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Block hexbear. No good comes from Hexbear, only ill.

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That was an excellent read.

Also, I learned from the article that the Canadians have a (somewhat better) term for SovCit magic: OPCA: Organized Pseudolegal Magic and Ceremony. The website about it looks like a great source of information.

Nice find, OP!

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They’re not kids anymore. Eleven just got married. No way they can pass them off as younger now.

Forecasters warn Oklahoma may see tornadoes; Texas could bake in triple-digit temperatures (apnews.com)

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Forecasters are warning of another day of heightened risk of dangerous tornadoes in the Midwest on Saturday and telling people in south Texas they may experience triple-digit temperatures — and that’s with four weeks to go before summer starts....

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So, the take away is that God is punishing Red States… right?

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Wait… single issue politics is a real, proven, thing. Don’t lump that in with ad hominem attacks. If you’re not going to vote for someone you otherwise would because of a single issue, you’re a single issue voter.

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Can anyone eli5 why the Secret Service would have anything to do with this? Up until now, I thought their sole role was protecting POTUS. Do they prosecute money fraud, too?

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I unironically love this building. It’s brutalist, but with flair; most (not all, but most) brutalist architecture is also minimalist, which I find depressing. This is brutalist but absolutely not minimalist; it’s almost whimsical. I respect and applaud the architect for the wacky combination.

I wonder if it’s technically Bauhaus; I’d expect more glass and less concrete.

Is there an architect in the audience?

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Israel is following the Nazi Germany playbook rather closely, isn’t it?

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https://c.tenor.com/fifPkZRIwewAAAAd/tenor.gif

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As an American: I’m really sorry if we infected you with this particular brand of idiocy. If only there were a vaccine…

Someone’s going to reply: education is, but I offer PragerU as counter-evidence. There’s a quality scale in education, as well.

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The sad thing is that no amount of mocking the current state of ML today will prevent it from taking all of our jobs tomorrow. Yes, there will be a phase where programmers, like myself, who refuse to use LLM as a tool to produce work faster will be pushed out by those that will work with LLMs. However, I console myself with the belief that this phase will last not even a full generation, and even those collaborative devs will find themselves made redundant, and we’ll reach the same end without me having to eliminate the one enjoyable part of my job. I do not want to be reduced to being only a debugger for something else’s code.

Thing is, at the point AI becomes self-improving, the last bastion of human-led development will fall.

I guess mocking and laughing now is about all we can do.

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What’s so hard, Japan?!? Sheesh.

sxan,
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And that’s why, when you remove that critical 21% of oxygen, your body doesn’t realize it’s suffocating. You breath normally but pass out really quickly since your brain has nothing to burn.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inert_gas_asphyxiation?wpro…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarco_pod?wprov=sfla1

Some reporter from Salon, or Wire - some big site like that - participated in a controlled nitrogen hypoxia experiment on himself, and wrote about it. It was really interesting, but search engines are flooded with that Alabama execution, and I lost interest in searching for it.

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Foundation. Such awesome design, great acting… but such awful writing.

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  1. Just visited the site with FF, and got no such error. It’s a Shopify site, and I’m sceptical.
  2. If it’s a typical Shopify SBO, it could easily be a single person - the owner - working out of their house. There is no developer, except those employed by Shopify.

The owner probably populated the store themselves; the entirety rest of their computer experience brobably consists of browsing Wiccan forums, Instagram, and Twitter. And yet, they figured out how to open an online shop and start a business doing something they’re passionate about.

Educated guesses, but poking around a bit on the site & following links gives good evidence this person is a person, not a company, and doesn’t employ anyone, much less programmers.

And I’ve never had a Shopify site pop up a message like this. I think OP hit a fluke, or a MITM, or (most likely) has a virus.

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It cracks me up that they’ll sell chainsaws to anyone.

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TIL Satan is a genie.

Also, in these games, the folks going for “more wishes” are shooting low. The only wish you need, which also defeats the monkey’s paw, is “grant me omnipotence.”

But: this is Satan we’re talking about. The Deciever, The Traitor. Not only is this a monkey-paw situation, but a Christian Satan is going to actively try to decieve you.

I don’t think I’d even trust his answer about whether there’s a cost, so I’d pass on the winning lotto numbers, too.

I’d say, “no thanks” and immediately convert to Catholicism, start going to church, and lead a clean life from here on out. If the orthodox Jews are right, I’m fucked anyway since my mother isn’t a Jew, so Christianity is the best bet.

