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@alcinnz
This made me realise that built in large integers mostly appear in languages with a "don't sweat the low level details" attitude like Lisp and Smalltalk.
Never thought of it that way before.
Tell me you've been drafting policy by listening to US big-tech lobbyists instead of domain experts without telling me you've been drafting policy by listening to US big-tech lobbyists instead of domain experts.
Hier kommt unsere Schatzkiste an #Job Fünden aus dieser Woche:
Techpaladin sucht eine:n KDE Plasma Developer:in, weltweit remote:
https://techpaladinsoftware.com/joinus.html
Die Sovereign Tech Agency @sovtechfund sucht eine:n Programm-Manager:in Fellowship und Standards, hybrid in Berlin:
https://www.sovereign.tech/de/stellenangebote/programm-manager_in-fellowship-standards
Osborne Clarke sucht eine:n wissenschaftliche:n Mitarbeiter:in Software-Compliance Open Source, in Berlin:
https://www.osborneclarke.de/de/stellenangebote/wissenschaftlicher-mitarbeiter-referendar-wmd-it-recht-software-compliance-open-source/
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Upsall International sucht eine:n Holistic Security Lead, weltweit remote:
https://upsallinternational.com/jobs/holistic-security-lead/
Der Open Technology Fund (OTF) sucht eine:n Program Manager:in:
https://opentechnologyfund.applytojob.com/apply/yREA1fKSPG/Program-Manager
Außerdem gibt es bei AccessibleEU bis Ende Oktober die Möglichkeit, an einem kostenlosen Online-Training zu Accessible Technology Design teilzunehmen (EN):
https://accessibleeucentre.criteria-campus.com/
Bis nächste Woche!
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@atomicbird @rygorous yeah nope: I'm 61 and those units were already falling into disuse in my childhood. Cubic metres makes more sense (at STP one cubic metre of water weighs one tonne).
If you are a Masto bridged to Bluesky (via @bsky.brid.gy) you can now follow @velocanadabikes.bsky.social. These folks manage and decode the annual #pedalpoll and use it to advocate for safer streets.
All that #bike data? Certainly worth a follow!
Please boost.
#PedalPollSondoVelo #yegbike #yycbike #bikeyfc #yhzbike #bikeyul #bikeyqb #yowbike #yytbike #yyzbike #yvrbike #ywgbike
Japan kept university student flyhalf Ryunosuke Ito in the starting lineup it named on Thursday to face Ireland in the Nations Championship, as head coach Eddie Jones returns from suspension. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2026/07/09/more-sports/japan-ireland-lineup-nations-championship/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #moresports #eddiejones #braveblossoms #nationschampionship #ryunosukeito
Hier kommt unsere Schatzkiste an #Job Fünden aus dieser Woche:
Techpaladin sucht eine:n KDE Plasma Developer:in, weltweit remote:
https://techpaladinsoftware.com/joinus.html
Die Sovereign Tech Agency @sovtechfund sucht eine:n Programm-Manager:in Fellowship und Standards, hybrid in Berlin:
https://www.sovereign.tech/de/stellenangebote/programm-manager_in-fellowship-standards
Osborne Clarke sucht eine:n wissenschaftliche:n Mitarbeiter:in Software-Compliance Open Source, in Berlin:
https://www.osborneclarke.de/de/stellenangebote/wissenschaftlicher-mitarbeiter-referendar-wmd-it-recht-software-compliance-open-source/
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If anyone is attending (or wants to attend) the North Sea Jazz festival in Rotterdam this weekend, I'm selling a 3-day ticket at face value (plus transaction fees)
message me if interested
#northseajazz #nordzeejazz
or just get in touch if you're at the show!
Libcom: **Five Short Articles from Mexican and Cuban Trotskyists in the 1940s - Mexican Section of the Fourth International, Workers' Socialist Group, & Labour Youth**
https://libcom.org/article/five-short-articles-mexican-and-cuban-trotskyists-1940s-mexican-section-fourth
@aworkinglibrary @adamgreenfield Oh, that’s fantastic. I need to take a look at Jekyll. I’ve stopped building my websites myself and switched to pre-built templates because I hate wrestling with WordPress so much. I’m definitely going to look into this as an alternative.
