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drahardja

@drahardja@sfba.social

Software since 1998. Ex-Apple. I smushed AppKit and UIKit together and never looked back.

Black lives matter. Trans lives matter. LGBT+ rights are human rights. Healthcare, security, a decent income, and housing with dignity are human rights. Abortion is healthcare. Science is our best hope as a species. Kindness and empathy are the noblest of human traits.

I block assholes and bigots.

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mastodonmigration, (edited ) to random
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So now SpaceX, with no working spacesuit, and years behind on it's multi-billion dollar moon lander, is lobbying NASA to go to the Hubble Space Telescope.

"A successful private mission could improve Hubble's ability to point at celestial objects and, by boosting its orbit, extend its life by years... however, an accident could leave the multibillion-dollar telescope broken — or, even more tragically, tethered to the dead bodies of the astronauts sent to repair it."

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/16/1250250249/spacex-repair-hubble-space-telescope-nasa-foia

drahardja,
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@mastodonmigration Rinse, repeat

drahardja, to random
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LLMs perpetuate biases that exist in their training data. https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/112455826772366983

christianselig, to random
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Dumb question, but if I bought one of those "MagSafe stickers" on Amazon, that are traditionally used to give an Android phone MagSafe-like-stickiness, could I instead use it in reverse, and stick it to a non-MagSafe accessory so it would stick to my iPhone?

For instance, say I want to stick it to a banana so the banana magnets to my phone

drahardja,
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@bigzaphod @christianselig Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring

drahardja, to random
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Predictable. https://mastodon.social/@buermann/112458500212445707

drahardja, to TeslaMotors
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Matt Farrah of The Smoking Tire gave an honest and (therefore) devastatingly negative review of the #Cybertruck. Good on him. Every point he makes is spot-on (except maybe the chuckle-inducing post-Apocalypse truck argument).

#cars #carReview #tesla #ev

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC9a3GR1HJY

drahardja,
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@anji Wait till you learn that trucks don’t even have to comply with vehicular crash compatibility.

The US government is too busy trying to dismantle democracy to care. We are severely understaffed for things that actually improve the wellbeing of citizens.

drahardja,
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Feeling better and better about my prediction about the

https://sfba.social/@drahardja/111350788885338476

drahardja,
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@breadbin 100% Elon sketched it out and told them “make this”.

DeliaChristina, to random
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shit.
it's soft tissue cancer.

drahardja,
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@DeliaChristina I’m so sorry. Sending good wishes.

drahardja, to science
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Ho boy. This is a bad take.

Presenting scientific consensus as “fact” is harmful, because it means that it will be harder to change that “fact” when more data is available.

Scientists are humans, but what makes their consensus trustworthy is their commitment to a process of forming testable hypotheses, gathering data, getting rid of confounding noise, and publishing their results. Thence, a model of reality is constructed, and a consensus—a belief—is agreed upon.

But NEW DATA MUST RESULT IN REVISED MODELS. That is good, and that defines progress.

Labeling consensus as “fact” undermines the idea that MODELS WILL CHANGE as more data come in. A “fact” is an immutable truth, and a reporting a change in scientific “facts” over time will undermine trust in scientists much more than the phrase “scientists believe”.

The problem with the phrase “scientists believe” is not the “believe” part. It’s the “scientists” part, which has lost public credibility.

https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112457986407944025

drahardja,
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@brennansv Yeah, it seems like clickbait is getting through more and more. This article is basically a retelling of a paper, spun into opinion.

drahardja, to OpenAI
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Ethics just get in the way.

#openAI #ai #ethics

“OpenAI Reportedly Dissolves Its Existential AI Risk Team”

https://gizmodo.com/openai-reportedly-dissolves-its-existential-ai-risk-tea-1851484827

drahardja, to random
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So when is #MSTeams going to start scraping conversations to train AI?

drahardja,
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@clacke I’m not sure how many data abuses like this it’s going to take until companies stop trusting their data to cloud vendors.

Maybe that number is infinite.

drahardja,
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@tunafishtiger > Complete this sentence: “Don’t tell anyone, but”

drahardja, to ai
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I had no idea how bad things are at .

“The Tragic Downfall of the Internet’s Art Gallery”

https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/deviantart-what-happened-ai-decline-lawsuit-stability.html

drahardja, to random
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bippers paradise https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112457871437200111

drahardja, to tesla
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So…can the actually beat a Porsche 911 in the quarter mile WHILE TOWING a Porsche 911, as Elon claimed?

No. No it can’t.

But it CAN keep up with the slowest Porsche 911 to the 8th mile, which is DAMN impressive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0AJmLvKjxw

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@sgt1372 I mean, I’m not disputing any of that. This video is just physical confirmation that Elon lied on stage.

drahardja,
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@markjamesadams Clarification: Cybertruck beats a Porsche 911 Cayman T, the slowest 911, while towing a Porsche 911 Cayman T, to an ⅛ mile. Maybe.

It does not beat a Porsche 911 Turbo S, the fastest 911, even when it’s towing nothing, to a ¼ mile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUjQwlh1mW8

drahardja,
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@markjamesadams In any case, the point of the video is that it confirms the accusation that Elon lied on stage about the Cybertruck.

drahardja, to random
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Image alt text: “News article titled: Portugal is averaging 91% renewable electricity in 2024, with Europe’s lowest power prices, by Nick Hedley, dated May 2024” https://mastodon.social/

drahardja, to tech
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“We only fire in thousands weekly.”

https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-layoffs-could-harm-productivity-recruitment-reputation-tesla-google-microsoft-2024-5

drahardja, to random
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There we go. Glad I left and deleted all my posts while I still could. https://mastodon.social/@verge/112453327276706532

marioguzman, to random
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Lmao OMG that state is so fucked.
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112452421062607595

drahardja,
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@marioguzman They literally don’t give a fuck about democracy.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/north-carolinas-supreme-court-reverses-gerrymandering-rcna81996

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