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synlogic

@synlogic@toot.io

#software engineer
#gamedesign -er
#writer

topics:
#programming, perf & #scalability, #latency, #Golang, #climate, #democracy, #wargaming, #scifi, #utopian, #comedy

consulting:
https://github.com/mkramlich/portfolio/blob/master/sw-eng-MikeKramlich.md

"Slartboz"
education & political game on topics of democracy & climate. style: sci-fi, #postapoc, funny, real-time Terminal-based #Roguelike

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dgar, to random
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I hate going to MC Hammer’s house.

He won’t let you touch anything.

synlogic,
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@dgar total opposite of Peter Gabriel's house. he not only lets you touch his monkey, he literally demands that you SHOCK the monkey

dgar, to random
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Starting with this dude at the front door?
Matt.

The two guys holding up the fabric near the window?
Kurt and Rod.

The guy with the shovel?
Doug.

The guy standing in the hole?
Phil.

That person under the car?
Jack.

The lad in the flower garden?
Bud.

The guy lying in the pile of leaves?
Russell.

Old mate with the water skis?
Skip.

The fellow reading the book?
Mark.

The man in the pool?
Bob.

That guy with a rabbit in his pants?
Warren.

That person on the beach?
Sandy.

Did I miss anyone?

synlogic,
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@dgar sounds like a Frank Zappa song

nixCraft, to random
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This machine from the 1980s was ahead of its time.

synlogic,
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@nixCraft it fit in one's pocket too. all the kids on my block had one

rodhilton, to random
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The constant-threats-to-defederate thing is going to kill this place, seriously.

Defederating an instance is an extreme measure and it should only be taken in extreme circumstances.

Finding out I might stop getting posts from people I explicitly follow because they happen to be on an instance being defederated by mine all because a bunch of admins I don't know got in a spat over a user I don't follow is just about the most annoying value proposition imaginable.

https://federate.social/@mattblaze/110317006852580015

synlogic,
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@rodhilton yep when I was hunting through the various Mastodons in the herd it was a real challenge finding a server that didnt have an overbearing Correct Opinions Cult in place.

dgar, to random
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My friend just brought a load of graph paper.

I think they’re plotting something.

synlogic,
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@dgar dont grid shame him

nixCraft, to random
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If you can upload a custom file to a domain/subdomain, bluesky social (Jack Dorsey's new twitter) uses it to verify you are the owner of the domain. Chaz uploaded his custom file to their Amazon s3 bucket and now since he was the first one to do it, his account is now associated with Amazon S3.
https://chaos.social/@jonty/110307532009155432

synlogic,
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@nixCraft classic Chaz. raises a toast

nixCraft, to random
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Leaked Internal Google Document Claims Open Source AI Will Outcompete Google and OpenAI. Google "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI" https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither What do you think? Would Open Source AI win the AI war?

synlogic,
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@nixCraft well those kinds of docs are just "some guy's opinions." even the leak may be intended to shift public opinion. NNs and LLMs are special in that the larger the data sets and more cash you have to spend on cleaning and training, the better results. hard to compete with the giant shops

cks, to random
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This is my expression when local (and exclusive) flock() locks on a Linux NFS server don't conflict with POSIX locks obtained over NFS through lockd/NLM/etc. Because these NFS locks may be from flock() on clients.

Augh. This is robot logic and it means 'don't run anything on your NFS servers'.

synlogic,
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@cks yes flock over NFS is not reliable. ran into that 15 years ago for first time. one of the many bugbears of concurrency and distrib systems

Pwnallthethings, to random
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Given how vast the cash-cows of Azure and AWS are ... it is astonishing to me how bad the user-interfaces for both actually are

synlogic,
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@Pwnallthethings let me stop you at the word Microsoft

beep, to random
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Tech workers: if you, like me, have ever wondered about how automation will impact your work, you should probably pay close attention to how “artificial intelligence” figures into the WGA strike. https://www.wgacontract2023.org/strike-hub

synlogic,
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@beep yep. someone out there is going to train an LLM specifically on stories or screenplays. what it churns out wont be great and may sometimes be outright insane. but theres a chance it might do better than the lowest quality tier of paid writers. which are often also the early career ones, simply trying to make ends meet

nixCraft, to random
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Gentoo Penguin Colony on Martillo Island, Beagle Channel, Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina https://www.dreamstime.com/photos-images/martillo-island.html

synlogic,
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@nixCraft the one place where its always been the Year of Linux on the Desktop

nixCraft, to random
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😅

synlogic,
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@nixCraft I feel seen

bagder, to random
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The number of Internet users worldwide has increased from 36 million in 1996 to almost 6 billion 2023

synlogic,
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@bagder your work on curl has likely been a not-insignificant reason behind and contributor to that becoming true

davew, to random
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You know what's freaking amazing.

