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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 03:34:22 JST petra
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@pepsi_man @sickburnbro I trust very few so called scientific studies. Especially one like this would be that's so politically loaded and easy to manipulate into giving the desired results. Consequences of losing our high trust society.

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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 03:15:31 JST petra
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@sickburnbro "scientifically proven"
What a fucking idiot.

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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 22:49:41 JST petra
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@sickburnbro "Do you hate this person, too?"
Yes. Is that a question?

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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 03:35:10 JST petra
@LostShakerOfSalt @DEERBLOOD @Vulpes_Quartus @Escoffier @LawrenceGerald @Paultron @sickburnbro "... the exciting and eventful life they think all men lead"
LMAO. Let me tell you about my life ...

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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 02:53:33 JST petra
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@BattleDwarfGimli @sickburnbro @BroDrillard @jb @ApexBoomer @monsterislandcolonizer I've seen this too many times. They can be otherwise intelligent but become utter fools if there's an opportunity to be "kind". Because that's what's most important to them damn the consequences.

Same thing in British Columbia during covid and we had Bonnie Henry, the provincial health minister, ending every televised address with, "Be kind." And it worked on women and men that are basically women.

Because they knew it would.

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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 02:37:04 JST petra
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@BattleDwarfGimli @ApexBoomer @BroDrillard @jb @monsterislandcolonizer @sickburnbro Just found out we have Haitian problems here as well ... What is it with these fuckers and ducks?
"A Haitian man (illegal) in Canada killed his sweet wife (in my town)
She was a teacher, he cut her body up into finger sized pieces and fed her to the ducks in the neighborhood. He also brought their 2 year old daughter to feed her mom to the ducks.
16 years is all he got "
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/i-am-really-really-sorry-lawyer-reads-statement-from-langley-b-c-man-who-killed-his-wife-1.6931816
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  'I am really, really sorry': Lawyer reads statement from Langley, B.C., man who killed his wife
  
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  A B.C. man who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of his wife – Langley teacher-librarian Naomi Onotera – chose not to address the victim's family and friends during a sentencing hearing Tuesday.
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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 02:37:03 JST petra
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@monsterislandcolonizer @BattleDwarfGimli @ApexBoomer @BroDrillard @jb @sickburnbro This is his wife he murdered. A teacher/librarian.

JFC.
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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 01:51:55 JST petra
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@sickburnbro LOL ... "let's be clear"

Who the fuck are you, lulu? Fuck off.

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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 02:32:16 JST petra
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@sickburnbro I've heard exactly this from lib-progs I've known and worked with.

My memories of the 1970's have some shitty moments with the bad economy and the politics, but we still had a community. We didn't feel like aliens in our own land. It still felt like a nation. And there was still opportunity. You weren't held back or denied employment simply for being White and male. Even though my own community had problems (lots of WW2 vets) it was still ours.

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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 05:13:34 JST petra
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@sickburnbro @weaf It sickens me. I'm older. I've worked at old school companies approaching a century in operation. They had internal schools that after 7 or so years you were allowed to attend and took 18 months to go through. X-company University they were called. It was not a lark. You had to work at the company 7 years to even be invited to attend. And it was by selection. You didn't apply. They picked you. That 7 years prior was you proving you were worth it for the company to invest in you. Everyone took it seriously.

Now, nothing is serious. Nothing at all.

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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 08:09:40 JST petra
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@Jonny @iwetoddid @AmonMaritza @Snidely_Whiplash @fireandforget @matty @mjdigspigs @sickburnbro Ah. Have you heard of IP over Avian Carriers? It's a real thing. Because why the hell not? 😆
IPoAC has been successfully implemented, but for only nine packets of data, with a packet loss ratio of 55% (due to operator error),[2] and a response time ranging from 3,000 seconds (50 min) to over 6,000 seconds (100 min). Thus, this technology suffers from high latency.[3]

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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 07:54:12 JST petra
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@AmonMaritza @sickburnbro @Jonny @Snidely_Whiplash @fireandforget @iwetoddid @matty @mjdigspigs It's all small steps right now. And lots of big technical problems to overcome.

But it's like early spaceflight. Or early computing. We're figuring it all out as we go.

