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dr2chase

@dr2chase@ohai.social

Not a physician, utility-bikes a lot (~5000km/year), DFH, works on Go compiler. (I do not speak for my employer.) Sometimes know things about programming languages, (cargo) bicycles, lilies, Florida.

He/him. Ex(?) Florida Man.
Now near Boston, MA, USA.
Married to a sociologist.
Tootfinder searchable.
#nobridge

Biased towards following people unlike me but with overlapping interests.

I'm aware that not everyone can ride a bike, it's been mentioned once or twice in the past.

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w7voa, to random
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OpenAI hits pause on the Scarlett Johansson soundalike voice it calls Sky. https://openai.com/index/how-the-voices-for-chatgpt-were-chosen/

dr2chase,
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@w7voa What this needs is a judgement large enough to make an example to others. A million here, a million there, that's not enough. Make it a nice, round, billion dollars, a nice financial 2x4 to the face, so as to make it clear they should quit fucking around like this.

mekkaokereke, to random
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If you got upset at me for pointing out that more people died of Covid under Biden than Trump, in large part because Biden rolled back common sense restrictions that were in place under Trump...

Then you'll hate me pointing out that Trump introduced a 25% tariff on Chinese EVs, and Biden is upping that to 100% tariff.

https://insideevs.com/news/719283/chinese-ev-tariffs-biden-quadruple/

We can't allow the US to get off of fossil fuels... unless US billionaires win! 🤡

Fear the BYD Dolphin! (an EV car for $12K)
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/T3nfyO_UHjk

dr2chase,
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@InkySchwartz @mekkaokereke @WeeDramAtic @CelloMomOnCars E-bikes are still a reliability risk, depending. A fair number of people, if they get a flat, aren't able to fix it themselves. US Bike shops, still catering mostly to the US recreational crowd, have crap turnaround. I've got money, space & skills, my answer to this problem is a "winter bike" & a "summer bike" & because I deserve it, a "fun bike" that works perfectly well as a commute. Also, no e-assist, because I don't need it (yet).

dr2chase,
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@jbenjamint @CelloMomOnCars it-would-be-nice, if road safety permits, if they started running short-distance errands on those bikes. I do relatively little recreational cycling; my several bikes are all set up to be nice to ride running errands, so that's what I do. My best guess is it displaces around 100 gallons of gasoline, or about a ton of CO2 (round numbers). The cost of the not-gasoline is a little more than I spend on bike maintenance, maybe.

dr2chase,
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@NewNordicNormal @InkySchwartz @mekkaokereke @WeeDramAtic @CelloMomOnCars This is why I do winter/summer bikes, and favor longtails -- they're large enough for almost all errands, and I can tow a bike with a bike, so that's how I handle the shop. I think for the bucketbike case, and the e-bike case (where the bike might not be rollable), a flat trailer works, if you have another bike (it can be a small bike) to tow the trailer. A trailer feels like huge overkill, but it's far cheaper than a car.

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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I often brag on tumblr about how "on the fediverse I never have to ask people for image descriptions, why is tumblr so terrible at this?" etc.

But, I've made the mistake of re-sharing a few images without descriptions recently! I was lulled into thinking it was not a problem.

Just FYI I'm going to get strict again about not re-sharing undescribed images. (You should too, it keeps the feed readable.)

If you forget? If this is new? Don't feel bad, just stop doing that.

https://www.tumblr.com/aspirationatwork/750857131588304896

dr2chase,
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@futurebird @stefan @promovicz As a user, the UI makes a big difference. If you want something to happen, make it easy. Phanpy makes it obvious and pretty easy.

kellogh, to random
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the news is cool, but now i want to see an embedding model that i can use with a streaming interruptible conversation

dr2chase,
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@kellogh AFAIK (which is not that much) all the LLM crunching is done in C++ or GPU/TPU languages. The Python/Go/whatever is directing traffic. I work on Go, so of course would love to have people trying that, but Python is where a lot of people are now. I have some reasonable connection to Fortran, and while it might be the right language for crunching the numbers, it is not usually preferred for directing traffic.

skinnylatte, (edited ) to transit
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I’m interested in a lot of transit activism in N America but I swear people would think you’re a total weeb if you talk about transit in places with good transit. Trying to imagine talking to people in Singapore or Hong Kong or Seoul about.. loving trains

I think they would back tf away from me and run away.

