a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)

quantization machine inputs artisan. he/him. being wrong on the internet practitioner. 50.3° N, 119.3° W (approx.) 68kΩ (Rɪᴅ_ʙ) pull-down. ε_𝑣 in Twitch chat. Boosts are sometimes followed by relevant snark

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2024-08-08 01:28:46

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@npub1rv4…ft5j do you have like an sodimm breakout you keep around for this sort of cursed stuff?

2024-08-04 00:58:23

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@npub1dgs…nfw8 catching the #555 to Funkytown

2024-07-29 10:18:52

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it's like all of a sudden they decided their remaining existing products and services were worth zero and they urgently have to invest whatever they can in LLM like just another monster-of-the-week venture effort

2024-07-29 10:12:16

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like if anyone can say there is a risk of overinvesting in some new unproven experimental direction compared to existing stuff _they_ know works, it should be those guys

2024-07-29 10:11:11

LB: it's funny to me that in the context of that AI bubble story is the Google CEO out there saying "The risk of underinvesting is dramatically greater than the risk of overinvesting for us here" -- like looking at the Googlle of 10 years ago, they were the company to beat in conventional AI natural language processing and pre-LLM machine learning as part of an actual product or service millions of people use every day,

2024-07-28 09:49:21

LB x2: I think this is sort of a reminder that my next "tablet" could be a 2-in-1 that can run real software, but then again my response to that is, short of extremely light tasks that don't really suffer from this problem, why not just do web tasks on the laptop like a laptop without trying to pretend it's a tablet

2024-07-08 18:57:36

From neozeed's post about A/UX: "Of course it wouldn’t be all sunshine and rainbows as around this time Apple launched a lawsuit against Microsoft, and Atari over the visual iconography of MacOS (Oddly enough GEM on the ST was ignored)." That was a little bit odd, wasn't it?
https://virtuallyfun.com/2021/09/19/so-what-is-the-deal-with-a-ux-anyways

2024-06-15 00:00:30

I talk about how in software quality the biggest obstacle is the assumption that the software works; maybe in "defense" the preoccupation with proverbially holding yourself responsible for preventing what others do makes it very difficult to take responsibility for what _you_ do

2024-05-31 10:50:31

LB: what phone... /os/.
i was gonna make a joke about the things with no name, the -48VDC whatsits, but then I saw that "os" there
I think I'm going to respond to that prompt by saying: rip humanity. we had a good run.
no, actually it kind of sucked but it was what it was

2024-04-25 07:08:57

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@npub1cpp…e7uy I do wonder if at this point if bored production company staffers are slipping these in as hazing for their tv network overlords who would get the fine

2024-04-21 22:51:29

LB: I mean, I think the complaints are about appropriation; if I had a distro I would give the releases names like "globby bottle of cheap stinking chip-oil" and the douglas adams appreciators could fairly get up in my grill about it (if they were the type of person into that sort of thing which odds are they probably aren't)

2024-03-13 02:39:04

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@npub1qz2…nlrg is.... is it... at an actual Best Buy?

2024-02-24 12:03:29

LB: ' As the WSJ Magazine reports: “Benioff and Weiss, who have been friends since grad school, weren’t crazy about HBO’s then-owners, AT&T, whose executives once asked whether ‘Game of Thrones’ could be shot vertically so it would fit on your phone. '
... I don't even know what to say, that is breathtakingly stupid.

2024-02-17 02:54:03

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@npub1xr8…3q0g 'a professor and fire management expert at Thompson Rivers University in Kelowna, BC' oops whoops

2024-02-11 14:16:25

The irony of even Japan's toy machine architecture for academic courses being some kind of national standard b/c MITI https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2024/02/cap-x-and-comp-x-how-tandy-pocket.html

2024-01-31 23:53:01

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@npub1a4c…t2kf it would not be absurd if they were otherwise doing an excellent job safeguarding ordinary accounts against account takeover, but let's say that does not appear to be the case

2023-11-21 10:50:15

LB: with apologies to really epic posters who know who they are, this one is a real thing https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/nmah_1191463

2023-10-20 07:45:11

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 diagram confusing, deploying "Friday"

2023-09-29 13:02:58

wtaaf https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940_Brocklesby_mid-air_collision

2023-09-21 19:55:58

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@npub1ysu…2jyl just like "we all know" nobody was asking how it's possible to delete /dev/null

2023-09-21 19:25:54

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@npub1ysu…2jyl @npub19mx…dxap @npub14qe…a53z that's not what "regular file" means on Linux (or any Unix)

2023-08-31 06:50:42

The security situation on Linux is complicated, but the core issue imo is that the designed-in Unix security model is a fairly primitive thing designed for a simple standalone time sharing systems where users manually run command-line apps and that is all.

2023-08-09 13:04:24

Okay, let's think about a different question: What's the *most* torment-nexus-flavoured sw dev opportunity available?

2023-06-19 05:10:33

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@npub159e…exyl hongos amongos

2023-06-14 18:59:33

When you're planning some kind of policy to protect or assist minorities, whether it's a hate crime law or a program to redirect opportunities to underrepresented groups, let's say you've got to be smart about it and make sure it is carefully tailored to require the kind of situation you actually want it for, because right wing populist chucklers, like the ones running Alberta, never met an anti-racism policy they wouldn't deliberately try to make a mockery of https://calgaryherald.com/news/crime/president-of-calgarys-black-lives-matter-movement-charged-with-hate-crime