[-] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 2 points 1 month ago

i had signed up to see if I am a match, which i would have donated if i had been selected. please show me where i mentioned actually donating bone marrow.

[-] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 2 points 1 month ago

a lot of people aren't old enough to remember that when the digg exodus happened, reddit didn't even have subreddits yet. it was just links on one page, and we built our little subculture in the comments of each thread. that's why there is such a culture of commenting before reading the article (if at all) — it used to be a big, disorganized blob of chatty nonsense, much like Fark or MetaFilter were at the time too.

reddit is a lovely example of how tech companies from 1995 to 2020 fell into success and figured out what their product does later down the line. to quote homer simpson when asked what his tech company does, "we're a website that sells computers.... or.... a computer that sells websites, I haven't decided yet."

[-] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 2 points 1 month ago

Neato. Always cool to see a new approach. Synapse/Matrix is excellent, but, running a federated Matrix server is an exercise in frustration. So many version forks, so many hard crashes. :(

[-] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 2 points 1 month ago

Dang. That's nuts but seems right for teenagers lol. I ask because the same thing happened at CMU in like 2002, but it did make the papers. The whole city turned it into a fucking thing.

[-] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 2 points 1 month ago

Might not be what it was designed for, but OpenAI claims their newest model is "PHd-levels" of intelligent. I feel like if that were true, it would do that reliably. Instead, sometimes it ignores the tool it's programmed to know how to use and just, y'know, wings it.

Which, fair, but that's my job and it's taken!

[-] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 1 points 1 month ago

If it turns out anything like Reddit's attempt, the false-positive rate is going to be astronomical.

[-] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 2 points 1 month ago

"Aur"? Says here in my notes something about "Pacman" but that can't be right...

[-] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 2 points 1 month ago

Correct! And I appreciate the recommendation. I'm an XFCE4 man (sorry. It is just what I've been using for decades) and I think I could probably get that GNOME library running on that environment.

[-] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 2 points 2 months ago

You don't have to explain that kind of stuff, you know. I understand the notion, but, I promise you, it is immaterial to the joke I was making on this shitposting forum.

[-] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 1 points 2 months ago

Hank Hill recognizes 152 Pokémon total. The first 151, and then Stunfisk.

[-] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 1 points 2 months ago

Hank, suddenly intrigued: "Wait, there's a 'grass type' Pokemon?"

[-] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Your last point is a fair one, but it's also still important to mention because that specific strain of "it's all political, who cares" is what creates tolerance for a lack of transparency and public accountability.

If anyone wants to take this problem seriously, it is also important to understand that even if what is released as an executive summary is deeply flawed, there are real civil servants there still trying to do the best they can with as little as possible. The data is all still published. We, as consumers of journalism, really should be pressuring editors to actually fix the way they uncritically gobble up and report anything that the DoL puts out.

Or, really, reporting on it ourselves and trying to learn and maintain a common set of journalistic ethics.

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