software engineer and book lover in #miamibeach
"first generation" Hispanic American
#clojure and #emacs (with evil) enthusiast.
[one of the four parens.social admins and maintainers]
here's a cognitive dissonance that is burning me out:
- LLMs are magic pixie dust, this shit was sci-fi just a few years ago, would love to use them more productively
- If they were that earth shatteringly useful you wouldn't have to *force* your employees to use them
He found visits to the countryside, and the cows in particular, helped calm him down. #grickledoodle #godzilla #country #cows #calm #mentalhealth #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #kaiju
Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour
Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid
https://www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-sanders-donald-trump
Recent convo about the original Four Loko -- and my last-chance tasting -- puts me in mind of the genius mashup mixtape Girl Talk had just released. My soundtrack that weekend.
'Oh No' starts by pairing 'War Pigs' and 'Move Bitch' -- and eventually even samples 'Strawberry Letter 23'
master: welcome to my Smart Home
student: wow. how is the light controlled?
master: with this on-off switch
student: i don't see a motor to close the blinds
master: there is none
student: where is the server located?
master: it is not needed
student: excuse me but what is "Smart" about all of this?
master: everything.
in this moment, the student was enlightened
He had 6 companies facing 32 investigations from 11 government agencies. Only a miracle could save his net worth and then…November 5th 2024.
Now the rest is history. Or some would say, oligarchy.
a fun thing to do when straight guys are being terrible about commenting on womens' looks is saying "maybe you're not into women"
I remember when people would tell me, you have to buy software from the large software companies or it will probably break and be terrible.
Today, it’s like, Google property? Microsoft invested? V.v.sus. The software lives in a self-hosted machine named for a pun on some obscure kink, the developer is a furry, the logo is two furries, it’s gpl’ed and if you do five minutes of due diligence you’re going to see all of their politics and most of their butt? I will trust this software with my life.
And you ask me why I don’t use Chrome
On a day off, after dropping the wife off at work, I saw an unusual lorry on the motorway. I was intrigued to where it was going. 80 miles later, still following & thought I cant back out now. Ended up in Scotland. It was a tough one to explain to the wife. Thinks I'm cheating
I know that Elon Musk gets a lot of hate on here, but hear me out.
I think we could hate him more. We have the capacity, we all just need to put in a little more effort.
Proposal to start referring to 'affordable housing' simply as 'housing' and all the rest as 'unaffordable housing'.
Me reading something about America each day for the last couple of weeks
It is once again time to give thanks to Brian Fox, the Black American programmer that has given us BASH and echo! Thank you for your INCREDIBLE contributions to open source software, Unix, and Linux. It literally would not be the same without you. BASH is still absolutely foundational to all computing today. Happy Black History Month to an absolute icon!
#bash #bashscript #echo #foss #linux #unix #BlackHistoryMonth #gnu
Releasing an album called Disambiguation (disambiguation) to force Wikipedia to add a page called Disambiguation (disambiguation) (disambiguation)
Good morning! On this first Tuesday in February, you are all invited to read through Wikipedia’s List of common misconceptions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions) per ancient xkcd custom.
A 19 year old has been given admin access to the core US treasury financial system by Elon Musk’s DOGE.
He goes by the name of “Mr. Big Balls” online, is on Russian forums, and has tried to purchase DDoS botnets.
Elon has said sharing this information is illegal, so please do not press the boost button.
https://www.wired.com/story/edward-coristine-tesla-sexy-path-networks-doge/
