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dfrancis

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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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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. 😎😛

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

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/

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. 😎

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?

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

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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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.

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?

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.

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.

the_etrain, to random
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but oldies are from the 50s, classic rock is from the 60s and 70s and THAT'S IT.

dfrancis,
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@RickiTarr @the_etrain On another note <rimshot> just before we moved down to Georgia I won tickets to see Jimmy Buffett at Jones Beach from an NYC classic rock station. On the way in I saw a teenage girl wearing a T-shirt saying "I'm seeing Jimmy Buffett for my 18th birthday!".

We were in the nosebleed section of course but she must have been up front because Buffett pointed her out from the stage and said "bless you parents for raising your kids on this music!". 1/2

futurebird, to random
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For Republican Lawyers
A Logic Review

"If A then B." Is a logical statement known as an implication. What this means is that any time A is true, B must also be true. It's a common fallacy to think that this is the same thing as "If B then A."

Now it is true that "If not B then not A" is logically equivalent. But "if not A then not B" certainly isn't! Really this is the same error as thinking "If B then A" follows from "If A then B."

I think you legal folks have a fancy latin name for this...

dfrancis,
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@futurebird @Bam @thepoliticalcat "If P then Q" would be a material conditional. Without using a wacky font 😜 we'd write that as P -> Q here.

"Affirming the antecedent" (P -> Q, P, therefore Q) is known as modus ponens, old school. "Denying the consequent" (P -> Q, not Q, therefore not P) is modus tollens.

Those are the only two logically valid forms using the material conditional. It is a counterintuitive principle and thus gets misused a lot. Saying more may make peoples' eyes bleed.

RickiTarr, to random
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Since, my last post ended up in a long thread about the pros and cons of sports, I'm curious, what is your family and personal history with sports?

I'll go first! My Dad grew up in a Sport's household. His Dad, my grandfather, was obsessed, and he wanted his sons to be too. My grandfather was tall with an athletic build like a swimmer, but he married a very petite 4'8" woman, who never weighed over a hundred pounds. Both my Dad and his Brother were average height with a slight build, neither played sports or were good at it when they tried. Not liking sports became my Dad's rebellion. He became a preacher instead, his Dad grew up in a Preacher's family, and hated it. When I was growing up, my Dad always pushed intelligence and spirituality over physicality, we only had a game on if my Grandfather was there. I got a little of both my parents, I've always been small and plump, what science calls a dumpling (please don't fact check this). I enjoyed group activities and non competitive sports. For instance I played volleyball (very poorly), but only enjoyed it if I was on the B team, and had no pressure to succeed in it. I did go through a brief period where I pretended to be really into sports, because I thought it would impress boys. I'd watch just enough to get highlights. I was basically like Moss in I.T. Crowd. Did you see that ludicrous display last night?!

dfrancis,
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@RickiTarr Me, when sports come up.

RickiTarr, to random
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Why are you like this?

dfrancis,
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@RickiTarr Why not?

RickiTarr, to random
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Today's theme is Normal!

You can take this test to see how "Normal" you are, and also how radically left wing you are! LOL Please share the results if you feel like it, or do nothing at all, because it really doesn't matter!

https://www.idrlabs.com/4-axes/test.php

dfrancis,
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@RickiTarr So, basically... boring. Hell, I knew that already....

ChadGrayson, to random
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Just an update:

I am not now, nor have I ever been, 'Ready for Christmas.'

Thank you for asking!

dfrancis,
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@ChadGrayson Whenever anyone asks me if I'm ready for the holidays I always say "are we ever REALLY ready for the holidays?". They never argue. 😎

(Though I do point out that I typically have my Christmas shopping done before Thanksgiving.)

CultureDesk, (edited ) to television
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Entertainment Weekly has selected its top 10 TV shows of 2023, which include "Reservation Dogs," "I'm a Virgo" and "Succession." The magazine has also chosen three duds, one of which is "rehashed IP," (reboots of "Fatal Attraction," "Frasier" and the like). Here's the full list. Which is your favorite? Tell us in the comments if you think there are any egregious omissions.

https://flip.it/WkceWy

dfrancis,
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@CultureDesk Best thing I watched in 2023? Babylon 5. 😜

Honestly nothing actually premiering in 2023 really stood out. I guess the best new thing I actually watched was True Lies, which a) died and b) I liked better when it was called Scarecrow and Ms. King.

The WORST new series I watched in 2023 is easy: Secret Invasion. Wow, did that suck.

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 )

dfrancis,
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Oh, link to the original.

https://oceanographicmagazine.com/opa-winner/ocean-conservation-photographer-of-the-year-hope-2023-sa/#:~:text=1st%20place%20Conservation%20(Hope)%20Photographer%20of%20the%20Year&text=%22I%20went%20to%20Florida%20with,front%20of%20the%20sun's%20rays.

dfrancis, to random
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**** for . Not sure where all the h8 is coming from. Maybe largely from the Zach Snyder Fanboi contingent that wants all sturm und drang all the time, or the MRAs getting PO'd at a superhero movie headlined by all women.

To be fair, I could have lived without the visit to Song and Dance World. At least it was short.

"So, we're literally herding cats now?" - C. Danvers

bohemianchic, (edited ) to random

One thing most people do not understand about environmentalism is that it was never about saving the planet. The planet doesn't need us. Hell it will even thrive without us. Environmentalism is to save ourselves from extinction. Don't think that the planet owes us shit.

Before you reply, reread my post again. Don't pull me a strawman by replying with something that I didnt even mention in this post.

dfrancis,
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@bohemianchic https://youtu.be/uHgJKrmbYfg?si=IfCFAEaYQ8A1tFa0

dfrancis, to random
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Another fortune cookie with no fortune at . Nothing ominous about that.

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