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danhulton

@danhulton@hachyderm.io

Software developer, entrepreneur, socialist, coffee-drinker, opinion-haver, and all-around busybody. He/him.

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whitequark, to random
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index fund of top 500 tech companies sorted by the headcount of trans lesbians employed there

danhulton,
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@whitequark Literally correct.

owen, to random
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My day job, many years ago now, adopted a language developed by a Fortune 50 company as an open-source project. We did not negotiate any kind of long-term support agreements with the vendor, and they have since shuttered the team that was working on the language.

This sucks, frankly. My org made the decisions it made for reasons I recognize, but they also adopted some very foreseeable risks, which are now coming home to roost.

danhulton,
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@owen Plus the inevitable "no secure versions of a critical lib exist anymore that are compatible with this language," and likely having to pick up ownership of a fork of that lib to fix that problem, since it is somehow the least-intensive way to fix that problem.

annieversary, to random
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yearning (reading through https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pipe-operator-v2 and praying for the future)

danhulton,
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@annieversary What the hell? I lost track of this because I haven't coded in PHP in forever, but I thought this was a pretty popular proposal! But declined, huh?

danluu, (edited ) to random
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This exchange reminds me of the debate I had with Jeff Atwood on whether or not servers should use ECC memory a decade ago. Jeff said no and I disagreed and said yes in https://danluu.com/why-ecc/.

At the time, there was one argument that could've, theoretically, been overturned by progress: Jeff argued that commodity non-ECC memory was becoming more reliable and was highly reliable. This was not true at the time, and it turns out this still isn't true a decade later.

danhulton,
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@Elucidating @joby @danluu That is wild, but what is more wild is that you know that that's what happened, that there was somehow the tooling in place to understand and prove this to be the case.

I've never worked at a FAANG, I was unaware you all employed actual mystical sorcery in your stack. Is that something you can import with Terraform or do you need an actual mystical wizard with an ancient tome on-staff? 😆

danhulton, to random
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Again, I'm no supporter of Biden's terrible policies on Gaza, but it'd be just so much harder to get anything approaching peace and justice with Trump in charge and making everything worse.

danhulton,
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@camille I heartily disagree that all we have to show for avoiding another Trump presidency is another American-funded genocide! And understand, I'm not defending Biden or the Democrats here! I don't really care about trying to defend any progress they may or may not judge made. But what we DO have to show for it are all the freedoms weren't lost along the way, and all the extra time and safety to protest and work to change minds and policies. (1/4)

danhulton,
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It would be so much worse for so many people who are trying so hard of we had thrown it all away to a Trump presidency, and I include Gazans in that as well! It's too little, too fuckin' late for too many, but the US has negotiated a peace deal with Hamas that Israel rejected (being generous here) and not even THAT would likely have been done under a Trump presidency. (3/4)

danhulton,
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The genocide in Gaza would still have started under Trump, and it would still be funded by America and supplied by American arms companies, but protests would be shut down sooner and more violently and with more legal (and likely extra-legal) consequences for the protesters. And there would likely be far fewer of them, after seeing crackdowns on previous protests and how badly that went for everyone involved. (2/4)

danhulton,
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Like, there is still an opportunity to help SOME people who really really need it. I don't understand the desire to say Fuck It and throw it all away over anger. I get being angry, just not letting it rule you into letting good people who need help come to harm. (4/4)

danhulton,
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@camille Hilariously, I used do think the same way you did, and thought a lot to get where I am. 🤣

I'm glad we're both at least trying to make sure that good things are done and people are helped, even if we disagree on the specifics. (1/2)

danhulton,
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What I'm curious about though is, this clearly didn't work before when they ran Hillary against Trump. The Dems didn't get any sort of signal that they needed to run a more progressive candidate - they instead ran an older, maler, MORE centrist candidate. Why do you think it'll work this time? Because I would expect that if they lost to Trump again, they're just going to run someone even MORE Trump-adjacent, assuming Trump allows fair elections thereafter. (2/2)

thomasfuchs, to random
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Still thinking about the “AI is amazing” example in the iPad event today, that isolated a moving person from a static background.

