#boston #cycling and #mobility folks, this coming Tuesday (3 March) there is a public hearing at 2 PM to discuss "snow removal relief, the creation of a snow corps, and the purchasing of snow melters." Virtual attendance is available as an option https://www.boston.gov/public-notices/16564666 […]

one of my favorite things on fedi is seeing an enormous infodump that is almost totally incomprehensible to me, where someone is just pouring out their heart about a topic that they love, in some gigantic thread of intense nerdery. sometimes I see people post self-consciously as if they feel […]

opening the spirit and the mouse to fix a bug and im greeted with this

NOT what I came in here looking for, but good to know

I've had the lyrics to the first verse of "Skyclad Observer" in my head a lot over the last week (I don't know the lyrics to the rest of it since the full song isn't in the STEINS;GATE VN as far as I know, or maybe I forgot about it? it's in the anime tho)

As an addendum, I'm using Python as an example here because it's near and dear to my heart. This is not "Python in particular is exceptionally bad," this is "a very bad thing has been happening in OSS *in general* and Python is now in that blast radius, which makes it harder for me to personally […]

#wgsu is on #strike and brought out the bigass inflatable rat

learned recently that Firefox has a "Move Tab > Move to New Window" option and it cannot be bound to a keyboard shortcut I wish I lived in the parallel world where people give a shit about HCI

just remembered that #我的三体 exists and I haven't seen any of it #mythreebody

almost always true, but especially true today: the news will keep until tomorrow

It remains to be seen how seriously the City of #boston will take the job of clearing up after #winterstormhernando, but I think it was smart to offer an explicit framework for volunteers to help with digging-out their neighborhoods […]

> LOOK You are in a room. There are exits to the north and west. There is an armchair. > SIT You are sitting in an armchair in a room. There are exits to the north and west. A small black cat enters the room. > TAKE CAT You cannot take the cat. > PET CAT You pet the cat. It starts to purr […]

do you think this is the first bitstream synthesized on a steam deck?

RE: https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/116127903785613314 podcaster government has podcaster failure modes it is not a coincidence how much of the "jeez that's stupid" stuff of late is tied to use of federal aviation for personal travel. they are exactly the jet-setting (pejorative) freaks you think […]

if anyone feels like anti-AI “purity culture” is a legit problem, to the extent that it is, *this* is what it looks like — unfounded, unsourced accusations of AI use where none is actually present: https://youtu.be/k9xxEU0ywqU?si=2IOALN2wJnmWxWPb

'Pacific Ocean, Boshu' from the third Souvenirs of Travel Series - Kawase Hasui, 1925. #ToriiTuesday #shinhanga #JapaneseArt

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When socrates hits u with that unexamined life is not worth living quote

LB

Another great day at work

a programming affectation that I use that I kinda wish I saw more is the "blast radius" of a change it's a very useful analogy IMO range safety (computation)

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post bot ergo propter bot

[uspol] secdef brags about intent to order pizza to confuse PizzaINT IOW: secdef brags about innumeracy

RE: https://mastodon.social/@simple_sabotage/116121385465705323 sometimes I read these snippets from the simple sabotage manual and think "hmm, that's just how programming already works"

once again using `strace` in anger: ``` sudo strace -o scratch/zoom_debug/zoom.txt --output-separately --follow-forks -p $(pgrep -i zoom | tr '\n' ',') ```

huh someone just pointed out to me that github's "a user you blocked contributed to this repository" warning box does not pop up on the `claudes-c-compiler` repo on github I guess msft has some kind of carve-out to suppress that feature sometimes?

RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@leffe/116120123505160472 People tend to forget how life was before unified character encodings.

love it when more and more video creators who make excellent videos *in* Japanese targeting learners fall into my recommendation feed. this woman's channel looks excellent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aadDcEjOIHk

Few flakes in South #boston, here it comes. #winterstormhernando #blizzard

So I did the whole #monsterdon from an airplane... on the ground. My 6:20 flight took off at 10:30, right after the film ended.

[look out window] … [check watch] … ❄️❓ :blobfoxgooglyconfused:

i wonder what the cybermen are doing #Monsterdon #wehavedrwhoathome

Ah yes the Daleks' other weakness, inaccessible infrastructure #Monsterdon

Watch thread: DOCTOR WHO AND THE DALEKS (1965…or is it 1966? we're not really sure, it seems)

sickos-yes.jpg #bancars #nyc

In about 45 minutes, I'm going to join in on Monsterdon, a communal movie-watching event. Lots of posts. Mute the tag or me as you see fit if that bugs you! More info here: https://hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ/111004128276431553

Didn't realize Hannah Fry was doing a documentary on "AI", but just watched an interview she did with New Scientist to promote it. I'm a bit disappointed by some of her views. Mostly that "human-level capability on all tasks" is "not too far off" as she put it.

@recursive one must have a positive image of the future to make progress

@SnoopJ only thing that can stop a bad guy with a sprach is a good guy with a spiel

falsifying user counts to make "AI" look more impressive than it is has real "ship bricks" energy to it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniScribe#Fraud_and_failure «The managers rented a second warehouse in Colorado, where they personally packed 26,000 bricks into hard drive boxes and shipped […]

I wish everyone talking about "exponential growth" of models a very please brush up on remedial mathematics

RE: https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/116116433331306030 angry guy yelling at others feels threatened 🙄

I'd not previously used the `has-text` directive in a uBlock Origin filter, but it's quite handy. Nice trick to add to my collection

today on #Monsterdon #wehavedrwhoathome

prompted by a discussion about naming things elsewhere

accumulation total is growing, and growing, and growing… https://weatherishappening.network/@WEATHERISHAPPENING/116115808262555997

LB: it's funny how one can gauge the severity of a winter weather emergency by how much fleece is present in the bunkah