, and that's 30x worse for global warming. On a larger scale there are facilities to capture the methane, but I doubt that would be something you'd do at home.

My bin is also enhanced by two pet rabbits - their litter trays have wood pellets and straw, and that all goes straight in.

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