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So much focus on development speed and being "productive". The fastest, cleanest, and most reliable and error-free code is the code you never write. There's no metric or KPI for unnecessary code not written, productivity gained by not perturbing a dependable system, maintenance avoided by […]
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@rikiwilchins.bsky.social The Y axis is %. The graph doesn't show anything about absolute increase in telehealth care; it could equally be drop in availability of in-person.
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@gwensnyder.bsky.social I kinda see this as intentional, but not the path to a draft. Having a drafted army would be a nightmare for them. They don't want a military comprised of a random sampling of young people who are unlikely to agree with them or obey. They want to drive out everyone but […]
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@zachweinersmith.bsky.social No, because meaning is contextual and dependent on the participants in the communication. Not probabilistic across every "known" usage. The model didn't have access to every known usage. It models particular, largely meaningless or at least deceptive-in-meaning […]
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@xgranade It's almost definitely true for real roaming. Seems to be, in the absence of the carrier (I forget the technical term here but there's a numeric ID) the SIM tells the baseband to expect, it constantly searches for candidates it can roam on even if it already has one, in order not to […]
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@JessTheUnstill What's even worse is that they route you through shortcuts off highways through residential roads, zooming past people's kids and pets, to save 2 minutes.
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So many times it's like
"ooh, take the toll road that's going to cost you $10!"
How much faster is it than the free road?
"... 2 minutes ..."
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@ruwaromman.bsky.social The fact that the same monster is still relevant 29 years later is so unfathomable, or at least should be.
That's what we're facing in the US if we don't smash fascism now.
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@eta @signalapp I have never encountered this prompt on Android Signal.
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If we want to be able to do things like negotiate copyright terms with websites, we need to eliminate legislation like the DMCA (and its international treaty equivalents) and replace it with something which explicitly forbids clickwrap and ends the practice of non-negotiated agreements. This is […]
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In this case, Mastodon GmbH has given us two weeks. But that is a period of time set at their discretion, because they own the service. Perhaps the next terms of service change will be granted on a timetable of seven femtoseconds. Perhaps "continuing to use the service" will be retconned to be […]
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@dangillmor This is fucking hilarious. Epic level mansplaining. 🤣 🤡
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From preliminary conversations with expert attorneys, whether or not you should submit immediately will depend on risk tolerance and a few factors.
We will know in a few days if they move for a stay.
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Those who would have the least to lose and most to gain at applying immediately or in the next few days are those with already incorrect gender markers or those who need to travel and their passport has expired or they need their first passport.
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Our story here - this is a developing story and we will update it as soon as we get more information.
Especially guidance on when to submit.
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@glyph Oh, the FSF folks were there own kind of messed up, but it wasn't the whole ancap-libertarian thing that the wannabe-hacker who deemed himself the master of our stories brought later.
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@glyph TBF there was a big segment that pretended to be on our side. But too many folks were way too invested in believing that and way too slow to wake up to what I lie it had already become over a decade ago.
FOSS principles and particularly how they were coopted by Open Source libertarian […]
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I’m refusing to on board to Copilot at work. I’m the only person. When asked why I sent them the MIT and Microsoft research papers as openers.
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@GossiTheDog "Overdependency" bs. *Any use at all* has severe negative cognitive impacts.
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@davidho @signalapp The big $ question: Will they be doing this just for folks who linked FB and IG accounts (🤮) or will they be misusing dubious data trying to tie WA accounts to FB/IG ones in ways that leak PII of actually-unrelated users on one to ads shown on the other?
If the latter, this […]
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@jalcine "Destroy AI", but it's a Scooby Doo meme pulling off the robot helmet and finding Sama underneath.
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@jalcine Cos the AI we need to defeat isn't a robot, it's a bunch of douchy VC bros laundering their crimes thru robot-shaped facade.
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@jalcine I want this except instead of a robot, Sam Altman.
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One thing I should clarify about this: "email" doesn't mean it has to go through a third party hosted or publicly addressible self-hosted mailbox. It can even be completely local delivery.
The defining characteristic of being "email" is that it's sending to a common inbox that you can manage […]