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Notices by Don Whiteside (donw@mastodon.coffee), page 2

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    Don Whiteside (donw@mastodon.coffee)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 23:27:52 JST Don Whiteside Don Whiteside
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    • scott f
    • Peter Krefting

    @nafmo @scott The culture didn’t. Car culture did. https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history#

    In conversation 10 months ago from mastodon.coffee permalink

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      The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of "jaywalking"
      from Joseph Stromberg
      In the 1920s, auto groups redefined who owned the city streets.
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    Don Whiteside (donw@mastodon.coffee)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 05:18:24 JST Don Whiteside Don Whiteside
    in reply to
    • jwz
    • Paul Cantrell

    @inthehands hey look @jwz brought us an example. https://mastodon.social/@jwz/113092305920577266

    In conversation 10 months ago from mastodon.coffee permalink

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      jwz (@jwz@mastodon.social)
      from jwz
      Attached: 1 image Remember, kids: *technically* true is the *best* kind of true. https://jwz.org/b/ykY6
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    Don Whiteside (donw@mastodon.coffee)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 00:11:39 JST Don Whiteside Don Whiteside
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    • Paul Cantrell

    @inthehands Shit, we can't even get the paper to stop reporting percentage changes without any basis. I can't count the number of times WaPo has published stories about a percentage increase in crime on the Metro without any indication of how many crimes there were before or after, much less a context of how many rides there are a day.

    Up 43% in daily incidents! Ok.... from 20 crimes or 200,000? Compared to how many trips?

    It boggles my mind that people leave j-school so innumerate.

    In conversation 10 months ago from mastodon.coffee permalink
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    Don Whiteside (donw@mastodon.coffee)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 02:56:18 JST Don Whiteside Don Whiteside
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    • Paul Cantrell

    @inthehands The whole LLM situation makes me flash back on the daily; I remember clearly what it looked and felt like siting in that software class in the early 90s, talking about expert systems vs neural networks.

    The neural networks part shared the story of the tank spotting system that they trained to perfection till it consistently found the tanks. Till they “tried it in prod” and it turned out the training set tank photos were all on a cloudy day.

    That data set was at least consistent.

    In conversation 10 months ago from mastodon.coffee permalink
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    Don Whiteside (donw@mastodon.coffee)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 01:51:43 JST Don Whiteside Don Whiteside
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    • Paul Cantrell

    @inthehands I think you’re right on all of this. I do wonder if perhaps it would still represent an improvement. After all, one of the biggest mistakes people make (IMNSHO) is they compare a flawed outcome to a utopian possibility, not the way something will actually happen otherwise.

    I’m less worried right now about the flawed self drive solutions than I am flawed legal structures around them. This situation in Cali where nobody currently can be fined for their misbehavior is untenable.

    In conversation 10 months ago from mastodon.coffee permalink
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    Don Whiteside (donw@mastodon.coffee)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 02:16:35 JST Don Whiteside Don Whiteside
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    • Paul Cantrell

    @inthehands Our local school district has instituted a fairly aggressive policy on retakes and the dialog in local parent forums is just an astonishing wall of folks telling on themselves that way. Whenever I interact with them with my stock “are we doing better for the student long-term by working towards mastery of the subject or by issuing grades to assess knowledge at a specific point in time?” I get back various sputtering about consequences and rewards for high achievers.

    In conversation 10 months ago from mastodon.coffee permalink
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    Don Whiteside (donw@mastodon.coffee)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 23:34:45 JST Don Whiteside Don Whiteside
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    • Paul Cantrell
    • 𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"

    @inthehands @Lana Yeah the operation that manages our meal accounts charges $2 to reload, regardless of how much you’re adding to the account. If you can afford to drop $100 at a time it’s less than the CC processing fee (which leads me to suspect they’re paid by the district above and beyond this fee) but for anyone else it’s pretty punitive when lunches are $3.50.

    But the cost of these programs don’t count when they’re paid by citizens and are not on a budgetary line item, right?

