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isaacd

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  • As a professional dev (okay, okay, forgot where I was, aren’t we all) I approve of this reasoning

  • Donald Trump Jr. has been boosting MAGA-related startups

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  • For anyone on the “invest in the complete opposite of whatever Don Jr. is doing” plan, there are lots of good ESG’s you can put your money in. Firms like Calvert are gonna perform slightly worse than VTSAX, but it’s typically not more than “slightly,” and at least your money isn’t funding oil cartels, Meta, Amazon et al.

  • Microsoft will kill Remote Desktop soon, insists you'll love replacement

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  • The Microsoft store app that nobody uses? Oh god, anything but that

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  • It’s all hallucinations. It’s just that some of them happen to be right

  • After hit-and-run, supporters buy injured cyclist a car: ‘He’s got a whole village’ - mlive.com

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  • After baseball bat assault, supporters buy injured baseball player a machine gun: ‘He’s got a whole village’

  • Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks

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  • Or!—hear me out—one woman whose 8 co-gestators were just laid off by someone who doesn’t understand what their job was

  • A Great Invention

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  • Expensive for a toy, but dirt cheap for a car, as I always say.

    (Assuming, of course, that you live in an area where you can replace car trips with bike trips)

  • Should we have a day where we, as a community, go out of our way and thank our maintainers?

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  • There’s a handful of us that do 50 for FOSS: https://50forfoss.org/

    tl;dr: on the first Friday of the month we each pick a FOSS (free/open-source) project and give the maintainer $50.

    Thanks and encouragement is great too. As a small-time open source maintainer, it seems awareness has been spreading over the last few years and people are going out of their way to be kind and respectful when they raise issues; it really makes a difference. But financial sustainability and community ownership are separate and arguably more essential issues if we want FOSS to survive over the long term.

    I did have one maintainer turn down the $50 and ask me to donate it to UNICEF. It’s all the same to me as long as it makes the work more sustainable for them.

  • The Generative AI Con.

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  • “If we run terabytes of text through a statistical model, then spend millions of man-hours labeling outputs, we can approximate the way humans respond to a prompt.” –OpenAI, more or less

    Wow, what a surprise. I'll do you one better: if you take me to a river, I can tell you where the water is going to go next! Maybe we can get some VC money by promising to deliver clean water to every business in the world without all the expense of pipelines and plumbers? I mean, just look at all this water. It may not go where you want right now, but let us dump sewage in it for a couple years and who knows what it’ll do.

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  • This is why email never caught on. Who wants to choose between Gmail, Yahoo, MSN, Proton, and Comcast? A successful email service would be one where you can only communicate with users of the same email service. /s

  • What is a service you host you never knew you needed?

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  • Kavita for my ebook collection—mostly tabletop RPGs, but some comics and sci fi as well.

    I don’t actually use the web interface that often. I add books to my Kavita library, then scan the OPDS feed into my scratch-my-own-itch mobile app, Bookoscope, and download whatever I want to read onto my tablet from there.

    Side note, PDFs are the absolute worst. Even reading them on a full-sized tablet is incredibly annoying. Anybody have any tips/tricks/apps for that?

  • Transfer Patient

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  • The Far Side would be proud

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    Mark Zuckerberg says anyone who quits Meta is 'virtue signaling'

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  • Mosquito baiting

  • Good guy clippy

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  • Is Unreal worse than Unity? I’ve only ever heard people complain about the latter

  • If I had a nickel for every time someone says "this person's being a huge jerk to me but I think they might be neurodivergent"

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  • I wish you would be friends with me instead

  • If I had a nickel for every time someone says "this person's being a huge jerk to me but I think they might be neurodivergent"

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  • You got me. Mastercard: the credit card for neurodivergents, assholes, and everything in between

  • If I had a nickel for every time someone says "this person's being a huge jerk to me but I think they might be neurodivergent"

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  • Hey that’s valid! A good friend of mine has the exact same thing. He’s up front about it, he apologizes when it’s excessive, and he’s more than happy to explain why it’s difficult for him. It’s just a thing, and if I’m going to be his friend, that means accepting it about him.

    In other words, he’s done his best to help me understand him. Now it’s my turn to not be an asshole.

  • If I had a nickel for every time someone says "this person's being a huge jerk to me but I think they might be neurodivergent"

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  • I think (hope) most people can tell the difference between symptoms of atypical neurology (lateness, awkwardness, forgetfulness, zoning out et al) and hurtful/abusive/controlling behavior. And if they can’t, they’re just not our people. That’s a whole different Venn diagram though

  • If I had a nickel for every time someone says "this person's being a huge jerk to me but I think they might be neurodivergent"

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  • Well said and point well taken.

    I always encourage people to communicate, gently and clearly, what the other person did that was hurtful. I have so much empathy for people who are clueless (hi, hello, it’s me). But no empathy at all for people who callously, intentionally harass and hurt others.