samthurston

@samthurston@awscommunity.social

Data engineer for big ag, trying to make industrial-scale farming sustainable with maps and drones

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StillIRise1963, to random
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SOMEONE is going to be elected president of the U.S. in November. It can either be the guy you yell at who changes his approach, or the guy you yell at who puts you in a camp. Up to you.

samthurston,

@StillIRise1963 can I keep yelling at the "change approach" guy even if I plan to vote for him?

Because I'm going to do both I think.

That okay with you?

ai6yr, to Software
@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org avatar

😅BBC: North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs😭
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68942321

samthurston,

@ai6yr currently writing a proposal to rename my street to

Robert'); drop tables streets;--

qurlyjoe, to random
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social avatar

Life would be much more fun if every time we sneezed we lifted a few feet off the ground and then came back down in slow motion.

samthurston,

@qurlyjoe I don't want to have to wear a helmet during allergy season

CelloMomOnCars, to california
@CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social avatar

A major US state just achieved a critical milestone for nearly two weeks: 'It's wild that this isn't getting more news coverage'

" has set a benchmark for , with wind, solar, hydro, and geothermal supplying 100% of the state's electricity demand for 25 out of the last 32 days (and counting)."

https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/california-renewable-energy-100-percent-grid/

samthurston,

@CelloMomOnCars the framing is misleading. 100% of 25/32 days isn't 100% is it? But that's not even what the embedded post claims:

"Supply exceeded demand for 0.25-6 h"

So 100% of some fraction less than 1/4 for 25/32 days. Or, written a more meaningful way: supply exceeded demand about 20% of the last month.

Doesn't sound as impressive that way does it?

samthurston,

@CelloMomOnCars @mral

I want to be clear: this is a positive trend. But your comment highlights the issue with the article's presentation of the facts.

25/32 days renewables were NOT 100% of consumption. Rather production exceeded consumption for a period between .25 hours and 6 hours each day for 25 of the last 32 days. Which is a very different statement.

That is what is unclear. The article misinterpreted the data posted in tweets it quotes.

samthurston,

@CelloMomOnCars @mral I'm just referring to the posts embedded in the article

nixCraft, to random
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Sam Altman tells a room full of VCs with a straight face that he will take billions of their money, build AGI, and then ask it how to generate a return! — OpenAI business plan.

Sam Altman tells a room full of VCs with a straight face that he will take billions of their money, build AGI, and then ask it how to generate a return!

samthurston,

@nixCraft "we're like, pretty sure this thing is gonna wanna murder everyone, but we're going to see if we can get it to pay you back instead, okay?"

RickiTarr, to random
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New York Times articles be like:

All Experts Say Water Is Wet, But Is It? Three Unstable People That Want You To Join Their MLM Religion Disagree.

samthurston,

@rooster @RickiTarr

cstross, to random
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By the way, here is my oldest surviving laptop bag—a limited edition bag for an Apple Powerbook (1xx series) from 1993-ish. I can't imagine today's Apple releasing anything remotely as playful.

Photo of an Apple Powerbook padded case from 1994. Has the old rainbow apple logo on a crimson accessory pocket, with canary yellow side panel, fronting a lime green main compartment lid with turqoise sides and rear. Design-wise it's an old-school laptop bag with black nylon handles and a zipper that allows the laptop to be used inside the bag when it's open. End view, showing the sky-blue end of the case and it's green topside.
Photo of an Apple Powerbook padded case from 1994. Has the old rainbow apple logo on a crimson accessory pocket, with canary yellow side panel, fronting a lime green main compartment lid with turqoise sides and rear. Design-wise it's an old-school laptop bag with black nylon handles and a zipper that allows the laptop to be used inside the bag when it's open. View of the open case showing black nylon interior with organizer panel inside the lid.

samthurston,

@cstross it's funny, the iMac brought Apple back from the brink, and their design sensibility has since trended back to the sterile.

"You can get one in any color you like, as long as it's beige, gray, white or black"
-Tim Apple

mcc, to random
@mcc@mastodon.social avatar

Opinion: The automatic line ending translation in git is a very, very, very bad feature that has only ever made the world a worse place

samthurston,

@mcc in 12 or so years using git working on multi-platform teams I've not experienced a problem with it. How does it manifest?

mekkaokereke, to random
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The people that vote for the Oscars, don't look like the people that watch the films. The Academy is much older, whiter, and dude-ier*. Oscar winners, are the inevitable outcome of Oscar voters.

The question isn't "Has the Academy changed enough to where filmmakers from marginalized backgrounds have the same chance to win an Oscar yet?"

The question is "Will the Oscars have the same relevance to society 10 years from now, that they do today?"

(*In 2022, 81% white, 67% men.)

samthurston,

@morecowbell just wait until you learn about the founding of Oregon territory

aral, (edited ) to SmallWeb
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

Oh, by the way, since the optimisations I made on the bundle size, it now takes ~3.61 seconds to download and install Kitten¹ on my machine and ~1 second to update it (the initial install takes longer as Kitten downloads its own Node.js runtime and that takes the bulk of the time).

