Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
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singlets, what questions about plurality do you have? what dont you understand? (writing a guide)
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The job of pollsters has become much harder. Here’s how they’re responding
Which surveys are solid and which dissolve under scrutiny?
stream announcement
https://twitch.tv/madewokherd more Ultimate NES Remix
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Important new research finds that a bunch of mammals are out there being gay and biologists are just IGNORING them https://skepchick.org/2024/06/why-are-scientists-ignoring-all-the-gay-animals/
identity, kink //
@lioness Just a thought: perception of responses being automatic might help? If you feel like you're doing the thing then there must be a "you" that does it. And maybe you're aware but that perception is a thing you can practice.
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What bothers me about Frog and Toad is that the birds are clearly allistic (not autistic), and the lessons that Frog and Toad learn are often about how to meet allistic expectations
After the birds learn what Frog and Toad are doing with the cookies, they say (repeatedly) things like "I love cookies"
Do they ask for the cookies? No. Do they explain how they can help Frog and Toad with the cookies? Not in a direct way, only through implications.
Eventually, Frog says, "I know what we can do!" — and finally realizes that they can give the cookies to the birds
This is the double empathy problem for autistic people: realizing how allistic people communicate about their needs and offers, and conforming to that.
It's not even clear about how to interpret allistic signals and navigating allistic communication/interpretations. It's just showing that autistic people have to figure it out ourselves.
This is wrong. The solution to the double empathy problem is not to learn how allistic people communicate or how to interpret allistic communication, but for both autistic and allistic people to learn how each other communicate and to meet in the middle.
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Researchers describe how to tell if ChatGPT is confabulating
Finding out whether the AI is uncertain about facts or phrasing is the key.
re: stream announcement
I think that went well. Technically I completed a speedrun. And no one else has yet bothered to do that category so technically world record.
stream announcement
https://twitch.tv/madewokherd Still playing Ultimate NES Remix. Hoping with fewer ILs in the spaced repetition system it'll be more interesting without being total chaos.
I just learned a cool git thing.
You can use git switch [revision] -C [branchname] to move a branch to a specific revision and check it out in a single operation. This works even if you currently have that branch checked out.
Unlike git reset, which can do something similar, this operation is safe. If you have uncommitted changes, it'll fail instead of clobbering them.
So at this point I'd always recommend using git restore and git switch instead of git checkout and git reset
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everyone wants elder gods to worship, but nobody's willing to hire junior gods and train them.
spirituality
Had the thought that maybe I should have compassion for inanimate objects too and not just living things and uh I guess I'm an animist now.
I should probably turn a fan on. doesn't, in order to test this hypothesis
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The evidence fails to support the claim that homework is academically beneficial for students in any meaningful sense, as I showed in this chapter from my book The Homework Myth: www.alfiekohn.org/homework-improve-learning/.
Many HW defenders quickly pivot to claiming that it promotes self-discipline, responsibility, time management & study skills, etc. Yet over the last 20 years I've been unable to find a single study that supports this folk wisdom about HW's supposed nonacademic advantages.
Finally found the "stop nagging me to offer AI" button in Visual Studio
@b0rk No idea. I don't remember seeing those at all.
@b0rk If you think you may have messed up (and your history is linear) because you keep getting "bad" commits: do git bisect log and retest the most recent "good" commit. And the reverse if you keep getting "good" commits.
I also like to do this as a final check after the bisect completes.
If you did mess up, you can use the output from git bisect log to restart your bisect without having to redo any tests.
Probably also applies when using --first-parent but I'm not familiar with it.
Xalia (project I've been working on for about 2 years) is now out there in stable Proton. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/releases/tag/proton-9.0-2
This is an external program that adds gamepad controls to desktop apps (Linux, Windows, and Wine with some modifications in Proton). Currently only used for a few launchers, but hoping to expand this and have it usable in regular desktop environments.
stream announcement
https://twitch.tv/madewokherd Still doing foot controls and flashcards. Playing Ultimate NES Remix and trying not to get overwhelmed with ILs.
Joined Aug 2018