No news org has rushed into the space of running a ChatGPT that is totally up to date on the news.

I think if one put their mind to it, it could be done in a couple of weeks, if that much.

synlogic,
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@davew they should ensure the NN is trained on facts only. now a sea of lies, fakes and propaganda online

ct_bergstrom, (edited ) to random
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Listening to very smart people talk about I'm reminded of the joke about a checkers-playing dog.

A guy has a dog that plays checkers. "My goodness," everyone says, "that's amazing. What a brilliant dog!"

"Not really," he replies, "I beat him four games out of five."

That's GPT4. It's capacities are amazing and completely unexpected.

But it's also so limited. You shouldn't back the dog in a checkers tournament, and you shouldn't use an LLM as a medical assistant or in many other ways.

synlogic,
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@ct_bergstrom I also get sick/amused hearing people praise ChatGPT for doing things I've been able to do for decades. things that nobody has given a damn about in general. things the economy has seemed to assign an economic value of 0 or near 0 to. yet when ChatGPT its like the Second Coming of Jesus.

baby: spits up

parent: OMGBBQ!!!!!

me: I can do that

synlogic, to random
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The meme of the couple in bed at night, both awake but facing away...

her: I wonder if he's thinking of other women?

me: Russia has triple the population of Ukraine but a much lower mobilization rate. I wonder which side has more armed soldiers in theatre? Certainly Ukraine will have superior morale too, and...

nixCraft, to random
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There is a particular industrial automation product, and despite repeated requests to devs not to use OpenAI ChatGPT to leak company code and secrets, devs kept using it. However, ChatGPT is blocked on corporate networks starting Monday, including VPN. So the risk of leaks is real with ChatGPT. I am not a big fan of such blocked, but what choice do they have? They are not going to opensource their code ever. I don't know the future, but it seems like a cat-and-mouse game.

synlogic,
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@nixCraft all these SaaS apps people use know are one giant attack surface for leaking/stealing PII and IP. FOSS projects can be used to bait suckers into bringing backdoors into their networks etc

nixCraft, to linux
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Everything is the user's fault. Everything is operating normally on my server side. Ticket closed.

synlogic,
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@nixCraft error code ID10T. diagnosis PEBKAC

gergelyorosz, to random

Early in my career, I had a mental "ranking" of which companies I imagined were the best in the world. Back then, Google was my #1 spot.

As I gained more experience and met more people, I realized that this type of thinking misses how your team is as important as the company.

And people come and go between companies. The Google of today consists of people who worked at thousands of other companies just a few years before.

synlogic,
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@gergelyorosz agreed. I always admired Google from afar, as a user. but as a potential employee I quickly discovered their arrogance. I value companies lower if I have to believe I'll encounter arrogance early on. I "nope" away from them fast. I do think theyve become a victim of their own fame, and of their own scale. both warp everything

cks, to random
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Today's provocative argument: a substantial amount of Unix programming has always been done in languages with automatic memory management (in contrast to C's manual management). It's just that we called this programming 'shell scripts', 'awk', 'make', or etc.

(Then later we got Perl.)

synlogic,
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@cks @avuko yup my impression is that Python has replaced Perl in many folks current toolboxes for what had been Perl's old niches. likewise Python beat out Ruby too. well, mostly. poor languages die slowly, unfortuntely. heh

jamesthomson, to random
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New gender just dropped.

synlogic,
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@jamesthomson I wont allow them to add a D to the end of LBGTQIA+2.37 its gotten out of hand as it is

nixCraft, to random
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well that escalated quickly ... 😅

synlogic,
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@nixCraft "none, really. bored?"

synlogic,
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@nixCraft we need to devise a reverse form to give to would-be employers. "Name each of your current and previous employees for the last 10 years. start and end dates. reason for living. contact info."

mastodonmigration, to random
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Update

According to Variety (https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/twitter-removes-legacy-blue-check-marks-celebrities-1235589174/), these celebrities lost their blue check: Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Cristiano Ronaldo, Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian, Selena Gomez, Bill Gates, Justin Timberlake, Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, Oprah Winfrey, Beyoncé, and Donald Trump.

Still blue checked: Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Britney Spears, Ellen DeGeneres, Miley Cyrus, LeBron James and Tim Cook. Unclear who's ponied up the $8 for this dubious honor.

synlogic,
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@mastodonmigration $24 out of pocket. respect!

synlogic,
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@mastodonmigration UPDATE: 3 lords, 8 billion peasants

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