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syntaxseed

@syntaxseed@phpc.social

Programming, tech, gaming & other geeky topics from Sherri Wheeler.

Occasional business, handiwork, electronics, parenting and fitness content.

๐Ÿ˜ PHP/JS developer with miles to go before I sleep();

All posts are my own - never AI generated.

Ally & anti-racist. Bigoted or harassing replies get blocked & reported.

Available for part-time contract work.

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syntaxseed, to ontario
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Ontario Energy Board:
"We welcome comments on your energy company's recent petition for a rate increase! Your voice matters!"

Also Energy Board:
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syntaxseed, to random
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One of my best friends has . So do I.

When she caught a year or two ago it kicked her out of remission & back into a bad flare up. I've been worried about that myself. ๐Ÿ˜“

Even if Covid or Long Covid symptoms don't get you, how it interacts with other chronic conditions is poorly known & very bad news.

msbellows, (edited ) to random
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I'm gonna share some completely anticlimactic TMI for the benefit of other middle-aged men:

The day before yesterday, I was very stressed and anxious for a variety of reasons, and we were moving some furniture out of a storage locker, and I was feeling lethargic and a little lightheaded and generally out of it, and then I began feeling nausea and indigestion and my jaw was tight and then my left arm and hand started feeling a little numb. Nothing terrible! Just: feeling meh, and those minor symptoms.

And then guess what crazy thing we did?

We went to the nearby emergency room.

Yep.

And they were very nice to me, and quickly administered an EKG and blood tests, and guess what?

I wasn't having a heart attack.

I was just stressed and tired and anxious. That's all.

But if I had been having a heart attack, going to the E.R. could have saved my life. And even though I wasn't, they were very nice to me. No one made fun of me. No one called me a whiner or a hypochondriac. My wife expressed gratitude that I took my survival seriously. And I was home again in less than two hours.

So this is for my fellow typical men, who are inclined to ignore health issues because: John Wayne or something, and fear of embarrassment:

Don't ignore stuff. Don't wait until you're sure. Be willing to overreact. Be willing to waste everyone's time. It's okay! The world won't end! (And you may even get to take a nap under a warm blanket, like I did!)

syntaxseed,
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@msbellows ๐Ÿ’ฏ This can't be said enough!

My father-in-law had a bad stomach ache. He hated doctors & tried to tough it out. Blamed the pizza he ate. It was some kind of internal rupture that became sepsis & killed him. He was unconscious before we even reached the hospital.

Please for the sake of those who love you - treat unusual & unexpected symptoms seriously.

derickr, (edited ) to random
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One week ago, I watched "20 Days in Mariupol", a gripping film when Russia started the full scale invasion of Ukraine.

At times, I had to pause watching it as it way too much.

The extraordinary cruelty of targeting civilian infrastructure made it even clearer to me that we're doing way too little to help them. Restricting what the Ukrainians can hit is stupid policy.

Any strike on a civilian target MUST be able to result in an appropriate response. Make the suckers pay for it.

syntaxseed,
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@derickr Even at the elementary school level, when I help my kids deal with the (endless) bullies, I teach them to strongly defend themselves & their friends. But there is a clear line we don't cross into becoming the bullies ourselves.

It's not weakness to have lines you won't cross. It's the opposite.

What you're advocating just creates an endless cycle of retaliation & hatred. The world will never improve if you fight evil by becoming evil yourself.

syntaxseed,
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@afilina @derickr Oh yes, I was only talking about targeting civilians. Restrictions against factories, launch sites etc makes 0 sense.

syntaxseed,
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@heiglandreas @derickr Absolutely. And the worst thing you can do is cling so firmly to the "moral high ground" that you become a door mat.

But I do think that we all must decide what makes us different than our opponents. What makes them in the wrong & us in the right? ๐Ÿค”

syntaxseed, to random
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Kids at the ball park just broke out a tube of Pogs!!!

syntaxseed,
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@nnungest Of course! And a cm thick aluminum one, but it wasn't "tournament legal". ๐Ÿคฃ

mortenbock, to random
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Hot take: If you change jobs every 3 years, you've never learned from dealing with your own legacy applications, and you will keep making the same mistakes.

syntaxseed,
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@mortenbock But you'll get to work on other people's legacy apps & learning from others' mistakes is almost as good.

syntaxseed,
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@kevin @mortenbock And you'll see a wider variety of messes... not just the ones you tend to make. ๐Ÿ˜

I matured rapidly as a developer while muttering over other dev's spaghetti. LOL

syntaxseed,
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@afilina @mortenbock @kevin Yes... I switched jobs on average every 2 years because tech jobs don't pay well in my city & it was the easiest way to get a raise!

syntaxseed, to random
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Wtf #CloudFlare... ๐Ÿ˜ฑ

https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-website

KathyReid, to microsoft
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Why does #Microsoft want to implement #Recall? It's not about images. It's about modelling what workers do on Windows, and then replacing them.

The most expensive part of a computer is the fallible feelings-filled unpredictable meat sack that operates it.

Google has YouTube, Google Photos, Maps, and a bucket load of search data, Google Analytics, advertising, as well as it's #GCP data (e.g. #STT transcriptions). And a bunch of data from Android services. From this data they can model speech, model videos and model advertising systems, and how humans respond to them.