Something that any video chat app has been doing for years without AI.

danhulton,
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@thomasfuchs I feel like Apple is still using the older (correct) definition of AI, the one that includes ML models and isn't just referring to LLMs. And given that definition, they're pretty correct! This kind of capability has been largely driven by ML models for years -- when you noticed it getting really good, that's when ML models were brought to bear. (1/2)

danhulton,
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My guess is they're trying to walk the tightrope between being seen as an AI tech leader while that's still seen as important, while not being left holding the bag when the market finally tires of wildly over-promised LLM AI products not living up to the hype. (2/2)

danhulton,
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@thomasfuchs Yeah, but in realtime at a high resolution at a high framerate against complex backgrounds (that I'm pretty sure don't actually have to be static) without ugly "bleed" from said backgrounds?

I know "the same capabilities, only better" isn't really sexy, but it's much MUCH better, and that's still very impressive (at least to me)!

afif, to random
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And my homie Macklemore with a masterpiece

video/mp4

danhulton,
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@weezmgk @afif Yeah, wouldn't be any students out on lawns changing hearts, changing policies with Trump in charge. They'd be disappeared in a hurry.

Biden fucking sucks, but whatever. Even when Obama won and promised a really progressive future, there was plenty left to fight him on. Always will be, no matter how "Good" a president is. The fight goes on.

But if the Last President gets elected... Well, shit, it's hard to fight from under the dirt, you know?

danhulton, to random
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Re - last repost:

The disconnect with the kind of thinking that makes this comic funny comes from the idea that someone's vote for President is where their interaction with democracy and politics starts and ends. (1/3)

danhulton,
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You should ABSOLUTELY vote for Biden to keep Trump out of the white house a second time, but that is the literal least that can be done. The struggle to tear down the corrupted and co-opted parts of the system extends far beyond the ballot booth. If Biden wins, the job is not any easier and still must be done. If Trump wins, the job becomes EXPONENTIALLY harder and yet still must be done. (2/3)

danhulton,
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A vote for Biden isn't necessarily an endorsement, it can just be a recognition that there are more important things to address right now, and we need to focus on doing those things instead of learning spycraft to communicate without fear of being disappeared. (3/3)

nivenly, to random
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We've made some decisions regarding Haidra and Pachli as Nivenly projects. First up, Haidra: https://nivenly.org/blog/2024/04/15/haidra-decision/

danhulton,
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These were all official channels of feedback, opened and operated by Nivenly leadership, and by the time the forum was decided on as the "REAL official" conversation space, I had already said what I intended to say in the other channels and didn't feel it was appropriate to go and spam it again elsewhere. (3/6)

danhulton,
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I know you disagree with the opposition to Haidra, which is fine. And I tremendously appreciate that you didn't allow this disagreement to overshadow the sentiment of the membership, as you put it very eloquently. (4/6)

danhulton,
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It is, however, disheartening to see those of us with legitimate opposition to Haidra and similar tools treated as petulant and childish for speaking up and making that opposition known to the best of our ability, and at the same time somehow as slackers for not engaging in a "deeper level of engagement". (5/6)

danhulton,
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Finally, it's insulting to be dismissed as "the loudest minority", especially considering that those of us who are just "regular membership" have to work harder just to speak AS LOUD as leadership, who can place their personal opinions on Nivenly blogs. If you're looking to encourage Nivenly membership participation, then targeting and calling out the people you disagree with on the official blog is not a way to make us feel safe and welcome to engage. (6/6)

danhulton,
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@aburka I mean, I don't get QUITE that from it. I think db0 and leadership do believe that the worst-case scenario is the Torture Nexus being solely controlled by corporate interests is the worst case, and also that it's not the Torture Nexus. (1/3)

danhulton,
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I feel bad that db0 has gone through such stress over this, but also a fair amount of that stress was pretty much inevitable when your position boils down to "corporations are going to ruin artists' livelihoods anyway, so we may as well make sure ANYONE can ruin artists' livelihoods, not just the big players." Some people are going to strenuously object over that! (3/3)

danhulton,
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If I didn't strongly believe that it is, in fact, the Torture Nexus, and that the better action is to try to make sure that nobody is utilizing it, and definitely not NORMALIZING it, I could definitely get on board with the idea that corps being sole owners of the tech is really really bad. (2/3)

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