Every second you don’t spend waiting for something is a second you can spend doing something else 🤓

:kitten: 💕

¹ https://codeberg.org/kitten/app

samthurston,

@aral that's a very thoughtful piece. I used to work on software used by long haul truckers. Coworkers would often dismiss my ui/usability concerns as "minor annoyances." I would frequently think about how the "minor annoyances" of our app would make a difficult day worse, which could cause rage or exhaustion, which could cause road safety issues. Or even a delay, meaning a driver might not make it home to their kid's soccer game.

It's wild when you start to think of users as human beings.

n3wjack, (edited ) to random
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This has probably been done before, but I'm still curious how the OS spread is on the fedi.

What are you running on your main* personal desktop/laptop?

Boost for reach please! 😍

  • The machine you use the most. 😉
samthurston,

@n3wjack a little annoying that android/chromeos isn't a contender here. I do have a desktop computer but I rarely use it for fediverse stuff.

TonyStark, to random
@TonyStark@progressivecafe.social avatar

WaPo/George Will: 'Why we need to fire the first Asian-African American woman Vice President and former U.S Senator and California Attorney General because as an old conservative white guy, I’m grasping at straws.'

Holy crap, what a take.

samthurston,

@TonyStark great thing about George Will: if he's complaining about you, you can be relatively sure you're on the right track.

ai6yr, to random
@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org avatar

Starting to get my kitchen back...

samthurston,

@ai6yr did they come with the baseboard cutout or is that custom

talon, to random
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Not gonna lie this iOS PWA thing is pissing me right the hell off. So now I have to choose between not being able to use PWA's or not being able to type properly. This is what it's like as a disabled smartphone user in 2024. I hate it. So much. Burn it all down.

samthurston,

@talon @weirdwriter @ppatel following your logic nobody should ever try to regulate apple because they'll easily find loopholes that punish you, the user, and that is the regulators fault.

samthurston,

@talon @weirdwriter @ppatel anyone (i.e. regulators) should have expected it.

And the "it" here, is a company you pay luxury prices for products and services. But you're upset with the EU because they should have expected it.

I don't know how else to read what you've written here.

Viss, to random
@Viss@mastodon.social avatar

i will never see this and not experience disappointment

samthurston,

@Viss I can think of a few reasons

Viss, to random
@Viss@mastodon.social avatar

pixels are now pickles
carry on

samthurston,

@Viss are we still measuring cameras in megapickles then?

sethmlarson, (edited ) to random
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Fill in the <blank>:

Experiencing a creative work (ie book, picture, video, music, poetry) that was knowingly generated entirely by AI gives <blank> sense of wonder compared to the same work knowingly created by a human.

samthurston,

@sethmlarson Surely human artwork varies in quality, as does ML-generated work. To build such an (in)equality requires affixing specific work to both ends. Alternatively one must engage in the kind of gross generalization people often deride generative language models of exhibiting.

What the models can't do is ask good questions to start with, or provide a cultural context of their own to target a work at a specific audience. The models cannot create work to amuse themselves. Yet.

smallcircles, to chrome
@smallcircles@social.coop avatar

Think this is a -only annoyance right now, so if you don't wanna switch to for some reason, there's:

> banned so I built an extension to skip their .

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38327017

Also a use for mentioned:

> Yes it's TiVo for Youtube. And this...THIS...is the real use case for desktop AI: Detecting ads and automatically skipping them. Funny how the AI barons never mention how AI can empower normies against them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38328874

samthurston,

@smallcircles the real reason they speak of it so fearfully

eloquence, to random
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@sovtechfund (funded by the German government) just announced a €1M grant towards the @gnome project, an open source desktop environment.

Imagine a world in which governments don't spend billions of dollars in licensing fees every year to make Microsoft richer, and that money instead goes towards public code that belongs to all of us.

That may seem utterly implausible - but every example like this brings us one step closer to it being inevitable.

https://foundation.gnome.org/2023/11/09/gnome-recognized-as-public-interest-infrastructure/

samthurston,

@eloquence

> Encrypt user home directories individually

Why though? This seems like a terrific way to make stuff unrecoverable.

mcc, to random
@mcc@mastodon.social avatar

Something just occurred to me

  • "GNU Imp" is a terrible program
  • Also people are angry about the name
  • By comparison Blender is actually kind of good now
  • Also Blender has a cross platform GUI toolkit good enough it is now used by other applications (eg VCV Rack

Solve two problems at once: Build a 2D paint program on top of Blender's core libraries; name it Blimp

samthurston,

@mcc @beeoproblem eye of gnome is sufficient for these tasks. But I like the blimp idea.

ai6yr, to random
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LOL on people who join social media and put "don't you dare follow me or reply to me or interact with me or I will block you" in their profile.

samthurston,

@ai6yr idk I prefer it when they advertise that as opposed to arbitrarily blocking for wrongthink

Alice, to random
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These vegan gangs are getting out of hand.

samthurston,

@Alice antifa subsidiaries getting niche

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