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@dnkboston@apobangpo.space @faithisleaping@anarres.family It's hurting a little bit, to achieve a necessary goal. I think most ADHDers end up with coping mechanisms which they feel are a good tradeoff, but they fundamentally rely on creating stress to maintain attention. You can't live stressed out all the time.

@nihilistnomya@aus.social well done for sticking up for your staff!

@MikeFromLFE@cupoftea.social @chu@climatejustice.social @fritzoids@mas.to For the record, that's also what I was taught in Kung Fu. A big part of it was blocking, evasion, and breaking grips so you can get away. Part of the black belt grading (I watched) was to spend 5 minutes simply not being grappled by three guys.

@maxleibman@beige.party well you see, there must be in-groups who the law protects but does not bind, and out-groups who the law binds but does not protect.

@stephen@ephemera.vital.org.nz IMO, no comments on regular posts unless you're going to make community management a pillar of your service. Bad comments are worse than no comments. I've read some blogs which do a weekly summary with an open thread which has been genuinely useful and interesting to get audience discussion.

@crispius@mstdn.fname.ca @chu@climatejustice.social I tried to track down one of those, but the bartender just handed me this

@mttaggart Yes, that is entirely how LLMs work. If you ask it to produce a resume it will produce what it has been taught is a resume. If you feed that back in it will obviously match what it thinks a resume is, because that's why it produced it in the first place. Not mad at you - mad at the world. Mad that the linked article needed to be written.

@GeePawHill@mastodon.social Oh that's to create a hierarchy of shame and conformity and ensure I'm as close to the top as possible... *checks notes* Wait that's not what I want

@istences@tiggi.es medium roast tends to suit chocolatey and nutty flavours, which might just be bland with a light roast. The particular beans and preparation method will affect the result a lot too. Might not be a great product, might not be to your taste.

@malcircuit@thingy.social misread that as "in spite of my age I'm still just a rat in a cage"... which also applies, sadly.

@GrimmReality@beige.party pill box with a container for each day is 100% the answer

@mattblaze@federate.social @ohir@social.vivaldi.net @abartlet@mastodon.nzoss.nz @yaeunerd@fosstodon.org Yep! And yet... strangely boring. The size of parliament has always floated around a bit due to redistricting. It's probably more comparable to a US state government than the Senate. Our main drama is that there's usually (some asshole in) a minor centrist party who becomes kingmaker by forming a coalition with the left or right major party. But overall I think coalitions are a beneficial moderating force.

@goaty@meow.social Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is a great time. It might technically be a DOS game but it's era-appropriate.

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz Sounds like you want a cushion treemap viewer like WinDirStat (Windows) or QDirStat (nix). I couldn't live without it.

@hrefna@hachyderm.io had that as a kid. My blood vessels are wired a little weird, so anaesthetic tends to flow away from the target tooth. The most traumatic part was being told that it did not, in fact, hurt.

@aparrish My grim interpretation is that the successive bubbles around blockchain, nfts, and now generative AI are attempts by VC to capture the world economy. Find the technological advancement which becomes a middle man in all economic activity, capture it, and install yourself as rent seeker/boot stomping human face forever. From that perspective no investment is too much. It's literally a play to control the future of humanity. (But generative a AI sucks, so this bubble won't be it. I'm still kinda worried we'll get a cryptocurrency replacement for the US dollar)

@darth_hideout@mas.to @blogdiva@mastodon.social #MapsWithoutNewZealand

@clew I love that comic! There's an English version, although I can't see how to link to it within the site context https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d09278e4b036ef1e43dc32/20cd4118-912b-4a49-8ec3-6346efdc25c9/neta_163_eng.png?format=1500w

@regehr@mastodon.social Aside from *gestures vaguely*... as a lead engineer I'm _also_ lost staring at hundreds of lines of Python. So much of my work is about achieving more, in smaller chunks, with less code, in a way humans can understand.

