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karlhigley, 5 months ago to random

After hand delivering tiny snacks to the dog in her favorite chair, I’m pretty sure she’s concluded that I’m just the wait-staff

blue, 5 months ago to random

I finished a tv mini series ("Lessons in Chemistry") where the female character and her 7 year old-ish daughter were both autistically coded. It was so wholesome to see their relationship. The daughter was not reprimanded for being direct. They talked a lot about science or books and had a loving and caring relationship (no refrigerator mom klischee).
The father seemed AuDHD to me, btw.
It was really nice to see their social relationships being depicted so positively.

baldur, 5 months ago to random

"Hey, maybe I should finally write that essay on how AI is primarily a massive force for commodification and devaluation and how building your entire value proposition around it is a major strategic blunder?"

Then I take one look at the replies I get on a single, off-hand post on "AI" research and decide instead to go out for a walk in the cold.

Now I feel a bit like shit but it's still better than another round of "AI" discourse.

lzg, 6 months ago to random

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karlhigley, 6 months ago to random

In my experience as an autistic person humans are very bad at actually answering questions, so I wouldn’t say that “human-level performance” is a very meaningful benchmark for ML-based question answering systems

karlhigley, 6 months ago to random

I can’t let you remove that, it’s a load bearing organizational delusion

recursive, 6 months ago to random

Something I couldn't help but notice as I was reaching adulthood and thinking about identity is that most of the cis men who exert political power, backed by violence, throughout the world, clothe themselves in a very narrow range of styles which are associated with bland respectability.

mcc, 6 months ago to random

for (const wrapper of Object.keys(windowTweets)) {  
 for (const data of windowTweets[wrapper]) {  
 console.log("DATA", data);  

Okay, try and guess: What is the most batshit, horrible thing that the value of "data" could possibly be at this exact point in time? You don't even need to know JavaScript to know what "data" turned out to be in this case. Just think of the worst thing you possibly can.

lzg, 6 months ago to random

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karlhigley, 7 months ago to random

I recently referred to something as a “home improvement project” and C said something like “I’m thinking of them as a subset of life improvement projects. I don’t want to have a nice house just to have it. I only want it if it makes my life better.”

I hereby reject the framing of house work as “chores.” From now on, I only do “life improvement projects.”

lzg, 7 months ago to random

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b0rk, 7 months ago to random

i feel like 30% of my interactions on here are people telling me about cool tools and techniques and me asking them if they have tried the tool/technique and what they liked/didn't like about it in practice

i find it very easy to get lists of potentially interesting things and SO hard to find experience reports of what people actually thought of the thing when they tried it

Nezchan, 7 months ago to random

This is the future that urbanists want.

gvwilson, 7 months ago to random

Peng et al: "Less is More? An Empirical Study on Configuration Issues in Python PyPI Ecosystem" https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.12598 describes a source-level checker for Python configuration issues that seems to be a significant advance over previous approaches. Packaging remains Python's biggest sore spot; it might be too late to fix it, but work like this might make it hurt less. #nwit

skinnylatte, 7 months ago to random

Happy that I have a few go-to dishes I make that never fails to make me happy

karlhigley, 7 months ago to random

I like this new trend where all prestige television is now about autistic people. I, for one, welcome our new #actuallyautistic overlords.

gsuberland, 7 months ago to random

how banned for life do you think I would get for dropping Sextina Aquafina - Brrap Brrap Pew Pew in a DJ set

recursive, 7 months ago to random

Back in my day, we only had two genders, Qwerty and Dvorak, but you younguns with your Colemak and 40% keyboards are actually really based. 😁 💜

(Although I, personally, need number keys and modifiers on both sides.)

karlhigley, 7 months ago to random

> Rarely, you will encounter engineers who have learned to temper their baser instincts and instead find a sick kind of joy in reading, understanding, modifying and even deleting other peoples' code. We call these odd folks "Senior Engineers."

https://www.dancowell.com/software-engineers-hate-code/

cs, 7 months ago to TerribleMaps

Via #TerribleMaps
#map #Cats #Caturday