@TheBreadmonkey How much trouble could you actually be in? A WORLD of trouble, you say? Ben, that’s a terrible gag, behave yourself.
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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A question for speakers and experts of Spanish:
When I hear Spanish – both European and American – I get the impression that there are people who, in rapid speech, pronounce the ue diphthong not as /we/ but as /wø/, with /ø/ being the vowel of French 'peu'.
Can anyone tell me more about this?
You see, if it is the case, it would tie in beautifully with what happened ... 1/
Ed Freyfogle
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Just a reminder - boost everything you love, it helps people find cool stuff on Mastodon.
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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When checking out a new provider / online shop, don't hesitate to check out their job offering, they'll tell you a lot about their culture!
Was recommended this online all-organic shop with lots of vegan staples. They have a job opening for a product manager who must use LLMs in all parts of their daily work and will push for more "AI" adoption. Yeah, they're actually a VC-backed "Foodtech" company. That's a no for me folks.
¡Abbie!
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1994 problems and 2026 problems are sometimes the same
Jules she/her
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@afewbugs @Shrigglepuss blobby blobby Fedi
@vruz @foone Is it true though? When I read or watch info about genuinely cutting edge tech of today, it seems the primary motivator for forward movement is the limitations of physics, e.g. microchip fab companies, etc. The approach to that appears often to be what distinguishes companies and teams working on these problems.
Modern software engineers on the other hand almost never seem to think of the underlying hardware in my experience. Not sure if that's the side you refer to though..?
I can only certify that my surprise is genuine and I wasn't thinking of camps, groups, or cliques. I was just posting my general impressions on social media, I didn't think of any specific individuals, groups, or camps 🤷
Ika Makimaki
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@pezmico on the one hand we could demand companies be less harmful (to everybody), on the other we could try to regulate children's behaviour (poorly, while ensuring they never seek help for the online harm they've experienced.)
It's so much easier to legislate against young people than it is to place constraints on business.
@tinker Better is good. Hang in there. The hellswamp awaits.
Why we're so sure our phones are listening by Christophe
But we do listen.
You could be one of those rare people with no smartphone, no laptop. I can hand you your first device with Facebook installed, and if you didn't use the device — just kept it on and logged into it for the first time — we'd have ads waiting for you without you searching for anything.
I know this, because I was that guy (once) and because of where I work.
This is a fascinating and weird failure mode for a #CRT. Circles like that I would assume are a digital artifact, but the rainbow sheen around the perimeter of each one suggest an analog mechanism.
Ideas, anybody?
@mkb Kid with a magnifying glass, I think. Saw some similar dots on a bus stop advertising display.
Just discovered these absolutely batshit insane books by Janet Morris, a defense and psyops expert who spent her free time writing military fantasy smut that apparently sold millions of copies in the 70s and 80s. Now they are only available as print-on-demand. These original covers ... OMG WTF https://www.blackgate.com/2016/03/19/vintage-treasures-the-silistra-quartet-by-janet-morris/
Pretty average Boris Vallejo. I think I've seen some of those covers in a Vallejo art book.
I've also seen the Achilleos covers in a collection somewhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_queens_puzzle
Finding all solutions to the eight queens puzzle is a good example of a simple but nontrivial problem.
no, modular exponentiation is a good example of that. n queens is extremely complex!
Most often, it is used as an example of a problem that can be solved with a recursive algorithm, by phrasing the n queens problem inductively in terms of adding a single queen to any solution to the problem of placing n−1 queens on an n×n chessboard.
so this is the kind of order-dependent problem that becomes literally undecidable when you try to enumerate all solutions
@hipsterelectron
Why undecidable? You do it recursively, checking all the possible placements for 7 queens to see if you can put an 8th queen... the base case is the 1 queen problem, and you can always place 1 queen so there are 64 base cases. it sounds like crazy amounts of computing to me but I think its provable it terminates?
That explains a lot.
@lowqualityfacts
::Anakin and Padme meme::
Roland
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Comment tu veux pas qu'on se radicalise, c'est une dinguerie
À gauche y'a pas un seul parti en dehors de LFI à qui ça viendrait l'idée d'abroger les 10 ans de reformes mortifères de Pôle Emploi / France Travail qui foutent littéralement les gens à la rue et à la mort
Évidemment qu'on va voter pour le Vieux et qu'on va faire du forcing pour qu'il gagne. C'est juste nécessaire quoi.
Chez LFI c'est carré, ce sera abrogé : https://melenchon2027.fr/programme2025/livre/chapitre8/s5/#:~:text=Abroger%20la%20loi%20France%20Travail%20et%20l%E2%80%99obligation%20de%20r%C3%A9aliser%2015h%20d%E2%80%99activit%C3%A9s%20hebdomadaires%20contre%20le%20revenu%20de%20remplacement%20(allocation%2Dch%C3%B4mage%2C%20RSA%2C%20ASS%E2%80%A6)
kookie 🇵🇸
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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@beyondmachines1/117150140129131878
So, uh, funny thing, pretty sure there's a few Western sites that do this exact thing as well.
I'm not 100% yet, but I've had the exact same functional behavior on LinkedIn as well as Meta sites, despite autoplay being off and no media showing.
Konrad Hinsen
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🤖 Long before computers became commonplace, people were fascinated by the idea of machines that could think, talk, and act on their own.
From ELIZA to Little Computer People, early software used clever coding to create the illusion of intelligence, personality, and autonomy.
Our new Vintage Artificial Intelligence collection brings together emulated software from the 1970s–90s that explored what it might be like to have machines that think.
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While we still offer tradespeople a tea, coffee, or water, we now also offer them a can of Monster.
I have not had to boil a kettle for ages.
@neil Hmm, interesting. I always offer a cup of something, hadn't thought about it this way.
But, don't want that stuff in the house (the kids would sniff it out no matter how hard I hide it!) so the tradespeople may need to tolerate traditional brew!
Carlos Solís
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Years ago, I built a website for a local motorcycle shop. I just checked, and they're still using it, completely unchanged. Which is nice because, if you look at the source code, you can still see the image of the children's quad bikes with the filename 'deathtraps.jpg'
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Years ago, I built a website for a local motorcycle shop. I just checked, and they're still using it, completely unchanged. Which is nice because, if you look at the source code, you can still see the image of the children's quad bikes with the filename 'deathtraps.jpg'
