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Trying the Fediverse again, this time via sdf

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ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Weird question:

Why do you think so few artists attempt to create a magnum opus? It really seems most people who are good at something want to just keep making it in various forms, but don't try to make a single lasting great work, even when they're in a position to try.

As an example of what I mean, take Virgil who became well known for pastoral writing, but always had an eye on writing a national epic. A few people still read Georgics and Eclogues, but the Aeneid is the Opus.

cholling,
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@luis_in_brief @ZachWeinersmith Berke Breathed is the only Opus creator I can think of.

annika, to random
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Dang, looks like portable blu-ray players died out? I thought that would be a fun gift for the kid's 16th birthday but there's nothing available.

cholling,
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@annika Can you even buy Blu-Rays anymore? Or any physical media?

cholling,
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@annika That wasn't a joke. I love physical media but have trouble finding it (apart from seriously overpriced vinyl records) and figured retailers had just thrown their hands up and said "streaming wins!"

cholling,
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@annika Ok, I'm convinced you slipped through a time portal on your way to Dublin. All the Tower Records here closed twenty years ago and I was sure the company no longer existed.

Also I was in Dublin a couple of months ago and had no idea they had a Tower Records. Next time!

cholling, to random
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Normalize putting actual timestamps in your UI instead of a vague "2 weeks ago" or "last year"

cholling, to NixOS
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I haven't been keeping up with all the drama. Is it ok to use again, or is it still evil?

TonyStark, to random
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Republicans: “We believe in free markets.”

Workers: “Ok, I'd like to go work for my firm's competitor without legal threats.”

Republicans: “No, not that free market.”

Lina Khan was appointed by Joe Biden to lead the FTC in 2021. Elections matter and so does who appoints government officials.

This is huge news for workers.

FTC bans noncompete agreements, making it easier for workers to quit. Here's what to know. -
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ftc-noncompete-agreement-ban/

cholling,
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@TonyStark I love that the Chamber of Commerce is suing because this ban will supposedly "undermine American businesses' ability to remain competitive." It's easy to be "competitive" when nobody is allowed to compete with you.

mdmrn, to firefox
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I found it. It's official.

The most important Firefox Add-On of all time.

Return YouTube Dislike https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/return-youtube-dislikes/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=collection

It adds back on the YouTube dislike numbers so you can see them when you check out a video.

Perfection.

cholling,
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@mdmrn Is this for real? Like those numbers are still exposed via API? Or does the plugin just randomly generate numbers?

cholling, to llm
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Everyone's talking about but there's plenty of room for smaller models.

If you want to become a distributor for my patented Medium Language Model ( ), you can earn up to $50,000 a month working from home.

cholling, to random
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Every book on methodology: "Story points represent complexity, not time. In fact you should probably use T-shirt sizes instead of numbers to reduce the temptation to assign time values, because associating story points with time is a very bad thing and if you do it you are not agile and might as well just be doing waterfall, you agile-hating dinosaur."

Every single agile team made of humans on planet Earth: "So, a one-point story means it should take about a day..."

lilithsaintcrow, to random
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“... a large part of the artificial intelligence boom is hot air, pumped through a combination of executive bullshitting and a compliant media that will gladly write stories imagining what AI can do rather than focus on what it's actually doing.” https://www.wheresyoured.at/peakai/

cholling,
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@joeinwynnewood @nedhamson1 @lilithsaintcrow Sure it can generate them, but how good and accurate are they? For simple things, copying and pasting from Stack Overflow is probably at least as effective. For more complex things, the language bot is more likely to be wrong. You've effectively replaced writing code with reviewing and refactoring code. In other words, automating the fun part, leaving the tedious part to humans.

cholling,
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@joeinwynnewood @lilithsaintcrow [citation needed]

cholling,
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@joeinwynnewood @lilithsaintcrow You tell them to be mediocre? I hope you didn't charge much.

cholling,
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@joeinwynnewood @lilithsaintcrow Still not understanding why small companies need to run shitty code.

travisfw, to random
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Abstracting away the location of data is the sin that slipped by. The "cloud" said "don't worry about where anymore."

And that was nice.

But we should have found a different way to stop worrying about where.

cholling,
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@travisfw It's just an extension of the abstraction that capitalism has always carried out. Buy mass-produced products without knowing who made them. Stay at a hotel without knowing who cleans it. Eat meat without imagining the slaughterhouse.

I think this is what Marx called "alienation," but to be sure, I'd have to have actually read Marx.

cholling,
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@travisfw Systems still matter. Bad (and good) things can be the result of lots of individual actions without a single action or actor being to blame, and systemic change isn't made by going to every individual in the system and saying "you're a very naughty person".

Analogously, the behavior of fluids might be the result of the movements of individual molecules, but you can't understand their behavior by trying to plot a trillion molecular trajectories. You treat fluids as their own entities.

axbom, to random
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but Ghost now has import tools for Substack, Medium and Mailchimp content.

cholling,
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@axbom
So you're saying if you have Ghost... you have everything?

cholling, to random
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My mind is a swirling miasma of scintillating thoughts and turgid ideas.

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