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18m ago

Let an old baldy rest his tired ass, for the gods' sake!
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jqubed @lemmy.world 18m ago
The Roman senate didn’t have chairs?

2h ago

What Linux Distro is your Christian Denomination?

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jqubed @lemmy.world 2h ago

I looked up Lineage and see it’s also an Android variant. What’s the Pentecostal logo?

2h ago

AWS would rather blame engineers than AI

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jqubed @lemmy.world 2h ago

Exactly

This isn't a coverup; it's a massive insecurity that's extremely cringey to witness. AWS would rather have the world believe their engineers are incompetent than admit their artificial intelligence made a mistake. That's not just a messaging choice. That's a company so desperate not to look behind in the AI race that they'd torch their own employees' reputations to protect their robot's feelings. What does it say about AWS's strategic position that defending the AI's reputation takes priority over protecting their humans? When did "don't hurt the algorithm's feelings" become corporate policy?

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Things break. Code has bugs. AI will make mistakes. This is the natural order of building complex systems, and anyone who's been in this business longer than a funding cycle understands that. The problem isn't that Kiro decided production was due for a surprise deletion. The problem is that when faced with their first major AI failure, AWS's instinct wasn't transparency or accountability. It was to protect the AI's reputation at all costs.
If your cloud provider would rather look incompetent than admit its AI is fallible, sit with that for a second. Not because this particular outage was the end of the world. It wasn't. It's Cost Explorer, for God's sake; I spend meaningful chunks of my life with that service, and it being down for a few hours just means I'll do something else for a bit. But we are at the exact moment where every cloud vendor is asking you to hand agentic AI the keys to your production environment. When the first real test case showed up, AWS's communications instinct was to protect the robot and throw the human under the bus.

13h ago

What Linux Distro is your Christian Denomination?

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jqubed @lemmy.world 13h ago

I think several on your chart don’t believe in the Trinity? Pretty sure LDS, JW, and at least some Pentecostal? I think they all self-identify as Christian, though, but some Unitarians might not? Is that the difference?

22h ago

How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand?

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jqubed @lemmy.world 22h ago

I know it varies from state to state, but where I’ve lived it’s an “elective” in that you got to pick which language to take of the available options (some schools might only have two choices, others four or even five), but taking a certain number of foreign language credits was required for graduation. If you wanted to go beyond the minimum and had room in your schedule you could.

2d ago

Big Hole

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jqubed @lemmy.world 2d ago

Seeing that this was a hand-dug mine in South Africa, I was expecting bad things, but it’s still disheartening:

Burials for paupers occurred in Glastone cemetery from 1 March 1883. Many records were lost to fire; however, surviving reports state that between 24 June 1887 and 28 November 1892, 5000 black burials happened at Glastone cemetery. Approximately 611 black burials occurred between February and June 1900. Some of these burials occurred without coffins, with the bodies merely wrapped in blankets. Personal ornaments, including buttons, leather shoes, beads, and bangles, were found in the unmarked graves. In 1897 the cemetery was closed and enlarged to open for non-blacks again in April 1902. The bodies of miners were viewed as an issue of waste disposal by the mines/city council and the African rituals and mourning processes were of no concern to authorities. Many Basotho miners were not pleased at the manner in which the dead were treated.

2d ago

Flax dinner rolls

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jqubed @lemmy.world 2d ago

Sometimes if it’s just outside companies will be flexible, especially if you ask nicely, but you definitely don’t want to wait at that point

2d ago

Flax dinner rolls

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jqubed @lemmy.world 2d ago

Don’t Kitchenaid mixers have really good warranties? It’s probably worth contacting them

3d ago

TIL that Radon is a radioactive substance which can cause cancer. Colorado is full of radon. The average level of radon in Colorado homes is 6.4 pCi/L, which is equivalent to 200 chest X-rays a year

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jqubed @lemmy.world 3d ago

Even in my state I don’t think it’s required everywhere. In the mountains and the Piedmont there is a risk although it’s not common, but I think in the coastal plain on the sandy soil it’s uncommon. IIRC for our state the more granite in the ground the higher the risk. Having a crawlspace foundation is also better than a basement or a slab foundation because it gives a space that can easily be ventilated before the gas enters the living space of the home.

I think I saw a study once that granite countertops may offgas some radon. Maybe there’s not enough granite in the average home to cause concern.

4d ago

All of it

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jqubed @lemmy.world 4d ago

Ain’t no rule that says a dog can’t win the cross country ski race.

4d ago

What are some Ship of Theseus bands, where all original members have been replaced by someone new?

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jqubed @lemmy.world 4d ago

I feel like it’s less of a band and more of a performance group, though

4d ago

Have you ever solved a Rubik's Cube? And how?

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jqubed @lemmy.world 4d ago

No, I never had the patience to figure it out. I think I’ve seen a video or two with solution algorithms but did not have access to a cube to try them and don’t really remember the ways now.

5d ago

Cumulative lead exposure linked to increased Alzheimer's and dementia risk

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jqubed @lemmy.world 5d ago

I think it was last year Duke researchers announced they were finding so much microplastics in the brains of Alzheimer’s victims that it was equivalent to the amount of plastic in a typical disposable plastic spoon.

6d ago

me🥱irl

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jqubed @lemmy.world 6d ago

How far did you get with it? As with many shows, I find the first season a bit of a slog, but it starts to get going in the second season.

6d ago

Cumulative lead exposure linked to increased Alzheimer's and dementia risk

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jqubed @lemmy.world 6d ago

I wonder if this means that in years to come, with reductions in environmental lead, we’ll see lower rates of Alzheimer’s and dementia

6d ago

[Image] Lake beginning to freeze in Saskatchewan, Canada, mid-October (taken at 16,000 feet near Buffalo Narrows, SK)

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jqubed @lemmy.world 6d ago

!topview@lemmy.world

6d ago

Japanese toilet-maker is an AI company now

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jqubed @lemmy.world 6d ago

For all the people reading the headline and not the article, toilet-maker Toto uses its ceramics expertise to supply products used in silicon wafer production. They’ve been in the industry since the 1980s but with the AI boom non-toilet manufacturing has become over 40% of their operating income.

6d ago

Wanna buy a(nother) humidifier?

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jqubed @lemmy.world 6d ago

6d ago

😋🔫

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jqubed @lemmy.world 6d ago

I think I only ever needed a white shirt and tie. My younger brother was in band but when they performed with the string orchestra to give more of a symphony I think they actually did have some sort of suit, maybe tuxedo-like. That was all arranged by the school at the very start, of course.

6d ago

Joan Newton Cuneo, racecar driver, ~1910

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jqubed @lemmy.world 6d ago

I would be more curious to find out more about why they were banning women from racing. It doesn’t sound like it was a universal push from the drivers, and the manufacturers she drove with seemed happy to have her. Sexism is obviously the problem, but what were they afraid of? If more women were racing they would leave their husbands and neglect their children?

I’m also curious to know more about the murder charges her mechanic beat. When I see the son of a wealthy family has been acquitted of murder charges I’m more likely to suspect he was actually guilty but had powerful attorneys.