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The state of OSS keyboards is lamentable - no shade to devs, because most projects seem largely abandoned, except for Thumb-Key, which is exciting, active… and mostly not my bag. 8VIM is a fun version of this, but again, I’m mostly a two-thumber, so these slow me down.

Floris is almost there, except there’s little development activity, and the lack of autocorrect keeps me from using it most of the time. The clipboard is great, and the alt-key keyset is fantastic (it includes interrobang!). But the swipe is decent, and it has a 9-pad number entry which - although it can sadly not be made the default - should be mandatory.

AnySoft has some serious stability bugs that keep me from using it.

So I use OpenBoard most of the time, because its autocorrect works pretty well. It has no swiping. It has no 9-key number entry. It has no interrobang. While I like the multiple-choice paste history, most of the time the multi-step paste is just more work.

Gboard has all of these, but it comes from Google.

Keyboard development mist just be unfun; I agree with you: it’s a sad state of affairs.

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Agree. I love it so much, I read up about it.

The song is was written by a Ukrainian and is called Shchedryk. It was originally a New Year’s song; when Shchedryk was written, the Ukrainian New Year was in April, so it’s actually a springtime song, and has nothing to do with bells.

There are some simply fantastic recordings of Shchedryk sung in Ukrainian; although (or maybe because?) I don’t understand Ukrainian, I find these more beautiful and moving than the English lyrics.

Edit: several articles (words) were dropped, but only articles. So I have either suddenly a weird sort of brain disease that affects only some parts-of-speech, or … well, that’s the only reasonable explanation. Anyway, edited to fix.

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For that matter, there are still folks out there coding, professionally, in FORTRAN.

Thing is, back then, we didn’t know any better. Software was a commodity, and both the people who wrote it and the people who bought it had grown up in a time before the internet, before SaaS; people whose parents who, if they made things, made widgets.

Back then, you could write a piece of software, and it was done. Then you sold it, and moved on. If the old software had bugs, if they weren’t catastrophic enough to cause a lawsuit, buyers learned to live with them. It was too bad; you already shipped the tapes. And few companies employed their own software developers unless they were software development companies. Man pages have a BUGS section, and that’s because there’s no intention to ever fix those bugs, because that software is done.

Software today is never finished. Our first reaction if we see a project with no recent releases is that it’s abandoned, or dead, and certainly that it’s worse than a project with recent commits to the repo. Github is a huge culprit in reinforcing this mentality, but mobile app platforms (stores and OSes) are terrible about this, too. Google constantly changes the Play store in ways that force developers to tweak their apps lest they become incompatible, booted, or get flagged as being “old” a.k.a. “inferior.”

Yet, still, there’s so much software out there that’s complete. An institution may hire a developer to come in and make a change, but it’s usually a contract one-off; it’s more like taking your car in to have the starter replaced. Those systems are going to continue keeping “dead” programming languages (commercially) alive for years to come.

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I do want it to be a personal data farming tool, as lomg as I’m the only consumer of the data.

A personal assistant is only as good as it knows you. In an ideal world, your AI will be customized to you, but only for your use.

I think this sort of processing addition would empower running ML locally; having to send dara out for processing on (other people’s) servers is one of the biggest obsticals to adoption by privacy-minded folk.

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I know this doesn’t meet the parameters of FOSS, but in this instance I’d discard privacy concerns and just get her an Echo or Google Home. They’re cheap, and bring able to call out a help request is better than a button she can forget to carry or wear. Either is capable of hearing a command in a 2br apartment, and have SOS ability.

I have a failing MIL in a similar situation. She’s living alone, isolated, not near any family, and won’t move. I gave her a Google Home I had in a box from a few years ago, and it is a godsend. She talks to it, it talks back, and she can make it do things she’s not capable anymore of doing with technology. But most importantly, she can call any of us by telling the Home to do so.

I wouldn’t risk a cobbled-together solution, personally, and right now the OSS technology stack for voice recognition is (a) not inexpensive, and (b) futzy. I have no doubt it’ll get there; there are already some promising devices, but that integration with calling and SOS is the key.

Edit: typos

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Resume information. There have been several attempts, but none have become an accepted standard.

When I was a consultant, this was the one standard I longed for the most. A data file where I could put all of my information, and then filter and format it for each application. But ultimately, I wanted to be able to submit the information in a standardised format - without having to re-enter it endlessly into crappy web forms.

I think things have gotten better today, but at the cost of a reliance on a monopoly (LinkedIn). And I’m not still in that sort of job market. But I think that desire was so strong it’ll last me until I’m in my grave.

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Charging once a week.

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My favorite pro-bidet argument from chainsawsuit.com

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