Dagon @dagon@schelling.pt

Stop anthropomorphizing billionaires.

I don't think enough biology teachers explain that, for the rest of his life, whenever he heard a bell ring Ivan Pavlov felt the urge to give a dog a biscuit

My new startup is powered by GPUs and ethical lapses.

And I’m all outta GPUs.

Fun fact: the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer can't use a real-time operating system.

This is because it's Io bound.

I thank you.

just drinking some tea and tiling the plane without repeating patches

This came to me from a trans friend I know really, really well. For years now. And from that, I can tell you that there actually is a trans agenda. And it is this:

To walk through the world without getting their rights, bodies, and lives taken and attacked by people who hate them for no reason at all.

That’s it.

#TransDayOfVisibility

@cstross

this LLM shit is worse than the cryptocurrency nonsense because a lot of otherwise reasonable techies who saw right through the technolibertarian shit of blockchain stuff are falling head over heels for fancy expensive markov chains.

To safeguard our performance, we are making a number of conservative changes to our staffing model. The vast majority of our Trolley Track Switching Engineers will be impacted, with no fewer than 3 remaining to oversee switching needs on our infrastructure.

We are also sorry to say goodbye to our Track Switching Ethics team, who have made significant impact on our practices worldwide. We wish all impacted resources the best in their future careers.

Mr. Incognito.
https://jwz.org/b/yj-j

“The reason most public transportation is seen as ‘losing’ money is precisely because it charges for trips. If you don't charge fares, suddenly it can't ‘lose’ money. It just costs money, the same as the roads.”

This random comment has given me my new favourite argument for removing fares from public transit.

The FreeBSD Journal asked me to write about filesystems?

"First off, understand that storage devices are lying liars that lie. The newest solid state storage maintains a malformed compatibility with hard drives released in the previous century, which were built on standards designed for punch cards, which had their roots in 17th-century looms and the Luddites, so every time you plug in a storage device you’re putting someone out of work but there’s no ethical data storage under capitalism so go for it."

They might complain, but what did they *expect* I would say?

It’s well established that open offices are really bad for productivity
It was extremely popular among companies to switch to open offices in spite of this.

So, it shouldn’t have come as a suprise to see productivity deteriorate when people are forced to return to the office

"Too frequently, everyone in a multistakeholder system thinks they’re uniquely responsible for all of the good created by the ecosystem and merely a passive observer of all of the bad."

It seems like the majority of medically-recognised #Autistic traits are not autistic traits per se.

They are trauma responses common in autistic people.

I'm "more interested in things than people?" Maybe "things" don't turn hostile on me for unexplained reasons.

I'm dogmatically insistent that nobody can understand my mind but me? Maybe my entire childhood was spent resisting adults telling me they knew my mind better than I did.

This is also why "autistic traits" can seem contradictory. Both "talks about their interests all the time even in inappropriate settings" and "never talks about their interests" can be part of a diagnosis.

Because the latter is a trauma response to having the former shut down.

Is there an untraumatised autistic person?

I actually don't think so. So the map of what autism looks like to clinicians is shaped by our trauma.

And this probably compounds their impression that we're somehow defective, which in turn compounds the attitudes used to break us.

I just wanna be seen as a person.

the zeroeth law of robotics is that a robot may not decrease shareholder value, or, by inaction, allow shareholder value to decline

In which I discover that geeks REALLY CARE about monospace fonts, and survey 16 free ones, and recommend 3: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2023/02/09/Monospace

Me, as aspiring staff eng: I want to be in the room where decisions are made

Me in the room where decisions are made: I wonder if the window is locked and how far the drop would be if I climbed out

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself rewritten in Rust for performance reasons.