mawhrin

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[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

this doesn't mean that the paper is any good or doesn't deserve mockery (i don't know, i didn't read it yet, and i'm not sure i have apparatus to make other than esthetic judgements), just that the conclusions the og skeet author attributes to the paper aren't the paper's conclusions.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

before you order the cavalry charge, fwiw this skeet misrepresents the actual study topic rather badly, as another bluesky commenter notes.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 8 points 3 days ago

so many temporarily embarassed millionaires there, with the clarity of mind and purpose of a precocious seven-year-old.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 5 points 4 days ago

it's full of quotable bangers like this, and it's hard to choose the one to quote, right.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 7 points 5 days ago

i thought that the whole ruling principle of the effective altruists is primum non docere

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 6 points 5 days ago

the virile space men will have

i've heard they like to read sf, they might want to read heinlein's luna stories and miss the point entirely

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 14 points 5 days ago (2 children)

here's another very good take from baldur bjarnason, answering the question if he had hardened his stance against LLMs.

(the answer is “not exactly”, and you want to read the whole thing, because the answer itself is the least interesting part of the essay.)

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

intellectual elite my arse.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago

i already have to be pleasant and composed while intercting with the managerial class.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

i'm all for staking. specifically, i'm all for staking the bloody vampires.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

yup. there's a video, and a transcript on her blog with the gory details.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 13 points 1 week ago

being a member of the old boy club beats ideological differences.

 

tl;dr: nsf requested that python software foundation affirms that they “do not, and will not during the term of this financial assistance award, operate any programs that advance or promote DEI, or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws”.

the psf has withdrawn the proposal instead.

 

from the “i'll drm your arse” and “industrial sabotage r us” department, a true scandal: a polish train manufacturer used firmware to lock out trains at 3rd party service depots in order to disrupt the operations of the trains for the railways who did not choose to service the trains at the manufacturer's; at the same time they blamed the 3rd parties for their inability to properly service the trains.

further reading in polish (but translates via google well): more technical and less technical, but with more political/economical details.

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