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quixoticgeek

@quixoticgeek@v.st

Geek, Dyke, Brewer, Rider of Bikes, Archer, Quixotic, Generally Curious, Mostly Harmless, she/her

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GossiTheDog, to random
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Slack have decided to start training AI on enterprise customer data, including DMs, private workspaces and files. You have to have admin opt out via email. HT @Quinnypig

https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/trust/data-management/privacy-principles

quixoticgeek,
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@GossiTheDog @Quinnypig well this is gonna be a fun conversation with my boss tomorrow...

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It's nuts in Star Trek that they postulate nobody would know how to cook anymore bc of replicators. True cooking perverts would love the opportunity to have a kitchen where you could get any quantity of any ingredient instantly, AND (maybe more impressive) any cooking implement.

I could use a huge wok or waffle iron or food processor without worrying about where to put it. Just chuck it back in the replicator with the dishes when you're done

New levels of food perversion unlocked

quixoticgeek,
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@InternetEh also no need to faff about chopping stuff. "500g onions, finely chopped" bzzzzt and it's there. It would be awesome.

quixoticgeek, to random
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Made a thing!

Am trying to learn how to use the metal lathe. This is a small M6 thumb screw made from free machining steel.

quixoticgeek,
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@allpoints i used a die. I'm not ready to try single point threading upto a shoulder yet.

betsythemuffin, to random
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Software engineering friends:

-- How many times have you cautioned against premature optimization?

-- How concerned are you with datacenter-related energy consumption and e-waste generation?

-- What do you intend to do about the relationship between these things?

quixoticgeek,
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@betsythemuffin im avoiding any AI stuff where ever possible.

quixoticgeek,
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@betsythemuffin I'm not.

kim, to random
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Why aren't the standard dashboard warning symbols in Unicode? This seems like an omission...

quixoticgeek,
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@kim well for start, that would require standardising them...

quixoticgeek, to random
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I need to goto the supermarket on the way home from the station. I'm really hungry. There's no wah this ends well...

quixoticgeek, to random
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Today was good. Finished a woodworking project, practiced my lathe skills, prepared the stock for another project, and fixed my bike.

Yay for productive.

Am very Hungry. Am on a train home, need to decide what to cook for dinner.

quixoticgeek, to random
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Time to clear up my toys. Sweep away all the swarf.

quixoticgeek, to random
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Separating us from the animals...

quixoticgeek, to random
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Wtf, whys this intercity stopping at Halfweg? Lots of people got off. Is there some big event here ?

quixoticgeek, to random
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Cycling to the station, I have a 1m length of steel in my backpack. Obviously this means about half of it sticks out the top. Every time I brake it smacks me in the back of my head.

quixoticgeek, to random
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Yikes. Sloterdijk is busy today.

DrHyde, to random
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Almost up to 1000 cards sent. Given that I have already posted 14 cards this week, and will be putting 3 more in the post tomorrow, I should hit 1000 by next weekend.

quixoticgeek,
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@DrHyde I'm at 78 sent, 75 recieved...

quixoticgeek, to random
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There's a lot of discussion among coders about comments, some say that good code shouldn't need commenting.

But the thing a lot of people fail to understand with comments is that you don't just want to say what th code is doing. But why. The why is often more important. I have a code base I've taken over maintenance of, and in the execution there's a 60 second delay in there. But there's no details of why. What breaks if I remove it? Do I want to find out the hardway?

quixoticgeek,
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@twigathy you mean "FFS" as my git commit isn't enough?

quixoticgeek,
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@twigathy why. Cos git...I thought that was implicit...

quixoticgeek, to random
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I keep getting videos promoted at me of an f35b landing on the helipad of some tall hotel in the middle east.

What I don't get is you can clearly see the markings saying max weight is 7.5t. and D value (max overall length rotor tip to rotor tip) of 20m. The f35b is 15m long so that's fine. But empty it weighs over 14 tons.

I can't work out, is this a fake video. Or are they exceeding the design load of the helipad by 100%. If the later. What are the implications for this overload?

quixoticgeek,
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Also given the early reports of the down draft from f35b damaging the deck of various naval ships. Does the exhaust from the jet not knacker the helipad? At the very least it should destroy the paint job...

quixoticgeek,
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Yep. It's a fake video.

quixoticgeek, to random
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I really fucking hate docker.

quixoticgeek, to random
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With the likes of NetBSD and Gentoo banning (rightfully) LLM generated code. How do you enforce that? How do you ensure the code is written by a human ?

quixoticgeek, to random
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Who on earth thought that ai model training should be better opt out, and not opt in. Ffs.

quixoticgeek, to random
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UK is a world leader in production of "I told you so"

https://mas.to/@therightarticle/112452748032887184

quixoticgeek, to random
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Why yes. That'll solve it. Impressive move from a state that's barely above sea level and in the frontine for Hurricane season...

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/16/1251769080/florida-desantis-climate-change-law

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