 The amount of my life that I have spent attempting to authenticate to some git server and failing is way out of proportion. Today, suddenly gitlab http auth fails on repos where it worked forever. Why? No idea. Get an error message, perhaps? You must be kidding. Moving to ssh, which works. But why? Sam Altman "was not consistently candid in his communications with the board" -- ouch. Something rather outrageous must have happened there over quite some time. https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition “Donald Trump poses the biggest danger to the world in 2024” The Economist pulls no punches. Status: sitting in the big chair, made it to Chapter 4, Graph Neural Networks for Node Classification, listening to Paolo Conte, while the dog is looking on. Could be worse I guess. AWS apropos software quality: "Significant sequences of spaces might be lost in some uses (especially multiple spaces)" Translate: it's a pile of spaghetti code we can't make ourselves look at again. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/object-keys.html billg has an interesting piece out. https://www.gatesnotes.com/AI-agents I'm not sure I relate to his answers very much, but he is asking some good questions.  @J12t Mikes rules of business #34 Never take a percentage of profit when someone else is doing the accounting.  @J12t I did some very rough back of the envelope math and this implies that iPhones may be about 10% of Google’s global revenues (may be more). Basically 36% turning into $10B (at least) means about $27B gross revenues which is almost exactly 10% of Google’s revenue in 2022 Which given Google’s size and scale is pretty staggering. But then there are also a lot of iPhones out there… Is there any dish worth cooking that doesn’t involve the chopping of vegetables for some ungodly amount of time?? Today’s edition: Hungarian Goulash.   There are quite a few people on #threads who post something along the lines of: “Dear algorithm, please help me find people who …” with some topics they are interested in. Usually, everyone complains about “the algorithm”, but in this case, people are seeking it out.  @J12t this would actually work for them (and the platform, as a service) if only they could actually talk to their algorithm! Great piece by @cstross on the relationship between #scifi and creating a worthwhile future, apparently delivered as a keynote yesterday. “We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus” http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/11/dont-create-the-torment-nexus.html Have questions for our #fediverse panel on The Well? You can submit them by e-mail even if you are not a member. https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/538/The-Fediverse-and-IndieWeb-page01.html  Hard to keep track how many wars and civil wars are going on these days. Here: #myanmar |
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