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@mhoye@cosocial.ca can’t wait to pass someone driving erratically, look over and see that they’re gambling on a casino app on their in-dash display while driving. https://bestoftwitter.com/tweet/1955/
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@dragonfi@social.jsteuernagel.de @levork@graphics.social this is, in fact, a problem with a lot of newly built houses where the builder has cheaped out on the labor costs. Everything looks nice on the surface, but it’s a huge mess underneath.
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@qdot@buttplug.engineer it’s like that scene from the Simpsons where Sideshow Bob steps on rakes over and over again.
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@SnoopJ@hachyderm.io @regehr@mastodon.social @aburka@hachyderm.io @dan@discuss.systems @dev@discuss.systems simply harvest 3.9 million tomatoes and sell them for $1 each!
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@_elena@mastodon.social all the startups I've worked for have blasted out press releases the moment their funding rounds closed. Part of being a startup means constantly vying for attention. This explanation does not hold up.
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@AlSweigart@mastodon.social if they can't be bothered to write it why would anyone bother to read it?
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@mhoye people who want to "leave politics out of things" are in the same class as libertarians: just absolutely unwilling to think even a little bit about anything they claim to believe.
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@glutto@mastodon.social @koen_hufkens@mastodon.social Trump threatening to remember something doesn't feel like much of a threat, honestly.
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@Offbeatmammal @taatm @mhoye @Gargron I, personally, do not want any government or corporation to hold that kind of power over what I can do with my own computing devices.
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@grote @TimWardCam Google has a whole "Managed Google Play" as part of Enterprise Android support: https://support.google.com/work/android/answer/9495634?hl=en
I don't think companies doing such things will be fussed by this at all. A company using Android devices but not using enterprise management would already be in a pretty self-inflicted state of badness.
Edit: https://developer.android.com/developer-verification/guides/faq explicitly says this doesn't affect enterprise apps.
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@DrHyde@fosstodon.org @koen_hufkens@mastodon.social I agree but also I don't think this is in conflict with the premise presented here. You should be able to be either a casual software user *or* a power user, *and* you should be able to grow from the former into the latter if you desire.
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@mhoye “First of all, the Chinese have huge direct support for their auto companies,” yes, Ford CEO Jim Farley, I agree that we should nationalize key industries in the US.
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@futzle@old.mermaid.town this is adorable and also really useful! (I have no idea what’s on any of the flash drives on my shelf…)
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@whitequark @dotstdy @regehr ninja has a concept of "pools" for exactly this sort of thing: limiting the number of concurrent linker invocations: https://ninja-build.org/manual.html#ref_pool
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@hiisikoloart @nini I find myself mystified by people like this who use AI image generators or filters and share the results without noticing the glaring defects. If you can't perceive the results, why even use the thing?
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@grote @fdroidorg sorry, that was directed at Tim, not you. I understand and appreciate what F-Droid provides and agree that this sucks badly. I just also think that people have a tendency to get off in the weeds instead of focusing on the things that matter.
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@brie@do.crimes.brie.gay @evening@alico.nexus shipping desktop software for multiple platforms is a lot of work. Congrats!
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io I had a double kofte burger in the Istanbul airport not long ago that was very tasty. We just don't get to have nice things in the US.
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@renardboy@mastodon.social @misty@digipres.club the joke is that "code" in the abstract is winning vs. Microsoft the company, as evidenced by GitHub's uptime stats.
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@TimWardCam @grote I feel like you're inventing a weird fictional scenario here to be mad about, but Google Play already has support for limited distribution of apps for internal testing without requiring all of the steps required to publish an app in the Play Store: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/9845334?hl=en
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@kityates@mas.to since the article was light on details about the vaccine I looked it up. Its made by Pfizer, the brand name is Abrysvo:
https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/abrysvo
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@aparrish given that a nontrivial amount of human labor is involved in tagging training data, I venture that we could simply have paid those people a fair wage to do the work directly instead of indirectly via LLMs.
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@jorge@saturno.red @ketan@climatejustice.social this is irrelevant to the point the original post is making.
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com I used to think tcl/tk was confusing but compared to things like React nowadays it's refreshingly straightforward.
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@cks @whitequark @pmarheine @regehr @dotstdy the classic GNU Make approach: "don't start any new jobs if the system load average is above this number": https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Options-Summary.html#index-_002d_002dload_002daverage-1
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@whitequark @dotstdy @regehr this reminds me that I always wondered how much of a pain it would be to make sccache able to cache linker invocations. (there's so much linker input that's not expressed on the commandline, it's ridiculous.)
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@whitequark @dotstdy @regehr cgroups might help on Linux but we're back to your original point about trying to do it in a portable way being a nightmare.
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@ObsidianUrbex Beautiful photographs! I love how they each capture such a highly pronounced aesthetic from a specific moment in time.
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@carol@crabby.fyi @benjamingeer@piaille.fr the few rare occasions I've written them did make me feel like I was writing a math proof instead of programming. "Let us suppose there exists some type T for which all 'a…"
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@thejpster@hachyderm.io I appreciate the clarity with which you explained what I have always found to be a confusing topic!
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@Chapz@mastodon.online @mhoye@cosocial.ca it's fundamentally non-solvable due to the way the models work. Yes, you can mitigate it by having ways to test the outputs, but it's going to leave *a lot* of messes in its wake.
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@unsafelyhotboots@sharkey.world @zwol@masto.hackers.town unfortunately I don't think anyone is making anything like this in the US. I have heard of people importing them from Japan, but the laws on that vary from state to state.
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@jonny did you see the video where a guy asks ChatGPT to time him running a mile, immediately says he's done, and then ChatGPT says it took him 7 minutes and 30 seconds?
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@aphyr these posts are fantastic, I really appreciate how thoughtful you are! Also man, "Illegible Hazards" hits hard. That'd make a hell of an album title.
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@poppyhaze@girlcock.club @gameshack_@infosec.exchange I've got odds on "Meat allergy virus" given Alpha-gal syndrome and the huge boom in the tick population this year.
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@misty@digipres.club I think it's fair to say that Code is currently winning this matchup.
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@nein very cool! I know exactly what you mean–I've looked for a simple solution for this sort of thing numerous times.
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@cdevroe@mastodon.social I didn't realize there were so many satellites actively orbiting the moon!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extraterrestrial_orbiters#Moon
But also: what would we be monitoring? I don't think the surface changes all that much. 🙂 Given that we can see about 59% of the moon's surface from Earth, I think you'd only need to cover the dark side to have good continuous imaging.
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@thejpster@hachyderm.io app idea: a thing that looks like social media but it's just a journal.
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@justkwin@toot.community fascinating! I still have a copy of Mac OS X Internals I bought back when I was working on Breakpad. I always had the feeling we were using APIs that Apple would like to unsupport.
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@skade I've contributed patches to several GNU projects over the years but I don't remember ever actually doing this unless Emacs inserted them on my behalf (which is entirely plausible).