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@lzg sometimes a moth is just after the lamp

@lzg if no secret meaning THEN WHAT MEANING INDEED 😱

@ryanc @Sempf I still feel like some variety of ground squirrel *should* be the answer (but how that would only affect DNS idk) 😆

@Sempf @ryanc I guess… no 😅

@ryanc ISP-level issues?

So I think I’m formerly used to more temperature variation in a day than the Bay Area gets in a year, but I’m trying to figure out what the seasonal markers are here, since this is rather new to me. Are there even seasons?!

It is entirely too summer today to think about Halloween, and yet… this is Acceptable

Today officially marks being halfway (well, two out of the requisite four Large Strenuous Tasks accomplished, anyways) through moving house

The word « fungible » should really only refer to mushrooms and friends

@lzg uggggggh, that’s super annoying when it happens.

Do you ever troll them back?

@ryanc @xabean @tilde as long as they don’t screw up night vision that would be epic, sign me up

@tilde great for raves and also for finding your retainer when it rolls off the nightstand under the bed?!

@lzg my guess would be it’s a designation created by people who are afraid of everyone but themselves to refer to everyone they perceive as not-them

@inthehands heh, thank you! My plans are to a) have less caffeine and b) to react only just as if one would if the neighbor’s teenager said something objectionable: not get visibly upset, but politely ask questions to dig into what they actually think, and if it’s not parroted hot air, tell them they have a choice between speaking politely or gtfo!

My anxiety has been through the roof this week. On the one hand, visits with probably objectionable family approach fast; but on the other I realized I’ve somehow worked up to a pot of coffee a day plus 64 oz of black tea and, uh, perhaps that is a bit much

@inthehands I love that! Solnit in general is excellent.

Trying to remember to balance out my fears with my hopes is hard, but learning how to let neither of them get the best of me is my current challenge

@ryanc the thing in question is a talk I’m watching about using LLMs to figure out if code variants are equivalent, and as their baseline they seem to have used precision, recall, and F1 to measure how well methods that leverage non-ML things do at determining when code variants are equivalent

@ryanc yeah, if you want a bunch of semi-reasonable test cases for a compiler or something and you generate a bunch of build variants, is the case I was thinking about

If you’re generating code, and you’re *not* doing it with an LLM, is it reasonable to use metrics like F1 and recall to measure how well the tools you use are doing? This is bothering me because it feels a bit weird to apply metrics like this to static analyses, build tooling frameworks, or things that just plain don’t have any recall to begin with.