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<p>Three eagles in a trenchcoat.</p><p>wildlife volunteer | software engineer | former CTO</p><p>F1 fan | cat herder</p><p>FreeBSD | Perl | reformed C developer</p>

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  • Post #3609914

    Floof

  • Post #3476037

    Remember the days of the old school yard? We used to bark a lot. Oh. Barkbarkbarkbark bark. Bark! Barkbark. Bark, bark. Bark?

  • Post #3476036

    A microcomputer that fits on a single desk!

  • Post #3476035

    There ought to be a Hierarchy of Troubleshooting/Debugging, with “PEBKAC” being the most likely culprit.

  • Post #2268698

    UNIX and, like

  • Post #2268697

    Ugh fidgety

  • Post #1876840

    me: &amp;quot;Why aren&amp;#39;t my meds doing the thing?!&amp;quot; my meds, still in the pillcase:

  • Post #1876839

    Who requested logs?

  • Post #1773589

    Pondering whether pairing maroon with lime green is a crime against art.

  • Post #1514780

    🐝 🐝 🐝 https://wlos.com/news/local/truck-carrying-approximately-1-million-bees-crashes-in-knoxville-tennessee-north-carolina-mark-nagi-tennessee-north-carolina-knoxville-department-transportation-swarm-abuzz

  • Post #1514779

    Q: What&amp;#39;s the difference between LLMs and astrology? A: At least astrology had some thought behind it.

  • Post #1351558

    *watching a flyover video of a completed highway section near Huntly, New Zealand* *notices the flood plain* me: Oh yeah. The Waikato River used to empty into Hauraki Gulf. me: I wonder when and where the river was diverted to its present course?

  • Post #1283119

    I feel like the rest of the eagles in my trenchcoat are about to hit the one singing ‘Africa’ on loop with a brick.

  • Post #1283118

    Trip planning

  • Post #1283117

    Self employment sucks when your boss doesn&amp;#39;t know what you should be doing.

  • Post #1283116

    A more inclusive world would be nice, but I&amp;#39;m not holding my breath. https://thehumanityarchive.substack.com/p/the-world-is-laughing-at-us

  • Post #1283115

    I wonder why DNS_NAT isn&amp;#39;t used to connect private IPv4 networks to the public IPv6 internet.

  • Post #1283114

    Three eagles flew past my house as I was making coffee.

  • Post #1283113

    I feel like I&amp;#39;ve appeased some trickster deity this week

  • Post #1025123

    Aaaaaa I&amp;#39;ve just watched a Youtube episode about AI and I need to info dump my Opinions! • GenAI is not The Next Big Thing; that&amp;#39;s just hype and recency bias • LLMs are at the top of the curve; any improvements are diminishing returns • The entire AI industry is a house of cards and will vanish overnight once the bubble bursts • Neural networks are not magical and won&amp;#39;t herald AGI • In fact we have no path to AGI based on our current (lack of) understanding of intelligen...

  • Post #1025121

    Iran is threatening to destroy an AI data centre in Abu Dhabi. I really hope this is not an idle threat.

  • Post #1025120

    God dammit I need to learn to draw

  • Post #446527

    LLMs may seem like magic, but they’re really a magic trick, AKA an illusion. There’s zero intelligence behind it. It’s merely a statistical probability trained on human text.

  • Post #446526

    Why the hell is my weather app asking for age verification??