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Flamekebab

@ Flamekebab @piefed.social

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  • Pentagon admits it doesn't 'positively ID' people before boat strikes kill them: lawmaker

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  • Why?

    As in, why admit it? The current US administration is mask-off evil and very little is being done about it. They lie constantly because there are no checks/balances and it's an idiotic system.

    ...so why admit anything like this?

  • Can kids under 10 be possibly taught coding, without even mentioning the word syntax to them ??🤔🤔🤔

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  • When I was a kid, we had a class on Logo in, I think, 4th grade? (It was either that or 5th grade.) It wasn’t particularly hard to make various geometric drawings with it, but it also wasn’t clear how to use it to do anything beyond that.

    This sums up my early experiences with programming. It felt like either pointless flashing lights or building the universe from scratch. These days I have lots of tasks that programming is useful for but for the longest time no sources I encountered ever seemed to talk about what practical use I could put the concepts to.

    Telling me about for and while loops and various other things felt like learning by rote and I never got very far. It wasn't until my late 20s when I had a load of tedious administrative tasks to do that I was able to get my teeth into programming.

  • Help? Caddy reverse proxy

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  • Can you give us your config file?

  • Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter

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  • There's always money to be made if one doesn't stand for anything.

  • Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter

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  • I was making a parallel to another wildly over-hyped technology that has had multiple opportunities to make it when it's clearly only suitable for niche usecases.

    LLMs and "AI" are not useless but the notion that they'll lead to something significantly more advanced is fundamentally misunderstanding the nature of the technology.

  • Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter

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  • And VR will take off any day now?

  • Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter

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  • You seem very convinced that glorified auto complete will lead to AGI...

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  • Is that bad?

  • TIL that Dionne Warwick, upset about misogyny in rap, demanded Snoop call her a bitch to her face

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  • Ah, the Kingmaker.

    Edit: it's a reference to Warwick the Kingmaker. Well, it's a reference to a reference. It's actually a joke made in Nebulous - "Dionne Warwick, the Kingmaker".

  • As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity

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  • Yeah, same. I use a combination of Linux and macOS at home but have a work laptop running Windows. It's dreadful and feels like it only exists to make my tasks harder. I never find myself saying "what a useful feature!" but I often say "Ugh, why are you like this?".

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    What were you doing at 18?

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  • Starting an online community, being disinterested in my studies following a lack of academic direction at Oxford/Cambridge, finding the dating pool and friend pool at my school insufficient to make many meaningful connections, playing a few 2004/5 video games, drinking at our sixth form bar, and ultimately running out the clock on a way of life I was tired of.

    In the autumn nothing much happened and the next year I'd go to university in Scotland mostly to get my parents off my back. In hindsight I don't think I could have done much else with the options and knowledge available to me.

    It was pretty bleak, emotionally.

  • Professor what

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  • When I was at uni (UK) we would never put our names on assignments. Everything was done by student number (I think the official term was something like "matriculation ID").

    i.e. in this instance the professor wouldn't know whose paper this was

  • [Technology Connections] Some DVD re-releases got cheapened out in a weird way [17:59]

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  • Sure, but if the options are to watch something in low resolution or not at all, I'm picking up the novelisation instead.

  • "detect-fash" Feature Developed (and Rejected) for Systemd

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  • Brian Lunduke is still around? Oh dear

  • Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions

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  • I thought it had had that for twenty years?

  • Does almost anyone actually feel like being a normal person?

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  • That doesn't sound like you appreciate the spirit of OP's question. I'm not sure if I feel the social interaction will be worth it for me to engage further so I'm instead going to get some more sleep.

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  • Does almost anyone actually feel like being a normal person?

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  • That seems statistically unlikely. I've met plenty of people who aren't normal so I do have lots of points of comparison.

  • Does almost anyone actually feel like being a normal person?

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  • I've met so very many of them.