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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 07:41:43 JST petra
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@Jonny @iwetoddid @Snidely_Whiplash @fireandforget @matty @mjdigspigs @sickburnbro No. There really is something to quantum computing. We are just figuring it out.
But yes, it's going to be another huge hype cycle.
Afterwards there will be useful technology.
It's still virgin territory. As an engineer I find it wonderful.

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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 04:28:53 JST petra
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@sickburnbro @matty @Jonny @mjdigspigs And we don't even understand how the human mind works yet. We have no real understanding of consciousness or sentience.

We just copied an interesting structure that's found in the brain, the way neurons network with each other in the brain, stuck on a simple model of how they might interact and found at first interesting (letter recognition) and more and more surprising and possibly useful results.

But to call it thinking as an AI is a *huge* stretch - that sells!

This structure of networked neurons looks like it can power lower animals and their ability to move in the world, adapt to circumstances, find food, escape predators.

But we're a long way from human cognition as far as I can see.
We don't even know if it's this network structure is what leads to human level cognition. That could be a completely separate process we don't know about that's built *on top* of the existing network and took time to evolve.

Perhaps Pensrose's and others' idea of quantum mechanics being fundamentally involved in consciousness. We are just starting to understand quantum computing so maybe that will be the way forward.

Regardless, it still is an exciting field. Hype aside.

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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 02:58:31 JST petra
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@sickburnbro @BroDrillard @KarlDahl Managing data collection and analysis is still fairly clerical technician level work. And that's fine. I'm not knocking it. But these people will have the word "scientist" or "engineer" inserted into their job title and suddenly they believe they are actual scientists or engineers.

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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 02:50:56 JST petra
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@sickburnbro @KarlDahl No, unfortunately. Here graduate level programs have turned into another immigration pipeline, with universities charging 5+ times what a Canadian student pays. Instead of being exclusive these programs have been expanded with even former community colleges that taught trade skills expanded into "universities" with Bachelors programs and now Masters and Doctorates. Lots and lots of jeets. Drastically lowered standards.

Then you have to work with them.

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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 02:50:55 JST petra
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@BroDrillard @KarlDahl @sickburnbro Yes. It's an utter shit show.

I've been in a hiring role and I give problems to solve involving algorithms. Not easy but there's only one or two of them and only part of the interview process. They literally cannot do the work. They'll immediately want to start writing code for whatever reason and I have to explain to them it's not a coding exercise. We don't do coding exercises. Just solve the problem. No clue.

Leetcode and Code Academy have had a very bad effect. People have every expectation that they just grind 100's if not a 1000 or more coding problems and that's their ticket to a 6 figure salary.

They don't want to have to think and resent it if you demand it from them.

Then we can start on basic literacy. Without using grammarly or some other AI assist for spelling, grammar and content. Again, no clue.

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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 02:50:54 JST petra
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@BroDrillard @KarlDahl @sickburnbro The problem is coding is essentially clerical work now. Yes, it does take some skill and time to learn it to do it well, but I've done stocking in warehouses, service sector work that required responsibility, and manual farm work that required you to also think and plan ahead. All low pay. And writing code and even designing an app is really not that much more complicated. It's not for everybody, but just because you can code does not make you a secret genius by any stretch. It's definitely not six figures.

So when I see people complaining on cs and coding subreddits about the state of the industry and how little companies are offering in pay today I have zero sympathy. They want high pay for what is essentially medium to low skill labour.

Now come up with something that is truly original. Show an ability to truly problem solve and not just "try things out in code," then I am all ears. Just show some originality and independence. But we have the same number of people in absolute terms who can do that that we had 40 years ago. They've just become swamped by all the new low skill guys who want to be treated like the genuine talent is.

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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 23-Aug-2024 23:49:31 JST petra
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@TrevorGoodchild @sickburnbro Women are never happy. Not really. And the periods when they seem happy and say they are happy is just a prelude to the next go around.

I stopped being concerned about a woman's happiness like I stopped being concerned about the weather. You know it's going to change. Keep an eye out for how that might affect you. But ignore it otherwise and just keep moving forward.

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petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Aug-2024 06:24:15 JST petra
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@sickburnbro @transgrammaractivist @Jonaschuzzlewit @EvilSandmich If he's being deliberately obtuse then fuck him.

But honestly, a lot of people don't even understand the basics of what makes an economy work. Or financing. Or banking.

There's a lot of information out there now today thankfully, but you still have to make the effort to learn. Most won't.

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