If LLMs just copied stack overflow they’d respond to every question with “Closed as duplicate. Question already answered.”

Setting the temperature to 0 doesn’t get rid of hallucinations.

It might slightly increase accuracy, but it’s still going to go wrong.

Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

Just to remind everyone that this is always what the supreme court does.

They pick the most fascist outcome, and then search for any legal argument that will give them the outcome they want.

It’s literally in the clinical name.

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/autism-spectrum-disorders-asd

Broadly there’s two important reasons for why it’s called this, when it used to be either Asperger’s or autism.

1. Asperger was a Nazi and actively involved in the state sanctioned murder of autistic children.
2. Medically it’s a bit dumb. There’s no neat dividing line between people with Asperger’s and people with autism, and giving people that could be diagnosed either way as autistic or having Asperger’s, different diagnoses changed their access to support.

So it’s called a spectrum to recognize that there’s a wide range of symptoms and not everyone presents in the same way or requires the same support.

No it isn’t.

And this is really important. If you go on Google tracked websites without tor, Google will still know it’s you when you use tor, even if you’ve cleared all your cookies.

Tor means people don’t know your IP address. It doesn’t protect against other channels of privacy attack.

I’m surprised they found that there is no evidence that using these platforms is “rewiring” children’s brains. Wasn’t it shown that social media companies base pretty much their entire technical decision making on psychologically conditioning not just children’s brains but everyone who uses it?

Not really. There’s a difference between things being sticky and actually altering the brain.

Yeah, we spend more time on social media than we intend, but I also take longer to get up in the morning than I’d like. The big question is does this alter the rest of my behaviour, or my mental state, when I’m not doom scrolling or refusing to leave my duvet?

That’s a much harder question to answer, and the evidence is a lot more mixed.

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I changed companies and we all use teams now.

But none of that stuff helped when I did use it.

The problem was I was in AWS and needed to be subscribed to hundreds of channels. So when I needed to find something, I’d have to click through maybe 20 different channels all with similar names to find it. At that point the back button is useless.

Thumbs up is good for telling a person you’ve seen something. It doesn’t help the rest of the team know this, unless they like to go back and read old messages.

I mean the real take home message is “don’t work for Aws”. Slack just made some of the dysfunction worse, it didn’t create it.

Fuck slack though.

I hated the channel organisation, I would always click off a channel where I needed to respond to try and find other information, and then I’d never be able to find the channel I was responding to. Chronological sorting channels at least means I have a chance of finding where I was.

Also fuck their terrible reply options. I generally just wanted to acknowledge that I was responding to a message, I didn’t want to spin up some weird thread.

Basically, I hate everything, and don’t want to talk to anyone.

Yeah they’ve rolled it out to everyone, got a defacto monopoly and now they’re increasing the rates for new customers.

This is just capitalism 101 while pretending it’s for the regulators.

It’s good for anything that has thousands of examples on stack overflow.

For example, every time I end up trying to work with pandas, I always forget the syntax and it’s generally good here.

Anything unusual, or that is sufficiently complicated that I wouldn’t be able to Google for, and just forget it.

How fucked up would it be if your actual town square was owned by a private company?

You have just invented malls. Hugely damaging to society, but they come with convenient parking and air con.

I quite like the tag line X, the abandoned shopping mall of the internet.

I think it describes it well.

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Honestly, most of what Cambridge analytica did was blackmail, illegal spending, and collusion between campaigns that were legally required to be separate.

Much of the data processing/ml was intended as a smoke screen to distract from the big stuff that was known to work and consequently legislated against. The problem is that they were so incompetent that the distraction technique was also illegal.

Maybe the machine learning also worked, but it’s really not clear.

There’s a particular joy to going all the way into the office so you can sit in remote meetings all day. Really makes you feel like your time is valued.

This will be great for Emacs.

Finally I can have dedicated control, meta, super, and hyper buttons.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard

Depends. It’s more fiddly than windows to get set up but there’s a lot more options for power management.

I’ve got a tiny 7 inch laptop and I genuinely can’t figure out how to stop the fan from constantly running under windows. On Linux, switchable underclocking and powertop make it last much longer.

This is assuming you’ve not got an Nvidia GPU in your laptop, I haven’t tried in years but toggling the GPU was always difficult.

Yeah, I think the reason threads is attaching itself to the fediverse is precisely because meta don’t see it as a threat.

It’s an easy way to appear open to the regulators without actually helping any competitors.

This is one of those things where you have to read your employment contract.

If your main job involves generating intellectual property (code, or research or something else) and you live in the US there’s probably a clause saying you can’t do this without permission. Otherwise, it’s probably fine.

However, if you’re in the US, they can still fire you whenever they feel like, so if you think this might seriously piss your company off and you need your job, you might want to ask permission first.