But they can't model what people do on computers.

Amazon has Prime data, and a bucket load of compute. But no operating system data. They can build models based around e-commerce and advertising systems.

But they can't model what people do on computers.

Meta has waves hands enough analytics to model human behaviour in the Metaverse.

But they can't model what people do on computers.

Microsoft has GitHub.
Microsoft has LinkedIn.
Microsoft has SharePoint.
Microsoft has Teams.
Microsoft has Dynamics.
Microsoft has O365.
Microsoft has Windows telemetry data.

Microsoft can model what people do on (Windows) computers. Like fill out spreadsheets.Write emails. Synthesize web pages of research. Interact with colleagues on Teams. Create and edit documents.

Microsoft wants #MicrosoftRecall data so they can model what people do with operating systems.

Then replace them.

Imagine a CoPilot that doesn't just write buggy code. Imagine one that also does spreadsheets. That creates documents on SharePoint. That communicates with colleages on Teams. That has a customer pipeline on Dynamics.

That's what Recall is about - 360 degree surveillance of the worker, to model their functions, make them fungible, replicable - and replaceable.

syntaxseed,
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@KathyReid ๐Ÿ’ฏ The real privacy problem won't even be the snapshots that are stored locally (even though that's really bad). It will be in the "anonymized" data it sends home. It will even be able of offload some of that processing onto users' machines before it's sent.

Find the patterns in this user's behavior, then send that to MS.

michael, to random
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I once again come to the conclusion that I hate gardening.

The fact that the previous owners of this house have planted not one, not two, but three big hedges doesnโ€™t help.

And the fact that I have bad hay fever and an even worse back is the cherry on top โ€ฆ

syntaxseed,
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@michael When we bought our house there were a dozen+ gardens of various types. I had no clue how enormous the upkeep would be. I've since realized that the retired couple who owned the house had 2 green thumbs & nearly endless time to work in the gardens.

I've slowly over the years replaced several with grass or perennials, decorative stone or mulch.

Have to be honest with myself that my green thumb is more like a green pinky fingernail. ๐Ÿ˜†

syntaxseed, to geopolitics
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The new Canada-USA bridge is ALMOST connected! 11m to go!

Pretty cool. ๐Ÿคฉ

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฒ

#geography #bridge #Canada #USA #YQG

syntaxseed, to TodayILearned
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My son's grade 6 teacher is leaning full tilt into the "embarrass you in front of the class for benign requests/mistakes" method of authoritarian #teaching.

I'm caught between wanting to call her out on it, vs, not wanting to make things worse for him since she seems like the retaliatory type. And there's only 1 month left in the school year.

Sigh.

#parenting #school

syntaxseed,
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@heiglandreas There will be a next year but a different teacher thank goodness!

syntaxseed, to random
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I take comfort that soon my jovial attempts to ask real people things will no longer be met with "why didn't you just Google it?"

Asking each other directly is going to soon be the more easy & accurate path.

Also, big sheesh to those who think talking among peers is an annoyance people should try to avoid.

syntaxseed,
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@ocramius Hence why I try to ask people who I know have some expertise in the area & not randos online. ๐Ÿคฃ

I've literally had family say this to me. Eeesh sorry I wanted to chat with you about something you know about. ๐Ÿ™ƒ

syntaxseed, to OpenAI
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#OpenAI doing the thing they are building tools to facilitate everyone to do (imitate the likeness & creative output of real people)... is exactly the signal we should all be recognising it to be.

๐ŸšฉCopyright & licenses don't matter. Creators don't matter. You don't matter.

We've all been told that our ability to grind out work-value is what we exist for... but even that poor measure of our worth is fair game to those big enough to steal it.

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/20/1252495087/openai-pulls-ai-voice-that-was-compared-to-scarlett-johansson-in-the-movie-her

#Chatgpt #LLM #AI

bigzaphod, to random
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I'm beginning to think this OpenAI company I've heard so much about isn't entirely on the up-and-up.

syntaxseed,
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@bigzaphod They've got the Artificial part. But the Open and the Intelligence parts are unclear.... ๐Ÿ™ƒ

syntaxseed, to DnD
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Couldn't resist a session on Victoria Day (๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ) with The Victorious 4 (our party name)!

We tracked a group through the forest & defeated a hill giant, 2 veteran knights & a wayward mayor who we captured to bring back to town to face justice. A job well done. ๐Ÿ˜๐ŸŽฒ

syntaxseed, to wordpress
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really didn't do anyone any favours by making EVERYTHING a post and stuffing everything into the Posts table.

I don't know how they talked themselves into the idea that Media uploads are 'posts' but this is really bad architecture.

(Coming from someone trying to do some fancy migrating of media.)

syntaxseed,
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Like guys... there isn't a limit on the number of SQL tables you can have. It's not DB golf where fewer tables = better. ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™€๏ธ

syntaxseed, to diy
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๐Ÿ†• New Post!

DIY Obstacle Course 'Banana' Holds.

https://blog.syntaxseed.com/diy-obstacle-course-banana-holds/

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