Like my friend always says ‘I don’t want to be a transit fan. I just want great transit’

dr2chase,
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@skinnylatte @danluvsbeer You mean car fans are metaphorically crapping all over shared spaces, resources, etc? That works for me.

dr2chase, to random
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It is a little amazing to me to see people who have been rendered incapable of seeing any difference between Biden and Trump because Biden has taken the slow-centrist-Democrat approach to Netanyahu's destruction of the Gaza strip. There's a lot going on there, Netanyahu is barely in power, the best goal is "how quickly can the atrocity stop?" not "how quickly can we claim we're no longer involved in the atrocity that has not stopped?" There's a difference. And yes it is awful./

dr2chase, to random
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Yesterday morning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EJZLrkHGMU (Cambridge Bike Bus + Band, me with a photographer sitting backwards on my longtail). The ride was slow and nearly technical, given the low speed, load, kids to not hit, and the parked cars that I managed not to scratch.

Apologies if it comes with advertising, I'm over my weekly upload quota at Vimeo so that will happen next week if I remember.

laurahelmuth, to random
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Does anybody have a good term to describe people you used to respect who turned out to be horrible? Like Steven Pinker, J.K. Rowling, Richard Dawkins. It's like a milkshake duck but more consequential and even more disappointing

dr2chase,
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@dannotdaniel @tantramar @laurahelmuth Johnny Rotten / John Lydon. Did so enjoy Public Image Limited, and now he is terrible.

Thus far, Annie Lennox has never disappointed, and I am thankful for it.
In fact, here, something to make you feel better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK1OZstfCrY

meganL, to cycling
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I was reflecting yesterday on how many cyclists on the UC Davis campus I saw doing the same self-centered, unsafe things I see drivers do.

And I know it's because most are drivers who are self-centered, and reckless.

I reflected on how, if we want more people to leave cars at home, we're going to be dealing with exactly this unless we find a way to educate, carrot & stick safer, more community-minded culture in new cyclists.

dr2chase,
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@meganL @enobacon Saw this conversation go by yesterday, came to add My Valuable Opinions. I generally favor infrastructure, because (retail) enforcement seems corruptible, and education depends on people wanting to be educated. HOWEVER, biking in Amsterdam was eye-opening in several ways, and one was how the biking default there was to not-yield to pedestrians.

dr2chase,
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@meganL @enobacon A Theorem Of Mine is that the division of public space into car lane vs cycle lane vs foot lane is an offshoot of car culture, and car size/speed/danger requiring reserved space, and everyone else's reaction to that (this theorem fails for streetcars). And if I could educate cyclists, it would be that they should get over their reserved-space view of the world, and instead adopt don't-collide and don't-bother the lower-energy modes (i.e., yield to peds, pass behind peds).

dr2chase,
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@enobacon @meganL didn't see any down-mowing, but to me it looked like it was approximately rude, and the peds were definitely delaying their forward progress before crossing, and bike stops for them would have been easy.

meganL, to cycling
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I sewed this shirt 15 or so years ago. Luckily I made it extra-big at the time so it still fits.

In honor of today, 4pm Pacific (US) Daylight Time. It's (a)synchronous so you don't have to be on at that time to participate. @bikenite

dr2chase,
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@HayiWena @meganL team pogies and face masks here, also.
Oh, and a large bag for the front basket on the Cute Cargo Bike

dr2chase,
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@HayiWena @meganL PS the cute cargo bike and bag.

dr2chase, to random
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I have a modest fucking proposal. When the subway is down and shuttle buses must connect the stations instead, BAN CARS ON THE ROUTES BETWEEN THE STATIONS. We've been stuck in traffic behind a clot of lazy fucks who can't be arsed to do anything other than roll around in their armored rolling sofas and block the roads. WTF are they protesting, anyway? If they're going to block traffic like this they had better have a good reason. Can they even articulate their demands?

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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Java has a interface* called “Set” but the documentation is nebulous & ominous. “may throw an exception” what? does no one even know? There isn’t even a method for intersection & union?! What is the point? I taught my students to use the set object in Python. It was an elegant beautiful experience— Thought we could do it in Java but I think I will just use arraylist, write my own damn methods.

