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afeinman

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Obligate infovore; I write fantasy, sci fi, and software. All posts made with 100% recycled electrons, sustainably crafted by artisanal artisans. He*/him/his. Doctor, if you absolutely insist.

Nothing said here should be construed as in any way connected to my daytime employer.

I boost and star freely. Boosts of my stuff are jes' fine. I control follow requests to avoid scrapers and spammers, is not personal.

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cstross, to random
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Google snippets falsely claimed eating glass has health benefits (because it sourced material from a website about AI called Emergent Mind which in turn got it from ChatGPT):

https://fullfact.org/health/google-snippet-eating-glass/

afeinman,
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@cstross Bots, reposting bots, forever.

mcc, to random
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Logging on to Mastodon… I think I will read six hundred posts today. Perhaps I shall even indulge myself and read six hundred and one

afeinman,
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@mcc

Oh I will read six hundred posts
And I will read six hundred more
Just to be the man who reads twelve hundred posts to spite the bird site dork...

jk, to random
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i reckon all software developers should read this thread. it's incredible. literally everything is here. entire books could be written about it
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=120627&p=515618

afeinman,
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. @jk So, this has been my day job for the last 15ish years--talking devs down from the brink of "but a complete solution is not theoretically possible!" to "here's a compromise that satisfies user needs".

I used to call it UX but now I am not so sure.

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afeinman,
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@AutisticAdam @actuallyautistic I use the Emperor's New Clothes metaphor so much people are tired of it, but it always gets the point across...

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    @Christo @weirdwriter Now it's "make sure it's 100 clicks for them to cancel the relationship/subscription"

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    @weirdwriter I can't really recommend it as a workflow but I set up many macros in vim to expand to common words when I was writing Java. (e.g. p* became public)

    System wide utilities for macros include aText on Mac; you can define arbitrary expansions of text, including with variables and custom final placement of the cursor if the end of the phrase isn't where you want to resume editing.

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    @weirdwriter what's frustrating is that it's usually not the website itself, but the malware included in the page (i.e. the ad-service network). The poor designers are stuck with a gray box that says "ad go here"...

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    @weirdwriter Yoikes. Then I got nuthin'! Are they mining bitcoin in the background or something?!

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    @chris If you remap all the things away from the thumbs, it could work. But yeah.

    afeinman,
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    @chris I've used a Kinesis ergo (now called the Advantage2) for decades. Dramatic improvement in shoulder angle for me. I haven't tried this two-part variation but it's clearly related.

    My one note, both this and the Kinesis rely too heavily on thumb buttons, making you yaw your thumbs around. When I was RSI'd, that was awful. But it's easy to remap things.

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    THIS is what matters about Judge Chutkan’s mild gag order. The Court finds as follows:

    "When Defendant has publicly attacked individuals, including on
    matters related to this case, those individuals are consequently threatened and harassed.”

    "Defendant has continued to make similar statements … that particular individuals involved in it are liars, or ‘thugs,’ or deserve death.”

    "The court finds that such statements pose a significant and immediate risk." https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/111251896296612638

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    @JamesGleick Is this finally some judicial acknowledgment of stochastic terrorism?

    jmac, to random
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    I told someone at dinner last night that Ubik is an accessible starting point for exploring Philip K. Dick's oeuvre.

    That feels wrong because it's such a weird story and maybe I should have said The Man in the High Castle instead?

    On the other hand Ubik is such a wonderfully, arrestingly, unsettlingly strange story, and if you like it, you'll probably like most everything else the man wrote.

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    @jmac This is kind of like telling someone to start with Brazil on their voyage through Terry Gilliam movies. Like, yeah, it'll weed out a lot of folks who can't get into his stuff, but will likely weed out a lot of others who could take slightly less bonkers PKD...

    That being said I'm having a hard time coming up with an alternative.

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    LLVM <> LLM <> MLM but sometimes LLMs feel like MLM...

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    Day 28: If your MC could live anywhere in our world, where would they choose?

    Roughskin Magic: Jason doesn't have a single place he fits in, so, nowhere at the outset. Fozzie thinks oppositely: he strives to make where he is a place he (and others) would want to live in.

    Amir (from WIP): This is, essentially, the plot of The Dream Makers, so I guess we'll find out? (This is not me being cute. I am a complete pantser, and can't say I know yet.)

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    Sept 9 - Have you ever abandoned a writing project that wasn't working? What was wrong?

    It's a damn poor explorer who doesn't get lost sometimes.

    And for the record they're not abandoned--I am totally getting back to all 236 of them some day...!

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