Notices by David Smith (catfish_man@mastodon.social)

@futurebird some time ago, in a fit of sleep deprivation induced brain malfunction, I made this (ResEdit reminded me of it)

It’s been less than 48 hours since the last time a leftist earnestly told me a SovCit conspiracy theory, so strongly endorsing this.

I’m… working on the grace part.

https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/113878979766282477

There’s these young women on the bus with what looks like some sort of religious outfits, and an old man just went up to them and said “he is here now” in a very intense quiet voice, then got off the bus. Now they’re chanting in unison and it’s echoing oddly.

If demons get me, I didn’t know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

@futurebird

5. Does it contain a microphone? How difficult is it to break or remove said microphone?

@inthehands exactly so 😂 I had forgotten about that one

I enjoy how living in California slowly makes people* have more and more unhinged sounding opinions.

Year 1: I think queer people should have rights uwu 🥺

Year 10: FUCK ALMONDS AND PARKING SPOTS

*me, I’m people

@skinnylatte fwiw as someone who really enjoys bread and pastries in SF, I don’t actually like about 80% of their selection. It’s all well constructed they just have ideas about flavor profiles I don’t mesh with (other than the two things I actually get)

@inthehands @steve -Wnofear

Makes me wince a little bit every time I see a programming question framed as "how do I silence this warning?" with no attention paid to whether there's an actual problem or not.

@steve ah yes, it's math that's wrong ;)

@lzg my plan this year is to be lazy but last year I tried combining the two (potatoes dauphinoise) and that went pretty well

Minor pet peeve in LLM discussions: claiming that something cannot be correct if the thing producing it doesn’t comprehend it.

1+1 doesn’t stop equaling 2 if you arrive at that result by accident.

There’s lots of good reasons to dunk on LLMs, we don’t need to make up bad ones.

This one actually IS on my team, which as far as I can tell is the unicorn of tech jobs:
* manager I like
* teammates I like
* almost all work is open source
* reasonable work/life balance
* remote-first (though this spot is in London)
* work is both interesting and useful to the world (make software harder to surveil + more efficient!)

It’s still a megacorp but as far as I can tell this is as good as that gets.

https://discuss.systems/@steve/113507026874179924

@quephird I always wanted to make an NES emulator that appended all the state to a permanent record and then had a time slider at the bottom so you could scrub through your play history

@inthehands me, extremely sleep deprived: wait why would coffee machine parts go in the clarinet

<rubs eyes>

Ohhhh

@inthehands I kinda wonder how much the “lsd microdose for productivity/innovation” trend feeds into this. My notes from trying 90 micrograms (which is probably higher than “micro” but still firmly below significant visual effect levels) were that the experience included

* feeling excessively clever
* being extremely suggestible
* feeling vaguely worshipful in a nonspecific but religious-feeling way

Entheogens gonna entheogen?

@inthehands now we just need wookieeepedia.org for wookie electrical engineers

@inthehands if this is a Wendy’s then fly me to Neverland

The lack of AC is killing me but this room where I’m staying on vacation almost makes up for it

@inthehands Disco Elysium! Somehow a group of depressed Eastern European communists managed to ship a long philosophical ramble as a really good game.