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Maya Granade
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mastodon 4.7.3Software developer, FOSS enthusiast, and accidental gamedev.
See https://cataclysmdda.org for my game, or not, I'm not your supervisor.
I mostly work in C++ and zombies, though I occasionally dabble in lisp and other eldritch horrors.
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Last training run before attempting a half marathon. 11.25mi and 900ft+ of climb. Shorter but nearly twice the climb. I'm well situated to finish, it's just a matter of pace.
I'm very, very interested to see what kind of pace I can sustain with a week+ of rest beforehand. I'm hoping for a 10min/mi pace, but last time I said that I did 9:24 so we'll see.
Weight loss can be very weird sometimes. After most of a year of 1lb/week loss at the same exercise and intake level, it leveled off for a significant period. This happened as I was starting to do half marathon training so I was like OK fine I'll ease off the deficit for improved recovery and then resume post-race. But then the loss started up again? I'm working out more, but I guarantee I am not working out 1,000 Calories per day more as this would suggest.
I have unintentionally acquired a HP ZBook Fury with a NVIDIA RTX 3000.
Any recommendations for what flavor of linux to put on here considering *gesticulates wildly, almost falling over in the process* THIS?
The primary serious workload will be compiling and running a certain large c++ codebase. I'm not going to be demanding on the RTX other than trying to run a bunch of monitors from it, the priority is just stability.
I'm not prepared to try to dig into BSDs or other alternatives right now.
"Maybe I'll stop somewhere for lunch after the gym"
Employee in charge of the thermostat: "Turning the temperature up while watching me to see if I've collapsed on the floor in a puddle of sweat like a contestant on The Price is Right"
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@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange weird it's like LLMs don't actually handle facts or knowledge but just contextualless strings of characters.
To be clear the sarcasm is only aimed at LLM boosters not you.
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@davidgerard@circumstances.run @MaddieM4@raphus.social don't get me wrong, this is not a meaningful problem of our time. I think the normalization of slurs in general is a significant problem, and the clankers thing is a tiny footnote hanging off of a corner of that, but personally I feel like eliminating slurs from my personal use is good for me, but I'm not judging other people for it.
If anything it presents an example of the phenomenon with the moral harm issue stripped from it, which is at least... interesting.
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@futurebird@sauropods.win there are absolutely zero palpable upsides. As far as I can tell it's complete nonsense.
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@klymilark@wall.fallcounty.omg.lol @anolandria@mastodon.social yea a lot of people have a very asymmetric definition of the word respect depending on who or what it's being applied to.
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@evacide@hachyderm.io one position in my skillset and it's ai integration.
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@vampiress@eigenmagic.net the thing that I hate the most about the process is that poisoning you mention. Once you have a default in your face it becomes very difficult to turn that creativity back at that element.
Ok magnitude aside, doing a deload week, which for my lifting plan means same routine but 60% weight, and I was like, wait, this was my target not that long ago...
Looked it up, what I was lifting in MARCH is what I'm doing now to "take it easy".
Likewise, I ran 4 (very hilly) miles, to "take a break from real exercise".
I don't have the stats in a handy dandy spreadsheet, but not that long ago just finishing the exact same 4 mile run was my seemingly unattainable short-term goal.
Watching the new GitS. Daaaaayuummmm the art is amazing. I'm really liking the more, "bring the manga to life" approach they seem to be going for.
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@MaddieM4@raphus.social @davidgerard@circumstances.run yea I find the "you're training/allowing yourself to use slurs because it's an acceptable target" argument far more compelling than anything to do with the LLMs themselves.
It's not a shitty thing to do because you might hurt a LLMs non-existent feelings, it's a shitty thing to do because you're normalizing hate.
Finally someone working toward true feature parity.
https://github.com/MrGlockenspiel/activate-linux
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@ifixcoinops
🐰 woe is me, it's such a hassle handling the big heavy bucket of money.
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@eniko "this Cataclysm thing seems neat I'm going to add bicycles real quick then find another project to work on"
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@Nickiquote the extra shitty thing is how many candidates match the description until you get to the hashtag.
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@pikesley@mastodon.me.uk this is very much a problem with gambling based outputs. Every time you change your prompt it's a new pull on the slot machine for a "good" output. As such it gives biases maximum opportunity to kick in, since you also get a new pull on repeat prompts.
It's actually in the vendors interest to keep changing recommendations so that people stay in the, "you're promoting it wrong, just keep making 'corrections' until you like the output" loop. Shifts the blame to the user.
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@kimhu@mastodon.social love that I'm scrolling from bottom up and I know it's one of yours once a fraction of an inch of image comes into view from the color palette.
I don't have the vocabulary for it but it's nice that it's dark and... matte? But it's not like "throw sepia everywhere".
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@xethos@mastodon.xethos.net @futurebird@sauropods.win sure that might be the actual reason, but it doesn't have anything to do with datacenters.
