The DLR train line in London stands for Dynamically Linked Railway, a new type of rail transport where the destination station is discovered after you board the train. This has advantages like deduplicating stops and allowing the city to update lines in the middle of a journey.
Saw some stuff on bsky that has me tapping the Ursula Le Guin sign again:
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vq5s7pmjzrx4wqbuebz35x33/post/3mzhemihl4s26
* Abolish time (not timekeeping, the actual passage of time)
* Legalize hunting loud vehicles
* Ban fennel seeds in sausages
* Ronald Reagan Memorial Urinal
* Income maximums for gun purchases
* Bulldoze Sea Cliff (SF neighborhood) and replace it with an arcology
* Standardize on one single-byte newline character
He saw something outside and is fully locked in 😂 #CatsOfMastodon
A) Huge congrats to all the organizers who made this happen
B) Rest in piss Ken Paxton lmao. Imagine being such a noxious puddle of slime that you end up down almost 20% as a Republican in Texas with massive name recognition and a 2x spending advantage
ok, new mastodon.social UI question: is there a way to get *two* columns? I see how to get one (timeline) or three (timeline, notifications, currently selected thing)
Precariously balanced so he could push the curtain aside and check what’s going on outside 😂 #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday
Apropos of various posts over the years: something that may not be obvious is that while it's true programs have gotten less efficient, it's also true that memory usage reporting has changed between OS versions*, almost entirely in the direction of "reporting more memory used".
It turns out that "how much memory does this program use?" is actually a really difficult question to define, with no single correct answer.
*I assume this is also true on non-Darwin OSs, but I know less about those
Got an impromptu demonstration of the loudest sound it’s possible for a human to make on the train today due to a young woman being mad at her friend not replying to her texts. Ow >.<
I caught a goblin! #CatsOfMastodon
So, if we ever do get true machine intelligence, it will likely be incarnated in quite a variety of forms. For example, you might well end up with intelligent vehicles. This presents some interesting challenges in terms of e.g. working vehicles having non-work-related religious beliefs, as well as taking time off for extracurricular good deeds and such.
In some unusual cases we might even end up canonizing a ship.
Despite the obvious applicability, this post is not about AI, I'm tired of every discussion being about that.
Something I've noticed about performance work is that people really want there to be A Cause for improvements. A new technology, something old no longer holding things back, "removing the debug logging", etc…
The truth of the matter is that 97% of the time the enabling thing for performance work is engineers having time in the schedule to sit down with the tools (usually a sampling profiler) and grind out small wins over and over.
There's no magic bullet that replaces good engineering.
New achievements in input device failure: typing a correctly spelled search term into a smart TV somehow produced a *thorn* instead of an apostrophe.
"[we] offer a peaceful work environment where you can choose when to socialize and when to close your office door and concentrate"
Now that's something you don't see on a job listing every day!
oh hey, someone else was posting about the same thing recently it turns out https://mas.to/@vrandecic/116607696355063502
My perhaps-unkind pet hypothesis on this is that a lot of people evaluate the world *primarily* through the lens of social judgement: the actual information content is irrelevant, the question is automatically and silently mentally restated as "did Maria do Wrong®?"/"should Maria be Judged® for saying this?"
LLMs generate statements that are not *known* to be true, which is different from them not being true. 2 + 2 is still 4 even if an LLM told you that.
This would mostly just be whining about grammar except that mixing up knowledge and truth actually has consequences for effectively conveying meaning in this case: people will interpret “not true” as meaning “false”, and then dismiss the argument as bad faith or ignorant after testing it.
The aftermath #CatsOfMastodon
Moments before disaster 😂 #CatsOfMastodon
Something happening before something else is usually going to mean the typical English language meaning.
"x happens-before y" in this context almost certainly refers to the formal temporal ordering terminology, which likely means someone is attempting something Clever, which in turn means they're probably about to not only shoot themselves in the foot, it will somehow time travel and blow off your foot in the past too.