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zheng3_jim

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Artist, programmer. Studies Mandarin daily. 3D printing, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and Brazilian jiu-jitsu enthusiast; trying to follow as many fellow purple belts as possible. Really, really into making Halloween props. Prolly gonna toot a cat pic every day.

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rasterweb, to random
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Jar Jar Peanut Butter

zheng3_jim,
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@rasterweb it’s the Best

zheng3_jim, to GraphicDesign
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You gotta use the right tool for the job, and sometimes the right tool is Comic Sans. #graphicDesign #cats

arstechnica, to random
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AI in space: Karpathy suggests AI chatbots as interstellar messengers to alien civilizations

Andrej Karpathy muses about sending a LLM binary that could "wake up" and answer questions.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/ai-in-space-karpathy-suggests-ai-chatbots-as-interstellar-messengers-to-alien-civilizations/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

zheng3_jim,
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@arstechnica Fire that probe right into the Torment Nexus and see what happens.

dangillmor, to random
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"AI" is killing search... https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/01/pulumi_ai_pollution_of_search/

zheng3_jim,
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@dangillmor AI is killing Google search.

I’m using Perplexity.ai more and more often for answers to complicated questions.

GottaLaff, to legal
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🧵starts HERE. 1/…

👀Via Katie Phang:

Interestingly: Eric Trump has accompanied his father to court today. Perhaps Trump’s legal team heard all of the chatter about the appearance to the jury with no family members being present?…

zheng3_jim,
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@GottaLaff Dollars to donuts he skips the kid’s graduation anyway.

arstechnica, to random
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Renovation relic: Man finds hominin jawbone in parents’ travertine kitchen tile

Yes, travertine often has embedded fossils. But not usually hominin ones.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/renovation-relic-man-finds-hominin-jawbone-in-parents-travertine-kitchen-tile/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

zheng3_jim,
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@arstechnica Well this is certainly jaw-dropping.

rasterweb, to random
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So I had a crazy idea... I want to try the "Pay What You Want" thing again when selling art, but offer people who can't decide on an amount a chance to "spin the wheel" and then decide if they want to pay the amount they spin.

It would be between $5 and $35 or something.

Is that too crazy or could it work?

I could always let them decide to walk away and not go through with the sale or something.

zheng3_jim,
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@rasterweb I like this idea a lot!

Extelec, (edited ) to random
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Ethernet connectors (RJ45) on routers, all should be,

zheng3_jim,
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@Extelec the answer is BNC

mjg59, to random
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Twitter just doing a "redirect links in tweets that go to x.com to twitter.com instead but accidentally do so for all domains that end x.com like eg spacex.com going to spacetwitter.com" is not absolutely the funniest thing I could imagine but it's high up there

zheng3_jim,
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@mjg59 @j3j5 @JoMomma underrated toot

Daojoan, to random
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You can't tell me Engadget isn't using AI generated content

zheng3_jim,
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@Daojoan ChatGPT does have a certain aroma

zheng3_jim, to random
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Around this time in 2020, roughly two thousand Americans were dying from covid every day and we were begging high school makerspaces to 3d print ventilator parts because Trump’s government completely dropped the ball on pandemic preparations and response.

Remember that in November.

RickiTarr, to random
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Yes, but it would be cool though!

zheng3_jim,
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@RickiTarr plot twist: it IS the therapy

rasterweb, to random
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Who the fuck sits in a fucking waiting room watching a video on their fucking phone with the fucking volume on!?

The fucker 12 feet away from me. That’s who.

zheng3_jim,
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@rasterweb That guy’s definitely blasting the bass in his Honda Civic at 7am.

zheng3_jim, to animals
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when u r handsome and have a new cat tree

sundogplanets, to random
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I did WAY TOO MANY things last week (including long satellite pollution meeting, helped lead a workshop for the Canadian Astronomical Society, live radio interview, submitting abstracts, organizing and leading a "teaching climate change" workshop, 3 hour lecture/Q&A at local Science Centre, normal teaching/parenting/etc).

