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ai6yr, 8 days ago to Software

😅BBC: North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs😭
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68942321 #escapecharacters #software

Mehrad, 12 days ago to academicchatter

I wonder if it is even ethical to enlist affiliation to the university if my funding comes directly from a funding institute, I'm buying and using my own hardware and software (down to the HDMI cable and mouse), and the data is also coming directly from another organization. The coffee and food is also off my own pocket.

The only things they provide are electricity (computer, coffee), water (coffee), and internet.

Let know your thoughts.

#AcademicChatter @academicchatter

sil, 13 days ago to UKpolitics

OK, UK types, it’s council elections day. When you go out to vote, remember that you need to take photo ID with you. Yes, it is bad that you have to do so because it harms people without IDs more than it helps stop basically-nonexistent “voting fraud”, and yes this is a flagrantly partisan measure to benefit the Tories, and yes it was put through Parliament with barely any discussion or opposition, but you still have to do it. Don’t take it out on polling station volunteers, either. #UKpolitics

nixCraft, 15 days ago to linux

only old linux desktop users will remember this desktop effect. can you name it? #linux

Cmastication, 20 days ago to random

I bought a used foot pedal for my Mac. It didn't have software for a Mac available and it does not show up as a keyboard or mouse. So I had to learn how to read usb input using python. Fun little yak shaving event. I have it plumbed up to turn speech to text on and off. Kinda fun.

Cmastication, 27 days ago to random

I’ve written a book with markdown and still can’t recall which brackets to use where.

From: @jschauma
https://mstdn.social/@jschauma/112287289964092034

Mehrad, 27 days ago to ai

Have you seen the new kid in the block? #DockDuckGo now has ... wait for it 🥁🥁 an "AI chat".

#AI #AIchat

Cmastication, 1 month ago to random

Today I learned...

nixCraft, 1 month ago to random

Sam Altman tells a room full of VCs with a straight face that he will take billions of their money, build AGI, and then ask it how to generate a return! — OpenAI business plan.

Sam Altman tells a room full of VCs with a straight face that he will take billions of their money, build AGI, and then ask it how to generate a return!

geomob, 1 month ago to random German

Long-time Geomob London sponsor Geolytix https://geolytix.co.uk are recruiting for three technical roles:

• Data Engineer

• Head of Engineering

• SQL Query Analys

See all the roles over on their blog: https://geolytix.co.uk/blog/tag/career/

Cmastication, 1 month ago to random

It feels like the endless debate about “are LLMs thinking” largely misses the point. A better question is “are LLMs useful?” And if they are, we should understand their strengths and weaknesses at different tasks.

Endless pontificating on the meaning of “intelligence” is fun though. I suggest pairing it with a good bourbon. But once you sober up, go build useful things with useful tools.

From: @brook
https://sunny.garden/@brook/112148815310449061

Cmastication, 1 month ago to random

I have a zero tolerance policy for being scolded. So I quickly blocked all the folks who self actualize through pedantry. Makes for a nice experience.

From: @mattblaze
https://federate.social/@mattblaze/112145765633575934

geospacedman, 1 month ago to random

I love that google tells me my google drive storage is almost full and then helpfully tells me it'll be deleting all my jamboard files because they're sunsetting jamboard this year.

Cmastication, 2 months ago to random

I’m considering starting a movement to support “paste as plain text by default”… should I form a political party, a religion, or a militant insurgency? I’m new to this social movement thing…

From: @cmconseils
https://mastodon.social/@cmconseils/112043506982078981

nixCraft, 2 months ago to random

Throwback time! Calling all coding veterans: Where did you stash your code before cloud repositories? 🤔

nixCraft, 2 months ago to random

OpenAI is hiring a personal security guard (aka bodyguard) for execs and key employees with a concealed carry card in all 50 states in the USA https://openai.com/careers/executive-protection-operator Yeah, probably smart move to hire bodyguards when you're responsible for destroying society and stealing everyone’s work and destroying tons of jobs. These people are against UBI and regulations for AI, too. Too much money and power corrupt everything, and these tech bros are no exception.

millerdl, 3 months ago to random

thought from a meeting this morning:

a kind of anti-Turing test where to confirm that a person is not an AI, they would be asked a question to which is answer is "I don't know" (rather than, say, a fancy Markov chain of nonsense)

geospacedman, 3 months ago to random

Anyone know a docker image with jupyterlab and plotly that's less than a year old and actually works?

simon, 3 months ago to random

S3 question: I'm considering a bucket design where every uploaded file is stored as:

2014-02-10/73WakrfVbNJBaAmhQtEeDv/original-filename.pdf

So that's /date/UUID/filename

This is to avoid clashes if a user uploads multiple files with the same name

Are there any downsides to having a unique "folder" prefix per file like this?

I'm specifically interested in non-obvious performance or cost implications

(Side question: would this be a problem on regular Linux file systems aside from S3?)

nixCraft, 3 months ago to random

Without using any numbers, how old are you? 🤔

gvwilson, 3 months ago to random

Outline of SQL tutorial has hit the "100 queries" goal https://gvwilson.github.io/sql-tutorial/ still have at least six diagrams to draw, and would like appendices showing how to use DuckDB to do the same things (easy) and how to use permissions etc. in PostgreSQL (hard because setup and re-run). Help always welcome: please see https://gvwilson.github.io/sql-tutorial/contributing/ for the contributors' guide.