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soweli Neko @nekotachi.bsky.social · 49m

LLM people don't seem to understand in order to make progress you generally have to combine old techniques with new techniques. You don't make air travel safer by replacing the life vests with parachutes. You can't just abandon previous strategies because there's something new.

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soweli Neko @nekotachi.bsky.social · 54m

the main thing its good for is debugging when you either can't get a debugger in there, or you anticipate bugs to be nearly impossible to replicate after the fact (but in that case log levels won't help and you just want maximum verbosity + lots of metadata)

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soweli Neko @nekotachi.bsky.social · 55m

ok so the singular of criteria is criterion. and a criterium is actually a type of bike race. definitely not confusing at all.

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soweli Neko @nekotachi.bsky.social · 1h

in a well-designed ui, you should be able to click whatever buttons you want and not do bad things, unless those buttons say "do bad things".

for example, a button labeled "refresh" should ideally never result in data loss, and if it could, there should be some disclaimer or warning

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dog girl jesus @doggirldotfaggot.bsky.social · 2h

we need to take mtf and ftm away from cis people until they learn that the second half of that acronym matters like infinitely more than the furst half

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soweli Neko @nekotachi.bsky.social · 1h

The fact that tactics like this are effective is a big reason why so much effort is put into dividing people based on relatively small differences in privilege. The capitalists pay you 30% more than your coworker to distract you from the fact they make thousands of times more than you.

Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 4h

Shout-out to all of the white people that think that dressing up as inflatable frogs is an innovation in non-violence that takes power away from authoritarians.

The difference is not about the tactic. The difference is about who is in inside the frog costumes.

This is BLM "Wall of moms" redux.

People in inflatable frog costumes protest ICE in Portland.

Portland "Wall of Moms" protest in Oregon, featuring a group of white women of various ages, standing and linking arms.

A sign says, "You may be the Feds, but we are the moms."

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soweli Neko @nekotachi.bsky.social · 1h

This is kinda a specific symptom of the general issue of "everything has horrible error messages that don't help at all"

soweli Neko @nekotachi.bsky.social · 2h

A big problem with linux desktop software is not providing clear error messages when required software is not present.

If you click on a "choose file" button, and you don't have a file picker installed, you should at least get an error message telling you to install one.

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soweli Neko @nekotachi.bsky.social · 2h

A big problem with linux desktop software is not providing clear error messages when required software is not present.

If you click on a "choose file" button, and you don't have a file picker installed, you should at least get an error message telling you to install one.

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soweli Neko @nekotachi.bsky.social · 2h

a fair few of rustfmt's unstable options are unstable are because they have significant bugs that noone has stepped up to fix yet.

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soweli Neko @nekotachi.bsky.social · 2h

I wonder if there's any existing program to quantify how many lines of code are gated behind specific cfgs and feature flags in #rustlang

it would be a neat bit of data, if nothing else. could probably be done via a compiler plugin fairly easily.

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soweli Neko @nekotachi.bsky.social · 22h

current llms can't even notice you using an uninitialized variable half of the time, so i wouldn't hold my breath

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1d

% of Programmers Identifying as LGBTQ by Language

there are 14 languages listed.

c & go are the lowest at 3%

ts is at 25%

rust is at 55%

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soweli Neko @nekotachi.bsky.social · 1d

is there an existing service to run a bsky labeler? i wouldn't mind doing the basic stuff of like handling reports of bot accounts and categorizing them. i don't know if people actually send reports to labelers tho.

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soweli Neko @nekotachi.bsky.social · 1d

i want to write a DSL for documenting CLI applications that can autogenerate manuals (mdoc, man, and html), as well as autogenerating completion scripts for various shells

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soweli Neko @nekotachi.bsky.social · 1d

i just remembered @typst.app exists.

it's like the coolest thing i have zero use for currently x3

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soweli Neko @nekotachi.bsky.social · 1d

The weird thing about bsky labelers imo is the ones that exist have very little overlap with the ones that would help me personally.

i wish we had more labelers for various categories of bot accounts, sometimes I'll see the same story 5 times in a feed from different bots.

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Despoina She/They [Commissions Open] @desdarkdesigns.bsky.social · 1d

Do not let KOSA slip through your radar people, make damn sure to be vocal about your opposition to such dogshit bills.

Bombard your reps with calls and letters about being against this.

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 1d

#SaveSpeech

KOSA has amassed more cosponsors recently, jumping from 42 to 60 total

You need to call your reps and DEMAND that they oppose this legislation ASAP

The link below contains more info about KOSA and an easy way to contact your reps
5calls.org/issue/kids-o...

Please call DAILY

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 1d

Human Rights Watch not actually in the business of selling human rights offsets

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

LMAOOOOO

A bunch of comedians tried to make up for their participation in the Riyadh comedy festival by donating their pay to Human Rights Watch and Human rights Watch was like “nah bitch we don’t want your dirty blood money” 😂😂 I’m dying

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

Taking money from those who took money from Saudi Arabia would impact perception of the org’s independence.

www.vulture.com

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soweli Neko @nekotachi.bsky.social · 1d

*in a generic context

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soweli Neko @nekotachi.bsky.social · 1d

I still wish there was a FnStatic trait for function items and captureless closures in #rustlang

something that let you call a function based just on its type.

this would let you leverage monomorphization to wrap functions with other functions, which would be handy for ffi

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 1d

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 2d

>looking for a new action game
>ask if the action game is meter management or cooldowns
>she doesnt understand
>pull out illustrated diagram explaing what is meter management and what is cooldowns
>she laughs and says “it’s a good game sir”
>buy the game
>its cooldowns

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 2d

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

www.consumerreports.org

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soweli Neko @nekotachi.bsky.social · 1d

well someone's had a certain story on their mind recently

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