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Galbinus Caeli
@GalbinusCaeli@spacey.space
mastodon 4.7.3I am a life long space enthusiast. I use this account mostly for space exploration, science, scicom, and art. I have mostly moved politics and general news over to my bluesky presence.
Who am I? I am a science and space enthusiast who has worked in the technology industry since 1989. I am happily married living in the bay area California (Moving soon to Long Beach. Formerly living in Decatur, Georgia and Boulder Colorado.
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Joined June 19, 2025
I don't 'chat' with 'AI'. 'AI' or more specifically "LLM" is just an interface to a mechanism or database that I desire to use. Not qualitatively different from a command line or menu tree.
Story Time:
Early in my career I encountered a bug where the system would simply reply "No" to a command. Nothing else. Just 'No'.
This is kind of infuriating. Machines are not allowed to say 'No'. They can say "I can't" but not "No".
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@nyrath@spacey.space @pomarede@mastodon.social I'm pretty sure "working but ugly" passes the durability test.
Also I think the design life was about 10% of the current life. And still going.
Of course! In #America we serve our food in BIG portions. I suspect they are next going to find traces of prehistoric #RanchDressing
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@HG@beige.party Are your children healthy and your pets happy? If so, you are doing fine.
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@ronanmcd Serious question: In this situation, are the waymos better or worse than human taxi drivers?
In my opinion, auto taxis should be required to be better drivers than 60% of professional cabbies before being allowed on the road. And that percentage should rise a couple percent per year, or licenses should be pulled.
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@Photo55@mastodon.social @AkaSci@fosstodon.org That very much depends on the question.
"What time is it?" cannot be answered in a rote fashion.
@subm3rge@infosec.exchange @cstross@wandering.shop You also need to be able to kick your legs to get maximum jumping distance.
@scalzi that's the editor's version, it's red
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@infobeautiful@vis.social Everything is built on a foundation of #SquidFacts
@sarahmackattack.bsky.social
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@Photo55@mastodon.social @graydon@canada.masto.host @cstross@wandering.shop that takes electricity, and right now we are devoting all excess electricity to plagerism/ pornography machines.
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@inthehands@hachyderm.io kick the Nazis out of the bar or become a Nazi bar.
"Nazi Punks Fuck Off" is the polite response when they show up.
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@graydon@canada.masto.host @bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot @cstross@wandering.shop @Green_Footballs@mastodon.social @8r3n7@mstdn.ca A non trivial group of ex -Nazis formed the core of the US space program in the 1950s and 60s, post Operation Paperclip
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@8r3n7@mstdn.ca @graydon@canada.masto.host @bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot @cstross@wandering.shop @Green_Footballs@mastodon.social I think this is entirely true. They were loyal members of the Nazi party, and some of them participated nearly directly in atrocities at the rocket factories. But this may have been purely to get the research support. Later they accepted US support in the same way.
But do mercenaries not share fault with their employers?
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@u0421793@toot.pikopublish.ing @Harlander@writing.exchange
I disagree. My dogs mostly understand what I ask them and do their best to actually do it.
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@Professor_Stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place @LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbt That is where we are on so many other random human attributes.
How much do you hate "The Irish"?
How much do you support the Albigensian Crusade?
We need to get there on a whole lot of other factors.
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@bart@bnamed.social @bert_hubert@mastodon.nl Why move to a different cloud provider? A government should own and operate its own infrastructure.
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@isocat@tiggi.es @CiaraNi@mastodon.green @agturcz@circumstances.run @paulschoe@mastodon.world @quixoticgeek@social.v.st @patrickhadfield@mastodon.scot
I am amused that the video is from the very city that I currently live in.
Thanks
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@MonotoneofBill But "bus" is also slang for 'kiss', do I include the kissing picture? Wait, a 'bus' in the electrical sense is a distribution block, there is sure to be on in that power substation, so do I include that?
Do I REALLY want to log onto that website? I am so tired now.
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@devnull @j4yc33 @david_chisnall @Em0nM4stodon Deleting from all backups may not even be possible if your system uses WORM storage like M-O disks or tapes. You cannot delete individual records from these without destroying the entire storage medium, which likely contains OTHER records that you are legally required to retain.
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@bart@bnamed.social @bert_hubert@mastodon.nl They don't need a cloud. They need a DNS server stack. No more than a rack or two. (Plus CDN and remote backup, which it does make sense to outsource.)
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@nycki@critters.gay Hedge funds exist to suck the contents out of the eggs then stuff the empty shells back under the goose.
Later, kill and eat the goose.
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@lmorchard@masto.hackers.town Can I order a burrito with imaginary ingredients? Maybe unicorn eggs?
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@jeffowski@mastodon.world is that Eccentrica Gallumbits?
https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Eccentrica_Gallumbits