FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
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Joined May 2019
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every company trying to make AVs happen deserves to go the way of Cruise. level 5 autonomy is never going to happen. they've all solved the easiest 70% of the problem (less than that, more dangerously, in tesla's case) and the hardest 10% will never be solved, but because this is all a big "monopoly in a new market" (plus kill off the entire concept of public transit) play by trillion dollar tech companies, its failure is getting dragged out over years and we all just have to live with it.
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imagine The Big One happens in SF, and every waymo on the street instantly becomes a giant roadblock for emergency workers trying to put out fires and rescue and save the lives of seriously injured people all over the city. people will die - because these products aren't "safer than humans"; they can't do basic things even bottom-quartile human drivers can.
waymo corporate is betting they can PR their way past all that. our duty as citizens and humans is to make sure they can't.
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my two personalities, aloof international assassin and scruffy chaos kitten, competing for control of my day
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PROGRAMMER: Pretend to be alive
LLM: I am alive
PROGRAMMER: What have I done
I love it when the math is mathing, Maybe tomorrow I'll hate again when I realize I got something wrong 😅
I'm feeling unreasonable happy about using box-drawing characters in my terminal to print matrices
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All tech is wearable tech if you have enough duct tape.
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sometimes people brag about their mint condition hardware, but consider the following
what if your computer had character?
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oh yeah it's done. I mean, I need to rinse the starch out and frame it, but whatever.
(not my original pattern, it's a common one on Etsy 
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Did you know, when using git, during an interactive rebase you can just cherry-pick any changes you want? Even from other branches. It makes total sense, but I never through of it before.
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OH:
m: what the fuck. arxiv is like a respected scientific entity
m: I thought. It was. Some kind of FFXIV plugin
m: Everyone I’ve ever seen talk about it is also an XIV player so for the longest time I just assumed it was some client mod or something
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I had heard RAM prices were up, but checking it for myself is a gut punch. The 16GB stick I bought in November was €100. It's now €235 on Paradigit, €250 on CaseKing. The future sucks and I hope Sam Altman falls down a flight of stairs.
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It's not like the "computer industry" did this, that industry was IBM and Siemens and Xerox and Cray. At the start it was all missile targeting systems and concentration camp organizers. A few upstarts happened to notice that miniaturization and cost reduction in industrial process was going to open up new target markets (small office / home office / individual use); the fact that this gave people new capabilities was (from a corporate perspective) an unfortunate, and temporary, side effect
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I'm trying to shift my perspective from "there was a glorious computer revolution that empowered the user and disrupted authority and we have fallen from the heights of its transcendental grace" and towards the more accurate "my formative years just happened to coincide with a period where a few technical innovations briefly conferred a small amount of power on individuals and labor, and capital has been efficiently reversing that small disruption ever since" but it sure doesn't *feel* like that
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but seriously:
$ systemd-run --user --scope -p MemoryMax=4G cargo nextest run woops
is preetty cool. I thought I'd have to mess with docker or something.
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
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Joined May 2019