Today I stayed on my farm, harvested willows, and made the biggest basked I've made yet, and I feel very good about this very different kind of productivity.

A gloved hand holding a bundle of red osier dogwood shoots that are super bright red, in front of a snowy field.
A bunch of willow shoots (with a few fuzzy pussywillows showing on some) growing in a winter-killed weedy area, with snow and a bright blue sky in the background.

zheng3_jim,
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@sundogplanets that’s a very cool way to relax.

arstechnica, to random
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Can you sanitize the inside of your nose to prevent COVID? Nope, FDA says.

There are a lot of COVID nasal sprays for sale, but little data to show they work.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/can-you-sanitize-the-inside-of-your-nose-to-prevent-covid-nope-fda-says/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

zheng3_jim,
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@arstechnica What’s the verdict on bringing light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way?

zheng3_jim, to random
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Just learned that they'll be demolishing my freshman dorm to make way for a new building that has amenities like "heat."

I hope they build an iron dome around it first to contain the release of latent STDs and vomit fungus.

Teri_Kanefield, (edited ) to random
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The appellate court gave him only 6 days to file something in the Supreme Court (I can't remember off hand what the usual time frame is but it is much longer.)

Generally nothing happens in 6 days.

Within 24 hours, the Supreme Court said that special counsel has a week to file a response. A week means they are not interested in delays.

Expect the DOJ to file early.

Why give the DOJ a chance to respond?

It makes their life easier because the opposing arguments are laid out for them.

4/

zheng3_jim,
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@ikanreed @Teri_Kanefield All that’s required for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.

w7voa, to random
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Trump, in South Carolina at a rally, outlines a scenario in which he would “encourage” Russia to “do whatever the hell they want” to other NATO members.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-russia-attack-nato-allies_n_65c7e443e4b069b665dfb762

zheng3_jim,
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@w7voa “You gotta pay your bills” says guy who famously never pays his bills.

w7voa, to random
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Rep. Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin says he won't run for a fifth term in Congress. He announced his retirement just days after refusing to vote with his fellow House Republicans to impeach the DHS secretary. https://madison.com/news/state-regional/gallagher-says-he-wont-run-for-congress-again-after-refusing-to-impeach-homeland-security-chief/article_73f6e87c-70db-5a97-9b14-e568a15a8645.html

zheng3_jim,
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@w7voa Good for Mike for hanging up the spikes now. He’s been mostly disappointing as a representative but at least he’s not a feral lunatic like some people we could name.

He’d make a far better senator than Ron Johnson— maybe his political career isn’t quite over yet.

zheng3_jim,
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@w7voa @alex_galt I wouldn’t be surprised to see him as a Veep candidate in a post-Trump GOP. a Marine with PhD in international relations (i think?) and a self-described “Eisenhower nerd” who voted with Trump almost every time checks a lot of boxes.

He was one of the few GOPers who seemed genuinely upset on January 6.

MissingThePt, to random
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Breaking: In a news conference Marianne Williams suspends her 2024 presidential campaign, then dematerializes to the astral plane in order to travel throughout the universe seeking civilizations where she can better deploy her powers*.

*grifting

zheng3_jim,
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@MissingThePt she’ll be back after she releases Orpheus.

zheng3_jim, to random
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Happy Groundhog Day!

geekmomprojects, (edited ) to random
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I've decorated three denim jackets with LEDs to bring as an installation for the CETI institute in the #portlandwinterlightfestival . The CETI installations will be displayed in an abandoned GAP storefront, so this project feels particularly appropriate. Just got the basic animation working for the rain cloud jacket, and hope to find time to enhance it.

zheng3_jim,
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@geekmomprojects scrolling would open up a lot of options

rasterweb, to random
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How do I sleep past 5am?

zheng3_jim,
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@rasterweb This was my problem too. Lunesta is prescription only, but it’s generic now (eszopiclone).

I usually take the pill around 9, go to bed at 10 and wake up briefly in a daze for about five minutes at around 2, and the fall back asleep. Between 6 and 7 i’m a little hazy, and the I’m out of bed by 7:15 and well rested.

Cant recommend it highly enough.

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