@fishsauce @aworkinglibrary Yes, if I’d had this as an exemplar in February I wouldn’t have spent [mumble] hiring a designer to hack Ghost into a shape it doesn’t really want to be in.
🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine - Kherson - Human Safari 🚨
🗣️This is a deeply personal message about my friends at the NGO Spravzhni in #Kherson, Ukraine, and a recent drone attack on the team I volunteered with.
➡️ Please take 2 mins to watch. I’m sharing the stark reality of the underreported “human safari”—where Russian operators are using first-person-view drones to hunt down and target ordinary civilians, senior citizens, first responders and aid workers on the streets daily.
Here is how you can help right now👇🏾
▶️Watch, Like, and Repost: It doesn’t matter if you have a small or large platform—every single act of solidarity helps beat the algorithm and extend this urgent message.
📲Follow and support the vital, community-led work of the Spravzhni on Instagram at @ spravzhni_ukraine
☎️If you live in the U.S., the EU, or an allied nation, call or write your elected officials. Urge them to strengthen air defense and sustain support for #Ukraine. One call matters; a flood of them changes policy.
@leodurruti
Notevole che il loro nome è ispirato all'omonimo film di Ken Russell, esso stesso bandito dalla censura in italia per circa mezzo secolo (in realtà non per satanismo ma per blasfemia).
You know a website is going to have the best content when they’ve never heard of css and the url is something dot edu /~someonesname
Suddenly a combo came to my mind: inn+suck and slrn
If you know what I’m talking about, boost this post. You probably have a few gray hairs too.
@sundogplanets
What number constitutes a megaconstellation these days, now that we have proposals for 100,000 - 1,000,000 satellites?
@AkaSci I'm personally still paying attention to any megaconstellation above 100 sats (the smaller ones are the ones that are more likely to be actually deployed, imo)
@leodurruti
Notevole che il loro nome è ispirato all'omonimo film di Ken Russell, esso stesso bandito dalla censura in italia per circa mezzo secolo (in realtà non per satanismo ma per blasfemia).
@NicholasLaney in realtà Serravalle Civica accusava il gruppo proprio di «blasfemia, dissacrazione e vilipendio della religione», e ne fa cenno (ma giusto un cenno) anche l'articolo di Rockit, ma evidentemente «satanismo» tirava di più per fare il titolo.
that's fucking funny bitch it's fucking winnie the fucking pooh
A recurring theme in my arguments with AI proponents is that they universally have a flawed mental model of technological progress. They think that because AI can, for example, help discover better ways to make chips, that means that now things will continually accelerate.
But that's not how progress works. AI represents, at most, a step change, *not* an inflection point. It helps us make better use of the data available to us, but it doesn't make us any better as at actually integrating those discoveries into our society, institutions, and mental models.
To give an example, AlphaFold 2 represented a leap forward of about a decade in protein folding. But that's it. We're not now advancing a decade every year, we're just a decade ahead of where we were.
Likewise, we now have models that might help with discovering better approaches to quantum computing, and new room temperature superconductors. Those might get us to those things 10 years earlier than they otherwise would have, but that's it.
The reason for this is simple: they're just accelerating searches. They're not creating fundamentally new theories, just letting us explore the possibilities opened by existing theories faster.
Technological progress is not just about discovery and invention. In fact, those are the least important parts. Real, durable progress comes from developing better mental models of the world. And if anything, AI will slow that down by enabling more discoveries using worse mental models.
This concept is nearly impossible to explain to AI proponents, because they typically aren't even able to articulate their mental model of technological progress. It's "obvious" to them that quantum computing will massively accelerate everything.
One thing they always do is point out people who said various things were "impossible" or weren't coming any time soon, but then did. The fact that "thinking machines" were nearly universal in science fiction in the 40s and 50s doesn't seem to move them at all. People may have been underestimating how far away they were then, but surely they aren't now!
I suspect the only thing that ever convinces techno-optimists is decades of not having things happen that they expected to happen. That's what convinced me. But of course I *also* had to have a realistic perspective on the actual impact technologies had had over my lifetime. Like the fact that computers and the Internet had no measurable impact on productivity.
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