EricCarroll

joshua, 6 days ago to StarTrek

SciFi story idea: WE are the Pakled. We became a space-faring menace only because of a momentary lapse in judgement from a visiting warp-capable species. That's all it took.

"We need your computer things ... to make more Bitcoin."

#startrek #scifi #computerthings
https://mastodon.social/@nocontexttrek/112418738203213473

johnefrancis, 9 days ago to random

Teksavvy Fibre is now available at my location, where I've had Bell Fibre for about 6 years.

It will take some time for me to consider switching over, with questions about having Bell Fibe TV service and Teksavvy Fibre Internet at the same time.

For a while, I had 5 Bell-provided services. Internet, Mobile, Landline, TV, Alarm Monitoring.

The mobile left years ago. The Landline is only around because it's more expensive to not have it.

....

lauren, 11 days ago to Youtube

The classics keep popping on #YouTube Movies & TV. Another one (as before, free in the U.S.) has apparently just surfaced. And it's a biggie -- 1960's "Spartacus". Mostly directed by Stanley Kubrick, it's arguably Kirk Douglas' most important role. Running more than three hours, it's one of the uber-great historical dramas, about an escaped gladiator who takes on the entire Roman Empire, and is based on an actual slave immortalized in historical texts from the period. If you've never seen this wondrous film you should. And if you have, it's probably time to see it again.

"I AM SPARTACUS!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6zGao2S-zs

gamingonlinux, 15 days ago (edited 14 days ago) to random

I want to do a test on how much traffic and resources the Mastodon embed takes on my server, so boost this plz

Edit: all done, you can stop sharing now lol

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/steam-deck-most-played-for-april-2024-has-plenty-of-fallout/

drahardja, 16 days ago to tesla

Is this for real? Did Elon just lay off #Tesla’s entire Supercharger business division?

“Rebecca Tinucci, senior director of the electric vehicle maker's Supercharger business, and Daniel Ho, head of the new vehicles program, will leave on Tuesday morning, the report said.

Musk also plans to dismiss everyone working for Tinucci and Ho, including the roughly 500 employees who work in the Supercharger group, The Information said. It was not clear how many employees worked for Ho.”

The Supercharger system is probably Tesla’s most beloved and successful product. What is going on?

“Musk lays off Tesla senior executives in fresh job cuts, The Information reports”

#cars #ev #layoffs

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/teslas-musk-trims-senior-management-amid-more-layoffs-information-reports-2024-04-30/

markmccaughrean, 20 days ago to photography

“Here comes the night (hunter)⚡️”

In an early #Caturday snapshot, here’s #Tigger channeling his inner Ziggy Stardust in the garden just now 😼

#DavidBowie 🎤👀
#Photography 📸
#CatsOfMastodon 🐈‍⬛

cstross, 27 days ago to random

If you're interested in understanding what's wrong with corporations right now, what's driving our global capitalist omnishambles? This is an amazingly insightful (if long, and entertainment-industry focussed) deep dive into the madness of modern management theories:

https://docseuss.medium.com/the-biggest-threat-facing-your-team-whether-youre-a-game-developer-or-a-tech-founder-or-a-ceo-is-8cd1ad359508

bryanhansel, 1 month ago to photography

"Those who have never seen Superior get an inadequate, even inaccurate idea, by hearing it spoken of as a 'lake,' and to those who have sailed over its vast extent the word sounds positively ludicrous. Though its waters are fresh and crystal, Superior is a sea. It breeds storms, and rain and fogs, like the sea. It is cold in mid-summer as the Atlantic. It is wild, masterful, and dreaded as the Black Sea." - Rev. George Grant, Ocean to Ocean, 1872

#photography #LakeSuperior #minnesota

EricCarroll, 1 month ago to fallout

Just finished #FalloutOnPrime S1E8. Summary: Absolutely brilliant.

10/10 rendition of #Fallout, pulling together themes from 1, 3, New Vegas & 4 (that I recognized on first viewing).

It brought to life the signature of the #Fallout series: believable factions, faction conflict over different worldview goals, & POV characters making critical moral decisions that change everything.

It's social critique was on the nose: extractive capitalism achieving its summit.

