Dagon @dagon@schelling.pt

As of today you can legally make "The Heffalump of The Baskervilles".

I shall look forward to someone doing so.

The feature i miss about usenet: there were people who were reasonable to work with in comp.lang.perl, were annoying in rec.gardening, and were utter asses rec.sf.fandom. And I could block them in the groups I didn't like them.

$TSLA crashing because the company is on autopilot is the most fitting end to 2022 possible

It’s funny how recognizing AI art nowadays is just the same old rules as recognizing the fae in old tales.

“Count the fingers, count the knuckles, count the teeth, check the shadows…”

… and under NO circumstances should you make deals with their kind.

Warning: If you use the "advanced web interface" you don't see requests-to-follow. Even if you haven't turned on request-by-follow, your instance may have dropped many people wanting to follow in that bucket - for example, #hachyderm does for anyone from journa.host and some other instances that rang no bells with me.

Should I abide by the results of this poll? I will abide by the results of this poll.

Unsafe at any speed

Me: I saw a post a few days ago. I know who it was from and what it was about. Can I see the post?

Mastodon search: haha no.

This one makes me laugh every year… because it is so very true.

@DanCast @pluralistic from a former Wall Street guy:
“The goal of a hedge fund is to find something that will become illegal and do it until it is.”

now ChatGPT seems really impressive and all but you have to remember that you can be tricked into thinking a rock has feelings by drawing a cute face on it

Redundancy/high availability is not without reliability cost.
HA is complexity.
HA has to be weighed – a simple outage and migration, or a complex auto/manual failover and state transfer management and integration?

These nuances are shrouded to newcomers, but we all eventually get kicked in the face with our cleverness.

Cats do it
Dogs do it
Even educated hogs do it
Let's do it
Let's sleep most of the day

7 things all kids need to hear

1 I love you

2 I'm proud of you

3 I'm sorry

4 I forgive you

5 I'm listening

6 RAID is not backup. Make offsite backups. Verify backup. Find out restore time. Otherwise, you got what we call Schrödinger backup

7 You've got what it takes

Awareness post: there is an instance on fedi called 'dolphin.town' where you can only post 'EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE'

my experience on this dying world has been made richer through this knowledge, and may yours be also

Some important rules when considering adding ML to your app:
1. Start building without machine learning
2. Continue without machine learning
3. Be blissfully unaware of concept drift, model versioning, AUC, and feature engineering
4. Turn off the computer
5. Go outside and buy a small child an ice cream cone
6. Sit with your beloved under the stars and, wonder at the vastness of the universe and your small role in it
7. Turn the computer back on, you’re now ready to add only linear regression