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cyberpunk future where the chip-augmented kids refer to old gen-zs as fully compostable  Kid1 asked me where we go after we die, and I answered "where do knots go when they're untied? The string is still there". It seems to have stuck with him and I think the place where untied knots go is now part of our family mythology.
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  @derwinmcgeary the next loop — pun intended — of psychology is that the un-knotted part of the string is knots in waiting.  @derwinmcgeary And when Kid1 brings home a good report card, don't forget to celebrate with the sound of one hand clapping. If you're going to mess with their head, better do it good and proper! resetting the "days since I used my bluetooth mouse to toggle bluetooth and wondered why it wasn't coming back on again" counter to zero I'm just an ape. Sitting in front of a pile of electric sand. Asking it to work properly.
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@derwinmcgeary they jammed so many polygons into that rendering but idk kind of uncanny valley 1864: "On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." 2024: "We trained our AI on the cultural output of a white supremacist society; here's our plan to get unbiased results using simple prompt engineering"
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@derwinmcgeary I'm in hospital now with my son. In the last 48 hours I've overheard: - the Panadol that was written down as given was not given How is AI going to handle the bad training data? @derwinmcgeary Back when I was first learning to code in the 1970s, we bandied about an acronym for this phenomenon: GIGO (Garbage In --> Garbage Out) 🤓 
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Jean-Paul Sartre was sitting at a café table working. A waiter approached him ‘Can I get you something to drink, Monsieur Sartre?’ he asked. A few minutes later, however, the water returned and said, ‘I’m sorry, Monsieur Sartre, we are all out of cream — how about with no milk?’ If you think of free software as a developers' rights issue, it's a solved problem. Developers can use free stacks everywhere, and they are free to fix anything. Nobody is legally restricted from learning to be a developer. There's a pretty good live ecosystem. Mission accomplished. If you think of free software as a human rights issue, you need to think about how all people can actually use and benefit, and usability and accessibility and localisation all become integral parts of the problem.
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 > Nobody is legally restricted from learning to be a developer. There's a pretty good live ecosystem. Mission accomplished. except, people from Iran are restricted from using GitHub and Docker Hub probably more than just Iran free software has, from the beginning, been about the rights of /users/. people mostly think of it in terms of devs because most of the users of software that know enough about how software works and is made to care are themselves involved in that making I'm confused as to how free software can be a HR issue. Like commons licences are offending Microsoft or wtf? |
