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i see some of y'all doing productive things on Sunday and i am disappointed.

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@fossunited's IndiaFOSS this year is hosting devrooms and the CFP is open now. If you run a FOSS-adjacent community in India (PL/ML/AI/Hardware/Data/...), please propose a devroom. You get the chance to host a mini-conference inside India's largest FOSS conference […]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htb_n7ok9AU Should we defund academia? Sabine Hossenfelder has a purposefully provocative video that is argued poorly but honestly most of us are like i dont care who funds shit as long as there is transparency, data and research is open to the public and not […]

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the camel and the bezoar

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if you catch yourself going "this is so problematic" when you hear someone say something, congratulations, you can now empathize with the deeply religious. They won.

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watched Officer on Duty mal movie. good fun. timepass. dont like the drug angle. at all. none of the addicts i know are violent sociopaths. i hate it when we do this kind of weak story telling when there's notime for character development, so ok, they're psychos, must be drugs. pft. do better.

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The Tough Questions A conversation with Craig Burton about business prospects for Linux http://www.searls.com/burton_interview.html an old interview and gosh, how prescient.

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Moving away from Firefox shows how much the rot has already set in. After dismissing the "set as default browser" dialog, and explicitly clicking "don't ask again", next time it shows me a different pop-up, that is much easier to accidentally click. All the […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]

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things need to be stupid for them to be reliable.

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Spotted today #streetsignsgonewild

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it's good to be around nerds again.

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i love how we can hold different projects up to different moral standards. we can pile on Mozilla for going mildly shady and we just shrug and continue using the apple ecosystem like it isnt the most evil thing since microsoft. somehow we expect that we can continue working with ecosystems that […]

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Hi, if you're running or working at a remote/hybrid org, and are fine hiring from India, consider giving a job to my partner! They've worked as a chief of staff at a couple of organisations, worked at aiesec for two years in people management, and have done a whole lot of program management […]

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the greatest case for animal sentience and intelligence is not being made by activists. its by people adopting bats and teaching them to swim, and people adopting crocodiles and teaching them to boop and people forming bonds with seals in the sea and eels in ok actually nevermind, eels dont […]

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i get the feeling i want someone to go forward in time and come back and tell me what I regret the most when im 70 so that 1. i have time to prepare 2. see 1

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The Camel by Subimal Misra Translated by V Ramaswamy https://www.hackwriters.com/Camel.htm | I swear to god i have had this dream. only, it was an elephant and not a camel. #ShortStory

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people, i have a problem. i pickled and mildly fermented some cucumber and carrot. the carrot is yum. the cucumber is going mushy. i dont want it go mushy. can i do something about this? both cut up into thick matchsticks. the solution is just brine.

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I think this is a type of context conflicting hallucination. most often due to the generation being done before retrieval https://sigmoid.social/deck/@[email protected]/114070653313190126 (humans do this too, by first writing the abstract then figuring out which publications support the statement)

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on the kindle, the only reliable way to highlight across pages is to highlight backwards. if this is not an industry ripe for disruption idk what is.

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im gonna try and make a thread of IR papers for the year. This is assuming I keep reading IR, remember that I had started a thread, and gef to post.

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what in bugbunnies is this

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complexity is just the tip of the icecream

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abusing touch to create files is a common idiom in linux

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one of the values of delayed gratification is that delay, within limits, compounds gratification. it's more fun when many fun events are merged into one.

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read with the previous link https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2000/01/code-is-law-html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email Lessig's observation that (software ) code is law, and that architecture affects control, there is a clear call to state our preferences. clearly and frequently. I for one […]

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Gather and talk. Empathize and listen. Don’t chase the spotlight, and accept that some problems are big, and difficult, and that what you’re good at may not fix them. These are not the ways of charismatic executives and flash-bang inventors. These are not instructions for entrepreneurial […]

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im switching off notifications everywhere. phone mostly because pc doesnt have notifications anyway. i need to have specific times when i am checking the phone for updates. probably on long break pomodoros.

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follow me and i will make you phishers of men

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masala dosa is a continental breakfast. europe is not a continent.

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be unextexted my friends

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Why are we born needing impossible things? Why is it that we all have things we need to live that simply do not exist in the universe? -- Machine: A White Space Novel (Elizabeth Bear)

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There is so much coupling on display that it should be given an X rating.

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