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aburka 🫣 @aburka.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 7h

@SnoopJ like this Guy

> I am elite at asking very good, well specified, very clear, well researched questions, because we built Stack Overflow.

https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/115279844443067032

Jeff Atwood (@[email protected])

@[email protected] here's one: a friend confided he is unhoused, and it is difficult for him. I asked ChatGPT to summarize local resources to deal with this (how do you get ANY id without a valid address, etc, chicken/egg problem) and it did an outstanding, amazing job. I printed it out, marked it up, and gave it to him. Here's two: GiveDirectly did two GMI studies, Chicago and Cook County and we were very unclear what the relationship was, or why they did it that way. ChatGPT also knocked this out park and saved Tia a lot of time finding that information out, so she was freed up to focus on other work. I could go on and on and on. Email me if you want ~12 more specific examples. With citations. But also realize this: **I am elite at asking very good, well specified, very clear, well researched questions, because we built Stack Overflow.** You want to get good at LLMS? learn how to ask better questions of evil genies. I was raised on that. 🧞

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aburka 🫣 @aburka.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 7h

@SnoopJ s/search engine/chatbot/

aburka 🫣 @aburka.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12h

Coworker just arrived in the office and announced he "finally" made it back to work, one week after symptom onset of what he believes was covid.

Yeah I'll be working from home the rest of the week.

aburka 🫣 @aburka.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@waldo.net this is what gets me. There's a guy in my office who now generates all his PRs with Claude. I would hope he reviews them, but in some cases obviously not. So he's just de-skilling himself and advertising that fact? I seriously don't understand the thought process.

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Erica Friedman @okazu.yuricon.com · 1d

Bookshop is having an Anti-Amazon sale, with cheap e-books and free shipping for print today and tomorrow:

bookshop.org/lists/ebook-...

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David Weir @davidjamesweir.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Your annual reminder that modern physics is done in diverse teams of anything between 1 and 1000 people, by people of all backgrounds imaginable.

Breakthroughs are not made single-handedly by at most 3 white men. Arguably they never were.

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Dominik @chrastecky.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

I'm not sure, but the code might do something with UUIDs.

#programming #golang #uuid

A screenshot from an IDE with the following code:

func Uuid(uuid uuid.UUID) UUID {
return UUID{UUID: uuid}
}

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aburka 🫣 @aburka.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social try an "infinite scroll of pointlessness"... why? you are really not selling it very well

aburka 🫣 @aburka.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@feoh @neovim I'm still a CoC-using troglodyte and it works for me but I'm hearing that the cool kids have gone over to blink

aburka 🫣 @aburka.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Typed Brainfuck

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Joe Foster @joe.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 2d

We must form collectives to demand our rights. Power comes in numbers.

aburka 🫣 @aburka.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@skry most of these are not alternative platforms btw. They are frontends/proxies to the existing ones

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

Australia's grid operator has a clear line of sight to 100% renewables. There's nothing unknown or exotic required.

It'll be fun when the first large/major economies start hitting the goal. Too bad the US is likely to be at the rear of the pack.

As coal fades, Australia looks to realize dream of 100% renewable…

The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable. The work there could provide a road map for other…

www.canarymedia.com

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aburka 🫣 @aburka.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@Viss late stage capitalism

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Glyph @glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

I want the fever to break but I also understand that when that happens, the economy is going to collapse. I want that to be irrational catastrophizing but I think it's just a basic statement of fact. Several analysts have pegged the AI bubble at a double-digit multiple of the dot-com crash or […]

Original post on mastodon.social

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

nobody here has a normal relationship with technology

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Dan Wentzel 🏳️‍🌈 @danwentzel.urbanists.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

President Biden is a good man who tried following Trump’s first term with unity, bipartisanship, and “norms.

That turned out to be incredibly naive and now we have fascism.

When this regime finally ends, what say we go for accountability, justice, and sending these bastards to The Hague instead?

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aburka 🫣 @aburka.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 3d

@anthropy the command: `ls`

aburka 🫣 @aburka.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 3d

#silentsunday

Slightly wide angle photo from a back porch at the bottom of a hill in the woods. Bright sun streams through the tall trees.

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J Lam 👩🏻‍💻👩🏻‍🎨 @kangaroo5383.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

PSA for anyone who still have grandparents around - just hang with them while you can, play cards, do random things, talk about nothing, before it’s too late… even if there are other fam you loath around, ignore them and hang with the grandparents before it’s too late.

aburka 🫣 @aburka.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 3d

@unlambda yeah no I get it, it's just striking to see them sort of stampede in to boost

aburka 🫣 @aburka.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Folks the hype bots are out of control, it's like 30% of boosts

Scrolling through the list of boosts on my recent toot, this screen has like ten bots and one person

aburka 🫣 @aburka.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Please be patient with the ghost infestation, we have called the relevant people

Fitness center will be closed on such-and-such date
Ghost hunting event being held

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aburka 🫣 @aburka.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 4d

A doctor who went to actual medical school: Mr. Atwood, I am prescribing you a medicine
A guy with a keyboard: well actually, I asked a stochastic parrot about my phenotype and it says that won't work
https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/115316428099208251

Jeff Atwood (@[email protected])

Wow, so I asked ChatGPT to tell me, of the top 30-50-100-200 medications most commonly prescribed, which ones would be definitely ineffective or at significant risk of being ineffective on me as a "hyper-clearance" phenotype and out of the 30 it originally looked at, FIFTEEN OF THEM fell into that category

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🇺🇦 haxadecimal @brouhaha.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

An escape room that is a cat cafe. The front door is not locked.