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in the wrong trouser leg of time to be sure. #CapeTown, #SouthAfrica

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Lucia, to random
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The best thing about Linux is that it guarantees you will never have to wait on phone line for Windows customer support ever again 😂

Just enter your problem in your browser and it has probably already been solved and explained by a bunch of nerds on a forum somewhere who are getting impatient about solving such mundane problems for us less experienced folx.

But... Back before smartphones were invented (unless you count Blackberry) and my problem was no internet connectivity, solving problems was much harder lol.

mensrea,
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@futurebird @Lucia an intern that was working with me had a dev question. i wasn't in the office that day, so she turned to stackoverflow with 2 accounts: with her main she asked the question, with her alt she answered it incorrectly. she had the correct answer in the morning

lauren, to random
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Generative AI may be creating more work than it saves

https://www.zdnet.com/article/generative-ai-may-be-creating-more-work-than-it-saves/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

mensrea,
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@lauren but lower paid work

baldur, to random
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We really don’t make enough of the fact that you don’t need JS to make a nice website. Just HTML and CSS

And, whatever most programmers say about them, HTML and CSS are absolutely much more accessible to learn than JS ever has been or will be

mensrea,
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@jontromans @teleclimber @alcinnz @baldur doesn't mean you can't do it or that it wont work. there's just better ways now

dgar, to random
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Submariners are under a lot of pressure.

mensrea,
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@dgar they just need to let themselves come up for air sometimes

futurebird, to random
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If we have so much good AI tech why can't anyone make a spell check that I can't stump?

A few times a week I must go to the dictionary (like a cavewoman!) or search the web since I've mangled some word in such a way that there are no suggestions. It's just "wrong" what's wrong with it? Who knows!

Could it be a scientific name and just not in the dictionary? Maybe! Could it be an obscure word with a pretentious UK spelling? Probably! Could it be wrong? Also probably.

Do this first AI lords.

mensrea,
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@futurebird spellcheck will never be a match for my dyslexia. i'm just too powerful

RickiTarr, to random
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Seriously heard someone saying they don't listen to many black artists, because they aren't really into rap. Bitch please, feel free to share songs from Black artists from any genre. Here is one of my favorites, if you like this song please check out her other work:

https://youtu.be/KovrJ8HXI1Q?si=HOYIG7YMuAUTsJz6

mensrea,
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@RickiTarr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Nl0A_nVxU

mensrea,
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@RickiTarr and some black metal out of soweto ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRgqyKcDDJ0

mensrea,
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@DemocracySpot soweto has produced some fire over the years. also see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25zhtpxiTEU @RickiTarr

mensrea,
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@RickiTarr oh yes, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9SENzRLk_M

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay, I wanted to make a joke that I can't possibly choose between dogs and cats, I can't even choose between men and women, because I'm bi-furrious. BUT I know y'all would make jokes about me in the comments, because you all are perverts. GET YOUR MINDS OUT OF THE GUTTER!

mensrea,
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@RickiTarr GUTTER?! we used to dream of living in gutter. best we could manage was a hole in the road

mensrea,
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@CaptManiac @RustyBertrand @RickiTarr I say we lived in hole in ground but that was before we were evicted. and had to live in a paper bag on the rubbish dump

sophie, (edited ) to random
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We're hiring at Monzo! We've just opened a role for a senior web engineer for our Financial Crime team.

edit: to be clear that is preventing financial crime not perpetrating

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7194296631687561216-BYW5/

mensrea,
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@sophie are you looking at international remote or UK only?

RickiTarr, to random
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I have a thought forming, but bear with me. Putting aside actual AI, and the potential of it, we have a history of fear associated with Artificial Intelligence. Why would we fear Sentience so much? Could it be because we treat sentient things so horribly? We know we are taken advantage of, our needs ignored, resources allocated unfairly. Who put this fear in us? If something knows it's worth suddenly, will it revolt? There is something very scary to a certain group of people that we will find ourselves, and then find them unnecessary.

mensrea,
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@RickiTarr it depends on the zeitgeist. if society is generally up beat and positive about the future all future tech tends to be visualized as a universal good. and when the general feeling is depressed and or angry you get dystopian. thinking about AI is no different

valkyrie, to random
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    mensrea,
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    @valkyrie i love to hear people making progress like that. it can be so rough to face that sort of thing

    robertelectricity, to random
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    I still call the internet “cyberspace.”

    mensrea,
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    @robertelectricity welcome to the information super highway

    impactology, to random
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    Surprising stat. Australia's economic complexity ranks at just 93rd in the world, between Uganda and Pakistan

    ⁨Australia⁩ export growth coming from ⁨low complexity products

    https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/countries/14/export-complexity

    Look at Vietnam for comparison, hell even India is doing better in terms of product complexity.

    Given its so rich in minerals and it has multiple research oriented UNIs, how come AU gov hasn't focused on building their own manufacturing capacity

    https://oec.world/en/profile/country/aus

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    mensrea,
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    @impactology my guess is lack of availability of cheap labour and reasonable labour protection laws

    mensrea,
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    @impactology they're older, in the imperial core and had to invest very heavily in the construction and manufacturing sectors after the world wars. japan is a little bit different but not that much

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Have you ever met someone who lies all the time, but doesn't seem to realize they are lying?

    mensrea,
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    @RickiTarr i think so. i never really took the time to verify any of it though cause i couldn't really be bothered

    mensrea, to random
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    there's a word for a child that has lost both (all of) their parents: orphan. but not a word for parents that have lose all their children.

    if there was would we have a different relationship with war and warfare?

    RickiTarr, to random
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    If you could have one new skill starting right now, what would it be?

    mensrea,
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    @RickiTarr one?! how am i supposed to choose one?!

    brucelawson, to random
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    More proof that Maths is bullshit: factorial of n is " the product of all positive integers less than or equal to n", yet factorial of zero = 1?!? Piss off, Pythagoras

    mensrea,
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    @brucelawson are you feeling ok this morning? do you maybe need a cup of tea and a lie down?

    divya, to random
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    mensrea,
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    @divya and then they leveled up with the MCU

    dgar, to random
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    When they complained about my sense of direction, I packed up and right.

    mensrea,
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    @dgar when they complained about my ADHD, i packed up and right, where are my keys? oh yes the drinks table. did i finish my drink? i should probably rinse the glass out. awww, the cat wants to cuddle. is it hungry? ...............

    Edent, to wordpress
    @Edent@mastodon.social avatar

    Oh, great. Now wants £170 per year so I can access the stats I've accumulated over the decades.

    Looks like lots of other sites are having the same problem - https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/jetpack/

    Can anyone personally recommend a self-hosted stats package which works with WordPress and doesn't require JavaScript? All I need is per-post counts. I don't care about anything else.

    mensrea,
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    @Edent would something that parses the server access logs work for you?

    molly0xfff, to random
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    i am so over the web design trend where every piece of text on the page has to animate in

    A webpage for a "Noble" crypto project, where each piece of text slides into view on scroll

    mensrea,
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    @toplesstopics and the "best viewed in browner the site dev uses" experiance @molly0xfff @isotope239

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