Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse

@woven It is a very priority-reflecting situation.

I note that a major commercial map (left, compared to OSM on the right) isn’t showing the massive new reservoir behind the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam™. It started filling in 2020.

Californians, the forecast for tomorrow has moved from very rainy to dangerously rainy; please plan accordingly. https://weatherwest.com/archives/35471

I also like mergesort. Where’s its thinkpieces?

I guess the weird thing about LLMs for me is that I am used to favoring derpy, weird, fundamentally old technology, and it’s unpleasant that in this case it’s also favored by the VC hype machine and its army of orcs.

Was about the type the year in a filename and thought “don’t forget one of the digits changed” and my fingers came up with 2014.

Freeform asynchronous text. I’m not saying it’s better than anything else in particular, but it’s very good.

I still like e-mail as a medium for friendships. I may be the only one, but I do.

As a programmer I try not to be a Big Opinions Guy but I’ll tell you this much: for personal projects, I would rather gnaw my own kneecaps off than write SQL keywords in capital letters like it’s 1805.

There’s an RDA of irony in these poisoning techniques that can’t credibly do what they’re advertised as doing because they’re surface-level technological fixes to more fundamental problems. [Edit: fixed typo.] https://mastodon.social/@urschrei/111794083320504980

@jes5199 (A rule of thumb is that if you can gradient-descend your way into something, you can gradient-ascend your way out of it, and while this is not always true in practice, I think it at least complicates a lot of claims made for unbeatable adversarial this-and-that.)

@jes5199 I think it’s excellent experimental work, and I hope it inspires more work in this direction, and the way it’s being presented (not necessarily by its creators) is completely unrealistic.

I think this phrase is, situationally, sometimes more true than false. But if you hear someone say it, odds are really good they want to measure instead of managing. https://indieweb.social/@dandean/111784409154249713

@nelson (Also I had to reconstruct some old stuff and that messed up UUIDs and timestamps, so … there’s a reason it’s in beta.)

@nelson There’s been a more recent post since last night.

@nelson Well, I think I did something wrong, because even passing the W3C validator, and looking roughly correct to my untrained eyes, the feed is coming up bank where I test it.