berserkerpiglet.bsky.social
Pinball-loving porcine programmer papa with a penchant for plucky playful problem-solving
I’m a lead developer on a thing many people here use. I hope you enjoy it, whatever it is.
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I’ve had better years but still have my health and humor. I hope you’re doing well!
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That’s good to hear. Hope that works out well
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I’m sure you’ll do wonderfully but that’s a fun thing to find out
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There’s a darker side to this which is that as a result of this job-implied protection you’ll see a bunch of people begging to be hired in those fields. Which will allow the bosses of those fields to lower wages or expect extra compensation. There’s gonna be some real grim stories out of this.
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I… wasn’t expecting parts of the ending to go where they went but I guess consistent with the movie. Lots of silly fun
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Dr who is playing bagpipes to draw snake people away… of course he is. This movie is a friggin delight
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While I also was a heavy soda man I’m begging you sir to drink water. Last thing we need is for you to get a kidney stone NOW.
We need you pissed, not unable to
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Did anyone ever ask HOW gambit found them? Does he just wander through peoples houses opening up boxes to see if they contain cards or is the assumption that she showed them to him and he just happened to pick them up on his way out?
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I was thinking of a similar thing! I can’t for the life of me get my kids to play games unless there’s a massive amount of planning, so I was considering using the table in the “room no one ever uses but there’s a table for some reason” and rotate some pre-setup games to see if they bite
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Somewhere Rebecca’s niece is reading this going “heyyyy”
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Wondering if there’s not a great opportunity for the web to actually be smart in headlines and alter the headline depending on where it’s linked from.The article brings up thoughtful points on Bluesky that I think would prompt good discussion here. Lead with a headline that’s GOOD when linking here.
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Reading the article the headline is clickbait. They are actually defensive of bluesky and bring up thoughtful points.
I think the difficulty is that discussing it in media REQUIRES you to frame it negatively to get clicks because that’s the only way to get notice ON TWITTER.
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… the following at the bottom of the second articles authors personal page
“Follow me on Bluesky. (I deleted X/Twitter.) My email is …”
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<golf clap>
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At a certain point can’t we just citizen drive some of this? Doctors publicly publish research, a team of elected doctors publish guidelines external to the government. People get used to filtering out the agency saying we need to eat raw liver and milk from the gutter
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National park services offering a reply guy pass to all parks containing areas with sufficient acoustic properties
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Stop remembering how we used to also have to say “Xbox… ON! Did it… did it work? Xbox… X—BOX!! ON!” cause that makes my point seem dumber
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No one likes an echo chamber but an echo _canyon_?
People call it a national monument and love to say “hello” there
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“I wish that you felt confident enough in your own abilities as a genie to let me have my own agency in what I wish for. But I guess we have to deal with YOUR issues… AGAIN…”
It’s ugly but you’ve got to guilt trip the genie to get what you want out of this world
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Awww looks like you got the death card again. An’ you too! Now don’ you be telling me I bought anudder tarot deck wit’ only death cards innit
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Please, Dr Doom is my father… call me imminent
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Um, Why haven’t you given us an update if you succeeded in helping them?
Just saying, they go up against things that eat planets so maybe after 10 minutes a simple “hey I figured it out, they just needed to be told to work as a team…Mr Fantastic was real impressed. Staved off imminent doom, guys”!
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This movie is a delightful level of midnight b-horror movie mixed with Rocky Horror and topped with performances I can’t tell if they’re intentionally insane except for Amanda Donohoe who understood the assignment to a T.
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If you’re asking me if I have a boyfriend the answers no
Killed hisself on a motor bike, the daft bugger
<Dr Who takes the opportunity to kiss her>
This movie keeps getting better and better
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Have you ever tiger’d so hard your THUMB became a tiger?
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Agreed. One of the biggest difficulties engineers have is while their knowledge is useful it’s often not tempered by talking to literally anyone else who doesn’t share their opinions. Software and the world at large would benefit from more fun conversations on stuff we have opinions on. UI and AI
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I suspect there are some massive wins that could be made for kinder and more human compatible interfaces for routine actions like that.
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But also of course you’re welcome!
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lol, I dunno about smart. But a decent chunk of college for me dealt with this so I’ve got “opinions”. Which, the worth of which is debatable :)
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I used to write about AIs possible use for intelligently finding housing options for the homeless in unused mall spaces and such. There’s a ton of possibly good uses that ceos don’t wanna demo
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Yes, precisely! My thoughts exactly! I think that is a perfectly reasonable and smart way of looking at it
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Yup 100% agreed. Sorry, I should be clear, I’m not disagreeing with you. Just clarifying that there’s a lot to contextualize in “it isn’t going away”
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We do need to learn to use it, you’re right, but a BIG part of learning to use it is learning to recognize the part of our brains that gets tricked to think it’s intelligent when it’s doing something more similar to a psychic cold reading of someone. It’s a hammer that sometimes plays 3 card monte.
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“learning to use it” when the insinuation is you accept its APPROPRIATE use in scenarios where it’s only useful by chance (for example in medicine or coding where SOMETIMES it gets it right but not consistently) is dangerous. It’s relying on a magic 8 ball because it got the first few answers right.
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I will say though that part of controlling the narrative is understanding what is and is not AI. The word has been taken almost exclusively by LLMs and that’s not the only AI. In fact,it’s problematic to make that association because it insinuates that the text predictor on your phone is intelligent
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In the interest of assuaging citizens and the worlds concerns and showing that you’re indeed providing a better level of care is it permissible for hospitals to provide death rates and factors to external countries for analysis via means those countries setup to ensure maximum transparency?
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What is the number of excess mortality deaths against previous years that would result in the health department reverting its policy decisions? If there is no number does that mean reversing decisions has not been considered at any level of excess mortality?
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I’m still finding myself humming this, what have you wrought?
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I agree, that is ok. Gets a little singed, somewhat easy to pull off, backyard bar-b-que corn experience… that’s ok.
This is boiling them, which is an altogether different experience of children crying at the table. SHE doesn’t like it.
Also she is an amazing person and I’m lucky to be with her.
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I want to know the process that led to her feet being stuck on her head I’m guessing to indicate she was flying with the breakfast.
How was that designed, how was that effect created, how chuffed was the guy finished up the whole ad with how it all worked out.
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The sky is dark for all the stars are in this issue. Stars like, this tree and… that guy!
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<taps microphone> because they stan’d U… they stan… hmm… they tell the same jokes, you say?