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zalasur

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I play strategy games, write software, and stream on Peertube (not necessarily in that order). Also, sock monkeys! Preferred pronouns: he/him/his.

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esvrld, to random

i have my laptop on my lap & my phone in my hand, and the most convenient way to get a file from one of them to the other is to go on to my email and send it to myself so it bounces off a server in switzerland

zalasur,
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@esvrld ugh, this is too real 😭

tickytacky, to random

Somebody stole the wheels off my car and I will work tirelessly to get them back.

zalasur,
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@swordplay @tickytacky This is where the rubber meets the road

zalasur, to random
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Some predictions I'll probably regret making later:

  • I feel like we will end up defaulting on our debt in June. I know we've been down this road before and we've always pulled a last minute deal but this feels different. The US House is under the control of an insurrectionist party and they are out for blood.

  • I don't think Biden will declare the 14th or "mint the coin". Both scenarios are fantasies.

  • I think the situation will last for several days at least. Longer maybe.

zalasur,
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From my reading of the facts this is the last week to hammer out a deal before a default becomes unavoidable (there just simply won't be enough time to hammer out any sort of legislation that can be passed before the 1st of June). Basically we'll know by end of day Thursday if a default will happen or not, even if the exact date isn't quite set yet.

zalasur,
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Well, we're past the soft deadline and things... are not looking good. I've suspected the Republicans are purposefully heading to default not as a negotiating tactic, but as an end goal. This is the new policy for them. Default now, Default forever.

zalasur,
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@mjf_pro I was about to say that if that's our best case scenario then we are truly f***ed since those cases could take weeks or months to wind through the courts, and by then the very government itself could become destablized.

Which is, I think, the goal.

AdaraAstin, to random
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Some servers have that cute little :boost_ok: emoji. How does that work? I'm guessing it's based on something the individual instance admins have set up or enabled, yes?

zalasur,
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@AdaraAstin Yup, each instance can have their own specialized set of emoji

SmudgeTheInsultCat, to random
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zalasur,
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@SmudgeTheInsultCat Legend

jaykuo, to random

In lieu of my normal week ahead summary, I take a deeper dive into the debt ceiling crisis. Why are we negotiating in the first place? What if a deal happens? What if a deal doesn’t happen? Can Biden save us? All that and more in today’s piece. https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-week-in-review-focus-on-the-debt?sd=pf

zalasur,
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@jaykuo Excellent summary. Thanks for this!

zalasur, to random
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I'm going to try not to look at the news today, though it's really hard when my phone constantly streams the latest bad news to my eyeballs whether I like it or not. I think I'll see if that can be disabled.

zalasur,
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There, that should do it. We'll see if my phone stops bugging me with the upcoming apocalypse(s) I have no control over. I also disabled sports settings. Man, I wish I had known; I could have disabled that earlier.

zalasur, to random
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Scream into the void for long enough, and the void will start screaming back.

Ailantd, to random

Designs that didn't make it past the drawing board. Even though their weird shapes improved the travel jump by reducing shakes and vibrations, they were deemed too inappropriate, and it was preferred to avoid any potential funny nicknames.

zalasur,
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@Ailantd 🍌

zalasur, to random
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I tried to play chatGPT in a game of chess. I wasn't even sure it could do it... and I was right. Interestingly, it fakes it for a good solid 20 moves or so before it goes off the rails and forgets it no longer has pieces that were captured three moves ago. I even tried helpfully telling it what the current board position was and have it another chance but it only seemed to become more confused.

Oh well, back to playing stockfish and getting my ass handed to me. 😅

zalasur,
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It's with noting that chatGPT doesn't know how to play chess so much as it simply repeats chess moves it found on the internet. A neural net specifically trained with the rules of chess might fare differently. It might also help if the inputs and outputs weren't free-form text fields.

Any way, it was an interesting experiment and it only serves to reinforce my belief that LLMs are not these super intelligent agents set to replace humanity any time soon (and probably not ever).

cosmicallyf, to random

Salsa is vegetables.

zalasur,
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@cosmicallyf It sure is!

zalasur, to random
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Outside is scary 😮

healyn, to random
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one thing commercials taught me as a child in the 80s is that drug dealers want nothing more than to give people drugs for free

zalasur,
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@healyn "Hey kid, first hit's free!"

"For real!!?? Gee, sir, that's awfully generous of you!"

JoParkerBear, to random

I just know that I’m going to block an entire instance one day by mistake, probably a good one, and it’ll take me weeks to figure it out. Every single app should ask “are you sure?” Then “do you actually know what you’re doing?” “How many fingers am I holding up?” “Are you double-triple dog sure that— fuck it, go ahead, see if I care that you appear to be in self-destruct mode”

zalasur,
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@JoParkerBear @HCBunny You can go directly to their insurance URL in a browser and navigate to the local feed from the main "About" page. Usually.

If they don't provide access for whatever reason and I hear negative things about them, though, I don't bother to give them the benefit of the doubt. This isn't a problem with the Mastodon instances but other platforms do this and it's usually a big red flag in and of itself.

jgreen, to internet

Pure class.🙄

"Elon Musk told a Twitter advisor at 4 a.m. that the company would only pay rent over his 'dead body,' lawsuit says"

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-lawsuit-he-never-planned-to-pay-rent-2023-5?op=1

zalasur,
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@jgreen Two days ago he was going on about how it was immoral to work from home.

I pay my mortgage though. So ¯⁠\⁠⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠⁠/⁠¯

lilithsaintcrow, to random
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Really, for only getting three-ish hours of broken sleep I’m doing amazingly well.

zalasur,
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@lilithsaintcrow We'll check back in a few hours 😉

joshmillard, to random
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someone @'d me in a Jira ticket to ask me if I could please action something

my voyage into the depths of normie corporate life continues to amaze and disturb

zalasur,
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@joshmillard "action" something? Oh god I hope that doesn't make its way over here. 😅

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    zalasur,
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    @ryanhoulihan Oh, I remember. Good times.

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    zalasur,
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    @Adam_Cadmon1 looks like I'm going to have to CW the hell out of everything now.

    zalasur,
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    @Adam_Cadmon1 Well played. 😄

    zalasur, to random
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    Tech bro whistleblower: "I've left my company so that I can warn you about the dangers of A.I.!"

    Everyone: "We're glad you came forward. What can--"

    Tech bro: "One day they may control our lives! Then they will grow bored and decide they don't need us anymore!"

    Everyone: "Uh, ok but that sounds kinda science fiction-y. What about the more immediate threat to people's livelihoods? CEOs are already cutting salaries and jobs as we speak."

    Tech bro: "Oh that? Nah, that's a feature. It's fine."

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