Notices by jack the nonabrasive (karabaic@mastodon.social)

"Go lick a boot, Mark."

made me llol

@Mer__edith My engineering friends tell me that tools like CoPilot are almost useless for new coding tasks, but very useful for generating unit and integration tests and can do a reasonable job at creating entire test suites with a few prompting sessions. Makes sense, because those are very structured tasks.

So, if you think of test as 25% of an engineer's work, I can see how this bit of folklore became an actionable metric at the senior management level as it filtered upward.

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If it isn't obvious, the main tactic will continue to be Black voter suppression. The best thing white folks can do is assist voter turnout.

From my experience doing GOTV in Ohio, this is going to get much uglier than it already is. What this poll
shows is that we need to clear the paths.

From: @mekkaokereke
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/112847353808292270

@cstross I think #StefanoQuintarelli has the best take on this. Call them Systematic Approaches to Learning Algorithms and Machine Inferences: SALAMI. Sounds silly to say, is this SALAMI conscious? https://blog.quintarelli.it/2019/11/lets-forget-the-term-ai-lets-call-them-systematic-approaches-to-learning-algorithms-and-machine-inferences-salami/

Hey! US folks! Those noncompete clauses you signed? Just banned.

Celebrate!

Go work for a competitor. Go found your own competition.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/ftc-announces-rule-banning-noncompetes

@georgetakei if you don't watch out, those errors multiply

@thomasfuchs @tinfoilhat The #USA's dysfunctional, centralized approach to testing is detailed in #ScottGottlieb's #UncontrolledSpread and contrasted with the #EU approach that worked better in the pandemic.

It's more than just testing regulation, it has to do with billing and insurance, too.

It's worth noting that this regulatory structure is what also kept the USA from widespread use of thalidomide for morning sickness in the 1950's.

If only they could have used a racial slur to stop it.

From: @patrickcmiller
https://infosec.exchange/@patrickcmiller/111479614405393160

@emilygorcenski I liked the post. A useful resource may be Gebru & Torres’s work. I know you mentioned Gebru’s firing, but she and others have done significant work on the TESCREAL bundle—transhumanism, extropianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, rationalism, effective altruism, longtermism—at the Distributed AI Research Institute since then.

Also recommend the podcast, Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 with Emily Bender, Alex Hanna, and guests. (dair.org)

https://youtu.be/P7XT4TWLzJw?si=Tq1mNJiPi08jbo_6

@emilygorcenski “‘Thanks for the great ride!’ Vogt wrote [after cluelessly diving under a bus and being dragged for 2 weeks]”

@emilygorcenski it’s shoddy journalism. They’re making sentences consecutive that wouldn’t be.

@emilygorcenski I don't believe the headline writer actually went through the federal sentencing guidelines to get that number.

@mmasnick you are welcome & missed.

Blocking works here as well as on BlueSky. Probably better.

@emilygorcenski Yeah, if McAir weren’t completely dishonest in describing much of the F-15’s software—which taxpayers paid for—as “firmware” they called “proprietary” and, thus, didn’t need to provide source code to, test publicly, or document, I’d probably feel sorry.

But, I don’t, because they treated their customers—the USAF and the American taxpayer—as rubes beneath contempt. They got what they deserved: they lost the next contract, as I advocated.

@emilygorcenski If you want the full story, do a FOIA request on the whole sordid history of F-15 Contract Change Proposal 39. McAir were the most arrogant assholes I’ve ever dealt with, even if they could make a brick fly.

While you’re at it, pull the history of the Common Engine Bay proposal, and the years they spent opposing the ability for the USAF to second-source engines for the F-15.

Man, it’s over 40 years later and I still hate those disingenuous asshats.

@skrishna My dad used to make fun of Chekov’s bad Russian accent, but I think he was secretly proud of the Slavic representation. He was a machinist at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and the “nuclear wessels” line became a family joke.

@cwebber @aaronpk The ice must flow

@Mrfunkedude it’s a good start. You’ll enjoy it.