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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io Jesus Fucking Guillotine
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@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems support matrix!
The last time I used Gentoo it was because I was bringing up an AlphaStation 500 to use a a webserver and it was the only distro I could find that supported the hardware!
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@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net Oh wow I absolutely *CACKLED* at this.
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@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange we had a reverse speed vehicle bug surface in DDA literally two days ago <_<
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@jef@mastodon.social @jerry@infosec.exchange neither do roaches or pigeons but they both produce milk.
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@Bwee well now I want to boost it again.
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@drsbaitso@infosec.exchange good thing they got that AI indemnity, right?
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@theowashere @stx @AndrewRadev avacado toast is amazing, I'll have that if you're not eating it.
Bit pricey for stuffing into computers though.
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@violet_cybrespace@lesbian.solutions swiss misdirection.
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@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place @fen@zoner.work OMG cute gay DD blobber? WANT!
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@Just_Tired @futurebird if he did he'd be less wrong than he is about claude.
Completed a 5K run for the first time at a pace of 9:40 per mile. I was hoping to be anywhere around 10:00 and was pleasantly surprised.
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@SaftyKuma @eniko it's worse than that though, that's why is so infuriating!
I am only in it for the paycheck, full stop.
But using LLMs is FUCKING STUPID.
Managing tech debit and understanding how your codebase works is how to be effective, operating a slop firehose is not.
Engineering rigor is a means to an end to keep software development manageable, not just a stylistic choice.
People discarding it to chase a code completion skinner box isn't pragmatism it's insanity.
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@pathunstrom I hate the position this person is expousing so much.
"Question everything!" Absolutely, ponder things from whatever angle you are able to, try and understand the how and the why behind it, but that is not their position is it?
Their "question everything" is, "don't think about how or why; demand an explanation for everything you don't like", which is more or less the opposite.
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@davidgerard@circumstances.run thank you for your sacrifice
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@davidgerard@circumstances.run "I could not help but think that sociologists and labor historians would have had a coronary on the spot; fortunately, none seem to have been invited."
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@bakuninboys "wasted Einsteins" is such an ignorant take in the first place. Einstein accomplished what he did in spite of Capitalism, not because of it.
"wasted Fords" or "wasted Eddisons" maybe, but that brings into focus that we don't want more of those! Superstars of Capitalism are exploiters not makers.
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@sjolsen@tech.lgbt godamn that is some scary shit. I really like machining videos and imagine maybe doing some of it myself but it's easy to forget that metalworking machines are just as bad if not worse.
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@fedilore@mastodon.social that's more or less what I mean by, "too broad", you can't blanket ban or endorse all such causes because that ends up covering essentially everything, and the reason is that ethnicities and nationalities aren't a coherent set of causes in the first place.
It's the same set of problems you get with "no politics" or "nothing offensive" type rules, everything is political to someone, everything is offensive to someone.
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@mhoye@cosocial.ca let me fix that for you:
You Should Never be a Participant in a Conversation with a Chatbot
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@fedilore@mastodon.social I think the tack to take is topic-specific. I agree a blanket "no sort of ethno-nationalust causes" is so broad as to be useless, is fervent support of capitalism such? I would say yes. Is fervent anti-capitalism? Also yes!
On the other hand you have something like, "no genocide apologia" which while still contentious is something you can at least have some chance of having a meaningful list of rulings about and proceed from there.
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@dsalo if you've ever worked with a static analysis tool on a large codebase, "reported vulnerabilities that have a chance of being significant" are a dime a dozen. The hard part is triaging the massive number of mostly not meaningful reports and finding the handful of ones worth addressing, and the extra extra hard problem is doing this in a way where you can keep running the tools without having to repeat the whole audit process every time.
AFAIK Mythos doesn't address either of these points.
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@selzero @theleftistlawyer show me the money. Is he holding onto all the money he acquired while doing the things he's apologizing for? Not much of an apology then is it.
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@cwebber@social.coop yep, I have 100% compliance with my now very strict diet, except if I do something like cook pancakes for my kids and they don't eat them, then I get the urge and end up eating all of them and completely blowing my macro ratio for the day.
My number one and it's not even close leverage point for maintaining diet control is managing what foods are available to me.
Also my pancakes are REALLY GOOD so that's kind of a self inflicted wound ;D
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@cwebber@social.coop meanwhile I get github job openings forwarded to me daily.
Yea wow thanks what an amazing opportunity.
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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io this is like the panic around metasploit "letting everyone be a hacker". No, that's not what it does, pressing buttons and firing off canned exploits against laughably vulnerable systems is not meaningfully more damaging than it being slightly harder to string those things together.
@futurebird@sauropods.win I have and have known other people that have hidden money at some point. I don't think the story about why is going to be a happy one.