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dfrancis

@dfrancis@mstdn.social

Dennis Francis Heffernan, formerly of NJ, now living in Georgia. No one of consequence. Montclair State University class of 2010, currently working at Kroger

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RickiTarr, to random
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If it was possible to live forever, would you want to?

dfrancis,
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@RickiTarr Literally forever? Outliving the universe? No, thank you.

RickiTarr, to random
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Are you the person you always thought you would be?

dfrancis,
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@RickiTarr Yes, but not the one I wanted to be

RickiTarr, to random
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If people would just send me pictures of their homemade bread, I would both appreciate it, and be full of bread lust.

dfrancis,
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@RickiTarr Does cornbread count? Three individual blueberry cornbreads I baked Saturday, out of 12. I kept four for us and gave two boxes of four each to work friends.

dfrancis,
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@RickiTarr link to recipe. Notes: I use 1/4 cup creme fraiche in place of the sour cream or yogurt. The recipe does not specify what kind of cornmeal to use, I use Bob's Red Mill medium grind. And to make the mini breads I use a hamburger bun pan sold by King Arthur Baking.
https://letsdishrecipes.com/blueberry-cornbread/

RickiTarr, to random
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Since I'm thinking about it, let's talk about Ignorance. I have so many mixed thoughts on the subject. So, a little back story on me, for those who haven't already figured this out. My father was a pastor, I was raised extremely Conservative and religious, and while some of it struck me as a bit off, and I was certainly less Conservative than my parents, I was a good little girl and towed the party line. It wasn't until my little brother came out when he was 14, that my wake up call really began. Suddenly, it was personal, I love my little brother, how would he be going to Hell? If you start doubting one thing, then slowly you start doubting everything.

Because of this background, I do have empathy for what I consider true ignorance. For those who did not grow up in this environment, it can be really hard to understand how people can just blindly believe these things. They don't understand the cult like atmosphere that it truly is. All your media is this one thing, all your social circle are people that agree with you, you are quite literally in a bubble of propaganda. For me the combination of being around different kinds of people and factual education gave me the ability to see the truth, and it's something I still work on, with anything you consider fact, you should always leave a window open, there's always more to learn.

Sooo, if you read this far, What has been your experience with ignorance? What is something you've been ignorant about? Is willful ignorance actually a form of ignorance? Do you think there's any true ways to convince people they are missing out on the truth?

dfrancis,
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@RickiTarr I didn't believe in global warming for a long time. Mainly because we'd get another foot of snow and I'd ask where this global warming we were promised was and people would say "YOU ARE A BABY EATING DISCIPLE OF SATAN!" rather than answer the question. Finally someone took the trouble to actually answer the question.

You can't reason people out of anything they didn't reason themselves into, but if people ask questions you should answer them, just in case. 😎

RickiTarr, to random
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Have you ever been so in your own head that when you start talking about what you've been thinking about, it doesn't make sense to other people, because they haven't been down your mental rabbit hole for hours?

dfrancis,
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@RickiTarr Other people?

ajsadauskas, to ai
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In five years time, some CTO will review the mysterious outage or technical debt in their organisation.

They will unearth a mess of poorly written, poorly -documented, barely-functioning code their staff don't understand.

They will conclude that they did not actually save money by replacing human developers with LLMs.

#AI #LLM #LargeLanguageModels #WebDev #Coding #Tech #Technology @technology

dfrancis,
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@ajsadauskas @technology I've been thinking for a while that I truly pity anyone who's going to have to maintain this AI-generated code.

RickiTarr, to random
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Male Video Game Character:

Full Body Riot Gear Armor,
20 Guns with 250 rounds each

Female Video Game Character:

Thigh High Boots and a Tin Foil Bra,
One sword that is bigger than her body

dfrancis,
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@RickiTarr Yes, but the girl kicks more ass than the guy, so it balances out. 😁

blogdiva, to cooking
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DON'T KNOW WHO NEEDS TO HEAR THIS, but the amount of garlic in a recipe is only a suggestion. of the barest minimum, at that.

dfrancis,
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@blogdiva I'm one of seventeen known Italians who does not like garlic (nine of whom are in my family). There are some things I'll use it in, like home-cured pickles or amatraciana, but even then I low-ball it. Come and get me. 😎

CultureDesk, (edited ) to books
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In celebration of the 50th birthday of Stephen King's first novel, "Carrie," NPR polled its readers on their favorite King books. Here's what they chose. Which is your top pick? Tell us in the comments if there's a gem that didn't make the cut.

https://flip.it/f9sriI

#StephenKing #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #Fiction #Reading #Poll

dfrancis,
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@Rhube @CultureDesk @bookstodon Aren't they ALL Dark Tower books by now? 😎

dfrancis,
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@CultureDesk @bookstodon Out of the choices I voted for The Stand. My favorite of his solo efforts was Eyes of the Dragon. My actual favorite was co-written with Peter Straub: The Talisman.

Least favorite? Cujo. A rabid shaggy dog story!

ErikUden, to random
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like all people

dfrancis,
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@stux @ErikUden We used to say artificial intelligence was no match for natural stupidity.

Now it turns out natural stupidity is no match for artificial stupidity. 😎😛

ninokadic, to Cognition
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What's your position regarding consciousness? Broad physicalism (we'll have a scientific explanation one day) or broad anti-physicalism (science can't give a complete account)? Or something else?

