Adam Bliss @abliss@mastodon.cloud
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Thinking about the Wikipedia edit war over whether "Guy Standing sitting" was an appropriate caption and how they eventually protected the page and cropped the image.
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Of course Fabrice Bellard would write a version of GPT-2 in C https://bellard.org/nncp/gpt2tc.html
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In "The Tree Who Set Healthy Boundaries," Topher Payne rewrites the ending of "Giving Tree" to unpick the expert, Silversteinien knot of shitty ideas tied so well that you can easily miss them.
https://www.topherpayne.com/giving-tree
Not only is this hilarious stuff, it's also incredibly, VISCERALLY satisfying, as the tree tells off the boy for being such a colossal asshole.
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This interview about "the child care crises" exposes some pretty glaring misunderstandings about economics, and also basic ethics of personal/social responsibility, but I still think there are some good points here worth reading and thinking about. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/07/23/child-care-crisis-pandemic-economy-impact-women-380412
Today's NYT crossword is one of my all-time faves. Congratulations, Robyn Eintraub, on a job well done.
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A pocket-sized ESP32 display board with 180µW Always On Display and Gyro controls, created by @MaxK94.
Learn more: http://ed.gr/cnxrf
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/hackaday/status/1284729799605473281
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"you can't fav over email!"
"you can if you just write 'fav'"
"you can if you just write 'fav'"
#rss
Where can I find people who use RSS to consume feeds, and who republish the curated best articles of those feeds? I want to follow those peoples' republished feeds, in order to discover new feeds to add to my own reader (and new curators to follow).
You know, like twitter/mastodon, but for RSS. Like Google Reader. Or TheOldReader.
(I'm currently using News+
and TinyTinyRSS inside Sandstorm, so I don't have an easy way to republish articles.)
Looks like Lessig is 0 for 2. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/19-465_i425.pdf
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RIP #slatestarcodex , the best blog on the interwebs.
https://slatestarcodex.com/
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I've been previewing the new @OpenAI API, and honestly despite myself I was a bit nervous when I typed "go ahead and try it." It's that good.
https://aiweirdness.com/post/620645957819875328/this-is-the-openai-api-it-makes-spookily-good
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Wow! I just clicked the Windows Troubleshooter and it actually solved my problem, for what I'm pretty sure is the absolute first time in my life.
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i just bought the domain https://babyshoes.forsale but im never gonna use it
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in 2002 you would buy the highest end servers and link them with fancy cables so they could pretend to be one really, really powerful server with hundreds of processors
in 2020 you buy the highest end servers and install software so they can pretend to be hundreds of servers with one processor
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Today was a productive day of staring at hex dumps. I'm delighted to be using my reverse engineering skills for the greater good.
Very excited about this! I've loved my Gemini from Planet Computers; its two major drawbacks are (1) terrible back camera and (2) hard to use with one hand. Looks like their next project, the Astro, will solve these without compromising its wonderful 100wpm+ keyboard.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/astro-slide-5g-transformer#/
It is proven! I am abliss on Keybase: https://keybase.io/abliss/sigchain#080a19625fcb3855c5bceb0c5a0cefa42b4654ded1d4c2ce49c33ffe0c4ac8f60f
