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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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owen, to random
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So do you eat your nuggies with the skin on or the skin off?

danhulton,
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@owen How do I not-favourite a post, plz.

danhulton, to random
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Honestly, I just need to block "discussions.apple.com" from my search results. Never has there ever been an actual answer to an actual question posted on that domain. I can't get over how bad it sucks and is just full of copy/paste "reinstall your phone" answers without any attempt at relevance to the question.

Infuriating.

markstory, to random
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During last night's space weather we had classic southern Ontario weather and it was cloudy...

danhulton,
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@markstory Right? Just like the eclipse, we had some gorgeous views of... Clouds.

danhulton,
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@markstory Sounds like it's gonna be nearly as active tonight! Maybe the clouds will uh...

checks outside

Oh no.

garbados, to random
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if you think The Revolution TM will "go badly" and that's why it's important to vote for biden, i would invite you to get your head out of your ass and read more because even your idea of revolution is imperial propaganda

danhulton,
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@garbados An even better invitation would be an invitation to stop seeing "casting your presidential ballot" as the start and end of one's political involvement.

thomasfuchs, to random
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There's people arguing that the Apple Crush! ad is "neat" and "fun".

It's literally showing the wanton destruction of things we love and make us human. Including shots that makes you identify with the things as a viewer.

I don't understand what's wrong with people. Do they not have emotions?

danhulton,
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@thomasfuchs The paint spurting viscerally like blood was so weirdly intensely off-putting.

I feel like if it had been ACTUAL blood, it would have registered as more cartooney and less disturbing.

whitequark, to random
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observes you

danhulton,
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@whitequark Oh right, I must have mustard on my face again. Is it here? No? Here? What about here? Did I get it that time? What about here?

Maybe here?

jakehamilton, to random
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Question: how does one go back in time and do things differently? Asking for a friend...

danhulton,
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@jakehamilton I have it on good Advice that it entails drinking quite a large amount of Spirits and then being Fortunate enough to encounter a Faerie, Demon, or some such other Spirit (a much different one than those you shall have drank before!)

A Note of Caution! There is usually a Toll that must be paid and a Trick that shall be played upon you, such that a Great many Persons who have tried this method do not Believe it to be worth the considerable Effort.

As ever, I leave it in your Hands.

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)

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