Please repost after voting, I'm genuinely curious! 🤔

@philosophy @philosophyofmind

dfrancis,
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@ninokadic @philosophy @philosophyofmind Broad physicalism. It might turn out to be too complex for us to fully understand, but there is no supernatural component to consciousness in particular or existence in general.

RickiTarr, to random
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I would love to see a sitcom, where the evil villain's plan works and he has to rebuild a stable government, with the help of some henchmen.

Oh wait...

dfrancis,
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@RickiTarr MegaMind. He "wins", cleans up the city and gets bored.

ElleGray, to random
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tv and movies from my youth lead me to believe there would be a lot more muppets around to help me with things

dfrancis,
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@ElleGray Yeah, where are all my talking animal buddies....

ElleGray, to random
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Can NONE of my dreams come true 😞

dfrancis,
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@ElleGray Damn it, jellyfish, put in the effort and show some backbon... oh, wait.....

CultureDesk, (edited ) to television
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Zoinks! Digital Trends has compiled a list of 10 TV shows that they say are overrated, from "Parks and Recreation" ("overly hopeful") to "The Bear" ("a great dramedy, but award shows and audiences keep treating it as Christ’s second coming, which it most certainly isn’t."). Here's the full list. We want to know: Which of these do you think are overhyped, or just don't stand the test of time (choose as many as you like)? Tell us in the comments if there's another show that's critically adored but that you just can't see the appeal of.

https://flip.it/.1kuN9

dfrancis,
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@CultureDesk Not voting because I haven't seen any of these but Stranger Things. I watched the first two seasons and haven't gone back for the rest yet. It's a good show and the actors did a very good job but I don't think it's the masterpiece people make it out to be.

golgaloth, to random
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Chicken, meet roost.

#boeing #handouts

dfrancis,
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@golgaloth So, Boeing cut corners to the extent that their planes are falling out of the sky piece by piece, but the company is still going under?

And someone thinks we should SAVE them?

CultureDesk, (edited ) to VideoGames
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Video games, LeBron James, tattoos, and copyright law, in one story? The internet is really spoiling us today. @polygon reports on a long-drawn-out case in which tattoo artist Jimmy Hayden is suing Take-Two Interactive Software, makers of the NBA 2K video games, over the use of tattoos he made for LeBron James that were reproduced in games from 2016 to 2020. Hayden's attorney argues that Take-Two "painstakingly copied" the designs. Take-Two's team says that James' tattoos are a very small part of NBA 2K, and that James has licensed his own likeness to Take-Two, so a ruling in favor of Hayden would mean James would have to ask Hayden for permission to license his own being. Here are all the details, plus background on other cases in which tattoo artists have sued video game companies. What do you think?

https://flip.it/1.JDIf

#VideoGames #Gaming #GamesIndustry #LeBronJames #Tattoos #Law #Basketball #Technology #Sport

For more stories like this, follow @polygon's Gaming Magazine, @gaming.

dfrancis,
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@CultureDesk @polygon @polygon @gaming The tattoos are on James so they are a part of any licensed depiction of James without needing the artist's permission. He should retain control of them for any other purpose.

JohnBarentine, to til
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#TIL that fortunately someone has already invented a term that was on my mind but for which no word seemed to already exist.

Thank you, Urban Dictionary: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Spacewashing

#Spacewashing #Space #SpaceSustainability

dfrancis,
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@JohnBarentine NASA's budget in 2023 was about $25 billion. The defense budget for 2023 was over $800 billion and the welfare budget was over $1 trillion. They're not "hiding" anything behind NASA, the idea is ridiculous. Ditto for private space companies; SpaceX spent about $1 billion, Blue Origin probably about the same. The space program has been accused of stealing funding from social programs since it started and that's just nonsense.

dfrancis,
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@JohnBarentine It is the same kind of attack on space programs I have seen all my life, claiming that money spent on them is somehow "wasted" or "stolen" from social programs. It's tiring and it's wrong.

Nagaram, to random
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My non computer friend was complaining about video games and how it anyways felt like a waste of time. And it is and I agree. I cannot commit to most popular games. You won't catch me grinding Fortnite to complete the battle pass or trying to rank up in DotA.

But I can lose DAYS building cute little cities.

Timberborn was phenomenal. Please play beaver city builder.

dfrancis,
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@Nagaram Try Against The Storm. It's a roguelite city builder that ends right about when it would start getting tedious.

dfrancis, to random
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Sorry fellow atheists, we were wrong. Jesus has returned...as a manatee!

Actually this is the Oceanographic 1st place winner in the Conservation category. Beautiful photo.

(We're not wrong. :P )

idoubtit, to animals
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    dfrancis,
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    @idoubtit It sounds like the owner meant well but yeah, the poor creature deserved better than to be cooped up like that.

    dfrancis, to animals
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    Our newest housemate, adopted a little over a week ago. We got him from a local FurKids facility where one of the nieces volunteers. They had named him Basketball but one of the volunteers said it was a condition of adoption that we change the name, which Mom had already decided to do. The aforementioned niece named him Goose after Captain Marvel's flerkin. Upon arrival he instantly claimed Mom's bed. 😛. He is
    FIV positive so he'll require some extra care. #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

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