Bravo!

atomicpoet, 1 month ago to random

Had no idea that Google Podcasts just died.

Oh yeah, and Google Jamboard is dead too.

https://killedbygoogle.com/

flockofnazguls, 1 month ago to random

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danderson, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Okay rust has confused me and I need help: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&edition=2021&gist=ad23ba5c6511f1bdd40515efefcb9193

I have two fns set_deep_val1 and set_deep_val2. The first works fine, the second angers the borrow checker. By my current understanding of borrows, either both should work or both should fail. What am I missing?

Help?

EDIT: answer is at https://hachyderm.io/@danderson/112233659311769059

lauren, 1 month ago to Youtube

From more or less the late 70s to early 90s was the heyday of so-called "premium 900" numbers. Most of us who lived through that period have walled off in our brains the seemingly endless TV commercials promoting these, but occasionally such memories rise unbidden like an unwanted demon from the deep recesses of the mind, recalling the entire horror in detail.

If you're not familiar with this, you too can join the nightmare, simply by searching on #YouTube for:

900 numbers

You will be sorry.

EricCarroll, 2 months ago to mastodon

I want to add my voice supporting Ryan Barrett's #bridgyfed project.

The #Mastodon #HOA has outed itself as intolerant & abusive as the worst of the twitter trolls.

The HOA tries to impose a minority view on the entire fediverse using abuse & viral outrage tactics in the face of software & protocols that do exactly the opposite.

I noticed this dynamic when I first joined & listened to the cultural differences.

The ongoing HOA abuse is unacceptable.

Now, #IBlockHOA

https://wedistribute.org/2024/02/tear-down-walls-not-bridges/

jmcrookston, 2 months ago to random

Collateral Global

Disinformation group.

Created by Sunetra Gupta, one of the three named founders of the Great Barrington Declaration, and Alex Caccia, a defense contractor who conceived and backed the GBD.

EricCarroll, 2 months ago to llm

Stephan Wolfram has the wonderful sentence “statistics of conventional wisdom” to describe #LLM trained on the Internet in a wonderful article everyone should read:
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work

@pluralistic calls #LLM "plausible sentence generators".

Merge these two wonderfully clear explanatory sentences and you have the perfect description:

"Plausible conventional wisdom generators"

It captures the constraints of LLMs very nicely.

#GenerativeAI #GenerativeAIisGoingGreat

mattblaze, 2 months ago to photography

Las Vegas Strip, Paradise, NV, 2023.

An unlimited* buffet of pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53029077258

• restrictions apply.

#photography

timbray, 3 months ago to random

Can confirm: https://blog.glyph.im/2024/02/let-me-tell-you-a-secret.html

Tl;dr: As a consultant, earn praise by understanding senior IC concerns and playing them back to leadership.

[The structural question of why this is true is left unaddressed, but is interesting.]

EricCarroll, 3 months ago to generativeAI

I've seen enough.

#generativeAI is this year's #Crypto

EricCarroll, 3 months ago to random

Wow.

I am #decluttering and #packing for #moving

Found a first edition hardcover copy of Accelerando by @cstross

I never buy hardcover SF unless I really want the book.

Clearly my highest praise at the time.

EricCarroll, 3 months ago to tech

All my fellow #tech workers need to read this from @pluralistic

> For decades, tech workers’ bargaining power and vocational awe put a ceiling on enshittification.... And now, the dream is over. All that’s left is: work for a tech giant until they fire you, like those 12,000 Googlers who got fired last year, eight months after a stock buyback that would have paid their salaries for the next 27 years.

#Enshittification is coming for absolutely everything

https://www.ft.com/content/6fb1602d-a08b-4a8c-bac0-047b7d64aba5

EricCarroll, 3 months ago to Babylon5

It's been so long since I have last seen #Babylon5 I had completely forgotten who was running Garibaldi in S4.

#PlotTwist

lauren, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

When watching people being interviewed at home or in their office on cable news, etc., they often have their book collection clearly visible in the background. Do you ever make an effort to read the titles of those books?

mattblaze, 4 months ago to photography

"CARTWHEEL Tower", Fort Reno, Washington, DC, 2020.

Top secret pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/49576247768

#photography