    In conversation 11 months ago from mastodon.coffee permalink
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    Don Whiteside (donw@mastodon.coffee)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jul-2024 03:16:32 JST Don Whiteside Don Whiteside
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    • Paul Cantrell

    @inthehands They really should be asking Trump on camera why he’s not running with Pence again. He wouldn’t be able to keep his stupid mouth shut on the matter.

    In conversation 12 months ago from mastodon.coffee permalink
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    Don Whiteside (donw@mastodon.coffee)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 00:15:18 JST Don Whiteside Don Whiteside
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    • Paul Cantrell

    @inthehands I put this together for a game design class I taught. https://youtu.be/t-KKMYE0s4Q?si=U6XLAAm5zBV2n-MZ

    In conversation about a year ago from mastodon.coffee permalink

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    1. Spinal Tap - Specifications Matter
      from Don Whiteside
      I showed this clip to my GAME 101 class to establish that specifications and shared terminology are important.
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    Don Whiteside (donw@mastodon.coffee)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 00:34:10 JST Don Whiteside Don Whiteside
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    • Paul Cantrell

    @inthehands Recon that depends on where you are, pal. In my day they only had 32 booleans in there; hell, down some more primitive parts they’d just put in 16 or even 8, though we’ve done come a bit farther now.

    We heard some tales of locales where they’d have more but us, we had to accomplish that sort of thing in shifts.

    In conversation about a year ago from mastodon.coffee permalink
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    Don Whiteside (donw@mastodon.coffee)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 09:16:05 JST Don Whiteside Don Whiteside
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    • Girl on the Net
    • Lisa Melton

    @girlonthenet @lisamelton My wife and I have a specific place on our bodies where if we scratch an itch that means “I have forgotten this person’s name” so the other knows to use it as soon as possible.

    Sometimes on very forgetful days I worry folks will think I have fleas but it’s good motivation to try hard before using it.

    In conversation about a year ago from mastodon.coffee permalink
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    Don Whiteside (donw@mastodon.coffee)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 21:46:14 JST Don Whiteside Don Whiteside
    • Don Melton
    • Thomas 🔭🕹️

    @thomasfuchs @donmelton I had a terse email exchange with the people behind a certain popular crm/blogging system a number of years ago. I wrote to complain that they didn't prominently link the release notes for each new release and it was a number of steps to find them. That made it a hassle to go look and see if the release covered issues I would have and thus made it worth installing and testing. They responded that "most of our users just want to run the most current thing.”🙄

    In conversation 2 years ago from mastodon.coffee permalink
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    Don Whiteside (donw@mastodon.coffee)'s status on Saturday, 19-Aug-2023 01:11:58 JST Don Whiteside Don Whiteside
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    • Aral Balkan

    @aral I only ever wrote code against authorize.net not stripe but it absolutely had a way to cancel a pre authorization. Coincidentally I never had a need to IMPLEMENT it because of the purpose we were using it but I guess someone could just decide not to bother to implement it because f—- you.

    Even then, this is almost certainly something they could choose to do via a management portal if they just, again, GAF.

    In conversation 2 years ago from mastodon.coffee permalink

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      Payment processing: Accept payments anywhere | Authorize.net
      Authorize.net supports payment processing by helping small businesses accept credit card and eCheck payments online, in person, via mobile devices, and more.
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    Don Whiteside (donw@mastodon.coffee)'s status on Friday, 18-Aug-2023 00:16:35 JST Don Whiteside Don Whiteside
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    • Aral Balkan

    @aral I get those all the time and I don’t run an ad blocker. I run a tracker blocker, which they “confuse” with an ad blocker. Tells me what they’re really concerned with.

    In conversation 2 years ago from mastodon.coffee permalink
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    I'm Don. I live in Arlington Virginia ("Occupied DC" as far as I'm concerned. Retro-retrocession now!) and get up to a variety of nerdy things. I was very proud of We Love DC and wrangling authors and websites was good practice for parenting.You don't have to follow me back! This isn't twitter 15 years ago! If you're interested in my blather, great, welcome, happy to have you. But I am not offended if I'm interested in what you post but you're not interested in what I choose to talk about.

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