I’m biased, but Java is always more annoying like this. ugh. (*this explains part of my confusion)

dr2chase,
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@futurebird Isn't it (technically) an "interface", not a "class"? Not helping with the annoying, but the reason it feels underspecified is that it wants to allow very simple things to be sets, and so the requirements are as loose as possible.

cstross, to random
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5/2: Have you had an idea halfway or more through a project that required extensive rewriting of what you've already done?

This is NORMAL for novel-sized projects! I'm 85% of the way into a manuscript right now. The original plan was a Frederick Forsyth style tribute to "Day of the Jackal", but halfway through it was carjacked and taken for a joy ride by The Abominable Doctor Phibes.

Bonus extra: it's set in an AU 2015 and concerns the assassination of Queen Elizabeth II ...

dr2chase,
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@cstross No "Wind in the Willows"?

baldur, to random
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“Why Would I Buy This Useless, Evil Thing? - Aftermath”

This x1000. Just… why? https://aftermath.site/why-would-i-buy-this-useless-evil-thing

dr2chase,
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@futurebird @baldur that device, meh. But in datacenters etc, the special AI hardware (chips, even) provide a bunch of operations on lower-than-usual precision floating-point numbers. Used to be those were mostly 32 and 64 bits, sometimes 80, and maybe sometimes 128. The machine learning hardware works with floats that are only 16 or even 8 bits long: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_Processing_Unit
That's new, not currently useful for non-ML stuff, and makes them faster and more efficient. /

ai6yr, to H5N1

ArsTechnica: “Concerning” spread of bird flu from cows to cats suspected in Texas https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/concerning-spread-of-bird-flu-from-cows-to-cats-suspected-in-texas/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social #h5n1 #hpai #birdflu

dr2chase,
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@mjausson @Jennifer @ai6yr I read (elsewhere here) that there's apparently a surprising amount of virus in milk, and a human drinking raw milk is perhaps risking a lethal dose. So it may not be this deadly if transmitted cat-to-cat, but if they swallow a high dose in milk, it's deadly. (So drinking raw milk was already a risky venture, but with the risk of ingesting bird flu, just please don't, it could be deadly).

ai6yr, to diy

My son made more soap. Apparently someone wants a regular supply of handmade beeswax soap for their airbnb.

dr2chase,
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@ai6yr Beeswax saponifies? What's that like, as a soap?

velobetty, to random
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It was only recently I stopped calling Nutella "noo-tella".

dr2chase,
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@HauntedOwlbear @velobetty "noot-ya". The word splits between "nute" and "lla".

HalvarFlake, to random
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The reason why McKinsey/MBA types like Sundar and his recruits ruin companies is that ultimately too much focus and belief in shareholder capitalism thinks that companies are devices that produce money.

But neither do employees go to work with the wish to produce money for their shareholders, nor do customers buy products with that intent.

Employees want to help the customers and get paid for that. Customers want the value of the product. Money to shareholders is a byproduct.

dr2chase,
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@oblomov @HalvarFlake IMO numbers are a good choice if you have limited resources and many problems -- which moles do we whack first? An example where numbers are good is e.g. managing climate change, where one of the purposes of a carbon tax is to help a consumer decide between (for example) locally sourced lobster and air-freighted apples from New Zealand. But we don't have a manager for Elon Musk, who thinks the answer is Mars. /

dr2chase,
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@oblomov @HalvarFlake what motivates over-reliance on metrics is that at scale it is literally a management problem. Overconservative people (employees, managers, whatever) won't change fast enough to track (never mind lead) the market, but the excessively inventive will piss away resources jack-rabbiting after the latest pet rock. Numbers and dollars are very convincing to many people, thus their popularity as a management tool.
/

dr2chase,
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@oblomov @HalvarFlake Numbers fail when we fail to account for externalized costs, anything we can't measure, we either must guess a number or pretend it is zero, and factions will cook the guessed numbers to support their favorite choice. Conservatives will over-cost change. Imaginative jack-rabbits will over-cost failure to change, over-benefit adoption of their pet rock. And what has the security team ever done for us? And the privacy and user safety teams, they just slow down launches.

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