@ngaylinn@tech.lgbt @thrilway@kolektiva.social Decades ago for my undergraduate dissertation, I made a demonstration that an agent system using inherited neural network starting weights combined with online learning during the agent lifetime was superior to either approach separately. I captures the idea you mention, that humans and animals are born primed to learn about the kind of world we live in. I believe that's going to be the root of any human-like or embodied AI, because it just works so well.

@lproven@social.vivaldi.net For regular user accounts simply set the value in ~/.shibboleth

@willbuckingham hard to know without context but that might be a clever pun. "Chicken talking to duck" is a fairly common idiom

@courtcan@mastodon.social No joke, this is me! I'm terrified of being seen as a mansplainer when I'm legit excited about dinosaurs. Dinosaurs! Do you know about dinosaurs???

@tompearce49@mastodon.scot I love it, especially the log burner right in the middle! The second hand bookshop with the biggest balls in Scotland 😂

@RachelThornSub@famichiki.jp Disco Elysium is a good option. Text heavy, philosophical, weird alternate 70s(?) world to explore. If you can handle an FPS engine, without FPS gameplay, consider Dishonored. It's stealth and exploration in an occult weird world. Each level is a space to explore and usually assassinate an interesting villain - or simply arrange for an ironic punishment to befall them. It presents itself as a combat game but a 'ghost' run is explicitly supported and is a lot of fun.

@RachelThornSub@famichiki.jp I guess you've already considered the Final Fantasy and Persona series? I just finished and enjoyed The Seance of Blake Manor. Again, occult FPS engine but the gameplay is character heavy investigation to save the guests at the seance from their various fates. About 20 hours.

@theresnotime@fox.nexus Pardon me for solutioneering; In my own blocking work I've found bots don't to set a referer header. Hope that could help you to draw a broad line between likely-human and likely-bot.

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz Oops, I see someone already replied with that. Well, consider this a strong second recommendation!

@womble@infosec.exchange @sarahtaber@mastodon.online Tax is violence? 🤔

Wow, accidentally looked at SSD prices. The small SSD I want to upgrade is worth (new) a shade less than I paid for the second hand computer it came in.

@ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social A2

@ohir@social.vivaldi.net @abartlet@mastodon.nzoss.nz @mattblaze@federate.social @yaeunerd@fosstodon.org off the top of my head, every MP who wins in their electorate gets a seat. Also, every party is guaranteed a number of seats proportional to their share of the popular vote. When the proportional allocation is greater than the number for electorate wins, the party gets to have additional MPs from their 'list'. This means parliament is generally a bit bigger than the number of electorate seats, which is... fine? IMO it's a good system which helps break the two party deadlock without being overcomplicated. The biggest obstacle is that old people still vote like it's a two party system.

@RikerGoogling@mas.to once you pop you can't stop exit time loop

@ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social CD players

@grimalkina@mastodon.social For the sake of discussion, I experience it as "we cannot escape the effort of forming a mental model". Obviously the team who created the project has already done that. Other teams, whether they're clients, successor teams, outsourcers who are receiving delivery, or vibe coders who have willed a new project into being, all need to repeat the mental model construction. There's a long history (post Naur) of trying to remove that burden by simply documenting the project "properly". I'm thinking particularly about outsourcing in the early 2000s. It doesn't work though - documentation, or better live handover, assists the building of the new mental model but can't avoid it. Myself I find the paper a bit dry, but I've seen the issue all through my career and props to Naur for getting there first.

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social AI distressed faces are a huge tell (and ick) for me. It seems like the LLMs were trained to distill human distress and know no restraint, like making a dish spicy by adding seven drops of pure capsaicin.

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social The other tell is the lack of conservation of detail. Human artists (I am not an artist, this is just my observation) distinguish between focal points/foreground and background, and reduce detail in the background to draw attention to the foreground. This stuff is always just packed with meaningless detail which distracts from the message. What's up with half the table being covered with bubble wrap envelopes? What even is the e inkpot think in the lower right corner?

@womble@infosec.exchange @sarahtaber@mastodon.online LOCAL TAXES IN YOUR AREA