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J12t

@J12t@social.coop

Technologist, founder, organizer.

Let's put people back in control of their technology. The Fediverse is a good start. Also wondering aloud where we are taking this planet.

Check out my home page for more info and links.

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Python just cost me half an hour. The problem: a comma instead of a period.

Runtime and two linters said everything was fine. Except it wasn't.

Soapbox: Programming languages should not have syntaxes where something like this is possible. Compact syntax is all nice and dandy, but there needs to be enough redundancy that things like this are easily caught. Otherwise we'd all still write software in hex.

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@maegul That, and the overload of () as precedence and tuple. Just got myself a tuple of two strings instead of a multi-line string ...

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@lufthans I believe there is a law in software that says only the broken designs and the spaghetti code gains widespread adoption, while the nicely designed and clean systems barely have any users.

Get me a different planet, please.

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I was not expecting guilty on all counts. I was expecting that somebody took a million dollars to hang the jury. Good for us all.

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Newsmast did an analysis of which communities tend to be on which social networks.

https://www.newsmastfoundation.org/our-blog/mapping-the-social-web/

/cc @FreddieJ

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Is there a maximum amount of snap peas one can eat in a day before snapeaoisoninig?

Asking for a friend with a hydroponics system that's producing good stuff.

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@jlin I think it's an acquired taste. But I acquired it :-)

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“Farcaster, a crypto-based social network, raised $150M with just 80K daily users”

You can do something with that kind of money. I wonder what they will.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/21/farcaster-a-crypto-based-social-network-raised-150m-with-just-80k-daily-users/

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I really got the new espresso machine for espresso. That doesn't mean I can't try making cappuccino. Turns out the "textured" (as they call it) milk can get a structure where it can actually form a half-inch hill. Somewhat amazed at the physics (chemistry?) here.

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@_elena this is one level of coffee sophistication beyond me :-)

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We are back at a spike and I'm late to notice.

https://covid19.sccgov.org/dashboard-wastewater

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Does the Bible have any numerical values for at which temperature hell starts?

That’s over 125F.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-temperatures-cross-52-c-heatwave-2024-05-27/

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@ShadSterling I didn't like The Ministry for the Future very much, except for the opening scene of the deadly heatwave in India. IMHO it could happen like that any year now.

My favorite map: https://www.windy.com/-Menu/menu?wetbulbtemp

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Pondering how the group thinks of having consistent reply trees across instances for the purpose of forum software. One proposal is to have a “group” actor re-announce everything that has been sent to it. It appears to me this approach would work just as well in a microblogging context where we have, today, the inconsistent reply tree problem across instances as well. The actor that made the root post would act as the re-announcer.

https://community.nodebb.org/category/31/threadiverse-working-group

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@jamesmarshall well, the ActivityPub world really depends on always-on servers, so giving them one more task doesn’t seem to be to onerous…

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@mousey Well, the choices seem to be 1) bear the load 2) the replies don't get distributed evenly (today's situation) or 3) something more complicated that I haven't seen a design for :-)

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@trwnh imho these finer points are really hard for casual users to understand. And nobody wants to think hard when chatting casually. Avoid if possible I would recommend…

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@lufthans one of the first things non-technical users of the Fediverse complain about, after they managed to sign up, is that they can’t see all the replies and all the likes. At least anecdotally, that’s my experience.

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What is the likelihood that one of the jurors in “that” trial is currently being offered a million dollars?

Actually, probably far less, because people are poor, and also cheap. But the “investor” could certainly go much higher than a million and still get a nice ROI.

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In Signal, I can send a "Note to Self".

I can also block that contact.

Do I dare?

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Even at this early stage, though, Anthropic's research provides an exciting framework for making an LLM's "black box" results that much more interpretable and, potentially, controllable.

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/05/28/heres-whats-really-going-on-inside-an-llms-neural-network/

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@mpesce one sort of wonders whether there are certain transformations that one could perform on the observed state vectors that transform it into for humans, normalized form, (similar to a coordinate system transformation in linear algebra) so various human concepts correspond to (0, 0, .., 1, 0, 0, …) vectors.
Insert lots of “…” quotes because I don’t think state vector etc are quite the right terms, trying to make a weak analogy here.

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These snap peas are … big! At least twice the volume of what you get in the store,

#hydroponics https://project-springtime.org

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Pondering fake news and AI hallucinations.

Practically, there isn't really any difference, is there? Fake news might be more credible at this point, but I'm sure AIs will improve ... 😛

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If "AI answers" are the future of web search -- at least that's the common wisdom these days -- then it appears search ads will turn into paid mentions as part of the AI answers.

Overt and covert strategies are possible. Like mentioning the product or vendor overtly, or not mentioning them at all, but claiming that some feature X is absolutely required (but only the paid vendor provides it).

In other words, web search will be entirely corrupted, and nobody will be able to tell how.

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This may well turn out to be an extremely important article for adoption of the beyond its current niches.

https://digiday.com/media/why-publishers-are-preparing-to-federate-their-sites/

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@liaizon As adoption of the Fediverse hopefully grows from the current niche of a couple of million or so technology enthusiasts into the next phase, the language will and must change. It will change again if/when the Fediverse makes it across the chasm into the mainstream.
So IMHO it's all good.

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